The Rise of the European Emperor

Everything was so sudden that even Duke Ulrich and Wolff, who was prepared to be the internal response, had no time to react.

Seeing that the opportunity was rare, the knights under Duke Ulrich directly launched a charge before the enemy turned their heads. Duke Ulrich had no choice but to shout anxiously:

"Catch alive, I want to catch alive! If too many people die, I won't give commission!"

Probably because he disliked his low voice, Duke Ulrich of Württemberg simply asked his subordinates to shout together:

"Catch alive, I want to catch alive! If too many people die, I won't give commission!"

"Catch alive, I want to catch alive! If too many people die, I won't give commission!"

...

This was definitely a stupid move, because after Duke Ulrich's men shouted, the knights who had already charged hesitated. But fortunately, their enemies are too scumbags...

Because of unpreparedness, and the European army of this era is used to putting the weakest behind. Therefore, with just one charge, the troops behind the more than 30,000 peasant army were directly crushed.

Fortunately, what Duke Ulrich told his subordinates to shout worked. Those plate armor knights who had completed a charge shouted one after another:

"Put down your weapon! Hold your head and squat! Hold your head and squat! Surrender without killing!"

Then, a large number of peasant soldiers were frightened by the menacing knights, put down their weapons one after another, and squatted down with their heads in their arms...

At this time, the core force of the peasant uprising army in front finally reacted

"Not good, the enemy took our back!" Kaspar, the leader of the rebel army, panicked.

But under the persuasion of several loyalists, he finally settled down and commanded the elite troops to prepare to fight against the Württemberg army.

The old and weak behind the peasant army were easily defeated by the Württemberg army. However, after they squatted down with their heads in their arms, they also blocked the way forward for the Württemberg army.

In this way, this gave Kaspar the opportunity to calmly organize the army to counterattack. When the Württemberg army took away the thousands of old and weak peasant soldiers who knelt down and surrendered in the back row, Caspar had already organized the most elite tens of thousands of horses, and he planned to fight against the Württemberg army. A big battle.

Because the Württemberg army was restrained by Duke Ulrich and asked them to catch as many alive as possible. result,

Obviously, the Württemberg army has stronger combat effectiveness, but it fought back and forth with the elite peasant army. Of course, the Württemberg army didn't suffer much because of its good equipment.

At this point, Prince Ulrich grew impatient. He rode forward and shouted:

"What are you waiting for, kill Kasbal!"

But soon, he realized that this had leaked the news that he sent undercover agents before? If people knew that he deliberately sent someone to lure Kaspar and his party to kill the nobles, he would also be finished. So, he immediately changed his words:

"Whoever kills Caspar, I will make him a fief knight!"

The five Wolffs understood that Duke Ulrich was signaling to himself. Taking advantage of the chaos on the battlefield, Wolfe took off the officer's cloak on his plate armor, pulled off the cherry beard from the hat, and grabbed a handful of dirt and wiped it on his face...

Then, he signaled the other four people not to move, and he took the opportunity to get close to Kaspar who was standing on the high platform and shouting to direct the battle...

"Hey!" Wolf shouted loudly, raised his knife, and chopped off Kaspar's head in front of tens of thousands of people...

Then, the entire battlefield fell silent...

Wolf took the opportunity to squeeze his throat and shouted:

"Casbal is dead, let's surrender!"

Immediately, the morale of the more than 20,000 peasant troops who were still resisting plummeted, and many people were desperate. Many peasant troops standing in front resisting, after learning the news of Kaspar's killing, they involuntarily put down their weapons...

But Kasbal's buddies were outraged:

"You bastard, how dare you kill the leader, I will kill you!"

After finishing speaking, the relationship with Kaspar was very good, and dozens of officers who served as officers in the army rushed to Wolfe with swords in hand...

But Wolfe wasn't stupid, he didn't stand there waiting for the other party to chop him off, but ran towards the manor with Casbal's head in his hand. However, the dozens of blacksmiths chasing after him failed to catch up with him in time because many soldiers blocked him. There is no way, when Kaspar organized the resistance before, all his cronies were arranged to lead the resistance in the front, and the back was very empty.

Wolfe held Caspar's head and ran directly to the small castle in the valley that he hadn't had time to take down before. The owner of the castle saw that Wolfe was one of his own, so he picked him up with a hanging basket.

Seeing that Kaspar was killed, Duke Ulrich was not a fool, so he immediately ordered a general attack.

Thousands of Württemberg officers and soldiers shouted "surrender, don't kill" together, and rushed forward...

