In the outskirts of Bordeaux, French infantry in variegated clothes were erecting spears, combs, long swords, long halberds, steel crossbows, and old soldiers gathered into huge soldiers and spread their formations through the forest.

On the wide road, more than 200 proud knights armed with steel in blue battle robes formed a loose formation. Beside them, they were followed by entourages wearing burqa mail holding up aristocratic flags. The iron helmet and tall horse with only one line appeared to look like icebergs.

Where they appear is the battlefield.

General Franco's well-equipped mercenaries made him proud, but this was nothing compared to the knights who came to Bordeaux.

There are three important factors in war: money, money, or money.

France has the advantage, from peasants to kings, with good lighting, fertile soil, distinct seasons, and sufficient precipitation, making everyone here live better than other European countries relative to their own class.

Where can we be richer than France in dry and rugged Spain, cold and humid Germany, and rainy England?

A good environment brings wealth and more population. There are knights everywhere. Why is France powerful? Because having money means fighting power, better nutrition, better war horses, better armor and more martial arts competitions that have money and nowhere to spend, and there are more knights.

If a knight is supported by five hundred people, then France, which has a larger population, will have more knights.

Of course, the finances of the French royal family are not much better than those of Yi Boss. Even after Li Dan took over Seville, he was comparing to the second brother of Fei, but there is a reason. The third brother is rich, but the money was spent on the extremely rare central standing army in Europe, and the knights were pardoned.

The religious war between the two sects fought six times from south to north, from east to west on the land of France. Many external countries intervened, and the royal family had long fallen apart in any country. It was this standing knight unit that allowed the third son to sit firmly in Paris.

In this life, the mercenary leader Franco has never thanked someone like this at this moment, thanking Chen Jiujing for ordering him to retreat westward in advance.

Otherwise, even without this order, he would lead his army to flee from the battlefield in a hurry when he saw these knights, but when he wanted to retreat, these knights might not let him retreat.

"The French are overwhelmed. Once they walk out of the woods, the cavalry team will be fully rolled out. It should be a squadron led by two earls. There are ten barons under them, each leading a team of twenty-five knights. It is difficult for us to stop them. Let's retreat into the bastion!"

Carlos was relatively sober, at least he had the idea of ​​fighting with him. He robbed six villages along the way, and Juan, a castle, had a lot of gains. He had already retreated and raised his hand to interrupt Carlos and said, "At this time, we should get on the boat and leave here. There are too many French people, so take advantage of the loss... Hum? Let's go!"

The speed at which Bordeaux gathered troops was expected by Chen Jiujing, but the number of gathered troops was far beyond his estimate.

He originally thought that it would be good if Bordeaux could gather 2,000 people in just a few days, but he did not expect that the number of enemies at present was far more than 2,000, which was almost the same as the forces he led. And the knights advanced step by step, which seemed even more fierce than them.

But retreat?

Chen Jiujing answered very straightforwardly to several mercenary leaders: "But I don't want to retreat. If I destroy them, I can enter the city of Bordeaux. There... it should be richer than the port."

It's true that his words made Juan, who wanted to leave the most, ponder for a few seconds.

The harvest of plundering a castle is much more than that of several small villages. How about plundering a major town?

"Or what if the units are placing a square formation and mobilize their forces to let the cavalry protect the two wings? But half of our cavalry have not returned yet."

After saying that, Hu An picked up his helmet and turned to lead the horse. He took a deep breath and said to Chen Jiujing: "General Chen will give orders to the front later. I will go and appease my subordinates."

When he left, Carlos asked, "I really want to fight?"

"But you have to retreat first and then, closer to the bastion. There are trenches we dug outside, and you can also use the fortress's fortress. Although there is no danger around, you can at least bombard their square formation."

Chen Jiujing took out his pocket watch from his arms and looked at it, turned to Carlos and said, "Looking at their speed, we have one and a half hours to send each division to retreat ten miles according to the formation. Baishan Camp will divide one division to go up to the city and another division will prepare next to you."

As he said that, he sent someone to inform Baishanying of the guerrillas, Huang Xi, who was born in the North Korean Western Party, and ordered him to lead his troops to the city. The bay to the shore were all garrisons of the North Korean musketeers and gunners under his command.

Another Baishan deputy general, Kang Gulu, was leading the Jurchen infantry cavalry to escort the army behind. Seeing Huang Xi being sent away by Chen Jiujing, he showed a relaxed look on his face. He came over and raised his horse whip and clasped his fists at Chen Jiujing, who was wearing an iron helmet, and said, "It's great to let them go to the city. We are still not used to hiding behind their spear formation, for fear that others would disperse as soon as they rush to them."

"They have many knights, your bows, can penetrate their armor?"

Kangguru shook his head: "It's very difficult. The iron shell outside takes thirty or forty steps to get a chance, but they are still wearing mail or cloth armor under the iron shell, so they can only shoot their heads."

"I try to shoot a few of them to the generals as gifts, but I have to rely on this."

Conguru said as he lifted the spear in the palm from the horse's back, a little swelling.

Chen Jiujing found that his deputy general had a deep cavalry plot, perhaps because of the Jin Dynasty's iron pagoda heavy guns and crutches, but nowadays, due to fishing and hunting, there are actually no cavalry, and the most powerful one is the mountain infantry.

There is a reason why the deputy generals of Baishan Camp expanded. They had no armor before. After the Japanese war, they all received armor after being rewarded with military merits. They armed a group of heavy infantry with single armor or even double armor, carrying long soldiers to carry battle bows. The combat power was much higher than before.

I finally had armor but couldn't wear it in the naval battle. Now I finally had the opportunity to wear armor on the land. It was just a great battle that was full of joy.

What's more, those mercenaries in the Border and Western Air were unreliable in Kangguru's eyes, and this was their war. There was no problem at all.

In the past, the three major parts were quite marginal, but now they are not marginal at all. Even the native Asians can call them the people. There is no problem with saying that the white mountains and black waters are the core.

"My people will strengthen the walls of the trench, and the people in front are defeated, we will fight here, General."

"After the war, we will give us more horses, it's worth a lot of horses." Kangguru looked at Chen Jiujing and said, "Next year, let me send people back to Liaodong and recruit some warriors from the three major departments."
Chapter completed!