Leonardo was separated from me at Merano in Swabia, and from then on he would travel south as an envoy to the Duke of Nijmegen to Italy, passing through Venice, Pisa, ******, and Milan, and finally to Pavia, where the puppet king Aduin was located, and with his incorruptible tongue and extensive connections, he would persuade the city-states to side with Nijmegen, or at least remain neutral and not join the rebels.

If an agreement can be reached, Nijmegen will work to protect the autonomous status and commercial freedom they have gained after the civil war, and Leonardo will also use this trip to recruit volunteers and mercenaries for Nijmegen in many cities, raise the necessary supplies and forage for the war, and ensure the smooth flow of trade routes.

"Is this an early explosion of the civil war?"

The bull rode after me, eager to try his fists, fighting or something was his favorite sport, if it weren't for me digging such a talent, it was very doubtful how he could survive in the fields with a hoe in his hand.

"I can't see Carinthia's high-spirited doglegs for a long time, and it's great to have the opportunity to teach them a lesson!"

Anyone will like a subordinate like Bull, brave and good at fighting, honest and obedient, no other than loyal to the master, a typical vanguard!

I smiled and nodded: "Yes, no matter how you look at it, we have become the butterflies that fanned their wings in the rainforest, and the knock-on effect could be catastrophic, but this long-standing civil war will break out sooner or later, and it is just a change of fuse." ”

"Rainforest? Butterfly? Fuse? "The bull is as obedient as ever, and he misses the point, always struggling with new words that he hasn't heard.

"Don't care what you have."

I frowned nerve-wrackedly, and suddenly changed the subject: "Kohler didn't let him come out this time, after all, the newlywed Yan'er, staying at home and spending more time with his wife is the right thing to do, otherwise Serena should say that I'm not kind, do you have any thoughts about this?" For example, I hope to ......"

Before I finished speaking, the bull immediately shook his head like a rattle, and this time he understood the point accurately: "My lord, thank you for your kindness, but I don't want to start a family too early, and waste all my good youth in the gentle country of women, making children one after another, like a breeding boar, can only blow out the candle and be a hero between the beds, and you won't take me with you if you have such a thrilling adventure in the future!" ”

"What a bastard!"

I scolded him sharply, but my heart was so moved, the bull was worried about my safety, he wanted to guard the left and right: "You are going to get married sooner or later, and you also need an heir for your career, and a man who has a family is like a long-rooted aquatic weed, no matter the stormy waves, he will no longer drift far away, understand?" I will find you a suitable wife, and if you succeed in the conquest of Bavaria this time, marriage is necessary in order to strengthen your relations with the local lords, and you should have the consciousness to sacrifice your personal happiness for the sake of Nijmegen. ”

"I see, sir."

The bull, who knew that he could not escape the arranged marriage, replied in a sloppy manner, clamped the horse's belly and ran away, and a sentence floated from afar: "Isn't there still Hans?" With no trace of him for a moment, I stared in the direction in which he had disappeared and sighed helplessly.

The Danube, a golden waterway that was busy with shipping in later generations, and the Rhine River is known as the mother river of Europe, and at this moment it is rushing at my feet.

What is hateful is that there is no mobile phone camera, and Meijing can't take a selfie at the moment, so she can only order the whole army to stop and rest, and by the way, she will pretend to be a cultural person in Linyuan's poems, and also come to get on the horse to fight the crazy Hu, and get off the horse to scold Fang Xuan in the cursive military book.

"What clear water!"

I carefully stepped on the rotten wood that had fallen into the shallows, bent down and tasted the cool river water, and said with admiration, but before I could finish my emotions, I raised my eyes and saw the soldiers peeing in the river not far upstream, and vomited nauseously.

The bull stretched out his hand to dip it in the water, rubbed the mud marks on his boots that had dried, and pointed in the direction of the river and said: "Fifteen miles down the river is the castle of Noi, I don't know whether the lord there is friend or foe, the scouts have sent it, I believe that the news will be sent back soon." ”

I was busy spitting out the polluted dirty water in my mouth, and I didn't have time to confirm whether there was an enemy or a friend in the castle in front of me, the Danube in this era was wider than any river I had seen in my previous life, and even if I was crossed, I couldn't see the other side of the smoke, so this was an easy to defend and difficult to attack, Otto the Great once stopped and defeated the Magyar invasion in nearby Lechfeld, bringing peace to the Western Empire for a hundred years.

"It's a good flat battlefield here!"

The bull pinched his waist and looked around, sighing with emotion, anything can be related to murder in his eyes, and it is absolutely a failure to burn the piano and cook the crane.

"Stupid! If you want me to say that this is the perfect place for a picnic party, a group of men and women happily playing barbecue, not to mention how refreshing! ”

I closed my eyes and looked at the bikini beauties everywhere, grinning silly: "If there is another cold beer, tsk......"

Just as I continued to fantasize, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and the soldiers who were resting and cleaning by the river reflexively looked up, and two horses galloped out of the woods, and it was Nijmegen who sent scouts to scout, and the bull threw the reins of his horses to his attendants, and ran forward in three steps and two steps.

"My lord, there is an enemy!" The bull shouted at me as it walked slowly, and the soldiers on the side were shocked by the smell, and they all pricked up their ears sensitively.

