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Little did they know that their territory had already been kidnapped by Huo Teng.

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To the north of the Rumer River, about sixty or seventy miles away, half a day's journey away, there is a castle surrounded by mountains on three sides.

The people here call themselves the 'City of Witches', because of the dangerous terrain, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the enemy on one side, it retains a unique natural scenery.In fact, Fort Goslar is a wealthy mining city that produces iron ore and copper ore.

That's right, the country of Viscount Goslar is actually a small fortress built on the northwest side of Mount Harz.

On the southwest side of the Harz Mountains is Fort Millhouse, and the refugee hideout established with the support of Horten.

Goslar has always been known for its abundance of wealth and armaments.

But this side is actually not very rich in grain, so we have to go down the mountain to buy grain.

This is also the reason why Bernard Jr. visited here.

"Uncle Hamster, can you really not come out of the mountain for me again?" Bernard Jr. had a bitter face, begging his former deputy Hamster to help him again.

However, Hamster's expression was very decisive: "No, unless the Duke releases Earl Val first. Otherwise, it will be difficult."

Hamster was the deputy Bernard Sr. carefully selected for his son when Bernard Jr. led 3000 people to besiege Göttingenburg last time.It's a pity that the deputy could not seize power after all. Under the manipulation of Bernard Jr., the siege of Göttingen almost became a farce.After letting Hamster run back, his mood was greatly reduced, and he was no longer willing to play for Saxon.

But the deeper reason is the bad influence of Earl Val having his eyes gouged out.No one wants to be the next unlucky guy whose eyes are gouged out.

However, at first glance, Little Bernard is obviously a young leaf who cannot lead an army to fight. If he assists him in defeat, what if his eyeballs are cut off?

Hamster's anxiety is also the anxiety of most nobles in the Principality of Saxony.

"I...I can help Goslar get more rations." Little Bernard had no choice but to use rations to force Hamster to come out of the mountain.

When it comes to food, Hamster is very excited.

As a result, little Bernard didn't know why, and what he blurted out was military rations.

Exchange military rations for the deputy commander?

Hamster's concerns once again returned to Earl Val's eye gouging.Besides, Hamster didn't have the old Bernard's instructions. If he went out to help fight the war, and was finally punished by the Duke for stealing the rations and leading to defeat in the battle, he might goug his eyes tomorrow.

"Please go back." Hamster finally rejected Bernard Jr. wearily.

Looking at the young man who left in disappointment, Hamster sighed again and again: "After all, he is not a material for success."

Chapter 150 Four Future Husband

Paderborn on the left, Goslar on the right.

Of these two cities, one is a powerful commercial city and the other is an excellent mining town.Mutual commercial contacts and non-governmental exchanges are also quite frequent.

Coupled with the city of Minden in the north of Paderborn, it is an economically important town with minting rights and currency issuance. It is the largest city in the region and absorbs the river trade goods of Paderborn and the excellent copper of Goslar. Iron ore mines form the economic iron triangle of the Anglia region.

After leaving Goslar Castle, Little Bernard led his attendants cursingly and turned to him: "Cut, old bastard, do you look down on me? Do you really think I have no way to fight Huo Teng?"

His attendant just added embellishment: "Indeed. I heard that Goslar is a city of iron smelting. Didn't you present a sharp sword when you came?"

Having said that, Little Bernard became even angrier.

He came to visit with a lot of presents, and Hamster didn't have a gift in return!

According to the rules of the nobles, the heirs of the lower nobles will be sent to the families of the upper nobles or nobles of the same level to receive education.The heirs of the great nobles are likely to live in the monastery of the archbishop.

If you want to use a more convenient and intuitive way to understand, this situation of mutual education is similar to that of a wealthy worker's family. The children are educated by their masters and belong to small classes.However, the great nobles all send their sons to universities to learn better literature, language, debate, and most importantly, to cultivate contacts and talents, so as to launch a sprint towards the archbishop or even a higher position.

