Kitsby, an important town on the northeastern border of Provence, the Duchy of Burgundy and the Plice of Burgundy) went south to reinforce the first garrison city of the Eastern Corps. 77dus

After the Eastern Legion arrived in Kitsby, the Provençal court sent a court military minister and a group of court dignitaries to personally visit the legion's officers and soldiers, and sent more than a dozen carts of grain, bacon, beer, and fruit wine to the legion.

The Eastern Legion was a reinforcement sent by the Earl of Burgundy to Provence, so the Legion's food and salary should be provided by the Earl of Burgundy, but Provence gave each soldier of the Legion a military reward of 20 pfennig in order to improve the morale of the soldiers, and the rewards of the officers and nobles were of course higher.

Along with the bounty were a group of Provençal hunters, who had been recruited by the court to show the terrain and guide the way to the eastern legions. As the outpost of the entire legion, Art was also assigned two hunters, an old man and a young man.

In order to adapt to the Provençal environment and maintain the combat capability of the soldiers, Viscount Geoffrey ordered the Eastern Corps to stay in Kitsby for five days for adjustment training.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Art led several of his officers to run a crazy training for the thirty elite soldiers sent by the legion.

The thirty soldiers were divided into two squadrons according to Art's custom, and Roger, who had been a mercenary, and Triduok, who had recently joined the company, were temporarily promoted to squadron leaders in the two new squadrons.

Art originally planned to transfer soldiers from the second and fourth squadrons to lead the two new squadrons, but considering the need to maintain the combat effectiveness of the two core combat squadrons and the characteristics of mercenary management, Art finally decided to let Roger and Triduok, who had been in the mercenary corps for many years, lead them.

Since they are fighting under the command of Yate, of course Yate will not treat them badly, the combat effectiveness of these two new squadrons carefully selected by Yat and several people is not low, and in terms of the combat power of individual soldiers, there are even many mercenaries in a hundred battles who are higher than the soldiers of Yat's army.

There are many capable people, this is an eternal law. Art generously gave all the elite mercenaries who were temporarily assigned to Art's command the same salary as the soldiers, but the squad leader and squadron leader officers were paid a slightly lower salary, enjoying the salaries of the combat team leader and squad leader, respectively.

The salary of the Yate army is much higher than the salary paid by the mercenaries of the Eastern Army, so Art must pay the excess part by himself, but Art needs to rely on these people to desperately kill the enemy and capture the spoils, Art agreed in advance to distribute thirty percent of the spoils captured by the mercenaries, and Art left seventy percent, after all, Art paid the mercenaries a huge amount of military pay on a monthly basis.

On the evening of the fourth day of his recuperation at Kitsby, Art, who had just finished a busy day of training, was urgently summoned to the military tent by Viscount Geoffrey.

"Art, the Legion's plan to move south to Aosta is being delayed, because ......," Viscount Geoffrey said to Art, sitting behind a simple wooden table in the camp.

It turned out that this afternoon a baggage convoy transporting military rations from Provence was attacked by a rebel army north of Aosta, killing more than 30 grain carriers and looting 50,000 pounds of military rations.

"If there is no stable grain baggage transportation line, I don't dare to easily take the army south, once the grain baggage is not guaranteed, what will thousands of people eat and drink, let alone fight at that time, I am afraid that our soldiers will have to mutiny."

"You should have guessed why I called you, right?" Jeffrey said, looking at Art.

"My lord, I am an outpost of the Legion, and it is my duty to open the way for the Legion, and I have nothing to postpone." Art replied firmly.

Viscount Jeffrey stood up all of a sudden, walked around the wooden table and patted Yat on the shoulder, "Okay, I just want your words." I will give you seven days, and after seven days I will have a baggage line that will not be disturbed by the army. ”

"My lord, do you know about the enemy?"

"I didn't know about it before. It was not until this afternoon that I learned that there was a group of nearly 100 rebels bewitched by the Lombards entrenched on the road between Kitsby and Aosta, and according to the people here, this rebel army usually only dared to attack and plunder the caravan convoys that were going to the war zone to sell food and supplies, but recently it must have been because Provence was moving very much in the south, and they were probably instructed to openly plunder the army's baggage in an attempt to disrupt the grain transportation lines of the Provençal army. ”

"Nearly a hundred? Is it more than a hundred or less than a hundred? Are there any fixed nests? How about weapon armor? Who is in the lead? Art asked a flurry of questions.

"No, I don't know any of that, and the people who came to report to me don't know the specific situation."

"This~~~" Art didn't know what to say for a while?

