The snow is still falling, but it has changed from heavy snow like goose feathers to fine and small snowflakes, and the sky and the earth are white.
The inside of the big tent was as warm as spring, and the red charcoal fire in a big brazier placed in the middle of the tent was emitting scorching heat. There is also a huge copper kettle hanging above the brazier, and the hot water in the kettle is gurgling and steaming.
Sodkamp picked up the copper kettle, filled the teacups in front with water, and gave them to those in need one by one. After the water in the kettle was used up, refilled the water, poured Mycos into the copper kettle, hung it on the brazier again and started cooking, and soon the tent was filled with the aroma of Mycos.
Lorist, Fatty Shi, Terman, Yuri, El, Bodfinger and his two comrades-in-arms Rod Wells and Mon S. Malak, as well as thirty-seven students from Dawn Academy The veteran students gathered together, and Ingerek and his granddaughter Moris were still sitting in the corner of the tent. At this moment, everyone was listening to Fatty Shi talking about the gains after the big battle last night.
"From a logistical point of view, yesterday's battle was outweighed by the losses. Although our losses were slight, we only sacrificed seventeen crossbowmen and wiped out nearly three thousand enemies, but we captured very little or we can say that we Instead, we carried a very heavy burden. We eliminated more than 1,600 enemies, captured more than 1,200, and rescued more than 2,300 young and strong. This is a great victory, but We haven’t seized much food and supplies, and these 3,000 people need us to feed him and give them clothes to keep out the cold. At present, it is estimated that our food and supplies can barely last for about a month.”
"We lost seventeen crossbowmen in yesterday's battle. In addition, forty-eight people were wounded, thirty-four of them were crossbowmen. Terman's knights were lightly injured four people, and Yuri's light cavalry were injured seven people. Three spear soldiers were injured. It is a good thing that the casualties are small, but it should be noted that this battle has consumed a lot of our combat materials. Taking crossbow bolts as an example, we have prepared 20,000 crossbow bolts in advance. But now there are only 8,000 left, and this is the result of recovering usable crossbows on the battlefield, and the rest are either broken shafts or damaged arrowheads, and need to be remelted."
"There are also crossbow bolts and crossbow strings consumed by the crossbows of the Doles chariot team. We still have a spare crossbow string, but the crossbow bolts have to be remade, otherwise the crossbows will be left on the shelf and cannot be used on the battlefield. After capturing this On the one hand, we did not get food, grass and supplies, and we had more than 3,000 sets of weapons and leather armor that could be seized. In addition, we also captured more than 2,000 war horses, all of which were spare horses for the Lancers and survivors on the battlefield. Fortunately, There is already a large amount of forage stored in this barracks, otherwise we would have to consider slaughtering horses."
"In addition, we found property worth nearly ten thousand gold merits in the enemy's camp, as well as nearly a thousand spears, three hundred long swords, more than six hundred long bows, nearly ten thousand long arrows, and more than five hundred doughnuts. Shield. One hundred and thirty-two four-wheeled carriages, three hundred and forty-one two-wheeled carriages, and 1,252 pack horses pulling them. Only what is occupied is left in the camp. Other than these, the rest are sundries.”
"Now we are faced with three problems. One is what to do with the more than 1,000 captives? Should we release them or take them with us when we continue on the road? Second, the more than 400 prisoners rescued in this army camp and the more than 2,000 prisoners rescued in the big camp. At least half of the young and strong will join our army. They want to avenge that Earl Kobili because their relatives were killed. Who told us to wipe out this Earl Kobili’s sweeping force? They regard us as hope. Should we accept it? Accept? Another question is, the hundreds of people who are going to leave are headed by the son of some viscount, and they hope that we can send him a batch of captured weapons and equipment, should we give it or not?"
Just as Fatty Shi finished his report, there was an uproar in the big tent, and everyone was discussing the three issues that Fatty Shi had mentioned. Regarding the captives, although some people advocate that they be released cleanly, so as not to consume food. However, some people suggested that if the captives are released, they are afraid that they will turn around and join Earl Cobili's command, and they will sell all the details of the family's northbound convoy. Since they cannot be killed or released, they might as well take them on the road, like moving things and setting up camps Some are hard work for them.
As for those young men who want to join the family army and seek revenge on Count Cobili, most people tend to let them join first. As for the viscount's son who wants a batch of free weapons and equipment, everyone's opinion is why give it to him, and if he doesn't have any relatives, he will open his mouth like a lion, even if the team has more weapons and equipment, they can't give it to him.
