Black Iron Crown

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Tillihan entered the imperial capital, hurried to Teska Palace, and met Rainer.

"You mean, there are other helpers in the Kingdom of Bookern?" Reiner frowned and suddenly got up and asked.

"I'm afraid it was Your Majesty. Those people made me set off the Sarandes in the desert, and their cavalry were even more fierce in battle than the Sarandes!" Tillihan nodded and said.

Leiner wandered back and forth on the spot with his hands behind his back, where did these unidentified cavalry come from, and would they pose too much threat to him?

More importantly, if this group of cavalry chooses to help the Kingdom of Bukeden, then the enemy army that Leiner will face will be even more difficult to deal with.

Before knowing about these cavalrymen, Leiner was quite confident. He didn't even think that there would be any accidents in this war.

But when he knew that there were cavalry in the camp of the Kingdom of Bukeden, that relaxed feeling disappeared in an instant.

The current Kingdom of Bookern is definitely more difficult to deal with than before. The cavalry may not be able to completely crush the larger number of infantry tactically, but it has an absolute advantage strategically.

When Buckden had no cavalry, Leiner could use the power of the cavalry to play with the opponent in the applause, simply let the infantry go up, and then the cavalry attacked from the back.

Reiner has used this kind of tactic more than once, and it is already a very large number. This kind of hammer-and-anvil tactic learned from Alexander the Great has been tried and tested in his hands.

However, when the enemy has a sufficient number of powerful cavalry, this tactic loses its original powerful effect, and the combat mode has to be brought back to the frontal battle on both sides.

Tillihan looked at Reiner, who was a little restless, and didn't know what to do.

After a while, Reiner regained his confident look again, and then said to Tilihan: "I understand, I want you to continue to investigate the enemy, and they must report to me if they have any abnormalities. It is up to you to notify the prairie lord!"

After Tillihan left, Reiner began to ponder in the study. He couldn't figure out what it meant that the Kingdom of Bookern suddenly had foreign aid.

If you want to know all this, you have to wait until Tillihan has found enough information before you can learn.

But Lena is not idle, and the lion fights the rabbit to do his best, so he began to issue a series of orders to send to the north. Those cities, towns, or some castles in the north have already been put under his rule. Among them, where the original garrisons and guards have not been disbanded, now is the best time to use them.

In the end, Leiner was still worried about accidents. Originally, he didn't want to use the guards and garrisons in these places, because the composition of these people was relatively complicated and had not been cleaned, so they retained the original Organization and officer system.

Although the combat power was also preserved, it was not completely reliable in the final analysis. They recognized themselves as the emperor, but Leiner did not trust them.

Just like the current imperial capital, Reiner carried out a round of cleaning, but did not immediately promote more people who think you to keep it running. For him, the imperial capital is now a symbol, and he must overcome the immediate difficulties before he will The real crowned emperor here.

On the contrary, he must replace various important positions and official positions with the patience he trusts,

Some relatives of the various branches of the Moreland family, Reiner's own blood relatives, outstanding officials in the academy, and supporters of Reiner in the imperial capital, only these people can really gain his trust.

Those armies that remained in various places were actually not controlled by Leiner's own direct lineage. He didn't know whether these people surrendered verbally or sincerely.

As a former Chinese fart, he is very vigilant about military power. The army directly under his command is completely in his hands, and even Frante has no right to mobilize and order.

However, under such a situation where it is uncertain whether he can win, Leiner can only choose the lesser of two evils, and gather these troops that are not necessarily completely loyal to him.

After all, these armies add up to more than 6,000 people, which is definitely a huge force.

As for recruiting soldiers among the civilians to fight, Reiner never thought about it. Thirty years ago, recruiting civilians to join the army might have had a significant effect.

However, in the era of the old emperor Caffett, there were already elite farmers and professional troops coexisting, and many people even directly abandoned the army formed by the farmers with their own armed forces, and chose to spend more money to form a true army. Standing regular army.

In the past, because the empire's self-cultivating peasants were so brave, they were not inferior to the professional army in many cases, and the price of maintenance was not high, so they were favored by the old emperor.

However, with the development of the empire, the class of yeoman and squires became less and less, and many people were squeezed out by the nobles and went bankrupt. Later, the Kingdom of Bukden suppressed the squires and squires in the imperial capital. The class that shined in the hands of the former kings was smashed to pieces.

Now, if Leiner dares to recruit troops among civilians, one of the situations he will inevitably face is that the speed of food consumption will increase significantly.

If it's just like this, it's nothing. What's really scary is that once on the battlefield, these serf soldiers who have not experienced much training and the baptism of war will inevitably collapse at the touch of a button. disaster.

What Leiner still advocates is the policy of elite soldiers, which are as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, aggressive as fire, and immovable as a mountain. Leiner feels that the four characters of Fenglin and Huoshan are the treasures of military training.

Reiner's infantry has running training, which is as fast as the wind, and as slow as the forest. When marching, it is as orderly as a forest, which is also not a problem for the northern army that emphasizes discipline.

The aggression is like fire, and they may not be as fierce as those light and flexible so-called jumping soldiers when they are advancing in battle, but they are safe, and they can stand still in place even when they encounter shocks and sneak attacks. Move like a mountain.

In order to achieve this, Reiner spent nearly ten years cultivating this army, and even the shortest enlistment time among these soldiers still had a full two years.

Every one of them has seen blood killing people, which is not comparable to ordinary serf soldiers.

A day passed, and Tillihan and the other prairie lords had found out the composition of the troops of the Bukden Kingdom.

27,000 regular troops, including 4,000 pagan foot soldiers from afar, and more than 800 elite pagan cavalry.

After discovering all of this, Leiner immediately made preparations and led the army out of the city to a position 40 kilometers south of the imperial capital.

The entire surrounding area of ​​the imperial capital is a flat plain, which is just right for cavalry to fight, and Leiner intends to place the battlefield here.