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At this time, it was too late when little Bernard wanted to imprison the defeated knight alone. His authority was greatly weakened, and no one heeded his orders.

"It's ridiculous! It's ridiculous!"

The old Bernard who heard the news almost died of anger.

He found his subordinates, and after questioning Huo Teng's justice speech in detail, he bared his teeth ferociously and walked around the room frantically for a long time with his fists clenched before saying his evaluation of his son: "Little Bernard, It’s useless. Send him to the monastery afterwards, let’s start training as a monk.”

"but……"

After smashing the wooden board with the letter engraved on it, Old Bernard whispered calmly and cruelly: "Damn boy, your next enemy is me..."

Chapter 160 Stealing each other's assholes

Rumer River, in any case, the war will be decided on Rumer River.

This eight-meter-wide river, not too big to say the least, but unable to jump physically, forcibly turned into a gap for the Saxon knights to go south, like an insurmountable abyss, swallowing the cold wind brought by the northern knights.

In this era when there was no military science and all war skills were passed down from family to family, Huo Teng's performance was simply astounding.

Unreasonably sending troops across the border to capture Nottheim, forcibly controlling the Rumer River, and destroying the bridges crossing the river. This series of combined punches is like a slap to the left, a slap to the right, and a solid slap to the old Bernard. dizzy.Prior to this, Horten's military talents in the process of interfering in Franconia, attacking Kassel to the left, and kicking Millhouse to the right were indeed valuable, but there was nothing better than a direct confrontation with the orthodox army of an old duchy. What is shocking?

Old Bernard, who had many legendary troops, brave knights, and giant war beasts, even fell into thought for a while when facing Huo Teng, who was as strong as an iron shell.

He does have the terrifying behemoth of the North Sea—the sea dragon, and its half-breed heir, the half-sea dragon. However, are these precious behemoths really as terrifying as they look without the coordination of infantry?

In the city of Göttingen, the performance of the half-sea dragon pulling the hips and proof, don't use the war behemoth without infantry support, just as you can't frantically pile up main battle tanks without infantry.

Therefore, before the old Bernard was ready to abandon the young Bernard, he started a new round of domestic and foreign affairs.

"First of all, the punishment for Earl Val is completely lifted...Is Val gone?"

When it came to Val, Old Bernard obviously regretted it to death.Naturally, the regret was not because of gouging out his eyes, or destroying the friendship between the two, but because he regretted not abolishing his position as Earl of Paderborn immediately after gouging out his eyes.Now, the country of Paderborn completely covers the upper left corner of Göttingen on the map, and this place is at odds with the central government because of the old Bernard's radical actions.

The attendant selected the documents and gave the earl a dissatisfied answer: "Count, Countess Selina has sent enough supplies and brought back Earl Val. , a lot of disrespectful words for you."

"Damn!"

Old Bernard was greatly disappointed.

As the saying goes, one step is wrong, every step is wrong.Old Bernard, who was so stimulated by Huo Teng that he lost control, went out of control and gouged out Old Val's eyes for a while, but he didn't take supporting measures to suppress it, which led to the current stupid situation.

"But it's not yet the time of despair. Compared with the defeat at the Elbe River, this is really nothing. Carve a plank for me, and I want to write to my old subordinates."

Old Bernard is well versed in the mysteries of political negotiations, and he also knows that Hamster of Goslar refuses to send troops to help his useless son, but he must ask Hamster to send troops south to bypass the Harz Mountains to attack Millhall Fort, attack Göttingen in a detour from the northeast, forcing Horten to return for help.

And he must also launch Paderborn's army, detour from the northwest, and hit the waist of Göttingen County.

Now Paderborn is probably useless.Minden City in the north is an economic city, and the bishopric cannot be counted on.At this time, the famous northern city of Hannover was only a small fishing village, but there were already large towns such as Hildesheim and Brunswick developed through river trade in the surrounding area.The name of Brunswick is derived from the Latin trading post, and Hildesheim is a famous diocesan city.

These places have a good economy, but it is more difficult to find support with strong combat effectiveness.

"We still have to mobilize the family of the Earl of Kassel to give Huo Teng a hard time." Old Bernard sighed deeply, and with trembling hands, he engraved his own letter bit by bit.

