prince of europe in quintiles

In fact, Huo Teng calculated.

The town of Minden to the north is actually just a small northern corner of the spindle-shaped county of Kassel. Although it is much larger than the original fiefdom of Ost, it is much larger than the population and land that Horten can obtain from the country of Kassel. , This is just a drop in the bucket.

What's more black-hearted is that this place is the testicle of the Kassel nobleman that Huo Teng pinched.He especially needed the population of Kassel, but he also needed a buffer to prevent the population from exploding rapidly and causing a famine.So to handle these nobles, just control the flow of refugees here.To suppress the stability of this area, Huo Teng cannot be allowed to do it himself, as it will affect his personal image.

Moreover, the Viscount Oster also wanted to throw all his money into this valley, while fighting the Beastmen, he raised refugees and selected better people for Huo Teng.

Of course, these things cannot be clearly stated, but Huo Teng revolved in his mind the big and small Zhou Tian that only he knew.

At this time, the Kassel nobles who were fooled around were still grateful for Huo Teng's selfless dedication. Brother Morris, who hadn't figured out the middle joint, had a higher evaluation of Huo Teng, and learned that Huo Teng was about to become Kassel. The guardians of Serbia, the refugees were so excited that they wept and thanked God for the gift.

At this moment, the shadow of suffering in Kassel is finally over.

Under the blessing of multiple halos, the great hero of Göttingen, the guardian of Kassel, the man who defeated the northern giant bear, Horten Bowenden, pondered in his heart how to divert the beastman army to the east. Seduce to the Principality of Thuringia, and make some trouble for the crazy woman Swanhild.

But before that, there is still a battle with the Beastmen, at least to smear the aura of the hero, so as not to reveal his secrets.

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The Eckardner family in Meissen, like the Val in Paderborn, is a family without a surname, and a suffix is ​​added to the founder's name to indicate the affiliation.In today's empire, there may be fewer nobles with surnames than nobles without surnames.Surname popularization is still in its infancy.

The Eckardena family was founded by Eckard I. His ruling center was at Merseburg in the Principality of Thuringia at the beginning. After acquiring the Marquis of Meissen on the east side, he moved to Meissen City.

Today, Swanhild Biron, 45, the wife of the widow who wields power while her husband is bedridden with a serious injury, called a family conference.

She has seven sons and daughters. The eldest daughter married the Northern feudal lord in the north, and the capital is in Brandenburg; the last four are all sons, the second and third are direct heirs, and the fourth and fifth renounce the right of inheritance. They are all working hard in the church; the sixth and seventh are middle-aged daughters, and the sixth girl is going to marry Dietrich, Count of Lusatia under the Marquis of Meissen. married the Polish king).

Such a huge family and children made Swanhild very proud.At the same time, she also hated her neighbor to the west, Count Horten of Göttingen.

It was this shameless little villain who used tricks to attack and defeat his elder brother Bernard, and even kidnapped his niece, the beautiful and melodious Gaudestius as beautiful as a nightingale.Not only that, in his marriage with his niece, a third party is allowed to intervene in it.

No matter from every point of view, Swanhild was extremely dissatisfied with Horten.

Driven by this kind of dissatisfaction, the crazy woman hoped that her sons would discuss how to raise troops to beat the unruly Huo Teng.

Heilman, the second in line heir, begged with a bitter face: "Mom, can we wait for a while? It's a cold winter day, and there is a wild animal disaster next door. Huo Teng and his knights are helping Kassel The Earl Country. When we launch an attack at this time, not only will the nobles of Thuringia and Meissen refuse to accept it, but it will also cause a huge blow to our family’s reputation."

From the location of the map, from Kassel and Göttingen, eastward through the Duchy of Thuringia and the Marquis of Meissen, forming a horizontal belt that cuts the German princes horizontally.This is both a strategic advantage and a great disadvantage.Thuringia and Meissen, which were surrounded on all sides, were surrounded and beaten many times.

To use an indecent analogy, if Germany is like a raised butt, Thuringia is like a chrysanthemum in Germany, and the Marquis of Meissen is like a penis ready to explode.

Göttingen is the appendix of Germany, and it is mainly responsible for its uselessness.

The fourth and fifth children have given up their right of inheritance to join the church, and their concerns are different: "Our second uncle Guntherin is still a guest in the Principality of Poland. Hearing that his father is seriously ill, he has been trying to lobby the Grand Duke of Poland and our side. Aristocrats, rebellion and robbing the great position must be guarded against."

The sons and daughters said a lot of nagging, and they came to the conclusion that they should not fight.At least not now.

