Chapter 504: Leading by example
The sound of the sword unsheathed was very harsh, and because the Golden Tooth City itself was low, the two sentries above also heard it, and their expressions suddenly became nervous.
Oops!
Soros was shocked, and all kinds of thoughts turned around in his heart, and even moved the idea of attacking, because he found that the height of the city wall could be quickly used to use ladders, and even climb directly by ladders, and it was not difficult to take this city.
However, this idea was only moved for a moment before he vetoed it, and even if he could easily take this city, it would not make the slightest contribution to the front line, and even delay precious time.
At this moment, he suddenly raised his head and glared at the two sentinels, and scolded, "This is a secret operation ordered by Lord Tywin!
The two sentries were shocked when they heard this, nodded hurriedly, and did not dare to speak again, and watched the army leave.
"Hey, what kind of secret operation did you say Lord Tywin was up to? Didn't so many people go to the front? Aren't all the Northern Coalition forces fighting to the south now?"
"Who knows...... That's not our business. The other sentry was a little indifferent, but after a moment he frowned slightly, and glanced at the departing army, "Why do I feel a little wrong?"
"Huh?
"Now the southern soldiers have all gone to fight the northern coalition army, you say these people...... Really Lannisters?"
As soon as these words came out, the other sentry's expression also changed, and he showed a look of astonishment, "Difficult, isn't it?!"
The two glanced at each other, and both knew each other's thoughts.
"What should we do?!" the sentry said anxiously, "Now that our lord has led his troops to follow Lord Tywin, should we go out of the city to chase after us?"
"Don't you see how many people there are in that army!"
Several people remembered the army in the past, they were all related, it was an army of tens of thousands of people, but now there are less than 500 soldiers in the Golden Tooth City, once a conflict breaks out......
“…… Let's assume we don't know about this, right?" said a sentry who was silent for a long time, "What do you say?"
"En......" The other man hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Yes, pretend not to know, if it is an enemy, we will all die if we enter the city......!" And it's possible that they really are the odd soldiers sent by Lord Tywin!"
"Yes, yes. ”
……
Soros breathed a sigh of relief.
He couldn't help but turn his head and glance back at Golden Tooth City, he was a rare wit just now, and he scared those sentries with his superb acting skills. But how long he can be scared, he can't guarantee.
In fact, if he knew now that those two sentinels had decided to pretend not to know for the sake of Golden Tooth City and his own life, then his heart would definitely be happy, it was a divine assist.
But now he didn't know, so he ordered to speed up the march, so that once the people of Golden Tooth City reacted, then he had to arrive before the news passed and attacked.
On the other side, on the frontal battlefield, the northern and southern armies have also been fighting together in close arms.
As soon as they saw each other, the Northern Coalition showed an absolute inferiority.
It's not a matter of courage, in fact, the northern soldiers are very fierce, and they are not afraid of death. But the problem is that this is war, not fighting! The most important thing in war is consistency and discipline, and it is also more experienced.
In this way, the northern coalition army is naturally at a disadvantage, the northern soldiers visible to the naked eye fall in rows, while the southern soldiers fall much less in comparison, basically one can replace two northern soldiers!
The two armies fought hand-to-hand for nearly an hour, and both armies were a little tired, so the generals of both sides also ordered to retreat for a while, and as soon as the soldiers retreated, they left corpses all over the ground.
It can be seen that more than half of them are northern soldiers, and nearly two thousand people were killed and wounded in this round, so the morale of the northern coalition army was suddenly a little sluggish, and the soldiers of the Flagless family were fine, but the soldiers of the Bolton family and the Arryn family had begun to mumble.
To be honest, the two families themselves don't really want to fight against the Lannisters, and only the four families of the six major family alliances are Bannerless, Stark, Baratheon, and Tully have a feud with the Lannisters, and the two of them are forced to be honest.
If their territory is not in the Riverlands and the north, then it is estimated that they are not joining the Northern Coalition now, but following Old Tywin.
Therefore, once there is a setback in the coalition army, these two families will definitely be the first to jump out and find fault.
Li Ling knew this early on, but now he is really at a disadvantage, you can't help but let the family tell the truth, right? And for this situation, he thought about it for a while and made a decision.
Tearing off the cloak on his body, Li Lingyi took out his double swords and went to the forward position under the gaze of everyone, which is undoubtedly equivalent to saying that in the next short-handed charge, he will take the lead.
This really shocked all the generals and soldiers. In Robb's words, "Are you in a hurry to die?!"
That's right, everyone expressed their incomprehension, Li Lingyi is undoubtedly the most important person in the Northern Alliance, everyone else can die, but he can't die, and once he dies, the coalition will almost be over.
So he should hide in the back, instead of rushing to the front with his sharp swordsmanship, no matter how powerful he is, he can't withstand thousands of enemy troops!
Of course, this is just their idea, if there are no soldiers behind him, Li Lingyi will never dare to hedge against the tens of thousands of troops by himself, even if he has several layers of soft armor on his body, and there is an artifact like the magic dragon suit, but he will never dare to fall into the encirclement.
But now there are tens of thousands of people behind him, and it is difficult for him to be besieged in this situation, and what he wants to do is to improve morale, but to deliberately attract enemy troops. As long as he appears in the front row, the enemy will definitely cut the knife at him for meritorious service, in which case his own soldiers can take the opportunity to cut people and make up for the lack of combat skills and experience.
Of course, Li Lingyi himself didn't want to do this, but now there was no way, he saw that as long as there were two or three more hedging of this disadvantage, the morale of the Northern Alliance Army would definitely plummet, not to mention that the hearts of the six major families were not aligned, and there were still people who wanted to make small moves. And in this kind of large-scale battle with a total number of nearly 100,000 on both sides, morale is undoubtedly the most important thing, and once morale is lost, the army will be defeated like a mountain and cannot be recovered.
So no matter how others dissuaded him, Li Lingyi still insisted on being at the forefront. And some high-ranking flagless generals also secretly told him to simply take out the secret weapon now, but he was refused.
After all, he hadn't forgotten Rams's words before, if Old Tywin really had 10,000 heavy cavalry, then the catapult after the magic transformation would be used against those cavalry, and it would completely lose its strategic value if it was taken out in advance.