"What kind of system is the panic, report it carefully."

I dragged him aside by the neck, deliberately said it loudly to the others, and then suppressed my voice and said, "Shouting and shouting messed up the morale of the army, don't you have a brain?" ”

The bull shrunk his neck weakly, and spat nervously: "The scout has come to report that Fort Neu has been occupied by the Carinthians, and an army has just been drawn from there, and it is coming in our direction, there are less than two hundred knights, and the rest are all poorly equipped peasants and mercenaries, and the number is only five hundred. ”

"They came out in such a hurry, it can't be our whereabouts, right?" I asked, confused, as I tightened the leggings on my boots.

"No way, the scouts have been scattered twenty miles away during the march, and no trace can escape our eyes, and the whereabouts of Nijmegen have been hidden so far to ensure the suddenness of the attack."

With a wave of his hand, the bull dismissed my speculation, pondered for a moment and put forward his opinion: "I think the enemy may have gone to a nearby castle to receive territory, or spread a sense of terror, such a force configuration is not capable of attacking the city, and they do not carry any heavy weapons at all, their main task should be to intimidate the Bavarian nobles who are still hesitant and resistant, and at the same time sack the village to cause chaos, so that the Duke of Carinthia can fish in troubled waters." ”

"It's a lot simpler."

I tightened my belt and patted the hem of the chain mail, and my eyes lit up with excitement: "Since I sent it to the door, let's take it all, didn't you just say that this is a flat and good battlefield?" Let go and fight and catch him off guard! ”

The army that received the order immediately moved into action, and this time there were not many infantry among the soldiers who came out in advance, almost all of them were mainly rebuilt cavalry, and there were also some horseback archers trained by Kohler, who were based on veterans of battle, supplemented by well-trained recruits, as many as 600 people, like war hammers forged with iron-clad cores, full of striking power.

Our original goal was not to fight the Carinthians, but to contact the Bavarian nobles who were unwilling to submit, to support the eldest nephew Otto and the Duke of Carinthia, and to seek an opportunity to settle the battle in their consternation and panic.

The Carinthian army marched swaggering along the rugged path between the woods with the three lions on a yellow background, a symbol of the duke, and the slow and lazy look not like a high-spirited army, but like a caravan of chariots and horses escorting the birthday gang, the elongated procession was like a twisted earthworm, the first was the noble knights, the middle was surrounded by horseback attendants to protect the two carriages full of baggage, and finally the long peasant soldiers and the fancy-clad mercenaries pressed the formation.

The nobles in front of them untied the hood of the one-piece chain mail, tied the helmet around their necks, and dozed off with the bumps on the horse's back.

I hid in the woods and watched from afar, my fingers nervously tapping on the saddle, and I watched as the enemy knights, slowly passing the soldiers in ambush on either side of Nijmegen, immediately drew their bowstrings and shot their specially made arrows into the air.

"Squeak......

With a terrible sound, the Nejmegen archers in the back row suddenly stood up in camouflage made of branches, aiming at the knights' war horses and firing fiercely, at the same time the soldiers in the front row shouted and rushed out, and before the Carinthia knights who fell off their horses stood up, they slammed their heads and faces with all kinds of weapons, and the forest was instantly filled with painful screams and the pungent smell of blood, and the frightened birds fluttered their wings and scurried around, and the enemy's rear team was in chaos.

"In the past, not a single one can be spared!"

I jumped over with my feet hooked in the stirrups, mounted my horse steadily, beckoned a group of men and horses to follow me, and then turned back to the bull and shouted, "Take the infantry behind you and drive them to the river." ”

The Nijmegen cavalry rushed out with the flying dragon battle flag, and instantly cut off the connection between the enemy's front and rear teams, in fact, from the beginning of the battle, the Carinthian peasants behind had completely collapsed, and they were running away like flies, and the mercenary team saw that the situation was not good, and they also wanted to run away with oil on the soles of their feet, but they were copied by the cavalry led by the bull and had to be dragged to the river by the panicked peasants.

Few of the Carinthian knights who gave up their baggage were still on horseback, because that would undoubtedly become the target of archers' attention, so close armor-piercing arrows could easily tear through the weak protection of the chain mail, giving up riding was the only option to save their lives, most of them were seriously wounded, and all who could move staggered for their lives, and the soldiers of Nijmegen who had risen up pressed over in a semicircular encirclement, forcing the enemy to retreat to the river beach not far from the forest path, where the view was open and the terrain was flat, which was suitable for slaughterhouse.

The Carinthians, who had no way out, were in despair, and all those who tried to flee were shot by the archers, and the knights, seeing that there was no way back, finally summoned up their little aristocratic spirit, shouted to give themselves courage, and turned in vain and rushed into the jungle of guns and halberds of the soldiers of Nijmegen, slashing and stabbing with brute force, and then one after another died miserably.

In just a few breaths, there was no more enemy to resist, the knights and their attendants were all killed, realizing their dream of a horse leather shroud, the frightened peasants and the mercenaries who saw the wind to make the rudder surrender to survive fell to their knees and trembled, Nijmegen fought a perfect battle of annihilation, annihilating 200 knights and some foot soldiers, and only losing about 40 of his own men, such a battle damage can be described as beautiful.

(End of chapter)

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