prince of europe in quintiles

Several giant war beasts tremblingly embarked on the journey to the south under the guidance of the animal trainer.

If it's just to send relatives off, why use a war behemoth?

As Bernard gathered more and more returning elites, this war of words changed from a joke at the beginning to a terrible postscript of war.

The aristocrats outside of Saxony began to close their own land nervously, strictly preventing the invasion of bandits, robbers, and even refugees.The nobles in Saxony were disappointed to find that the peace they hoped for had not come.

When Horten agreed to the marriage, all the Saxons breathed a sigh of relief.Get married, get married, as long as there is no war, as long as everyone has savings.Last year, many people followed King Conrad to the southern expedition to Italy. Not only did they not obtain rich accumulation of plunder, but they only spent more than half a year in the northeastern part of Italy, which made many people tired and tired.

This psychological gap quickly began to collapse after Bernard issued the call-up order.

Moreover, the call-up order is still divided into layers.Bernard seemed to know that the lowly nobles were exhausted to the extreme and were unwilling to go on a large-scale expedition.So Bernard's choice is to send out several companies in each region, those who are willing to come, those who are not willing to recommend others, or pay a sum of money to ask others to collect on their behalf.

This method may be regarded as advanced.However, pushing and shoving each other like this, the one who will be sent out in the end must be the poorest and most powerless family. How high is the will to fight?

Gathering nearly a thousand knights in this way, and enlisting the knights of the inner court and the sergeants of the farmers directly under the territory, Bernard Jr. led this tired army to escort his sister who was picked up from the monastery, and embarked on the road to the south.

From the little Bernard to the lowest sergeant, no one is willing to go to war, but has to go to the battlefield.

When picking up his sister from the monastery outside Lüneburg, Gottisdiu, who was sitting in the carriage, asked little Bernard curiously: "Brother, your steps sound heavy."

"My heart is heavier than my footsteps. Perhaps in my father's view, this war is a giant bear crushing the top, but to me, it is a group of exhausted troops, like entering a quagmire."

After hearing this, little Bernard couldn't help sighing.

After listening to his complaints, Goldistein thought for a long time and said, "I'm afraid Göttingen is not just waiting for you in the mud."

Chapter 150 Standing!

Huo Teng's treasury has shrunk by thousands of gold in an instant due to the recruitment of ten infantry spear regiments, the transformation of medium-sized armor, the recruitment and employment of territorial retinue knights, and most of the originally small funds have been invested in it. .

But the effect is amazing.

The number of units that the system can allow Huo Teng to recruit is limited.For example, retinue knights, since Huo Teng has two castles and knight stables, the upper limit of the number of retinue knights he can recruit is six teams, that is, 120 retinue knights.Another example is the chivalrous concealer, the recruitment of this elite ranger is one, unless Huo Teng upgrades the level of the hideout to the second level, he can get the second one.

But the ordinary bottom-level arms do not need a recruitment limit!

The Infantry Spear Regiment may look mediocre, not high in every way.Armor is not as good as regular knights, morale is not as good as fanatical believers, offense is not organized, but defense is good.

But in this world, there is always a comparison between bad and bad.The inferior chain mail armor of the spear regiment is far inferior to the knights, but it is more than enough to hang the sergeants attached to the knights and the peasants armed; downwind.

In this world, the Spear Group also has its own background.When self-cultivators from all directions came to join the army with spears and chain mail, they were self-cultivators and small landowners in Göttingen. They were grateful for the increase in wealth and food production brought by Horten, so they bought weapons. Standing under Huo Teng's banner.

In other words, the Spear Regiment occupied the number of Göttingen yeoman groups that Horten could have mobilized.Since Huo Teng has established a large number of spear groups, the system has eliminated Huo Teng's ability to mobilize the homeowners in order to replace them reasonably.Huo Teng didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

In addition to focusing on strengthening the spear regiment, Huo Teng also carried out a series of expansions on the army, and then forced all the knights in the territory to bring their own followers, sergeants and militia logistics, and the number of people was forced to 3000. people!

