The discerning attendant had already prepared the pen and paper, and I spread out the dull yellow parchment, biting the tip of the pen and trying to recall what I wanted to reply.

Fortunately, in my previous life, I had some foundation in learning English, and it was not difficult to memorize words or something, but the cumbersome grammar made people nerve-wracking, and there were a lot of jokes that did not make sense in the past, so now I reply as briefly as possible, and when I encounter places that cannot be written, I simply draw some symbols and patterns instead, anyway, Leonard is well-informed, and it should not be a problem to guess with his IQ.

"Well, this is called MeLetter, and ordinary people can't understand what the paper is full of vivid calligraphy and painting." While admiring my masterpiece with satisfaction, I muttered to myself.

In this letter, I made the next redeployment of troops, and all the remaining Nijmegen troops were rapidly retracted back to the mainland, except for the garrisons necessary to control the transport hub.

Kohler was given the mission of full command to undertake the overall defense of Nijmegen, and the various intelligence systems strengthened the intensity of enemy infiltration and espionage, striving to sort out valuable intelligence feedback as soon as possible, requisitioning and distributing reserved men and strong women to organize self-defense forces, and systematically evacuating the elderly and children and hoarding a certain amount of supplies to prevent the war from expanding to the mainland.

"Deliver this letter to Leonardo as quickly as possible, and let him arrange it according to the arrangement contained in it, and if you ask me about my intentions, say a word to him, Roman, understand?" Putting the letter roll number in the box, I fastened the delicate key and explained Ruhr's face.

The lampkeeper was not good at words, but the firmness in his eyes answered my question very well, and he put away the wooden box and was about to leave, and I called to the messenger in a hurry, and told the attendant to bring some sausages and bread: "Bring more things to satisfy your hunger on the way, and you must be careful of such a long journey." ”

Tears clearly appeared in the corners of Ruhl's eyes, and he was moved that a high-ranking duke would say such heartwarming words to his humble self, and his eyes were firmly mixed with the excitement of being trusted.

"Please rest assured, Lord Duke, people are here!" He finally spoke.

"Faith is not in people, but it is more important for people to live......"

The whole army deliberately set aside an extra day for the hangover nobles to sober up, in case they couldn't even ride their horses when they were so weak that they couldn't even ride their horses.

On August 13, four days after the St. Lawrence Festival, Panhuan's army in Constance finally set up camp and rushed to the battlefield in two ways.

The right army was the most massive, concentrating almost all the knights that the Swa-Swa instinct could take out, and the Count of Lechfeld led the eldest sons of the lords, forming the backbone of the army, and they would turn east from Constance, and after joining the reinforcements of Bavaria and Carinthia, they would pass through the Brenner Pass together, and go south to attack the vassals of Verona who participated in the rebellion, increasing the pressure on the enemy's right flank and forcing them to divide their forces.

If God forbid, it would be nice if Lessfeld could defeat the main forces of the Velona Lords before I do.

The rest of the army consisted mainly of knights of Nijmegen and Hanover, and more than a thousand Basel mountain dwellers who had been transferred to various miscellaneous horses, and the left army, though small but elite, our march route passed through the St. Gart Pass, which was relatively low and easy to walk, and stretched to the small town of Kolico on the shores of Lake Como at the end of the Alps, where, according to reconnaissance, there was only a small force of fifty men belonging to the puppet king Aduin, guarded by the onion knights appointed by him.

Nestled in a basin at the southern foot of the mountain range, Colico has a warm and humid climate that is perfect for the growth of all kinds of flowers, known as the Apennine Garden, and one of the town's most famous features is the thriving flower market, but it is definitely the famous Lake Como that is truly its pride.

The turquoise blue water is surrounded and divided by several mountains, the overall shape of the long and narrow letter Y, many places on the shore are cliffs, the snow-capped Alps at the northern end of the lake are like a wall, blocking the rolling cold wave in the south, trickling snow into a stream, rushing into the lake, making the lake water cool and refreshing all year round, pure and abnormal, irrigation and moisturizing the surrounding vast arable land, so it is perfect to choose the beautiful and abundant Koliko as the rest point of the army.