In short, today's Meissen and Thuringia are no longer as strong as Eckard was when he was young.There are ghosts like the second uncle watching inside, and neighbors from north, south, east, and west are watching from all sides. It is hard not to let the children feel frightened.

Swaneehild was never in power and spent her entire life bearing children.Now at the age of 45, he suddenly seized power, but he only cared about his personal relationship and forgot that this country was already in jeopardy.

"Our family is a well-known imperial family that was favored by Otto III and granted territory rights. The Bowenden family is a tailor in a village. Who would support Huo Teng? It's ridiculous!" Swanhild waved his thick arms, blushing and thick Argue with your sons and daughters.

The so-called territorial right is opposite to the fief right.

In short, fiefdom rights only obtain the right to use a piece of territory, and the ownership of the territory still belongs to the superior nobles. The lord only temporarily gives you the power of this territory, and it will be taken back when the person dies (but follow the traditional paternal The principle of succession by dead sons) is like renting a house; the nobles with territorial rights are different. They can inherit the land from time to time, own all the legal rights and interests of the land, and belong directly to the emperor without being manipulated by any lord.

The former is a hard-working wage earner, while the latter is an old landlord with real power.

Eckard I was originally a wage earner. His father and his two generations followed the previous royal family, the Otto family, and fought north and south. His father even died in Italy for Otto II.Such a loyal family was naturally valued by the successor Otto III.

Otto III supported Eckard I to unify the border territories of Merseburg, Zeitz, Lusatia and Meissenia in the region, and unified them into the Marquis of Meissen.and granted him the right to land.Become the new dignitary of the empire.

Taking Huo Teng as an example, he originally only had the right of fiefdom, and the territory belonged to the Duchy of Upper Lorraine, but he won the War of Independence and won the favor and approval of the king, so he obtained the right to the territory.He is the new owner of the Earl of Göttingen, and there is only the king on it.

"This……"

The sons and daughters looked at each other, not knowing how to get their mother to accept the fact that Huo Teng had become an upstart in the empire.

They can negotiate with the big dignitaries at the negotiating table, but it is troublesome for their own family to maintain their dominant position, so how can they argue with Huo Teng?

"Anyway! The Marquis of Meissen also has thousands of warriors, and it is not a problem to gather nobles from all over Thuringia to organize an army of ten thousand people. Ten thousand people are against 1 people, and I have the advantage!" Swanishir De was stimulated by the silence of her children, and she announced her decision with a big wave of her hand.

Advantage?

The children are even more speechless.

Although the territory of the Marquis of Meissen is quite large, the actual population is not large. After all, it is a pioneering colony, and there are harassments by Slavic tribes everywhere.The nobles of the Duchy of Thuringia next door only acknowledged the status of Eckard I in words, rather than actually supporting it.For example, the Earl of Weimar is supporting Horten.

Expedition from the eastern part of the empire to the central part of the empire, transfer supplies for seven hundred miles, in this cold and dangerous winter day?

Let alone 5000 troops, even 5000 people are really called out, and the logistics supplies can force a family to hang themselves.What's more, if you can really call out [-] people in the winter, the Eckard family will still worry about being overthrown?

These reasons, you and a 45-year-old crazed woman in menopause cannot make sense.

After the family meeting ended, the second child, Hellman, who was almost insane, escaped from the meeting room like the third child, Eckard, a dog. A fierce quarrel broke out between the two in the corridor.

"Why don't you just let Dad hand over the power and title to you? Then Mom won't push us to die!" Little Eckard, as the second in line heir, accused his brother of not being effective enough and not courageous enough.

Heilman could only shake his head repeatedly with difficulty and bitterness: "How could this happen? My father is still lying on the bed, and my mother is kindly raising him. This... oh..."

The brothers were completely helpless.

However, the rumors that have been coming in recently seem to have proved that the Polish Grand Duke Boleslav intends to support their second uncle to come back to seize power.

"How about writing a letter to Huo Teng to get his cooperation? We... bluff?" The youngest had a flexible mind and came up with a 'good' idea.

……

At the same time, Huo Teng was still playing dirty tricks.

"Hmph, I hope the beastman fools know that eating my venison will cost you your life."

Throwing the torch in his hand on the woodpile, watching the venison soup gradually boiled in cold water, Huo Teng was so distressed that his face turned pale. This year, Huo Teng cut down on food and clothing, and has been gnawing on white bread without eating meat a few times.

The other knights also maintained the same expression, the venison really made them feel bad.

What good way does Huo Teng have to deal with the Beastmen?

Facing tens of thousands of fleeing beasts, Huo Teng thought about it, and there was only one way, and that was to divide and conquer.

