Chapter 489 The Faces of the Tang Imperialists
London.
This is just a small town at this time.
At this time, England was still in the chaotic seven-nation era. Wessex, Essex, Sussex, Kent, Northumbria, East Anglia, and Muria were divided. London belonged to the Kingdom of Kent, but the capital of the Kingdom of Kent was in Canterbury. The Catholic Church first spread to England from Kent, so the Archbishop of Canterbury became the leader of the church in Britain.
"This ghost place is so dirty!"
On the dock in London, His Highness covered his nose with a small handkerchief.
In front of her was a small town surrounded by broken walls. In the mist of England, there were earth-walled thatched huts everywhere, low, dilapidated, sewage flowing everywhere, and decaying black everywhere. It was rare to see a few houses of stone and bricks, but even such houses looked equally decayed because of moss. The ragged poor people rushed to the Tang soldiers like crazy in this wet decay. A group of piglets ran happily among the crowd, splashing mud full of stench. All the Tang soldiers covered their mouths and noses almost without exception, and a few dirty children wearing sacks and their dogs followed behind the piglets.
This is London in the eighth century AD.
The city that will dominate the fate of the world for a century in the future.
"We're going to Canterbury!"
Yang Feng said to the official who was facing forward in the old English he remembered.
The latter answered the birds' song blankly.
"Ma, I can't speak!"
Yang Feng said speechlessly.
They did not know the language. What Yang Feng said was modern English, which evolved from Middle English during the Renaissance, but Middle English was formed after the Norman Conquest. Before that, it was Old English, but Old English was a product of the fusion between the Saxon English during the Danish conquest. In other words, what Yang Feng said was three generations separated from what these people said! If they could understand each other, it would be a complete devil.
Fortunately, this problem was solved soon.
Because a nobleman and a bishop arrived immediately, when His Royal Highness Byzantine Princess explained his identity in Latin, the two great men were stunned and hurriedly expressed their attentiveness. After a conversation, His Royal Highness told Yang Feng about an unfortunate news.
"No?"
Yang Feng said in surprise.
"No, they don't have the kind of horse you said!"
His Highness the Princess said.
In fact, Yang Feng also knew that Sharma appeared in the eleventh century, but since it could appear, it was definitely the result of selection and cultivation. One of the varieties of Sharma cultivation must be the same giant horse. No matter how much the Mongolian horse and Dian horse are cultivated, it is probably impossible to produce Sharma, so he came with hope, but he did not expect that the hope would be shattered like this.
"Then what are their soldiers riding?"
Yang Feng asked unwillingly.
At this moment, a entourage came over with an extremely majestic black war horse.
Yang Feng immediately knew what they were riding.
The Dutch Friesian horse is the symbol of medieval European knights, but this horse is at most an Andalusian horse, and there is still a little difference from the giant he requested, unless...
"Yang Zhong!"
He turned around and shouted.
"Master, I'm here!"
Yang Zhong immediately stepped forward and bowed and said.
"Send the order to occupy this city!"
Yang Feng waved his hand and said.
The Byzantine princess looked at him in shock.
The next moment, the bells suddenly rang on the warships at the dock. The Tang soldiers who were trading with the people threw down their things as quickly as possible, then took off their rifles and rushed to the officers who had already started blowing the whistle. At the same time, all the gun doors on the warships were opened, and the other transport ships waiting to dock quickly dropped their boats, and ships of marines began to land.
This sudden change also shocked the bishop and the nobleman, who was preparing to personally protect His Royal Highness the Princess to Canterbury! Why did he use force in a blink of an eye?
He hurriedly drew out his sword.
"you……"
Before he finished speaking, Yang Feng's hand suddenly appeared on his neck, and he picked up a toy and threw it into the Thames River. Then, without even looking at it, he turned to the princess and said, "Tell him, let him inform the King of Kent, and send four war horses with shoulder heights not less than nineteen palms here within a month. In addition, let the King of Kent notify the kings of the other six kingdoms that they must also send four war horses with a height of not less than nineteen palms, a month's limit. Before I even came in a month, I will start from Canterbury, one city after another. I will send it to me no matter what method they use, and I must send it to me, and it must be two stallions and two mares."
