NABC Chapter 282 The God's Whip with a Changed Protagonist!
Chapter 282 The God's Whip with a Changed Protagonist!
Chapter 282 The God's Whip with a Changed Protagonist!
Regarding the castles he encountered along the way, Lin Zheng was not so polite.
As long as the people in the castle refused to surrender, and two or three cannons and trebuchets were mounted, it only took three or two blows, either the gate would be blown open or a big hole would be blasted into the castle, and then the Changsheng Battalion would rush in to capture the prisoners.
It’s okay if you meet a castle owner who is willing to surrender. As the castle owner, the so-called noble family can still live in the castle. Although the movement will be restricted, most of the property will be left behind.
As for the owners of those castles who thought their castles were strong enough to withstand attacks, after the Ever Victory Battalion stormed in and seized them, Lin Zhengcai stayed in the prisoner-of-war camp and prepared to dig mines, no matter if you were a fucking baron or a viscount.
Not convinced?
Just chop it off, since it looks like it has thin skin and tender flesh, so it can’t be used for any physical work if you keep it.
As for the castles that look like they have bigger butts, Lin Zheng decided to use them all as supply points for the entire supply line.
Store some supplies or something, and use it as a supply station for logistical transportation.
Needless to say, in this way, these small castles that were originally scoffed at by everyone really have some serious uses.
Besides, Qin Tu brought these tens of thousands of cavalry, because they were all one man and two horses, and their speed was too fast!
As soon as Manuel received the news that one hundred thousand troops of the Holy Roman Empire had been wiped out, he received news again that the Eastern cavalry was less than three hundred miles away from Constantinople.
This surprised Manuel, because the place where the Holy Roman Empire's army fought with the Easterners was thousands of miles away.
How could those Orientals come so close to their capital so quickly.
can they fly
But the news that came soon made the hero of the Byzantine Empire completely confused.
Those Easterners camped and rested two hundred miles away from Constantinople, and it is estimated that they will be able to arrive outside Constantinople at noon tomorrow!
This time the news is much more detailed. These orientals are all cavalry, and one man has two horses.
Manuel broke down completely: "How can these Orientals be so rich!
It doesn't matter if you can feed so many cavalry, but you can not only send tens of thousands of cavalry to us, but also let them have two horses per person! "
However, his emotion was quickly interrupted by a group of his trusted generals: "Your Majesty, for your safety and for the hope of our Byzantine Empire, please leave Constantinople as soon as possible and go to a safe place." A place to temporarily avoid this crisis!"
Although Manuel was unwilling to leave the capital and palace that symbolized his rights and status, under the persuasion of his cronies, he packed up his things in a hurry and fled out of the city to another city far away from Constantinople.
The next day, Qin Tu led [-] cavalry troops to the other side of the strait outside Constantinople. He heard that the Byzantine king had fled with a lot of money.
This made Qin Tu very unhappy. You can run away, but you will be caught sooner or later, but I will keep the gold and silver!
Immediately ordered his men to collect large ships along the shore of the strait, and he wanted to cross the strait as soon as possible to pursue Manuel.
It took more than half a day to collect less than a hundred larger ships.
It turned out that those large sea ships had already been expelled to other places by the army of the Byzantine Empire, or seized to the other side, in order to slow down the time for the Easterners to cross the strait.
So that they can make sufficient preparations and summon more Byzantine troops to stop this oriental army!
While Qin Tu was collecting the ferry, [-] cavalry with horses behind them rushed over.
Of the [-] cavalry, [-] of them were horses left behind by Qin Tu.
The rest was to search for war horses on the battlefield, together with the [-] or so war horses that Lin Zheng managed to get for them.
Another 100 cavalry without horses, more than [-] miles behind, followed the carriage convoy transporting stone catapults and cast iron bombs, and was rushing here.
The strait here is not too wide, and you can vaguely see a lot of Byzantine troops on the other side, shuttling between the built Juma and various fortifications.
Qin Tu saw that there were many large sea-going ships imprisoned on the opposite bank not far away, so he ordered soldiers to be selected from the army who knew how to operate ships, and finally even those who had seen others operate ships before were selected.