First, ambush the boiling venison pots at several nearby forest entrances, luring the Beastmen apart.

Then, lure the Beastmen to invade on the bridge of Bruck over the Fulda River.

Finally defeat the enemy.

You may ask, how can this place called Brück help Horten defeat the Beastmen?

In fact, this place is an estuary, and there is only one bridge to cross the river, and the left and right banks are all wide channels.Brück is the bridge in German, and there are countless Brück villages in Germany, all of which mean Qiaokou Village.

Bridge defense tactics rely on the disorganization and discipline of the enemy army, and there are almost no smart beasts among the stupid and incompetent beastmen.

Huo Teng sent people to move stones to strengthen the bridge foundations on both sides of the bridge, and then captured his trebuchet craftsmen and refitted the bridge with a special device.

Half a day later, hundreds of Beastmen came over and threw themselves into the trap.They charged onto the bridge, where Horten's army poked them in a strict phalanx of spears.

On the second day, a group of beastmen nearby felt that they were killed by Huo Tengfu again.

On the third day, thousands of Beastmen appeared here, and they began to howl across the river, obviously afraid of the bridge full of blood of their own race.And Huo Teng waited calmly for their little heads to react, and couldn't help rushing up the bridge.

Sure enough, the mindless Beastman rushed up the bridge quickly.Huo Teng's army only had a few hundred people.

At this moment, Huo Teng immediately scolded the craftsman: "Don't do it yet?"

The craftsman hurriedly tightened the lever with his companions, and removed the wooden braces beside the bridge. Several people emerged from the water, sawed off the supporting wooden pillars of the small bridge, and hurried away trembling.As a result, nearly a thousand Beastmen went forward one after another, pushing each other into Huo Teng's trap, and falling into the water with a plop.

The spearmen on the shore rushed up to assassinate wildly, and the archers practiced archery with sheep's heads in the water, and the group of beastmen was also scattered.

In just two days, nearly [-] beastmen were killed at the entrance of Fuldabrück village by Huo Tengkeng.

As we all know, the Beastmen do not accumulate wealth at all, so they have no spoils of war, not even skins.

But this time, Huo Teng actually seized a treasure!

[Nose Ring Lock: A good helper to help you control wild giants. 】

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Huo Teng won.

But it also overdraws all possibilities in advance.

The Brück Bridge collapsed, and there was really no such skill in repairing it, and no matter how stupid the Beastmen were, they should use their animal-like intuition during the sharing of scents to realize that the bridge was stained with the blood of the same race.Human beings are often blinded by various factors, while animals only follow instinct.Huo Teng can cheat once or twice, but he can't keep cheating.

Fortunately, Huo Teng didn't plan to continue tricking the Beastman into dying.

He still wants to keep this group of beastmen to harm the enemies in the east.Perhaps such behavior seems shameless, but it is actually even more shameless.But when the Magyars invaded decades ago, the nomadic cavalry from Hungary were paid or tricked by the local nobles more than once to clean up their opponents and enemies. A good opportunity to wreak havoc.

Compared with ordinary nobles, Huo Teng's behavior is a good person.

In the next two days, when Huo Teng led the army to sweep the Beastmen tribe near the Fulda River, he also sent elite knights to seduce them, causing the Beastmen to gather eastward.

"The war is over, and the future battlefield will not be the real battlefield, but the game between the hearts of the people and the powerful. I will return to Göttingen to preside over the political affairs. You must be careful, and don't be eaten by the beastmen." Mo Brother Rhys finished his work and bid farewell to Huo Teng by the bridge.

Huo Teng sighed.Brother Morris was right.

The Beastmen destroyed the Kassel County, and Tepler died in the refugee camp. The two things are combined. In fact, if Huo Teng chooses to fight badly to grab the territory, he only needs to start a war against the survivors of Kassel.Shameless is shameless.

But Huo Teng still has a bit of pursuit anyway, so he wants to recover the lost ground.

Beastmen don't live in castles, so it's easy to recover Castle Castle.But after that?

How can you move these beast people away and let people live and work in peace again?

At this moment, Adlaib's screams came from the river.

Incredible!problem occurs!

Huo Teng immediately led the knights to the river. Adlaib and the others were running away in a panic as if they had seen a ghost.

"Look, boss, what a big beast man!" Adlaib hurriedly pointed to the back, but the figure who seemed to be curious and walked to the river made Huo Teng drunk.

It was a female centaur with golden fur, a relatively rare species among the Beastmen.Her horse was at least eight feet tall at the shoulders, and her legs were as high as Horten's. The white and golden flowing mane and tail seemed as bright as a fairy horse in the reflection of the sun and the sparkling river.

