Chapter 27: Fatal Flaws (6)
Kursusheng's accident occurred in a corner of the southern territory of the Duke of Aquitaine. In the north of the Duke of Aquitaine, and after leaving the Duke of Aquitaine, it extends northward to the vast territory of the North Sea, these days are still as calm as before, with no difference.
An army crossed the territories of many neutral lords and walked all the way to the Duke of Aquitaine.
The flag of this army is very chaotic, including many small lords under the Duke of Aquitaine. Although there are many territories passed by, no one came out to ask about the matter of this army - ordinary farmers dare not approach the army; the local small lords insist on the attitude that it is better to have less than more, and turn a deaf ear to it. After all, an army of five thousand people is not a small number. Even if you don’t make trouble in your territory, you will eat and stay for free for a night in your place, which is a considerable expense;
Some of the lords have turned to the faction of the Duke of Aquitaine, while others are alertly and keep a neutral eye on the overall situation, and are even more unwilling to intervene. Anyway, this army is an army of the Almani people. These lords of the Almani Federation have frequent frictions, and it is not uncommon to lead troops to fight across half the Federation. The Almani army has the power to operate freely in Almani. As long as it is not for your territory, there is no reason not to let them pass.
Naturally, people along the way would not notice that none of these lords who had flagged the flag were led by the army normally. They were all taken away their weapons, tied their hands and feet, stuffed them in the same carriage, and were closely monitored as prisoners of war. Outside the carriage was surrounded by elite cavalry led by Alfred, and soldiers were also sitting inside to monitor them to prevent these lords from whispering in private. Only when camping every day, up to one-third of the lords were allowed to go out to exercise their muscles and bones and breathe fresh air. Of course, the place of activity must be far away from the army's barracks, and several cavalry would follow closely behind them. In the private conversation between the British Knights, this was called "going out to the camp and walking the dog"
In addition to the "dog walking" that was once in the past three days, what these lords most anticipated was the meal time every day. Although they were prisoners of war, their food was not worse than the time difference in command of the army, which made them feel that they were still nobles. Not only them, but their food was no different from when they joined the army, and even the amount was slightly larger. Such food standards were decided by Ella after careful consideration. After all, the number of people surrendered to the army far exceeded theirs. If the food was poor, there would be a mutiny - anyway, their food was also eaten by the military rations seized from them, and the wool came from the sheep.
The lord was controlled, the food was guaranteed, and the destination was his hometown. With these elements, these enemy troops had no reason to go against Ella. As for the issue of the fact that the military ration could be maintained after the amount was given, Ella did not intend to let the group of soldiers return safely to the Duke of Aquitaine.
The role of this army is to attract the Duke of Aquitaine from Paris.
In order to get the pursuers of the Duke of Aquitaine to catch up as soon as possible, she also shortened the daily march time and gave the surrendered troops sufficient time to rest - these surrendered troops felt very comfortable with this and had a lower awareness of resistance.
According to Aila's calculation, the pursuers of the Duke of Aquitaine should be here in the next few days. She sent Aztlan cavalry to the rear of the army to investigate the information. According to the advice provided by Audmok, Aila replaced all the investigators of this army with her own people. All the information found would be transmitted to her hands first, and then based on the content, whether to disclose it to Aquitaine's surrendered soldiers. In this way, although the number of people in this Aquitaine army was huge, it seemed to have their eyes dug out and their ears were deaf. She could not know what was happening outside, so she could only listen to Ella's mercy.
On this day, Ella finally got the information about the approaching Duke of Aquitaine.
"Wow, the Duke of Aquitaine approached with heavy cavalry himself, only two days away. There are also a large army following him, about 5,000 people. Are you going to give up Paris and chase after him?"
After listening to the Awutmok report, Ella turned her head and asked Alfred who was sitting in the tent together: "Afu, what do you think?"
Instead of answering Ella's question directly, Alfred looked at Awutmok and asked, "Where is Caroling's troops? Where?"
"My people did not find Caroling's troops." Awutmok replied, "Maybe they were hiding too secretly, or were they still farther away?"
"What is Caroling's doing?" Alfred frowned. "After the report, it seems that the Duke of Aquitaine did not suffer any blow. I said at the beginning that the Almani people were not trustworthy, so this matter should not be left to Caroling."
"It's not a big blame for Caroling's lack of troops. The 200 swordsmen and the corps' ability to fight is not as good as that of ordinary spearmen. If the enemy is more alert, it's really hard to achieve any results." Ella said, "But it doesn't matter. This cannot directly change the situation of the battle. As long as he can attack the enemy from the rear during the decisive battle, it will be a big help."
"The Duke of Aquitaine's actions are also a bit intriguing." Alfred pondered, "From his perspective, the troops we have should be 'five thousand rebels', which is quite large, but he dared to rush over with heavy cavalry and put the army behind. In doing so, he probably didn't believe that this army would really betray him. In fact, there was no. In this way, there might be something going on when the two armies contacted."
"He doesn't believe it, so let's add the fire." Ella said, "It just so happened that I'm ready for this situation in advance."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The next day, when the nobles in the carriage finished lunch and were waiting for the opportunity to "walk their dogs" at night, Aila opened the curtain of the carriage.
"Long time no see," she said, "All you guys have been having a comfortable life these few days?"
"Comfort? You are completely abused by prisoners of war." Earl Kelshe vented his dissatisfaction. "We are nobles, and even if we are locked in a cell, we must have our own single room. If you stuff so many of us into the same carriage, you are simply insulting us."
"Then please bear with it. For us, it is already a high treatment to let you ride in a carriage. If Hestein comes, he must be the one sitting on the carriage. You all have to be tied up and dragged behind the carriage." Ella smiled, "There is a more important thing now, the military rations in the army are almost exhausted."
"Do you still want to be hungry for us? We have paid silver coins for our treatment now!" yelled Count Kelshe, "If you can't even handle the meal, what else do you have to fight? Just disband and go home."
They did not have any doubts about the "food shortage" incident, because these days, the food allocated to the soldiers is indeed more than normal, which means that military rations are consumed very much.
"It's not this problem. Of course we can raise military rations, but this involves a problem." Ella turned sideways so that the lord in the carriage could see the British Knights behind him. "A army of the Almani people was raised by the British Knights. If this spread, it would probably cause unnecessary speculation. This is not good for your reputation, right? You have paid money for your reputation, and I don't want to make any mistakes."
"What do you want to do?" asked Count Kelshe. He knew that Ella could not let their men go out to raise military rations.
Chapter completed!