As a result, a group of braggarts and flatterers gathered around Little Bernard. They came from lower-class noble families and were sent to accompany Little Bernard, the prince, to study.

Over the years, little Bernard has often encountered some tough young knights, which made him suffer again and again.But when encountering such good material, Bernard Jr.'s choice was to kick them out, whether it was to speak ill of them, or intentionally let them hurt him, in short, he played all kinds of methods with great proficiency.

Faithful words are harsh, and those who stay by my side in the end are all "prodigal sons" who are good at talking sweet words.

Of course, people don’t like people who speak out and give advice in life, but what about when it’s time for war?

Without Hamster's assistance, little Bernard actually only had these attendants who could give him advice.

"Tell me quickly, how should I defeat Huo Teng?"

As mentioned in the preface, Little Bernard is almost traumatized by Huo Teng's existence.He would always think of the terrible scene when his own war behemoth, the half-sea dragon, fell under the city of Göttingen.

These young knights, not to mention that they haven't played a few times in the war, some of them don't even go to the arena often.The methods they can come up with are also very strange.

Someone suggested: "We should send a large number of bandits to penetrate the rear of Göttingen and set fire to their villages and granaries."

The strategic level is good, but now it is just after the autumn harvest, and the farmers in Göttingen have driven their livestock to hide behind the fence wall.

What are you burning?Burn the barren weeds of their fields?

Another person suggested: "Isn't Huo Teng able to gain power because he can fight? We can spend money to disband his mercenaries."

But the problem is, little Bernard doesn't know which of Huo Teng's subordinates are hired, and which are allegiances.

The chattering attendants shared various grand strategic and heretical proposals. You said something and I added something. For a while, there was quite a bit of sitting and talking, eliminating Huo Teng's relaxed atmosphere like rain.

Little Bernard always felt that he didn't know what to do. With the advice of the attendants, although he knew that their shit was a stinky chess basket, he was still complacent. He thought he could see through the flaws in the advice of the attendants, so he seemed very good ability.

After he retreated to the barracks not far away, he urged the troops to continue their journey.

Such an army that had been conscripted out of exhaustion after years of fighting in the Principality of Saxony broke out and set off precariously.

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When this army rushed to the Rumer River on October 10, and was about to cross the river and cross Nottheim to attack Göttingen, it was unexpectedly discovered that there was no bridge on the river.

This is a large river with an average width of eight meters. The river is deep enough to run a boat. It is impossible for ordinary people to cross the river, let alone Bernard Jr.'s army.

Little Bernard was an unprepared character. When he saw that he could not proceed according to the established plan, regardless of his mood, his whole temperament immediately panicked.

"What should I do? My father asked me to fight to the city of Göttingen."

"Don't go into the water. The morale of the army is low. We still have a lot of supplies. Once we are hit halfway, we will collapse." After all, there are still smart people among the attendants who dare not accompany little Bernard at the critical moment. De acted, very pertinently prevented little Bernard's attempt to cross the river.

At this time, a delicately carved carriage stopped beside the command tent, and the girl who had just left the monastery opened the curtain and got out of the carriage.

She was born bright and beautiful, small, delicate and cute. At the age of 15, Goldiu was wearing a delicately woven little gemstone hat and a delicate fox fur shirt. Her green eyes seemed to be telling something. , is fascinating.Like a diva from the north, she asked in an ethereal and lovely way: "Brother, what happened?"

"Ahem, it's nothing. The bridge over the Rumer River fell down, and we are calling craftsmen to repair it." Little Bernard made an excuse casually.

However, Goldis Dieu pointed out his mistake: "I can see the black and white angel flags fluttering on the tower of Notreim when I stand on the roof of the pony carriage, no matter how stupid I am, I should know It has already fallen into the hands of Huo Teng. Brother, you still have the mind to study and repair the bridge now?"

"What!"

Little Bernard was blown away. Nottheim is obviously not a place that Huo Teng has the right to interfere with, so why would he dare to directly occupy it?