Only less than 1000 people were gathered. Qin Tu asked these thousands of people to follow the collected ships in the strait and learn how to operate the ships in the strait.
To be honest, many Byzantine fishermen who knew how to operate boats could be found here, but Qin Tu still didn't dare to conscript them, and handing over the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion to the enemy's civilians was a foolish thing to do.
After all, the current in this strait is very fast. If the sailors on the ship tampered with it and caused the large sea ship transporting soldiers to capsize, few of the soldiers on board would probably survive.
In the early morning of the next day, the logistics army transporting the trebuchets and cast iron bombs, and the [-] Changsheng Battalion cavalry without horses also rushed to Qin Tu's camp.
Now the war horses in Qin Tu's hands had reached nearly [-] with the capture along the way and Lin Zheng's reinforcements.
All the cavalry had mounts, and [-] horses were also rich.
Qin Tu once again selected [-] young and strong cavalry, and assigned them one man and two horses.
They were all ordered to bring ten days of rations and fodder for horses. After Qin Tu prepared to attack across the strait, he led the 3000 people to chase the 5000 troops of the Holy Roman Empire and escorted the commission.
With the trebuchet, Qin Tu had a firm mind about taking the other side of the strait quickly, and immediately ordered to select a suitable seagoing ship, fix several trebuchets to the seagoing ship as soon as possible, and attack the opposite shore as soon as it was ready.
The army of the Byzantine Empire, who stayed on the other side, had been hearing the news of the continuous defeat on their side earlier, and many soldiers and low-level officers were panicked.
However, their leading generals are very confident. He thinks that those Easterners may be good at land warfare, but the strait here is a natural danger. Since ancient times, countless strong men have been defeated here.
He plans to bury all these orientals here by taking advantage of the natural moat of the strait here, and then he will become the most influential general in the Byzantine Empire.
Because of his ambition, he strictly ordered all the troops under his command to take precautions seriously, no one was allowed to make unfavorable remarks, and anyone who dared to escape was caught and hanged on the spot.
Because of his strong orders, and because the Song army on the opposite side could not find any more ships to cross the strait for a while, the morale of the Byzantine army on the opposite side gradually stabilized.
These soldiers of the Byzantine Empire found that the Easterners on the other side really had no way to attack them. Even the sea ships they looted were not big, and it was impossible to transport a large number of troops at once.
At this time, the self-confidence of these Byzantine soldiers returned, and many officers encouraged their men:
"As far as the broken ships they found, the largest ones are medium-sized sea-going ships. Even if they come to attack, they can't transport many people at a time.
If so many of us can't even kill the few people they came over, then what's the point of our life! "
With the encouragement of officers at all levels of the Byzantine Empire, the morale of these Byzantine soldiers was also ignited. They felt that the time had come to justify the names of the soldiers of the Byzantine Empire. This battle must show the prestige of the Byzantine Empire.
Another day passed, and the trebuchets on several medium-sized ships were also installed.
Qin Tu ordered that these medium-sized ships be loaded with cast-iron bombs, and the remaining small boats loaded with soldiers who had learned how to control the ships were rushed towards the other shore.
The task Qin Tu gave these soldiers this time was very simple, that is, after rushing over, the medium-sized sea-ships approached the fortifications of the Byzantine army on the opposite bank and suppressed and bombed them.
And those small boats took the soldiers on board, rushed to the place where a large number of sea ships were detained, snatched those sea ships, and then began to transport a large number of soldiers to the other side.
Although the Byzantines on the opposite side also thought that the Easterners might rob ships, in order to prevent those sea ships from being robbed, they also deployed heavy troops in the area where the sea ships were seized.
But they never expected that the weapons of these orientals were sharper than they imagined!
Because Qin Tu led the cavalry to kill them, the defeated Byzantine army could not run away at all, and the Byzantines who fled back earlier did not see how these orientals fought.
Therefore, on the side of the Byzantine Empire, they only knew that these Easterners fought very hard, and that all armies would collapse at the first touch, but they didn't know the details.
It wasn't until the medium-sized ships on the side of the Changsheng Camp started to fire on the Byzantine troops who were stationed near the detaining ships to prevent the Changsheng Camp from robbing them.
Those Byzantines know why these Easterners are invincible. This is simply fighting with God!
