On the outskirts of Bordeaux, the newly recruited French infantrymen in motley clothes, armed with spears and arquebuses, and old-time warriors with swords and halberds and steel crossbows gathered in large formations and marched through the woods.

On the wide road, more than 200 proud knights in blue robes and armed with steel formed a loose formation, flanked by attendants wearing robes and chain mail holding high the banners of various nobles, and the iron helmets and tall horses with only one line exposed looked like icebergs.

The place where they appear is the battlefield.

General Franco prides himself on his well-armed mercenaries, but this is nothing compared to the knights who arrived in Bordeaux.

There are three important factors in war, money, money, and money.

France has the advantage from the peasants to the king, and the environment with good sunlight, fertile soil, four distinct seasons, and abundant precipitation allows everyone here to live better than other European countries relative to their own class.

Dry and rugged Spain, cold and damp Germany, and rainy England, where can compare to the richness of France?

A good environment brings rich financial resources and a larger population, and there are knights everywhere, why is France so powerful? Because with money comes combat power, better nutrition, better horses, better armor and more jousting tournaments with money and nowhere to spend, and more knights.

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

Of course, the finances of the French royal family are not much better than those of the boss of Yi, and even after Li Dan became the ruler of Seville, he had to be compared to Fei Laoer, but there is a reason for this, hum the third child has money, but the money has been spent - spent on the central standing army, which is extremely rare in Europe, and the knights are pardoned.

The religious wars of the two sects were fought six times in the land of France from south to north and from east to west, and many external countries intervened, and the royal family in any country would have long since broken up, and it was this standing knightly army that allowed Hum Lao San to still sit firmly in Paris.

In this life and this life, Franco, the leader of the mercenaries, has never thanked a person like this at this moment, thanking Chen Jiujing for giving him the order to retreat westward in advance.

Otherwise, even if he didn't have this order, he would have led his army to flee the battlefield when he saw them, but when he wanted to retreat, these knights might not let him retreat.

"The French have pressed over, once they get out of the woods, the knight team will be fully spread, it should be a squadron led by two counts, and there are ten barons each leading a squad of twenty-five knights, it will be difficult for us to stop them, retreat into the fortress!"

Carlos is relatively sober, at least he still has the idea of fighting with one, Juan who sacked six villages and a castle along the way has gained a lot, which will have already retreated, raised his hand to interrupt Carlos's words: "At this time, we should get on the ship and leave here, there are too many French, take advantage of the lack of losses...... Well? Let's go! ”

The speed at which Bordeaux amassed forces was expected by Chen Jiujing, but the number of troops gathered far exceeded his estimates.

He thought that in just a few days, Bordeaux would be good to gather 2,000 men, but he did not expect that the number of enemies at the moment was far more than 2,000, almost equal to the number of troops he led, and there were knights advancing step by step, which seemed to be more fierce than them.

But retreat?

Chen Jiujing replied very bluntly to several mercenary leaders: "But I don't want to retreat, if I destroy them, I can enter Bordeaux City, where ...... Should be richer than the port. ”

Not to mention, his words made Juan, who wanted to leave the most, ponder for a few seconds.

Looting a castle yields much more than a few small villages, so what about looting a town?

"Or, each department line up in a phalanx, mobilize the troops and let the cavalry protect the two wings? But half of our cavalry hasn't returned yet. ”

Juan picked up his helmet and turned to lead the horse, took a deep breath and said to Chen Jiujing: "General Chen will give an order to the front in a while, I will go and pacify my subordinates." ”

When he was gone, Carlos asked, "Do you really want to fight?" ”

"Fight, but we have to retreat first, closer to the fortress, there is a trench we dug outside, and we can use the fort's battery, although there is no danger around, at least we can bombard their phalanx."

Chen Jiujing took out his pocket watch from his bosom and looked at it, then turned back to Carlos and said: "Looking at the speed of their march, we still have an hour and a half, and we have ordered all the troops to retreat ten miles according to the formation, and the Baishan battalion will divide one part to go to the city with cannons, and the other will prepare beside you." ”

As he spoke, he sent someone to inform the Baishan Battalion guerrillas, Hwang Hee, who was from the Korean Western People's Party, and ordered him to lead his troops to the city, and the bay to the shore fortress was the garrison area of the Korean musketeers and gunners under his command.

Kang Gulu, the deputy general of the other Baishan, was leading the Jurchen infantry to ride the army behind, seeing that Huang Xi was sent away by Chen Jiujing, his face showed a relaxed look, and he came over and raised his horsewhip and hugged his fist at Chen Jiujing, who was wearing an iron helmet, and said: "It's good to let them go to the city, we are still not used to hiding behind their spear array, for fear that others will scatter as soon as they rush at them." ”

"They have many knights, and your bow can pierce their armor?"

Kangguru shook his head: "It's difficult, the iron shell outside has to be thirty or forty steps before they have a chance, but they are still wearing chain mail or cloth iron armor under the iron shell, and they can only shoot their heads." ”

"I'll try to shoot as many as I can for the generals as gifts, but that's the main thing."

Kanguru said as he lifted the spear in his palm from his horse, a little swollen.

Chen Jiujing found that his lieutenant general had a deep cavalry plot, perhaps because of the heavy spears and horses of Jin Guotie Futu in the past, but in these years, because of the relationship between fishing and hunting, there was actually no cavalry, and the most powerful was the mountain infantry.

There is a reason why the deputy general of the Baishan battalion has swelled, they did not have armor before, and after experiencing the chaos of Japan, they have been rewarded with armor after the war in Japan, and they have armed a group of heavy infantry with single or even double armor and long soldiers with war bows, and their combat power is not much higher than before.

I finally had the armor, but I couldn't wear it in the naval battle, and now I finally have the opportunity to put on the armor on the land, and I just want a hearty battle.

What's more, those contemptuous mercenaries are unreliable in the eyes of Kanguru, this is their war - there is no problem with this sentence at all.

In the past, the three major departments were quite marginal, but now they are not marginal at all, and even the Asian natives can be called by the people, so there is no problem with the core between the white mountains and black waters.

"My men will go and strengthen the trenches, and the men in front will be routed and we will fight here, General."

"After the battle, let's divide more of our horses, see they have a lot of horses." Kangguru looked at Chen Jiujing and said, "Next year, let me send someone back to Liaodong to recruit some warriors from the three major departments." ”

"Divide the horse?" Chen Jiujing grinned, as if Kangguru's attitude of worrying about the war also infected him, and said with a smile: "To win this battle, I will buy you a horse from Spain, and let you also form a heavy gun kidnapping horse." ”