When everyone was discussing, Lorist clapped his hands to calm everyone down, and then said, "As for the three questions raised by Knight Shredder, I listened to everyone's discussion for a while, and I think that the issue of the captives is also the current issue. They can't be released, and if we want to release them, we have to wait until we are out of the sphere of influence of Count Cobili before releasing them, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to us. For those young and strong who want to join, we must first ask them whether they are willing to follow us to the north, Tell them clearly about the treatment of our family soldiers. Let them join if they are willing, and we will not force them if they are not willing, otherwise deserters will easily appear.”
"The last question, I don't think you can veto the request of the viscount's son. I'm going to meet this man first to see why he can persuade us to agree to give him a batch of weapons and equipment. We won't agree without a suitable excuse. Okay. Now, let me tell you about the summary of yesterday’s battle. I hope everyone will have a snack. This is just the first battle we encountered on the northbound road. I don’t know how many more we will encounter in the next trip. Difficulties. I hope that everyone will absorb the experience and lessons learned from each war, so as to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future."
"In yesterday's battle, we paid a very small price and wiped out more than 3,000 enemies. This is a great victory, a complete victory, and it can even be recorded in the history books. However, we must not forget, like yesterday In fact, this great victory involved several coincidences. The right time, place, and people were all on our side. The so-called right time means that the weather suddenly turned cold and it was about to snow, forcing the enemy to storm our camp due to lack of supplies. As a It is extremely unacceptable for the commander of an army to put all his strength into an offensive like this. It is the easiest to fall into the trap set by the enemy when he does not know the enemy's situation. Yesterday, Count Cobili's The military taught us a good lesson."
"There is also a favorable location. The military camp is a high ground in this area. The defense facilities are complete, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, we responded properly, which enabled us to successfully delay the enemy's entry into the military camp until it was dark and snowing, making the enemy angry. Attacking the heart and snowing and the vision is not clear, so we walked step by step according to the trap we set. If the enemy broke into the camp in the afternoon, what would they do when they saw the wooden partition walls on both sides of the road? What would they do? Wouldn’t it still be possible for the Lancers to form a group and continue along the road? Then everyone will see another result. Even if we can annihilate them, we will have to go through a hard fight and pay a heavy price for casualties. So, There was an element of luck in last night's big win."
"There are people and people. We set traps, led the enemy into the barracks, and used crossbows to deal with the Lancers. We achieved unexpected results and almost wiped out the enemy's Lancers. We used crossbows and archers to deal with them behind the wooden partition wall. The enemy's garrison took the initiative on the battlefield, and that's why they won this big victory. But yesterday's big victory, we have to look at it in conjunction with the attack on the convoy and the capture of the barracks two days ago, to see it as a complete game. The battle. And the beginning of this battle was that our convoy was attacked by the Lancers and suffered a great loss, and even lost one of our companions."
"Looking at this battle, we will find that our family's armed forces are facing a very embarrassing problem, that is, our family's armed forces rely on it. The heavy armor has little room to play in this battle and has become a decoration. This We relied on light cavalry scout squads, knights, crossbowmen and crossbow chariots to win the war. This is not the fault of the Borg knight, not that he did not train the heavy armor well, on the contrary the heavy armor is the elite of the family's armed forces. It's just us One thing was forgotten when the heavy armor was set up, that is, the convoy is mobile, the most important thing for the escort of the convoy is mobility, and the most important thing that the heavy armor lacks is mobility."
"In this battle, the outstanding performance of the knights and the light cavalry scout team also gave us the biggest surprise, but these two teams also exposed their shortcomings. The key to the knights is that they are short of manpower and cannot make a final decision. However, the light cavalry scouting team was also unable to attack the enemy because of the small number of people. Like last night when the overall situation was settled, the light cavalry captured the enemy's camp, and a small garrison guarding the enemy's camp still had seven people injured. This is very unfortunate. It should be. Therefore, taking advantage of the snowy roads for the past two days, I am going to reorganize the family's armed forces and re-establish a new army composition."
