Chapter 187: Kill 800 enemies and lose 1,000 of our own
When two armies fight, they must have a leader.
Front is a more suitable candidate.
Because the Bechtes family is the strongest and Front has the most war experience.
But Front was not willing to take this position.
Once you become the head coach, you can no longer paddle.
Front rejected the idea that Bechtes had too few troops and was only responsible for auxiliary operations, so he elected Count Conde.
Count Kant naturally took charge of the army.
The original force structure was like this——
Cover 1,000 people. Dimension has 1,100 people. West 1,500 people. Card 800 people. 100 people.
With so many troops, they were originally planning to take it down in one wave.
I just hit my head and was bleeding, and found that no matter how many troops I put in, I couldn't break it, so I had to change it to a long-term blockade.
However, part of their troops were transferred away by their respective masters during this period.
In fact, by the end of summer, if Sige Town has not been taken, at least three of the five families will withdraw their troops.
I really can’t spend it anymore.
They couldn't stick to a salt mine. They could only stay in a salt mine for half a year. When they saw no results, they naturally had to go back. If they had to pay, they would pay.
The reason why he has not wavered yet is that Count Kant is red-eyed. His neighbor is too powerful and he is restless. He is willing to bear the logistical burden of the coalition forces and let them continue to blockade them.
The current force structure is like this -
Capacity: 700 people. 800 people. West 1100 people. Card 500 people. 50 people.
Count Conde's troops were increasing instead. accounted for half of the total force.
Therefore, the count's voice is getting stronger and stronger.
The members of the wild beast family had to look kindly upon seeing the earl - of course, this did not prevent the former from secretly despising the quality of the latter's troops.
Carter believed that five hundred beast warriors could easily defeat the latter's three thousand levies.
It's just that now the five nobles have acquiesced in Count Kant's contribution in this battle.
Once Xige Town is captured, the land in the valley will belong to Earl Kant, and other families can only share the benefits brought by the salt mine.
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The coalition troops were stationed five miles outside the ravine.
The nobles began to discuss combat arrangements.
How to attack? Who attacks?
"I suggest our Lord Carter be the vanguard. His family's beast warriors are famous." Wieliczka said with a smile.
"Then you have to be careful not to have your neck bitten off by a wild beast while you are sleeping!" Carter said coldly.
"The Wieliczkas are not scared!" Sir Foucault sneered, having long been immune to such bluffs.
"Enough!" Count Kant shouted, stopping this open-ended dispute.
Count Conde had a headache.
Wieliczka is arrogant, speaks harshly, and has an arrogant character developed since childhood.
But Beast Carter is not the elder of Wieliczka's family, and there is no reason to spoil him. He has long wanted to teach this ignorant boy a lesson.
The Beast family suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Sige Town, killing forty or fifty family soldiers, which made Carter very distressed. During that time, his face was gloomy every day.
Wieliczka disagreed, thinking Carter looked down upon the sacrifices of the Wieliczka family.
Is it the only death in your family? Whose family didn’t die?
No wonder Front refused to take on the role. Count Kant thought.
Just maintaining the balance among the five major families made him mentally and physically exhausted.
How to direct them to attack now?
The Carter family was very angry, and so were the other families, who thought they had suffered a big loss.
They all suffered losses but gained nothing. Isn't this just a loss of blood?
If they launch another charge like that, I'm afraid they will protect their teammates in front of them. Everyone wants to act as a back-up, so there will be no need to fight.
Since there is no way to join forces, a single family can only attack.
Therefore, the earl said: "Sir Simon, how about you take the lead in this battle?"
Roman couldn't afford it, and they couldn't afford it either.
He must fight quickly to recover the people who were robbed. His poor farmers who were robbed are waiting for his rescue.
Moreover, he can no longer tolerate the quarrels of those foreign nobles in front of him!
This one said forty or fifty people were killed, and the other said seventy or eighty people were killed, completely ignoring the fact that nearly 200 soldiers under Kant's leadership were killed or injured.
He once talked about this issue dissatisfiedly, but received words from those people that could not be called contempt, but more than contempt——
"My Lord Earl, the deaths of your soldiers were due to poor training. If they had been good at fighting, they would not have ended up in this situation..."
They all say so.
From then on, he never mentioned this matter again, only keeping his anger and anguish deep in his heart.
He also wants to have an army like that!
But there is no money!
As long as he defeats Roman, recaptures the population, incorporates Sige Town into his territory, and gets the salt mine, he may be able to crack the secret of the young lord's rapid development and make him someone who can speak in the Black Iron Land. The powerful aristocrats.
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Count Conde stared at Sir Simon.
The Simon family crest is "The Closed Door", following the family motto "Silence is golden".
The Simons, who rarely speak out unless necessary, are now in cahoots with the Carters.
Sir Simon glanced at the Earl.
The latter's tone was very kind, but the knight knew that the count did not give him the right to refuse.
It's the Simon family's turn to pay.
In the battle of Sger Town, everyone suffered losses. Later, it was discovered that the Simon family had only suffered about 30 casualties, which was only higher than the casualties of the riders of the Bechts family.
Did you sneak in?
Sir Simon explained that they rushed too fast and blocked the front, so his people could not reach the shore.
No one believed this.
Foucault and Steve ridiculed him in every way.
But Sir Simon and Bald Carter had completely opposite temperaments.
He was very patient and accepted all the sarcasm without fighting back. Unlike Bald Carter, he would explode at the slightest touch.
"My Lord Earl, I listen to you. You are the commander-in-chief. We will attack immediately." Sir Simon was very smooth and had not quarreled with anyone so far.
His previous behavior had already made everyone complain about him.
If he dared to find excuses again, he would be outraged and kicked out directly.
Bald Carter and he were allies, but he didn't speak for him at this moment. Even if they were allies, they still had to sell when they had to, and someone had to be the first to come forward.
Now the Simon family's military strength is second only to the Kant family, with a total of 1,100 people.
The Kant family obtained the sovereignty of Sige Town, but it still allowed other nobles to sell salt for money. The Simon family was the strongest competitor.
He was also very straightforward, and directly assembled all the family infantry and entered the valley.
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The gap in military strength was huge.
It was easy to fight, and it was difficult to fight.
First of all, when the side with a numerical disadvantage saw the opponent's strength, the military would be unstable and the morale would be low.
If the army's quality was not good, there was no need to attack fiercely. As long as it went through a battle, it would collapse on its own.
Then, facing several times the number of troops, fighting with a small number against a large number was a huge consumption of energy and physical strength.
Once the battle lasted for ten minutes, it would take half a day to recover.
They were exhausted, but the enemy could still send out soldiers with sufficient physical strength to continue fighting, so they would naturally be defeated.
But the difficulty of fighting was that after all, they were two thousand soldiers, not two thousand pigs.
Both the enemy and us would suffer casualties.
It was normal to kill 800 enemies and lose 1,000 of our own.
