Among the soldiers who besieged Constantiniya, one group had just withdrawn from the front line to rest, and the other group was preparing to go to the front line to continue the siege. The Duke of Burgundy returned the troops who had just been withdrawn to the front and continued to harass Constantinier with drumbeats. He himself took the 10,000-strong army that had just finished resting and rushed towards the unfinished camp of the Pirate Kingdom.
A stone's throw from the camp, the Duke of Burgundy halted his troops and reorganized their formation. He himself took the thick lance from the hand of the retinue.
"The Pirate Kingdom has repeatedly raided the borders of the Alemannic Federation. It is said that their soldiers are extremely brave. This makes people's blood boil." The Duke of Burgundy said to the followers around him, "In this battle, you and others need to fight with all their strength. Only in front can we defeat the enemy and win!"
As he spoke, his soldiers had already adjusted their formation. At the officer's orders, they began to advance toward the enemy camp in an orderly manner.
The pirates began to attack with arrows, but the arrows fired at the Alemanni coalition were sparse and pitiful.
"There are so few archers in the army. It is really a nation that respects warriors and values honor. Just in time, let me fight in a sea of blood!" The Duke of Burgundy shouted excitedly, "All the troops, charge!"
The soldiers shouted and rushed towards the enemy camp at one go. The soldiers in the front row were all the troops of the Duke of Burgundy. Before the battle, they impatiently waved their weapons in the air with an aggressive momentum.
"Plop", "Plop", "Plop"...
Half of the soldiers at the front fell into the pit.
The Duke of Burgundy never expected that the enemy army had only set up half of the camp and had already dug a trap first. How the hell does this guy seem to care about glory? "
"Don't panic! Press in! Press in!" The Duke of Burgundy continued to direct. He knew that the enemy's time was limited and there would never be too many traps. In order to boost morale, he personally led a cavalry unit to charge towards the enemy camp!
Seeing the Duke of Burgundy's cavalry rushing towards them, the pirates were frightened. Before engaging in battle, they abandoned their half-built camp and ran away.
The camp was thus occupied. The Duke of Burgundy stood in the empty camp, staring at the flag of the Pirate Kingdom dropped on the ground in a daze. After a long time, he shouted angrily: "Pursue! The whole army is coming! Kill all those cowards!"
Several little lords and their soldiers chased the retreating pirates with cheers. The Duke of Burgundy himself stayed in the camp to collect the results of this battle.
There were some discarded armor and weapons thrown along the way, but not much. However, there was a lot of grain piled up in the granary. The Duke of Burgundy opened a bag and looked at it. It was good flour. With this trophy alone, they can already be said to have achieved fruitful results.
"Move all this food and grass back to our siege camp!"
After walking out of the granary with satisfaction, the Duke of Burgundy heard pigs braying from the surrounding tents.
"What's going on? Why does the Pirate Kingdom keep pigs in tents?"
The Duke of Burgundy curiously opened one of the tents, but unexpectedly a thick smoke rushed out immediately. He saw a pig whose whole body was tied with hay, and a straw rope was tied to its tail. A stream of fire was burning the straw rope from back to front. The pig was tied to the wooden stake by a rope, but the rope was very thin and did not seem to be able to hold the pig. As the flames continued to approach the pigs' tails, the pigs gradually began to become restless.
"General, it's bad!" A soldier hurriedly ran out of the granary, "Only the outermost generations inside are made of flour, and the bottom ones are all hay, sulfur and saltpeter!"
"No!" The Duke of Burgundy hurriedly threw out the tent, "Get out of this camp quickly!"
Soon enough, the pigs that were set on fire broke the ropes and rushed out of the tent...
The Duke of Burgundy walked out of the "camp" of the Pirate Kingdom in disgrace. Fortunately, the Pirate Kingdom didn't have much time to decorate this place, and there was only a small fire in the camp. But these pigs had already dealt a greater blow to the Duke of Burgundy than the entire Thracian field army.
"What the hell, what happened to the enemy commander? He put nearly ten thousand troops into a situation where I was chasing him, just to hit me with a few pigs, right?"
At night, the soldiers sent out to pursue him also came back disgraced. When the Duke of Burgundy saw it, he became very angry: "What happened to you? Everyone was hit by a pig?"
"Duke, this is not our fault." A young lord said, "The enemy hid in a strong camp. As soon as we approached, arrows rained down! The camp was also equipped with various crossbows and ballistae, and we couldn't attack it at all. !”
It took half a day for the Duke of Burgundy to figure out the situation - it turned out that the pirate kingdom had chosen a place far away from them to land. After marching on foot for a period of time, they set up camp at a dangerous place far away from them. . The camp they saw today that was very close to them was a pretense to lure them in after the real camp was set up.
"This commander is really sick! If it was an ambush, I would admit it. Is it a defensive camp? What is this? If they don't come, I don't know there is a camp here! Now Let us know that he can't defeat the enemy even if he is guarding the camp? Just to hit me with a pig and hide away with a smile? "
The Duke of Burgundy angrily tugged at his smoke-dark hair.
"I don't know what else they will do. Detach a part of the troops to guard against them!"
The number of soldiers in the Pirate Kingdom is around 10,000. The Duke of Burgundy had to set up another front outside the siege camp and mobilize 10,000 people to guard against their sudden attack.
But in this way, the number of troops besieging Constantiniya was reduced by nearly half. The original strength of ten times has become five times. If it is further divided into day and night, there will be only a little more than two times. No matter how the Duke of Burgundy arranged it, the pressure on the Constantinier garrison was greatly reduced.
The soldiers of the Pirate Kingdom remained silent for several days, wasting the energy of those 10,000 soldiers.
"Do they want to guard the camp until they die of old age?" The Duke of Burgundy couldn't help it.
"Their camp is far away from here. Even if there is any movement, we won't have time to turn around and meet the enemy." A lord said, "It is better to attack Constantiniya with all our strength!"
The Duke of Burgundy agreed.
But this attack had not lasted for a day when soldiers on the flanks shouted: "Fleet! The enemy's fleet!"
The Duke of Burgundy took a look and saw hundreds of ships from the Pirate Kingdom approaching the coastline. He knew that these ships in the Pirate Kingdom were all carrying armies, so he quickly gave up the siege of Constantiniya and formed an array facing the sea.
But as soon as the Duke of Burgundy arranged his formation, the pirate ships turned around and slowly drove back towards the camp.
