"The length of the valley is about sixty li, and it is estimated that it will take four or five days for our troops to arrive in the valley and to arrive at the first city from the valley. If you force the march, maybe faster. ”

"The number of cities in the southern valley may be between 15 and 30, occupied by different lords, the number of lords is unknown, but it is certain that there are several great lords who are fighting, and the wolf smoke is everywhere."

Hua Mulan reported to Chu Tian the intelligence collected by the Iron Eagle Scouts, and basically completed the investigation of the situation in the southern valley.

It is not clear exactly how many cities there are and who the warring lords are.

Warhawks are not human, and reconnaissance intelligence is very limited.

While reporting, Mulan glared angrily at Catherine who was rubbing Chutian's shoulders, eager to kill her.

This shameless wave girl actually seduces her lord from time to time.

Chu Tian was also a little surprised by Catherine's changes in the past few days, but Chu Tian thought that the reason why Catherine took the initiative to curry favor with him was to let Chu Tian release her as soon as possible, so he didn't care much.

"The last general thinks that on the battlefield, the lord should not indulge in beauty."

Mulan took the initiative to admonish.

“……”

Chutian couldn't be wronged anymore, he didn't do anything, but Catherine took the initiative to please him, so she helped him rub his shoulders.

But does Mulan really understand what it means to be truly obsessed with beauty?

"What's wrong with indulging in beauty? Won't fighting a war solve a need? ”

Catherine deliberately provoked Mulan, and deliberately approached Chu Tian behind her back, her long wavy hair almost falling on Chu Tian's shoulders.

Hua Mulan finally couldn't help it, and the Tang knife was unsheathed by three inches.

"Okay, Mulan, you go out, and Catherine, you go out too."

Chu Tian couldn't help but have a headache when he saw that the two of them were full of gunpowder.

He said to Catherine: "Even if you deliberately curry favor with me, I will not release you as soon as possible in order to ensure that I can go south with peace of mind. ”

"Humph!"

Exasperated, Catherine turned away from the tent.

Mulan was also kicked out by Chutian, and she and Catherine glanced at each other, looking at each other unpleasantly.

Hua Mulan provoked: "If Sister Xia is here, she won't let you go." ”

Catherine confronted: "I really want to compete with her." Whoever she is, can she guarantee that she will look down on your lord? I, Catherine, want to get a man, and I will conquer him by force and make him submit! ”

Chu Tian drove away the two women who were tense, and he could finally think about the next strategy.

The space for development to the north has been blocked by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and there are Zhao Long and Huma in the east, and Chutian does not want to compete with them for the east.

There are 15-30 cities in the south, and Chu Tian estimates that after the end of the national war, he will not be able to occupy so many cities.

In other words, the southern valley is enough for Chutian to develop, and Chutian only needs to ensure that he gets the first place.

"Order the whole army, except for the troops left to defend the city, the rest of the main force will all go south."

After ensuring the safety of the rear, Chutian gave the order to cross the valley and reach the plain or basin south of the valley.

There are only a few thousand people left in Chutian's main force of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the high-level troops recruited in the battlefield of the national war have not yet been trained.

This time he led 8,000 Han troops, 30,000 servants, and 20,000 low-ranking infantry to transport grain.

After Mulan calmed down, she knew that she was angered by Catherine and offended the lord, so in order to curry favor with Chutian, she took the initiative to ask to be the vanguard and open the way for the army in front.

"In this national war, the servant army has contributed a lot."

Chu Tian's servant army had more captives from Southeast Asian countries.

After a day's march, the army arrived in the valley, and Mulan's cavalry took the lead in entering the valley to reconnoiter and prevent being ambushed.

Then Chutian's army followed, and the baggage team stretched for twenty miles.

In the plains south of the valley, the shouts of killing shook the earth, and the English longbowmen threw arrows and rained down, and thousands of peasant troops were shot!

The peasant army lacked armor and shields, was shot by the arrows of English archers, and there was hardly any fluke.

Edward's army of English longbowmen was merely mechanically bending their bows and arrows, and the iron arrows were crucifying the peasant army to the ground.

A peasant army general in charge of the command was shot by two arrows at the same time and was killed on the spot. The entire ground was almost completely covered with arrow feathers.

In the face of a heavy rain of arrows, the offensive of the peasant army was thwarted, fell backwards, trampled on each other, and hundreds more died at the feet of their own people.

The knights of the Teutonic Order were assembling at the front, and at the forefront were 120 knights in full armor, their armor covering their entire bodies, leaving only a few gaps, like iron cans, indestructible.

