Black Iron Crown

Chapter 236: Chen Bing standoff

Klim carefully wiped his armor with a rag, as gentle as his new wife. He knew that this was his best and most reliable partner on the battlefield.

Afterwards, he took out a set of half-length leather armor from the cabinet next to the army bed and put it on his body. This was his family's ancestral armor. He had this set of leather armor since his grandfather's generation.

The overall look of the leather armor is slightly worn, and there are many traces of repairs, which just shows that this leather armor followed his grandfather, his father has been fighting for many years, and it is the best testimony of his family's southern and northern wars.

Putting this leather armor on him, Klim felt a moment of peace of mind inexplicably, as if his grandfather and father were with him.

He took out the long sword from under the bed and put it on his waist. Although they usually train to use long spears more, they have no less training in swordsmanship. At least they are better than most soldiers in the use of long swords.

"Why do you put on the leather armor? Are you scared?" One of Klimt's comrades couldn't help but laughed when he looked at him.

"Your mouth still smells like that! What can I be afraid of? Lord Earl gave me such a good treatment, such a high salary, I should pay my life for him on the battlefield!" Said this, Klim paused. , Stroking the hilt of the long sword at his waist, raised his head and said: "What's more, Lord Earl promised to take care of my family!"

"It's nothing terrible. He took a high amount of military salary to sell his life for the Lord Earl. After his death, his family is well protected!" Klim looked at the comrade-in-arms, stretched out his fist, and said with a smile: "Fearless! Isn't it?"

"Of course! Fearless!" The comrade-in-arms smiled and stood up, putting away the thoughts of ridicule before, and also stretched out his fist and bumped into Klimt, after looking at each other with a smile, he took out his long sword and started on the whetstone. Grind it up.

On the other side, the lord’s army rushed to eat and lay in the barracks as salted fish. They were either gambling or fighting. They would not get up without the order of assembly.

Although they are all regular troops, their salary is not very high, so their enthusiasm is only slightly higher than average.

The sergeants finished their meal early and maintained their equipment. The swords and spears had been loaded into the carriages, and they were all warming up and running around the barracks for some distance.

As for the Scarlet Griffin Knights, they have their own rooms in the castle, at least for a short period of time they will not leave Fort Morand.

Their equipment is also maintained by their own hands. The red steel plate armor on the chest is wiped brightly. The plate armor on the limbs is also neatly placed on the shelf. The chain armor lined below is Brushed with tung oil to prevent corrosion.

Sir Varas walked out of his room, and several other Scarlet Gryphon riders also walked out of the castle with his pace. Outside the castle, the servants had been waiting for a long time, and there was nothing but the leather armor lining them. There is a layer of chain armor, and the protective measures are in place.

So far, at nine o'clock in the morning on February 15, the 23rd of the Empire, Reiner officially issued an order to send troops in the castle.

Three hundred Sergeants Morand, two hundred and forty regular soldiers, fifty Winter crossbowmen and twenty archers, in addition to one hundred and twenty self-employed farmers who responded to the call, this is Infantry strength.

As for the cavalry, there are ten Scarlet Gryphon riders, forty Scarlet Griffon retinues, 20 Takeda Akobe, and 22 Fierce Knights. There are only 15 senior horse archers, and the rest are Fifteen people are still monitoring the movements of the Cladders in the front.

The total strength of these troops is 852 people, not to mention the obedience brought by the knights.

In addition to the troops directly under Rainer, there were 120 knights brought by fifteen vassals, 300 armed vassals, and 480 regular troops, totaling 800.

This is still under the circumstances that Lena asked his vassals not to recruit self-employed farmers and symptom soldiers. Lena's military strength reached 1,653, and he felt that such a strength would even face thousands of carats. There is no possibility of defeat for the Germans.

Such a large army squeezed into the open space in the center of the castle. The lord followed their army, and in the most central position was Rainer's army.

The flag of the red-bottomed iris crowned lion representing Reiner grinned in the cold wind, and the golden crowned lion was sticking out its tongue against the scarlet background, and its teeth and claws were savagely blown by the wind.

The flags of other vassals were also fluttering in the wind. The flags of the vassals were so colorful, and the entire open space was so colorful that it felt like a miscellaneous army.

But Lehner himself knew that compared with the real elite, his group of vassals might not be as good as those of his own, but if the opponent were the group of Klads with short stature and no military discipline, they could still be crushed. of.

Regarding the current situation, Rainer still has nothing to say about lofty ambitions. There is absolutely no possibility that he will be defeated. Although there are many enemies, he can completely fight the rout.

As long as they produce more than one-tenth of the casualties, I am afraid they will be defeated...

Reiner's jaw slightly, gave the order to march, the horse archers in front of them still kept reporting the enemy's movement and position every half an hour.

So all of this is still under Rainer's grasp for the time being.

More than a thousand soldiers went north under the leadership of Leiner and your vassals. It is worth mentioning that the cold-resistant physique obtained by Leiner in the previous lottery can also be used for the vassals. In the army, the marching speed of the team has become very rapid for a time.

Two hours later, Rainer had led the army to the border, but the Klads did not appear here.

Rainer immediately ordered the army to camp. He had already learned everything about the opponent through the horse archer in front of him. They marched very slowly because of hunger and laziness, and they are still grappling five kilometers away. The march of rubbing.

An hour later, Lena's army and even the camp had been set up, and the enemy's figure still did not appear in front of everyone.

Another two hours passed. It was noon. The soldiers had finished their lunch. The Clades finally appeared in front of the camp.

"This...this...this is too much..." Lena's vassals suddenly exclaimed after seeing the clad people who covered the sky like dark clouds.

Earlier, Earl Zhebo had not assembled such a huge army, only 6,000 people, but even that number was an astronomical number in their eyes, let alone these 8,000 people appeared in front of them.

"Don't panic, we only need to blow down their morale, and they will have a large-scale defeat on their own. Believe me, my vassals, I will always lead you to victory!"

Rainer and a group of vassals stood on a small makeshift platform, looked at the enemies of Mimizaza below, and said confidently.