These 11 troops put together will consume 55 catties of food, or about 55 tons, every month.Huo Teng's grain depot still has to sell the grain in exchange for next year's construction funds. The [-] tons of grain will be taken out, which is really life-threatening.

October [-]th.

All the knights in Göttingen have received a mandatory call-up order from Horten.

This year all knights must gather under the city of Göttingenburg, and each knight must bring at least two equestrian retinues, five sergeants and ten peasant workers.If there is a real shortage of manpower, you must pay the shield tax to exchange manpower from other places.

The Earl of Göttingen did not have much war this year, and the military service that many knights should be responsible for has not been exhausted, so the knights don't think they will run away, and even suspect that Huo Teng's mandatory order is to look down on them.

The knights who arrived late complained to each other while asking their subordinates to look for shelter in the countryside: "Isn't it just to die? The man has wandered around the gate of death many times, but does Earl Horten look down on us? Even if there is an abyss and a huge mountain ahead, we will raise our spears!"

The heads of the bottom knights in the Middle Ages were relatively stupid.Purely ignorant fools.

Church and feudal education educate them all the time, to be faithful and fulfill their duties.

For them, Huo Teng is an object worthy of allegiance, so it is irresistible to follow Huo Teng to charge on the battlefield.

to death?

Generally, knights on the battlefield are not easy to die, and at most they can buy armor and captives.

Besides, death is death. If you become a deserter, that is the real death.

If you are a big noble, you definitely don't think so.

There were still knights who had arrived at the door, and someone said: "I heard that Earl Horten will organize a military parade tomorrow? I don't know what a military parade is. But do you know? People say that Earl Horten has already Organized an army of 3000 men, comparable to that of Duke Bernard."

"Just kidding, I don't believe it."

The knights from afar burst into laughter.Three thousand troops?Is there so much food?

But immediately, they realized that Huo Teng really had food.

A warehouse full of food.

"No way?"

……

The next day, a total of 167 knights and two viscounts from the Earl of Göttingen and the Viscount Milhouse followed Horten and walked up the gate of the city wall of Göttingenburg.

Huo Teng, wearing a black feather cloak, walked past every knight majestically.On this critical day, the knights tried their best to make themselves look colorful, some painted birds and beasts, and some tried their best to paint red and green. Teng competed in momentum.

It was easy to overwhelm the demeanor of every knight, and after being alone for a while, Huo Teng raised his hand and said lightly: "Everyone, thank you for your hard work."

The knights felt that Huo Teng's weight was so light. When the war was about to break out, they could still smile. They all raised their hands: "Long live Earl Huo Teng, long live Göttingen!"

Pressing his hands in vain, Huo Teng looked around.

"Thank you very much for your support. You have provided me with 167 knights, 234 horsemen, more than 400 sergeants, and nearly a thousand migrant workers. I know that my request is not very reasonable, but I still hope you understand my choice. "

According to Huo Teng's request, these knights may be able to gather more than 2000 troops, but that is too strict.In fact, the knights did not send out too many horsemen and sergeants, but the peasants sent a little more.They also pooled more than 200 gold to Huo Teng to talk about financial pressure.

As soon as they heard that there were more than 1000 people on their side, the knights who were not very good at mathematics raised their necks, feeling that they were almost invincible.

Huo Teng clapped his hands and said, "Now, I want to show you my army."

Before the knights could react, the gate of Göttingenburg suddenly opened, and rows of spears wearing chain mail and domed helmets, holding spears and square shields in their hands walked out in a rather neat step. group.

"Elite!"

"This is the landowner and squire of Eleven Village, handsome."

The knights applauded one after another, thinking that Huo Teng's elite was very beautiful, indeed superior to their subordinates.