Rollo has completed the task of supervising the transportation of grain and grass, and has returned to me as the commander of the Basel mountain people, who have never seen the world, and are full of awe of such a tall and handsome red man who follows the Duke, thinking that he must be a noble lord with a respected status, and at the very least, he must be a knight with a fief, so they all respond respectfully and carefully, for fear that they will offend the nobles because of a word and end up badly.

Legend has it that the aristocratic lord eats with a golden rice bowl, and he doesn't have to look at people with two eyes at all!

As the saying goes, a good horse deserves a good saddle, and no matter how handsome a horse is, it can't be ridden without a beautiful saddle, and in the same way, if you don't buy the hearts of the wild mountain people, they can't work the battlefield, and they will be defeated like a mountain.

It was a deliberate thought by me to take them with me, and the infantry on this expedition to Nijmegen were all left in the rear to consolidate their gains, of course, for the sake of the speed of the march, but after crossing the Alps and approaching the Apennines, especially when advancing into the mountainous hills near Rome, the role of the cavalry would be greatly diminished, and I fear that the rebels will take advantage of the terrain to gradually wear down the strength of the Nijmegen army, and then look for the weak links of the fighters to deal a fatal blow to us.

The peasant soldiers provided by the Count of Basel made my worried eyes shine, and they were good at walking, tenacious, and skilled in mountain warfare, and they matched every criterion perfectly, and it was a good choice to assist the cavalry in combat or serve as the core of the position in the mountain campaign, and the only thing to worry about was how to make this group of loose mud legs form an unwavering fighting collective, and truly become a screen and flank that Nijmegen could rely on, rather than a rotten oil bottle.

"Do you have the confidence to make these wild monkeys listen to you?"

On horseback I watched with Rollo the procession slowly marching along the hillside path, the skilful steaders of Basel chasing each other with their donkeys, so startled that the horses neighed, and the knights cursed in disgust at the stinky peasants who knew not the height of the earth.

Luo Luo shook his head at first, and then nodded vigorously: "I have a similar upbringing and experience with them, eat the same food, live in the same house, we are poor, but we both have a devout belief in God, you can rely on me, my lord." ”

It took the army a full ten days to climb the towering St. Gart Pass, although the road was relatively flat, and because of the war, there were not many caravans passing through the road, but the fatal altitude still made people uncomfortable, especially the knights from the lowland country of Friesland, most of them trekked to such a high place for the first time, and the dizziness of the lack of oxygen caused irrepressible diarrhea, so that the knights did not even have the strength to wear armor.

People are like this, the situation of the war horses is even worse, those plain horses are weak and can't eat any forage, they run away from drinking water, and hundreds of war horses are killed alive in ten days' journey, and each knight has two or three spare mounts, and this level of loss cannot be afforded, compared to the donkeys of the Basel mountain people, they are very leather, and they are not afraid to be ripe and happy.

The army out of the mountains was embarrassed as if it had been stripped of its skin, and urgently needed to camp and rest, and if any enemy got a letter to attack us at this time, it would be absolutely effortless to win, but fortunately, the Danish knights could barely be regarded as anti-rough, but unfortunately it was all papier-mâché tigers, and they could still be dressed up from afar.

The people of Basel are very happy to be alive and kicking one by one, but my dignified duke plays strikers with a group of mud legs, and I can't talk about it on my face.

Find a sunny and windy col, first ordered the whole army to bury pots and cook and camp to rest, the energetic Basel mountain people become the best candidates for labor, although it is a temporary simple camp, but the standard of Nijmegen is to keep improving, where you settle down must dig a ditch and bury piles to erect thistles, and make complete preparations, in case the danger is approaching and then rush to deal with it.

So the mountain people are divided into three teams according to different tasks!

They are responsible for logging, digging pits, guarding,

As for the noble knights, who were stretched to the point of weakness, they were finally able to get off their horses, and they longed to lie down on the ground forever and sleep until they died.

