The Rise of the European Emperor

"Lord Captain, why are we attacking the fertilizer field? Grand Duke Marin once ordered that anyone who plots the fertilizer field will be punished for treason!" Petrarch's adjutant Hagazar asked inexplicably.

"Grand Duke Marin?" Petrarch sneered and continued:

"He's dead, Hagatha! And the commander of the Steindorfer army has fallen out with Aurich, which is equivalent to treason. We are now going to snatch the secret of the fertilizer field, in order to obtain the secret and dedicate it to the commander of the army. Your lord!" Petrarch is indeed a person who has been the captain of the company for a long time, and is rather cunning.

If it were normal, he would definitely not dare to send troops casually. Because, his subordinates may not listen to him and rebel with him.

However, this time Steindorf had fallen out with Aurich in order to act, but it gave him a chance.

The following people do not know that acting at this time, and Petrarch does not know that it is acting. But it doesn't matter, Petrarch intends to take advantage of this opportunity to dispatch the entire company in the name of "snatching secrets for the legion commander". Although the people below were puzzled, they thought that the legion commander had indeed had a falling out with Aurich, so they followed Petrarch.

Petrarch is also very good at fooling people. He told the soldiers of the company that if the secret of grabbing the fertilizer is given to the army commander, it will be a great achievement. The legion commander is in charge of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and may establish his own country in Schleswig in the future. If you have made meritorious deeds now, in the future, when the legion commander becomes an official prince, there is a good chance of being sealed...

Sure enough, this excuse moved a lot of people. Adventure in the army, in addition to salary and food, is it soon for fame? Therefore, the entire company was fooled by Petrarch.

But in fact, Petrarch looked down on Steindorf, who was of civilian origin and "despicable blood" at all. After getting the secret, he would take 50 of his cronies, snatch some horses, and then go south with the secret collectively to escape...

...

In fact, the duke behind him did not ask him to snatch the secrets of the fertilizer at all, but just put him on standby in the Third Army and waited for an opportunity to prevent the Third Army from going south and the coalition of several princes as the enemy.

But Petrarch didn't think so. He knew that getting the secret of Beihai's fertilizer was a great achievement. If he waited for the army to go north to grab the secret of the fertilizer field, he would have nothing to do with him. Afterwards, he didn't get paid. Therefore, this time, I will take advantage of the chaos in Beihai Kingdom first and get the secrets in advance, so that I can maximize my own interests.

...

Just as the two were talking, a loud shout suddenly came from the fertilizer field:

"who?"

Then,

On the small city tower at the main gate of the fertilizer field, a soldier on the night watch suddenly appeared.

When he saw a large group of people gathered outside the gate of the fertilizer processing plant, he was shocked, and then shouted:

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Petrarch was furious and hurriedly picked up a spear and threw it on the city head as a javelin, straight into the night guard. However, he was dodged by the guards.

Then, in the barracks of the fertilizer field, 100 guards got up one after another, put on simple armor, took their weapons, and stood on the city wall.

Seeing that Petrarch couldn't make a sneak attack, he simply switched to a strong attack. He took out the command knife and said loudly:

"Generals, attack!"

Seeing that there are many enemies outside the fertilizer field, Jacob, the manager of the fertilizer field, feels that he is invincible. So he ordered loudly:

"Light the beacon and set off three signal flares (firecrackers) for help!"

Then, at the top of the tallest sentry tower in the fertilizer field, a huge fire was lit, and the fire was soaring into the sky. At the same time, several three-shot artillery battles were ignited and exploded in mid-air...

If it is during the day, the sound of the gun battle may not penetrate very far, and it is covered by the noise. However, it was midnight, and everything was silent. The sound of these gun battles spread far...

On the west gate tower of Schleswig City, the guards in charge of observing saw the firelight in the distance and the subsequent explosion (the speed of light travels faster than the sound), and they were stunned for a while, and then suddenly reacted:

"No, there is an accident in the fertilizer field! Go and send someone to report it!" The sentry on the west city gate tower has a duty - to observe the movement of the fertilizer field...

...

