King’s Kingdom

When the hussars from the prairie were investigating the enemy's situation, the rebels also noticed their traces, so the news that Theodosius had arrived near Fort Potter with his army naturally spread.

In the humble barracks outside Fort Porter, the regular army, peasants, and a small number of mercenaries all gathered here. The indescribable stench permeates it, and the chaotic scene is like a vegetable market. barracks.

The large number of peasants and soldiers not only did not occupy a lot of space, but instead huddled in the corner of the camp and looked at the mighty regular army around them with fearful eyes. In their eyes, these fully-armed professional soldiers were irresistible people.

They are different from the commoners of the Rhine Kingdom. Since the collapse of the centralized system, the people of various places have fallen into the hands of the local nobles and become their private property under their rule.

They don't have the same consciousness as the Lanyin Kingdom. In the teachings of the God of War sect, it is absolutely taboo to knock the weak and **** the marrow. Therefore, the nobles who believe in the God of War sect do not like to oppress the commoners.

In addition, the divided territories have also lost the production model of cluster sowing and harvesting under the unified power, which has led to a decline in productivity. Although the output is still not low under the blessing of the **** of agriculture, it has fallen to Bilan. The bitter cold land of Yin Kingdom is still very few.

The nobles long for a luxurious life, but their small territory cannot produce the wealth that satisfies their desires. In addition, the supervision of corruption and tyranny when the empire was unified in the past completely failed, and they let themselves go even further.

Now farmers have nearly 300 kilograms of yield per mu, but the agricultural tax collected every year is as high as 90%. That is to say, farmers who plant ten acres of land have nearly 3,000 kilograms of grain income each year, but only 300 are left. Kilogram.

Under such brutal exploitation, how could the farmers, like the inhabitants of the Rhine Kingdom, be well-fed and able to carry out some military training, they need to spend all their energy just to fill their stomachs.

After the lords' orders were conveyed to the camp, there was a lot of flurry. It took more than two hours for these soldiers and peasants to find their own system and assemble.

Under the leadership of their respective lords, this large-scale coalition army slowly moved towards the north. Although they did not know where the Lan Yin army was at present, the other party came from the north, so it was right to go north. .

Their choice was not wrong. In the afternoon, the two armies collided.

The hussars from the Lanyin Kingdom were the first to spot the enemy army ten kilometers away, and when the other party saw the hussars from the prairie, they naturally understood that their titular king was not far away.

"Your Majesty, their number is far more than we think, there are at least two bowls of people, and this may not be the exact number!" The hussars under Critidos reported everything they saw to Theodore WEAT.

This suddenly made Theodosius' expression ugly, and the messengers of the central empire and the messengers of the northern empire, who had been chatting with him like a follower, suddenly became dumbfounded.

After hearing such news, the eyes of the two people suddenly drifted away.

"Respected King Lanyin, I think this war against rebellion is sacred and great, and the army of the Kingdom of Lanyin should undertake such a heavy task of conquering ministers. It is inevitable that our (middle) Hilkati Empire will be involved in it. No criticism, why don't we just wait here for good news, and wait for your victory to come back!"

The conscientious actions of the envoys from the central empire immediately resonated with the envoys from the northern empire, and he hurriedly said, "Me too!"

When Theodosius heard the words, he gave them a cold look, and nodded without saying a word, as if he agreed with them.

Although it was obvious that these two people represented their respective countries to help in the war, Theodosius never expected them to do anything, so what could the dozens of knights do?

In fact, there are many things that can be done. After all, it is the top combat power of human beings.

But they were unwilling to cooperate, so what could Theodosius do? You can only rely on yourself in this matter.

"It's good or bad..." Theodosius weighed the pros and cons in his heart.

Although the number of these rebels united is huge, which puts the risk of defeat in this war, but it also makes the process of suppressing the rebellion much simpler. , maybe a year or two has passed.

A strong castle is not something that can be conquered casually. The easy way to break the castle before was just a fluke. It was the guns that destroyed the morale of the defenders. Otherwise, if the two sides really faced each other, Theodosius estimated one or two It is difficult to break the city within a month.

"Let's fight, there are only 20,000 to 30,000 people, most of them must be peasants and soldiers, and the quality is definitely not comparable to the full regular army of the Rhine Kingdom army!" Theodosius thought.

If the tens of thousands of people are really regular troops, let’s not say that Theodosius doesn’t believe it, there is no need to fight at all. A few dozen nobles can assemble a professional regular army of tens of thousands of people, whoever comes is possible. Believe.

Theodosius immediately ordered the army to cancel the marching formation, and instead formed battle formations one by one, arranging the soldiers into multiple zigzag arrays according to a certain width of the front, and at the end of the team were 800 archers.

Fortunately, ~www.wuxiahere.com~ this land is a huge plain, without dense forests and uneven mountains, which can allow him to completely lay out his battle and deploy enough troops at the same time.

Two hundred light cavalrymen in chain and leather armor, equipped with spears, swords and shields trotted on the right flank of the formation. Behind the infantry phalanx on the right flank were the soldiers of the Varangian Guard. Two-handed sword, wearing heavy armor ready to charge at any time.

As for the left flank, there were 150 Rhine Knights and 20 Iron Armor Paladins, and the other ten Iron Armor Paladins were beside Theodosius to protect him.

Maintaining such a formation, Theodosius just let the army advance slowly, and after walking less than a kilometer, he stopped the army, because it was a little high here, so it could form a slight condescending attitude.

As for taking the initiative to find the enemy for a decisive battle? That was not something Theodosius had to consider. The steppe hussars had never stopped investigating the enemy's movements, and he knew very well that they were looking for their main force for a decisive battle.

If you can relax and wait for work, why not do such a thing? At the end of the day, it's not bad to let the prairie hussars lead them.

Theodosius ordered the soldiers to rest in place. About two hours later, the steppe hussars came to report that a large rebel force had appeared two kilometers away, and the entire army was instantly reactivated under Theodosius' mobilization. It got up like a war machine, and it clacked loudly.

Half an hour later, I heard a chaotic sound, the sound of hooves and steel colliding, and a dark army appeared on the horizon.

However, when the whole picture of them was shown in front of Theodosius, he suddenly took a breath.

"This Nima has more than 20,000 people?!"