Chapter 20: The Kingdom Rerises [12 part 60]
Something is wrongββ!
The number of the Tedles army was seriously underestimated by the British, not 10,000 but 20,000 and the strength of a full ten corps, and such a large number of legions had only reached the level of 10,000 men since the establishment of Great Britain three times, which was extremely rare in the sparsely populated and vast British Isles. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But this is the second time since King Arthur's reign that it has encountered a war of 10,000 people, and it is very unfortunate that Great Britain has been in a state of absolute disadvantage for two consecutive times.
Unwilling and fearful of the Duchy of Tedus, most of the nobles demanded an immediate retreat back to the royal capital.
The opponent has an absolute numerical advantage, and if the opponent attacks with all his might, it is likely to break up the British defensive line in one go. After all, there are only three corps of troops on the British side, and if you count the thousands of troops brought by Char, it can only reach four and a half corps.
The king's tent has been in a state of arguing for this time to deal with the invasion of the Tydes.
King Arthur insisted that there should be no escape, for morale and the honor of Great Britain were at stake. Retreating here without fighting a battle will definitely deal a major blow to your morale, which is a taboo among the taboos in terms of military knowledge. In ancient times, the soldiers and elders would rather cut off their own arms than lose their morale!
As the saying goes: sand soldiers on the battlefield, fight for people, fight for the ground, and fight for the situation is the best policy.
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Char sat beside King Arthur, looking at the noisy nobles in front of him with a bored expression.
Although Char was as cold as ice on the surface, in fact, he had already begun to calculate his chances of victory in this battle with all his might. Of course, Tedus's army was far more numerous than he had imagined, and even many British nobles were frightened enough by the number of 20,000 men and ten legions, but this little trick could not fool Draco at all. D. Char's eyes.
"Xia Yaqing, do you have any good methods?"
King Arthur was already tired after arguing with the nobles for a long time, but fortunately he threw the problem to Char on the side. Of course, this is not an irresponsible act of dumping the pot, but because of the belief that Char will inevitably have a way to solve this matter. In addition, King Arthur also had his own considerations.
Immediately, everyone's eyes were focused on Char, but most of them had distrustful looks in their eyes. In the eyes of these wine bags and rice bags, Char is at best a nobleman of the kingdom who occupies a good position and is still on the side of King Arthur, and from the position of both sides, there is already a clear enemy and us.
Although the army of the Pulon royal city brought a great shock to these nobles, no one still wanted to look at Char too much. The perennial decadent mentality makes them still adhere to the rules of bloodline continuity. In their eyes, Char is a wild man with nothing, but he was just used by King Arthur, who was in urgent need of talent on his side.
The nobles who had this idea looked at Char's gaze and naturally couldn't be called very friendly. However, Char looked at them with the same eyes as if he were looking at food. A group of miscellaneous people who are already dying have no idea that Char has decided to take action against the noble alliance, and once the decision is made and resolutely carried out, it is better for them to experience for themselves how terrible King Pullen is.
But the most important thing for now is to solve the crisis of the Tides War, so bear with this bunch of rubbish for now.
"King Arthur, if it's about the Tydes, there's no need to worry about it at all. Although they were very numerous, and claimed to have ten corps, they themselves should know how much water they had. β
Char gently rubbed his index finger against the tabletop, and said with a confident smile on the corner of his mouth that controlled everything: "In this era, wars are frequent, and refugee flows are frequent. I don't know how many of those 20,000 people were refugees who were unclothed and armed with wooden sticks to kill the enemy for a meal...... But I'm sure that with the population base and financial resources of the Principality of Tydes, the proportion of their regular army, even if it is elite, can be 30% high, and the rest is just a school of miscellaneous fish that will be swept away. β
"The most taboo thing to do in front of a station is to retreat without a single soldier, and the damage to the honor and morale of the country cannot be measured in money. Even if the enemy is several times larger than himself, he must not fight, which is the most basic pre-battle rule. What's more, we are at a disadvantage, so we need to gather courage and fight a beautiful victory in the first battle to boost our own morale and strike at the enemy's spirit, which is called taking the lead on the battlefield. β
"Preemptive?" King Arthur and the nobles collectively asked.
β............ Strike first. β
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Enough is enough! These buns of the British Isles are really fed up!
Char complained fiercely in his heart.
Char has his own confidence to ignore the 20,000 troops of the Tydes, and the biggest reliance is on the existence of long-range weapons and repeating crossbows in the D-word series. In addition, he has 1,000 heavily armed Changjian troops, 500 long-range archers, 600 elite archers and 500 engineers, although the number is not large, but as long as the combination is used properly, with Char's means, even if the enemy's entire army charges, it will not necessarily lose.
But the nobles did not have the great self-confidence of Char, and the biggest battle they experienced was only a melee of only two or three thousand men on both sides combined, which was already a large-scale battle in the British Isles, and they won enough to boast about it for a whole lifetime.
A large-scale melee of tens of thousands of people, which may not be encountered in a lifetime for most people, and it is such a terrifying disparity between friend and foe that it feels impossible to fight at all.
