The Youngest Prince Of The English Royalty House [EN]: Chapter 179

179. Wolves of the Desert (1)

As Godfrey set out from England, he swore an oath to his lord.

‘I will bring noble victory to Your Majesty.’

He promised to deliver victory.

He was sincere about this war and meticulously researched the Mongols for victory. Unsatisfied with the information Peter and Robin provided, he learned as much as possible from Han Chinese like Ak Bul-hoe and other Orientals.

Thus, Godfrey knew well that the Kingdom of Jerusalem could not withstand the Mongols alone. That’s why they needed to take the offensive quickly.

– Tang, tang, tang.

When the new firearms shocked the Mongols.

Godfrey, holding up the baton personally bestowed by King John I, gave the order.

“Judging by their formation, the right flank is their weakness. Let us show them the power of Europeans they have never experienced.”

“Yes, Your Excellency.”

-Dudududu.

The cavalry began to flank.

At the same time, the infantry formed ranks and prepared to fire.

“Dense formation!”

“Fire!”

In the moment when the enemy was confused by the infantry’s fire, the cavalry was投入 [thrown] again.

-Dudududu.

“Charge.”

Godfrey began to use Western tactics that the Mongols had not anticipated.

“For the Emperor!”

“Our blood flows to the world!”

“Descendants of Joshua! Our ranks will not fall!”

Any other army would have had their morale collapse by now, but the valiant Mongol army fiercely resisted.

But only for a moment, as the Mongol army judged that they could not overcome the overwhelming power of the English army in all situations and began to retreat.

They chose preserving their forces over honor.

-Squawk, squawk.

The battle had just ended.

A sinister crow cawing on the battlefield.

The result of this battle was an English victory. It was also a glorious first victory.

“Waaaaa! We won!”

“We drove out the Mongols!”

Of course, it couldn’t be considered the main force, but they had defeated an elite corps of tens of thousands of soldiers. Their morale soared.

“…”

Unlike the others, Godfrey, calmly gazing at the battlefield, was silent.

“Your Excellency, it is a victory. Our English army has repelled the enemy.”

A knight beside him said proudly, but Godfrey, with an indifferent expression, said in a small voice that only the knight could hear.

“In my opinion, this is just a small victory and cannot be seen as a true victory. We must advance quickly. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Your Excellency.”

-Heeheehee.

Immediately, the cavalry ran across the desert.

They were advancing while guarding against ambush areas where enemies might be hiding, but they couldn’t even find a trace.

The enemies had definitely retreated.

But Godfrey was still pondering the previous battle.

‘To think that those who are not the main force are so strong.’

If they were not in perfect condition and the 妙手 [stroke of genius] of ‘surprise’ had not worked, the result might have been different.

Godfrey’s knowledge was renewed again.

Through the valuable ‘victory’ gained through fierce fighting, he realized why those who feared the Mongols called Temujin’s army the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

He also knew what to learn from this valuable experience.

“Your Excellency, this place has also fallen.”

A new city; there was hell in the place where the Mongols had passed.

“I didn’t know the Mongol army’s attacks would be this terrible.”

But Godfrey.

“We must go to support the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem as soon as possible….”

It was not the time to become sentimental about the tragedy before his eyes.

To protect the heart of Jerusalem, they had to advance without rest.

But that road would not be easy.

“We must endure more!”

“We must block the Westerners’ interference in advance.”

Because Mongols who were prepared to die.

Were sparsely 배치되어 [deployed] on the road.

* * *

-Everywhere in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Mongol camp-

The siege stopped for a moment.

Because one of the generals in charge of the rear came to Jebe’s main camp.

One of the Mongol commanders knelt before Jebe.

He was the general who had been defeated by Godfrey.

Jebe stared at him silently and said.

“I heard you were defeated?”

“General, please kill this defeated general.”

“…”

Jebe silently looked at the subordinate who wanted to die.

He could have killed him immediately for the reason of defeat, but he had to hear the explanation first.

“The vice-commander will report.”

“Yes, General.”

To his vice-commander, not the person himself.

