Movie World I Am A King

Tours is the largest city adjacent to the Principality of Brittany. It is an important military site, and here—the castles are full of people...

Especially next to the city, on the pier next to the largest inland river in France, the Loire, there are people coming and going. There are young men carrying weapons and wearing all kinds of armor...

They may have been just serfs the day before, but today, in response to the call of their lord, they took up arms and gathered here...

They also wear various kinds of armor... Those from families who are a little richer may wear the old leather armor. This leather armor is probably a product that has been passed down for many generations, and some even You can't even tell what that thing is from the oily surface, it's so dirty...

The poorer ones don't have any armor at all. The only thing that can provide them with protection is the tattered rough linen clothes on their bodies... Even the weapons in their hands are issued to them by their lords of……

If you look at it from the perspective of future generations, these guys can't be called soldiers at all, they are just a group of mobs at most...

But in fact, they are indeed soldiers... No way, most of the so-called soldiers in the Middle Ages had such virtues, and it doesn't mean that there were no professional soldiers-but the Duke of Orleans, a professional soldier, was definitely not willing to give himself too many illegitimate children... 19…

You know, five or six serf soldiers are worth a professional soldier, which is almost a recognized conversion unit in this era... Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is - at least five to ten serf soldiers are needed output, in order to support a professional soldier.

It is conceivable that every professional soldier is precious to his lord.

Therefore, it is said that there are 15,000 troops, but in fact, there are only 3,000 professional soldiers, plus 12,000 serf soldiers...

As huge wooden sailboats docked at the pier, these ragged serf soldiers carried the piles of supplies on the pier to the ship one by one...Among them, there were soldiers wearing standard equipment, acting as The duties of a supervisor.

In the eyes of these soldiers, these muddy legs are cannon fodder on the battlefield, but - they can't do without them, and - in their peasant cunning heads, there are often some annoying little cleverness, such as sneaking some Supplies for the army and things like that... So, it's not okay not to look at them.

If you don't keep an eye on them moving the supplies, it is estimated that the supplies will be at least half short after they finish moving...

As for those Lord Knights?

Except during wartime, they would never appear in such a place where inferior people gather... They should be in the homes of the noble ladies in the city at this time, telling the noble ladies in fancy clothes about their brave deeds... ...if they are lucky, they won't need to go back to the barracks tonight... because those warm ladies will use their soft bodies to entertain these brave knights.

"Bah... Damn it, I haven't finished confiscating the rye at home, yet another war is about to start..." Brudfan, who was wearing the captain's uniform, spat bitterly. He was the son of a blacksmith, And his uneducated father simply gave him a very memorable name, Iron Nugget... probably because he wanted to make him a man as strong as an iron lump...

"No way..." The soldiers beside Brudfan also said helplessly: "Those nobles don't care about our lives... Anyway, tithes are not worth mentioning to them, even worse than How much money did they spend on a banquet..."

Tithes are taxes collected by the church, whether they are civilians or nobles, even kings, they all have to pay the same...Of course, having said that, there are too many things that can be manipulated...

What happens if you don't pay? Of course you will be excommunicated, and then—— you will be branded a heretic...

Don’t think that being excommunicated is nothing. In fact, in this period—being excommunicated basically means—death without a place to die...

Just when the two were complaining, suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd in the distance...

Brudfan raised his eyes and saw a black carriage driving into the port under the guard of a dozen knights... The two stopped their conversation hastily. .

But in fact - the nobles in the carriage didn't care about them...

At this time, in the carriage, sat a young man with an unruly complexion, and he was looking out with his head lightly...

When he saw the serf soldiers carrying supplies on the pier, he nodded his head in satisfaction... Then he said to the burly man in bright chain armor sitting opposite him: "Dear Xia Sir, can all the supplies here be transported today?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Earl..." Charles nodded and said, "We should be thankful that Nantes is just at the lower reaches of the Loire River, which saves us at least half of our military expenses... It's a pity that we can The dispatched fleet is really too small, otherwise, we can use the fleet to transport troops and go straight to Nantes, the capital of the Principality of Brittany, along the Loire River!"

"That can't be helped..." Lorraine sighed, and said helplessly: "Although we are in a truce with England, they have been keeping an eye on our shipyards. We simply cannot build too many large ships. Sea ship..."

"Yeah..." Charles knew all of this well...

As the most junior knight under the Duke of Orleans, Charles was not valued by the Duke... That's why he was the first to respond when the Duke asked someone to serve his illegitimate son Lorraine...

Not for anything else, just for rare goods to live in...

Charles can fully see how much the Duke loves his illegitimate son... It's just because of the church's death rule that illegitimate children cannot inherit the title, it is impossible to bring Lorraine back into the family...

Of course, even so, the Duke still took great pains to get his illegitimate son into the palace, and tried every means to get Charles VI to canonize his son and make him an honorary earl. In the eyes of nobles, an earl without a fief is not even as good as a baron with a fief...

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However, Charles believes that soon - the duke's illegitimate son will get a fief corresponding to his title... Isn't this war prepared for?

Charles decided to show off a little in front of the lord he will serve in the future. "However, please rest assured... Even if we cannot use ships to transport soldiers, we can still easily win... Relying on the transport capacity of the Loire River, we can liberate at least 5,000 serfs. It can be pushed to the front line as a soldier!"

"Doesn't that mean that, in fact, we will have an army composed of 22,000 soldiers?" Lorraine's eyes lit up...you know, his father lent him 15,000 soldiers. Soldiers, but he himself, in order to be safe, took out his wealth accumulated over the years and hired two thousand mercenaries from Switzerland...

"That's right, that's right..." Charles nodded and said, of course he would not tell the Earl of Lorraine, a military idiot... Sometimes, five thousand serf soldiers might not be able to beat a thousand regular soldiers... Such a boost Basically dispensable.

But - Ciel firmly believes that he will win this war...

Because—this is a worse time...

Although the size of the Principality of Brittany is not small, but—his standing army is less than 5,000, especially in his territory there is a lord Victor who does not obey orders... This war, from the comparison of troops Look, they won...

PS: The first chapter has been updated...