"My lord, we only have a hundred cavalry, and we are only equipped with light cuirass, I am afraid it will be difficult to complete the difficult combat mission."

The Lannister knight said to me very objectively, it is true that for an orthodox knight like him, a cavalry only equipped with a cuirass is not a frontal combat force, and it cannot even be called a cavalry, at most it can be used as a scout to cover and guard the battlefield, and it will definitely be a defeat in the face-to-face knight war.

I understand his incomprehension, after all, I am a little more imaginative than his tactical thinking.

"To reduce the weight of your equipment and strengthen the firepower configuration, I hope to make you a light cavalry with a quick strike, surprise, instantaneous, where to fight, to seize the city gate before the enemy reacts, even if the battle is unfavorable, you can quickly evacuate lightly, there will be no cumbersome impact on the speed of reaction, the emphasis is on a fast word."

The Lannister knight pursed his lips and recalled what I said, and did not continue to dwell with me about the equipment of the cavalry, and the bull on one side asked me: "Master, our heavy infantry can't keep up with the speed of the cavalry, and we can't rush to the battlefield at the first time, or we should set off first?" ”

"As long as you maintain a normal marching speed, you can listen to the latest orders at any time, you may go to support the battlefield, you may also cooperate with the cavalry to seize the city gate, and you may also ambush and snipe the enemy's reinforcements, because you are a difficult bone to gnaw, generally not several times your strength, it is impossible to eat you in a short time, and you can organize activities alone."

After a few more details, the bull and the Lannister knights departed with their respective orders, and I led the third squad and the direct guard as a reserve, bypassing the army and going straight to the small village of Afens, five miles southeast of the city of Vipitano, which was indicated by the guide, and it was said that it was the transit point for Vipitano to obtain Venetian supplies, and even if the enemy had begun to withdraw the supplies, it was impossible to completely withdraw them in a short time, and attacking the enemy could force the enemy to go out of the city to rescue, So as to create an opportunity for the besieging troops to break the city, reduce the pressure of attack, and by the way, they can also reap some benefits like a wolf entering a flock, why not?

The unknown path on the mountain, which had only been trodden by the shepherds, could only allow one person to pass, and the snow and strong winds made it even more difficult to march, and the reserve of five hundred men formed a long snake and slowly wriggled slowly.

Many people shrank their faces in the collar as much as possible, and wrapped all the cold items they could find on the outside of their armor, but they still couldn't stop the biting cold from burrowing into their necks, taking away the little heat in their bodies little by little.

The snow around my nose had been frozen after being washed away by the snort, and it was hard and hard to dry. I wiped my nose with the back of my hand, and complained in my heart, Lao Tzu was born under the red flag, grew up in the spring breeze, how to suffer this hardship, although the story of the Long March was heard from a young age, but I never thought that I would experience it personally, I never thought that I would run through the millennium to Europe to climb the snow mountain, I really like the snow of Minshan Mountain for thousands of miles, and I am so tired that the uncle vomits blood!

In such cold weather, Kohler still kept one hand on his waist at all times, even though it was already purple from the cold, keeping the alertness of a good archer and making me shiver and grumble with confidence.

Damn, why didn't you invent a down jacket, this broken armor is cooler than ice, I was looking for Italy to enjoy happiness and make a fortune, how do I know that I have to suffer so many crimes, no wonder everyone complains about the winter expedition.

"How long will it take to get to the little village you mentioned?"

I pulled the guide over and asked, watching as the foaming stars were frozen into ice crystals and free-falling in a graceful arc, and the temperature was already ridiculously low, below the zero line.

"It's too windy in this pass, my troops don't have enough warm clothing, many of them are going to get frostbitten, and if there is still a long way ahead, we won't have any soldiers to fight when we get there."

The guide was a local shepherd who had been drafted as a peasant soldier to fight in the Italian conquest and married a Germanic woman, so he was loyal to the German Empire. He was of short stature, shivering in a mass of tattered clothes of unknown material, his already unhealthy face looked even more morbidly yellow, and a striking scar on the top of his head, which slanted to the corner of his eye, made his hateful image even more hideous.

"Believe me, sir, this is the nearest path, we are walking in the wind now, and the climate will be much better after this hillside, and the winter in Italy is very mild. Afens sits at the foot of a hill by a small river, where there are not many families and they are all poor, there are no stone fortresses, only a small wooden walled city, in which supplies are stored. The rebels of Affens must not have imagined that someone would kill them from the high mountain behind them, and just as they were caught off guard, the stored materials would become your trophies. ”

I built a pergola with my right hand and tried to look in the direction of his finger, but I didn't see anything except the snow on the top of the mountain, I rubbed my eyes and said to myself, it looks like this myopia is serious again, and I haven't played with the computer recently!

Retracting my gaze, I tightened the fur coat on my body, and drove the horse to follow the team and crawl slowly like ants, yes, crawling!

In the evening, the whole army finally came to the woods outside the village of Aphens, and after sending a few scouts to reconnoiter the situation, I ordered the whole army to check the equipment, and by the way, nibble on the dry rations that had been frozen with me, and reserve strength for the battle.

The moon slowly rose in mid-air, and the scouts successively brought back the information of the village, the rebels stationed in Affens were only about 200 people, as the guide guessed, because this is in the remnants of the Alps, and the north is full of dangerous and unattainable mountains, and the garrison commander thinks that no army will climb over the snow-capped mountains and appear in his hinterland, so the defense is very lax, and only there are reconnaissance posts on the main road in and out, and our location is just a defensive blind spot ignored by the rebels, and there is no enemy secret post in front of us, Can attack completely unsuspecting enemies at any time.

"Is there anything to grab?"

I tugged at one of the scout's sleeves and made no secret of my greed, dividing my troops to attack here for strategic reasons, but more to fill my bottomless desires, oh no! It is to clear the flanks of the attack and cut off the enemy's supply lines.

He nodded understandingly: "I saw more than a dozen carts coming out of the fortress and heading west under the escort of the soldiers, and there should be a lot of stock left in the fortress." ”

I nodded with satisfaction, and ordered the herald to go down and prepare for the attack, and the soldiers, already aware of the reality of Alphes, took up their weapons one after another, and stared at the fortress with fierce eyes, as if it were a young girl waiting to be ravaged, eager to possess her, their eyes bloodshot with the desire for wealth and victory, and they forgot excitedly the damage that frostbite had done to their bodies not long ago.

"Let the reserves make a frontal feint to attract the enemy's attention, Kohler leads the direct guards to touch in from behind to attack its unpreparedness, the inside and outside should take the castle, the battle must be ended before the sand leaks, and the army will be fed after the victory, today I will spend the night in Apens!"

I finally gave the order to attack, and the soldiers pounced like tigers out of the cage, and the drums and horns resounded in every corner of the heavens and the earth, and the rebels in the distant fortress realized that they were being attacked, and hurriedly lit a few bonfires, and hurriedly responded to the battle.

The Italian crusade, which had a profound impact on my life, officially began......