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Huo Teng was also a novice in commanding the city defense battle. He piled up a lot of defense tools for himself, but he couldn't predict the enemy's situation.

In the words of Sun Tzu, Huo Teng only counted halfway, and the winning rate was between [-] and [-].

After a while, hundreds of Saxon soldiers crossed the moat under the leadership of the knights, shot at the dense archers under the low wall, and quickly selected the weakest corner as the main attack point.

"Quickly, let the guards and guard sergeants go over there to resist."

Huo Teng was very nervous, afraid of the enemy's elite military force, he directly climbed the city wall with his bare hands to defeat his own militia.

But fortunately, the various new defensive weapons he accumulated have played a role.

Yumu smashed the heads and hands of a row of soldiers climbing the city into meat paste; poured a pot of "soup" with the boiled dung and golden juice, and dozens of soldiers vomited and lost their combat effectiveness.And because he passed the moat in winter, not to mention a cold and fever, the broken wound touched the golden juice, basically declaring that the person was scrapped.

Huo Teng's soldiers didn't even need melee combat, as long as they drew bows and shot arrows on the top of the city, or slapped them with poles, they could drive the Saxon army back.

In this way, more than 100 lives were lost, and the Saxon army saw heavy losses, so they turned around and ran away.

"call."

Huo Teng took a deep breath.

This simple change of offense and defense almost scared Huo Teng's little heart out of his head.

The moat cost so much manpower and material resources, but the effect was not great, which disappointed Huo Teng; but in the exchange of offense and defense on the city wall, his side had an absolute advantage, which Huo Teng was glad for.

While playing, while improving.

"Let's leave the moat, and focus on the mobilization of the city wall. We have fewer people so we can turn around, and we need to strengthen the information acquisition capabilities of each unit... In this way, make a batch of three-color flags, which are attack, retreat, and direction, and distribute them to each Let them understand the mobilization order in a simple and clear way." In the evening, Huo Teng convened a small meeting with the soldiers' leaders to explain his understanding and experience to them, and he also raised new requirements incidentally.

……

On the other side of the moat, it is a completely different scene.

He didn't destroy Liberty City in one go, and even lost nearly two hundred soldiers. The little lion was full of anger and couldn't eat.

He paced the room, trying to pretend he was in control inside the tent with a forced air of superiority.

At this time, the miserable howls of the wounded soldiers came out of nowhere, and the young general simply stepped out of the tent and ordered the passing soldiers: "Throw those wounded soldiers far away, it's really annoying!"

Chapter 73 Peripheral fire, extremely dangerous

The morale of a barracks collapsed, of course, not because of throwing away wounded soldiers.

Because skilled veterans have long been numb to the death of recruits, they will even take the initiative to help end the incurable wounded soldiers, lest they commit suicide and fail to go to heaven.While treating wounded soldiers can be a great morale booster, treasures in the city are more attractive than healers to unfeeling soldiers.

This is also a low human rights advantage.The elves of the Roman Empire next door had to equip each unit with a healing team in order to allow their precious soldiers to perform on the battlefield.There are also full-time auxiliary departments such as engineering companies and logistics battalions.Such an army was often beaten by nomads and Germanic barbarians who had no advantage.

But if, when the siege battle is unfavorable and the general is impulsive, the general will not show mercy to the wounded soldiers caused by his mistakes, let alone provide compensation and rewards, then the problem is another matter.

Using veteran troops is not without its disadvantages.

At the very least, the veterans knew exactly what kind of general they followed.

After seeing that the little lion has no mercy for the low-level soldiers, is impatient and has mediocre abilities, this group of veterans started their standard process.

If you are not benevolent and I am not righteous, then I will paddle and touch fish.

This is the mentality of a veteran, which is completely different from a recruit like Lengtouqing.Only those veterans who survived such crimes as deduction of bounty, lack of pensions, return of cultivated land after the death of their comrades-in-arms, and forced overtime service can see through the reality and realize that it is useless to work hard for the knight master.

