Chapter 246 – The Battle of Bitburg 2
Chapter 246 – The Battle of Bidor Castle 2
Chapter 243 – The Battle of Bidor Castle 2
After the crowd had had a chance to get over the freshness of the muskets, they remembered that there was still business to be discussed, so they rejoined back inside the meeting room.
“What else is there to deliberate about? Our men are all here, let’s fight!”
“Right! Send someone to give them a letter of war now! Let’s see if that boy from the Kent family has any balls!”
“Finish the fight early and go home to farm early!”
“But judging from today, I’m afraid reinforcements have come from the other side!”
Many people advocated for immediate war, while others advocated for caution.
Just as everyone was bickering and uncertain, a guard walked into the conference room.
“My lords, the Kent family has sent a messenger over.”
Earl Parker commanded, “Let him come in and listen to what has to be said.”
The guards led the order to go out, and in a moment’s time, they led in a person who should be a low-ranking noble from his dress.
The visitor first gave his name and then began to speak on the matter at hand:
“I have been ordered by Viscount Jaaius Kent to come and advise you all to surrender as soon as possible ……”
Without waiting for the messenger to finish speaking, a big, thick-looking knight stormed up and cursed:
“Jaaius that eggless brat, did he send you here just to fart?”
The knight’s words amused everyone, filling the room with laughter. Despite the crudeness of his words, no one came out to accuse him.
Only the messenger’s expression didn’t change at all, he seemed to have predicted this outcome.
The messenger put on a look of regret, shaking his head as he said:
“That’s really a pity! How many more innocent lives will be lost ah ……”
The knight from earlier said impatiently, “Don’t be a bitch, say what you have to say and fart what you have to say!”
“Hmph …… What an insolent person!”
With a small grumble, the messenger cleared his throat and said, “The other task I came to do is to convey Lord Kent’s proposal to all of you – both sides will not make any trickery or plot, and will find the time to set up a formation in the middle of our confrontation and fight in a dignified manner… I wonder if all of you dare to do so? ”
“What is there to dare?”
“It’s too underestimating!”
“That should be said by us to you!”
The generals of the allied forces were filled with righteous indignation and yelled as they slammed the table.
The corners of the messenger’s mouth curled imperceptibly as he continued, “In that case, our side proposes to go to war two days later, after all, after a melee today, both sides will need to recuperate, and each will bring out their best to face each other two days later. However ……”
He turned his words around, “This is only our proposal, if you all want to choose another date, our side will agree to it, three days later, four days later, or even tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, our side is always ready to play along!”
A murmur rang out in the room, and finally Earl Parker summarized everyone’s opinions and said to the messenger, “Good, then we will engage in two days, this is to give you time to write your last letter, if you want to come earlier to die, we will agree to that as well!”
The messenger bowed to him and said, “Since your side has agreed, I will take my leave first! Oh yeah, I wonder if we can exchange the previous captives now?”
Earl Parker waved his hand, “Let’s wait until we’ve split the victory and defeat!”
“Gentlemen, I’ll see you in two days, when one of us will be the prisoner of the other.”
The messenger bowed and walked out of the house.
Derek was thoughtful and addressed the group:
“I always feel that this is Jaaius is stalling for time, if we lead the army to kill over now, with the help of fire crossbows …… oh, it is muskets, and artillery, we can definitely achieve great results.”
“Shut up, Derek, think about the stupid things you did today, the scars are not yet healed and forget the pain?”
“You ……”
Being spoken to like this by Earl Malcolm, Derek reddened his face, but the things that happened today left him with little to no stamina to return the favor.
“The messenger just now said that they are also ready to accompany us if we choose to go to war tomorrow, is this stalling for time?” “And since we’ve already agreed on a sparring time, raiding early is damaging to our honor!”
The others also disagreed with Derek’s suggestion.
Seeing that the atmosphere of the meeting was a bit stiff, Earl Parker voiced out, “Well, now that it’s almost dark, it’s obvious that we can no longer fight. Moreover, the troops we each brought with us need time to break in with each other, so let’s face off against the Kent family in two days.”
Earl Parker, who was the initiator of the alliance, made the decision, and Derek had nothing more to say.
The discussion of business ended here, the servants brought up plates of dishes and barrels and barrels of fine wine, and the allied generals began to enjoy dinner together.
“Ah, yes! Commander Alder, am I right to call you that?”
Earl Parker greeted Bryce as he sliced the steak on his dinner plate.
“Yes, Lord Parker.”
Bryce hurriedly responded, fondly putting down the knife and fork he had just picked up.
“There’s something I need to arrange with you, bring the map.”
A servant trotted over and spread out a map on the table.
“Come and look at it, Commander Alder.”
Blaise rose to the Count’s side and looked at the map on the table.
The Count pointed to an area on the map and said, “If your men and horses are short of anything, go to these three neighboring villages and get supplies.”
Bryce understood, “Thank you for thinking of that for us, Lord Earl.”
The Count laughed out loud, “You’re welcome.”
Viscount Johnston, who was sitting not far away, raised his glass towards Bryce.
“Hey, Gladman’s family, there’s no need to be polite with the villagers here, they’re all very ‘hospitable’!”
Bryce smiled back at him, he knew what was going on with the so-called “supplies”.
According to his lord’s orders, the Alda army and the local residents should try their best to have a good relationship, and let the transportation company transport as much supplies as possible from the territory.
However, Bryce didn’t mind taking some measures if there was an extreme situation.
Viscount Johnston refilled his wine and raised it high.
“To the hospitable people of Biddleburg!”
“Cheers!”
The crowd raised their glasses and yelled in unison.
Since they were in a war zone and vigilance was the order of the day, no one drank much and dispersed after eating.
“I would like to remind all of you to mind your respective soldiers and prepare for war in the next two days, but don’t end up fighting with wine and prostitutes. Also, beware of spies.”
As he was leaving, Earl Parker reminded him of this.
There were more than just generals and soldiers inside the military camp in this era.
There were merchants who came to sell supplies, prostitutes who did the flesh business, and even the families of the officers and soldiers, there were all kinds of people.
So after training, the officers and soldiers could easily find fun, go to the tents made into a tavern to drink a cup of wine, go to the caravan brothel to talk about life with the lady, are all things they like to do in their daily life.
Naturally, in this kind of mixed environment, military intelligence will easily be leaked out, although everyone is desperately trying to prevent spies, but never thought of changing this environment, probably in the eyes of the world, the barracks was supposed to be like this.
(End of chapter)