As for the part of the horse's head, it is surprisingly in the shape of a human being, but it looks very fit, and it is covered with a chain mail that doesn't fit well.She has the same long white hair on top of her head, covering her face with rough hair. Her ears are cute and round like a horse, and the eyelashes of her eyes are also beautiful and slender like a horse.

Huo Teng no longer cared about what she looked like, that horse body alone would almost take his soul away.

What a pity, Huo Teng couldn't help lamenting, he didn't expect such an elegant and handsome centaur chief among the Beastmen.

It would be great if it could be caught and used as a mount.

I heard that on the Eastern European prairie, in what is now known as the Great Corridor of Nomads in Ukraine, there are nomads who are good at domesticating centaurs to get them out of the wild state. The centaur heavy cavalry composed of the two is enough Crash down the city wall.It is even said that as the centaurs leave the wild life, their intelligence will gradually approach the level of humans.On the eastern border of the Grand Duchy of Kievan Rus, there are even centaur nomadic tribes ruling the roost.

Those are too far from Horten.Because there is a long Fulda River between him and this beautiful filly.

Grabbing mounts, expelling Beastmen, etc., are all trivial matters.The biggest problem now is to quickly search for the refugees in the County of Kassel, clean up the thousands of Beastmen and all kinds of rampant greenskins, bandits, and even groups of wild boars and herds that are still left in the local area. Wolf.

Huo Teng turned around every three steps, still watching the little mare drive her army of beastmen, migrating to the venison pot that Huo Teng had ordered.

A day later, Huo Teng led the knights to fight another victory on the Great Plain of Kassel. Hundreds of knights launched a thunderous charge and dispersed a group of beastman tribes with thousands of people.So far, the County of Kassel has not had a large group of bandits and robbers.

……

ten days later.

The situation in Kassel County is still rotting into a pile of shit. Huo Teng lures and disperses them, and thousands of beastmen are running eastward.

In order to delay the attack of the mad woman of the Marquis of Meissen, Huo Teng took time out of his busy schedule and led the knights to continue the cause of driving away the beastmen.

Forty to fifty miles southeast of Kasselburg, passing through the upper reaches of the Leine River in the north of Göttingen, there is a small town called Eschwege, which is an ancient small basin in the mountains. It has existed since the Wen Dynasty.This small town currently belongs to the wealthy real estate directly under the emperor, but it is clear that King Conrad can only follow the principle of succession from father to son, and let the housekeeper there continue to manage the real estate, which is no different from the landowner.

This estate, which was directly controlled by the royal family, was also destroyed in this Beastmen disaster. The personnel were scattered, and the original priests and housekeepers also fled one after another.Horten took advantage of the situation and sent Geoffrey from the north to the south, crossing the territory of the Earl of Weimar and heading straight into Eschwege.He sent Geoffrey to set up venison soup on the side of the mountain in Eschweger, and arranged the road ahead of time for the lure.While gathering the refugees, they waited for the beastmen to go east.

Anyway, if one sheep is driven, so are two sheep.If you want to swallow the Earl of Kassel, it is easy to eat another real estate directly under the royal family.

As a result, the territory of Göttingen is almost on par with the Duchy of Thuringia, and is several times larger than that of ordinary counties.It's a pity that wild beasts are rampant in this territory, and it is desolate.Adjusting internal affairs next year and absorbing refugees is probably a more urgent matter than war.

"Boss, will we be deprived of titles and fiefs if we blatantly occupy the emperor's private property?" Jeffrey looked back at the small town of Eschwege that had just settled down.

"You are so stupid! Is that what we call robbing and occupying? We call it chaos, saving the people, and defending the country. We are helping the people and the emperor to stabilize order. It is a righteous and bright act. Temporarily controlling this property is just because it still needs to be cleaned up. All kinds of chaotic bastards." Huo Teng knocked him on the head, speaking forcefully and unreasonably.

Of course, it's not particularly unreasonable.After all, this set of rhetoric has been debated countless times in Christian scriptures.

People like Huo Teng, who crazily devoured the emperor's real estate during the war years, all the dignitaries of the empire counted one by one, and they were all doing it.For example, in the Principality of Saxony, the emperor's estate over there was forcibly plundered by Bernard, and he ate a lot.

If the emperor cannot provide security protection to these fiefs, it is a given that they will turn to the local nobles.

Here, Huo Teng had no more meat to throw away, and he was going to organize the last knight charge battle to drive all the beastmen to the east.

It is absolutely impossible to eliminate them, just as you cannot eliminate all cockroaches and mosquitoes.

Then transfer the disaster to the next door.