"Thank God, this battle was so good!"

As soon as I found a flat place without fragments of corpses to rest, the bull did not have time to wipe the blood from his face, jumped off his horse and rushed to me, "How is it, my lord, a beautiful battle of annihilation, isn't it?" ”

"Thank God as it should be, but do you really think it's a beautiful battle of annihilation? Forty soldiers were lost, and they were all excellent veterans. [Full text reading. 】”

I deliberately pretended to be unhappy with a straight face, and replied coldly, in fact, being able to completely annihilate the enemy under such conditions has fully reflected the super high combat effectiveness of the Nijmegen soldiers, and the battle losses of forty people are absolutely a miracle, but since we must focus on cultivating the command ability of the bull, we must naturally have high standards and strict requirements for him.

"The ideal casualty in my heart is ten people, a perfect ambush, as soon as you look at the face, you have to tell the winner and loser, why drag the mud and water for so long, and almost ran away by them, let me ask you, the infantry used their spears to resist the knights who rushed over and did not let them get close, and the archers killed them close to the obvious very simple tactics, why are there still people who don't listen to the command, so brave and ruthless close to the R fight? Isn't this sending to death? Orders and prohibitions are the requirements of governing the army that I have always emphasized. ”

The bull bowed his head to listen to my lecture, and muttered with a stupid pout: "I can't learn your twists and turns, how easy it is to rush up and slash one by one." ”

"What did you say?" I raised my eyebrows and widened my eyes.

The bull immediately lost his temper, and waved his hand with a smile on his face: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I must learn a lesson, my lord, you can spare this time." As he spoke, he rubbed his hands and posed pitiful, selling so cutely, and he didn't know who to learn the tricks from.

Disgusted, I retched a few times, and it was a kick to the bull's P share.

"What are you doing here? Hurry up and clean up the battlefield! ”

The bull rubbed his P shares, in fact, he didn't feel any pain when he was rough and thick, but in order to cooperate with the Duke's performance.

"What about these captives? There are too many people. ”

"Do you need to ask?"

The bull heard the impatience in my tone, and immediately became nervous, and I raised my foot to look at him again: "Is it possible to stay and eat rice?" Pick two mercenaries who know the way to be guides, and the others will be pulled to the river with a knife, and after cutting down the river, these hundreds of headless corpses will flow downstream, which is enough to scare the Carinthians in Noi Castle, right? The enemy should also be reminded of our existence. ”

The bull looked at the Duke who made the decision on the fate of hundreds of people without blinking, and secretly swallowed his saliva, years of military career made me cruel and murderous, and my temper was sometimes violent and perverse, from a beautiful young man with five lectures and four words, he picked up a butcher's knife and became a murderer, and sometimes the arrangement of fate is really ulterior.

Knowing that their lives were in danger, the captives immediately moved, they shouted in despair, and the Nijmegen soldiers who rushed into the guards tried to escape, but they were hit more mercilessly, and the grassy river beach instantly turned gray, becoming a bloody Shura field, at least more than half of the Carinthian captives, blood R fell at the feet of the Nijmegen soldiers carrying butcher knives, the corpses that were not yet dead twitched nervously, spit out a viscous Y body that was red to black, and then was trampled to pieces by the Nijmegen soldiers who advanced in full steps, The scavenging blood attracted scavengers, and many crows perched on the branches of the trees by the river, quacking and fighting for a place to stay.

The bull carried his tomahawk and led the soldiers forward step by step, slowly entering the captives into the water, desperate they could only go through the water, the swimming drifting in the stormy waves, but became the focus of the archers on the shore, the chaotic feather arrows went straight to the body, the water did not sink to let themselves sink, choked on the cold water in the stomach, a wave hit and there was no trace, the prisoner who hesitated to stay on the shore knelt in vain and begged for mercy, but was stabbed in the neck, and fell to the ground. In a few moments, hundreds of captives were left with nothing but broken blood and stained clear water, and the soldiers of Nijmegen were making the final confirmation one by one, and the Danube River next to it seemed to be wailing and crying, but they had to silently wash away the traces of human tragedy.

I stood up calmly and clapped my hands, took the reins from Rollo, and commanded the bull who stood with his hands down: "Gather the troops, let's go south instead of Neuburg, and try our luck in Augsburg, hoping to meet a lord loyal to my nephew there." ”

When the bull heard this, he frowned: "Didn't Lord Leonardo say that the little duke and his mother are taking refuge with the Count of Kelheim?" We should hurry up and join them, just cross the river around Neuburg, and go to Augsburg. Besides, it was too close to the Swabian border, and many local nobles were very dissatisfied with Nijmegen's control over the Duke of Hermann, and if they also contacted the Duke of Carinthia to deal with us, this little force fell into a trap and did not even have the strength to protect themselves. ”

"The Counts of Landsberg and Ersch-Friedeberg on the edge of Augsburg are both veteran nobles who value commitments, and although Duke Charles is a later feudal lord, they will definitely keep their oaths of allegiance, and I believe that it will become an important base for us to resist the invasion of Carinthia."

