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To the people of Desmond, such a term seems to have not appeared for many years - and indeed it has not appeared for nearly three years, since the Grand Duke of the Little Tang established a standing army and turned all the conscripted peasant soldiers into professional soldiers, the war was cut off from the ordinary peasants.

But this time, things are completely different.

The light cavalry, galloping on the straight like the wind on fast horses, with the will of the little Tang Grand Duke, scattered to every village in every town, gathered all the villagers, and then took away all the adult men who were healthy enough to fight in their families or weeping or blessings.

Each of these men will receive a steel knife and a wooden shield, which is already the best equipment that the Duke of Xiao Tang can provide, the leather armor is not enough at all, as for the iron armor, with the physical fitness of these peasants, put on the iron armor without the enemy attacking, they will be out of breath first, and it is better to surrender directly if they are tired and tired.

When they were done with their equipment, the men were taken to the clearing outside Cork, the traces left by the time the Swamp was filled in, large enough for everyone to train together. Here, heavily armed and whip-wielding knights have been waiting for a long time, and they will use their leather boots and whips to show the peasants how to kill more efficiently!

Yes, not training for discipline, not training for skill, training is only for killing, the knights taught only one trick of chopping, and it was enough for the conscripted peasant soldiers to practice this trick chop.

That's how the knights roared at the peasant conscripts: "You pigs, waste! Do you want to die, or do you want to live? If you want to die, I can send you to die now, but if you want to live, then give me a good practice, until I can't lift my hands and feet! Remember, killing one is enough, killing two earns one, there is someone to accompany you on the road to hell, and you are not alone when you die! ”

That's pretty much it...... The above is a conscripted peasant soldier who has no experience and can only be used as cannon fodder, and it is much easier to deal with the standing army and the town guard, and they have already assembled with just one order.

However, if the above is only Xiao Tang's own preparations, and the mobilization is only his own strength, then the performance of the merchants next is enough to surprise him.

Those who have money will contribute money, those who have power will contribute, those who have no money and no strength will contribute themselves, and those who don't even have people will contribute themselves, acting as a bridge between Klein and businessmen, and dispatching in the middle. Suffice it to say, the merchants who remained in Cork contributed almost everything related to the war, iron, swords, bows, armor, and even three pots of Greek heavenly fire!

However, don't think that these businessmen are fools.

If it is really a pirate attack, it is better to say that the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang will win, and he will definitely not be able to keep his goods if he loses, so it is better to contribute first and form a good fate. Besides, the Duke of Xiao Tang is fair, and his reputation has always been very good, and now that he has given him benefits, he will definitely pay it back in the future, and he doesn't have to worry about losing money - besides, these businessmen really didn't expect the Duke of Xiao Tang to lose.

Many of these businessmen have personally watched how the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang defeated the strong enemy step by step, and was promoted from a small earl to the Grand Duke, and the impression of invincibility was almost engraved directly in their minds, coupled with this emergency mobilization, in less than five days, the command of the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang had already gathered a thousand standing troops, eight hundred town guards, and three thousand conscripted peasant soldiers!

With such unheard-of mobilization, such a high-spirited morale, and such a wise and powerful commander, you tell me how to lose?

Confidence is good, but blind confidence is arrogance......

In any case, as the mysterious fleet approached step by step, the atmosphere in Cork City became more and more tense, and the training of the soldiers became more and more difficult, and they were often so tired that they couldn't get up.

"Has the other party stopped advancing?"

In the lord's hall in Cork City, the little Tang Grand Duke asked Count Olcoba, who was also puzzled, in surprise, but Count Olcoba couldn't explain, he only knew it after receiving the report of the messenger. Fortunately, the awkward silence didn't last long, and soon a new messenger came in to report.

"Report! A small boat was sent on the opposite side, with about eleven or two men on board, and stopped at a distance of five nautical miles from Cork City, and no one was allowed to approach. But one of the other party seems to be the leader who wants to talk to you by name, and according to the judgment of the people present, the appearance of that leader is very similar to the Olaf patriarch......"

Eighty percent of them look similar to Olaf Patriarch?

The Grand Duke of Xiao Tang and the Count of Olcoba glanced at each other, and at the same time had a judgment in their hearts, this must be the Olaf patriarch who did not run away, as for the similarity of eighty percent, this is normal, it is strange that he has been sleeping and wandering on the sea for more than half a year, and his appearance has not changed at all.

"What the hell is this Olaf doing?"