"Is this a joke God is playing on me? The mountain pass has been passed over and over a few times, why did it happen this time? ”

I muttered indignantly, and threw the untied belt on the table, and Luo Luo looked at his master in surprise, his eyes full of questions about your lord, don't you believe in God.

"I remember you said ...... before"

Rollo knocked on the door of his head and tried to remember:

"There was a wise man in the old East who said, If God wants to give a mortal a noble mission, he must first examine the mortal's ability to endure adversity and suffering, and redouble his torment with pain."

"I said that, but I didn't say it had to happen to me."

I hurriedly poured wine into the glass, tilted my neck and gulped: "More than one-third of the non-combat attrition, do you understand the non-combat attrition?" It's just that there are not many who can fight, and even if they can, there are not enough war horses to ride, so should the knights fight on foot? It's nerve-wracking. ”

"It's not a good idea......"

Rollo stared cautiously at my face, and saw that the master was not angry before continuing: "Put the foot knight behind Basel's team, when the two armies face each other, the enemy thinks that the peasant team is the weakness of the breakthrough, but he does not think that there is a hidden killing machine in it. ”

Hearing Luo Luo say this, I turned my face and looked at him intently, so frightened that Wangcai's youngest son didn't dare to come out.

"I'll give you ten, no! Twenty healthy knights, how about you take them to take Colico? There were only fifty miscellaneous soldiers there. ”

"You mean to put me in command of twenty knights?"

Luo Luo pointed at himself in disbelief: "I'm sorry adults, my status is too low, and I will definitely be looked down upon." ”

"Afraid of what? Didn't I give you the right to use the knight's sword a long time ago? Whether this thing can succeed or not, it's all about whether you dare or not, do you dare? ”

I met Rollo's burning eyes, who at first cowered and bowed his head, not knowing what he was thinking, but after a moment regained his confidence and looked back firmly.

"I have no fear but God and you." Wangcai's youngest son patted his chest and replied.

"That's what it looks like! On your knees! ”

Luo Luo bent his knees in confusion, not understanding what his master was going to do, I turned around and pulled out the long sword on the table, and hit his shoulders and back with the back of the sword.

"God testifies, in extraordinary times, use extraordinary methods, Rollo, the youngest son of Collen Wangcai, my most trusted attendant, will you take up the sword in your hand and shed your last drop of blood in order to defend your faith in the holiness of God and the legitimate rights of the feudal king?"

Rollo's eyes slid down the crystalline droplets, and he choked up but roared unusually loudly: "I am willing to be loyal to Christ, and to you, the supreme Duke of Nijmegen, to defend the rights of you and your rightful heirs, and to hand over my life to this noble cause!" ”

"Very well, young man!"

I leaned on the old man and patted him on the shoulder: "Now that you have enough status to command the other knights, how about taking this errand?" ”

"Tomorrow this time you will sit comfortably in your room near the lake in Colico, and I will guarantee you with my own head." Luo Luo said with an oath.

"The onion knight of the puppet king should be moved with affection and reason, and strive to receive it peacefully without spending a single soldier, you have twenty knights, just going to that station is enough to scare the enemy, you don't have to be tough, if the other party is stubborn, don't be polite, it's time to show the frogs at the bottom of the well to show their Nijmegen muscles."

The excited Luo Luo couldn't stop for a while, I patiently taught him the experience, but I thought that I would have to tell less ancient oriental stories to the people around me in the future, so that one by one I learned to talk nonsense, and the whole sentence was guaranteed by the head of the person, when I was the second master of Guan who split Huaxiong in the previous life of the Tiger Prison, and set up a military order before the battle?

The newly canonized Rollo picked twenty knights of the Inner House who had a good relationship with him, that is, knights who were directly loyal to the family of the Duke of Nijmegen, and everyone got along well on weekdays, and there were no obstacles to communication.

They didn't care when they learned about the mission, as if it was as simple as riding out for a walk, but for safety reasons, I still instructed my attendants to prepare a kite-shaped shield and crossbow for cavalry for each person, so that they could defend themselves in case of emergency, and they could also cover each other's retreat without hurting a single person as much as possible.

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