Chapter 264: Sabre Rattling
Jenny's army was like a divine help, she only used a mere 7,000 troops to directly penetrate the huge camp of the Welsh and Irish coalition forces, killing countless defeated troops along the way, and the results were extremely brilliant.
Jenny didn't bother to check her results, and without the slightest hesitation, she immediately led the whole army to rush and kill again.
This time the Welsh and Irish forces were no longer able to organize any effective resistance, and almost all of the enemy troops surrendered on their knees and raised their hands the moment they came into contact with Jenny, without the slightest desire to fight again.
"Baron Ferdinand, please lead the cavalry unit to catch up with the group of knights fleeing to the coast in front, they are likely to be the head of this group of coalition forces, maybe there is a duke, if I can capture them, I will definitely be able to fill in our original military merit book." Jenny turned her head to look at Baron Ferdinand beside her.
"Understood, my commander, I will hunt down all the nobles who have fled. But you, if you are not escorted by cavalry, I am really worried about your safety, and His Highness William has instructed me to ensure your safety no matter what. Baron Ferdinand lowered his posture, not in the slightest proud of his title being higher than Jeanne's, but rather taking Jeanne's head as the horse.
"You can rest assured that I will stay with my soldiers. Baron Ferdinand, please hurry up and pursue, or you won't be able to catch up. Jenny smiled and nodded in response.
"Then be careful, Knight Jenny."
Saying that, Baron Ferdinand turned his horse's head and shouted to the knights and cavalrymen beside him: "Knights, everyone, pursue forward, the target is the fleeing cavalry unit in front, where there is likely to be a high-ranking nobleman above the earl, as long as they are captured, everyone will be rewarded by His Royal Highness William." Kill!!! ”
"Oh!! Kill!!! ”
All the Norman cavalry howled excitedly, and they galloped on their horses, led by the three Baron Ferdinand and the Sauron brothers, and rushed as fast as they could towards the cavalry fleeing to the coast.
Seeing Baron Ferdinand leave, Jeanne joined with dozens of guards and six thousand infantry behind her.
Because there was no longer any organized army in the camp to resist, and there were frustrated routs everywhere, this time she had to do not crush the enemy army again, but to collect the rout prisoners and collect the spoils of war, which were all evidence of their exploits, and with these Jennies it was good to speak in front of William and the nobles.
Jeanne was fast, and Count Rodrigo was not slow, and when he saw that the coalition was routed by Jeanne's army, he immediately ordered a part of the cavalry to intercept the rout, while he himself led his army into the front of the camp.
While Count Rodrigo and his army collected the rout, prisoners, and booty, Jeanne's noble officers and soldiers were undoubtedly seen as a robbery of merit and spoils, while Count Rodrigo's soldiers were the opposite, believing that Jeanne's army was robbing them of their credit.
Contradictions piled up, and finally they couldn't hold back their anger, and soon got into a physical confrontation with Count Rodrigo's army.
Fortunately, both Jeanne and Rodrigo were very calm military commanders, and they were not affected by the emotional soldiers in the slightest.
The two men, who were aware of the conflict, did not hesitate in the slightest, and immediately led their respective guards to separate the soldiers who were scuffling together to avoid the escalation of the conflict.
"Count Rodrigo." Jenny smiled and greeted Rodrigo as if the conflict between the two sides had not existed.
"Knight Jenny, we have some contradictions, so I'm here to communicate with you.
Our army and the enemy coalition have been in confrontation for a long time, and they are about to be defeated by our army, and if it were not for us to attract the attention of the enemy army, you would not have been able to break through the enemy camp so easily, and I think you cannot deny the role of our army.
Knight Jenny, this time our army will have the lion's share of the spoils and prisoners, you don't have any opinion. Count Rodrigo said in a calm tone.
"It doesn't make sense, Count Rodrigo." Jenny shook her head and said in dismay.
Hearing Jenny's words, all the nobles on Rodrigo's side present glared angrily at Jenny and his army, and Jenny's side also fought back with their eyes, and the atmosphere on the field became tense again.
"Alright, don't get excited, guys, let's see what she has to say." Count Rodrigo instructed the nobles behind him, looked at Jenny and said:
"Jenny, do you have anything to say about your words? If we can't meet the demands of our army, the officers and men under my command will not agree. ”
"In this battle, our army burned down the city of Morlai, where the enemy coalition had stored supplies and grain, which directly shook the morale of the other side, and finally our army launched a charge and directly routed them. There is no doubt that our army is the victor in this battle and deserves to be duly rewarded, and it is our right to give priority to the selection of booty and prisoners. Jenny was simple-minded and didn't know any compromise in anything other than the military, so she didn't hesitate to go straight back.
"Knight Jeanne, I am the supreme commander on the battlefield of Brittany, even you should obey my command, I ask you to give up enough loot and prisoners at once." Count Rodrigo was not so temperamental that he almost pointed at Jenny's nose and scolded her for not knowing how thick she was.
Just when Jenny and Count Rodrigo were about to clash, Baron Ferdinand had already returned with his army, and a group of well-dressed nobles and knights behind them immediately attracted everyone's attention.
The sharp-eyed Count Rodrigo immediately recognized that the noble captives behind Baron Ferdinand were the most delicious fish, not the defeated soldiers and the spoils of war like broken copper and iron.
Routed captives that are useless other than mining, tattered swords that cannot be used, these things are completely incomparable in value to noble captives, as long as they can extort a ransom, they can get a generous ransom share, and even get an additional reward from His Royal Highness William.
"Knight Jenny, I will also share half of these noble captives." Count Rodrigo's eyes were full of heat as he looked at the nobles' captives, and he turned his head to look at Jenny and said.
"This can't be, they're all earned by the hard work of my soldiers, and I can't hand over any of them to you." Jeanne didn't give Count Rodrigo any affection, and still refused.
Baron Ferdinand, who was not far away, also sensed the tension between the two sides, and roamed between Jeanne and Count Rodrigo as peacemakers.