But as the army gradually moved out, things gradually went wrong.

"Why so many?"

100人……200人……300人……400人……800人……

Nearly a thousand people had been driven out, and the first show of the infantry spear regiment and the mountain javeliners was over.These troops formed a team of 80 people and stood in front of the city gate, which shocked all the knights in an instant.

Every army must have logistics, and to add 20 peasants to support these teams, there are ten centurions!

"My God! Eight hundred suits of chain mail?"

"Even if it's trash, isn't that too extravagant?"

"Where did you get the money? Is it from a good harvest, or from the king?"

The knights were not just jealous anymore, they almost started to frantically hope to know, did Huo Teng earn money from farming?You must know that such a set of chain mail is more than enough to arm your subordinates!

Huo Teng thought about the deflated wallet, and while dripping blood in his heart, he proudly expressed that it was all grown by farming, and hoped that everyone would come to reclaim the wasteland and become rich together.

The minds of the knights became active again.

With such a majestic army, why not fight off the Saxons again if everyone adds up to five?

But more than that, another group of knights directly under Huo Teng stood up.

Five ceremonial knights led the way with gorgeous flower crowns, and 120 retinue knights swaggered out, followed by 20 single-feathered light cavalry and 20 chivalrous concealers, a total of 165 knights and cavalry, and the number of knights recruited by Huo Teng Make an appointment.

With so many knights, the knights on the top of the city feel quite powerful.

"There are 3000 people in total, right?"

"That's great, we're in Göttingen!"

But it doesn't stop there!

Frank's professional mercenaries, led by Caron, took two teams of rangers, two teams of crusader archers, and five teams of upgraded peasant archers, a total of more than 600 people continued to play.

With such a good deal, Huo Teng unexpectedly pulled out more than 700 troops!

"Everyone, I have emptied my treasury and burned down my granary. I am willing to provide food for three thousand troops for three months, and spend a lot of money to ask everyone to continue fighting. I have only one request!"

Huo Teng's voice suddenly increased: "That is to win this war! I would rather stand and complete a bloody marriage in a bloody battlefield than kneel in Bernard's church and pray humiliatingly!"

Chapter 150

For medieval knights, being humiliated was probably a more memorable shame than fighting.

The humiliation of the family and honor is more serious than the personal injury.

Huo Teng's simple words and the aura of being overwhelmed instantly aroused the honor and disgrace of the Göttingen knights.The decision to marry standing on the battlefield rather than kneeling in Lüneburg for peace immediately won unanimous cheers from all the knights.

defeated?

The knights who have gone south to Franconia don't think they will be defeated. The battlefield is three thousand and four against three thousand. We have more than 400 people on our side. How could we lose?

Although nearly a thousand of them are not soldiers fighting on the battlefield, but farmers who are used to build camps, transport supplies, etc., when the number is large to a certain extent, many people who have not studied systematically will determine the size of the number Produce cheap.It is precisely that these illiterates are generally only used to counting with ten fingers.

Some of these old knights who have not suffered a single defeat for several years, or even fought a battle, are very frank and began to prepare for the handover, leaving the family property to their sons first.If he died on the battlefield, he would also avoid disputes about succession.If it weren't for Huo Teng's urgent urging, they might not have participated in this visible but untouchable war whose hope was hanging on the horizon.

When death is so close to you that you spend half your life in the same bed with death, death is just a part of life.

When all the knights agreed with a bang, the last secret weapon was pushed out.

It was still the torsion-type cannon carriage, which was no different in principle from the Roman weapons thousands of years ago, only bigger and rougher.

As for this gun carriage, Huo Teng launched five of them at once, which strengthened everyone's confidence.

"I never imagined that one day we would be able to fight the enemy with thousands of people under such a flag? The Roman emperor in the southeast is almost like this?" Jeffrey blew sourly to the people around him Cowhide, a picture of poor peasants guessing that the emperor used a golden pole and a golden hoe for farming.

