To be honest, after several major defeats, George, the Duke of Saxony, seemed to have learned a new skill - the escape expert. Every time he marched and fought, George and his most important thousand Saxony Knights were very close when he set up camp.
而且,为了快速上马,这一千多骑士的战马的马厩,都安排得很靠近骑士们的营帐.这样一来,上马作战……包括上马逃跑,就非常方便了.
比如这一次夜战,因为准备不足,乔治也是在匆忙中带着手下穿好铠甲,骑上战马的.幸好,他手下的嫡系重骑兵,马厩就在边上.
所以,乔治能够轻松地带着一千余人的嫡系萨克森重骑,顺利地穿好铠甲,上马冲出了包围圈.
至于其他人,尤其是其他板甲重骑,因为马厩被放在了军营后方,正好遭到了齐格的佣兵团的突击,无法顺利获得战马.
所以,萨克森联军几千板甲重骑,只有乔治和他麾下的一千余人顺利获得坐骑,并突围了出去.其他人,都被堵在了前后夹击的包围圈里.
Of course, the Saxony coalition also caused great trouble to the Gerdes army this time. This is because, when attacking Groningen, after obtaining the authenticity of the Risbane family, the Saxony army conducted several days of night battle special training to facilitate the night attack and capture Groningen.
所以,萨克森联军对于夜战并非完全陌生.因此,即使格德司军队里有很多精锐的瑞士雇佣兵,还是伤亡惨重.
说起来,夜战中,瑞士雇佣兵的战斗力,还被削弱了许多呢.
In the end, the result of this battle was that George only brought more than 1,000 Saxon plate armor heavy cavalry to break out. And 11,000 other Saxon coalition forces, which had about 19,000 men, became prisoners. And the remaining eight thousand people, some died in battle, and some died in chaotic tramplings at night... Of course, some people broke out, but many of them rushed into the swamp.
大半夜的冲进沼泽地,想活命的几率,好像不大啊……也有的突围向东,找地方躲了起来.
而格德司军队,伤亡也很惨重,大约有5000人的伤亡,让博尼茨元帅心疼无比.
You should know that the Gedes army is different from the Saxon coalition. Nearly half of the Saxon coalition are miscellaneous or semi-miscellaneous troops collected by some small vassal states. During night attacks, those miscellaneous and semi-miscellaneous troops died of trampling on each other were those miscellaneous and semi-miscellaneous troops.
The troops sent by the Gedes Principality are basically elite. The elite soldiers were killed and injured by 5,000, which made Marshal Boniz cry. Of course, three knife wounds on his body were also one of the reasons why he grinned in pain.
但不管怎么说,格德司公国赢了.而且,还会大赚一笔……
为啥呢?这就要提到欧洲战场上的赎人制度了.格德司公国一口气俘虏了1.1万萨克森联军士兵,等于是获得了一大笔赎金啊……
If it were normal, George, the Duke of Saxony, might not have redeemed everyone. For example, those ordinary infantry, especially auxiliary soldiers, Saxony may not have been willing to spend money to redeem them. Last time the Principality of Saxony lost to Marin, he gave up many auxiliary soldiers and civilians.
But this time it was different, because George did not bring many authentic Saxon soldiers to come. The more than 10,000 civilians of the Saxon coalition were mostly still in the city of Groningen, and he could not catch up with the main force that chased the Gedes army.
In the regular army, there were only a few thousand Saxon troops, and half of them died in the battle. In other words, among these 11,000 prisoners of war, only one or two thousand soldiers from the Principality of Saxon. The rest were mostly soldiers under George's allies, including the remaining two thousand Flanders supported by the Habsburg family.
The Flanders sent by the Habsburg family suffered a great loss this time, almost half of which. Those who were alive were basically captured. Marshal Bonitz had a very toothache.
Why? Charles II and Marin both emphasized that we should not cause too much damage to the Flanders of the Habsburg family. Otherwise, we will offend the powerful neighboring forces of the Netherlands.
It is not easy to offend a far-off vassal state and want to cause trouble for themselves, because it is thousands of miles apart. But offending a neighboring powerful country is the rhythm of tearing off at the border...
However, Bonitz had no choice. After all, when the night attack was launched, Bonitz personally took action. He didn't know if he could survive, so how could he be able to kill a few less Flanders?
Besides, when fighting in the daytime, you can still know that the Flanders were placed on the left wing of the Saxony coalition. When camping in the middle of the night, how could the Gedes know where the Flanders were stationed?
Therefore, after a chaotic battle, the Flanders suffered a great loss, with nearly half of the losses and were captured as a whole... Anyway, this hatred, Gedes and the Netherlands were considered to have formed...
Because of the loss of 5,000 elite troops, more than 3,000 of them were from the Principality of Gedes, not Swiss mercenaries. In addition, more than 10,000 prisoners of war are needed to be taken care of, and Gedes' army is not able to pursue George for the time being.
The most important thing is that the Gedes army does not have established cavalry. It is difficult to pursue more than a thousand cavalry of George.
When Duke George was running for more than a thousand heavy horses in the plate armor, he was also very decisive when he did not wear horse armor on the war horses or wear trousers (because he wears plate armor, it will be difficult to get on the horse, and the servants need to support him. But at that time, there was definitely no way to find the servants to help him. Therefore, many poor wandering knights often do not wear plate armor pants, just like when Marin was wandering back then. Mainly, if he did not wear plate armor pants, it would be convenient to get on the horse...), he directly asked his subordinates to put on his breastplate, put on a helmet and weapons, and then he would get on the horse directly.
Therefore, the escaped Saxon plate armor heavy cavalry can only be considered half a heavy cavalry. They even did not even bring a cavalry, but only brought a sword and boarded the horse to escape. The Gedes army, which mainly infantry, wanted to pursue Duke George and his cavalry, was simply a dream.
Therefore, Boniz simply stopped chasing, but repaired it on the spot. As for military rations, there were some in George's camp, which were about ten days, which was 20,000 people and ten days, which was enough for the Gedes army and prisoners of war for a few days. These foods were all soldiers of the Saxony coalition. When chasing, they carried them with their pockets on their bodies, and did not use the Minzhuang transportation because it was too late...
Chapter completed!