[…So, they mobilized artillery and Egyptian cavalry. And new guns…]

Jebe, after hearing objective information about the Mongol army’s response to the enemy general (Godfrey) and why they were defeated, said.

“The problem is not the weapons. If victory was determined only by weapons, the Han Chinese bastards, who had superior weapons than us, would not have fallen into our hands. Rather, the failure to grasp the enemy general’s tactics was the reason for the defeat. Still, you took good follow-up measures, creating several traps to stop the enemy’s advance. Since the merit exceeds the fault, there will be no execution for you.”

“Thank you for bestowing grace, General!”

“Don’t think about dying; fight as much as you want to die. Didn’t we all decide to give the Emperor the world as a gift?”

Jebe, who left the camp like that, observed the wide battlefield.

The Westerners huddled in the castle and the Mongol warriors who were taking a breather for a while.

‘It’s a good day to run across the fields and shoot arrows…but I can’t step out as I please now.’

Jebe, looking at the battlefield, thought of the past called Zirgogatai.

In his youth, he learned to shoot a bow to protect his family and sheep. But the chaotic prairie turned him into a human hunter. And the prey included ‘Temujin’.

‘Who shot the white goral’s neck?’

‘Temujin, I, Zirgogatai, tried to kill you by shooting that white goral on behalf of our tribe. So please kill me quickly.’

‘I need a sharpshooter with good eyes like you on my path.’

At that time, the great Emperor Temujin forgave Zirgogatai, who tried to assassinate him, and even gave him the name Jebe.

So Jebe personally came here to offer ‘the world’ to Temujin.

That way, the hunter was hunting once again.

“General, a new enemy has appeared.”

“Did the follow-up unit finally come?”

“How cute.”

-Tang, tang, tang.

“It’s the Han Chinese’s gunpowder weapons. It’s as expected. They are cooperating with the Han Chinese bastards to stand against our Orthodox Christian Empire.”

“…Heh. How interesting. How many steps ahead did Jamukha see?”

The Holy Mongol Empire is a vast empire that runs on the charisma of the great Emperor Temujin, but the reason why the empire is running in its golden age without creaking is because there is a ‘famous general’ named Jamukha.

“General, what are you going to do?”

“What else… I have to eat them.”

Jebe was happy. He was serious.

* * *

-Everywhere in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Castle-

King Jeffrey I asked an old vassal who had followed him to Jerusalem.

“Baron Courtney, what should we do now?”

“…. All we can do is endure.”

Baron Courtney had nothing more to say. The key now was to endure until the army that would save them arrived.

“That’s right, that’s what you said. All we can do is endure.”

“If my father were alive….”

The young nobleman of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, John of Ibelin, missed his father Balian, who had passed away a long time ago. If he were alive, the situation would be better than this.

“John, don’t do that. You are also a knight as capable as Balian.”

“Your Majesty….”

King Jeffrey I favored John, who was showing his abilities in many ways, not just a boy who only believed in his father’s name.

King Jeffrey I, who comforted his vassals, looked outside the castle walls.

“It seems there is no siege today.”

“I think they are resupplying like last time.”

Baron Courtney answered his lord’s words.

But not having a siege was not necessarily a good thing. Now, the main force of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was a force trapped in Jerusalem and unable to do anything.

Jeffrey was planning to use all means to carry out a thorough defense until reinforcements arrived.

In the first place, the grand strategy of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was a defensive battle to protect the castle.

“That scary gunpowder was also very familiar to them.”

But King Jeffrey I realized something while watching the Mongols prepare for the siege. They must have experienced countless sieges using ‘gunpowder weapons’ already.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem’s defeat was thinking of the Mongols as just fighting fanatics.

But fortunately, God did not abandon the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

“Your Majesty, behind that….”

“Long live Richard I, long live John I. God has given those brothers three abilities.”

“It’s the army of England!”

“I’ve been waiting. That guy John….”

The lion on the flag was a black lion.

It was Godfrey’s corps that John had sent to save his brother.

* * *

-1205, Angevin, the capital of England-

In fact, I had prepared for something since Richard went to war.

It was a rebellion.

A normal person would think, ‘A rebellion will happen while the war is in full swing? What kind of country is this!’ but I knew the reason well.