In fact, these 3000 people may only be the number of mobile troops in the hands of a governor of the Roman Empire.The army that can be used by the entire Roman Empire is far beyond Jeffrey's imagination.In the empire at this time, organizing an army of [-] to [-] to fight is already a very difficult and magnificent expedition.

Oh, the most recent battle was a few years ago when Otto III captured the hostile pope and cut off his five sense organs; the last time, in 982, Otto II fought in southern Italy and the Emirate of Sicily.That battle changed the fate of Germany. Tens of thousands of expeditionary troops were thrown under the charge of the Muslim light cavalry. Countless earls, dukes, and even the emperor's close relatives died in this war. In the end, Otto II He could only flee back to Rome in embarrassment on a Roman ship, and died of a fever the following year.After that fierce battle, Germany, ruled by the Otto family, was never able to cross the border to the south and enter southern Italy to eliminate Muslim treacherous people.

It has long been impossible to verify whether it is psychologically afraid or really impossible.

Strike while the iron was hot, Huo Teng directly led the army out of Göttingenburg, and walked boldly on the road to the north without any cover.

But after the army, Huo Teng's family did not accompany her on the expedition.

That was Huo Teng's request. He hoped that once Huo Teng was defeated, Connorsa would take the pregnant Jones and flee to the king's court in Swabia with the widowed sister-in-law Amelia. hands.Fort Göttingen, the Free City of Göttingen, and all the real estate that Horten once founded must be abandoned on the spot and should not be kept lightly.The character of Bernard Billon is unbelievable.

Huo Teng doesn't necessarily have a bottom line in his heart. He can show infinite stalwart and confidence to the knights, but he can't deceive himself to show a smile to his family.

So [-] troops pushed dozens of ox carts and donkey carts, took five torsion catapults, and a dozen cloud ladders and embarked on the journey to the north.

Whether this journey is an abyss or a bright and smooth journey depends on this battle.

……

In Northeim, which is also called 'Which Village in the North', Earl Bernard Imdin squatted on the top of the city and carefully checked whether there was any smoke in the village under him.

He is still very young this year, only in his 20s.His grandfather is the younger brother of the legendary hero Siegfried, an unknown ordinary knight, and his father is even more ordinary, just a noble steward.When Siegfried was in his later years, he gave Nottheim to this grandnephew.

Imdin did not expect that his family was so poor that they would finally end up poor.

He ran to Nottheim in a hurry, and found that standing on the top of the city, he could see all the villages that belonged to him.This place is quite stable and peaceful, and the agricultural output is also good. There are rivers in the north, lakes in the west, and mountains in the east. It is safe everywhere.So the fun of the day is to watch what the villagers are doing.

Occasionally, he finds that someone is being lazy, and he will send someone to reprimand him.

After autumn came, Imdin discovered that his territory was completely sitting on a volcano.

To the north is the Principality of Saxony with a strong family background, and to the south is the young and energetic Earl of Göttingen.Who is the ultimate winner?

The answer has not yet been drawn, but Imdin is already being pulled in the middle and is about to explode.

The envoys from the north and the south were running back and forth, and Imdin ordered several meat meals just to obtain insider information. He had to go hunting in person to make up for the meat storage.

The results of it?

Nature is nothing.

Imdin was in such a torment that he wished he could jump into the Rumer River to wash himself off.

Finally, on the day when he looked at the territory, he was relieved.

He looked to the south and found a colorful and radiant cavalry team. There were nearly [-] knights on horseback winding along the road to the south.Looking at the dozens of flags belonging to different families, such a grand event scared Imdin to the ground on the spot.

"Close the city gate! Quickly close the city gate!"

After hastily locking the gate and shutting everyone out, even the people in the castle were not allowed to enter or leave, Imdin noticed that Huo Teng's army had already lined up, and the infantry team that could not be seen at a glance was quite elite. appearance.