There is an unearthed wage slip of a medieval soldier as an example to prove that although his wages on the books should have a small balance, they were deducted for various reasons, and even owed a sum of money to the lord.

Of course, paddling and fishing were not obvious at the beginning.The veterans also wanted to conquer this castle known as Liberty City to see how much money was hidden inside.

the next day.

The first attack failed miserably, and the loss far exceeded expectations. Facing a subordinate with a calm expression, he always felt that these people were secretly mocking him.

"I asked the soldiers who came back. Huo Teng, the local leopard, did prepare us with invincible defensive equipment. But can his hundreds of militiamen stop our three thousand elites? As long as everyone gathers and studies carefully, With careful preparation, can we still fail to capture the Free City of Göttingen?"

The thinner you speak, the louder your voice.I don't know if Bernard Jr. wants to convince the general or himself?

As the deputy, Baron Hamster, after watching little Bernard say a lot of things with a cold eye, came forward and concluded: "Start camping and prepare for a tough battle."

"Yes!"

As expected of the old baron who had followed two generations of Emperor Otto in all directions, his prestige and precise summarization instantly turned little Bernard's words into useless efforts.

Little Bernard's face didn't change, but his heart was already full of grass.

Now that Hamster has been dispatched, why let little Bernard come over to embarrass himself?Father, what are you thinking? 1

With such a mood, Bernard Jr. once again devoted himself to the siege of the city.

……

"Actually, there is no need for us to besiege this city, which is not outstanding in terms of status or wealth. It is more reasonable to capture Gottingenburg." Someone found Baron Hamster and complained that Bernard Jr. commanded the battle. It's like child's play.

Hamster took a sip of wine, and said back with one sentence: "He is the Duke's son, I am not."

Yes, can't Hamster see that Bernard Jr. is making a mistake?

He could see it, but didn't want to interfere.

Or, subconsciously, he also wanted to see little Bernard make a fool of himself.

By making the lion cub look ugly, Hamster really got the command of this army.

Under the command of the real professional soldiers of Saxony, these barons and earls, the Saxon army really launched an offensive in front of the Free City of Göttingen.

Hamster jumped over the little lion and gave the order directly: "Pile up dirt to cross the moat. Today's task is to fill in at least three roads."

Judging from the qualities of a professional soldier, Huo Teng's moat was dug badly.Cities of different sizes, castles, and their distance from their moats are limited.For example, in a small castle, the moat should be right next to the city wall, so that the enemies on the castle can block the enemy.Huo Teng dug a large and remote moat with flashy low walls.

That gave Hamster room to build dirt roads.

So throughout the afternoon, Huo Teng had no way to send archers down the city wall to stop them, nor could he organize archers to throw shots from the top of the city.And the hidden weapon, the torsion cannon car, is the trump card and cannot be played at this time.

"I'm paying for my unfamiliar experience." While Huo Teng was worried, he laughed at himself with Jones in such anguish.

Jones could only caress her temporary husband's neck and wipe off his nervous cock: "You have done a good job. I believe that no one can have so many wonderful ideas like you."

The moat, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources, was filled with several pits by the Saxon army so that their soldiers could quickly cross the river.

Apart from Huo Teng, the depressed people are the little lion with bulging eyes.

Little Bernard wondered, this Hamster, why didn't he tell himself yesterday that he could still fill the pit and cross the river?

On this day, the Saxon army took the initiative in the field.

So at night Hamster was the real talker in the army.

The army, a violent institution, mostly depends on the power to make a living, but if the powerful people are not present, the little lion can only become a puppet.

The fluidity of the right to speak allowed Hamster's order to pass through the entire army in an instant, and the order of the little lion would be instinctively sent to Hamster by the guards for consideration.But this is a double-edged sword.

The people of the Black Forest of Saxony still retain the innocence and wildness of the tribal principality, and they can switch freely when they are in battle.

If it were in Rome, when corrupt noble generals screwed up everything, not many talented lieutenants stood up and wiped their asses.

But Hamster's scenery only ends here.

