On the third Friday of December, the weather was clear and the dry north wind blew the eastern border of the Count of Burgundy.

To the east of Bramont, Arte was about to lead the guards and the newly formed mixed cavalry of more than 100 cavalry (composed of the eastern army, thirty-five heavy cavalry and seventy light cavalry) towards the east of Fort Genet.

Yesterday afternoon, the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiment (including forty-five chariots) and cavalry (heavy infantry, crossbow corps, and a banner corps of warriors and four prisoners were still stationed in Fort Wallonia and several fortified estates around it) under the leadership of Angus had rushed towards the border area, because the commander of the Swabian army, Count Landy, who knew that Burgundy was raising troops to attack Fort Genet, had already led his army towards Fort Genet, and Arte had to fend off the Swabians before more than a thousand border troops laid siege to Fort Genet.

According to the battle plan, Otto and Viscount Jonn will also order the siege army to start by tomorrow afternoon, when the reinforcements from the south and the Kazak banner team returning from the west have arrived in Brammon City, and Art has arranged them to be around Odo as the core backbone.

Art straddled a high-headed warhorse with a brownish black (the horse wore a waistcoat and breastplate), wore a fine and shiny full-body plate chain mail and neck guard, a knight's sword at his waist, a riding bow and arrow bag in the front saddle, and a pouch containing five spears and an iron kite shield in the back saddle. Spears and spears are omitted, and Arte is the supreme commander of the entire army, and it is no longer possible for him to charge with a spear as he did when he was a border patrolman, and it is not easy to throw a few rounds of arrows from a hundred and ten paces or throw a few spears from the rear when the cavalry charges.

Behind Arte, along with the guard officer Ron, were six frontier knights, from three different factions, three of whom were the retainers of a baron, and they commanded twelve heavy cavalry and twenty-one light cavalry, which was considered the most powerful. In addition, the baron personally led more than 100 elite soldiers to follow Viscount Jörn to attack Fort Genet.

Behind the several knightly commanders were heavy cavalrymen in thick armor and spears, followed by dozens of light cavalry, and at the end of the procession were a cavalry servant team driving wagons pulling mules and donkeys to carry fodder hay, and the cavalry servant team consisted of twenty men (including five horsemen and fifteen horsemen), five wagons (full of fodder hay), seventeen pack horses and mules and donkeys.

This formation was only intended to be a spectacular appearance when leaving the city, to boost the morale of the troops outside the city, and when they entered the battle area, the knights would return to their ranks to form cavalry spears. This mounted lance is not a weapon in the hands of cavalrymen, it is the most common form of cavalry, usually consisting of a knight with heavy armor and a horse and one or two heavy armored sergeants (elite cavalry, non-knights, such as Angus a few years ago was a sergeant, hence the name sergeant major) led by four or five light cavalry (mounted archers) to form a cavalry lance. In some cases, there were seven or eight infantry armed with spears and bows in a cavalry formation.

Such a cavalry team of 100 cavalry was really shocking enough, and the soldiers in several garrison camps outside the city walked out of the barracks and stopped on both sides of the road to watch this majestic cavalry team, in the eyes of the infantry, the cavalry is a symbol of strength and victory.

As he paced on horseback, Art noticed a familiar face in front of him looking forward to the crowd of onlookers.

"Ron!" Art shouted behind him, and Ron immediately kicked the horse in the belly.

"Sir?"

"Ron, why is Baron Bob still here? You didn't give them food? Art glanced at the fat baron who was sticking his head out in front of him.

Ron took one look at it and replied, "Sir, I sent the grain to Baron Bob that afternoon, but he rejected your kindness, saying that the Wolfgang family did not need alms, and then he exchanged his horse for six hundred pounds of grain with us, and I petitioned Lord Odo, and Lord Odo agreed. ”

After receiving the food, the baron did not leave, but set up a simple camp outside the city. It is said that he planned to sell half of the estate to raise food and weapons, recruit soldiers, and declared that he was going to attack the Swabians, but everyone knew that his family's territory had been trampled under the feet of the Swabians, and no one paid attention to his false claims. ”

As he spoke, Art had paced to Baron Bob's neighborhood, and he stared at him intently.

Bob has a bloated body, a round face that is a little ugly, and his eyes are not small, but the large face turns the eyes into nuts.

Bob's eyes were fixed on Art, too.

"Phew~" Art stopped at Marle, holding the reins.