In the tone of his old boss, he invited Hamster out of the mountain, led the independent army across the Harz Mountains, and attacked Göttingen by surprise.

In the tone of an elder, he wrote to the County of Kassel on the southwest side of Göttingen County, hoping that the family could go north to attack Göttingen.

……

"There has been no movement for the past two days, are you afraid of our Rumer River defense line?"

Huo Teng circled the map left and right with his baton in hand.

The news that Old Bernard sent a large number of envoys to the north bank of the river was sent by someone from Paderborn.I was really scared by this boss, Ms. Selena ran very diligently to Göttingen recently.

Knowing that Old Bernard was unable to attack the Krummer River defense line on the battlefield, he began to send envoys everywhere, explaining that Old Bernard was preparing to repeat his old tricks, and started a new round of political encirclement and suppression against Huo Teng.

A viscount made a timely comment: "Boss, is this what you said before... What always retreats?"

That was the word Huo Teng borrowed when he told them the story.Since the level of education of the knights is ridiculously poor, don't consider sending them to military academy. Huo Teng simply made up the same story as when he went to Franconia, similar to the military story of 36 tactics, and it was like a storyteller.If they can understand military skills from storytelling, they can be regarded as progress.

It's a pity that the level is ridiculously poor.

In order not to dampen their self-confidence, Huo Teng coughed a few times, and said: "As far as I can tell, the enemy is not retreating, but is going to attack me from left to right, internally and externally. They are going to rely on their political and diplomatic success to cover up their Military failure."

Caron got a headache when he heard Huo Teng speak Latin. He looked at Grebe, who was staring at the top of the tent again.

Horten had no choice but to use a vulgar German dialect: "Old son of a bitch, Bernard, is going to incite the forces on our left, right and rear to beat us up and sneak up on our assholes."

Now the knights understood, but their reaction was beyond Huo Teng's expectation.

"The family in Kassel should have been slaughtered a long time ago."

"It's better to take down Weimar City and have a fight with the old antiques from the Duchy of Thuringia."

This group of guys who don't have a lot of oil in their stomachs are now arrogant and feel that they are invincible in the world.

"Get out, get out of here."

Huo Teng became angry and drove them all out of the tent, squatting on the table alone, overlooking the mountains and rivers near Göttingen.

Göttingen is located in a hilly area in a broad sense, with extensive forests, and communicates with the two major water systems of the Rhine and Weser through different rivers.Like many big northern cities, Göttingen gradually became famous and made a fortune relying on river trade.

Now old Bernard almost made a conspiracy.

He encouraged various forces to encircle and suppress Huo Teng, hoping to transfer the tiger away from the mountain and force Huo Teng to withdraw from the Rumo River defense line.

That Horten...

Huo Teng gestured the distance on the map with his fingers, and suddenly noticed that if he walked along the Leine River next to him, he could go straight all the way north, as far as Bremen.

This line is generally only used by businessmen who are anxious to take the north-south line. After all, the capacity of the Leine River is not high.

But what if Bernard's barracks can be bypassed and inserted directly near the economic cities of Brunswick and Hildesheim, and he will be turned upside down?

Chapter 160

"No, no, absolutely no. This is too scary."

The mercenary captain Caron encountered troubles today.

He was hired by a rich and wealthy earl in Franconia as the captain of the guard army, and it was only after he ran to Göttingen that he realized that the earl's wealth was not unreasonable.

The earl's relationship with the surrounding families is not good, and he has a lot of hatred with the old country in the north.Just because he pays money readily and never defaults on wages, Caron is determined to serve him.If I could, I would lie on the narrow soil of Göttingen for the rest of my life.

His own son can serve as a servant for his son, and when he grows up, he will sprint to become a noble with a fief.In the time of his grandson, the Caron family was established and became a wealthy local gentry and nobleman.

However, the earl named Horten asked him to pretend to be a businessman from the south, harass and attack the plains behind along the branch of the Weser River.The plain with Hildesheim and Brunswick as the main towns is geographically the southern plain of the Eastphalia region of the Duchy of Saxony, opposite to the northern plain controlled by the Billund family.