It's not that Char doesn't have so much ideas and knowledge, and they don't trust Char so much that they don't doubt King Arthur and the Twelve Guardian Knights, who almost think that when Char says that he will win, maybe they will start preparing for the celebration feast. And the former was completely frightened at this moment, and all he wanted was to withdraw his troops and hide in the royal capital.
It is not surprising that even King Arthur could not suppress the willingness of the nobles to withdraw their troops, how could a mere baron stop them?
The nobles were completely opposed to retreating after a battle with the enemy on the plains, which was what King Arthur had in mind. But Char's idea was to annihilate the enemy army directly on the spot, crush the Tedes army from the front with 6,000 people, and wave the army straight into the Principality of Tedes, completely annihilating the country that stabbed Great Britain in the back.
"Madman!You're a mentally ill Baron Pullen!!"
"It's ridiculous! God isn't as crazy as you! You're so arrogant!!"
"He's trying to lead us to hell!!We, the nobles, will never agree to this suicidal way of fighting!!"
The nobles shouted almost hysterically, and if it weren't for the fact that the military command was still in the hands of King Arthur at this time, it is estimated that they would have waved their sleeves and left.
"How do you tell who is a refugee!!"
"Yes, how do you know they can't even fill their stomachs!?
"You damn arrogant baron! you want to kill all of Great Britain!"
Because these nobles directly insulted Char, God knows how Bedwell desperately suppressed the urge of the twelve guardian knights to go up and chop those people alive. Of course, this has nothing to do with Char's order, and there is no need to give this order.
"Char, are you sure?" asked King Arthur.
"My troops have been monitoring the Tydes' forces for two days, and their troops don't have any wagons to transport heavy cargo, which shows that they don't have enough supplies and not enough logistical replenishment, which means that they don't plan to fight a protracted war, but rather take a ticket and leave. Char responded.
These days, he has been sending mobile troops along the road to reconnoiter the movements of the Tydes, and the birth of the telescope can observe the dynamics of the entire Teddes military camp in more detail, so many things are already very clear on Char's side, which is also where Char's confidence lies in saying that he will annihilate the enemy on the spot.
Of course, an ordinary small telescope carried with you can only observe at a distance of 100 meters at most. But the key point is that among the D-shaped long-range weapons in the King of Pullen, large telescopes are also one of the production scopes. With the requirement that only a roughly clear picture is required without pursuing accuracy, it can be made even with the technology of this era.
The result was a large telescope with a high tripod, codenamed "Claireye", which could reach a maximum viewing distance of 570 meters, but was large and the lenses were fragile. Therefore, it is generally necessary for a cavalryman to carry it around, and this kind of soldier is also called "clairvoyant".
"In addition, according to the members of the Tedes army observed by my troops, they are mainly refugees, and they are stationed in camps hundreds of meters away, but there are less than 100 places where the cooking smoke actually rises, which means that their food is very tight and may not be enough to maintain the normal operation of the army for a long time. β
As Char explained, he was suddenly violently interrupted and questioned by the nobles.
"You have observed these things from there, why do we have to believe everything you say! Tell you, Lao Tzu was also a person who went to the battlefield at the beginning, and the distance that human eyes can see is very limited, and in many cases they can't even trust their own eyes too much. Otherwise, you will wait to be slaughtered! A young baron dares to make a big deal here, you deserve to die!"
An old-looking nobleman pointed at Char's nose and scolded.
With a pop, the knight under the moon with a black face behind Char finally couldn't bear to draw his sword.
"βShut up, Count Donguith!"
"βStop, under the moon!"
Char and Artoria almost stopped their own people at the same time, and the two looked at each other tacitly after shouting.
However, it was too late at this time, and the noble alliance was already dissatisfied with King Arthur and Char, which was evident from the fact that they carried knightly guards with them, and they did not trust each other at all. And it just so happened that the outbreak of the knights under the moon at this time gave them the best reason.
The outburst of the guardian knights here immediately caused a reaction from the nobles' guard knights.
The sound of brushing rang out, and dozens of heavily armed guard knights and guard knights were pitted against each other. The gloomy king's tent was filled with the cold light of swords everywhere for a moment.
"Are you crazy, are you still planning to have infighting at this time?"
At this time, even King Arthur couldn't bear it, and in a rage, he smashed the table in front of him with a palm and stood up. And this was like a signal, and the knights of the round table behind King Arthur roared and drew their swords, slashing the entire royal tent out of the third force in one fell swoop.
"βput away your sword under the moon!" Char also ordered angrily, and now the whole thing was disrupted.
"O king, they are no longer the other party who can negotiate with words, and they dare to insult you three times or twice...... We, our meaning and dignity as the Twelve Guardian Knights, must be placed on that tombstone in order to be considered to rest in peace!!"
"Slaughter them and wash away Pullen's shame with blood!O king, I, the earth knights, are here to plead for us to tear the wretch to pieces!!"
The outbursts of the Earth Knight and the Moon Knight also resonated with the other Guardian Knights.