This, this... this is not in line with the law of the nobility!

Little Bernard, who ran to the top of the barracks, climbed onto the frame of the big bullock cart. From a distance, there were indeed black and white flags flying.

broken.

Whether it was blocked in the Rumer River, or Northheim, which was scheduled to rest, fell into the hands of Horten, these two changes were terrible.

"Damn it..."

Little Bernard really had no choice but to declare camp on the spot.

Goldis Dieu looked at his elder brother's appearance of great ambition and lack of talent, but he stepped on his small carriage and looked at Northheim with fascination.

She really wanted to know: "What does my future husband, the man who can make my father abandon me, look like? How talented is he?"

Chapter 150 Five, Daddy Helps

In the early morning of the next day, Notteheim blew the assembly horn at six o'clock in the morning.

For the medieval people, getting up at five or six o'clock in the morning was a fixed time, but it was Huo Teng's own idea to blow the assembly call to order the soldiers to assemble immediately.

Soldiers who arrive on time are rewarded, and sloppy soldiers are responsible for cleaning toilets, washing clothes and carrying marching pots for other colleagues.At this time, the marching pot mainly refers to the clay pot that can be set up to boil water and stew soup.If it is lost and broken, everyone will have no food or hot soup to drink.So the difficulty of carrying this blame is quite scratching your head.

Such an order can be said to be no difficulty for soldiers, as long as they wake up in time, they can complete the task.So there are quite a few soldiers who enjoy it and don't wash the toilet by running fast.But what Huo Teng needs is this vigilance and unconditional obedience to orders.Describing the order and prohibition of soldiers into every detail is a relatively effective experience that Huo Teng has learned from the military science of later generations on paper.

Of course, there are also things that are invalid in military science on paper.For example, organizing complaint meetings in ancient times, teaching and learning characters, these things are superfluous and meaningless to Huo Teng from the perspective of maintaining the feudal system, and there is no economic foundation to break the feudal aristocratic rule at this time up.Trying to teach soldiers to read is limited to letting them learn to use a few Latin symbols to distinguish some orders that only their own people know.

The vast majority of soldiers can see the upper end of their lives, and they may not be able to use Latin, so it is extremely difficult to teach and read.

These experiences were honed by Huo Teng in his daily army command.For example, he secretly prepared the big killer this time. After trying three or four times in a small forest with no one there, he dared to take it to the battlefield as a stabilizer for his sleep aid.

Huo Teng was extremely cautious in everything related to war after suffering the loss of wanting to fight at the beginning.

In fact, the reason why Huo Teng blew the rallying call at this time was to report that when he was in Erfurt last month, Bernard Sr. arrived at [-]:[-] a.m. and Michel was forced to get up early, and the Imperial Council was controlled by Bernard Sr. hatred.

You sent servants to torment me.

I'll blow the rallying call to torment your son.

Undoubtedly, this small rich land with mountains in front of the left lake and the plain behind the river, if a horn is blown, the entire plain will echo.

Horten's army quickly assembled in the village outside the castle.Since Fort Notteheim is just an earth enclosure, there is no room for 3000 people at night.

The villagers hid tremblingly. When the soldiers who occupied the house left, they hurried back to count their belongings.Surprisingly, nothing was lost, just some soldiers shitting in the house.But that's not a problem, because the cows also shit and pee at night.

Horten's soldiers were as good-tempered as the farmer's livestock, and this instantly became a rumor in Northheim.But this is good news, because most of the foreign soldiers only like to rape, kill and rob property.

Such obedient and good soldiers, the Northeim people call them "Hotten's cattle".

But for the soldiers who left the peasants' homes, they just felt that the peasants were too pitiful, and they couldn't even part with the poor clay pots.

