Chapter 423: Second Offensive
King Leonac was angry and did not make the matter too clear, and it was only after everyone had returned to their camp that King Leonac sent someone to inform him of the details of the matter.
It turned out that the top brass of the Three-Way Jihadist Army had gathered together for a meeting, and they set the tone for the next battle.
Since the Norweeds were slow to engage in a head-on battle with the Jihadist, the Jihad slowly advanced and encroached on the territory of the other side.
After all, the capital area must be a developed agricultural zone, and if the battle site is placed, it will definitely cause immeasurable losses to the enemy.
Therefore, the main purpose of the battle was to force the enemy to engage in a decisive battle with the jihadist army, and then completely annihilate their main army.
Or push directly to the opponent's capital and conquer it, but this is quite difficult.
In this way, the news spread throughout the Holy War Army, and the Western Route Holy War Army and the Middle Road Holy War Army had already set out three days earlier.
And the Eastern Road Jihadist Army is also ready and ready to be pulled out at any time.
In the early morning, outside the camp tent of the Jihadist Army on the East Road, there was a field of banners and spears, and the vast cold light was shining in the winter sun, which was like a terrifying forest of swords and guns, which made people shudder when they saw it.
The army of Denlenburg had long been ready to go, and everyone was ready to go, because William's army was so heavy that the march was extremely slow, and even if there were many wagons to help it march, it was not as good as some lightly armed jihadist army.
Therefore, in order not to slow down the overall speed of the Jihadist Army, William decided to start the battle site a few days in advance.
Except for the Denlenburg barracks, the rest of the camp was in a state of chaos, and since this time was resting, the merchants who came with the army and the lucky chicken girls could be regarded as making a fortune these days.
All the spoils of war that the soldiers received on the battlefield were sold at low prices to the treacherous and cunning merchants, and all the silver coins were used to the prostitutes who were with them.
They have beautiful or mediocre chicken girls in their arms, and their lives are extremely erosive, and they can even hear the moaning sound of some tents in the middle of the day.
This situation is absolutely not allowed in William's army, but every time William goes out on an expedition, he will bring out a group of chicken girls he formed, which should be the so-called official chicken in the Celestial Empire.
Although the number of official chickens was only in the thousands, in order to make up for the lack of numbers, William used those who were slightly beautiful among the Norweed women as military chickens after examination, and used them as military chickens if they were not sick, and on average every two or three days, the soldiers would vent on average, and then let them all abstain from sex for five days before the expedition.
And those merchants who accompanied the army could not enter William's barracks, no one could enter his barracks without permission, and after beating out the merchants who were not convinced at first, no merchants came here again, they knew that this was their forbidden area, so the Denlenburg barracks seemed very orderly.
The soldiers were busy preparing, they had already gathered in teams as units, under the leadership of the officers, to the column commander, and the column commanders gathered to the brigade commander, and in this way, the Denglenberg infantry slowly gathered.
The same is true of the Knights of the Iron Cross, who have gathered in groups under the leadership of the Grand Knights to the Lancers of their respective wings.
The cold wind blew and made everyone's faces red, and they began to assemble in phalanxes in the camp in thick cotton clothes and furs.
Like statues, the motionless soldiers waited in place with spears in this way, and the knights also rode on their war horses to wait for orders, and the nostrils of the war horses kept bubbling with white gas, and the winter in the north of the continent did not know when it would end.
The archers and crossbowmen were all ready, and the heavy infantry stood with the co-opted sinners, who had not been trained in the Denlenburg training method, so the queue was a little crooked.
William and Norwen, along with Urimu, joined Delsey, who was the deputy commander of the Order, and Banshtesk, the commander of the heavy infantry, to the phalanx where the soldiers had assembled.
William stepped on the back of one of the grooms and got on the horse, as did everyone else.
William looked imposing in military uniform, and he had a gold-rimmed iron cross on his helmet tucked under his armpit, which represented his coat of arms and to show goodwill to the Pope.
William touched his nose with his hand on the plate gauntlet, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" ”
So saying, he buckled up his sumptuous riveted helmet, walked in front, and began to walk towards the place he had set.
Although it was already February, it was still extremely cold in the north, and the bitter cold wind was like an invading blade, and even though the soldiers were wearing thick leather and cotton clothes and leather gloves, they still could not avoid a large loss of heat in such weather.
This situation forced William to order a two-hour stop march every twenty kilometers, and quickly light a campfire and eat to replenish the heat.
After several days of marching, William finally reached the appointed location, and at this time the jihadist army also set out from the camp.
The Norweeds had gathered about 80,000 soldiers and were ready to intercept the advance of the Eastern Jihadist Army.
However, this did not help, and if the Norwids really divided their forces to thwart the Jihadist Army in this way, then their defeat was already foreordained.
Because there were not enough of them on each side, the number of the Jihadist Army was not only the regular army, but also many wandering knights, ruffians and mercenaries.
With these forces, the military strength of each road can almost increase by twenty or thirty thousand people, and the number of Norvids in such a battle is completely inferior, and there is almost no chance that they will be defeated by the Holy War Army.
But William always had a strange feeling, as if something was wrong, but he never knew what was wrong.
The heavens and the earth were at a loss, white snow covered the ground, and William's camp had been set up long after he had just arrived here, and the improvised defensive fences had been prepared, and all the horses and patrolling soldiers had been arranged.
This was stipulated by William when he first established military discipline, and when he went out on a campaign, he must have a fortification in a place where he was stationed for more than five days.
In this way, William was stationed here, and there were three small Norwidian forts nearby, but William did not move, but chose not to move.
The Norweed also discovered William's arrival and sent a lot of soldiers to be stationed fifty kilometers away from William, just to prevent William's sudden attack.