The enemies in the melee were directly disrupted by the sudden rush of more than a hundred infantrymen. They had not been defeated before because there was a team of knights leading the squires back to fight. Therefore, when Bucky and the others rushed over, the knights who had formed a small team to charge back and forth suddenly kicked the bellies of their horses to save the situation.
Bucky knocked away the enemy in front of him and glanced at the team of knights who were rushing over. He immediately shouted to his comrades: "Spears! Prepare the spears! "
"This way! Come and form the formation! "
Immediately, three to four soldiers raised their spears and responded loudly. Baki pulled two of his comrades to his side, and the surrounding infantries who heard the shouts gathered around them. In less than ten seconds, eight soldiers raised their shields and quickly formed a wedge-shaped shield formation, facing the incoming knights. The four soldiers with the spears squatted in the middle of the shield formation, their feet stepping on the bottom of the spears as they pointed their spears forward …
More than ten knights waved their weapons and hit the soldiers along the way. In the face of the shield formation that suddenly appeared in front of them, they, who had long lost their long weapons, felt that it was difficult for them to deal with the shield formation that suddenly appeared in front of them. Knight Connelly, who was the leader, thought that he was skilled in martial arts. He raised his long sword high, and his Battle Aura lit up with a pale orange light. When he was about to reach the shield formation, he suddenly swung his sword forward and roared: "Die!"
However, before the energy of the long sword was released, the light that suddenly lit up in front of him directly swallowed him.
The four charging spears collectively released the energy within the crystal.
The violent impact bombarded the knights in the rear. Bucky, who was at the forefront of the shield formation, only felt the top of his head heat up, and his ears were temporarily deafened by the loud noise. The dazzling light forced him to close his eyes, and when he opened them again, the team of knights in front of him had turned into red minced meat splattered on the ground …
"Continue to fight! Rush over! "
No one could hear these words, but everyone instinctively continued to fight. They stepped on the pieces of meat under their feet and silently but firmly broke into the enemy's team. Armors collided and blades crossed. After an unknown amount of time, when Bucky's hand was shaking so much that he could not hold his sword, there was finally no one around to kill …
The squad of Dragon Lancers pursued the fleeing nobles in the distance, and no one cared about the scattered squires and other soldiers. Bucky picked up a strip of cloth from the ground, wound his sword and hand together, and began to look for his company.
The rescue team led by the mages had already entered the arena. Bucky checked his body up and down according to the training rules. Fortunately, he found that there were no injuries except for more than a dozen dents on his armor.
He could feel a deep engraving on the back of his helmet. Buggy, who was sweating profusely, wanted to take it off and have a look, but the rules of battle did not allow him to take off his helmet before the assembly signal appeared, so he gave up the idea and began to look for any injured companions nearby.
After walking back and forth for a long time, Bucky found that there were very few Efta infantry lying on the ground. Most of the people who were injured were injured by the enemy's cavalry, but their armor and shields greatly increased their chances of survival. Ba Ji counted the number of fallen comrades in front of him. There were no more than ten of them.
Looking back, he noticed that the road roller puppets had extended the road to the battlefield. The bodies of the wounded and dead soldiers were transported onto trucks and returned directly to Taqui Town for treatment and burial. The rest of the people rested on the spot. Two hours later, trucks carrying food and new weapons and armor arrived quickly, and the Falcon in the sky also circled a few times before leaving.
Bucky did not know what to do next. Because his squad was located in the central area, only three people returned to the rear because of injuries during the whole battle, and no one was killed. This news made him feel less depressed. The supply truck brought drinking water and enough food for lunch. He had no appetite, but he ate a lot.
At one o 'clock in the afternoon, the road roller puppets ran over the battlefield full of blood and corpses, continued all the way south, and arrived at the periphery of the city of Soria at five o' clock.
The soldiers got up to prepare for battle, but the scouting Dragon Lancers brought news: the enemy had given up defense and raised the flag to surrender.
Bucky breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the simple white flag on the city wall and knew that there should be no more fighting today …
*****
Viscount Beuragon looked at the sun that was about to rise, and his heart was extremely heavy.
At present, among the forces controlled by Charles II, Earl Harrison had the highest title and the strongest overall strength. Among all the nobles who participated in this war, Viscount Beuragon could only be regarded as the fourth nobleman.
After the announcement of the war order, he gathered more than a thousand people in his territory and rushed to the city of Dunkell in the south of the Holy Temple. However, the continuous rain made the marching speed slow, so he could only slowly hurry along with the few nobles around him.