Not to mention the reaction in the city of Schleswig, the fertilizer field at this time, Petrarch's company, launched a fierce attack.

However, the city wall of the fertilizer field is still very high, and the gate is also very strong, and it is difficult to break through. However, this did not fail Petrarch...

"Come on, put on the powder keg!"

Petrarch knew Doni Tserui, a well-known blasting expert in Beihai Kingdom, and he specially invited him to drink, and he developed some skills in blasting city gates.

So, just yesterday, he spent a lot of money to get a barrel of gunpowder from an artillery company captain who also had two hearts.

After the powder keg was brought, Petrarch did not immediately let anyone blast it, but asked the death squad to dig a pit:

"You guys, with a shield in one hand and a shovel in the other, kill in front of the gate and dig a hole!"

Then, a group of soldiers, holding a shield in one hand and a shovel invented by Marin in the other, rushed to the gate and began to dig a hole...

This is also the unfortunate fertilizer field. In order to facilitate the fertilization of the farmland, the fertilizer field is generally established in the place with a lot of farmland. Therefore, in front of the gate of the fertilizer field is generally mud, and there are few stones.

Therefore, it is very convenient for Petrarch's men to dig pits. Although more than half of the group died, the pit was dug.

Then, Petrarch made his cronies, carrying a powder keg, hold a door, and rushed to the gate of the fertilizer field, lighting the fuse...

Just hearing a "bang", the big wooden door of the fertilizer yard was blown up...

"Brothers, go!" Petrarch shouted, brandishing his sword.

At the same time, in the fertilizer field, the field manager Jacob also shouted:

"The time to be loyal to the Grand Duke has come, brothers, follow me to stop them! The reinforcements are coming back to save us!"

...

However, the combat effectiveness of the regular army and the militia is too different. Without the cover of the city walls, the fertilizer field was quickly breached. Even the fieldmaster Jacob died heroically...

Petrarch looked smugly at the hundreds of manure workers who had been captured, and asked smugly:

"Who of you knows the formula of fertilizer? Say it, and spare you!"

And the leading deputy field manager Morico immediately spat out Petrarch's face and said angrily:

"Bah, you traitor! How dare you covet the secrets of Beihai Kingdom, wait for your whole family to be executed!"

Petrarch was furious, and immediately drew his knife and stabbed Morico. Then, he pulled out the bloody sword and threatened:

"You guys, tell me the fertilizer formula. Otherwise, die with him!"

Hundreds of workers in the fertilizer field looked at Petrarch like fools...

"Huh? Dissatisfied? Want to die?" Petrarch raised his sword again...

"It's not...sir, the master and the deputy head of the fertilizer field know the specific formula. The head of the field just died in the goalkeeper battle, and the one you stabbed to death was the deputy head..." The one who was killed by Pate The worker who was aimed at by Lack's sword replied tremblingly.

"..." Petrarch was shocked, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground...

A hot blood rushed to his throat, and Petrarch felt like committing suicide at this moment...

Obviously, the deputy field commander was captured, but he did not die heroically, but was captured, which showed that Morico's will to die was not strong. As long as the means are appropriate, the news can still be dug up. It is a pity that Petrarch knew the specific formula without knowing the fertilizer field, thinking that the workers knew it. Then, he killed Li Wei and chose the wrong target, and killed the insider...

"Then what do you all know?" Petrarch said angrily.

"The little people don't know much, but they only know that every two months, the field manager or deputy field manager will bring people three kinds of things by car, one dark black (dried and deodorized feces), one gray (phosphorus limestone), something like salt, but not salt, it's cool to eat (potassium sulfate). Then the little people are mainly responsible for mixing the three things well, and then sending people to spread them in the fields..."

"You don't know what those three things are?" Petrarch asked reluctantly.

The workers shook their heads:

"At this time, the fertilizer field is the top secret, and only the director and deputy field directors are qualified to know."

"Then do you know where these three things came from?"

"I don't know, the field manager won't let us ask." Everyone shook their heads.

"Pfft—" Petrarch finally spit out a mouthful of old blood...