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With their encouragement, many young knights also joined the upsurge of going out of the city to fight back.

"enough!"

Huo Teng was annoyed and roared loudly, calming down these eager knights.

"Are you wild boars? As soon as you are teased, you get angry and want to jump into the enemy's trap immediately? Look outside the city, how many people can be seen with the naked eye? No more than 1000 people! The rest Where is it? Sleeping in a tent? I think it is an ambush, waiting for us to be provoked. As long as you lose your mind and escape from the strongest city wall, the fate of the Bowenden family in Göttingen can basically come to an end."

Horten observed early on that there should be a dual leader in the Saxon army.Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the huge difference between rushing forward and setting up a safe camp.

The little lion's extra court will only add to the jokes, but the ambush by this deep-seated leader may really kill Huo Teng.

"Then... let's check the city defense." Jones stuck out her tongue, and Amelia lowered her head in shame. The two hurriedly found excuses to escape, and the remaining knights also dispersed.

Huo Teng was left alone, looking at the enemy's camp alone.

Suddenly he had an even more interesting idea.

"Go, send me the news. Just say, I, Huo Teng, will not leave Liberty City even if I die. He, Bernard, has the ability to build the court next to the moat."

……

In the Middle Ages, people generally would not harm monks, and under normal circumstances they would not invade monasteries.

Therefore, it is generally easier for people with the status of priests to travel in various countries unimpeded.For example, there were French and German priests who traveled thousands of miles to Cordoba, Spain, where they were still studying in universities under the control of Muslim kings.

Therefore, although the group of priests organized by the little lion Bernard was not of high status, he thought it was enough to suppress Huo Teng.

But the little lion judges others by himself, but forgets that Horten himself came from a monastery, and his academic performance is still very good. Whether it is theology or Latin, he can beat little Bernard, who is illiterate.

And the Billund family of the big and small Bernards is actually a newly rising military family.Not to mention literacy and hyphenation, even the five generations of ancestors may not be able to get together.The old Bernard only knew some common Latin, and the young Bernard could only write his own name.At this time, the aristocratic correspondence often wrote a whole chapter of incorrect Latin, which led to the habit of making mistakes.

Little Bernard, who was hanged and beaten in the field of knowledge, took Huo Teng to question his two denials and three disbeliefs, and he couldn't even understand the official documents written on the wooden board.

This inevitably hit his fragile self-esteem again.

The priests were called for some translation, but these priests retreated first.I have never heard of a successful precedent for a court trial on the battlefield, and the other party is also a priest. What should I do?

Better run back to your own parish as soon as possible, so as not to be ashamed.

But little Bernard was not.

After he heard about Huo Teng's provocation from the city, he couldn't help gritting his teeth even more.

manage!

Not only did the court have to be held, but it had to be close enough to the city wall so that Huo Teng could watch himself being judged with his own eyes!

Chapter 75 I'm going to start micromanaging!

The next day, in the unilateral court under the city, it was time for the plaintiff to make a statement.

Huo Teng, his family and his subordinates stood on the edge of the city wall and watched leisurely.

From Huo Teng's own point of view, due to the lagging economic development and the ignorant and conservative society as a whole, in Western Europe, even in the relatively developed Middle Franks, which is not considered a barbaric country, people are very narrow-minded and extreme.

At least, this is still the case in the eleventh century.

In fact, this is one of the many hangovers from the days of the Germanic tribes.And their Christianity and the Roman Empire are actually more developed cultures derived from the Roman culture in the south. They entered the Germanic region and merged with the local tribal principalities to create such a hilarious Sibei of the German Roman Empire. goods.

The control of local Christianity has also been remotely controlled by the Italian Roman adherents who have been sitting in the position of spiritual leaders for a long time.This situation will have to wait another two or three hundred years until the Latin Bible is deconstructed and reconstructed by the Christian Bible in the native language of each place.

That is to say, Germania under the influence of Christianity can be inappropriately compared to the Manchus who learned Confucian culture. They were not the same civilization system at the beginning, but they were completely integrated together later, making people almost forget the conquest of Christian civilization. Germanic history.It also led to the people of the Germanic tribal principalities under the more civilized Christian worldview to associate their barbaric and backward cognition with God and Christianity.

This double cognition has led to a common double standard consequence.

In layman's terms, it's because I have quality that I can be without quality; because I believe in God, I can play tricks on you.

Qualified priests can avoid this situation, and the Holy See also tried its best to prevent such rogue things from happening.But most of the knights who can't read and only know to call God can't control so much.

Baron Kenan, the plaintiff, naturally attributed the mistakes of the two previous battles to Huo Teng as the commander; and put the bright spots of these two battles on a group of barons and knights headed by himself. on the head.Take double standards to the extreme.

Yes, Huo Teng was standing on the city wall, watching the performance in the public trial court about a hundred meters away from the city wall on the side of the moat.Baron Kenan, who took the lead in rebelling against the Countess of Conosha, performed tearfully how to slander his former boss.In a court where a religious person is the judge, six priests and six Saxon knights are the jurors, the extreme of double standards is displayed.

