Chapter 177 The retainer system (2)
Back to the war ahead, although the commander of the Qingyue Army who was in the rear shouted when he saw the cavalry attacking the spearmen: "Archers can shoot arrows!" But when he pulled the bow and shot it out, the cavalry was already in front of him. The only ones who were shot by these bows were the bandits who rushed in with the cavalry.
Although the archers were protected by swords, they were unable to protect themselves. The archers almost pulled the strings once, and were killed by the cavalry.
The archers who knew that melee combat with cavalry were equal to seeking death immediately avoided the attacks of the cavalry. The sword soldiers who were still fighting, found that the commander who was jumping happily died after being penetrated by an arrow shot by unknown people, joined the ranks of dodging, and the entire formation immediately collapsed.
The cavalry team did not stay in the formation of the Qingyue Army. They ran a distance through the sword bow formation before turning around. However, this time they did not charge, but put away the sword and gun, pulled the bow and fired.
After shooting a few arrows in a row, Lao Dao found that the Qingyue army was in chaos. He either dodged around or competed with the bandits in groups of three or three, and had completely lost the organization.
Seeing this, Lao Dao stepped forward and shouted, "Surrender and don't kill!"
However, his words caused several low-level officers from the Qing Yue Army to shout: "Don't listen to him, fight me to the death for the sake of your lord!"
These officers didn't know that their shouts not only did not resonate with the soldiers, but instead exposed themselves.
He just finished shouting, and immediately let the old knife shoot to death.
Lao Dao shook his bow disdainfully and continued to shout, "Submit to avoid death!"
Several archers who knew that they had no hope of escaping but were unable to sacrifice their lives, and at the same time felt that they were very weak immediately threw away the bow and arrow and shouted: "Don't kill me, I surrender!"
Lao Dao pointed to a piece of open space next to him and said to the archers, "Go and stay there."
The archers immediately ran to the open space carefully and hurried in the corner in horror.
When Lao Dao saw that no one else surrendered, he waved his hand and thousands of sharp arrows bit into the flesh of the Qingyue soldiers waving their weapons.
Then, dozens of cavalrymen shouted again to surrender and avoid death. This move immediately made the Qingyue soldiers beside them surrender hundreds of people.
The servants from the grassland were very good at this kind of threatening surrender, and they didn't care about their own side, and they just persuaded thousands of Qingyue troops to surrender.
Under the influence of such attacks and shouting words, and the excited slashing of the bandits, the Qing Yue army, which had been destroyed, finally surrendered after three volleys, and rushed to surrender to the cavalry because the bandits did not accept surrender and still killed the captives.
If it weren't for those little leaders who knew their boss' intentions to stop them, I'm afraid that these killing bandits would not only run to the cavalry to chase, but even aim their weapons at the cavalry team.
When the battle ended, the battlefield began to be cleaned. In fact, when the battle was still in progress, the bandits began to be cleaned up.
All the corpses were plundered by them. The bandits wanted to pick up the weapons thrown by the surrendered Qingyue army on the ground, but Lao Dao and the others had the foresight to collect the weapons of these surrendered soldiers first.
I don’t know that these weapons are golden cavalry teams in the eyes of bandits. They are surrounded by bandits with bad intentions. Even the little leaders shouted and taught their subordinates a lesson in anger, and bandits did not disperse.
The captives hid in fear among the guards of the cavalry team, and a strange atmosphere appeared on the entire battlefield. If the cavalry team had not had strong combat power and had already replaced a group of weapons, they would have launched an attack immediately.
At this moment, footsteps rumbling across the street, and thousands of fully armed soldiers appeared. Seeing these army dressed in uniform like cavalry teams, the bandits began to panic.
Although You'an didn't know how the same camp had confronted each other, he was not vague. With a command, he immediately surrounded the nearly ten thousand bandits.
