However, this is not the worst-case scenario. ”

"What's the worst-case scenario?"

"At that time, although the Great Prussians could ride horses, there was no division of labor and cooperation between the arms, and the chief and his cronies rode horses as commanders on the battlefield, and their rich life made them dare not charge at all, and the mounts under their crotches were only used to escape. In addition, the relationship between the archers and the infantry was also chaotic, and the chiefs of the various tribes often kept the old and weak in the army first, and the weak in the army in order to maintain the power of their tribes......

Although the story of José Knight is very confusing, and there is no one place to go, and the storytelling component is more than practical, José Knight still extracts a lot of key information from it.

"When armies exist in the form of tribal alliances, they tend to be of a maximum, and these chiefs tend to go out of their way in defensive wars, am I right, father?"

Knight Jose was stunned for a moment, then compared Vedia's height from mid-air, patted his head, and said suddenly

"You've learned a lot from Marcus? He's so generous, I didn't expect to teach you that. ”

Vidia immediately drew a well-behaved smile on his face, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence to José Knight's remarks.

In fact, these conclusions did not come from Count Marcus, or General Marcus.

The old man, who was skilled in battle, insisted that the military organization under the tribal system was vulnerable, and only taught Vidia a simple plan to defend against the enemy, and did not overly elaborate on the "tactical methods of the barbarians".

The old man said to Vidia: "Oh...... My little genius, the reincarnation of the god of war...... How can you waste your talent on that kind of thing. You're going to have to learn as much as you can about our empire's cavalry tactics and some infantry tactics in the limited time you have, and if you can, I'd like you to take it even further...... In short, you don't have to ask me about the outdated tactics before, it is simply the black history and shame of the empire, and when there are already new tactics, whoever misses the tribal tactics again has no brains, and whoever dares to deny the great achievements of the Red Lion Emperor has no conscience......"

Therefore, Vidia has hardly learned anything about the army of the barbarians, and has only seen Thoreau's army on the battlefield, but the highly organized army is obviously closer to the army of the classical period, except that the troops are relatively monotonous, there are almost no formal weaknesses at all.

As for Marcus's "black history", the José knights did not experience that dark era, so when he told these stories, he often showed a look of indifference.

But for the real old general, it is not difficult for Vedia to tell that this is likely to be a long history of blood and tears, otherwise, the Red Lion Monarch would never have led his army to send a dozen ferries to conquer the heretical realm in that era when it was still extremely difficult to build ships.

But frankly speaking, Vidia himself has a negative attitude towards the "Red Lion Emperor" praised by the older generation, and except for some of his military ideas that are really advanced, his military strategic concepts and politics are not a qualified monarch.

Especially in the Southern Expedition War, he actually died in the desert, which is really unbelievable.

After he recovered the land of the Cypriots, he would have had the opportunity to use the elite troops honed in the war to unite the four kingdoms of Cyprus, and at the worst of all, he could completely eat the kingdom of Cyprus, which is also a real good thing for future generations.

It will not leave such a big mess for the current Abbasquia royal family.

There are four independent states in an empire.

Even if no one had taught Vidia about the consequences of such a thing, he himself had already experienced it deeply.

The Emperor's army came entirely from the local nobility, but the local nobility tended to operate in silos, and they would not cooperate with the monarch if the Emperor could not allow them to take advantage of them.

And these local nobles, the troops formed by sending troops, have become de facto military organizations in the tribal era.

However, Vedia still has some illusions about the Empire's army, after all, judging from the current record on the front, the Empire's results are still very brilliant, and the Wegand people, who were originally on the defensive side, are losing one after another, and the Empire's army is said to have approached the core area of their Weegand people.

Even his father, when he heard the latest war report, couldn't stop shouting long live the empire, and seemed to have changed the "empire will be defeated" at the beginning.

He often said to Vidia with confidence:

"Boy, do you know? I originally estimated the power of the Wiegand people as the one I used to fight, but now it seems that I was wrong. The Empire may no longer be the Imperial Legion it once was, but the Wiegand seem to be declining faster than we are. ”

In Vidia's view, the Knight José, a knight with a certain tactical command ability on the battlefield, and his own father, have long been mired in the trap of underestimating the enemy's optimism......

Therefore, when he was chatting with his father, he had already been a little more careful, worried about whether he had touched his "glass heart".

You must know that this invincible knight on the battlefield is always a little "emotional" in front of him, and often makes some inexplicable and wonderful movements, especially when looking at Vedia's eyes, he often shows a look of sometimes joy and sometimes doubt. This made Vidia inexplicable in her heart...

In fact, he has long had an opinion about this strange father-son relationship, after all, other people's fathers are the mentors of their children, and his father ...... But in many cases, he is like a child who has not grown up, and he is in a hurry, and he can't figure it out.

He even began to wonder if his father's broken leg was caused by something stupid he had done on the battlefield.

In fact, he had this kind of question when he was very young, but after that question, the old mayor Joyce, who had always been very permissive to him, pressed him to the stone table and beat him hard, and since then, he has never dared to take the initiative to ask about the history of José Knight's leg injury.

