prince of europe in quintiles

When Huo Teng led the team all the way down the Fulda River, the various migratory people you saw along the way, you would definitely be able to detect his identity without asking.

The usual dress of peasant men in the Middle Ages was a round-neck linen or wool loose shirt, and the waist was wrapped with a belt. Most of them wore skirts or low-grade trousers that only reached the knees, and the calf was not kept warm like nobles relied on stockings. or stockings, they had to wear leggings, and the shoes were very simple, made of a very thin layer of leather, tied up with rope.Ordinary farmers are extremely scarce in keeping warm. A family owns only one or two pieces of thick clothes, so it can be seen that even in winter, many people have to expose their elbows and knees, and they are blue from the cold.

Those peasant women wear a long skirt that looks like a tube, and a headscarf that only exposes their eyes.Like their husband and son, they also rely on leggings to protect their safety in winter.Some peasant women couldn't even afford shoes, so they had to wrap their feet with cloth.You can see some farmers' tricks in winter, stuffing hay and other items into their clothes to avoid the harsh cold wind.

The Beastmen didn't invade too quickly, and they allowed the farmers to pack up their farm tools and their own chickens, ducks, dogs, and pigs.But it can be easily found that some livestock are about to freeze and starve to death.

These poor farmers are the population that Huo Teng needs in the future, so Huo Teng ordered his attendants by the way: "Light some bonfires on the side of the road, and heat hot water for the passing farmers. Gather some people to gather some fodder for the livestock. Starved to death by the side of the road."

When Huo Teng personally arranged for his servants to cut down trees and set up a temporary rest station, a group of exiled handicraftsmen, small landlords and low-level nobles flocked up.

Through clothing, you can easily find the difference between them.

Although there is not much difference in the general clothing shape, the biggest difference between this group of wealthy people and the ordinary refugees in exile lies in the length of the skirt.

For both men and women, their coats were longer than the peasants' short shirts that reached to their waists.These men wore slightly patterned wool or linen robes that fell to the knees, and had ornaments as simple as copper headbands on their heads.Their belts are of leather, much stronger than the peasants' few rags.It can be seen that some wealthy people wear stockings, and those from ordinary families wear finer leggings and boots.

Of course, they're also all skirts.It is not so much a skirt as it is an extension of the top.There are leggings inside, but those are underwear, not showing people.This is actually closer to the costumes of the Romans.

A lord who is determined to wear loose trousers like Huo Teng is one of the very few mavericks.

The first person looked like a wealthy landowner. He knelt on one knee and begged Horten: "Dear Earl of Göttingen, we long for your protection and beg you to give us a safe and warm home."

Obviously, these refugees are eager to find a stable place to live quickly.

Huo Teng sat on the chair with a very conflicted expression on his face: "Although I am very sympathetic to your current situation, I also allow you to temporarily stay in my territory. But your guardianship is in the hands of the Earl of Cassel after all, my opinion You can take refuge in Göttingen first, and then wait until the Beastmen retreat next year before considering whether to return or really join my command."

There are also many examples of quarrels or fights between neighboring counties over migrant populations.

Huo Teng had previously recruited refugees who were in exile everywhere. Naturally, there was no need to argue without affiliation, but Huo Teng was still very cautious when attacking people who belonged to the neighbors next door.

At the same time, Huo Teng's attitude also implied an ambiguous attitude.That is, he doesn't want these people to defect to the establishment.

Like these yeomen, even small landowners and fief knights, they should still hold the guardianship of their subordinate subjects and tenant farmers at this time.In this way, when they arrive in Göttingen, their status will not change much.

But if they all settled down like this, why would Huo Teng need these people?

Of course, they must be dismantled, and the civilians and tenant farmers should be broken up and reorganized according to Huo Teng's weaving.The head of the village and town appointed by Huo Teng came to ask him for the annual tribute.

These people returned angrily, and probably it was not good to publicly announce their separation from the Earl of Kassel at this time.Run to Göttingen alive and settle down first, and then discuss future matters.

But the subsequent guests were not so easy to fool.

These are a few dignitaries in patterned robes and small crowns.The women are all exquisite, with long braids, while the men wear leggings, leggings, long swords and sachets.