The bandits are now attacked by others. Although they are many, they dare not move around. Only the little leader runs around and shouts misunderstandings. Although no one pays attention to him, there is no fight between the two sides. After all, everyone knows what their boss is going to do.
Seeing that this was not possible, Juan immediately ordered a few soldiers with fast legs to run back to report. After a while, a sound of horse hooves rang out.
The leaders enjoyed the taste of riding on a war horse like Neil. After dismounting, these leaders first thanked the knight with a flattering look on their faces, and then rushed towards the bandits with a fierce look, punching and kicking, "What are you doing? Don't you dare to surround your lord's direct troops? Why don't you hurry up and wait for your lord's inspection!"
The bandits were stunned when they heard this, and then they immediately rushed left and right into a mess. After a while, under the scolding of the leaders, dozens of rows of crooked rows were arranged. Then, under the leadership of the leaders, they knelt down to Kens and saluted: "Greetings to the lord!"
Cons waved his hand and said, "Get up."
Seeing these bandits looking at their expressions, he was speechless, because the bandits actually showed an excited look in their eyes. It seemed that these guys were also people who wanted to obtain land.
Look at the people who were just accepted as retainers, there are hundreds of people in the team who look like leaders. Although these people are under the command of a big boss, they are each in a row.
The retainer of the retainer? Cons found it a little funny because he thought of the circulating among the nobles: "The vassal of the vassal is not my vassal." In other words, "The lord's lord's lord is not my lord."
Haha, this feudal system is really chaotic, but fortunately I am not the one who flew across the peninsula.
In addition to the initial attempt to kill the young master of Qingyue City because he was forced to control the smuggling goods and train troops. He never thought that after occupying Qingyue City, he dominated the king here. He still remembered his identity - the staff officer of the Fifth Regiment of the Fifth Brigade of the Seaside Provincial Security Division of the Ultraman Empire.
After obeying orders and staying in the territory for a year, he went to perform his duties. Now he is smuggling and building the territory and doing so many things, all for the sake of those who follow their subordinates after their posts, and if he can bring everyone with him, he will not bother to pay attention to any territory or territory.
As for failure? If you fail, you fail, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, there are sailors on your own ship who can evacuate at any time. As long as the loss is not large, there will be no losses in actual combat training. Of course, the ones that can be evacuated here refer to the subordinates and subordinates brought by Cons, and the bandits are not divided.
He said he abandoned the bandits who defected to him? It seemed that these bandits were in combination with him. Since they came to pursue profits, they had to be prepared for losses so that Cons would not work hard for the interests of these bandits.
When the clever Youan saw Cons, he leaned over to tell the situation. Cons didn't care about this confrontation, just the two coalition forces fought for each other for victory, and this happened a lot. However, it seems that these bandits are also their subordinates now. Although they are subordinates of retainers, they can also command them.
Thinking of this, Cons smiled at Neil and said, "The captives are all equipped with them. You can pick out the weapons, dispatch officers, and form troops. If you don't have any weapons, be responsible for escorting the captives."
Neil was proud again. The lord asked him to take charge of this task. Didn’t he formally confirm his position as the chief retainer in front of those retainers? So he immediately began to assign work arrogantly.
After Lao Dao's cavalry team handed over the captured weapons, they immediately led the team to rush towards Qingyue City. Although these prisoners said that there were only 3,000 infantry and 600 cavalry in the city, and although it would take several days for the city lord to invite mercenaries, Lao Dao and the others still hoped to strike while the iron was hot. Even if they could not attack the city, they should cut off the city's contact with other places.
The bandits did not know whether they were unified under the same banner or because the leader scolded them. Anyway, they cooperated with Neil's work very well. In just a short while, they picked out 7,000 fully equipped elite soldiers.
The seven thousand Qingyue Army dispatched was equivalent to giving weapons and equipment to the bandits. Now the soldiers picked out all have all the equipment from the Qingyue Army. If they hadn't been under the banner, they would probably be the same as the Qingyue Army.
