This adjutant's armor was no longer shiny, and one could even see some splashes of blood on it. The enemy was still a few miles away, but the defenders on the city walls had already suffered heavy losses.
The explosion just now had caused them to lose hundreds of men, and hundreds of others suffered light injuries. If not for the protection of the armor, the soldiers would have suffered even greater losses. The most important thing was not the loss of these soldiers, but the defense of Rayleigh Town, which was almost completely destroyed.
"Clang!" Raymond drew his sword from his waist, pushed away the adjutant who was hugging his arm, and ordered loudly, "Reserves! Follow me to the collapsed city walls! Line up! Prepare for battle! The enemy should be here soon! We don't have much time left! "
The soldiers behind him also unsheathed their swords. Raymond had a lot of prestige in Rayleigh Town, so at this crucial moment, there were many people who were willing to stand up and support this admirable officer.
"If the Empire dares to charge, I will show them what I've got!" I'll let them know what a cruel war is! "Raymond stubbornly raised his sword and stood on the city wall. Behind him, the broken flag of the Kingdom of Northland was still stubbornly struggling in the black smoke.
But soon, the black mass of the Empire's soldiers rushed over like a tide.
"Brothers, let these bastards of the Empire see how we, the Northland people, fight!" Raymond roared angrily and shot an arrow at the enemy from the city walls. The arrow flew out and hit the head of one of the Empire's soldiers, and the soldier of the Blackstone Fort expeditionary force fell to the ground.
For a moment, on the broken city walls, the archers and crossbowmen of the Northland crazily shot at the Empire's soldiers. As long as they were still breathing, they used all their remaining strength to kill the enemy.
Raymond saw that the enemy was very close, so he went down the city walls and prepared to lead the rest of the soldiers to the broken city walls. He was ready to go all out against the black mass of Empire's soldiers.
The enemy's heavy cavalry of the Blackstone Fort wore armor with a coat of arms, and Lord Tyron's coat of arms was a flag with a white upper half and a green lower half. The two halves of the flag each had a picture of a cat of the opposite color.
These Blackstone Fort's heavy cavalry were fully armed and had excellent equipment. The reason why Lord Tai Lun didn't use them as the vanguard was because he was confident in this battle. He didn't want to lose any heavy cavalry. Tai Lun believed that he could crush these small border cities easily. Moreover, he didn't know how long it would take for the reinforcements from the Empire's royal family to arrive. Therefore, he was trying his best to minimize the losses of his elite core forces because he knew that the real battle was coming.
Even though Tyrone had brought a lot of magic bombs with him this time, he still wanted to use them sparingly. After all, they would need these things to influence the outcome of the war in the future. He also knew that Gravel also had these things in his hands, so he needed to suppress him with numbers.
Therefore, to deal with a small place like Rayleigh, they only needed to break through the enemy's defensive structures and leave the rest to the Empire's infantry in Blackstone Fort.
"Shield Wall! Shield Wall! "Redmond roared at the remaining Norslan defenders.
Therefore, the rest of the well-trained soldiers immediately formed a shield wall formation with strong defensive power. This formation was made up of every Northland soldier's shield next to each other, forming a human wall.
Following the orderly battle cries of the Northland soldiers, the enemy had already approached the gap in the city wall. The Empire's infantry were also unusually brave. They were the soldiers of Blackstone Fort, so they were on a completely different level compared to the city guards.
A fierce battle had already begun. The Empire's Blackstone Fort soldiers wielding spears and the Northland soldiers wielding wooden shields and one-handed longswords were actually neck and neck.
After all, the Northland defenders' weapons were shorter, so they didn't have an advantage. The Empire's weapons were longer spears, but they were helpless against the Northland soldiers' shields and iron barrel-like defense.
On the other hand, the Northland archers on the city wall shot arrows with all their might, killing many of the Empire's soldiers. However, at the same time, they were also killed by the crossbow-wielding Empire's soldiers.
For a moment, the battlefield was a bit of a stalemate. Seeing this, the Empire's heavy cavalry charged towards the Northland defenders through a path that the Empire's infantry had opened up.
In an instant, the Empire's heavy cavalry charged towards the Northland defenders' shield wall and crushed it.
In just a moment, the Northland's shield wall was broken apart by the Empire's heavy cavalry. In a moment, with the addition of the Empire's spearmen, the scattered Northland soldiers could only fight on their own.
Raymond held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, slashing at the Empire's soldiers who rushed in. He used his shield to block an Empire soldier's spear, then nimbly closed in and slashed the soldier's neck with his sharp sword. The Empire soldier threw away the spear in his hand and tried to stop the blood from flowing out of his neck with both hands, but it was futile. He fell to the ground and didn't move anymore.
The remaining Northland soldiers fought with their lives on the line. Their faces were covered in blood, some of it from the enemy, some of it from themselves.
The sharp swords were a little blunt, and when the swords were blunt, they used their shields to smash the enemy's helmet. Taking advantage of the moment when the enemy was unconscious, the cold swords pierced the enemy's weak points.
Of course, there were also Northland soldiers who were killed by the combined forces of the Empire's soldiers. Some were shot in the back by the enemy's crossbow, and some were pierced by the enemy's spearmen. They were all brave warriors, waiting for the call of God Orugal. Tonight, their spirits would be able to drink and drink with the heroes in the Havagarde Shrine to celebrate. They had died bravely in battle and would return to the embrace of God.
After Raymond killed about ten more Empire soldiers, he was shot in the leg by a German Empire crossbowman in the distance. He was in so much pain that he knelt down. At this time, a captain of the heavy cavalry saw him and took out a rope and tied it around Raymond's neck.
Raymond's vision was blurred by the blood, and he immediately urged his horse to speed up. Just like that, Raymond was dragged far away, his blood forming a long trail on the ground.
The others were also surrounded. They had no hope, and they didn't fear death. Raymond didn't die, but he was being dragged away by the enemy's knights. The pain filled him with hatred, and he hated these Empire bastards.
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