"...even the conquest of Millhouse Castle was due to us, and it was we who made great sacrifices to climb the walls of Millhouse Castle, and the deplorable and disgraceful Horten Bowenden took Millhouse House Castle as his own..." Baron Kennan seemed to state that he was addicted, and he even claimed the achievement of conquering Millhouse Castle to his own name.

Huo Teng shouted through the city wall: "Kenan, aren't you sleepwalking? How do I remember that you weren't there at all? Why, can you still command the Battle of Millhouse Castle by remote control?"

With this sound, everyone on and off the city burst into laughter.

The views of most ordinary soldiers are narrow and extreme, but also simple.They don't have so much fancy, and they all know that the battle with the robber knight and the battle of Millhouse are Huo Teng's masterpieces, how could it suddenly become Baron Kennan's record?Look at the old man's small arms and legs, does he have the ability?

The knights and priests sitting in the jury box all coughed or shook their heads in embarrassment.

Baron Kennan wasn't so shameless that he was still flushed when he was exposed face to face. He sat down hurriedly and pretended to finish his statement.

Sitting on the chairman of the verdict, Bernard Jr., who claimed to be the representative of the Duke of Saxony, directly wanted to announce the verdict.

In fact, the priest who was supposed to be sitting here really couldn't bear to lose face, and ran away all night, so he let little Bernard out to support the scene.

"I judge that Horten's noble status is not qualified, deprive him of all the fiefs in Göttingen and Weimar counties, deprive the Bowenden family of fiefs! and abolish all his official status. Exiled to Friesland Abbey, reflect."

This air-to-air penalty can neither guarantee the defendant's obedience nor the ability to actually execute the penalty, so it is naturally a joke for people to laugh at.

In fact, even the soldiers of the Principality of Saxony blew their horns and booed.

A man in the Black Forest only believes in the sword in his hand.They felt that it was too embarrassing for the duke's son to try to bring down Huo Teng by telling stories.This man deserves to be judged on the battlefield.

Including the knights of Saxony, when they saw the little master playing these word games, they each had other thoughts.

Everyone is an old soldier, but few are good at words.If Little Bernard came to power and wanted to take back the fiefdom of the knights, what would the knights do?Can't argue in court.

This kind of person is not suitable to be the leader of the Principality.

It would be better to wait for old Bernard to die and elect a new duke.

Little Bernard, who didn't know that his ignorant solicitation had caused the knights under his command to become alienated, looked at Huo Teng with his waist proudly.

He believes that as long as this penalty is maintained, as long as it promotes its internal collapse, it will be no problem to conquer Liberty City.It wasn't that the Otto family didn't use tactics when they fought east and west.Especially the division, suppression and win over of the Grand Duchy of Poland was quite successful.

As for how to promote its internal collapse, Little Bernard set the goal of conquering the Countess Conosha.

Find a way to take down Conosha, or reach an agreement with her, and get rid of Huo Teng by the way?

Thinking about it carefully, Conosha is not married yet, so it is possible for Little Bernard to send his current wife to the monastery and remarry Conoza to control Göttingen as long as he greets the church.

Thinking so beautifully, Bernard Jr. asked the priest to engrave the document of the judgment on a wooden board in Latin and pass it on.

……

And on the city wall, behind the arrow shelter, a large group of soldiers were moving the torsion cannon cart Huo Teng was researching, aiming at the position of little Bernard behind the wooden planks.

"Aim at it, aim at it! It's so close, if you miss it, you'll get something to eat." The craftsmen who commanded behind were also inexperienced, so they asked a group of people to move the cannon cart again and again before they managed to find a possible good one. Location.

On the other side, it was the same situation, a gun carriage, many people were aiming.

Fortunately, Huo Teng built a small house-like arrow shelter and aiming holes on the edge of the city wall, so it was difficult for people below the city to find out what was going on here.

Huo Teng crouched nervously behind the parapet, watching the complacent little Bernard walking up and down by the moat.According to predictions, as long as the two shots can hit one shot, then Bernard Jr. can prepare to say goodbye to his healthy body.Especially Andreas, who was running away, even took away the doctor in the monastery, and little Bernard didn't even have a place to treat his illness.

But at the moment when the stone cannon shot out, Huo Teng stopped his subordinates.

Horten realized that he couldn't bombard little Bernard now.

"Stop aiming! This cannon cannot be fired."

"Why? We'll win if we kill him." Amelia couldn't help asking aggrievedly when she saw that her uncle was intimidated.

"No, kill him, we may lose."

Huo Teng shook his head and gave the opposite answer.

Because, when Huo Teng observed little Bernard's complacency, he also accidentally noticed that the Saxony barracks was being closely dispatched and the soldiers were walking in an orderly manner.

Little Bernard couldn't control the barracks.The one who is really in power is the old guy who hides behind the tent and keeps himself from being exposed.