Even with a compound bow, it is difficult to shoot through the whole body armor.

This kind of armor is also very expensive.

The Teutonic Knights intended to launch a desperate heavy cavalry charge with 120 full-body armored knights under one banner, plus seven Teutonic knights in the rear.

The vast majority of Teutonic knights, armed with robes and chain mail, armed with spears and swords, galloped on horseback, with great momentum!

The black cross on their white robe brings death!

The temporarily recruited peasant army was powerless in the face of the heavy cavalry onslaught of the Teutonic Knights, and the defense line was easily breached!

The knight in full armor showed sharp eyes from the iron can, and the knight's sword in his hand easily slashed a soldier who broke into the king's camp!

"The soldiers of the East are nothing more than that."

The noble knights of Teutoni ran over the sea of peasant soldiers, and countless peasant armies were knocked down and slaughtered.

"The Teutonic Knights are a formidable opponent, I didn't expect them to be so rich that they could piece together nearly a thousand heavy cavalry, and among them there were knights in full armor."

The French lords were wary of the lords of the Holy Roman Empire.

Although they are now united, France and Germany do not have a good relationship in the Overworld, and the two sides are one of the strongest rivals in Europe.

"Let the Eastern civilization see the edge of our French knights!"

The Lord of France drew his knight's sword and ordered Joan of Arc to lead the knight in an attack.

The heavy horse's hooves trampled the soil, leaving conspicuous horseshoe prints, and the noble knights of France were not to be outdone and charged towards the Eastern Han peasant army opposite.

The three European lords each invested 30,000 troops, a total of 90,000 troops against the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Among the 90,000 people, the vast majority of them were low-level soldiers recruited on the battlefield of the national war, and the main force of the real battle was the knights and elite infantry, longbowmen, and crossbowmen they brought, and the number was less than 20,000.

However, even with less than 20,000 elites, combined with the rest of the low-level troops, the three European lords were confident that they would defeat Zhang Dao's army of 250,000!

As it turned out, they were indeed close to success, and the peasant army was so unharmed by the charging knights that it was difficult to break through the Teutonic knights' full body armor.

Zhang Dao looked at the defeated peasant army with a heavy face, and he was waiting for the knight to fall into the trap he had laid.

When the speed of the knights slowed down due to the sea of people, Zhang Dao ordered the sergeant to beat the drums, and he also activated his own characteristics!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The three-way drum sounded, and all the knights who were fighting on the battlefield felt that the Eastern Han peasant army was changing, and their morale was rising rapidly!

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!"

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!"

The eyes of the peasant army of the Eastern Han Dynasty were fanatical, chanting slogans and counterattacking in a big way!

Not only is it the characteristics of a "great sage and good teacher", Zhang Dao also has other characteristics that can motivate the peasant army and prompt the peasant army to burst out with strong combat effectiveness!

The increase in the combat effectiveness of the peasant army can only be maintained for a while, but it can be turned around!

The knights and soldiers who attacked the Eastern Han peasant army were counterattacked by the peasant army, and the number of casualties rose sharply.

Kill ten peasant troops, you can kill one knight, and you have already earned it!

A knight in full armor was pulled off his horse by the fanatical Yellow Turbans because his horse stopped, and what was waiting for him was a blunt weapon such as an iron axe or a giant hammer!

Although the full-body armor is difficult to break through, the impact of a blunt weapon is enough to seriously injure or kill the noble knight in the full-body armor!

Zhang Dao dared to start a war with the three European lords, and he had some confidence in himself, otherwise he would not easily let his army of 250,000 come to die.

The counterattack of more than 200,000 peasant troops was extremely fierce, with more than 100 knights and 1,000 infantry overwhelmed by the peasant army.

Edward, the Black Prince, was using a longbow to shoot the frenzied Eastern Han peasant army, but there were so many peasant troops that it was difficult for him to sweep away such a large number of peasant troops, even if his arms were numb.

The knights of the Teutonic Order fell into a siege.

The knight's sword in Joan of Arc's hand slashed, her wrist was also a little sore, and the peasant army with big swords and spears was surrounded by it, and it was difficult to destroy it all.

According to this trend, the legions of the three major European lords will be drowned in the vast sea of the peasant army of the Eastern Han Dynasty!

They underestimated the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty too much.

Although the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty in this national war were relatively scattered, each lord had strong combat effectiveness.

The Lian Po army withstood the siege of the anti-Eastern Han alliance for a month without trapping the city, while Zhang Dao tried to eat the three major European lords by himself!

