That night, led by Kasbar, more than 7,000 peasant uprising troops moved overnight to a valley near Fainen Manor in southwest of Stuttgart. Following Henry (Wolf)'s instructions, they lie on the hillsides on both sides of the road.
Kasbar is curious:
"Henry, are you a noble family? How could you understand this military knowledge?" In Germany, only aristocratic families generally have the conditions to learn military command knowledge. Ordinary families do not have such opportunities. Just like Casbar, a knife-casting maker, does not understand military command, but only knows how to shout "Brothers, chop him!", the young and dandy brother who took the lead in the medieval era.
Wolf quickly denied that, and he also had excuses Marin had already thought of for him:
"Chief, this is not military knowledge, it is a means of bandits robbing passers-by business travelers!"
This explanation is very reasonable. The bandits like to lie on the side of the mountain road and raid the passing convoy. Kasbar immediately smiled knowingly:
"So that's it, Brother Henry, no matter what you did before, you will be my good brother from Kasbar from now on! If you eat something with your brother in one bite, you will never be missing!"
Obviously, he regarded Wolf as a bandit. The Württemberg area is mountainous, and there are many Württemberg people who have been bandits. This explanation is quite reasonable. Moreover, being a bandit naturally requires martial arts, otherwise the robber would be killed like Brother Long.
Wolf did not explain, and agreed to the past of the "bandit" and pretended to be grateful to Casbar's words. But even the young and handsome guys could beat him up. Unfortunately, Casbar had never watched movies and TV, and there was no comparison, so naturally he couldn't see how exaggerated and fake Wolf's expression was...
Then, Wolf guided the peasant uprising soldiers to dig holes on the tops of hillsides on both sides of the road. At the same time, he sent people to collect large quantities of stones and piled them on the hillside, ready to push them down at any time.
Not only that, Wolf also asked Casbar to take thousands of the strongest soldiers to the nearby Fainen Manor to seize food.
Before dawn, Casbar and his men successfully captured the manor guarded by only Baron Fainen and two servants, and seized a large amount of bread, meat and other food in the manor.
Before dawn, Kasbar returned to the ambush area with his men and food and distributed the bread he snatched from the manor. After all, war will be fought later and he cannot let his men go hungry.
What made Casbar most happy was that he grabbed 10 sets of plate armor and 30 two-handed swords in the Fainn Manor.
This is a treasure. A set of plate armor is worth dozens of gold coins. If you wear plate armor and charge into battle, it is unlikely to be killed by the enemy.
Casbar was so happy to get these 10 sets of plate armor. He was immediately convinced that Wolf had said before, "There must be weapons and armor in the noble manor."
He originally wanted to give all 10 sets of plate armor to his former brothers, but unfortunately, these 10 sets of plate armor are a bit large. After all, as a descendant of aristocratic family, they are generally around 1.7 meters tall, or even 1.8 meters tall. However, farmers in the German region generally look only 1.6 meters tall and cannot wear large-sized plate armor.
Then, Wolf and his men stood out...
After all, their original identities were children of nobles in the Duke of Württemberg, and later they defected to Duke Ulrich. They were all tall enough and were used to wearing plate armor.
In the end, 10 sets of plate armor were assigned to Kasbar himself, his old brothers, and Wolf and others. They will become the most important assault force in this ambush...
...
In the city of Stuttgart, after the defenders woke up in the morning, they suddenly found that the camp of the peasant army outside the city had become empty. Then, the defenders quickly reported to them.
Duke Ulrich naturally knew what was going on, so he pretended to think about it and said:
"The other party may have been unable to capture it for a long time and had no food, so he moved. You should send someone to ride a horse around and see which direction the rebels have run away!"
Soon, the soldiers sent out to reconnaissance came back:
"Report to Lord Duke, the rebels seem to be heading southwest!"
Duke Ulrich nodded, and the people below were in an uproar and they all asked for a fight. But Duke Ulrich knew that this was a trap, so he naturally disagreed with the more than a thousand people from his own lineage to fight.
So he pretended to be hesitant and said:
"Let's do this. In order to prevent the citizens in the city from rioting again, the Stuttgart defenders originally continued to station in Stuttgart. As for the rioters retreating outside the city... Knight Ngor, are you willing to lead two thousand coalition forces to pursue? The enemy has only a few thousand people, and now it is retreating again. It should be able to fight, right?"
Knight Ngor was overjoyed. He was originally dissatisfied with the noble Baron Vincent, the noble of the Duke of Ulrich, who sent him to fulfill the promise of the feudal lord. He was very perfunctory. However, Knight Ngor was just a knight without a fiefdom to surrender to Baron Vincent. If he made great contributions in this battle, he would definitely be able to obtain a fiefdom. So, he was excited...
But he didn't know that the reason why Duke Ulrich fell in love with him and was willing to let him be the leader was because he valued the reckless and impulsive person...
If it were a powerful and calm officer, Duke Ulrich would not be willing to use it. After all, this noble private army was deliberately given to his opponent. To put it bluntly, they were all abandoned children, and they didn't want them to win. And the reckless and impulsive guy, the most suitable person to be the leader of death.
Seeing Duke Ulrich hesitating, Knight Ngor, who thought the opportunity was rare, shouted:
"Duke please rest assured, our 2,000 troops have 100 knights. And most of us have received relatively complete combat training. As long as we catch up with the other side, we will definitely defeat the group of mobs!"
In fact, the Knights Ngor were very dissatisfied with the three thousand defenders in the city who were willing to stay in the city to defend and dare not go out of the city to counterattack. He believed that the army composed of mud legs did not even have a few serious weapons, so it should not be too easy to fight... So, he had complained a lot before. It was precisely because of these complaints that Duke Ulrich noticed this reckless guy...
Before setting off, Duke Ulrich quietly grabbed the Knights of Ngor and promised him that as long as he could defeat the rebels and seize them, he would promise to the fief. If the enemy could be wiped out, it would not be impossible for the baron to...
Knight Ngor's eyes suddenly turned red - Baron |! He can be on par with his current loyal master Baron Vincent...
So, the Knights Ngor, who were in a state that was obviously incorrect, left Stuttgart City with 2,000 noble private soldiers and chased them towards the southwest...
And the Knight Ngor didn't know that behind him, Duke Ulrich stood on the city gate tower, looking at their backs, and silently said in his heart:
"Go, Warrior! May you never return!"
Chapter completed!