European Emperor Cultivation System

Chapter 140

Compared with Caen, which has been plagued by internal and external troubles, Harfleur is monolithic. The chamber of commerce started early in the morning to gather all the surplus grain near the city on ships, and went south along the coastline along the Tuque River. And on to Canapville.

The newly hired troops also dispatched weapons and equipment in several gathering places and then drove to the front line in batches. Craftsmen from all over the country have been rushing to make them overnight, and even at night, thick flames from the furnace can be seen gas.

In order to fully disguise his intentions, Li Peijun trained the managers in the control area. Most of them come from chambers of commerce and have rich management experience, but they are not as polite as real nobles. A few simple diplomatic moves to deal with the meeting messenger.

Canapville, who himself sits in the town, has been completely replaced. The original leaders were first resettled in the surrounding fiefs. In order to reduce the pressure on execution, Li Peijun also specially subsidized each civilian for ten days. Meal money.

The vacant fiefdoms were quickly filled in by the army. Their weapons and armor were first hidden in their respective allocated houses, and they usually showed people in plain clothes. From the outside to the inside, they looked no different from ordinary civilians.

Soon Li Peijun discovered a problem. It seemed that it was unreasonable to have a fief full of old men, so he had to temporarily recruit a few single women from nearby. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, Li Peijun also arranged a separate residence for them.

Even the clergy of the church were replaced by new ones by Li Peijun. Fortunately, Father Marcel recommended a reliable young monk in the monastery. Otherwise, Li Peijun was not very sure that he would be able to deceive these commoners if they really wanted to pretend to be priests. These nobles.

Except for personnel scheduling during wartime, the logistics and intelligence work is basically handed over to the chamber of commerce. The original merchant ships were disguised as the flag of Brittany, and information was continuously collected and transmitted in the city of Caen. They are not interested in the origin of the tax, they only care about whether the tax can be paid in full and on time.

The transferred crew and sailors also began to make small moves in the upper reaches of the river network. In terms of water combat alone, these water-savvy fighters are no worse than the battle-tested knights.

The mobile unit formed by the Orions also began to set up traps deep in the dense forest of the Tuke River. This time, Li Peijun, the leader of the operation team, hand-picked Kesar as the leader. The area is a mixed bag.

The entire battle plan revolved around Canapville, and a net was laid.

"Bruno, I want to say..." Bernard had an idea in his mind, but things were so heavy right now that he never found a chance to explain it in person.

Li Peijun saw the scruples in his heart. Although the army at hand already has a scale of nearly a thousand people, it is still difficult for him to resist Caen, which is several times his own. What's more, the opponent has a large number of cavalry. There are only a handful of them, and there are only a few who can fight immediately.

"I know, you are worried. If our strategy fails and we fight head-on, the infantry will not be the opponent of the cavalry at all." Li Peijun expressed Bernard's concern in one word, and the other party nodded.

"How many war horses are there now, and where are they all?"

Bernard agreed: "The original ones in our three fiefdoms, plus the ones we robbed earlier, there will be fifty horses, all of which can be donated."

"Let's take a look first. Come here and take a look. If you can't train, there is nothing you can do. You can only transport it back, and you can't let the enemy find it." With the mentality of giving it a try, Li Peijun affirmed Bernard's idea. idea.

Keeping fifty war horses in captivity is not a small amount, and it can eat up a viscount every minute, which shows the current economic situation in the area under Harfleur's rule.

Li Peijun assembled all the soldiers, briefly explained the movements and skills of riding a horse, and demonstrated it again by himself. The people off the field were also eager to try, and they all wanted to come up and try their skills.

The burgeoning interest is still not worth the accumulated training after all, and being miserable is an appropriate word to describe the state at this time. Many people have stepped into the air and fell miserably before they got on the horse, what's more. The one was dragged for dozens of meters by the irritable horse.

Those who were lucky enough to get on the horse did not succeed, some because the horse's belly was too tight, and the horse circled back and forth like a merry-go-round, and some had the wrong posture of the royal horse, which annoyed the rebellious war horse, and the whole person was severely beaten. thrown into the air.

Li Peijun looked at and shook his head repeatedly. It is an impossible task for these civilians to master the horses in a few days. It seems that they can only strengthen their combat power from other ways.

"Let's just leave it at that, there will be casualties soon." Unavoidable that the situation would escalate further, Li Peijun hastily suspended the horse training course, and ordered Bernard to take the horses back.

"Order all localities to rush to make full-body shields, add sharp spines to the upper body, and ship as many as you can."

Trying to rely on the large shields of the phalanx to resist the cavalry's impact, but based on the coordination of these recruits, Li Peijun does not have much hope for this, but he is just a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Anyway, there is no shortage of combat supplies at the moment. Sooner or later it will come in handy.

In order to ensure the timeliness of the news, the chamber of commerce will send a message to Carnapwell every two hours, reporting the local preparations for the war. In this era of inconvenient transportation, the messengers who frequently go back and forth between the two places can be regarded as having broken legs. , It can be said that it is using life to convey information.

Li Peijun also got the result he wanted. According to the latest developments in Caen, it seems that Earl Turuk has fallen into the trap step by step according to his predetermined plan. As long as the infantry does not confront the cavalry head-on, the balance of victory will always be Hover on your side.

While he was relieved, Turuk on the other side was really busy with this.

"What? You said that the businessmen don't agree to tax increases? Are you kidding me? Do they still want to do business here? My territory, the rules are naturally determined by me." The preparations for the war progressed slowly at the beginning, and the businessmen refused to cooperate. The attitude annoyed Turuk greatly.

"My lord, these merchants also said that if they insist on raising taxes, they will go on strike tomorrow and do business elsewhere." Nathan promised.

Turuk slapped the table angrily, "It's really unreasonable. If it weren't for this special period, I really want these guys to have a good taste of the fire. Another way, you tell them to collect next month's tax in advance .”

"But...but our taxes have been collected two months in advance."

Turuk kicked the seat beside him into the air, overturned the wooden table in front of him, and cursed: "Go collect it, as much as you can get, and find a way to get the missing part from the subordinate fief. "

"Yes... yes." Nathan was too afraid to speak, and fled away after finishing his reply.

"I'm furious."

Turuk smashed the wooden cross on the wall to pieces with another punch, cursed a few words to God, and then walked away.

(End of this chapter)