Outside the city of Schleswig, on an early summer night, the moon was sparsely bright. At about 10 o'clock in the evening, a soldier suddenly quietly drove out from the military camp west of Schleswig.
The army was about 250, which happened to be a company. The company leader Petrak, who was born as a Wandering Knight, came from the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbitel of the Welf family.
It was not too early for Petrack to surrender to Marin, but it was not too late. Being able to join the Third Legion and become the company captain in charge of 250 people proved that he still had some ability.
However, although he has abilities, he is not very high. When others are more capable than him, it is difficult for him to be promoted to a higher-level phalanx leader.
Originally, this was nothing. However, since Steindorf, who was a civilian, served as the commander of the Third Legion and promoted three civilian-born phalanx leaders, Petrack's mentality was completely unbalanced...
In his opinion, he was a knight of noble blood from the Knight family. If his boss was also from the Knight family, he would not have any objection. However, not only was their legion leader a civilian, but now, his immediate superior's phalanx leader has also been replaced by a civilian, which made him very annoyed...
In his opinion, it was considered a very lucky thing for a civilian to be the captain of a 25-man team. He was the commander of the legion and the commander of the phalanx... that was simply a joke...
He had never been to the First Legion and the Second Legion. In the First Legion, civilians served as phalanx commanders, which was common.
Why? Because the First Legion and the Second Legion were established relatively early. At that time, Marin was low in identity and was not respected. Therefore, there were no wandering knights willing to surrender to Marin.
Therefore, the First Legion and the Second Legion had to use civilians as senior officers. When the Third Legion was established, Marin had completely gained a foothold in the East Frieslander Kingdom and was widely recognized by the outside world. At this time, a large number of wandering knights came to vote, and Marin simply formed a new Third Legion in the city.
Therefore, in the early Third Legion, the middle and high-level officers were basically composed of wandering knights, and the officers also had a strong sense of mutual identity.
But later, Steindorf, the commander of the Musket Battalion of the First Legion, led a large army to Rome to support the Pope ascend to the throne. After returning from Rome, Steindorf lost his place in the First Legion. So Marin transferred Steindorf to the Third Legion.
When he first arrived at the Third Legion, Steindorf naturally brought several "people" to help him. But Steindorf was born from a civilian, and his subordinates were naturally all civilian, and one of them was even from the same mountain village as him.
This time, some officers from the Noble-born family in the Third Legion had an unbalanced mentality, including Petrak...
In their opinion, it is a great blessing for you, Steindorf, to be able to become the commander of the legion. However, it is too much for you to promote your civilian officer to be the commander of the square...
You should know that in other countries, the ones who can serve as company captains are at least wandering knights. Those who serve as phalanx leaders are at least knights with titles and fiefs, or even barons. Those who can serve as legion commanders are at least barons, and are usually earls.
For example, the one who gave Emperor Maximilian I the previous commander of the 15,000 army was Frederick II of the Hohenzollern family. Later, although Frenzberg, who was dug from Marin, was promoted to the new commander of the legion. However, Frenzberg was also from the Knights family and was also named the dual barons of the Baron of the North Sea and the Baron of Austria. He was considered noble in blood and noble in status.
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Therefore, some wandering knight officers of the Third Legion looked down on Steindorf a little. But because Steindorf was also named baron, they did not dare to say anything.
However, the three civilian phalanx leaders promoted by Steindorf later made some wandering officers of the Third Legion angry. Because only one of the three new phalanx leaders was previously named a knight for his military achievements. The other two are still white...
Therefore, there were many officers who were centrifuged due to bloodline reasons. Later, due to personnel changes, some of these people were promoted and no longer emotional. And those who were not promoted not only retained the resentment in their hearts, but also expanded...
In addition, the Third Legion was stationed in Schleswig Province, far away from the capital Orich. Therefore, the princes who later tried to obtain the agricultural secrets of the North Sea Kingdom preferred to poach people from the Third Legion. Because most of the officers of the Third Legion were wandering knights. Many of them, their fathers and brothers were also serving in other vassal states. It was more convenient to win over and buy them through their fathers and brothers in the name of "visiting relatives"...
Sure enough, a group of middle- and low-level officers from the Third Legion who were dissatisfied and hopelessly came from Wandering Knights quickly became shaken and accepted the enlistment of these princes, with as many as dozens of people.
Petrak, the veteran company captain of the Third Army's third party formation, was the one who responded the most actively...
The so-called old company captain is not an honor. Because the Beihai Army has frequent wars, many opportunities for meritorious service, and has quick promotion. The old company captain is equivalent to not being promoted for a long time, which is not a glorious matter.
Petrak also felt a little humiliated because several of his subordinates have now appreciated and become the company captain, and are on par with him. Even one of the original subordinates has become the leader of the square, which has always been very dissatisfied.
Previously, after Malin left, rumors of Malin's death appeared. At that time, several princes sent people to win over. Although some officers were shaken, they were also because Petrak was the first to respond and even help persuade the hesitant. Then, the Third Legion had dozens of chief and deputy company captains and small team leaders, and began to be disloyal.
When Marin's "death" was "confirmed", these dozens of people changed their previous hesitation and defected to the princes without hesitation. And when everyone was hesitating, Petrak surrendered to the princes who came to win over him - Duke Brunswick-Wolfenbitel. The person responsible for winning over him was his father - Knight Marley, who had long been loyal to Duke Brunswick-Wolfenbitel.
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Tonight, Petrak led the entire company to send troops without authorization, intending to attack a nearby fertilizer processing site and seize the secrets of Beihai National fertilizer.
Before, Petrak had thought of many ways to get the secrets of fertilizer. However, the fertilizer processing plant was very vigilant, and he could not find out the secret even if he tried every possible way.
Therefore, this time he planned to directly send troops to attack the fertilizer processing plant and violently seize the confidentiality of fertilizer. After all, there are only hundreds of guards in the fertilizer processing plant, and they are all militias on the second line.
Petrak's company has 250 people, all of whom are veterans of war. He also attacked in the middle of the night to deal with the hundreds of militia guarding the fertilizer field.
Chapter completed!