And Huo Teng generously equips the soldiers of each team with clay pots, iron needles, linen, beds, quilts and other materials, so that they can enjoy a level of treatment higher than that of farmers, which naturally puts an end to the big soldiers. Some riots that harassed farmers.If you want to play with women, you can go to the whores who hang behind the army's ass, they have more taste than the women in the village.

These troops left the village, guided by flags, and although they walked at different speeds, they all quickly gathered behind the Rumer River Bridge.

Although the bridge has been destroyed by Huo Teng, there is a tax station house near Imdin, which is used to set up a card to collect taxes and ask for money from passing merchants, which can be used as the command center ahead.

"According to my estimation, if the other party is really as ambitious and talented as you said, I think he may not be smart enough to change the landing place, or find a boat to repair the bridge. He will probably get busy and try to use fishermen's boats by the river Break through the river bank in small groups. We should line up along the bank and spread out to snipe their ships."

The mercenary captain Caron, as an experienced veteran, thought that the fool on the other side of the river would definitely choose a tactic of blind breakthrough.

But the archer captain Grab has a different opinion: "When the earl and I were fighting in Göttingen, I saw their war beasts. Those sea dragons with half blood can directly cross the sea to attack us. And our checks and balances against war beasts The only means are javelins and bows and arrows."

"This is also a good question." Huo Teng praised Greb's experience.It seems that the disastrous victory that Ban Hailong almost broke through the city wall, Greb will remember his whole life.

War Behemoths are a more magical part of the world, but these Behemoths aren't as scary as they seem.As long as there are suitable coping methods.

"That's why my suggestion is to repair the outer walls of Nottheim and prepare for a defensive battle in the castle." Grayb immediately proposed an obviously nonsensical plan.

The strength of the two armies is equal, and Huo Teng may have more cavalry than Bernard Jr. He has an eight-meter-long river to defend, so how could he be willing to defend by that dirt fence.

This is enough to prove that Grab's sound advice is mainly based on his experience.

He carried the war beast in the Free City of Göttingen because of his experience, and he asked to defend against the wall because of his own experience.

The former is reasonable and the latter is not.

"In this way, we will take your opinions into account. With my knights, retinues, and cavalry as the patrol team, two thousand infantry will dig mud and stones by the river according to the ratio of one hundred soldiers and one hundred migrant workers, and pile up our shooting holes. And observation posts, set up observation posts and cavalry squads every 20 meters to comprehensively prevent the enemy from crossing the river to attack. As long as we spend it here, winning is not a problem!"

Although Huo Teng is not very clear about the economic situation in Saxony, Selina, the wife of Count Val of Paderborn, still provides the reality that the Duke's small coffers are almost exhausted like an inner ghost.

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What should the medieval lord do when he encounters a disorderly bastard like Huo Teng who occupies an effective stronghold directly before the war and forms a barrier along the river?

The most effective answer is to turn around and go home, lie down and sleep.

Yes, this is the most appropriate answer.Because most medieval lords don't have a similar countermeasure.

Just like they attack other people's castles, most of the answers can only be robbed of nearby farmland.

Forcibly crossing the river is terrible, many people will die, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Little Bernard, who was harassed by the Assembly, thought that Huo Teng was about to cross the river and attack by force. He was so frightened that he hurriedly jumped up and called for the protection of the army and attendants. camp.

But little Bernard climbed to the sentry post and looked over, and found that all of Mihail's troops were equipped with armor and armor, and felt even more uncertain.

The last time the troop ratio was so disparate, they lost, but this time, they are going up and down, can they still win?

"...Send a letter to my father quickly, asking how to fight this battle. Before that, everyone...replenish your energy first."

Faced with the waiting of a battalion of officers, Little Bernard held back for a long time, but said this sentence.

I still begged my father for a solution.

And when this request was passed to the rear, old Bernard also encountered two troubles.

Paderborn and other places, which were originally scheduled to collect food to supplement the army, have been procrastinating and have been unwilling to hand over food.

On the east side, Goslar, Wernigerode and other fortresses also reported that a large number of refugee troops harassed and harassed them.