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One is the courage of necessity, for the sake of money, for the sake of life, the courage of necessity; The second is innate courage, which is born fearless and courageous for what you want.

Magnus couldn't tell which one he was.

However, he thought that he should belong to the first type, after all, personally taking a sword to kill people, this was something that only existed in the imagination of teenagers in the past.

And the battlefield itself is not as heroic and passionate as he imagined.

Thankfully, though, the effect has finally come out.

Thanks to Magnus's desperate assistance - although Magnus personally went to the battlefield mostly to make trouble, and the Praetorian Guard had to send a few soldiers to protect him - but the lord personally went to the battlefield, it was the lord, it was His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Royal Highness the Prince personally went to the battlefield, so what are you afraid of?

At least you don't have to worry about being abandoned as cannon fodder, and you don't have to worry that your sacrifice is meaningless.

Therefore, the morale of the Praetorian Guards was immediately raised, and the soldiers who were originally tired or frightened to the point of numbness also felt that their bodies were as if they were full of strength again, and their vitality was infinite.

On the Duke of Brittany's side, once Magnus stabilized his position, then it seemed that he was quite precarious.

Because of the cavalry, his strongest and most powerful attack is the charge, and when the cavalry itself is mired in the quagmire, then the cavalry is equivalent to abolishing most of them.

Of course, I'm not saying that the cavalry is helpless when they are encircled. In terms of the degree of armor and the level of martial arts, the cavalry is all top-notch, even much stronger than Magnus's Praetorian Guard, even if it is one against two, with one against three, it is not a problem. But one thing should not be forgotten, and that is that the cavalry itself suffered heavy casualties.

Including the cavalry who ran straight into the rejected horse in the left front and was pierced through the heart, and the unlucky guy who was pierced in the heart by a spear when charging in the right front.

In terms of the degree of casualties, the cavalry was probably even worse than the Praetorian Guard, and the reason why they were able to continue to hold out without showing defeat was only because of their loyalty to the Duke of Brittany and the natural pride of the cavalry.

But two fists are hard to beat four hands, and a good man can't stand up to a pack of wolves.

The Duke of Brittany originally had 250 cavalrymen, but at the beginning he used it as a test to consume fifty, and then he suffered heavy losses repeatedly, and now he still has a hundred cavalry with enough combat power around him to be considered quite good. But Magnus, there are more than a hundred Praetorian Guards around him, and there are several times more mercenary cannon fodder.

If you drown a man, you can drown the Duke of Brittany.

What's more, Magnus also has the experienced veteran Odega in command on his side, specializing in the weakest place on the opposite side.

The Duke of Brittany had just been frightened by the sudden appearance of the rejection of the horse, and if he hadn't had grown a heart and run slowly, he would have died on the spot; The second is that he is also in the middle of the battlefield, so naturally he does not see clearly as Odega, and he is often beaten with no regard for the tail.

Seeing this situation, the Duke of Brittany had bad ideas.

In case you die - no, not just in case, if you lose, you really die! It is rumored that His Royal Highness the prince opposite him is from wild England! Unlike a 'civilized person' like himself, the other side is a thorough, hair-sucking barbarian!

In the matter of fighting, when the strength is evenly matched, it is a fight for courage, and whoever is weaker in momentum will lose the whole war.

And now, the Duke of Brittany has lost his courage first.

It will be the courage of the soldiers, for the generals to be weaker first, for the soldiers to be ten points weaker, and now the Duke of Brittany has just shown his timidity, and the cavalry over there noticed this, although the attitude of fighting in his hands has not changed, but he unconsciously put away a little bit of strength, in case he will escape.

"Damn ......"

These changes in his cavalry can be said to be well known to the Duke of Brittany, who watched them grow up, but he can't blame it.

After all, he was the one who first thought of escaping.

"But...... Even if they run away, they can't get better! ”

On second thought, the Duke of Brittany had another crooked idea.

In fact, it can't be regarded as a crooked idea, if you escape, someone must break it, and after this break, it is almost equivalent to death.

That's why it's even more valuable to die, don't kill one and earn one.

It's just that when the Duke of Brittany said this, he was rewarded with the indifferent gazes of the cavalry.

Although it has been said before, it must be repeated here that this is the spring of 1067, the middle of the Middle Ages, when there was no national consciousness at all.

These cavalrymen, why did they fight so hard for the Duke of Brittany?

For the so-called knightly glory? No kidding!

Those guys who cling to the glory of knighthood and don't let go have been extinct as early as the time of Charlemagne, and their bones don't know which wilderness to throw at for wild dogs to bite.

So for the sake of fiefdom?

This statement is a bit reliable, the fiefdom is its own, and fighting for its own things is far more practical than saying anything like glory and spirit.

But this was not the case with these cavalrymen.

The world flows, the country rises and falls, the king will become a slave, the farmer may become a nobleman, but only the knight, and only the knight's status will not change.

No matter which king is in power, he must rely on the strength of his knights.

This has also been proven in the course of history.

Therefore, these knights did not worry about the problem of fiefdoms at all, just like William the Conqueror conquered England, and only King Harold really came out to resist, because William only wanted to grab Harold's throne; As for the other nobles, anyway, the king still has to rely on us nobles to govern the country after all, since this is the case, what are we afraid of, which king is different!

The reason why these cavalrymen were willing to fight to the death for the Duke of Brittany was only to repay the Duke for his nurturing kindness.

The Duke is their reborn parents, so they are willing to sacrifice their lives for their parents.

However, when the parents plan to abandon the child and escape alone, this nurturing grace will come to an end.

And there is a kind of disillusioned despair in this, I thought that if I treat each other with sincerity and promise with my life, you can cherish me a little, but I didn't expect that in your eyes, I am just a cannon fodder who can be discarded at any time in a crisis.

Therefore, the Duke of Brittany will make a wrong decision, if he decides to fight to the death, then these cavalrymen may really fight to the last man; But now he intends to abandon the cavalry and flee alone, and if he is unkind, he will blame me for injustice.

Well, that's what I said, but after all, it's still more than ten years of love, and if you really want this group of cavalry to sell the duke, the first one who can't get over is the cavalry themselves.

So, despite their indifference, the cavalry obeyed the Duke's orders and sent about thirty men to stop Magnus's army, while the rest protected the Duke's retreat.

It's just that, although he was out of danger from the front of the soldiers, he was surrounded by the cold and piercing gaze of the cavalry, which made the duke feel a glow on his back......