The Rise of the European Emperor

Seeing that the city gate was broken, the Italian mercenaries, who were already sleepy, immediately let out a breath and lost the courage to continue to resist. As a result, many Italian mercenaries laid down their weapons.

And after laying down their weapons, these Italian mercenaries did not kneel to surrender, but lay on the ground and slept...

The soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms were stunned to look at these Italian mercenaries who dropped their weapons and lay on the ground snoring. They didn't know what to do for a while.

Fortunately, experienced commanders responded. Under the command of these experienced commanders, the soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms first collected the weapons thrown on the ground by the surrendered Italian mercenaries. Then, the Italian mercenaries who were sleeping in the middle of the road blocking the road were carried to the side of the road. Then the army was able to move on. Of course, there was still a lot of resistance.

Later, Foster, an officer of the Counties of Lippe who knew Italian, suddenly became so happy that he suddenly shouted in Italian:

"Those who surrender can sleep now!"

Then, many dark-eyed Italian mercenaries who were still resisting suddenly lost their fighting spirit...

"Sleep...sleep...sleep..." These words suddenly hovered in the mind of the Italian mercenary, lingering...

Then, many Italian mercenaries threw down their weapons, picked up the quilt beside them, lay down and fell asleep, and soon started snoring.

"Don't sleep in the middle of the road, go to the side of the road!" Foster then yelled in Italian.

Afterwards, the sleepy Italian mercenaries followed suit one after another, threw away their weapons, and slept directly on the side of the road. Moreover, they slept so deeply that the surrounding noise did not affect them at all.

The senior generals of the coalition saw that this move was very useful, so they asked more mercenaries who knew Italian to persuade the Italian mercenaries who were still resisting to put down their weapons and sleep...

Then, many Italian mercenaries who were too sleepy put down their weapons and went straight to bed.

Only Pargani, the supreme leader of the 10,000 Italian mercenaries, also took 500 of his men to guard Oldenburg Cathedral and refused to surrender. And because they were afraid of the church, the soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms did not dare to storm the church.

As a result, Charles, Earl of Gelden, who had already entered the city, directly asked all the Italian-speaking mercenaries to run to the door of the Oldenburg church and persuade them in Italian:

"Sleep! Sleep! You are tired, it's time to sleep..."

Some people even sang an Italian lullaby...

In this way, Pargani's 500 loyal subordinates were persuaded to sleep more than half. With more than 100 men left, they couldn't stop the hundreds of knights who rushed in wearing a full set of plate armor—they wore plate armor and were not afraid of swords...

In this way, Oldenburg fell to the hands of the allied forces of the eight kingdoms in such a dramatic way. Then, the eight princes breathed a sigh of relief...

...

In fact, along with the 8 princes, who were relieved, and Marin——

"Finally the city is broken, so I don't have to pay the 2 million gold coins!"

After the Italian mercenaries in the city were settled, the next step was naturally the loot-sharing conference. The 8 princes watched with dazzling eyes as their officers and soldiers moved out a large amount of property from the warehouses of Oldenburg City, their eyes dazzled.

But Simon V, Earl of Lipper, closed his eyes in pain and said:

"I'd better not look at it. With so much wealth, half of it will be given to Steindorf and Wagner, the two bastards. The more I look at it, the more I feel unwilling. So, it's better not to look at it..."

Several other princes also have ties to each other. Seeing countless riches, but not their own. This feeling is so sad to say...

But Charles, Earl of Geldon persuaded everyone:

"My lord, don't be sad, even if all the property in Oldenburg City is given to others, it doesn't matter. You know, in Aurich City, the wealth is much more than Oldenburg City... It is said that Aurich City The total wealth in the house may reach more than 5 million gold coins..."

Having said that,

The other 7 princes suddenly became short of breath - 5 million gold coins, how much is that...

In fact, this was originally made up by Charles, Earl of Geldon, to comfort everyone. But what Charlie didn't expect was that the news he made up was a big truth - he was right...

There is indeed a lot of wealth in Orich City, and it is far more than 5 million gold coins. The so-called 5 million gold coins actually mainly refers to the value of other property other than food in the city of Aurich. If you include food, it's more than that.

In order to store food, Marin even expanded an outer city in the northern city of Aurich, which is specially used for food storage. Aurich's total grain reserves are estimated to have reached 500 million pounds, with a market value of about 8.333 million gold coins.

If the princes of the Eight Kingdoms can really conquer Aurich, it is estimated that they will get a super massive wealth worth more than 13 million gold coins...

...

But even if they didn't know the real wealth of Aurich, the figure of 5 million gold coins still stimulated them...

"Done! We must defeat Marin, take Aurich, and grab the wealth of the 5 million gold coins!" Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg roared with red eyes.

"We've done it too!" Several other princes were also excited.

"However, the opponent has 20,000 troops. If we stick to Aurich, it will be difficult for us to conquer!" Otto VIII, Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg, worried.

The city of Oldenburg, which was stationed by Italian mercenaries with a size of 10,000 people, was so difficult to win. Aurich was stationed by the First Army, which was much stronger than the Italian mercenaries...

The other princes probably also thought of this, and their faces were a little ugly.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, turned his eyes:

"Maybe, we can continue to use the day and night shift attack to deal with the defenders of Aurich. Don't you see the sleepy appearance of the Italian defenders? Think about it, by that time, that guy Marin will probably also You won’t be able to sleep with dark circles under your eyes! At that time, even the First Army of Beihai Kingdom will not be able to take it for a few days!”

"Yes, we can use this trick to make the Beihai Kingdom's defenders sleep well!"

But they don't know that their self-proclaimed "trick to the enemy" has long been rotten in China. And Marin will definitely not be hit.

And Charles, Earl of Geldon said:

"Don't think so easily, Marin is not easy to deal with. Maybe, we can increase our troops..."

"Increase the force? How to increase it? Do you want to capture the strong men of Beihai Kingdom as conscripts? It's useless. The conscripts have low combat effectiveness, and the strong men of Beihai Kingdom may not be willing to fight for us..." Schaumburg and Ravensburg asked Count Antonios suspiciously.

"How could that be? I mean, we just captured more than 8,000 Italian mercenaries..." Count Charles shook his head and said. There were only 8,000 Italian mercenaries who originally numbered 10,000.

"Italian mercenaries? No, if these captured Italian mercenaries are hired by us, it will be difficult for them to gain a foothold in the mercenary world in the future." Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg questioned.

In this day and age, mercenaries still have certain principles. For example, two people will not be hired in a war. If captured, they will not accept the employment of the opponent.

Because, once they do, the reputation will be greatly damaged. In the future, I am afraid that there will be no employers willing to hire such mercenaries who will go to the enemy. In particular, some mercenary group leaders value reputation. Because, with reputation, someone will hire them.

But Count Charles smiled slyly:

"I know those mercenaries care about reputation, but most of the people who care about reputation are the heads of those mercenary regiments. But what if we leave out those mercenary leaders?"

"what do you mean……"

"Let's randomly find a nobody in the Italian mercenaries and let him build an empty mercenary group. Then, we will absorb these Italian prisoners of war into this empty mercenary group. In this way, even if they join us and serve us , it will not damage the reputation of the previous mercenary group. After this war, this temporary shell mercenary group whose reputation has been damaged will be disbanded, and those Italian mercenaries will return to the original mercenary group..." Charlie The count explained in detail.

The other 7 princes all stared at Count Charlie in stunned--is there such a slapstick operation?