After only one round of cast iron bombs was thrown, more than 5000 Byzantine soldiers stationed there collapsed.
Although less than 300 people were killed and injured on their side, the cast iron bomb thrown by the trebuchet shocked them too much!
Not only the soldiers, but even the officers ran away, and no one dared to look back, let alone stay and fight.
The dozens of small boats following the medium-sized ships quickly rowed to the side of the impounded large ships, boarded the ships, lifted anchors, and steered these large ships back to the other side crookedly.
Although these sea ships drove crookedly in the hands of these soldiers who had just learned how to operate them.
The soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion waiting here did not hesitate at all, and immediately boarded the ship, allowing these rookie comrades to control the big ship and send them to the other side in a crooked manner.
At this time, the medium-sized sea ships equipped with trebuchets had turned their heads and began to attack the fortifications that the Byzantine army focused on preventing landing.
And the effect is very good. The soldiers of the Byzantine Empire have been blown up and fled in all directions. When these large sea ships carried the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion here, they successfully landed without encountering any resistance.
The next step was much simpler. The first batch to arrive were the Changsheng Battalion infantry. They all opened fire with muskets and threw cast iron bombs when they encountered Byzantine troops hiding in buildings.
Almost without encountering any obstacles, they completely occupied the area with a radius of five miles on the opposite bank, creating an absolutely safe environment for the fleet that transported the army's horses and supplies behind.
When Qin Tu led the army to attack Constantinople, the army of the Byzantine Empire had already run away.
The guy who wanted to be the most influential general in the Byzantine Empire before ran the fastest. He took his guards and Xiruan without even his army, and ran away without a trace.
Qin Tu ordered his men to attack the palace, and after collecting the loot, sent out [-] cavalry troops to chase the Byzantine king, in fact, to chase the gold and silver that he had taken away.
He led the [-] cavalry troops, one man and two horses, towards the Holy Roman Empire.
This time, Qin Tu was determined to regain his fat, and chased all the way to the Holy Roman Empire. Even Xiao Qi did not expect the impact on Europe.
Years later, this attack was dubbed 'The Scourge of God' by European historians.
Because Qin Tu led [-] cavalry into the Holy Roman Empire, and then the remaining tens of thousands of cavalry from the Changsheng Battalion followed.
Later, Lin Zheng led a large number of infantry and supplies to support, and this battle directly blew up the Holy Roman Empire.
Later historians said that Frederick I was originally an ambitious king who could have made a difference, but because he coveted half of the commission from the Byzantine Empire, he buried his empire!
Of course, this is something to say later, the current Qin Tu is still wholeheartedly chasing the army that escorted the gold and silver.
For these old bastards, that thing is a trophy for their buddies. Although a lot of it has to be turned over, the rest is enough for the buddies to take home and let their wives and children live a good life for half their lives.
Why, you guys even robbed me of something!
With one man, two horses and sufficient fodder and food, the thirteen thousand soldiers learned that what they were after was the gold and silver that had been robbed by the Holy Roman Empire.
These guys screamed even more, unless Qin Tu felt that people and horses would not be able to cope with the battle without rest, they would stop to feed the horses and rest if they ordered a rest.
Otherwise, they would settle their meals right away, so it’s no wonder that these guys are so angry. In the past, they won battles and robbed things, but now someone who dared to rob them suddenly appeared, how could these guys be willing.
Soon the thirteen thousand victorious battalion cavalry rushed into the sphere of influence of the Holy Roman Empire.
But the funny thing is that no one from the top to the bottom of the Holy Roman Empire thought that those Easterners could reach them, and they didn't encounter any decent troops along the way.
It's no wonder that the people of the Holy Roman Empire were careless. They just sent [-] troops to help the Byzantine Empire, and half of the commission has not yet been sent to the capital Vienna.
How could they have thought that the armies of the orientals would directly kill their empire because of those commissions.
Moreover, the troops of the Holy Roman Empire that Qin Tu and the others encountered were completely wiped out, and no one could send back the news in time.
Even if it was later discovered that something had happened, the messengers sent out would not be able to get to the front of Changsheng Camp, which consisted of one person and two horses.
(End of this chapter)