Killing Bernard Jr. would not do any good other than angering Bernard Jr. and attracting more enemy troops.Who made his father awesome.

If you want to defeat the enemy, you must destroy their command center.Huo Teng used to think that this command center was a little lion, but now he thinks it is an old man in a tent.That should be the nanny old Bernard assigned to his son.

"We aimed at that tent. I believe the real commander is hiding in that tent."

Huo Teng resisted the temptation to kill Bernard Jr.

Let other people bear this glorious reputation.After all, Old Bernard was a northern lion and he couldn't afford to provoke him.

As a result, the two gun carriages moved again, aiming at the Saxon command camp that also rushed forward because Bernard Jr. rushed forward to arrange the court.

At this time, the deputy commander-in-chief, Hamster, was actually thinking about how to divide and attack the nobles in Göttingen.He realized that the little lion's strategy was useful, but he also knew that the premise of being useful was that he could defeat Huo Teng.

"Your Excellency the Baron, it's not okay to go on like this. If Little Bernard is in power, we can suppress us and deprive us of the territory by organizing some bullshit court, then..." A knight came over and complained.

Needless to say, Hamster frowned when he touched the core interests.

His allegiance was Otto II, the son of Otto the Great.The reason why he worked under the old Bernard was not because Otto II handed over the Duchy of Saxony, his base, to the old Bernard.It would be too black and humorous if he took care of all his fiefdoms.

However, when Hamster was hesitating and thinking, the Huo Teng army on the city wall had already adjusted the boards of the arrow shelter, exposing the torsion trebuchet inside.

"This is your resistance? A strange trebuchet?" Little Bernard laughed.

Without him, the distance is too far, more than a hundred meters.

You must know that the German barbarians of this era are still using human trebuchets with an effective projection distance of only tens of meters.How far and where to hit depends entirely on how many people are pulling the rope, and whether you can hit or not depends on fate.It's like middle school students having a sports meeting.

So little Bernard was extremely disdainful.

But this is Huo Teng's improved torsion trebuchet. Although it is not as overbearing as the counterweight trebuchet, it is not a problem to throw the stone projectile for a hundred meters.

Besides, in order to expand the attack area, Huo Teng threw stone canisters.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The two trebuchets roared at the same time, firing high and low.

Little Bernard hurriedly lay down on the ground to hide, but found that the trebuchet was not aimed at him at all.

Hamster, who was resting in the tent, suddenly felt a chill in his back, and then his whole body was numb, and he lay down on the ground and couldn't get up again.

The Saxon army was in chaos and almost lost its command center.

But for little Bernard who heard that Hamster was seriously injured and fell to the ground, he was secretly delighted.

Finally, there is no one to restrain me from commanding the army!

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"Countess, I hope you will think more about it. You are still young, and you have a lot of young talents to choose from. A rich lady like you is the jewel in the palm of the kings' active pursuit in the world..."

In Göttingenburg, where there were not many attacks, Kang Nuosha, whose delicate skin was like white fat, and her slim body was stuffed with beautiful jade, had just finished her makeup when she was stalked by a lady who entered the door.

"Oh! Ms. Selena, I really don't want to get married. And my territory is facing a war, now is not the time to discuss this..."

Connorsa had no choice but to avoid her.

This woman, Selina, is the wife of the Count of Paderborn under the flag of the Principality of Saxony not far northwest of Göttingen.

She has been in the castle for the past two days, persevering in persuading Conosha to surrender to the Principality of Saxony as soon as possible, and she is still not a Marquis... No, she is a lady.

But Conossa doesn't think so.

Looking at the fierce Liberty City battlefield in the distance, she wished she could fly over and fight side by side with Huo Teng.

Even if there was an ultimatum and rescue from her brother Adler on the table, she rejected them all.

……

The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and the little Bernard, who just came out of his father's shadow, is also like a lion cub, radically and angrily ordering the Saxon Black Forest army to launch a fierce attack on Liberty City.

There is a difference, called yes and no.

Ordinary knight troops don't even have the technology to make ladders, battering rams or even hand-pulled trebuchets.Therefore, even if it is a dilapidated wooden castle like a wooden fence, or a Norman-style earthen watchtower, they are all helpless.It seems to be facing a two-meter-wide river, and it is impossible to jump, but it seems to be within reach, the flesh is in front of you, and it is far away in the sky.

But for the Black Forest Legion who fought in the Battle of Poland, the Battle of Magyar, and the Battle of the Elbe, these technologies are not completely untouched.Even they are very few veterans who have really played big scenes.

Most of the time, medieval knight fighting was a bad battle between a knight and a group of soldiers. It was a village fight between a knight and a group of soldiers. There was no command and no advanced elements.

It can be said that the Black Forest Legion is the first veteran regiment Huo Teng has encountered that has been upgraded in all aspects.

When the soldiers who came out of the Black Forest, wearing simple chain mail, thick cloth or linen clothes, bent over deftly and rushed across the moat, Huo Teng, who had experienced the battle of defending the city for the first time, was still numb.