There is an obvious difference between the powerful and the lower classes. They all wear short-sided cloaks like the Romans. They are based on the Roman style, but they are obviously inferior in texture and refinement.The dignitaries here do not have the capital to wear silk products and use jewelry as decoration.

For these people, Huo Teng's attitude was not so soft.

He doesn't need these rentier groups, and even wants to seize the territory they control. The relationship between the two is naturally hostile.

Moreover, the requests of these people are also very excessive.

"I, Viscount Hunter of Kassel, hope to bring my subjects to emigrate to Göttingen. Please also prepare a courtyard for me in Göttingenburg." The leading Viscount Hunter spoke politely. , but the content made Huo Teng very disliked.

Huo Teng refused on the spot: "I announced my support for the crisis of the Earl of Kassel because of my morality. As the vassals of the Earl of Kassel, it is a great shame that you try to flee the country in vain. I warn you, Don't even think about leaving your land until the Beastmen banditry is resolved!"

In this way, the rich and powerful were shocked, but ashamed.

Several ladies were very tired and sat on the stake next to Huo Teng regardless of their fatigue.

If Huo Teng wanted to see, he could see the bodies of these ladies when he stood up.Because people in the Middle Ages did not wear underwear, at most they would use cloth belts to make their waists appear slender.

The upright and dignified earl reprimanded Huo Teng, which suddenly made Huo Teng look majestic.

However, just as Huo Teng reprimanded these nobles who had fled before the battle, an envoy from Nanfang rushed over.

"Something has happened! Something has happened! The Beastmen are besieging the town of Fulda-Minden. Our army is very small, and we lack weapons... God, Earl Horten, I implore you to save the Cassel family quickly." The messenger Seeing Huo Teng, he hurriedly rolled off the saddle and prostrated himself on the ground in embarrassment, begging Huo Teng to help the Kassel family.

At this time, Huo Teng faced a big problem.

He hoped to occupy the land of the Cassel family, and he came to the aid of his neighbors out of justice.

If Earl Teppler had died in Fulda-Minden, all this would have seemed manipulable.

So to save, or not to save?

Chapter 190 IX You are so dead!

March 1000, 1 AD.

When Grayb led his spearmen and archers to garrison in Fulda-Minden, while helping the victims in the cold winter, while guarding against the rebellion of Tepler's men, those terrible enemies finally appeared in the south.

Beastmen.

These monsters mutated from humans, with ladders and horns, looked very similar to the legendary demons, and were covered with sparse hair. They ran like thousands of hooves shaking the ground, and every time they appeared, they attracted the attention of women in the city. Crazy shouting.

They were all terrified.

Every winter, the monsters would wander around the village, just like the demons in the folk tales, killing the people who went out alone, scraping their intestines, devouring and killing them.But that only needs to gather a group of men in the village to deter the villain from leaving.That is, a monster with a stooped body like a dog and a small horn on its head.

But on the opposite side now, there are a large number of big horned beasts that are two meters high and as majestic as a tiger.They led thousands of Ugly Beasts, and they seemed to want to burn this small town to the ground.

Of course they have intelligence, but their concepts are already very different from ordinary people.They think that the world should be destroyed back to the primitive age, and they feel that ordinary mortals always hate them and expel them as demons.

All in all, kill!

"Quickly, set up the spear array."

Grayb didn't have much skill, but he still had winks.When Adlaib was training the spearmen, he also went to learn some secretly, and now he seems to be able to command this pure infantry team with ease.

Rows of spearmen erected their shields along the fence, sticking their spears out of the gaps.The archers stood on the top of the fence, clamping the arrows one by one on the fence for easy access, and set up a battle.

Fulda-Minden is located at the corner of the river bend, and there is almost no flat land on both sides, so it can be regarded as a dangerous place.Otherwise, there will be no market villages and towns rising here.

The Beastmen launched an attack without any rules. These hoofed monsters didn't need any warm-up, and they were more agile than goats when they ran.

But thanks to the fence and the spear array, these goat-like monsters were quickly blocked by these two magic weapons, and the archers shot at will. After all, the enemy was a group of primitive people who could only throw stones.

This kind of tug-of-war continued for two days, and the beastman's constant harassment around the clock was fruitless.Earl Teppler had healed from his minor injury, and he joined the battle himself. He fought more and more fiercely, and had the idea of ​​pushing the Beastman back.

