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Chapter 276 Easily Solve the Incoming European Allied Forces

Chapter 276 Easily Solve the Incoming European Allied Forces

These prisoners who dug the canal are quite satisfied with their present life.

Although I have to do very heavy work every day, and I still have no freedom, but my life is saved, and not only is my life saved.

Now these prisoners of war are even thinking that it would be good if they could always work like this for these Easterners. At least it would be much better than not having enough to eat in their own country's army.

The reason why Xiao Qi guessed that the Tucheng Bazaar he established here would be attacked was because he knew that there were two giants in Europe now.

One is the Byzantine enemy country that once expanded to the place of its own Tucheng Bazaar, and the other is the more powerful Holy Roman Empire.

The current king of the Holy Roman Empire should be Frederick I. He is considered by later scholars to be one of the most successful rulers of Germany in the Middle Ages. During his reign, the national power of the Holy Roman Empire reached its peak and became the strongest country in Europe.

Since the day when the Byzantine Empire became the largest empire in Eastern Europe, it has been like a leaky balloon. With the emergence of a capable king, the territory will expand rapidly.

It once reached Africa in the south, included Egypt in the territory of the Byzantine Empire, and brought Italy and even Spain into its territory in the west.

However, in a very short period of time, its territory will shrink rapidly. When the territory was smallest, it even shrank to less than one-fifth of its heyday.

At this time, the king of Byzantium should be Manuel I Comnenus.

This Manuel also revived the Byzantine Empire through various political, military, and diplomatic efforts, regaining a large area of ​​previously lost land, and thus won the title of "Emperor".

Both of these European empires are now in a strong recovery phase, especially Manuel, who earned the title of "Emperor".

It was because during his reign, he successfully recovered Cilicia and made the Crusader countries that had rebelled against Byzantium surrender again.

They also pacified the Serbian rebels one after another, and after conquering the coastal areas, they joined forces with Russia to launch attacks on Hungary many times, forcing it to surrender.

In diplomacy, Manuel provoked the relationship between the northern Apennine cities and the Holy Roman Empire, and once shaken the hegemony of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I.

Xiao Qi guessed that Manuel had always wanted to restore the territory of Byzantium at its peak.

For the cornucopia-like trading market that they have established in their former territory, they will definitely grab it.

Even if the Holy Roman Empire wanted to attack here, it could only come from the western Mediterranean Sea.

The Byzantine Empire is different. Not only are they very close from the sea, but they can also rush directly from the land in the north.

Xiao Qi knew that Lin Zheng and Qin Tu had already deployed the [-] Changsheng Battalion equipped with new-style rifles and artillery trebuchets near the port on the west coast.

These people, Xiao Qi, did not move, but from the remaining 15 soldiers, [-] Changsheng Battalion soldiers who were still equipped with old-fashioned muskets were drawn out, and they were deployed near the main roads in the north.

Fortunately, after such a long period of logistical supplies and the capture of several expeditions, the Changsheng Battalion here already has [-] cavalry troops.

Xiao Qi ordered the [-] cavalry troops to leave [-] at the Tucheng market to assist the [-] Changsheng Battalion infantry in defending Tucheng.

The remaining [-] cavalry troops maneuvered behind the [-] troops ambushed in the north, rushing to support wherever there was an accident.

For the current Changsheng Battalion, as long as the 10,000+ troops are well prepared, they will have no problem dealing with these two so-called empires.

After all, in Europe at this time, even behemoths such as the Holy Empire and the Byzantine enemy country rarely dispatched more than [-] troops to fight a war.

After so many years of fighting in his Changsheng Battalion, he has a lot of experience in dealing with enemies who use cold weapons. As long as they are not all cavalry and find that the momentum is wrong, they turn around and run away. Xiao Qi can guarantee that these people will be able to come. keep them.

When all these defensive works were done, the prisoners who were digging the canal were the first to notice that something was wrong.

Because they found that the sergeants of the Eastern Legion guarding them around them were much less, and the number of soldiers guarding them before was reduced by more than half.

And those soldiers rarely ran among them to supervise their work, which made many people smell unusual.

