Chapter 196: The Final Farce 1
A small village in the middle of nowhere near Reims, once a peaceful place of seclusion, was now completely occupied by the Ingirs, whose inhabitants were either dead or slaves, and the peaceful village was now a military camp for slaughter.
"Damn, are you sure the little crown prince brought forward the coronation by a day?" Cole replied angrily to his men as he received the report.
"My lord, that's what the Roland soldiers we caught said, and those who went in all directions to inform them confirmed it in unison, do you need to torture them again yourself?" the sentry replied, and even raised his head not very respectfully to glance at the unpopular commander, behind whom there were many people talking about his incompetence and stupidity.
"it!" Cole kicked the summons servant over, pacing anxiously back and forth in place, muttering to himself, "Did they see through my plan and do it on purpose?" Or was it really the timid crown prince who was afraid of long nights and dreams and decided to change the date on the spur of the moment?"
Chesterton, who was on the side, watched coldly as his commander wandered around in place, and suddenly stood up and walked out.
"Where are you going, you are not allowed to act without my orders, don't you understand?" The plan was temporarily disrupted, and Cole vented his evil anger on his own people.
Chesterton, who had somehow escaped from Eddard's men, didn't pay any attention to him at all, and just said silently: "I'll go and prepare for the army." And he left the low cabin.
"Send troops, cursed bastards, let's send troops!" After much thought, Cole found that there was indeed only one way to go, and his series of bad performances after taking office made the army resentful of him. It's just that because of Ingillson's strict and cold military regulations, no one dares to question him face-to-face. But the matter of the military order was known to all knights, once the prescribed deadline was crossed. Let the other crown prince be crowned as the new King of Roland, then his good days will come to an end.
"A bunch of ungrateful things, without me you would have been buried with that old thing, I organized you, damn it!" Without the strategic wisdom of the military to advise him, the commander who had been temporarily propped up to the throne found himself unable to think of a way to turn the situation around.
"Wait, don't be afraid, the Roland people's grain and grass have been poisoned by themselves, and they will soon lose their combat effectiveness. Tomorrow, I just need to easily cut off the enemy's head, and when the time comes, I will put the heads of Ed, Deria, and Charles in a row, who will dare to disobey me?" Cole thought a little nervously, as if a one-sided massacre was about to begin.
Both sides were well prepared for the night, and the next day, the day of the birth of the new king of Roland, the remnants of more than three hundred Ingier knights with more than eight thousand servants set out for Reimstown, and the nimble knights brought with them bloated ordinary soldiers. It seems that Cole has decided that today is the time for a decisive battle.
"Here, signal!" On the hillside on either side of the entrance to Reims, several groups of sentry spouts lay on the ground, slowly moving backwards. Retreated from the top of the well-seen peak, and then signaled the town's lookouts with a flag in a place where the Inghirs could not see.
"General, I received a signal from the front. The enemy army was dispatched, and the total number was ...... Nearly 10,000 people. The soldiers on the watchtower reported. Eddard, who was standing below, glanced at Deria, a number that was slightly unexpected to them. It seems that the enemy has not been idle during this time, and in order to restrain himself, he has really gathered a group of not small soldiers.
It was very difficult to transport a large number of soldiers from the time of mobilization to the equipment and transportation by ship, which was surprising that Ed had never thought that he would face so many enemies.
"Maybe the Burgundians are doing it again. Ed thought of what had happened to him before, the Grand Duke of Burgundy sent ordinary soldiers in the territory to turn into mercenaries to assist the knights of Ingier, "This is not the first time, sooner or later they will have to suffer!"
"Let's act according to the plan!" Di Liya calmly ordered, but her expression darkened a lot, it was originally just a war between knights, and it was she who provoked the head and turned countless ordinary people into warriors.
Ed passed the orders down one by one, and then looked at the girl after he was done, patted her on the shoulder, and said: "Even without you, the war will not spare those ordinary people, the soldiers may only be tens of thousands, but the number of people poisoned by the war is far more than this, it is right to give them the strength to resist!"
"Well, I'm fine, you can go!" Delia is not as taboo as before to express a little more intimacy with Ed in front of everyone, and it feels good to have someone to comfort her in time when she is sad.
Ed walked out of the command room and rushed out of the town, he also has his own mission, the gunpowder formula that was previously prepared by the magician Mr. Gray did not fall silent with the departure of the other party, and the new formula after replacing it with the corresponding materials in this world according to the information in the engraving has been valued by the teenager, and he quietly ordered people to make it during this time, but most of the previous wars were sports wars and rarely used opportunities.
This time, around the natural location of the town of Reims, he had a lot of gunpowder transported to the mountains on both sides last night, combined with the plan calculated by his own field investigation and engraving, even if the slope of the mountain is not steep, he is sure to create a small-scale landslide to block the enemy's retreat in a short time.
"My lord, is this really okay?" Coming to the second gunpowder burial site, the soldiers in charge here asked uneasily, they really didn't have confidence, Ed himself is not an expert in explosives, but he has confidence in the engraving, in the world he came from, the use of explosives in military affairs is already very skilled, and the experience in digging mountains and other aspects is also full of abnormality, and the complex calculations of physics, dynamics and even geography only took less than a second to give him the best plan, Ed is now looking forward to the changes he has brought to the world.
"Don't worry, do what I taught you before, retreat in time, and be sure to hide yourself until then, just pay attention to the timing tips in the town. ”
After pacifying the soldiers, Ed returned to the town before the enemy arrived, and joined his cavalry, while the crown prince was also advised by Delia to move to a safe place, and finally, the Ingier captives, who had been at peace recently, were restrained by the Roland knights and sent underground to ensure that nothing was lost, and the next thing was to wait for the enemy to enter the center of the stage. (To be continued......)