Chapter 1676: The First Battle
In fact, Zhao Hu understood in his mind that in order to avoid his idiot son, the old father of this body would become the controlling puppet of the future woman's family, and resolutely made a marriage contract with the Liu family, the most impoverished family in his neighborhood, so that even if the daughter of the Liu family becomes the mistress of the Falcon family, she will not be able to fully control the entire family because her background is not noble enough. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
This is probably also a kind of helpless father's love.
"Since it was set by my father, you can arrange it, and I will receive them in the hall tomorrow!" Zhao Hu waved his hand at the old housekeeper, which made Zhao Hu feel that his thinking was a little messy, it turned out that he still had a future wife in this world.
"Okay, I'll tell Lord Liu Ming, I think his two daughters will be very happy." The old butler breathed a sigh of relief, since the young master has recovered from an idiot to the current state, whether the marriage contract with special significance for this door can continue to be maintained, it is really uncertain for the old butler.
"You haven't told me yet, which one I'm married!" Zhao Hu looked at the old housekeeper who was about to bend down and exit his bedroom and asked.
The old housekeeper looked at Zhao Hu with a strange face, and finally made up his mind, "Young master, the master has set you the sister flower of the Liu family!" β
"Young Master, Lord Liu Ming is already waiting for your reception in the hall." The next day, the old housekeeper found Zhao Hu and reminded him.
Hearing the old housekeeper's reminder, Zhao Hu took the prepared dress from the old housekeeper's hand.
Lord Liu Ming, a middle-aged man with a thin figure and a thin face, saw the old butler of the Falcon family walking into the hall with a slightly obese young man, and hurriedly stepped forward and waved his hand anxiously.
"Patriarch Zhao Hu, you are finally here, this time you have to save the Liu family!"
Seeing that there was only an anxious middle-aged man in front of him, Zhao Hu couldn't help but glance around the hall suspiciously, that's right, only this Lord Liu Ming was waiting for him in the hall, and his two fiancΓ©es and sisters who had never met were not in the hall, which made Zhao Hu, who had rushed over, secretly disappointed, and his original earnest mood was also a little colder.
The shrewd old housekeeper saw that Zhao Hu's face was a little strange, and knew that the young master must have been unhappy because he didn't see the sister flowers of the Liu family, so he hurriedly hugged Lord Liu Ming, who was anxious, and asked, "If your lordship has anything, please tell me, I believe that the young master will help your lord tide over the difficulties, why didn't you see the two young ladies?" β
"It was the Cato family who tore up the covenant without authorization, and the head of the family, Catot, personally led thirteen knights and 130 thugs to rob two villages in my territory, killed more than 40 peasants below me, and injured my guard captain, threatening to snatch back the villain's two daughters, which frightened my two daughters, and are still recuperating in bed, so they didn't come to see the adults together."
Lord Liu Ming wept bitterly about the brutality of the Cato family, and looked at Zhao Hu with earnest eyes, thirteen regular knights, 130 soldiers Such a powerful force is not something that he, a small lord with only three villages, can fight against, and then he thinks of Zhao Hu, the future idiot son-in-law.
Although the Falcon family has declined, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, not to mention that Zhao Hu still has a marquis title and a rich basin in his hand, even if he can't compete with the Cato family, which is also a marquisate, at least he can come forward to mediate the war between the two families, as for the frightened two daughters, it is just an excuse provided by Lord Liu Ming.
Seeing Zhao Hu's solemn contemplative speech, the old butler and Lord Liu Ming both looked at Zhao Hu with speculative faces, but they didn't know that Zhao Hu was actually making his own little abacus in his heart.
"My peasant soldiers have always trained very hard, but they have never had the opportunity to let these recruits see human blood, and the army that has not seen blood will always be new soldiers on the battlefield! There is such a good opportunity this time, it is better to let these newcomers who have never seen blood practice their hands. β
"If the adults can get the Cato family to retire, I can immediately send my two daughters over according to the original marriage contract, and I am willing to compensate the Cato family with 500 gold coins." Lord Liu Ming saw the hesitant look on Zhao Hu's face, and thought that this future son-in-law with a weak head was thinking about his two daughters, so he hurriedly made a promise.
In fact, it was not the Cato family that tore up the covenant this time, but the poor and crazy Lord Liu Ming actually hit the idea of making a fortune on the rich caravan trade of the Cato family, and secretly organized local villagers to rob and rob disguised as robbers, but the caravan did not grab it, but exposed his identity, which caused the Cato family to retaliate.
"Okay, I'll send someone to talk to the Cato family, you go back first, and wait for my good news." Zhao Hu heard a little strange from Lord Liu Ming's abnormal tone, but he didn't care, he secretly made a plan to send troops in his heart, and he didn't have much interest in studying who was right and who was wrong.