"Bob, you're the second son of a baron, you must be able to write, right?" Art asked aloud to the fat Bob huddled in the crowd.

"Yes, Lord Art, I'm a bookish man." Bob replied, feeling inexplicable.

Art jumped off his horse and walked over to Bob, who had replaced his thick baronial robe with a set of soldiers' cotton armor, presumably having been exchanged for food supplies by him.

"There is still a secretary in my Chinese army command camp, are you interested in applying?" Art asked, staring at the hole in Bob's cotton armor.

Bob was a little flattered, "Yes, of course I do." ”

But he immediately asked: "Then those people under my command can ~"

"Fifty old craftsmen, old peasant soldiers, and slightly stronger peasants from your group of exiles who can be of use are selected to join my baggage team, and these fifty people are not paid for food and drink. In return, the rest of you, the one hundred and ten, the old and weak, the women and the children who are in Brammon, can receive a meal of wheat cereal from my granary every day. Until you end my employment. What do you think? ”

Bob thought for a moment, then immediately raised his head and replied in a loud voice, "That's it, Master Art!"

Art waved his hand to the side, and a young guard stepped forward.

"Matthew, take Baron Bob to the city to find Father Robert and tell him that Baron Bob will be appointed as the secretary of the camp of the Chinese army from today onwards, and help him deal with the affairs of the Chinese army's papers, and his men will be dealt with according to what I just said."

"Yes, sir!" Matthew answered and made a gesture of please to Bob.

"Thank you, Lord Art, and God bless you." Bob bowed deeply to Art and followed Matthew into the city.

After Bob left, Art turned and stepped onto his horse and continued his march

3rd Saturday of December, night.

After a day and night of galloping, Yat led the cavalry corps over the Fort of Gené to find the front-line army led by Angus.

Angus had set up a garrison camp on the basis of a manor at the foot of the hill that had been burned by the oppression himself, forty-five chariots of the legion were lined up in the open space outside the manor as a perimeter line, Lusignan's cavalry was assigned to patrol around the camp, and Stanley's task force infiltrated the road where the Swabians were marching to spy on the enemy.

Before the horses were unsaddled, the men did not take off their armor, and as soon as Art rode his horse into the manor, he immediately summoned the commanders of the various armies to the camp tent to discuss matters and deploy the perimeter for battle

Sixty miles northwest of Ao Nang, in a castle on the Swanational border, Count Landy is deploying reinforcements in the candle-lit hall of the lord's hall.

Since the first battle of the Jungle Gap, the mood of the Earl of Landi has become more and more irritable, leading the army to attack the Count of Burgundy for more than four months, Landi's army originally won one after another, and it took less than three months to almost destroy the entire eastern border defense line of the Count of Burgundy.

However, just over a month earlier, Burgundy had risen to prominence, and an army of less than 1,000 men had beaten Randy to Ao Nang, and although the soldiers suffered little damage in battle, their morale was severely damaged.

The most odious thing is that the Burgundian army actually ran to the border of Swana, and plundered the county of Buvan, beating the county of Bouvan to a thousand holes.

Randy, who was recalled to the palace for the unfavorable siege of the city, was severely reprimanded by his political enemies because of the affairs of Bouvan County, and his power plummeted, and the Duke of Swabia almost took Randy's title in a fit of anger, but fortunately, Randy's army did not suffer huge battle damage, and the Burgundian army did not capture Bouvan City and withdrew from the Swazi border in time, otherwise Randi would have been guilty.

Randy, who was holding back his fire, had just returned to the border city of Ao Nang with 100,000 pounds of military rations and 300 elite infantry from the Swabian court, when he suddenly heard that the Burgundian border had begun to gather troops and threatened to regain the important town of Fort Gennet, one of the four cities on the border.

"Your Excellency, Burgundy has gathered more than 2,000 soldiers, one to attack Fort Gené, and the other to fight a decisive battle with us, and now we have lost our absolute superiority in troops, why doesn't the court send heavy troops to wage war against Burgundy?" A leading viscount in the hall did not understand why the Swabian court had been slow to declare war on Burgundy.

Randy's right hand kept rubbing the armrest of the leather chair, his eyes scanning back and forth at the commanders in the hall, these commanders had lost the sharpness of leading the army into Burgundy, they had killed enough in the first few months of Burgundy, and now there was nothing worth plundering in those Burgundian village estates and castle fortresses, and the passion for fighting had of course faded, and they knew that the eastern Burgundian army was about to capture Besançon, and once the eastern army won they would return to the rescue, At that time, it is unlikely that they will be able to continue their advance into the hinterland of the province of Jonah.

