Chapter 1585: Victory and Advice

Everything was so sudden that even the Duke of Ulrich and Wolff, who was ready to be prepared, didn't have time to react.

Seeing that the opportunity was rare, the knights under Duke Ulrich took advantage of the opportunity before the enemy turned their heads, and directly launched a charge. The Duke of Ulrich had no choice but to shout in a hurry:

"Catch it alive, I want to catch it alive! I don't pay a commission for the death of too many people! ”

Probably disgusted with his small voice, Duke Ulrich of Württemberg simply asked several of his subordinates to shout together:

"Catch it alive, I want to catch it alive! I don't pay a commission for the death of too many people! ”

"Catch it alive, I want to catch it alive! I don't pay a commission for the death of too many people! ”

……

This was definitely a stupid move, because the shouting of Duke Ulrich's men caused the knights who had already launched the charge to hesitate. But fortunately, their enemies are too scum......

Because of the unpreparedness, plus the European armies of this era are used to leaving the weakest behind. Therefore, with just one charge, the troops behind the more than 30,000 peasant troops were directly crushed.

Fortunately, Duke Ulrich made his men's shouts work, and the plate knights who had completed a charge shouted:

"Lay down your arms! Squat with your head in your hands! Squat with your head in your hands! Surrender or kill! ”

Then, a large number of peasant soldiers were frightened by the menacing knights, laid down their weapons, and crouched down with their heads in their hands......

At this time, the core force of the peasant rebel army in front finally reacted-

"Not good, the enemy has copied our back road!" Casbar, the leader of the rebels, panicked.

But under the persuasion of a few die-hard loyalists, he finally came to his senses and commanded the elite troops to prepare for battle with the Württemberg army.

The old and weak behind the peasant army, although they were easily subdued by the Württemberg army. However, after they crouched down with their heads in their hands, they also blocked the way of the Württemberg army.

In this way, this gave Casbar the opportunity to calmly organize the army to fight back. When the Württemberg army escorted away the thousands of peasant soldiers who had crouched down and surrendered in the back row, Casbal had already organized the most elite tens of thousands of horses and horses, and set up a position, intending to fight the Württemberg army.

Because the Württemberg army was restrained by the Duke of Ulrich, they were asked to catch as alive as possible. As a result, it was clear that the Württemberg army was stronger in combat, but it had a back and forth with the elite of the peasant army. Of course, the Württemberg army did not suffer any losses because it was well equipped.

At this time, the Duke of Ulrich became impatient. He hurried forward and shouted:

"What are you waiting for, kill Casbal!"

But soon, he reacted - didn't he leak the news that he had sent someone undercover before? If it is known that he deliberately sent someone to lure Casbal and his party to kill the nobles, he will also be doomed. So, he immediately changed his tune:

"Whoever kills Casbal, I'll make him the Knight of the Picks!"

The five Wolf realized that Duke Ulrich was signaling to himself. Taking advantage of the chaos on the battlefield, Wolf took off the mantle that symbolized the officer on his plate armor, plucked the cherry whiskers from his hat, and grabbed a handful of dirt and wiped it on his face......

He then motioned for the other four to move, and he himself approached Casbal, who was standing on a high platform shouting command the battle......

"Hey!" Wolf burst into a shout, raised his knife and cut off Casbal's head in front of tens of thousands of people......

Then, the entire battlefield fell silent......

Wolf took the opportunity to pinch his throat and shouted:

"Casbal is dead, let's surrender!"

Suddenly, the morale of the more than 20,000 peasant troops who were still resisting plummeted, and many people despaired. Many of the peasant troops who stood at the front to resist involuntarily laid down their arms when they heard the news of Casbar's killing......

But Casbar's group of die-hard friends were furious:

"You bastard, you dare to kill the leader, I'm going to kill you!"

After saying that, dozens of officers who had a very good relationship with Casbal and served as officers in the army rushed to Wolf with swords in hand......

But Wolf was not stupid, he didn't stand there waiting for the other to cut him, but took Casbal's head and ran in the direction of the manor. And the dozens of blacksmiths who pursued him behind him, because there were many soldiers blocking him, could not catch up with him in time. There is no way, when Casbar organized resistance before, he arranged his cronies to lead the troops to resist in the front, and the back was very empty.

Wolf carried Casbal's head and ran straight to the small castle in the valley that he hadn't had time to take down before. When the owner of the castle saw it, he knew that Wolf was one of his own, so he picked him up in a hanging basket.

Seeing that Casbar was killed, Duke Ulrich was not a fool and immediately ordered a general attack.