Looking at Lord Liu Ming, who left the hall full of hope, Zhao Hu turned his head to look at the old butler with an embarrassed face, this time Lord Liu Ming definitely gave the old butler a lot of benefits, otherwise the old butler would not have helped this Lord Liu Ming to speak like this, Zhao Hu moved his heart to change the housekeeper.
"Once a son of heaven and a courtier." He has always despised this kind of practice, but he didn't think that he would have this kind of thought now, Zhao Hu sighed secretly, "You go and find Stairn, just say that I have something important to find him." β
The cold moon of late autumn hung high in the sky, and dark clouds flowed like water in the inky sky.
Zhao Hu crouched in the bushes, carefully observing the simple camp built of wood by the crescent-shaped small lake at the foot of the mountain, the location of this camp was very good, completely using the higher slope of the small river embankment by the lake to build a wooden fence, and outside the camp was a small river up to two meters wide, like a simple small castle.
From the higher position on the mountain, you can clearly see that hundreds of soldiers wearing light leather armor are sitting around the bonfire, watching with great interest the two big men in the middle of the bonfire are fighting each other, although they are using wooden long swords, but in the distance can also clearly hear the "bumper" sound of the wooden sword impact, which shows that the strength used by these two big men is great, like a life and death fight.
One strong man finally struck the other strong man in the waist with the wooden sword in his hand, and then used the hilt of the wooden sword in his hand to hit the opponent who was bending down in pain, causing the soldiers around to howl.
"My lord, this should be the army of the Cato family that attacked Lord Liu Ming, and if you look at the eagle's beak family flag on the tent, it should be the vulture battle flag of the Cato family." Stahn, who was lying beside Zhao Hu, pointed to the military flag fluttering on the most luxurious tent next to the bonfire, and looked at the army of the Cato family who were still howling excitedly in the distance with a cold face.
This time, Zhao Hu decided to personally lead the 200 peasant recruits who had just finished training to ambush the army of the Cato family, which was strongly opposed by Starn, although these 200 peasants had undergone a month of hard training, but they had to fight against the Cato family, which was known as the vultures of the battlefield, and the chances of victory were too small.
"Xinding can't defeat the veterans of the Cato family, not to mention that there are 13 orthodox knights who have experienced a hundred battles inside." Feeling that his lord must be overwhelmed by his blood, Staan was ready to use two hundred peasants to confront the veterans of the battlefield led by knights.
"The veterans also came from Xinding, they haven't seen blood, no matter how well they train, they are still Xinding, what about knights, have you forgotten how you were forced to die by the shield wall to the corner, you hope that the army you train will never be able to go to the battlefield, you hope that they will always become new Dings in other people's mouths! If you want that, then what else do you want to train them to do, just get hacked to death by the enemy! β
The cruel words that came out of Zhao Hu's mouth made the tenacious Starn speechless, his own sovereign will never be able to guess what he is thinking, the army that formed this special attack method is like this, and the magic rocket that will never be extinguished is so, and he will never be able to keep up with the footsteps of the sovereign.
"Order everyone to get ready" Zhao Hu waved his hand at Starn beside him with a cold face, all the people were trying to suppress their breathing, this was not a deliberate act of everyone, all the soldiers were new soldiers, training to kill and real killing were completely different things, and all the people were nervous and didn't dare to breathe.
This was also Zhao Hu's first battle, and he was also a newcomer to the battlefield, and Zhao Hu felt that the fingers holding his short sword were already a little stiff because of the excessive force.
The lush bushes on the periphery of the camp provided good cover for Zhao Hu and the peasant soldiers, and the whole army had already lurked and advanced to a distance of about a hundred meters from the Kaitoka camp, and beyond that was the range where the sentries could be found, although most of the soldiers were gathered around the campfire, the sentries could still be seen walking back and forth on the simple camp watchtower.
"Can you shoot the sentry on the watchtower on the west side?" Zhao Hu turned his head to look at the hunter leader Meng Da who was following behind him, his shining eyes startled Meng Da, who had always hunted in the mountains, "This is simply a pair of beast eyes." β
Zhao Hu could already clearly see that there was a simple stable set up in the upper left corner of the camp, and there were more than a dozen war horses in it that were gnawing on the withered grass in the wooden trough, which should be the war horses of the thirteen knights.
Whenever he thought of the fluent and gorgeous knightly knife pulling technique that Stan performed in the castle square, Zhao Hu shuddered, if these orthodox knights who killed as a profession were allowed to ride on war horses, no matter how seamless their warriors were, more than half of these battlefield newcomers would definitely fall, which was also the reason why Zhao Hu chose to raid at night.