Seeing that the leader of the opponent was killed, the morale of the Württemberg officers and soldiers was high at this time. On the contrary, the morale of the peasant uprising army fell to the bottom.

After a lot of fighting, except for a small number of people who were still stubbornly resisting, most of the soldiers of the Peasant Rebel Army put down their weapons and surrendered...

In this battle, only the earliest group of "Poor Conrad" members in Kaspar were still stubbornly resisting in the end, with a total of more than 3,000 people. However, the Württemberg army dispatched 400 knights and 5,000 North Sea infantry to attack those recalcitrants. As a result, more than half of the more than 3,000 "Poor Conrad" core members were killed, and half were injured and lost their resistance...

In addition, there were many peasant soldiers who trampled on each other when the army collapsed, and more than 2,000 people were killed or injured. In the end, the Wurttemberg army captured a total of 27,000 intact peasant soldiers and more than 3,000 wounded. Those who really died in battle were less than 1,800 people...

There is no way, the head coach was beheaded in front of everyone, which hurts morale too much. Not to mention the peasant army in a mess, even the regular army is prone to collapse.

...

In the evening, in the castle in the valley, after attending the welcome banquet hosted by the owner of the castle, Baron Waldemar, Duke Ulrich was a little frowning in the guest room. Baron Waldemar is a neutral aristocrat in the Principality of Württemberg. He is not deadly loyal to Duke Ulrich, but he is not opposed to him either. Such a neutral aristocrat is dispensable to Duke Ulrich. Therefore, it is also on the target list for the peasant army to eliminate. Of course, he was lucky, this time he just met the army arriving, and the castle was not breached by the peasant army. If the army is half a day late, everything will be difficult to say.

At this time, Wolf, who had fled into the castle after beheading Caspar during the day, was standing in front of Duke Ulrich. He had been exposed, and after fleeing into the castle during the day, he had to reveal his identity to Baron Valdemar. Then, his identity became clear. Of course, he would never admit that he was the rebel heavy cavalry commander Henry. Anyway, when he killed Kasbal, he wiped his face with yellow mud and deliberately didn't speak in a normal voice.

"Master Duke, what are you worrying about? We have won a big victory this time." Wolfe was a little confused.

Facing his confidant, Duke Ulrich did not hide anything:

"I have reached an agreement on the sale and purchase of prisoners of war with Grand Duke Marin of the North Sea State, but now I only have 27,000 intact prisoners of war. In order to deter those unruly people, I will definitely execute thousands of people publicly by then. In this way, I can only sell 26,000 people to Grand Duke Marin at most. According to the calculation of one strong man per farmer, 26,000 people can only sell 780,000 Gulden gold coins! This is not enough to repay my debt of millions of gold coins!"

Wolf said strangely:

"No, didn't the rebels seize property worth more than 500,000 Gulden gold coins? Now it's all in your hands, my lord..."

Duke Ulrich glared at him and said:

"What do you know? After the victory of this war, I need to use half of the spoils to reward the army and pay commissions!"

Wolfe scratched his head and said:

"That's enough, half of the spoils have more than 250,000 gold coins, plus the 780,000, it's enough to pay off the debt..."

Duke Ulrich roared angrily:

"You idiot, I can't do it anymore?"

Obviously, the lavish Duke Ulrich did not want to use all his income to pay off his debts. Because, he himself needs a lot of money to maintain huge expenses.

Wolff finally understood what Duke Ulrich meant. He thought that there were too few captured peasants...

Sure enough, Duke Ulrich scolded:

"You trash, why don't you persuade that idiot Kaspar to catch more farmers and join the rebels? If there are 10,000 more farmers and sell them to Grand Duke Marin, I will send it... don't worry about the next expenses... ..."

"I tried to persuade you, but that bastard Kaspar dislikes those farmers who are not strong enough to waste food. As long as they are strong, they will not accept those who are not strong..." Wolf said aggrieved.

"Fuck, here comes the trouble! You, help me think of a way, how to increase the number of prisoners of war!" Duke Ulrich said angrily.

Wolf thought for a long time, and suddenly came up with an idea:

"Your Excellency, why don't we let Chapman and the four of them go on purpose. At the same time, let go of a group of their accomplices. I was exposed, but the four of them haven't yet. You can let Chapman go and let the four of them go." He led the light cavalry team to escape at night. Then, he went to attack those manors that did not belong to your faction. In addition to looting, he focused on coercing those peasants! This time, without the existence of a superior like Caspar, Chapman was completely You can order it yourself, specifically coerce the population, and get as many serfs as possible..."