Jeffrey took out a document stamped with fire paint from the wooden table and handed it to Art, saying: "This is a letter signed by me and the military deputy of the Provençal court, you can take this document and ask the lords of Provence to assist you in clearing the rebels on the baggage line, and you can use this letter to mobilize the local garrison and the lord's private army when necessary." ”

Art took the lacquered paper with both hands, "My lord, I have one more request. ”

"You say, I will do my best to satisfy what I can."

Art rolled up the paperwork and squeezed it in his hand, saying, "If I can wipe out the rebels, I need all the battles." You must also know the situation of my army. ”

Jeffrey pondered for a moment, then replied, "Okay, as long as the rebel army is wiped out and the passage is cleared, I won't take a single point for the battle, and I will give you a record of the battle." In addition, if there are many rebels, you can also apply for the legion to send troops to help suppress it, so that Sir David is ready to assist you at any time, how about it? ”

"Thank you, sir."

Art took on the hard job......

After receiving the order to purge the rebels, Art immediately led the outpost team out of Kitsby City and moved to the south along the grain and baggage lines.

For the matter of purging this path, Arte is rightfully positive. Yu Gong, this is the duty of the outpost team, if it cannot eliminate the rebellious army that attacks the baggage line, the food baggage of the legion after it moves south will not be stable; For private purposes, this baggage line is also the trade route of the southern caravan of the European Continental Merchant House, the southern caravan has been suffering from the chaos of this caravan and has to rely on the escort of the army, if you can take this opportunity to clear these obstacles, your caravan movement will be more convenient and safer, and this is also to be counted as military merit......

Early in the morning of the second day after leaving Kitsby, the outpost was about to begin a purge after an overnight repair in a small castle forty miles south of Kitsby.

After talking with several lords in the vicinity of the incident, Art has already found out the situation of this chaotic army.

This rebellious army was led by a group of Provençal deserters who had surrendered to the Lombards, who had been a "lackey" army in the Lombard army until the Lombards were repulsed.

The Lombards were at a disadvantage in the new counteroffensive of Provence this year and had to retreat. But in order to harass the rear of the Provençal army, the Lombards left behind this rebel army, which was originally less than fifty men, mainly to harass the caravan convoys that carried grain for the Provençal army, and after learning that the Count of Burgundy was going to send the eastern army to fight south, this rebel army became more active, constantly harassing the grain convoys, and even the army's baggage convoys became their targets.

"Lusignan, Jafar, from now on, the sentry cavalry will be divided into two squads, and the two of you will each lead a team of sentry cavalry to infiltrate the sentry near the southern road in disguise to find out the news of the rebel army, and report back to me immediately if there is any situation."

Lusignan and Jafar answered, turned and went out of the tent with the sentry cavalry.

"Ron, you also select a few clever soldiers to disguise themselves to inquire about the traces of this chaotic army nearby, the team of nearly a hundred people often comes and goes, it is impossible to completely hide the footprints, you go and pull out the enemy's tail for me."

"Yes, sir." Ron also went out of the military tent to select soldiers.

"Odo, Sergeant Major, you follow me to contact a few nearby lords to see if you can get them to send troops to help us clear this rebellious army, after all, the rebellious army is in the dark and we are in the light, and we alone cannot completely wipe out the rebellious army."

"Okay, no problem." Otto and Angus replied in unison.

After two days of hard work, a group of men and horses finally found the lair of the rebel army, twelve miles southeast of the castle where the outpost was stationed, near a small lake in the low hills.

However, surprisingly, just as Art figured out the traces of the rebel army and planned to launch an attack on the rebel army with an outpost team and a garrison and private soldiers cobbled together by about forty nearby lords, a mysterious letter was delivered to Art's military camp through an unknown civilian.

"The rebels have asked us to fight early the next morning in the flat area on the west side of the road, eight miles south of here." Art raised the surprisingly stained private message in his hand.

"The robbers took the initiative to attack the army, or in the form of a formal petition for war. It seems that this chaotic army has a lot of courage and appetite. Or maybe they think of us as a local peasant army in Provence. Art laughed.

"But that's fine, the victory or defeat is a matter of a few charges, so we don't have to think about arranging the marching battle plan."

Is this a conspiracy?

Art really thought about this problem, after all, a year ago, the person in the position of the current rebel army was called Atwood Wells, and when dealing with the Swabian army, it was also a conspiracy and trick, and it was still the same sentence - there are too many Yin people, and it is easy to "Yin" themselves, so in order to avoid the chaos army playing tricks, Angus was specially sent to lead the team to the predetermined battle site to squat, and react immediately once there is an abnormality.

Angus personally led people to sentry, and the rebels >>

There was really no intention of designing a conspiracy, so Yat ordered the outpost army to pull out, and replied in advance to book a place to seize the advantageous terrain......

A purge battle is about to begin.

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Chapter 177: Purging the Rebellion (1)