Because he has no way to really solve it, the lack of wood, the inability to attack the city wall, and the ability to deal with Huo Teng's multiple strategic weapon defenses.This led to the continued sluggishness of the offense on the third and fourth days, and the newly built ladders were also quickly dismantled.

The Saxon army suffered 400 casualties, and even lacked the ability to advance to the gate of the Free City of Göttingen.

At this time, the military's right to speak began to flow again.

The little lion Bernard stood up and announced with a confident expression: "I will open a door of convenience to the nobles of Göttingen. The first person who comes to seek refuge can keep his own territory. You guessed it, this one who draws his salary from the bottom of the pot Can one move defeat Huo Teng?"

Hamster shook his head hesitantly, but he did not deny the viciousness of this plan.

Sure enough, only one day later, Baron Kenan declared his surrender to the Principality of Saxony.

This extremely bad example immediately attracted a crowd of imitators.

Although the Saxon army could not defeat the Free City of Göttingen, they were able to defeat the hearts of the nobles of Göttingen.

Chapter 74 If you can't fight, you can speak the law

The castle was besieged, it was just a matter of tactics.

Who hasn't had a castle attacked several times in their life?Who has never suffered?

But if the nobles of Göttingen County announce their rebellion and drive the already rare [-] people of Göttingen to split, then the problem will be extremely serious.

In feudal law, betraying one's own monarch is an extremely serious crime, so the probability of knights fighting against their own monarch is much lower than that of the neighboring Roman and Muslim countries.But that doesn't mean there aren't.

In the vassal's surrender ceremony, the lower-level vassals should swear to the superior lord, 'support, protect you, and fight back against your enemies, no matter in the next life or now. 'When the ceremony is completed in this way, the vassal contract is established.If the vassal breaches the contract, the lord can convene a court to publicly announce and judge the vassal's breach of contract, take back the fief granted to him, and impose punishments such as exile and imprisonment.

However, the premise is that the lord does not do things that annoy the vassals and subjects.Unreasonable demands and behaviors such as blasphemy, incest, tax increases, and asking lower-level vassals to worship, etc., can make the lower-level vassals stand up and declare that their lord has violated the morality of nature, and he will raise troops to "rescue" and restore the order of the territory on track.If he succeeds, he can support the new lord to take the throne and carve out a more fertile fief for himself.

Of course, in theory these laws all seem normal, even very civilized.But in practice it's not the same thing at all.

Baron Kennan is a mediocre man, but he is an old man.The old man used this law when he opposed Conoza.

"Baron Kennan believes that the Countess of Conosha promoted the incompetent Horten Bowenden for no reason, and let him serve as a court priest, forest ranger, and palace minister. He is the leader of the army, in the two battles to stop the bandit attack and the invasion of Earl Schmallen, our army suffered heavy losses, and it was all his fault..."

Outside the castle, the little lion, who lured Baron Kenan to join him, specially sent someone to the city to tell Huo Teng that he was brought to court.

Huo Teng was furious before he finished listening to the envoy's statement.

My good fellow, this is turning black and white, as if Huo Teng is nothing but a lucky man who only greedily collects money in the territory and earns money on the battlefield.If it is said that Baron Kenan came up with these things himself, then Huo Teng absolutely does not believe it.

It must be the little lion who is in the way, and even these obscene words should be added by him.

"I am formally notifying Baron Horten that I, the Duke of Saxony, request you to go to the court outside the city to accept the trial and jury of the priests from the Saxony diocese, representatives of the Duke of Saxony, and the earls and barons of Saxony within three days. Under the witness of God , the duke and priest of Saxony will give you a fair trial."

The messenger murmured and finally issued a formal ultimatum.

This ultimatum made Huo Teng laugh out of anger.

The little lion can't attack the city, but he can attack the heart.

After the storming of the Free City of Göttingen stumbled, they planned to set up a third-party court outside the city, find Baron Kennan as the plaintiff, and drag Huo Teng into the dock.