"First of all, the knight order needs to be expanded. Now the team still has 88 pairs of spare knight full armor and matching horse armor, plus the original forty-six pairs of the knight order. We decided to expand the knight order into a full-scale A knight team of 120 people, each knight is equipped with three horses, a wartime mount, a daily riding mount, and a rotation mount. Each knight is equipped with a knight attendant, and this attendant is composed of The knights went to find fifteen or sixteen-year-old youths from the military retinue, and each knight assigned a servant to take care of the horses and handle trivial matters. The servants and servants each had a mount, and they did not need to go to the battlefield. Terr Knight Man, you are responsible for the expansion of this knight order, I hope you can bring out a silver knight order for our Norton family."
Terman stood up and bowed respectfully: "My lord, I will definitely live up to my expectations."
"Secondly, Knight Yuri, your light cavalry scout squadron has been expanded into a scout squadron, with four scout squadrons under it, and each squadron has a full staff of 120 people. One man and two horses are equipped with crossbows, spears, spears, and spears. Swords, arm shields, mail and leather armor. A small team of servants will be assigned to take care of the horses and chores. You must train them strictly, not only to be able to attack from a distance, but also to strengthen close combat."
"Yes, sir." Yuri also stood up and saluted.
Lorist looked at Baldfinger, who nodded slightly. Lorist continued: "Next, I will reorganize the heavy armor. The Lancers we faced in this battle gave us a lot of inspiration. After discussions with the Borg Knight and others, we are going to reorganize the heavy armor into The heavy-armored spear cavalry was first expanded into two squadrons, and each squadron had four squadrons. Each squadron was full of 120 people, one man and two horses, and each squadron was equipped with a servant squad. The newly established The heavy armored cavalry is in charge of the Borg Knights and Rose Knights."
Bodfinger and Rod Wells stood up: "Follow your orders, my lord."
Lorist smiled in satisfaction, and motioned for the two to sit down. After getting along for a while, Ross seemed willing to join the Norton family, and becoming a family knight would be a matter of course: "Now all the awakened grudges in the team's armed forces The soldiers must give priority to the selection of personnel for the expansion of these three units. In addition, we will also set up a law enforcement team to maintain the order of the convoy, equipped with infantry ring armor and ax guns, as the law enforcement force of the family. I hope that Mons. Lake Knight can take charge of this law enforcement team and become the law enforcement officer of the family."
Mons Malek stood up and gave a chest salute: "My lord, I am willing to serve you."
"In addition, the guards of the general camp will also be expanded into a squadron, which will not only be responsible for the security of the general camp, but also take care of the prisoners. El, I will leave this to you."
"Yes, my lord."
"Finally, about the Spearman Squad. I decided to combine the Crossbowmen and the Pikemen. Each Spearman squadron was made up of five squadrons, a squadron of Sword and Shieldmen, a squadron of Crossbowmen, a squadron of Longbowmen, two There are two squadrons of spearmen, each with a full staff of one hundred and twenty men. This squadron of spearmen, I am going to hand over to..."
Lorist's eyes fell on Injelek: "Injelek, you will be in charge."
Injelek didn't expect that Lorist would hand over the most numerous spearmen brigade to him, his old face flushed red: "My lord, I, I can't..."
"Why can't you? You have been a town garrison officer, and you are not as experienced as anyone here. Besides, you have been bored in the convoy during this period of time. Every night, you lie outside the tent of Knight Schrader and listen to the corner. I have seen it several times. As a Gold Rank, you should also do something serious. As for your granddaughter, you can rest assured. Knight Shredder has already mentioned to me that he plans to marry your granddaughter when he arrives in the family territory. For your granddaughter to have a beautiful home , you also have to do your best for the family team."
What Lorist said made Jasmine beside the old man blushing and hid behind her grandfather, but Fatty Shi stood up without hesitation and walked over to protect Jasmine in his arms. Everyone in the big tent suddenly burst into laughter, some made fun of Injerek, and some congratulated Fatty Shi for finding his true love.
Injerik was ashamed by what Lorist said, and he guarded because he was worried that Fatty Shi would bully his granddaughter. It's just that his granddaughter and Fatty Shi love each other and are willing to be bullied, and he can't help it. However, when Lorist said that Fatty Shi was willing to marry his granddaughter, he was filled with joy: "Okay, I will definitely do what my lord tells you."
Lorist waved at everyone in the big tent: "Okay, let's go, time is tight, we only have two days to adjust the family's armed forces, everyone must hurry up and cooperate with each other."
"Pat, go and bring that viscount's son here, and I'll see what he can say.