Thousands of Württemberg officers and soldiers shouted "surrender or kill" and rushed forward......

Seeing that the leader of the other party was killed, the morale of the Württemberg officers and soldiers at this time was high. On the contrary, the morale of the peasant rebels fell to a low point.

After some fighting, except for a small number of people who were still resisting, most of the remaining peasant rebel soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered......

In this battle, only the first group of "poor Conrad" members of Casbar were still stubbornly resisting, and the total number was more than 3,000 people. However, Württemberg's officers and troops dispatched 400 knights and 5,000 Beihai infantry to attack those who resisted. As a result, more than half of the more than 3,000 core members of the "poor Conrad" were killed, and half were injured and lost their ability to resist......

In addition, there were many soldiers of the peasant army, who trampled on each other when the army collapsed, and more than 2,000 were killed or wounded. In the end, Württemberg's officers and troops captured a total of 27,000 intact peasant soldiers and more than 3,000 wounded. Less than 1,800 people were actually killed......

There was no way, the coach was cut off in front of everyone, which was too demoralizing. Not to mention the scattered peasant army, even the regular army is prone to collapse.

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In the evening, in the castle in the valley, after attending the welcome banquet given by the owner of the castle, Baron Wadmar, the Duke of Ulrich was a little frowning in the room. Baron Waldmar was a neutral nobleman in the Duchy of Württemberg and was not loyal to Duke Ulrich, but he was not opposed to him either. Such a neutral aristocracy was dispensable for the Duke of Ulrich. So, it was also on the list of targets for the peasant army to exterminate. Of course, he was lucky, this time he happened to encounter the arrival of a large army, and the castle was not breached by the peasant army. If the army had been delayed for half a day, everything would have been difficult to say.

At this time, Wolf, who had fled into the castle after cutting off Casbal's head during the day, was standing in front of Duke Ulrich. He had been exposed, and after escaping into the castle during the day, he had to identify himself to Baron Waldemar. Then, his identity became clear. Of course, he would never admit that he was the rebel heavy cavalry commander Henry. Anyway, when he killed Casbar, he wiped his face with yellow mud, and deliberately didn't speak in a normal voice.

"Lord Duke, what are you worried about? We've won a big win this time. Wolf didn't understand.

In the face of his henchmen, the Duke of Ulrich did not hide either:

"I have entered into a prisoner of war sale agreement with the Grand Duke of Beihai State, but I only have 27,000 intact prisoners of war in my hands now. In order to deter those Diao people, thousands of people will definitely be publicly executed at that time. In this way, I can only sell a maximum of 26,000 people to the Grand Duke of Marin. According to the calculation of one strong man per farmer, 26,000 people can sell 780,000 Gulden gold coins (30 gold coins per household)! That's not enough to pay off my millions of gold debts! ”

Wolf wondered:

"No, didn't the rebels loot more than 500,000 Gulden gold coins? Now it's all in your hands......"

Duke Ulrich glared at him and said:

"You know what? After the victory in this war, I need to take half of the loot to reward the army and pay the commission! ”

Wolf scratched his head and said:

"That's enough, half of the loot also has more than 250,000 gold coins, plus the 780,000, it's enough to pay the debt......"

Duke Ulrich roared angrily:

"You idiot, I'm not going to be able to do it anymore?"

Obviously, the lavish Duke of Ulrich was not willing to use all his income to pay off his debts. Because, he himself needs a lot of money to maintain huge expenses.

Wolf finally understood what Duke Ulrich meant—there were too few peasants to take prisoner......

Sure enough, Duke Ulrich scolded:

"You shit, why don't you convince that idiot in Casbal to take more farmers into the rebels? If I had 10,000 more peasants and sold them to Grand Duke Marin, I would have sent them ...... Don't worry about the next expenses......"

"I tried to persuade you, but the bastard of Casbal hates the waste of food by the peasants who are not strong enough, and they will ......not take anything if they are strong enough," Wolf said aggrieved.

"Damn, now the trouble is coming! You, help me figure out how to increase the number of prisoners of war! Duke Ulrich said angrily.

Wolf thought about it for a long time, and suddenly came up with an idea:

"Lord Duke, otherwise, we will deliberately let Chapman (undercover Charlie) and the four of them go. At the same time, let go of another group of their accomplices. I'm exposed, and the 4 of them haven't yet. You can let Chapman go and let him lead the hussar to escape at night. Then, raid the estates that aren't part of your side. In addition to looting, the focus is on those peasants! This time, without the presence of a superior like Casbar, Chapman could have given his own orders and coerced the population to get as many serfs as possible......"