The Rise of the European Emperor

"How's the situation?" In a secret room in the backyard of the Cliff City Palace, John II, Duke of Cliff, who was supposed to be "seriously ill and in a coma", eagerly asked the man who had just returned from the envoy of Gelden City, the capital of the Principality of Geddes. messenger. And standing beside John II were the palace ministers, Mason and Schwartz.

The messenger replied respectfully:

"Lord Duke, just like what Lord Schwartz said, the people of Geddes are extremely arrogant and look down on the Principality of Clifford. They heard that we are going to send 30,000 troops to intervene, not only are they not afraid, but they also laugh. This is the case with the rulers and ministers of the German company, and the citizens of Gelden City. In short, the Gedes people never believe that we have the ability to defeat them..."

The three people who listened to the report were all relieved, and John II turned to Schwartz and said:

"General Schwartz, everything is going well. Now yours can lead the army!"

"Yes, Your Excellency, I'll return to the front line!" After speaking, Schwartz pulled off the visor of his helmet and, surrounded by guards, quietly left through the back door of the Cliff City Palace...

At the same time that Schwartz returned to the front line, Old Mason, Chancellor of the Cliff Palace, also under the instigation of John II, sent a request to the neighboring countries, hoping to borrow troops to gather 30,000 troops and send troops to interfere with Parsons concentration camp. matter……

However, no one ignored him. Even with the Duchy of Clifford, the Duchy of Jülich and the Duchy of Berg (the two duchies were confederations, both of which were under the control of William IV. William IV and John II had a good relationship, and later, William IV. The only daughter of Maria of Jülich-Berge, also married John III, son of John II. The main line of the Lamarck family then ruled over the Duchy of Clifford, Marc, Jülich and Berg. Duke William IV of the four powerful vassal states. Moreover, these four vassal states depended on each other), and none of them agreed to send troops. Because, William IV thought that the behavior of old Mason was trespassing, so he refused to send troops to help.

Hearing these rumors, the Principality of Gedes was even more relieved - it turned out that Old Mason wanted to borrow troops from other countries to gather 30,000 people... Unfortunately, other countries ignored Old Mason... Therefore, the people of Gedes less vigilance...

At this time, Schwartz led the army and used the night to quietly cross the Maas River and enter the territory of the Duchy of Brabant...

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Contrary to the optimism in the country of Geddes, Marshal Bonitz, the commander of the Geddes army, felt very uneasy during this time. Because, half of the 300 scouts and spies he sent were killed.

In order to ensure the safety of the scouts, Bonitz now no longer uses the scouts scattered, but orders these scouts to go out on tour. As a result, the difficulty of Sauer's scout troops intercepting was greatly increased.

Under the circumstance that the difficulty of interception has greatly increased, Sauer has come up with a way to attract the attention of the scouts of the Gedes army...

To this end, Sauer dispatched hundreds of scouts, and deliberately fled westward with the main force of the remaining 150 scouts of the Geddes army who formed the regiment.

They wore Habsburg costumes, held the flag of the Habsburg family, rode Arabian horses purchased by Marin from Egypt, and lured the scouts of the Principality of Gedes to chase them westward— Ghent's direction...

Arabian horses are far superior to ordinary European horses in terms of speed and endurance. In this era when Europe did not pay attention to the cultivation of horse breeds, the horses of the Gedes army scouts were obviously not as good as those of the Beihai scouts. Those native European horses have good explosive power, but they still can't catch up with the faster Arabian horses. Then, run and run, and have no energy to chase. After all, native European horses are far less durable than Arabian horses. Therefore, the scouts of the Gedes army were unable to catch up with the Beihai Kingdom scouts who acted as bait. Therefore, they can only go back and report that the Habsburg family has hundreds of light cavalry threatening the safety of the scouts in the west. However, they can't catch up...

Can you catch up? You know, Marin only brought in a few hundred Arabian horses. Except for breeding, the rest are all allocated to the scout unit. Why? Because for the scouts to survive, the horses must be of good quality. Otherwise, you will be dead if you are caught up. Moreover, Arabian horses are medium-sized horses and cannot be used as war horses for heavy armored knights, only suitable for light cavalry and scouts. But now Marin has not formed a large-scale light cavalry, and the responsibility of the scouts is very heavy. Therefore, Marin equipped the scouts with Arabian horses with strong speed and endurance, which is convenient for the scouts to scout. The horses that the Gedes scouts rode were all native European breeds with good explosive power but poor endurance, so naturally they could not catch up with the Arabian horses with strong explosive power and endurance.

After listening to the report of the scouts, Marshal Bonitz was greatly relieved. Because, he thought he had discovered the troop that killed the Gedes scouts... No wonder, hundreds of scouts from the other side acted together in a group, and the horses were fast, so it was naturally simple to kill the scouts of the Gedes army. In order to prevent the other party from intercepting his own scouts again, Marshal Bonitz formed a scout group of 150 surviving scouts and placed them in the west direction to monitor the "scout troops" sent by the hundreds of "Habsburg Army". . In addition, Sauer had intercepted all the scouts in the north before, which led to the fact that Sauer's 100 scouts completely attracted the scouts of the Gedes army. In this way, when Schwartz led the army into the territory of the Duchy of Brabant, the Gedes army did not even notice...

However, what made Schwartz depressed was that just as he brought the army into the territory of the Principality of Brabant, it rained heavily and the road began to become muddy...

Schwartz's 27,000 main force not only brought a lot of artillery, grain and other baggage, but also 15,000 strong people. The villagers drove unicycles with them, but they could not move the unicycles when they encountered the muddy roads in rainy days. In desperation, Schwartz had to camp first and wait.

As for the Geddes army camp outside the Parson concentration camp, Marshal Bonitz was very excited:

"It's finally raining! In this way, the enemy's musketeers will be abolished! Exactly, it is convenient for our army to attack the city!"

So, the excited Marshal Bonitz, in spite of the heavy rain, ordered all the other arms of the army except the musketeers to get ready and ready to attack the city in the rain... In the rainy weather, Marshal Bonitz concluded— The enemy musketeers defending the city must have lost their combat effectiveness...

And in the camp in the remote frontier area in the northeast of the Principality of Brabant, Schwartz is also discussing things with Sauer:

"Sauer, you said that your scouts found that the enemy was busy attacking the city? With such a heavy rain, they also attacked the city?"

"Of course, Schwartz, my scouts can't get it wrong. As for them attacking the city on a rainy day, isn't it obvious? They are afraid of the musket power of the defenders on a sunny day!"

Schwartz nodded, but immediately laughed:

"Unfortunately, Bonitz didn't know that the thousand musketeers guarding the city used clockwork muskets that were not afraid of rain. After a while, he would know the surprises that clockwork muskets brought them!"

Sauer also nodded, expressing his complete agreement with Schwartz's words. However, he reminded Schwartz:

"Schwartz, it's raining now. I think the arquebuses of the army of the Ged Company should all be ineffective, right? Why don't we take this opportunity to attack, so that we are not afraid that the opponent's arquebuses will cause huge damage to our army. Casualties!"

"Good idea! Well, as long as the rain decreases tomorrow morning, I will order the army to immediately pull out the camp and move forward, and strive to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible. While the arquebusiers of the opposing army are out of combat, we can take the opportunity to launch an attack and defeat the Gerdes army in one fell swoop. !"

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