"Uh, this is too hard, right?"
His Highness the Princess said in surprise.
"Why are you talking? You want to buy Pi stocks again!"
Yang Feng shouted with a deep face.
"You fight!"
His Highness the Princess said with a sarcastic smile.
Of course, she quickly told the bishop about the misfortune. At this time, gunfire sounded on the dock, and dozens of entourages of the noble fell under the bullets of the Tang soldiers almost instantly. The people screamed in horror and ran around. The few soldiers on the London walls closed the city gate in panic, and then the naval guns fired on the nearest battleship, and the city gate was blown away in a blink of an eye. More soldiers took small boats to start stepping onto the Thames River. When a twenty-four-pound mortar cannon was set up on the shore and fired a flowering bullet into the city of London, less than one hundred soldiers guarding the city instantly scattered and ran away. The Tang army lined up to enter the city of London and requisitioned the churches and noble mansions in the city...
Poor this noble mansion is not as good as the house of an ordinary little landlord, Shuye.
In short, the Tang army occupied London in this way.
Five days later, the Kent army, which had counterattacked about less than 3,000, arrived, with only more than 200 cavalry, followed by a large group of leather-armored archers without armor. They first sent an envoy to negotiate righteously. After the negotiations were fruitless, the chain-armored cavalry began to move forward with long spears, and the infantry and archers behind them followed closely. But before they could enter the distance of the shooting, the cannons on the Tang army opened fire first, and then the Kent army's war horses were shocked without any suspense. The frightened war horses carried the knight master on their backs and then collided between the infantry and the archers. The entire formation was in chaos. In this chaos, the infantry in the Tang army line began to move forward and soon entered the rifle range and opened fire.
The battle ended like this.
The Tang army defeated the Kent army without any damage and seized more than a hundred best Friesian horses.
A cavalry team was quickly formed.
And it was a heavy cavalry team. After the Friesian horses were paired with vests and full of plate armor, they suddenly rose to the level of battlefield monsters. In view of the Kents' irrational behavior, King Yang decided to punish them, leaving half of the Marines to station in London, he personally led two infantry battalions and artillery battalions, and the heavy cavalry posts launched an attack on a nearby castle. The lords there wanted to resist stubbornly, but after a volley of eighteen twelve-pound field artillery, he chose to surrender without hesitation.
Then he further confirmed to Yang Feng that there was no horse with a shoulder height of two meters.
In fact, the most popular war horses in Europe at this time were mainly Friesian horses, and Iberian horses represented by Andalusian horses.
The latter was the main war horse of the cavalry in the Roman Empire, while the former came from the lowland forest. Because the cannibals controlled Iberia, the lowland horses were becoming the source of war horses for European knights. However, this system was not just a species of Friesian horses. In fact, there was no breed at that time. The war horses in the late European period were gradually cultivated, and were cultivated by those monasteries, and their names were also derived from these monasteries. But the origin was nothing more than the Iberian horse system.
The lowland forest swamp horse system in Western Europe is similar in size. These guys start at 1.5 meters high, but it is almost unheard of for breaking through 2 meters. It can still be found over 1.8 meters high, but it must be specially raised by the great nobles to carefully serve and dress up. Some monasteries that raise horses may also be found. If you really want to be lucky, you may be able to find one or two horses that meet Yang Feng's requirements, that is, the nineteen palms, or more than 1.9 meters high.
This is the explanation of the little noble as a qualified leader.
"I'll reward you!"
Yang Feng pointed to a set of bright light armor beside him and said.
"Thank you for your reward!"
The little noble said excitedly.