Stepping on the stirrups and turning over, I pulled the restless love under the crotch, and confidently made a victory gesture to the bull, my sister is a smart person, knowing that Count Kelheim is difficult to protect herself, it is impossible not to find another place to live, she knows very well the value of her son, and will not be careless, and wait for the good news after we settle down. ”

After saying that, I loosened the reins and urged the war horse to take the lead on the road, and the soldiers behind followed one after another, and traced the river to Augsburg.

As the most important vassal in western Bavaria, Count Henry of Augsburg has always been a respected nobleman, and many lords around him are only looking at him, and the strong walls in the territory at least show the attitude of Count Henry.

Augsburg stood firmly on the side of the little duke, vowing to fight the invaders to the end, as soon as we showed the distinctive dragon battle flag of Nijmegen, the defenders immediately understood the identity of the comer, and after a while, there was a strong horn sound at the head of the city, and the iron gate slowly rose, revealing the door D of Y Sen inside, and the energetic Count Henry led the team out to warmly welcome our arrival.

"Lord Duke, your arrival is really beyond my expectations, this is really a surprise from God!" Earl Henry was born in a side branch of the Carinthia family, and his gestures were full of aristocratic style, coupled with his well-proportioned figure and neatly trimmed short hair, which made him even more noble and elegant.

"This is my family affair and a moral responsibility, so Nijmegen has an unshirkable responsibility."

I stepped forward to hold Count Henry, who was about to salute, and walked ahead by his arm: "Earlier yesterday, we encountered a vicious Carinthian army outside Noi Castle, led by an unknown minor nobleman, and their target may be a nearby farmstead, but rest assured, the enemy has been completely annihilated, and I am now more worried about the safety of the little duke, the Carinthian power has reportedly extended to Kelheim, so we turned south and wanted to come to Augsburg first to find reinforcements, this time the matter is urgent, There were only a few hundred men with me in the early days, and the army was all in the country, and you know, the border from Luxembourg to Lorraine has been unstable lately, and there must be some people left to watch over the house. ”

Earl Henry angrily blew his thick and beautiful beard, and said in a rough voice: "Those restless and self-guarded rebels and thieves are always doing some obscene deeds, I really hope that God will punish them and restore peace and tranquility in the world!" He said as he gestured excitedly, almost rubbing me several times.

"How many people are on our side now?" Without waiting for him to continue to show his righteous indignation, I turned to my biggest concern.

"Landsberg, Starn, Verheim, Erding, and the entire Upper Bavarian vassals and counts all take a clear stand against the inheritance claimed by the Duke of Carinthia, but unfortunately everyone is fighting on their own, and there is no one who can convince the people to lead, I am afraid that it will inevitably be broken by the Carinthians, and your arrival is simply a relief in the snow, now you can find the backbone!"

Count Henry stroked his hands and laughed, and guided me into his castle.

Augsburg is a dangerous fortress built on a hill, overlooking the prosperous town at the foot of the mountain, where the two trade routes to Regensburg, the capital of Bavaria, and to Italy meet, as if the belt of the wallet is tightly tied to the wealth of the north and south, the huge stone walls are unattainable, in the era of cranes, it is really difficult to imagine how they could be carried to the mountain by manpower alone, the two towers in front and one behind are the residence of the counts and the fortress of annexation, and the tiger is on two paths up the mountain, It can also echo each other when attacked, forming a three-dimensional defense system, which makes people have to sigh at the ingenuity of the designer.

I sat down on the throne after repeated pushing, and the rest of the people sat down in order of status, and the chamberlains began to busily lay the prepared food on the table, and the hungry people rolled up their sleeves and tore and chewed hard without waiting for the meal to be served, and of course before the prayer of gratitude for the Lord's grace and the opening of the meal by the lord of the castle, Count Henry, but soon the noise of chirping, burping, and chopping ribs with daggers drowned out the whispers of me and the earl.

"We must immediately issue a condemnation condemning the invasion of the Duke of Carinthia, and calling on His Majesty the Emperor and His Holiness the Pope to uphold justice, and at the same time calling on the Bavarian nobles, who are not willing to submit to the enemy's might, to respond positively and join the coalition of armed resistance against the invaders."

As a great nobleman, I naturally would not deign to grab something to eat with others, and even if I didn't touch a bite of this meal, the sensible Earl Henry would order someone to make a more sumptuous one to send to my room, so it was better to hurry up and discuss countermeasures.

Count Henry held the flask and nodded: "My knights are absolutely obedient to your orders, Lord Duke, I have sworn to defend the legitimate rights of the feudal lord and his heirs, and now is the time for me to fulfill this sacred promise, and God the Knowing and Almighty will oversee it!" ”

I took up my glass approvingly and touched it with him, and with the corner of my eye I observed the bull in the crowd, and the latter was quite angry, and did not eat haeze without grace, and I took Count Henry's arm and approached him, and said:

"Do you see the knight over there who is as strong as a bear? He is my right-hand man, Baron Hrushbeck Bull, you must have heard his name, he is one of the most powerful warriors in the entire German Empire, I think he is a good young man, and I want to use this opportunity to make Nijmegen and Bavaria close together! ”

The Earl smiled approvingly, and without a moment of hesitation, he shook my hand, which was a sign of an agreement between the two sides:

"I have a young daughter named Hannah, but the flower of Augsburg, which I am proud of, has just reached the age of leaving the cabinet, and I have entrusted it to Baron Booth."

(End of chapter)