Black Iron Crown - chapter 711
The sky is bright, the sun is hanging high in the air, and the breeze blowing on people brings a coolness. This is the most suitable weather for marching.
The soldiers cleaned up the camp and put their armor on the casual carriage. They were wearing thick armor and carrying a spear of more than three meters in their hands. They walked lightly towards the northwest. .
Although the weather delighted the soldiers in thick armor, the land under their feet was really unsatisfactory.
Walking on this once battlefield looks very muddy. It hasn’t rained in the past month. What makes the land difficult to walk is the blood of the warriors sprayed on this land.
“Damn it! I bought two copper boots!” A soldier staggered and almost fell to the ground.
His boots were stuck in the blood and mud, he murmured and pulled out his shoes, and he kept cursing: “These **** Xibarians, death will bring me trouble!”
“Don’t complain! Once you let the adults hear that you are not as fruity as you are!” His team officer glared at him and said: “Hold on, we will leave this battlefield soon. There are more in front of you. Merit and glory are waiting for us!”
The long delivery queue is like a long snake, moving slowly on the winding and rugged roads. They walked in front of the marching queue, transporting some food, grass, beans, and replacement armor parts.
More than one thousand large carriages carried by the heavy-duty horses in the north are equipped with enough grain and grass for the fifty thousand troops to eat for three months, and there are a large number of grain transport teams that are continuously starting from the imperial capital.
“Finally came out! I’m going to cut off the enemy’s heads! Those soft-footed shrimps are only for me as a dog, hahahaha!”
A rugged, sturdy man sat on the ground, holding a kettle with a hearty scream, and the water that came out almost dampened his thick beard.
This is a golden lion guard who has been fighting on the battlefield for a long time and building a great feat. They suppressed the enemy with extremely fierce play. Now is the time for morale to be high.
“Yes!” Rainer was patrolling around at this time. The march has been going on for three hours, and the soldiers should be asked to stop and rest.
“Now we are about to collect debts from the enemy! Those **** things dare to sneak attack while we are building a great cause, and we must teach them a bitter lesson. I will not begrudge the reward. The warrior should take everything from the enemy. !”
Rainer smiled and patted the soldier on the shoulder, then walked away.
After leaving here, Rainer walked around again.
“Ha, I should be considered wealthy after this battle is over. My wife was pregnant before I left. If I were still a son, I would have four sons. I really don’t know how to earn enough for them. The money!” A 30-year-old veteran said to his subordinates with his arms nibbling on wheat cakes.
“Come on, you just get cheap and sell well. You have 70 sheep in your family and 300 acres of land. You are the richest here. Do you think that you are the fourth of us?”
“After the enemy’s heads are screwed off, I will buy three war horses, so that my son will learn to ride horses from an early age, and when they grow up, they will become cavalry and continue to give to the Grand Duke… Now I am the Emperor, and continue to give to the great emperor. Desperate!”
The rest of them all had expressions of envy. They were cavalry, an absolute high-end unit, even if they were placed in Rainer’s army, they were also good talents.
After walking for a while, Rainer basically understood the condition of his army. Although the previous war was very cruel, it was nothing to these soldiers who were determined and had no worries.
Now carrying the mighty soldiers of the Great Victory into the West, it seemed to them nothing more than a hunt.
After resting for more than forty minutes, seeing that the soldiers were all fed and drunk, Rainer gave the order to march again.
The physical condition of the soldiers in the North Territory is very good. The adequate carbohydrate protein and vitamins give them excellent physical fitness. Coupled with the leggings equipped by Leiner, this army has a strong marching ability.
On the other hand, the enemy troops who fled to the west were short of food and clothing, and there were still many wounded, like bereaved dogs, whose speed was not as fast as Rainer’s army.
The soldiers embarked on the journey once again, singing songs and striding briskly to their battlefield.
At the same time, the lords and warriors of the western countries came to the edge of the western border of the empire in embarrassment, and this place was still under their control.
“Oh, Holy Father!” Pope Rosa, who has been running for more than a month, is very haggard. As an old man, he can still live after a long journey of more than a month, which is difficult to guarantee food and clothing. It is already his usual time. Pay attention to the results of maintaining the body.
Pope Rosa and the lords and kings took a brief rest, and after a hearty meal, they hurriedly opened again. They abandoned the castle in front of them, and their goal was to shrink their forces and return to the border.
A lot of gold and silver treasures and materials have been accumulated here. As long as these things are transported back, the huge losses caused by this fiasco can be restored within two to three years.
The lords and kings who fled to the west moved very quickly. They reorganized the army and even gave away a lot of treasures to maintain morale. They gathered a large number of looted livestock, carts and horses, and transported the treasures.
The imperial army’s marching speed was not slow, reaching an astonishing speed of 50 kilometers a day. Although the soldiers were very exhausted, they also endured it for the merits and wealth they were about to acquire.
Getting closer to the west, Rainer slowed down his marching speed a little, and walked only 30 kilometers a day, in order to let the soldiers recharge and maintain their best condition to fight the enemy.
Reiner’s soldiers and sergeants have suffered a lot. The 6,000 men of the 20 companies that followed Reiner have only 4,500 people left to fight with the army. The number of 4,500 people is compared with the entire 50,000 army. It’s trivial to say, but they are precisely the part that this army can fight most.
The marching speed is getting slower and slower, and the prolonged forced march is not something everyone can bear, at least the 20,000 militiamen with the army can’t do it.
Then Rainer reduced the marching speed to 20 kilometers a day, but even so, they almost caught up with the fleeing enemy.
Rainer’s army swept across the west, where there was already a ruin, a large number of dry bones were randomly discarded on the ground, and some beasts were devouring these flesh and blood.
Countless hungry people passed by in front of Lena. Some skinny and skinny people fled around, but more of them were irrational people who were eroded by hunger. They approached the army and wanted to get some food from here.
Rainer was helpless. He really couldn’t starve to death in front of him watching these people. These were all his subjects. Since he had become the emperor, he had the obligation to keep these residents from starving to death.
However, the food that Leiner gave was only a drop in the bucket. There were 1.5 million people in the western border. Even if half of them died in the war, there were seven or eight hundred thousand people. Leiner could not save everyone.
“Your Majesty…Although I don’t want to say such a thing~www.mtlnovel.com~ but if we distribute food like this again, our army will have nothing to eat!”
Count Cod walked to Lena’s side and said.
Rainer closed his eyes, as if he couldn’t bear to see the tragic surroundings, and said, “I see, let the soldiers drive these people away!”
These soldiers carried out Lena’s orders. Although they were all men who killed people without blinking, they were all human beings. They had the same language and the same kind, and they were full of sympathy and resentment towards the western countries.
“Blood debt and blood!” Rainer drew out the sword! Shouting heartbreakingly.
“Repay with blood!”
“Kill them all!”
“eye for eye!”
The soldiers were also infected by Rainer, and the terrible situation here even their father couldn’t bear to look directly at them, and the shouts of blood and blood were shaken.
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