King of German Mercenaries

Marin jumped up happily after seeing the battle situation in front of him with binoculars on the high platform behind. Of course, there is still some discomfort in my heart.

You know, these 1000 knights are basically born in knight families. Most of those who have official titles are actually the same as Marin before, they are wandering knights, and they go to the rich and powerful Duke of Saxony after they can't survive. Therefore, in the face of them being killed by his own men, Marin was actually very sad. Moreover, after this battle, Marin can be sure that he will offend many knight families. Because their son is either dead or disabled in the hands of Marin...

However, Marin has no regrets. Who told these guys to mix with their nemesis the Duke of Saxony? If you follow the wrong master, you must have the consciousness of death.

In the opposite Saxon army, the Duke of Saxony, who was also standing on the temporary wooden tower, was furious:

"Bastard, bastard! Marin, this bastard, actually slaughtered my knights!" Although he was far away, the Duke of Saxony could still vaguely see that the knights who fell in front were smashed by Marin's men either with hammers or with The musket is aimed at close range. On the battlefield, the screams of those once noble knights were heard...

In the blink of an eye, all of Saxony's elite 1,000 plate heavy cavalry were damaged. Although there are still many wounded in the middle of the battlefield, but with the medical conditions of this era, most of the knights lying in the middle will be finished. However, in order to avoid making his subordinates feel sad, the Duke of Saxony still sent a small number of light cavalry to go to the middle of the battlefield to save people.

It was about "out of grace" that Marin did not order the shooting of the Saxon auxiliary hussars who had come to the rescue. In fact, Marin didn't do it out of grace, he just wanted to use the wailing of the wounded when they returned to destroy the morale of the Saxons...

The Duke of Saxony was furious. He had originally envisaged a hand-to-hand battle, but he did not expect to lose thousands of knights at the beginning, which had already hurt his bones. Because, his knights and apprentice knights add up to 3,000 people. Now, in one round of charging, nearly a third of the total was lost. Such a loss, even if the Duchy of Saxony has a lot of money, is very unbearable. After all, these knights are not those despicable conscripts, and they don't feel bad when they die.

You know, these heavy cavalry in plate armor all come from various knight families in Germany. Even the lowest rank of heavy cavalry came from the families of those who were formally knights, usually the non-eldest sons of those families of knights. Now, with thousands of casualties, the Duke of Saxony does not know how to explain to these families. After all, the Duchy of Saxony is still a vassal state with a vassal system. Even the Duke of Saxony is nothing more than a great noble at the top of the feudal system, and he also needs the support and support of the lower nobles. Because, in this era, local officials were basically controlled by these low-level knight families and jazz families. Without their support and support, the reign of the Dukes of Saxony would have been unstable...

Sure enough, those knights who were dismounted by muskets in the middle, were brought back, and their mournful screams made their colleagues feel sympathy. Then, looking at the Marin battle formation, there was also fear.

What Marin did this time was really ruthless. Usually, after those knights were knocked off their horses, they were usually tied up by their opponents and demanded ransom from their opponents. However, Marin was not short of money, and he was worried that after these knights were redeemed, they would continue to serve the Duke of Saxony and continue to embarrass himself. Moreover, Marin also wanted to play a big, ruthless one, so that those nobles would not dare to provoke him easily. As a result, those knights who charged in the first wave were all unlucky. After landing, many knights are still waiting for the other party to capture them. Children are thinking about whether they should be restrained or just surrender... I didn't expect that the blood-stained warhammer and evil bullets did not give them any thought. Opportunity……

After his anger, the Duke of Saxony knew that a frontal breakthrough was not realistic.

From the wounded knight he rescued, he learned that in front of the Marin battle formation, there were two tunnels filled with vicious wooden pickets, making it difficult for the heavy cavalry to break through. Not only that, even if the heavy cavalry crossed the two pits, there was still a row of wooden pickets in front of them, which were equally deadly. In such a battle, brute force breakthrough is very risky. What's more, there are many musketeers on the other side, and the lethality is amazing.

Therefore, the calmed Duke of Saxony thought about it and decided to look for opportunities from the flanks:

"Mavis, take 500 cavalry to investigate the enemy's flank and see if there are any traps on their flank!"

As it happened, the Duke of Saxony saw Mavis who had returned from a horse change, and asked him to take 500 people to observe the war in Marin from the side, looking for the opponent's weaknesses. The frontal attack was difficult, and the Duke of Saxony turned his mind to another direction.

