Chapter Seventy-Three: We Will Win
When the citizens of Limerick heard the merchant say this, there were at last some bold young men, who were already full of enthusiasm, and who were even more convinced of the words of the well-informed merchant, and when they heard the merchant's words, they immediately carried the merchant on their backs to the camp, and the hussars thought that these lads were local merchants, and did not hinder them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the Middle Ages, it was not very difficult to set up a camp, because there were always many small traders, prostitutes ~ women, or clowns used to amuse the army behind the marching army.
However, in the barracks of Count Don Jr., these people are not allowed to exist.
Because Count Xiao Tang clearly knows how important a pure army is, a pure army has pure attack power, and an army that must have merchants and prostitutes ~ women behind it to exert combat effectiveness will definitely not be the opponent of a strictly trained modern army.
Therefore, even if Count Xiao Tang chooses soldiers, he always chooses loyal and honest peasants - just like Qi Jiguang, he only chooses farmers from the deep mountains - instead of choosing elite soldiers from the mercenaries who come to him, and he also closes these soldiers in the barracks every day, preferring to use high-intensity training to make them weak and not let them have too much contact with the outside world, all in order to maintain the purity of the army.
Therefore, this is what these young people saw at that time.
"All of them, stand upright! Stand in a military position! Two hours! ”
"Yes, sir!"
The knight of Olcoba, who was the temporary instructor, shouted so loudly, and the soldiers shouted louder in reply, as if they were competing with whom—the soldiers had to shout louder, and whoever was not loud enough would be beaten.
Then there is standing in a military posture, motionless, that is, not allowed to speak or move, sweating and not wiping, the only thing the soldiers can move is their eyeballs, and it is said that it is two hours, in fact, it is to look at the sun, when the sun is at noon, when to stand in the military posture is over.
So this is what the young men saw when they came, a group of soldiers stood straight as if they were wooden men, and there was no sound in the whole camp, and it was almost suspected that they were all dummies, and even some young people had the audacity to stand in front of them to see the soldiers who were standing in a military posture, and these soldiers did not move.
"What are you doing?!"
The knight of Alcoba, who had returned from his rounds, saw these sneaky young men, and immediately shouted loudly, but because the knight at this time did not wear his chain mail or ride his horse, the young men did not recognize him and were not afraid of him.
"Uncle (Knights of Alcoba), we are citizens of Limerick, and we have come here to see the first strong army of Ireland under the leadership of the Earl of the Saint, but why are there all wooden men and soldiers here?"
A flamboyant young man said, in his words, he praised the little Earl Don, and said that the soldiers were the strongest army in Ireland, and indeed caught the cool point of the knight of Alcoba, so the knight's anger disappeared, and finally became pleasant.
"Alright, we're here, let's rest for a while."
The knight of Alcoba turned back and said to the soldiers, and in an instant, the whole camp seemed to come to life, and the soldiers who the young man thought were wooden people suddenly woke up, it was as if by magic, and the knight of Alcoba said the spell, and then the wood became a man.
"This ...... This...... It's incredible! ”
A young man was dumbfounded, dumbfounded, and said that everything was like a dream, and he couldn't believe it at all.
"Hey, buddy, you just watched me pretty good, didn't you?"
At this time, a soldier put his arm around the young man's neck, and then seemed to be very affectionate around him, but in fact he was threatening with great force.
"This ...... Dude, I don't know Taishan with eyes, you take care of it, take care of it. ”
The young man nodded hurriedly, cold sweat dripped down his head one by one, he still thought in his heart that this was an army conjured by magic, how could he dare to compete with a soldier conjured by magic?
All the soldiers who watched this scene were laughing, they almost wanted to put these young people to the ground with their bare hands, and now seeing these young people make a fool of themselves, it can be regarded as extinguishing the anger. The soldiers used to be ordinary and honest peasants, and what tricks could they come up with, and now they would be like a family with these young people.
The knight of Alcobar watched the scene of the soldiers and young men enjoying themselves, but he did not stop - why did he stop it, in the knight's opinion, Limerick will be the territory of the little Earl Don sooner or later, and it is much better to let the citizens accept their existence early than later.
So these young people spent noon in the barracks, and the army's lunches were very rich, generally with vegetables and meat, and sometimes soup, so these young people also enjoyed the most sumptuous meal in their lives. When these young men returned, they talked to the citizens of Limerick, and the citizens of Limerick looked at their bulging bellies and their oily hands, and immediately believed their statement, and even more people went to the barracks to eat and drink—they even forced the knights of Olcoba to have to limit the number of places every day, otherwise the daily training of the army would not be completed!
Of course, Count Don also knew these things, but he really didn't have the energy to care about these things now, and after a few days of struggle, and the persecution of many knights in his hands, and even Philip's priest, Count Don finally agreed to Archduke Mulchid's conditions, and recognized him as an uncle—an uncle, not a stepfather.
This is already the limit that Count Tang can accept, even if the knights under him force it, it is useless, and in terms of actual situation, there is no difference between uncle and father-in-law, right? Anyway, what is needed in the end is just a name, and no one cares what it is really called.
Although Count Don Jr.'s side is already chaotic enough, if we shift our eyes to Duke Eddard's side, we will find that he is even more chaotic.
As soon as the news of Duke Ed's defeat came back to Bijeforne, the entire dukedom was in chaos, Duke Ed usually did not pay attention to the people's livelihood and only paid attention to the military, and the peace in the territory was carried out by the deterrence of the army, and now the army was defeated, and it was defeated so cleanly, even the remnants of the defeated generals did not bring back one, and the hidden careerists immediately jumped out, they incited the peasants, robbed the manor and besieged the castle, Duke Eddard's plan to fight again in Bizhefone failed before it could even begin.
This is also the reason why Count Don is not in a hurry now, and has honestly lived in Archduke Mulchid for so many days - I was afraid that Duke Ed would make a comeback, but now that I look at it, let alone make a comeback, Duke Ed can already say that he has done his best to put down the rebellion.
And this is the case, a few days ago, Duke Ed was hoping that Count Tang would come later, so that he could organize more troops to fight back, but now he hoped that Count Tang would ...... tomorrow No, come now, or his last fortress, his castle, might be breached by the mob!
"When will the Earl of Donchester come?"
According to unreliable information (most of them from the castle servants), the above sentence has become the mantra of Archduke Eddard......
PS: There's one last chapter, and it's already started......