"You inform all countries for me that I did not come to occupy your land. I came to find war horses with shoulder heights of more than nineteen palms for him. This is what he heard from the Dashi merchants. This is my task. If I cannot complete the task, I will not leave. If I cannot complete the task, I will continue to attack continuously. Whether Kent or other countries are within my attack range. But if I get such a war horse, I will immediately return to the Tang Dynasty. I must make it clear. If I can't find it for a month, I will look for one year. If I can't find it for a year, I will look for two years, or even five years, or ten years, and I will transfer more troops from the Tang Dynasty. Our empire has an army of ten million people. I think a small country like Kent is estimated to be slaughtered. Even if the entire British Isle is slaughtered, it will probably not exceed 100,000 soldiers.
Do you understand?"
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"His Excellency Baron, I hope you will be better to consider the words of His Highness the Prince. He once slaughtered the capital of the Great Seal Empire and tied the Emperor of the Great Seal Empire to a pillar and roasted it into coke. If you do not meet his requirements, then it is estimated that the kings of the seven kings will be roasted into coke by him in the same way.
You should have heard of the Whip of God.
Then you may not know that the Huns came to Europe because they were driven away by the Han people in the East and had nowhere to stay, so they had to flee west to Europe."
His Highness the Princess added after the translation.
"Your Highness, I will convey your meaning to the monarchs of all nations."
The little nobleman said tremblingly.
"Go, I believe in you!"
Yang Feng held a sword with his hands, rolled it in his hands like kneading dough, and then said carelessly.
The baron wiped his cold sweat and left quickly.
However, his efforts were not smooth sailing. After all, Yang Feng was indeed a tough guy. It was just like finding a needle in a haystack. King Kent himself had several war horses with a height of more than 18 palms. He was willing to give them to Yang Feng for the sake of the country. But the problem was that Yang Feng's standard was nineteen palms! But just when they were hesitant, Yang Feng captured another aristocratic castle, and this time he brutally hanged the men of the noble family and captured all their women as slaves. He rewarded a lot of money in the aristocratic castle to the local poor, making the poor people in all places ready to move.
At this time, King Kent had to act quickly, and finally found a nineteen-palm horse in the stable of a great noble family, and two similar horses in a monastery.
The great nobles contributed.
But the monastery refused!
Fortunately, King Yang was reasonable. After the envoy of King Kent told the situation, he immediately transferred a battalion soldiers to pull the cannon and bombarded the monastery with cannonballs, and kidnapped all the horses, including the two horses, and swept away all the money, and the monks made them complete their merits.
But one horse is missing.
This one can be more generous and replace it with four or eighteen palms!
In this way, the mission of the Kent Kingdom was completed.
Then King Yang's army crossed the Thames and moved to Essex.
Or routine.
He personally led a large army to break through the castle, hang the nobles, and the women took away the wealth, and took away the ones who looked down upon it, and distributed it to the people. After only breaking through the two castles, the kings and nobles of Essex plundered the whole country, and finally found two nineteen palms for him, and used four eighteen palms and twenty seventeen palms as compensation and completed his mission.
Then Yang Feng went straight to the next stop, Wessex.
King Wessex quickly sent his envoy to carry a large amount of livestock and food to welcome friends from the East on the borders of the two countries, and even sent a delicate little beauty. In view of his sensibility, King Yang temporarily collected his magical powers. King Wessex mobilized the national power to plunder within his territory, but unfortunately he only found one nineteen palms and two eighteen palms. The rest had to supplement it with a large number of seventeen palms. In short, it can be said that he had plundered all the best war horses in the country, and then wiped the cold sweat from his head and sent the demon away.
Then before Yang Feng came to visit, the people from East Anglia and Sussex sent all the 17-palm-plus war horses that could be looted to London, but even so was not enough.
Fortunately, Yang Feng finally made a mercy.
If there is not enough horses, let’s get the beauty!
Anyway, they are all riding.
Chapter completed!