Time for contemplation always flies. While Vidia was still pondering, the knight José, who had been walking in front of him, suddenly stopped his horse's hooves.

Vedia first saw from the ground that her father's shadow was not moving, and then she looked up and looked in the direction her father was facing.

He looked at the "camp" in front of him, and even his breathing began to become a little shorter.

It's a camp, it's a city that rises above a swamp.

The city stands on a hillside, surrounded by a ring of low walled buildings, the foundations of which are made of earth, and the damaged parts are temporarily supplemented by wooden materials.

In addition to the basic walled buildings, there are several towering watchtowers, which are the most amazing points for the Jose father and son.

The towering building was hard to believe that it was just a makeshift barracks made of wood.

In particular, it is built on its own hillside, and the combined distance between the front and back has reached a height of nearly twenty meters.

"Even the royal palace back then didn't seem to be so grand, right?"

The José knight muttered.

From the direction of Vidia, the marshland leading to the city was nothing more than a small path, with a small side door open for five or six people to pass side by side, while on the other side of "her" was a wide road and a rather majestic main entrance.

The main gate was always wide open, and the caravans were constantly coming, and even in the swamp, the Imperial army managed to build a solid dirt road, which was carefully maintained by other merchants, forming an "avenue" that could take the form of four carriages side by side.

The axles of the carriage drove through the center of the road, pressing shallow lines.

However, these threads had only been formed soon before someone went up and immediately tamped them into their original form.

It was with such a great avenue that the emperor and his army had the basis for the Northern Expedition.

But even so, the price of goods shipped from the south to the north still more than tripled, and even so, the merchants of the empire continued to complain, claiming that their profits were not properly maintained.

Knight José greeted the soldiers stationed at the gates, and after displaying his noble banner, the soldiers let them in through the side door.

At the same time, there were other soldiers who took the reins of their horses - for this, the knights of José were familiar with this, in the southern kingdoms of Abbasquia and Cyporus, but any more populous cities were not allowed to ride horses, and the camp in front of him seemed to have inherited the "rules" enforced by the empire all the way in the south.

Moreover, after parting with the merchants, their horses survived only on moss under the swamp, a very small amount of hay, and the bread they all produced, and they had lost weight several times after two or three days of hard work, and it was time for them to go and rest well.

They don't have to worry that when they fight the Wiggans, there will be Wiegand spies mixed in.

Because first of all, there are not many Wiegand people who can speak Great Pruce, and besides, the appearance of Wiegand and Great Pruce is completely two faces, even the hair and eye color are different, it is not too easy to distinguish.

What's more, those Wiegand savages don't have enough iron to forge armor, and they don't have enough people who can ride horses, disguised as caravans or militiamen, but there is still a chance to enter the city disguised as the noble knights of the Great Prus Empire......

Just kidding, what's the difference between that and suicide?

After entering the city, José Knight and Vidia realized that there was a different world in the city.

Imperial clerks and hired "foremen" walked up and down the city, as if they could not stop for a moment, and the most common buildings in the city were not houses for habitation, but large warehouses covered with several layers of animal skins.

At the door of each warehouse stood a garrison of soldiers, but the inhabitants of the city, who lived in tents that were barely separated, and where management was extremely lax, there were no soldiers standing guard, and there were few people coming in and out.

In the middle of the city is a hall made of wooden planks, which on the surface looks like a warehouse built around it, but the sharp-eyed Knight José sees a large number of soldiers in it.

"This must be a large camp set up here by the Imperial military. Knight Jose said confidently. "If I reveal my identity now, I may be summoned by the Legion Commander here. ”

Vidia, on the other hand, was completely immersed in the structure of the vast military system of the classical world.

In this city, he saw not only the "legendary stories" that Marcus told him back then, but also some new things that he had never told before.

For example, these tall warehouses and the foremen who speak the local dialect.

In fact, General Marcus was in fact ignorant of the bureaucratic and clerkship that extended to the end of the kingdom, and in his words, "only the military is worthy of managing the military." ”

As a good student of the general, Vidia was naturally deeply influenced by it.

If those who are responsible for the management and distribution of all kinds of materials do not understand what war is, then they are just some useless constraints on the battlefield.

But from the moment he entered the city, this preconceived notion changed in his mind.

"Perhaps, we should train some of this type of talent in the army, after all, we can't let the generals in charge of the charge manage the warehouses. ”

It reminded him of Hams's guys.

Unlike ordinary merchants, Mayor Hams is indeed a very interesting businessman, other caravan captains hide their ways to get rich to the death, for fear that their men under him will learn from him, while Mayor Hams is to give all the resources in his hands and entrust them to the people below to manage.

Some of them made a fortune in the form of cooperation with other caravan leaders, while more of them were left to the buddies to run, even if the guys who managed the caravans wanted to set up their own businesses, he would give them a supportive attitude, and even give a part of his family property to those guys for start-up capital.

Therefore, his caravan mates are always the smartest, and perhaps his future army can consider cooperating with such a powerful big merchant.

Of course, these things will have to wait until later, and the current Empire's legion system is not as rosy as the father and son see.

Knight José grabbed Vidia's hand and hurried to the city's central hall.

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