So, Mavis took 500 cavalry to the left side of the Marin battle formation...

Coincidentally, Marin placed all the musketeers in the front, and there were no musketeers on the side. Therefore, when Mavis led people to observe the flank of the Marin formation, he was not shot by muskets. So, they can stay and observe very leisurely.

As a seasoned knight, Mavis is also very measured. He just knew what happened before, and also knew what the Duke meant, so he found a few knights and ordered:

"You guys, go forward and dash forward, stop by the enemy's side, and see if there are any traps!"

The unlucky ones who were named were about to cry:

"Sir, if there are traps, we'll be dead!" They all know that the traps set up by Marin are very vicious. The two trenches are full of upward-facing wooden pickets. Can kill a horse. Moreover, with the ruthlessness of Marin's men against the first charging knights, even if they were not stabbed to death by the pickets, they would have been beaten to death by the opponent's soldiers.

"Well, it makes sense. You guys, go and pick up some rocks, rush to the front and back of the battle, throw rocks to see if there are any traps. I see the land on their flanks, it doesn't seem normal... …”

After a while, the knights really picked up a few small stones, drove their horses forward, and when they approached the flank of the Marin battle formation, they threw them out, hitting the branches and withered grass that were covering the traps. Then, the trench was discovered...

"Sure enough, there are traps. This Marin is really vicious. Even the flanks have dug so many traps... Well, there are also wooden pickets..."

Mavis turned to the right and tried it with a stone, but there was still a trap...

Malin took a look - this is amazing, this grandson is looking for a trap, and he is so leisurely... He can't be so arrogant. So he called Steindorf, the commander of the black knights:

"It's your turn, take your black knights to destroy these Saxon knights!"

"Yes, my lord!" Steindorf had been waiting impatiently in the rear of the army. Moreover, he is also eager to make military exploits. After receiving Marin's order, they turned from the rear, each armed with a carbine, and rushed towards the 500 knights led by Mavis...

"A musketeer on horseback?" Mavis was stunned at first, and then rejoiced:

"Brothers, the enemy's food is here, follow me, and kill all the hundreds of enemy cavalry in black clothes on the opposite side! If they carry muskets, they will be slaughtered when they get close!" The musketeers became infantry musketeers.

As a result, Mavis's 500 knights lined up one after another, jerk their lances, prepared to attack Steindorf's "black knights", and then slaughtered them at close range.

However, what surprised Mavis and others was that the black knights led by Steindorf did not come directly to them. At a distance of 100 meters, the black knights turned and ran to the front, perpendicular to the direction of Mavis and others.

However, the route they ran was a bit strange. The direction they looked at was south, but it was actually south by west, getting closer and closer to the 500 Saxon knights of Mavis...

When they were within 50 meters of each other, the "Black Knights" opened fire one after another...

"Pa-pa-pa--" After a burst of gunfire, more than 30 Saxon knights fell off their horses...

That is to say, the level of riding and shooting of these black knights is still very general. After all, riding and shooting is too difficult to practice. Moreover, Mavis's men are lined up in a square array, and the width is not large. At the same time, the musketeers fired to the right, which was awkward and inconvenient to aim. Otherwise, there will definitely be more than thirty people who fall this round, but more...

When Mavis and his men started to accelerate and chase the black knights, Steindorf led his men to deflect the direction and began to run in the south-east direction, keeping a distance from Mavis and the others. Another round of shooting...

Then, more than two dozen Saxon knights fell...

Mavis wanted to chase again, but found that he was getting closer and closer to Marin's battle formation. If you don't stop, you may fall directly into the pit. So, he had to let his men slow down.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the black knights turned around again and fired, and they stopped and turned around to fire...

"P-P-P-P-P-" This time the black-shirted knights had a much higher hit rate, with 60 or 70 people being shot down and dismounted...

Mavis didn't dare to stop, he figured it out, the knights under him couldn't catch up with the light cavalry in black clothes. The other party doesn't pay attention to honor at all, and is very shameless. Therefore, he simply led people to flee to this formation.

But on the way to retreat, they were chased by 800 black knights and shot two rounds of black guns behind them. As a result, hundreds of Saxon knights fell off their horses...

But unfortunately, the black knights only brought 5 carbines and ran out of ammunition. Because it is inconvenient to load ammunition on horseback, and it is easy to be attacked by the enemy, so they first returned to the rear of the formation to load the ammunition...