"If I can defeat the three European lords at the same time, I will be famous all over the world."

Zhang Dao saw a large number of casualties among the legions of the three major European lords, and knew that the balance of war had tilted in his favor.

"For the sake of France, I will treat death as home!"

On the battlefield, something happened suddenly, and the first to launch a counterattack was Joan of Arc's French legion.

The morale of the French army rose sharply, and its momentum soared, overwhelming the peasant army on all sides, and all the French soldiers who were surrounded by the peasant army repelled the enemy and rallied to the battle flag!

Joan of Arc regrouped her army, gathered her forces, and launched an attack in the direction where Zhang Dao was!

"Help, guard, heal!"

When the French legions counterattacked, the Teutonic Knights used their hole cards at the same time, and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights personally went into battle, and the Teutonic Knights fell into a fanatical state of faith and rampaged through the peasant army!

The fierce counterattack of the medieval knights once again frustrated the peasant army of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Zhang Dao faced an unprecedented setback, and his mighty peasant army faced one defeat after another against the iron barrel of medieval knights.

Moreover, the fanatical state of the Eastern Han peasant army has a time limit, and the duration is shorter than that of regular knights, once the fanatical state of the Eastern Han peasant army disappears, the morale will decline and collapse in an instant.

"With my military strength alone, it is still not possible to single out the three major European lords after all. If it weren't for the fact that Lao Qin was entangled by the Roman legions, only two Eastern Han lords would have been able to defeat them in this battle. ”

"Retreat!"

Zhang Dao was unwilling to lose, but he had to admit the fact that he was defeated.

Defeat is not a big deal, he still has a chance. And this is the battlefield of the national war, not the Overworld.

The battle in the main world is the real battle, and the battlefield of the national war is just a rehearsal, or an opportunity to understand the arms and strengths of different civilizations.

Zhang Dao fought with the three major European lords, was defeated, and after losing tens of thousands of cannon fodder troops, he retreated.

The three major European lords were in hot pursuit, and Zhang Dao fought back, and Zhang Dao was defeated again because of powerful heroes and troops such as Joan of Arc and the Teutonic Knights.

The French army attacked one of Zhangdao's cities, and Zhangdao had only four cities left.

While the French legions were busy occupying the city, the Teutonic Knights continued to pursue Zhang Dao.

Zhang Dao set up an ambush on the way and killed thousands of Teutonic Knights, but the Teutonic Knights quietly retreated, not daring to continue to go deep alone.

The Legion of England and the Legion of France came to join the Teutonic Knights and march together.

Zhang Dao once again clashed with the three major European lords, the battle was unfavorable, and he retreated, and the Teutonic Knights attacked another city of Zhang Dao.

There are only three remaining cities in Zhangdao.

The three major European lords led the army to press forward step by step, and since they had made an enmity with Zhang Dao, they had to eliminate Zhang Dao's main force.

The English legion captured one city and beat Zhang Dao to only two cities.

The three lords had apparently agreed to divide the city of Zhangdao together, and one occupied one.

The fourth city is under the joint control of the three parties.

When Zhang Dao only had one city left, he was surrounded by the three major European lords, and Zhang Dao had no way to retreat.

It was a castle near a mountain, and there were enemy troops in three directions.

Zhang Dao hardened his head and led all the main forces out of the city. Although there was little hope, he could only give it a go.

……

"It's less than two miles from the valley!"

"Report! About thirty miles away, there are lords at war! ”

Mulan's cavalry came news from the front one after another.

"There are lords at war...... Cavalry troops assemble and march at full speed! ”

When Chu Tian heard the news, he was overjoyed.

No matter which civilization lord is fighting, Chu Tian can profit from it!

If the Eastern Han lord is at war with other lords, then you can rescue friendly forces.

If the warring parties are the lords of other civilizations, then Chu Tian can serve it in one pot!

Soon all the cavalry was assembled and ordered to rush to the battlefield where the battle was raging.

The cavalry unit was led by Xue Rengui, Zhao Yun, and Hua Xiong.

This cavalry consisted of a large number of servant cavalry, including Spanish knights, Turkic cavalry, Arab cavalry, and Korean cavalry......

Mulan's Iron Eagle Scout was left alone by Chu Tian.

Mulan was surprised: "Aren't we going to raid the enemy on the battlefield?" ”

"Leave the task of the raid to Xue Rengui, let's go to the back road and ambush, maybe we can catch a few famous European generals, wouldn't it be beautiful?"