Harassing and doing bad things, of course, Caron is not uncompromising.But Huo Teng asked him to act completely freely, and Huo Teng had no way to support him.

In other words, there are no supplies, no command, and no map.

Isn't that jumping into the enemy's den in the dark?

Find death!

"Lord Earl, you should spare me. Although there is only one Earl of Stettleburg's army there, I don't want to provoke any of the surrounding cities." Caron begged for mercy to Huo Teng who issued the order.

Caron, who had already decided to settle in Göttingen, really didn't dare to loot around, and he was about to launch a sprint to the noble family.What's more, whether you can beat it or not is another matter.

Stetelburg, just at the southwest corner of Brunswick, coincides with today's Salzgitter, and Hildesheim is on the southwest side.Salzgitter, the famous second largest steel company in Germany, is located here. Coincidentally, the steel sources of Salzgitter Steel are Magdeburg in the east and Hannover, which has not yet emerged in the west. .Its coal comes from Westphalia.

But at this time, Stettle Castle was just a castle, with no residents, no production, only an earl and his court, and a group of knights and attendants.This castle is the main combat force in this southern plain.

What would it be like to be overtaken by cavalry on the plain? Karon thinks that Huo Teng should be counted?

"Who told you to harass the city? You just look for those villages and small towns, ask them for a food supply, and then tell them secretly that you are the vanguard of the Earl of Göttingen's army, and ask these villages to give your family as soon as possible. The knight wrote a letter, bring the army back to rescue! Hehehe..."

Huo Teng grabbed Caron and taught him how to infiltrate the enemy's rear.

……

October 10 of that year.

After Huo Teng's victory at the Rumer River, the morale of the army was greatly boosted, and he continued to send signals to the surroundings that he was very strong.

The Principality of Saxony paid special attention to this war.We have been under the rule of the old Bernard for a generation, and the Billund family, which is as strong as an iron bucket, has always been hanging in everyone's heart like this.

But suddenly there was a thunderbolt, and a monster named Huo Teng jumped out, using a mess of weapons to smash this iron-like thinking to pieces.

People unexpectedly discovered that the Billund family was not born to be a duke, and old Bernard was not invincible either.

Many die-hard supporters of the Billund family naturally hid at home, while hoping that old Bernard would strike out quickly and beat Huo Teng, a country villager, back to his original form.You have to make them really work hard. It's not that they didn't bet, but old Bernard asked too much, and even his own die-hard supporters were expressing their dissatisfaction.

In such a situation, the old Bernard should have struck out with a heavy fist, crossed the Rumer River, and beat Göttingen violently, showing the majesty of the northern giant.

But everyone waited and waited, and when the storytellers at the entrance of the village began to make up stories, old Bernard remained motionless.

In many cases, what the people need is not only an expression of military power, but also a psychological victory.Because they only believe what they see intuitively.Old Bernard could not give such psychological comfort to the knight class, even if he contacted a hundred allies behind the scenes, it would not help.

In such a situation, Caron, more than a hundred of his teammates, and 200 stout men selected from the refugees embarked on a journey through the enemy's rear.

War in the Middle Ages was very different from modern times.

There is no total war, and not everyone is united.

Huo Teng and Bernard and his son fought across the Rumer River, but in Paderborn and other commercial cities dozens of miles behind, it didn't matter at all, even after studying how much money they could earn next to the battlefield.

The hostile relationship between Huo Teng and Bernard did not affect the relationship between Huo Teng and other cities and dioceses.He can still carry out trade and political exchanges with other regions of Saxony, and even Old Bernard is not easy to stop.

In the army, there is no such thing as a state of millions of soldiers pulling out to fill every inch of trenches.With the mobilization and centralization capabilities of the Middle Ages, it is simply impossible to cope with such a huge scale.With three to five thousand troops, they can run rampant in Europe.

To use a more intuitive explanation, in the medieval game Europa Universalis, the king only needs to command a few troops to win in a limited local battlefield; in a modern war like Hearts of Iron, the whole country needs to be mobilized to support millions The army spread out to form a scorching hell within a range of tens or hundreds of kilometers.

In other words, Horten was gathering the power of the county of Göttingen to fight against the Billund family, not the entire Duchy of Saxony.