"Yesterday we received an urgent report from the palace that the 3,000 elite troops of the Duchy of Burgundy have deployed troops to the north, and once our court sends a large army to attack the Count of Burgundy, the army of the Duchy of Burgundy will definitely attack our northland. The Duchy of Burgundy is powerful, and there's a damn kingdom of France behind it. ”

"It is unlikely that the entire province of Jonah will be captured, and it will be a great military feat to hold the four border cities that already belong to us, and you will also be the masters of these territories after we obtain the four border cities."

"So guys, now you're fighting for your territory!" Randy raised his voice, hoping to use the expansion of the territory to motivate the group of officers under him.

Note: Bernard ceded the border cities in exchange for the support of the Swabians.

Everyone in the hall knew that even if they did conquer the four frontier cities, the Swabian court would not be able to canonize all these newly conquered lands to them, but it was still possible to receive a village and a few farms after the war.

"Your Excellency, Earl, you can deploy a combat mission. We swear to lay down these fortified cities and expand the territory of the Duchy of Swabia! A baron of the lead soldier stood up and said.

Randy nodded approvingly, "Next, I announce the combat mission"

On the fourth Monday of December, 1,100 local troops and more than 300 artisans and miscellaneous laborers from Bramont arrived at Fort Genet with a large number of tools, and in the evening began to cut timber to make siege equipment, and the battle for reinforcements began.

The ultimate goal of the war was to capture the Swabian garrison of Fort Gené and several forts around it, but it was only a matter of time and battle damage for more than 1,200 men attacking a castle that was only garrisoned by a little over 200 men and the castle was not strong (the damaged walls of Fort Genet had not been completely repaired by the Swabians). Therefore, the core of this war is the reinforcement and blocking battle outside the battlefield of Fort Genet, and whether the army led by Yat himself can withstand the reinforcements who oppress him will determine everything.

Fourteen miles south-east of Fort Gennet, one hundred and twenty heavy cavalry, one hundred heavy infantry, five hundred and sixty elite light infantry, and four hundred and eighty light infantry (including one hundred and twenty crossbowmen) led by the Count of Landy marched in the direction of Fort Gennet, with a total of more than 1,200 soldiers, as well as a large number of miscellaneous soldiers and grain and grass baggage.

At the same time, the 130 mixed cavalry corps led by Art (including the cavalry of Lusignan, mainly light cavalry, and less than 40 heavy cavalry), 480 elite soldiers (the six banners of the original Wells Regiment and the Prisoner's Legion Deadpool), 200 ordinary light infantry (four banners of the Prisoner's Legion), and 100 simple infantry (young and strong slaves rescued from Bouvan County), a total of 900 men. These 900 men were unevenly armed and had different combat strengths, and they were obviously at a disadvantage in terms of combat effectiveness.

However, in addition to the 900 soldiers, Art had forty-five chariots, which was the only way he could rely to recover his disadvantage.

For the next two days, the armies of Art and Landi were separated by less than five miles, but they never fought, because Ran Di learned the lesson of the battle in the jungle, he knew that Art was a shameless man who had no knightly honor and no war etiquette, Art sent someone to hand over the declaration of war to Randy twice, and Randy ignored it, and Randy did not engage Art at all in the preset location, he avoided those places where there might be ambushes, and chose to march on a detour with flat and open terrain.

As a result of his own evil, Art has lost the least respect from his enemies.

However, the Swabian army was getting closer and closer to Geneburg, and it was impossible for Art to watch more than a thousand Swabian troops approaching Genneburg, and after some choice, he chose to take the initiative to attack the Swabian army.

On Wednesday, Art finally led his troops to launch an offensive against the Swabian army, which was marching on the plains.

At noon, Angus, the commander of the 1st Corps of the Jonah Border Garrison Corps, personally led 80 light cavalry to storm the right flank of Landi's army, relying on the advantage of light cavalry movement flexibility, Angus broke through the Swabian army's outer defense infantry like lightning, attacked the right flank of the Swabian army, killed more than a dozen people, and quickly withdrew from the battle before the heavy cavalry arrived.

Knowing that in order to rescue Fort Gené, he must first get rid of the Burgundian army beside him, so he began to line up in the plain to meet the enemy.