Utopia

At the same time, on a grassland in the Principality of Akern, two armies with different flags were confronting each other under the hot sun.

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"Listen, brothers! The Grand Duke wants to take away the territory passed down to us by our ancestors and force us to become refugees without territory and begging on the streets! Are you willing to listen to this Grand Duke who doesn't even listen to the church and tries to dictate the entire principality?"

"No!"

Accompanied by a roar, the Grand Duke of Akern, Sidney Akern, didn't want to respond to anything. He was riding on a warhorse in a gray-silver armor, and his expression was like looking at a dead person.

Because these noble alliance troops who were dissatisfied with their centralized policy of reclaiming territory have only been used recently. [To be honest, I have been using it recently, Android and Apple are both available. ][To be honest, I have been using it recently, Android and Apple are both available. ][To be honest, I have been using it recently, Android and Apple are both available. 】 less than 800 soldiers, while he had more than 800 soldiers.

So he gently raised his right hand and waved it forward, and the shieldmen in the front line set up the shield wall, and the crossbowmen in the back quickly loaded arrows. As long as the distance reached 【to be honest, I have been using it recently, Android and Apple are both available. 】【to be honest, I have been using it recently, Android and Apple are both available. 】 meters, he could make these dregs that hindered him from unifying the power of the principality and completing the plan of strengthening the army become the dust of history.

It must be said that with his own research on history and analysis of the power of the dark elves, the premise of a strong army is a strong country. And a strong country must ensure that the entire country is twisted into a rope and tightly bind the large pillar of a strong country.

Like these small nobles who rely on the income from the territory to maintain their drunken and glamorous life, that is the hidden danger of splitting the Principality of Akern. If they want to make the Principality of Akern a first-class overlord, their headless bodies are the best ladder.

"Alas, if it weren't for the fact that they gave me enough gold coins, I really wanted to run to the other side and wipe out all these drunkards and sex addicts."

And Tulo, who was "unfortunately" hired by the rebels at a high price, not only watched the troops of Grand Duke Akern marching in a uniform pace towards him outside the tent, but also felt sad for the employers who always focused on Miley and the others.

There is no way, the rebel nobles' financial backers are the extremely rich Ascetic Church. The purpose of the Ascetic Church is very simple, that is, to use this battle to suppress the authority of Sidney Akern, the Grand Duke who wants to unify the domestic forces.

But the Ascetic Church is not stupid. The small nobles in the Principality of Akern are more corrupt than each other, and they are addicted to alcohol and sex, which leads to the emergence of a large number of illegitimate children. If Turan Company had not received a high deposit from the Ascetic Church and was willing to send 157 employees, these drunkards and perverts who had not wet their pants would have had to kneel on the ground and "call daddy" to the Grand Duke of Akern.

In this regard, Tulo and other colleagues really didn't know how to "greet" these guys.

However, he also discovered that when the two sides entered the battle distance of 10 meters, the troops under the command of Grand Duke Akern, holding a black-bottomed flag with a cross steel bar, attacked with a round of arrows.

Even if the losers (referring to the rebel nobles) had rectangular shields, when the crossbowmen under the Grand Duke launched the first round of three-stage shooting, although there were few unlucky people who were shot and fell to the ground, all the specially dispatched mercenaries, including Tulo, nodded in admiration.

Compared to the archers or crossbowmen in the troops of other countries who habitually launch a round of arrow rain, the three-stage shooting under Grand Duke Aken ensures that the output of arrows is not interrupted. At the same time, compared to the shieldmen in the first row who hold shields to block arrows, the archers are the ones who are really suppressed among the rebels.

Another important reason why the Ascetic Church hates crossbows is that the prerequisite for an archer is to have a strong physical fitness and strong body. Next, if this archer does not have more than three years of archery experience, he cannot appear on the battlefield.

Not to mention that a good bow requires a craftsman to spend a year to make it, and a skilled bowsmith can only make five or six good bows a year.

At the same time, on the battlefield, once the archers enter the battle, they will not shoot too many times. Not to mention that the cavalry with a very fast impact speed will make the archers shoot less than four times, and then force the archers to either flee or use melee weapons to defend against the enemy. Just drawing the bow and shooting arrows is actually very stamina-consuming for the archer (especially keeping the bow in the posture of not shooting, which is a very physical job for the archer).

So much so that within the Kahn Empire, many knights did not use swordsmanship or horsemanship as a prerequisite for their military titles, but only gained merit on the battlefield after practicing good archery, and then were favored by the lord to become a squire knight or even promoted to a baron or viscount.

Of course, to this day, there are still some people in the Kahn Empire who are skilled in archery and horsemanship, that is, masters who are proficient in horsemanship and archery are assigned to various countries, and enjoy special treatment as guards. After all, in addition to mastering archery, archers must definitely learn swordsmanship or swordsmanship.

Otherwise, archers will die easily and become cannon fodder who die in vain on the battlefield.

On this basis, if you can also ride a horse... then congratulations, the road to nobility is always open to you.

Thump thump thump... poke!

Although the sound of shield defense is always mixed with the wailing of people who are shot by arrows, under the three-stage shooting and covering attack, Tulona found that the troops of the Principality of Akern used bamboo as the raw material for arrow shafts and arrow tails.

Obviously, the most beautiful deal of the Principality of Akern is to introduce bamboo and promote its planting on its own land.

Bamboo, as a plant that can grow half a meter every day as long as it is planted in an area that is not too cold. Just a raw material that can provide a lot of daily necessities is enough for the Grand Duke of Akern, Sidney Akern, to almost order restrictions on foreign trade in bamboo.

Obviously, the Principality of Akern, which enjoys the preferential bamboo, has not only learned to eat bamboo shoots, but also understood what it means that strategic resources worth protecting cannot be sold to others casually.

However, as Archduke Aken's troops suppressed the noble rebels with rain of arrows, the rebels, who had few strong military talents, became panicked.

So, it was time to move out.

Tulona, ​​who didn't trust the rebels, let alone their performance, came here just for the money, and summoned five poisonous eye summoned beasts again without saying a word.

Although he also knew that his summoned beasts made his female colleagues a little uncomfortable, when the five poisonous eyes rushed into the sky and continuously fired white beams at the Archduke's troops, the Archduke's troops, who were in a state of chaos, had no time to notice that a green halo suddenly appeared behind them...