Although the vast majority of these prisoners of war no longer thought of escaping, they did not delay their discussion in private whether these orientals were being targeted by one of the two great empires.

For the soldiers of these nearby small countries, the Holy Empire and the Byzantine enemy country are the two gods on this land.

Any forces that are targeted by them will either submit to them or be eliminated by them. There is no third possibility at all.

But there is one thing, although they privately feel that the good times of these orientals are numbered, but none of them think about resisting or escaping.

After all, the life here is quite comfortable for them. Except that they are not as free as before, other aspects are worse than before.

Some people even got together secretly to discuss, if these orientals were attacked by one of the two great empires, should we help these orientals, so that we can make military exploits and get rid of the status of prisoners of war, and become the subordinates of these orientals.

As the days passed, the prisoners of war found that the Eastern Legion, except for a much smaller number of people, did not have any other abnormalities, and there was no tension before the war at all.

Some prisoners of war even saw excitement in the eyes of the Eastern soldiers guarding them!

After this discovery spread, many prisoners of war began to secretly observe the Eastern soldiers guarding them.

Sure enough, more prisoners of war discovered the excitement hidden in the eyes of those eastern soldiers.

The prisoners of war are all confused. They are in the era of cold weapons. Every time they fight, they kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred. Even the brave fighters will be very nervous before the battle.

Because no one knows whether he can come back alive from the battlefield.

But the performance of these eastern sergeants made these prisoners of war unable to understand. Are they so belligerent?

The belligerent doesn't even care about death?

These orientals are really terrifying. I have never encountered such a brutal army in my life!

Of course the soldiers in Changsheng Camp had no idea what these prisoners of war were thinking.

If you knew this, you would definitely be rolling around laughing. These guys really care about food but not fighting. Have you all forgotten how you were captured by us?

To deal with an army like yours, there is no possibility of killing [-] enemies and losing [-], not to mention [-] to [-] battle losses, even if it is [-] to [-], those officials will be scolded or even whipped.

Day by day passed, not only did Lin Zhengqintu in the west have no movement, even the scouts sent by Xiao Qi to the north reported that everything was normal.

This made Xiao Qi feel very unreasonable. In his opinion, the kings of these two empires were thinking about dominating Europe.

It is impossible to know that they have so much wealth in and out here every day, so they are not tempted.

For kings who are eager to make their empire stronger, a wealth gathering place like Tucheng Bazaar is absolutely inevitable for them.

Developing your own empire is not something you just talk about. It requires a lot of money. Without money support, no matter how wise you are, the monarch will give it for nothing.

Such a strange situation made Xiao Qi more careful, and once again intensified the detection efforts of the northern scouts, ordering them to be careful and not to make any mistakes.

That day, the person in charge of the Tucheng Bazaar suddenly came to ask for an interview. When he saw Xiao Qi, he immediately apologized, saying that he did not manage well, and many merchants in the Tucheng Bazaar suddenly left.

Xiao Qi stood up immediately after hearing this, the person in charge thought Xiao Qi was angry, so he knelt down and pleaded guilty again.

Seeing his gaffe, the person in charge was frightened. Xiao Qi ordered someone to help him up and sit down. He asked in detail where the merchants who left were from and when they left. .

The person in charge of the Tucheng Bazaar hurriedly took out a booklet for memorandum from his body, and read out when these merchants left and where they came from.

After hearing the report from the person in charge, Xiao Qi was also depressed, because these businessmen who left in a hurry were not only from the Byzantine Empire, but also from the Holy Roman Empire.

Basically, all the big merchants from the two powerful empires ran away in this Tucheng market.

Xiao Qi comforted the person in charge, telling him that these businessmen had nothing to do with him leaving, just let him go back and take good care of the market.

After letting the person in charge go back, the more Xiao Qi thought about it, the more unusual he felt.

He felt that the two empires might come together to grab the fat piece of Tucheng Market. He didn't even think that the two empires had concluded any alliance and planned to join forces to attack him.

It must be that these two empires have taken a fancy to the piece of fat in Tucheng Market. Everyone wants to eat this piece of fat in their mouths as soon as possible, so they rush to grab it together as soon as possible.

