In York City, the French commander François Knight was puzzled by Sivague's insistence on not allowing the French army to participate in the war in full. After all, if experienced French troops participate in defending the city, the city walls will be more stable.
But Sivague has always disagreed and only asked the French army to go up to the city walls to help in critical moments. In addition, Sivague asked the François Knights to send 4,000 French troops every night to guard against the British army's night attack.
After mingling with Marin for a while, Sivague attached great importance to night attacks and preventing night attacks. Of course, the French also attached great importance to them. After all, their predecessor, King Charles VIII, was defeated by Marin's night attacks. The French army also added a mechanism for night attacks after that battle.
However, the night attack mechanism requires diversion of many people to turn the night off day and night, which is very unfavorable to exert overall combat effectiveness. However, if half of the French army is arranged to help with the profession, there is no need to send their own recruits to stay off night. In this way, everyone's combat effectiveness is maintained very well when all the Fifth Legion soldiers are not in disorder in the biological clock.
The French were also happy to be idle, because there was no danger at night. If it were a sinister person like Henry VII or Thomas Stanley who led the troops, there might be a night attack, but a young man like Henry Percy was more impulsive, and he preferred to defeat the enemy with a dignified attitude.
As a result, the seven thousand Frenchmen were divided into two shifts - one was 4,000 people on duty at night, and the other was 3,000 people on duty during the day, and the other was responsible for helping guard the city. Whenever there were loopholes, they would go and help.
A few days ago, the French helped the Fifth Army many times, but after a week, the French became more and more idle and could not find any opportunity.
It doesn't matter to other French soldiers, because they were not willing to fight for Edward. Someone helped defend the city, and it would be better if they couldn't use them?
But the Knight François was a little unhappy... Why? Because he remembered Edward's promise...
Edward once promised that as long as the Knights of François helped him guard York City, he would be rewarded with an earl. If the French army he commanded had no chance to show his face, he would not have the nerve to ask Edward for the position of the earl. All things were done by Sevague, and he was worried that the title would be snatched by Sevague...
So, the Knights of François began to discuss the rotation with Sivague. But Sivague did not agree, but instead shirked the responsibility and said it for two days before talking...
"General Sivague, your soldiers are suffering a lot of casualties. Why don't you let us help defend the city?" François asked curiously.
"According to His Majesty Edward's instructions, I'm training!" Sivager had thought of a response plan for a long time, and he naturally spoke up when he answered.
Sivague did not tell François that he was a Friesian, and the French did not know that Sivague's Fifth Corps was Marin's man. This was specifically explained by Marin. Marin wanted the French to think that this new army was prepared by Edward. In this way, when these Frenchmen returned to their country, they would tell Louis XII that Edward had prepared a new army of ten thousand people. Then, Edward would be suspicious of Louis XII as having made a premeditated plan, and Marin himself was washed away by the French.
After all, although all the ten thousand troops of Sivague were recruits, they were obviously trained. If Louis XII knew that Marin had 10,000 English recruits and had prepared a few months ago, they might guess Marin had ulterior motives...
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"Training?" Knight François was puzzled for a while, but his eyes soon lit up...
"This is indeed a good way to train troops! The battle to defend the city is not very dangerous, and the recruits are not easy to collapse. It is such a good idea! No, I have to report it to Your Majesty!" Knight François said excitedly. The Majesty he said was naturally not Edward, but Louis XII.
But Sivag poured cold water on him:
"General Francois, it's not that simple..."
"Where is not simple?" François was a little puzzled.
Sivag raised a finger and said:
"First of all, these ten thousand new soldiers are used to defend the city. If there are no veterans to support the formation, they will likely collapse... The reason why I dare to train in York City is because you, 10,000 veterans, are behind the city wall. Even if we collapse, you can help drive the enemy back..."
The Knight François thought for a while, nodded, and agreed. But he quickly said excitedly:
"It's good that way. We will let the new soldiers defend the city in the future, and the veterans will suppress the formation under the city. In this way, using the cruel siege battle can indeed quickly train new soldiers!" He saw the improvement of the soldiers of the Fifth Legion these days.
Sivag shook his head, raised his second finger and said:
"It's not like this. We have a second prerequisite for training like this..."
"The second condition? What is that?" Sivague asked anxiously. If he summarized a good training method and reported it to King Louis XII of France, his title would definitely be improved...
"The second condition is that the enemy outside the city does not know that there are 20,000 troops in the city... If they knew that there are 10,000 veterans and 10,000 new soldiers in York City, they would probably not dare to attack the city with such confidence..." Sivager said slowly. To put it bluntly, it was because the British army lacked enough intelligence. After all, the British army had lost control of Yorkshire for almost two years, so the intelligence work was naturally inadequate. Moreover, the Fifth Army was lying on the day and night, and took small trails to York City, which was very hidden.
The Knights of François thought about it and it was true. If he led his troops to attack the city and learned that there were as many enemy troops as he did, he would definitely be much more cautious. The British army outside the city probably didn't know that there were also 20,000 troops in the city at this time, so he was so relieved to attack...
"No wonder you didn't let our army go up to the city wall together. It turned out that you were afraid of scaring each other..." Knight François suddenly realized.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "So, General François, if you want to train new recruits and let new recruits train through defending the city, you must keep it confidential and make the other party not aware of the existence of the new recruits. Otherwise, the other party knows that you have a lot of troops and will not be willing to play with you. Or, other measures will be taken..." Sivague did not hide his personal information, and enthusiastically shared his experience with the Knights of François.
However, if you think Sivague is selfless or stupid, then you are wrong. It is not Sivague who is selfless and generous, but Sivague understands that this knight named François will not return to France alive...
As a middle-aged veteran and political experience, Sivag knew that this promise was difficult to fulfill after learning that Edward had promised to be enthroned François as Earl. However, it was unlikely to let Edward, a future king, rely on the debt. Therefore, the best way is to let the Knights of François die reasonably after success... In this way, Edward can save a Count and a large fief...
Sivager didn't know if Edward was a ruthless monarch, but he at least knew that his monarch Marin was absolutely ruthless... Even if Edward didn't take action, Marin would probably help deal with this nasty French knight...
You know, the Fifth Legion began to be formed quietly last year. Even Edward did not discuss it with Marin at that time. It can be seen that Marin had already planned to England.
Moreover, Siwager had a terrible intuition-he felt that his master Marin might not have planned Northumberland and the Isle of Wight discussed with Edward, but England...
Chapter completed!