In this way, the plaintiff, judge, and lawyer are all from other people. If Huo Teng really foolishly ran over to argue with others, he might not be sentenced to severe punishment of land deprivation and exile on the spot.As for whether this court is fair or not, and whether it has legal effect, do we need to ask?

The Duke of Saxony gave a stick here, and he said that justice is justice.Do you want to stand up for Huo Teng?

How many teachers do you have?

Such courts and trials are exactly the same as the bad behavior of the modern ugly people, and they are all passed down from one ancestor.Huo Teng was labeled a lucky minister and incompetent for no reason, and the Saxon army changed from an invader to a hero who helped justice.Confused right and wrong, if they hadn't been unable to take down the castle, Huo Teng and Conosha would have gone to a monastery in a foreign country to green the ancient Buddha.

But in fact, Huo Teng had the advantage in the battle!None of his main castles fell, which makes this unfair trial seem very paradoxical.

Are you going to punish the air?

Do you have the ability to execute?

Some people will ask, why the Saxon priest should be judged in the matter of the Diocese of Mainz.But in fact, both parties have the right to compete for the right to judge, because in the early Middle Ages, the principle of humanism was the principle. The Germanic people followed the Germanic law, and the Romans followed the Roman law.However, after about seven or eight centuries, as the remaining Romans were integrated into the barbarian society, the laws of various places gradually moved towards the principle of territoriality.

That is to say, wherever it is, it shall be punished according to the customary law there.But there are also human exceptions. If you belong to the church, you will be judged by the church, and if you belong to the nobles, you will be judged by the nobles.

Under such circumstances, Göttingen County, which once belonged to the Principality of Saxony and now belongs to the Principality of Upper Lorraine, but belongs to the Diocese of Mainz of the Principality of Franconia, can be judged by the three principalities together.

In any case, Huo Teng would never be fooled by the little lion.

He pushed away the worried knights and pulled Jones aside.

"I, both a nobleman and a monk of the church, should be judged by the Archbishop of Mainz. Secondly, I would like to protest to the Archbishop of Magdeburg in the Principality of Saxony. This is a trial without reason. Extremely unfair and extremely irregular farce." First, Huo Teng put on the front line and declared his church identity.

People in the church are based on human principles, and they have to be judged by the church itself.This puts the jurisdiction of the trial in the hands of the archbishop of Mainz in the south.However, the Archbishop of Mainz has recently been openly confronting the Duke of Franconia, and I am afraid that he will not have much time to go north to take care of things.

"Secondly, do you understand Latin? Do you have a wooden board from the court? Is the writing on the wooden board in Latin?" Then, Huo Teng bombarded the envoys who came to question him.

He can't even read, he knows shitty Latin.The words just now were repeated in the Saxon dialect after memorization.After being reprimanded by Huo Teng, he also showed timidity and stopped talking embarrassingly.

"Secondly, the superior lord I am directly subordinate to is the kind and kind Countess of Conoza, and Göttingen County belongs to the Duke of Upper Lorraine, Theodoric, whoever organizes the court should first obtain the permission of these two. I do not recognize the sovereignty of the Principality of Saxony over Göttingen, nor the validity of this court."

After publicly declaring his two denials and three doubts, Huo Teng engraved these five questions on a wooden board in Latin, handed them to the envoy, and said with a haughty expression: "I don't even know Latin. Illiterate people in the Black Forest should stop rubbing against us Rhine boys."

After some questioning, Huo Teng not only drove away the envoy, refuted the so-called legal principles of the court, but also strengthened the impression that he was omnipotent in front of the knight and his family.

But that's not enough.

Because the little lion, who has the strategic advantage, can definitely come up with more small ways to suppress the morale of his side.

"Huo Teng, we can't just be passively beaten like this!" The flash knight Jones looked at a total of forty or fifty knights in the castle, and said proactively: "Let me lead the knights to charge, the enemy's defense is not good now Gao, just defeat them..."

Amelia, the widow, also hurriedly suggested: "That's right, let the Saxons see how powerful we Göttingen people are. Our lances are much longer than their axes."