It wasn't until the third day, when the Beastmen continued to harass, that something went wrong.

It turned out that a big horned beast may have awakened his mind, and he noticed that if he walked the hillside and bypassed the fence, he could slaughter the peasants in the city as much as he wanted.And the hooves of big horned beasts are naturally a sharp weapon for climbing mountains.

So a group of low-cornered beasts also followed, making a detour and attacking the rear in an open and aboveboard manner.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the city wall were already inseparable, and there were only thousands of civilians left in the city, and only Tapler and dozens of retainer knights were the mobile force.

The brave Earl decided to fight the enemy himself to the end.He retreated on his horse and launched an iron-shoe charge towards these monsters.

After all, the Ugly Beasts were just dog-like trash, and were quickly dispersed by the knights.But Earl Tapler also had to pay the price for his hasty counterattack. When his lance pierced the heart of the bighorn beast, he was hit by the bighorn beast with a stick on his shoulder and flew tens of meters away, spitting out blood and Meat, and soon passed away tragically.

At this time, Huo Teng's knights barely arrived.

……

Teppler's nephew Oster became the leader of the Kassel people.He was kneeling in front of his uncle, weeping uncontrollably to smooth his uncle's unbearable eyes.

Suddenly, a strategy rose to Huo Teng's mind.

Annex Kassel!

Now that Teppler Cassel is dead, Huo Teng has done his last to rescue him, which can be called the utmost benevolence.Even in the middle ages with honest hearts, they are good neighbors at the level of great benevolent people.

But in the Middle Ages, too, brutal violence and unkind neighbors abounded.For example, King Conrad, who obviously assisted his young brother-in-law in governing the country, actually seized the Principality of Swabia as his own; another example is Henry II in history, who forcibly entered the Kingdom of Arles (Burgundy) three years later. No.), forcing King Rudolph III to recognize Upper and Lower Burgundy as the territory of the Roman Empire, and he inherited the country to Henry II after his death.

Among the people, forcibly recruiting troops to bully widows is a gentle practice.For those who are more ruthless, it is normal to find an excuse to go to war and arrest the neighbor, and lock him in the attic for several years at an impossibly high ransom, or even until he dies.There are also methods such as bribing the superiors of the neighbors, swallowing the neighbors when asking for more territories; being courtiers to the king and duke to please them, and then going to the countryside to force them by false pretenses; marrying close relatives, bringing foreign self-respect, and seeking bishops to forge jurisprudence, etc. , Playing that is called a flower.

Who said medieval people were all stupid?

They are naturally weak when playing narrow-minded, but no one can lose with these ruthless methods.

It wasn't just Huo Teng who thought of this.

As soon as Amelia saw Teppler fall off her horse, she simply pulled out her sharp sword, intending to get off her horse and kill the only heir of Teppler, Viscount Orinte, who was cuckolded by Bishop Matt and whose child was not her own. Killed.

Seeing this, the great swordsman Calon, who also guessed what was about to happen, hurriedly stopped Amelia, and reminded in a low voice: "No, no, ma'am, please don't mess around. I will leave this dirty work to you. Me and my men. Guaranteed that the Bishop will not notice. We are the best at making these people look like they died in a Beastmen ambush."

It seems that Caron's mercenaries did not do bad things before that.

These days, traveling merchants are generally Jews who deal in luxury goods. The blood of the Jews flowing in Karon's hands is estimated to be very attractive to people in the Middle East in the future.

Greb was still helping to resist in Fulda-Minden, and another elite subordinate, Adleb, slapped his subordinates, and then said righteously to the Kassel knights who followed: "Everyone, retreat! The Beastmen are about to attack, and we, the Earl, will cut off your heirs together."

This is also preparing to kill the Kassel family.

This made Huo Teng have to feel the rectum of the medieval people.

Saying you want to kill, you dare to overlord the king with any crude means.Shameless is really shameless, dare to do anything.

If this is in the east, people will definitely recognize that you did it.

"Don't move, the problem is not that simple. That shrew in the east is still staring at us." After thinking for a while, Huo Teng stopped Amelia and his subordinates from murdering Viscount Orinte and his wife.

He figured it out.