Although there were more than 2,000 remaining bandits, old and weak, who were very dissatisfied, they also followed the orders to guard the Qingyue Army captives who were holding wooden guns and stabbing more than 3,000 people.
Although there are huge differences in number and physical fitness, the prisoners of the Qing Yue Army dare not cause trouble at all.
These are all old bandits. Not only are they extremely fierce, but they can make people tremble with their eyes alone. At the same time, they finally get a chance to obtain land. They will never let anyone destroy it. They will definitely block the gods and kill gods, and destroy demons.
Neil is very skilled. When he assigned officers, he released seven positions of commanders to allow the new retainers to compete for, but he put his retainers in as the tenth governor. When the new retainers decided on the commander of the thousand governors and were about to decide on the centurion, Neil had already taken three hundred-man teams composed of the strongest bandits in his hands.
Because of the small number of people and the new retainers are not concerned about Neil's old retainers, they all forgot that Neil had only a few dozen subordinates, but now it has become three hundred.
Although the army of bandits was still crooked, they would not be rushing around with the big bosses like before, and they all knew how to follow grassroots officers like the chief clerk.
Seeing that the bandits suddenly formed an army, Cons looked at Neil a little differently. Although there were help from other new retainers, Neil was also the commander.
Just as Cons was about to order Juan to lead the team to continue, a cavalry ran back quickly to report: "Sir, our cavalry team ahead encountered enemy cavalry, and now the enemy cavalry has been wiped out. None of the enemy escaped and all the enemy was seized, and more than 500 of them can be used immediately."
"Well done, how are our losses?" Cons asked hurriedly.
"Our side suffered minor losses, no one died in battle, but dozens of people accidentally fell and injured." The cavalry said something that shocked everyone.
"What? How can you win so easily?"
Cons was very surprised. Although most of the cavalry on his side were prairie cavalry, and his riding and archery skills were very powerful, he could not be so powerful, right? He actually killed the opponent's six hundred cavalry with zero deaths?
Neil and other retainers were staring at the side with wide eyes and opened their mouths in a daze.
They did not suspect that the cavalry was lying and it was possible to falsely report the results of the war, but falsely reporting the losses could not be done. You can tell by checking that the lord's cavalry was so powerful? Not only did they destroy the treasure cavalry in Qingyue City in just a short while, but all the war horses were seized without a single person. It was really amazing.
The cavalry said with disdain, "The cavalry in Qingyue City is a heavy cavalry. Not only can they not be able to ride and shoot, but they are also slow. They thought they could ignore the bow and arrow with their armor, but they actually rushed towards us with a long spear, but they were killed by us while they were retreating.
"When they escaped, we easily caught up and killed the rest. In this way, except for dozens of war horses that were injured by the enemy themselves, the other war horses were intact."
Neil, who knew the appearance of the cavalry in Qingyue City, couldn't help but ask, "Sir, the cavalry in Qingyue City are all wearing armor, how can the bows and arrows shoot them to death?"
The cavalry said a little distractedly: "It's very simple. When you are on the front, you can shoot your eyes directly. When you are on the back, you can use a rope to cover your neck and pull it off, then run a few laps."
Thinking of the cavalry's necks rolling on the ground, Neil and others felt chills and sweated coldly, because there was a hole in the eyes of the mask, which had only a mask on their body armor, and they actually shot arrows into it?
Are you a human being?
Just when everyone was shocked, another cavalry came to report: "Sir, when the cavalry team was patrolling the four directions, they found countless enemy troops gathering towards Qingyue City."
"Countless stocks?" Everyone was shocked again. The word "Countless" definitely means a huge number. Is this a small number of people enough to kill them?
"How many people?" Cons asked hurriedly.
If there are too many enemies, such as hundreds of thousands, then he will definitely turn around and leave immediately without saying a word. Idiots will not rely on thousands of people to fight hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in enemy territory.
"There are hundreds more, and the smaller ones." The cavalry replied.
Chapter completed!