Without rational judgment, the medieval average was to rebel without asking or 따지지도 [questioning] when they saw a gap or thought it was easy.

‘So far, within England, I, Safe John’s politics are recognized, but there are also those who underestimate my military power.’

Even though I, as Richard I’s chancellor, had carried out a bloody purge, there were too many who were not afraid.

Feudal lords who didn’t know the world thought of me as just a 철부지 [childish] ‘poet John’ who 빨아먹는 [sucking] Richard I’s 등골 [spinal cord, figuratively meaning leeching off].

I was Safe John who prepared for the worst. Still, I had a glimmer of hope. No matter how stupid they were, I hoped that no aristocrat would want to ruin their life by starting a rebellion.

But not long after Richard went to war, a rebellion finally broke out.

‘We are vassals of Richard I, not vassals of the 되먹지 않은 [unworthy] John I.’

The rebellion took place not in Continental England (England’s territory in 서프랑스 [West France]), but on a distant ‘island’.

But unlike my expectations, it was neither Scotland nor Ireland.

‘Welshmen, unite!’

It seems that the nobles in Wales really want to die.

Why don’t they persuade the people of Scotland and Ireland, who are in the same situation, and start a rebellion? Why are they so desperate to die?

They argued.

Ignoring the absurd joint king, only the great monarch Richard I should reign.

What 개소리 [dogshit, nonsense] is this.

Among those who are hiding and waiting for an opportunity, there must be those who have a grudge against me.

Can I really do better than the original John?

The King John I am talking about here is not the incompetent King John of the time when he was ‘대장전’ [checkmated] by his vassals, but King John who led the state affairs with the help of his mother when his brother Richard I went on a crusade.

-Tadang. Tadang.

Although it is close to ‘유사’ [similar], it is John, the lord of flames with a flintlock musket.

“Foolish. Did they even overlook that I am a commander who won the civil war?”

That way, their foolish choice failed.

Now it was time to purge those who had rebelled and the families involved with them.

Yes, only death awaits the rebels who are not mentally sound.

‘Please spare my life.’

‘We were caught in the 꾀임 [enticement] of the treacherous France.’

‘France’s 꾀임 [enticement]’ There was no 개소리 [dogshit, nonsense] like this. There was no mercy to be given to the rebels who made 같잖은 [pathetic] excuses.

“It’s an ax beheading. Of course, the executor will be the person I choose.”

That way, the novice executor was given alcohol and the public execution was carried out.

-쾅.

-쾅.

-쿵.

-쩍.

-끄아아아악.

Of course, the prisoners died painfully.

‘Still, is it mercy because it’s not 거열형 [dismemberment by oxen]?’

If they had started a rebellion in a peaceful time, they would have cleanly cut off their heads with a beheading sword, but now it was wartime. England is using all means to defend Europe from the Mongols. How dare they cause such 분탕 [disturbance]. They are really 놈들 [bastards] to fall into hell.

“May God protect Richard I on the battlefield and John I who protects the capital today.”

I, who had dealt with the rebels, knew that the weight of this 존호 [title] was not a good thing.

Although he was a joint king, he was in charge of the internal politics of England.

“Ha….”

The first news I heard after 수습 [handling] the rebellion was the news of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

First of all, our Charles won the naval battle that took place in the sea near Jerusalem.

Godfrey’s army successfully landed, and the Mongol fleet was properly made into fish food.

But the battle on land was a defeat if it was a defeat, and a victory if it was a victory.

In my opinion, it was closer to defeat.

Godfrey defended the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

He defended the Holy Land from the Holy Mongol Empire, which dared to 마개조 [modify beyond recognition] the outdated sect of Nestorianism and claim it as ‘Orthodox Christianity’.

But there can’t be only good things in this world.

The only city intact in Jerusalem was Jerusalem.

So I decided to give Godfrey more support.

“Your Majesty, thank you for giving us the opportunity.”

“I hope your resentment will be the reason for victory.”

It was when the Eastern Knights, made up of countless Orientals such as Ak Bul-hoe and Lee Yang-moo, were dispatched.