Earl Teppler died unexpectedly, so the Earl of Kassel is almost dead in name only.His nephew Oster's reputation was ruined because of Bishop Matt's green hat.

Use Oster to stabilize the Kassel people first, and then wait for the beastmen to retreat, and then canonize Oster as the Earl of Kassel, or even the Viscount, to stabilize the remaining hearts.When he died, Bishop Matt was taken out of the monastery and asked him to admit to his face that the child was his, which also erased the legality of Auster's last heir.

After completing the trilogy, there is no one to inherit the County of Kassel. As his neighbor and senior superior, Huo Teng can eat the County of Kassel in full.

And there is no need to worry about someone who will jump out in the future, claiming to be the heir of the Cassel family, and will compete head-on with Huo Teng for orthodox legal principles.

Briefly explaining her thoughts to her subordinates, Amelia and a few rough guys all stared wide-eyed, and sighed repeatedly: "You are still ruthless!"

In the Middle Ages, Horten's well-thought-out plan was already at the top level of reliability and perfection.

Of course, there is also the problem of the shrew in the east.

While her husband Eckard I was still lying on the bed and screaming in pain, Swanishild came forward to control the Marquis of Meissen and the Principality of Thuringia with the help of his elder brother Bernard's prestige.While forcefully expelling the pro-Polish faction from the Meissen Territory, she issued a conscription order requiring the knights of the two territories to gather at Merseburg, preparing to use the excuse of 'Hoten was unfaithful to my niece' and 'Hoten interfered in Weimar County', Come clean up Huo Teng.

This crazy woman was already 50 to [-] years old, and it was outrageous to issue a call-up order in the winter, so Huo Teng didn't take it too seriously.

But if you can take advantage of this good opportunity, take a shot at Swanishird, let yourself jump out of the plan of going north to Saxony and south to Franconia, and find another way out, which is also an excellent choice.

"wrong."

Huo Teng slapped his head, what do you mean fuck her?

The wife of Swanhild, who is described as a young lady with a still charm, belongs to elevating her to a historical status that does not belong to her.

It must be because I haven't vented my fire in the past few days, and I am thinking wildly again.

Amelia, who was getting to know Huo Teng's mood gradually, blushed when she saw Huo Teng scratching her ear, and spat secretly.

This is still on the battlefield, why are you so anxious?

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"Knights, put down your lances, let's charge!"

Huo Teng raised his sword immediately, very majestic.

The knights from Göttingen obeyed the order and raised their lances, and charged at the Beastmen who were still bulldozing the houses at a distance of several meters.

Hundreds of catties of war horses, at a speed of thirty miles per hour, let the long lance penetrate into the dogs' bodies like a wind and thunder, making them cry out in pain, and die miserably in pain, or be killed by the war horses. Trampling and turning into a pool of mud.Perhaps the knights are far from being as neat as modern cavalry, but their personal bravery is enough to make up for the physical gap between them and the beastmen.

The weak horned beast collapsed and fled in all directions. With the Sea Dragon Spear under his arm, Huo Teng stabbed and killed a big horned beast, but then he withdrew from the battlefield.

After all, one arm is still recuperating from a fracture, so it shouldn't be too much trouble.

Bighorns are physically very strong, but it appears that their will to fight is far less tenacious than a human's.After only a few companions died, they were shattered and prepared to flee separately.

At this time, the knights chased and killed, and the archers turned their heads and shot, killing all the detours.

In the end, Huo Teng won.

The Beastmen retreated temporarily.

It seems that Huo Teng has indeed hurt these monsters, and there will be no temptation to attack north in a short time.After all, for a beast, attacking a weaker opponent is far better than challenging a strong one.

What they left behind was Teppler lying on the ground spitting out blood, his eyes wide open, as if he still wanted to see the future of Kassel.

……

Things are so impermanent.

The poor people of Kassel had just experienced the defeat in summer, and in winter they were continuously besieged by the Beastman army, and the count was killed in battle.Even Huo Teng felt that if he was an ordinary person, after being continuously hit like this, he would seem to be in a daze, as if he was alive and dead.

Huo Teng tried very hard to distribute the relief supplies himself, and to appease the people of Kassel by building roads and building temporary houses, but he didn't know what the problem was, and all his efforts seemed to have little effect.

It's even a little repulsive.