Caron and his group, very cleverly disguised as a group of passing refugees, pushed the small fishing boat across the Leine River, and the Saxon knights they encountered on the road turned a blind eye to them.

When winter is approaching, there are many refugee groups like this, and how many of them can survive the severe winter.

After passing through the defense zone of the Saxon army unharmed, Caron immediately stood up, took out the weapons and armor from the boat, and went up the Leine River in a show of power, looking for various villages and towns ruled by knights everywhere, and promoting his own spirit to them. Powerful, and forcibly demanded a small amount of supplies.

After the villagers rushed to find the knights above, Caron quickly hid his weapons and weapons, pretending to be among the refugees, and hid in the countryside, leaving the local knights helpless as they passed by and searched for the invading army.

It's not that Caron's army is inconspicuous, it's just that the Saxon knights didn't dare to leave the road easily after hearing that the opponent was hundreds of warriors wearing iron armor. Rest assured that the enemy is gone.

And the movement of the vagrant group is precisely in the knight's concept, which does not correspond to a powerful army.

As a result, relying on the differences in secular concepts, the troops dispatched by Horten caused great panic near the Leine River and the Weser River, causing turmoil on the Southern Istphalia Plain.

And the old Bernard has been waiting for a long time for the support of Kassel and other counties?

Sorry, dove.

Chapter 160 Letter from the Pope

This year is the winter of 999 AD.

Bernard, the giant of the north, encountered a little bit of trouble.Huo Teng, who came from the narrow place of Göttingen, carried the wind and thunder, like a nimble coyote, nimbly tore Bernard's clumsy flesh and blood, and the northern giant was stripped naked in front of everyone.

Everyone looked inside and had fun, and it turned out that they were not much better than me.

You are strong on the outside and doing it on the inside.

In the Earl of Kassel, Earl Tapler Kassel is worrying about how to send away the envoys of the northern giants.

"I've said it a long time ago, give me an excuse to send him away! Seriously, do you think our Cassel family is just throwing away garbage? We're taking revenge on Huo Teng now, and when he stabilizes, the Cassel family Is he still alive? If old Bernard has the intention, at least promise us half of the real estate in Göttingen, or prepare a way for our family?" Earl Tepler and Horten once lived on the border between the two counties In combat, he had seen with his own eyes how Huo Teng turned around in a desperate situation.

In that battle, the Göttingen army left a deep impression on Teppler, and his family lost at least ten knights for it.

In the Middle Ages, people in most cases were only vassals with the family as the main body. Even Teppler, the head of the family, knew that he had a deep hatred with Huo Teng, but he was keenly aware of the fact that he put the interests of the family first. Backstabbing Huo Teng at the right time is an extremely bad option.

There are various indications that Huo Teng is a hypocrite with deep vengeance.

Speaking of which, if Old Bernard could provide a fertile new territory, the Cassel family would be willing to abandon their ancestral land and settle in the north.

But according to legend, the treasury of the Principality of Saxony was starving to death of rats. Even if old Bernard wanted to use his wallet to do it, he didn't have the assets.

The envoy who was active in the Earl of Kassel was anxious to die. He traveled a long distance with a mission, but he couldn't complete Bernard's mission. He didn't know how he would be punished after returning.Therefore, even if he died, he would have to live in the county of Cassel and dare not go home.

Like him, there is also the emissary of Weimar County on the east side of Göttingen County.

Count Alendresee seemed a bit fat, he was still a marginal part of the Duchy of Thuringia, he ran around recently at the Imperial Conference and ate a lot.

"Attack Huo Teng's territory. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I can't do anything. Viscount Millhouse, who was originally my subject, has been captured by Huo Teng, and his army is stationed in Millhouse. Every move has to go around there first. Unless... the old duke can help us contain the enemy in the north, we can drive straight in."

The earl wasn't afraid of Huo Teng. Huo Teng, who was in the limelight, attracted many locals to join him. Not to mention the decrease in grain production and population this year, his subordinates also flirted with Huo Teng.

But Arun Desai also has its own difficulties.His strength is not strong, and he needs the help of feudal vassals very much.However, Bishop Magde, who is in charge of a large amount of money, always seems to be ambiguous and flirtatious with Huo Teng.