Cut, Char snorted. At this time, if there is a serious order, although the guardian knights will obey their orders, but this order is undoubtedly like helping the nobles to slap the face of the Pulon Royal City for Char. This...... It's nonsense!
Damn the aristocrats, they are so incomprehensibly pedantic and in the way! Char's eyes were red.
"The nobles are not allowed to mess around!are you going to offend the king's dignity with your sword here?!" Bediwell was even more enraged, and he shouted orders to the nobles' guards and knights in the hope of preventing the situation from escalating, but it was clear that Bediwell's prestige was not enough to sustain him from stopping everyone, and chaos still occurred.
As the most representative figure among the nobility, Count Don Keith waved his hand to stop the impending bloodshed.
But at this time, he was also not good-looking, because no one would have thought that the conflict between King Arthur and the nobles would break out at this critical moment. But there is no way back for both sides, and since the face has been torn, there is no need to continue to barely maintain some things.
Especially for King Arthur, whom they had already "abandoned......
"In this way, King Arthur, you have no interest in negotiating with our nobles from the beginning, and you actually stood on the side of a small noble baron and sneered at the older generation of high nobles. Are you still the king of Great Britain?!"
Behind the Earl of Tangis, a dozen knights of the Guards stood confronting King Arthur.
"The League of Nobles has gone through nearly a hundred years since the time of King Uther, and we are the meritorious men who followed King Uther to lay the foundation of the Kingdom of Great Britain bit by bit! Our blood is noble and loyal! But now it seems that King Arthur no longer needs the allegiance of our old ministers. Tangith said coldly.
Dunguith's aggressive tone gave the impression that he had made up his mind.
And King Arthur's expression, sensing this, became more serious and indifferent. She said with a grim countenance that she had never shown outside: "Count Tanghis, it is not up to you to decide whether Great Britain needs the existence of high nobles. It is up to me, the King of Great Britain, to give the affirmation. Again, I say it is the right thing to sit down calmly and have a good talk, and then work together to come up with a solution to the current crisis. β
Heh, Don Keith snorted abruptly, his gloomy eyes staring at King Arthur as if he were a three-year-old child. He replied in a mocking tone: "The solution? Isn't all this clear enough, 8,000 against 20,000 is a desperate situation." Moreover, the other party deliberately chose the plain area, and their forces could be fully utilized. We have no choice but to retreat to the royal capital!"
King Arthur: "That kind of thing is not up to you to decide, it is our ...... to uphold the belief in victory and the values of defending our country and our country"
Tanghis: "It's not up to us loyal nobles to decide, is it up to the sinner who disappeared without a trace after openly humiliating the alliance of nobles two years ago!? The miracle of fighting the Phrysians will not happen a second time! And after all, if the son of the Grand Duke of Bakr had not come to his aid, I am afraid that he would have been defeated and fled!"
King Arthur said no more, but stared at Dunghis for a moment with a cold look in his eyes.
Under the forced gaze of the enraged King Arthur, Tangith suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Anyway, in short, our noble alliance will not do anything to find death. We demand that the temporary autonomy of the Noble Alliance be used to return to the royal capital. Fighting head-on with a 20,000-strong army in the field is simply looking for death! No one can walk down that battlefield alive, and even King Yusher will not be able to win in the face of such a huge gap!"
Don Keith shouted that he had decided to take his men and hide back in the royal capital, or simply leave Great Britain to join the monarchs of other countries. Anyway, as long as the agreement of the noble alliance still exists, other countries will not deny their nobility and original territory, but the tax needs to be transferred and an extra part of it is paid.
King Arthur said in a dark voice, "I'll say it again...... The military command on the battlefield belongs to the king, and you nobles have no right to disobey the king's orders and military orders on the spot. Unless, you want to be stripped of your noble titles and territories by me in the name of treason and collaborating with the enemy!"
Char looked at the conversation between the two in the field, and he knew that this conversation had broken down.
It is unlikely that the members of the League of Nobles will really die for King Arthur, not to mention that they have fundamentally "abandoned" King Arthur and tied up with Archduke Bakr.
If you continue on this topic, all you get is a group of unwilling nobles. And, most importantly, if they are left behind, they may also have an impact on the Pullen Legion who are fighting for the first time. In addition, the number of their troops is not very large, and most of them are third-rate troops, which are not worth mentioning at all.
β...... Forget it, King Arthur. Char said suddenly.
"Why?" asked King Arthur, looking at Char suspiciously.
"These guys can't stand the fight anymore, and even if you force them to follow you into battle, it's just to make yourself uncomfortable. They will not fight to the death, nor will they follow your orders smoothly. The last bit of bond between you and the Noble Alliance has been ...... Just cut off. β
King Arthur was shocked when he heard this.
She subconsciously looked around.
The nobles stood together, surrounded by the knights of the clan, each armed with swords and weapons, looking ahead with nervous expressions on their faces.
The Guardian Knights and the Knights of the Round Table were also heavily armed, each holding a magnificent blade aimed at everyone on all three sides.
This scene made it clear to everyone.
There was a complete break between King Arthur and the noble alliance.