Grand Duke Xiao Tang scolded with a smile, since he was sure that he was the Olaf patriarch, his vigilance was lowered a little, but he couldn't be careless.

"Your Excellency, don't be careless, I think there must be something strange about this matter." Sure enough, as soon as the words of the little Tang Grand Duke fell, Count Olcoba had already begun to advise: "If this is really Olaf Patriarch good, then why doesn't he come back directly?" Now he chooses to meet us at sea, either because he has no choice but to do so, or because he has a conspiracy of invisible people, and we can't relax in any way. Besides......"

Besides, as knights, we have spent our whole lives on the earth, and when we get on the boat, we are no different from ordinary farmers, we can vomit to prostration just by spitting, and we have no combat effectiveness at all.

This is the subtext that Count Alcoba did not say, as a knight, he naturally wants to leave a little face for the knight, but when it comes to this, the little Tang Grand Duke also knows it, fortunately, he already has a solution.

"It's easy to do, each of us has two well-wound crossbows on our bodies, and the soldiers rowing for us don't want Vikings, just choose our local fishermen, so that the firepower and safety are not bad, and in addition, we can arrange for other boats to meet not far behind, if there is a real fight, we will not suffer in any case."

"This ...... Well, follow your orders. ”

What the little Duke Tang said was so orderly and convincing that Count Olcoba thought for a long time and failed to say the slightest objection, and finally could only reluctantly agree.

Shake, very shake.

The boat that the little Tang Grand Duke sat on was not a big ship specially used for long-distance sailing, it was an ordinary small fishing boat, which was not as good as a small sampan compared to the vast sea.

Without him, he can't even stand on his feet, what else is he fighting.

"Lord Duke, let's stop, it's only a stone's throw away from each other......"

Count Olcoba, who had been estimating the distance, said, but because the sea was so vast that there was nothing to compare with at sea level, there was actually an error in his distance, and now it was not a stone's throw away, but half an arrow's away......

"Be careful, Grand Duke!"

Before the earl's words were finished, another sharp-eyed knight roared, and without saying a word, he threw the little Tang Duke to the bottom of the boat, and there is no doubt that the knight must have done this because of his loyalty to the little Tang prince, otherwise he would not have sacrificed himself to block the arrows for him - but this ship is so big, you almost overturned the boat just now and killed a boatload of people, did you build it?

To get back to the point, just now the knight was to block arrows for the little Tang Grand Duke - it is not appropriate to say that arrows are not appropriate, to be precise, it should be to block javelins, which the Vikings are best at using, pointing to where to hit javelins.

The situation at that time should be like this: Seeing that the boat of the little Tang Grand Duke was getting closer and closer, Patriarch Olaf was anxious at that time, but now he didn't even dare to speak, and in a flash of inspiration, he picked up the javelin beside him and threw it to a place twenty paces away from the boat, which means that you can't go any further.

"What's going on? Patriarch Olaf captured? But it doesn't look like it. ”

Breaking free from the knight who was still pressing on his body, the little Tang Grand Duke stood up and asked in wonder, the javelin just now obviously didn't mean to hurt him, otherwise it would be better to put a round of cold arrows than to throw a javelin. But if it is said that the Olaf patriarch was captured, he threw this javelin but the opposite side did not say anything at all, and even the little Tang Grand Duke could easily detect that the opposite side was respected by the Olaf patriarch, in this way, the little Tang Grand Duke was really inexplicable, and he couldn't guess it!

Xiao Tang Dacheng wondered, and the Olaf patriarch on the opposite side made another move. I saw him raise both hands, one hand holding a clay pot, the other hand holding parchment, and then in front of everyone, stuffed the parchment into the clay pot, wrapped the clay pot with linen, and threw it into the sea with all of a sudden, and slowly floated down the water towards the little Tang Grand Duke.

It wasn't enough to throw one, the Olaf patriarch threw five or six in a row before stopping, and then pointed to the clay pots that were drifting on the sea, and gestured to the little Tang Grand Duke to pick them up.

Xiao Tang naturally nodded, although it was still a little inexplicable, but there was no explosives in this era, and there was no need to worry about whether there was fraud, and it was the parchment paper that was put in front of him, and there must be important information on those papers.

Seeing that the little Tang Grand Duke nodded, Olaf Patriarch seemed to let go of his heart, and without saying a word, he commanded the crew to turn around and return to the huge fleet, leaving only the little Tang Grand Duke and his party, who didn't know what was going on, stared at the little Tang and his party, ready to fish for canned food.

So, this meeting, which no one could figure out, started so suddenly, and ended abruptly.