Because everyone had the same destination, along the way, Viscount Beuragon and the other two viscounts led more than a thousand people to follow the same road. But to their surprise, after setting up camp yesterday, suddenly a lot of soldiers and refugees ran from the north. After asking, the other party actually said that Eiffta's army had captured Dunkell …
Unlike the other nobles who had not fought many wars, Beuragon had always regarded Earl Moore as his teacher, so he had a deeper understanding of the means and strategies of war. Just because of this, when the other nobles laughed at this group of people for not even knowing how to make up a lie, he immediately locked up this group of people in batches, and then personally interrogated them.
Naturally, he was shocked by the results.
After dawn, Beuragon immediately found the other three nobles to discuss the matter of fighting the enemy. Because judging from the direction of the enemy's advance, they were currently on the enemy's attack route!
Such a proposal was naturally ridiculed, but Beuragon forcibly sent his own scout team and dragged the nobles' bodyguards to the front to carry out a long-distance investigation. The result was, of course, that they found a large number of trucks and puppets moving forward.
So the soldiers in the entire camp immediately broke camp and lined up. After two hours of regrouping, they began to move forward and met the infantry division from Eiffta at noon.
Beuragon felt that he was well prepared and had the initiative, but he never thought that the whole army would collapse on the spot in less than half an hour. The cavalry died in the artillery fire, and the infantry was directly crushed in terms of equipment and strength. Nearly 3,000 people on his side were defeated by the enemy's less than 2,000 infantry like ants …
Seeing that the situation was not good, Beuragon immediately blew the horn to retreat. But only more than 600 soldiers came back. Including the soldiers of other nobles, there were only a little more than 1,000 soldiers. The wounded and the dead had to be left on the battlefield. He was so sad and indignant that he couldn't even think of fighting back. Because the three nobles, together with their guardian knights, three magicians, and bodyguards, had been blown to pieces by the charged spears or crystal cannons. Perhaps they couldn't even collect their bodies.
So what he could do was to try to gather the soldiers who had retreated from the battlefield and retreat quickly.
The viscount soon arrived at the periphery of the City of Soria. But this city was different from those Fortresses. It was a completely open commercial city. It was originally just a developed town, and only in the last ten years was it called a "city". Because it had never experienced war, the construction of the city wall was very perfunctory. It was only two or three meters high, and there was no inner city. This kind of city wall could only be used to deal with occasional horse gangs or roving bandits. Last year, the Orcs were too lazy to attack the city, so they let go of a horse. But Viscount Beuragon knew that it was simply a pipe dream to use it to deal with the Eiffta army who had artillery!
Therefore, he led the remaining thousand or so people to forcibly requisition a large number of farmers in the city. They took all the food that could be carried away and destroyed the ones that could not be carried away. Then, they continued to retreat towards the south without stopping.
By the time it was dark, his team had been about 10 kilometers away from the City of Soria. Because they brought too many forcibly requisitioned farmers, it was impossible for the team to continue their journey at night. So he planned to break camp as soon as possible at dawn tomorrow. His goal was the town of Lannis in the north of the Bordeaux River.
The Bordeaux River flowed east-west and was not very wide. In the central and western part of the kingdom, it was regarded as a natural territorial boundary. In the process of flowing eastward, it gradually dispersed into narrower rivers. Because of its existence, the southern area of the kingdom was much more convenient for food irrigation than the northwest where Eiffta was located.
From here to the south, it was the former territory of Count Milnor. If they passed through this territory, they could reach the royal city where Charles II was.
In other words, the Bordeaux River was the largest natural barrier in Eiffta's attack. As long as the army could hold it, then Eiffta's army could not march in and pose a threat to the royal city.
Because the river was not very wide, there were stone bridges everywhere. Last year, the Orcs' raid directly rushed into the hinterland through these bridges without any obstacles along the way. This year, the nobles finally learned their lesson and stationed some troops on the stone bridges and pontoon bridges to guard.
Viscount Beuragon arrived here at this moment. Not only did he want to cross the river, but he also wanted to destroy the bridge.
Viscount Beuragon had been optimistic about the war before, but now he had realized that the enemy was not as vulnerable as the 'Royal Weekly' had said. On the contrary, the noble army on his side was like a motley crew that would collapse at the first touch.
But the short battle also gave him a simple understanding of Eiffta's military strength: the enemy had long-range weapons similar to magicians, but there were not many of them. The number of people attacking was less than 2,000, which meant that the enemy might be fighting on multiple fronts, and the front line was very long. If he was the enemy, to be able to let the army attack here, it meant that Earl Harrison's territory had most likely been conquered.
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