For a moment, Xiao Qi even thought about making a strategic retreat on his side, so that the two empires could fight to the death over this earth city market.

But thinking that I still have to dig a canal here, and there is still a time limit, it seems that half of the time has passed.

Although most of the canal has been completed, it can be dug through at most half a year.

Not to mention the trouble of moving these 10,000+ prisoners of war back and forth, who knows how long the two empires will fight here?

If the tug-of-war continues here for a year and a half, then the task of digging the canal will be out of the question.

The important thing is the reward for this mission, which is the trigger fuze of the shell that I want most now.

After a few laps in the big tent, Xiao Qi finally decided that it is good to be a fisherman, but with so many weapons ahead of this era, what bicycle do you need? Isn’t it the empire of two lattes? ?

fuck it!

He waved his hands to recruit two soldiers, and asked them to go to the west and north to pass orders, telling them that those savages are coming, be prepared, and resolutely don't cause problems due to carelessness.

After the soldiers left, Xiao Qi picked up the map he had drawn and studied it. It was not his character not to fight back when he was beaten. He wanted to kill the invading enemies this time, and then go straight to their lair.

The purpose of digging this canal is to make trouble, since you guys found it first, then stop talking nonsense and get to work!

Then he ordered people to go to the naval warships that escorted the supply ship, and sent them military orders to Long Yongsheng, ordering him to take his own military orders and return to the Song Dynasty as soon as possible, and mobilize the [-] cavalry troops of the Changsheng Battalion to transport them as soon as possible.

After marking the route to attack the Byzantine Empire on the map, Xiao Qi decided to wait for the [-] cavalry troops from the Changsheng Battalion of the Song Dynasty to arrive.

I left [-] infantry and [-] cavalry to guard here, and then took the [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to directly enter Europe from the northern land.

Originally, they wanted to dig a canal and take a boat to kill them faster, but now it seems that those European guys can't wait to stretch their necks for themselves to chop.

After arranging everything, Xiao Qi brought his [-] pro-army to the north. He always thought that the army of the Byzantine Empire would attack first.

Because the Byzantine Empire was closest, they must have arrived first.

Who knows that he guessed wrong this time. I don’t know if Manuel, who knows that the Holy Roman Empire has also sent troops, wants to fight the Holy Roman Empire with both sides so that he can take advantage of it, or whether the land march is much slower than the water route.

One night, Lin Zheng, Qin and Tu led fifty thousand soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion to fight first by the west seashore.

To say that the strength of the Holy Roman Empire is indeed not small, it even sent hundreds of warships, large and small, to transport more than 3 soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire to plan to attack here.

It's a pity that they met the two evil stars Lin Zheng and Qin Tu who were well prepared.

The two ruthless people gave the order to open fire after letting these guys go ashore to assemble.

These [-] soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire were organizing their troops on the shore excitedly, thinking with joy that they would definitely win this time.

As a result, after a meal of cast iron bombs and artillery shells, half of the [-] soldiers of the Holy Empire who had just landed were killed or injured, and even the Marquis of the Empire they led was killed.

Before the remaining officers and soldiers understood what was going on, they were surrounded by [-] soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion.

Some reacted, and the soldiers who wanted to run back to the small boat to escape back to the big ship were either shot to death indiscriminately, or were killed by cast iron bombs, including the boat and people.

In less than an hour, more than [-] of the [-] soldiers from the Holy Empire who came to sneak attack were captured, and the rest were killed or wounded.

On the contrary, among the hundreds of warships, more than 100 were smaller and more agile in maneuverability, and they turned around and fled back.

The remaining two or three hundred large ships were snatched by the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who had been snatched from the small boats.

Qin Tu and Lin Zheng remembered what Xiao Qi had said. They always had translators with them and began to interrogate the captured soldiers on the spot.

It didn't take long to figure it out, as my son-in-law said, these soldiers were gathered together by soldiers from four countries.

These guys turned out to be some kind of vanguard, and more soldiers were still being mobilized later, and they believed that the main opponent was not their Ever-Victorious Battalion, but the Byzantine Empire in the north.

(End of this chapter)