Fortunately, Count Needham still retained some sanity and did not forget his catties, he gasped angrily for a long time, and finally sat back in his place as if resigned to his fate.

He sneered: "Isn't it just that the territory has been taken away, and Lao Tzu still has people in his hands." ”

He stared at Count Marven, and a sneering smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "You are right, when we defeat the county of Meredith, there will be a lot of land to divide, if we can't divide the land, I will directly lead someone to occupy the mountain as the king." ”

Unlike Viscount Deppler, the Earl of Needham brought with him three thousand regular troops, five thousand peasants, and a total of eight thousand, and with these men he could eat wherever he went.

The faces of the people around him are very ugly, this is a hob meat.

Count Marven was not threatened by him, and said sarcastically: "When the time comes, I will bring people to your mountain every day." ”

Seeing that the two of them had finally calmed down, Earl Shelley finally found an opportunity to speak: "Let's hurry up and talk about the decisive battle, otherwise the rear will not know what the disaster will become." ”

These are the two words that everyone wants to hear the most and what they don't want to hear!

A decisive battle means that this torment can be ended, and victory will divide money, people, and land, and defeat will lose everything that exists.

Earl Shelley cleared his throat, pointed to the huge sand table in front of him, and said, "This is the situation now......"

He gave a detailed account of the current situation and marked the sand table: "Nearly 10,000 turtles on the other side are huddled in a city with an area of less than two square kilometers, like a turtle with a shrunken head, I don't know if you have any way to break the situation." ”

Count Marven took a sip of water: "The other party has made it clear that he will not fight with us, and there is no good way except to attack." ”

Count Needham sneered: "Why can't you do it, didn't the other party send people to our rear to make trouble, then we will treat them in the same way." ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at him like fools, and this made Earl Needham very angry.

Earl Shelley sighed and explained, "We don't have that many cavalry. ”

Cavalry is the treasure of the major lords, and the value of cavalry is three or four times that of ordinary infantry, who would be stupid enough to take cavalry out to help in the war?

The county of Meredith fights for its own interests and can spare all its resources, while the coalition is a combination of interests, and no one wants to expend their own strength to fight this war.

As a result, there was an awkward situation, and among the tens of thousands of coalition troops, almost everyone except for the heralds and lords followed, including the reinforcements of the Creighton family.

Of course, if it is tough, the coalition army can indeed squeeze out two or three thousand cavalry.

However, the key problem is that the county of Meredith is close to the Ambrizet Mountains, which are quite hilly and complex, and are not suitable for cavalry combat at all.

Moreover, the discord of people is a big problem.

Who will be the commander?How will the soldiers be dispatched?Will the lords feel free to hand over their precious cavalry to others?

So the topic has to turn to the issue of factions, if someone from Earl Shelley's faction is the commander, will the other party be able to cause disaster to the cavalry of the other two faction lords?

In the same way, if someone from the other two factions is replaced as the commander, Earl Shelley's side should not be at ease.

If each of the three parties sends one person to command the dispatch, will there be a disagreement?

The greater reason why the army's combat effectiveness was not good at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that corruption was a matter of course, and the greater reason was that the military top leaders did not agree on the same thing.

In addition to the commander in charge of the war, he actually had to send two prison soldiers, and he also sent eunuchs and civil servants who didn't understand military affairs to be the prison army, and the two laymen were pointing fingers there, you still have to listen, can this rod win?

The fundamental problem is that selfishness and interests are at work.

Earl Shelley felt a little headache, if it weren't for his lack of strength, he would have kicked these guys out of the way.

Of course, he could only think about it: "Let's talk about the decisive battle." ”

The topic was pulled back again, and Earl Shelley said helplessly: "In order to reduce the losses in the rear, I have decided to start a decisive battle tomorrow, do you have any objections?"

The lords were silent and looked at the leaders of their respective factions.

Count Marven nodded and said, "I have no objection." ”

Earl Needham snorted coldly, "Of course, the sooner the better. ”

"That being the case. Earl Shelley glanced at everyone, and then said in a low voice, "Tomorrow will be the decisive battle." ”

His heart suddenly swelled with pride, he didn't expect that after living in his sixties, he would still have the opportunity to command such a large-scale operation.

However, before Earl Shelley's pride could be expressed, he was directly poured cold water on his head.

Earl Needham unceremoniously asked, "Then who will lead tomorrow?"

After asking, he took the lead in saying: "My territory has been occupied by the other party, and the losses are huge, and I will definitely not take the lead." ”

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, most of them didn't understand military affairs, and they really hadn't thought about this issue.

However, everyone understands the reason for shooting the first bird, so they all retreat and pretend that they didn't hear anything.

Earl Shelley was anxious to strangle them all, and when he divided the money, he rushed up like a mad dog, and when he asked them to help, he flinched.

In fact, it's no wonder that these lords are pretending to be stupid, they know very well how many catties and taels they have under their hands, and if they take the lead, it will be a death.

If you let your subordinates know that they want to be the vanguard, they have to mutiny, and let them bully the old and weak, women and children, who is really going to play with their lives?

Besides, it was all discussed before, but it was only a crusade against the lords of the twenty-four renegade alliances, and it didn't say that they would have a hard time with the Earl of Meredith!

Earl Shelley struggled to suppress the anger in his heart and asked, "Is there anyone willing to take the lead?"

No one answered, it was a matter of life and death, who dared to speak easily.

In fact, the county of Meredith had also encountered such an embarrassing thing, when facing the attack of the demon army, the sergeants knew that the front of the position had the largest casualty rate, so they all retreated, causing a riot in the formation.

Moreover, when attacking demons, there must always be someone who is afraid of death and is unwilling to take the lead.

It wasn't until later, when Lei Ye founded the Death Camp and the Trap Camp, that the situation improved.

The two battalions numbered five hundred and forty men, and the salary was three times that of ordinary sergeants, in terms of salary, land, pensions, and, more importantly, free higher education at the Rich College.

The promotion rate of non-commissioned officers in the two battalions was also several times that of ordinary non-commissioned officers, and some even promoted from ordinary non-commissioned officers to battalion commanders within three months.

Before each battle, the sergeants of both battalions were rewarded with twenty silver coins and three cups of the Blue Enchantress.

As the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the Death Camp and the Trap Camp have never been worried about the lack of numbers.

So Earl Shelley drew a scoop on the gourd and said, "Everyone go back to discuss and discuss, and those who are willing to take the lead will be rewarded." ”

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