Chapter 1677: The First Battle (2)

As long as these knights can't ride on their horses, no matter how powerful the knight is, he is just a good infantryman, and as long as he encounters well-trained shield wall tactics, he will definitely be cornered. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"My lord, the wind is too strong tonight, and it is difficult to kill the sentry at such a long distance, at least I can break through to within forty meters, and I can be sure to kill the sentry."

Meng Da looked at Zhao Hu and shook his head regretfully, an arrow shot at the moving sentinel fifty meters away, this is still possible in a windless area, but this camp is arranged by the lake, and the strong wind blowing from the open lake makes the arrow very accurate to shoot the moving target.

"It's easy to shoot the sentries away, Starn, I'll sneak in and kill the horses first, and when the camp is in chaos, you can organize a soldier shield assault." Zhao Hu ignored the hesitation on Starn's face, turned around and disappeared into the dark darkness of the night, only to see a black figure quickly touching towards the camp.

Zhao Hu slid forward quickly against the turf, and then flicked his feet, like a flying fish jumping out of the water, easily crossed the small river with a width of about 2 meters outside the camp, and a few small jumps had already been pasted outside the fence outside the camp, and finally supported the fat body with his hands, like a gecko lying in the corner of the wall, easily climbed over the wooden fence up to three meters high.

The idiot lord's agile body made everyone stunned, and even the hunter leader Munda, who had always thought that he was as light as a swallow and looked at the mountains and valleys like flat ground, was completely convinced, "Is this guy still human!" ”

Zhao Hu jumped over the three-meter-high wooden fence, and there was a soft feeling of landing under his feet, because Zhao Hu's movements were too fast, and did not attract the attention of the sentry, with the memory of the observation on the mountain just now, Zhao Hu easily found the stable where the war horse was kept, but only to find that he missed an important problem.

"How do you fix these horses?" The vitality of the horse is very strong, unless the horse's head is chopped off with a knife, it is difficult to kill it directly, and the fallen war horse will definitely cause the neighing of other war horses, Zhao Hu looked at the war horse in the stable and fell into a trap for a while, and several war horses in the horse room also looked at Zhao Hu with bulging eyes, the sensitivity of animals is always much stronger than that of people.

"Yes, set fire to the horses, these horses will definitely run around when they are frightened." Zhao Hu's eyes suddenly fixed on the torch on the pillar of the stable, then took the torch burning with pine oil from the pillar of the stable, opened the wooden fence door of the stable, and set a fire along the thatch on the roof of the stable.

The night wind by the lake was very strong, and the fire soon spread to the entire stable, and the scorching flames suddenly made the war horses panic and try to rush out of the fence, and for a moment the sound of wind, fire, and the frightened screams of the war horses were mixed.

Seeing that there was such a big situation on the side of the stable, the soldiers of the Cato family gathered around the campfire, led by several knights in chain mail, ran towards the stable in a panic, but did not realize that the soldiers on the watchtower had been shot down by several cold arrows from the bushes outside the camp.

"What are you doing in a daze, waiting for the enemy to shoot you, quick, pass a few people over the wooden fence and open the camp gate." Stahn hurriedly commanded the newcomers who had just entered the battlefield.

The sentinels had been dealt with by the hunters, but the newcomers were still in a daze under the fence, not knowing what to do after rushing under the fence, so Starn, who thought he was the commander, yelled angrily.

Hearing Starn's words, the peasant soldiers who were also flustered and excited reacted, and several of them began to climb up the wooden fence, but at this moment, the camp gate opened from the inside with a "squeak", and Zhao Hu's fat figure appeared from the door.

"What are you doing? In groups of six, as trained, put on an assault formation! Remember, if the enemy is not finished, don't look back, and those who turn back will be killed! Zhao Hu saw the soldiers who were messing around outside, and scolded in the same annoyance.

By this time, the soldiers of the Cato family had already discovered the anomaly here, and a knight with a dozen soldiers rushed to the camp gate first. The peasant soldiers who were forming in groups could even feel the gasp of the Cato family soldiers on the opposite side, like a bellows.

"Assault!"

With Starn's shout, the frontal shield wall of thirty squads moved forward rapidly, crushing the stunned enemy in the darkness of the night like a moving mountain.

"Enemy attack! An enemy has rushed in."

The knight on the opposite side saw the black shadow of the crowd in the night, and panicked, although he had just found out from the fire in the stables that someone was deliberately making trouble, but he didn't expect that he would encounter the enemy's night attack, and someone would dare to attack the Cato family!

The knight's mournful shout attracted dozens of soldiers who were extinguishing the fire in the distance, looking at the approaching shield wall, these veterans drew their weapons one after another, and calmly posed two straight lines, this is now in the field, the infantry is a very traditional queue, which is conducive to putting the attack power of each soldier in the front.

"Bump! Touch! ”

The moving shield wall finally hit the Kaitoka soldiers who were waiting for the battle, and the sound of the weapon hitting the shield was as continuous as the sound of beating drums, and with the occasional mixed "poof, poof" sound, the Kaitoka soldiers who were held up by the shield wall quickly fell down a dozen, and this inexplicable way of death shocked the Toka soldiers who rushed up behind.

"Watch out, their daggers! These vile bastards! A knight shouted in pain as he retreated in grief, and a short sword that had not yet been drawn was stuck in his blood-stained waist, and it seemed that the delicate chain mail he was wearing stuck the short sword of the peasant soldier, and the knight who had been "plotted" survived.

This shout caused many of the soldiers who had been blocked by the shield wall to retreat, but more than half of them had already fallen, and according to the previous training, the shield wall had broken through the defense line of the Cato family, and was coming from both sides to the middle, like stuffed dumplings, and the soldiers of the Cato family were surrounded in the middle.

"This is a massacre, a one-sided massacre." Starn felt like he was going crazy, judging from the few soldiers he had just fought with, these were all veterans who had been on the battlefield, although they were attacked by superior enemies, they still calmly formed a defensive formation to resist, but all of this was vulnerable in front of this strange shield wall.

Stahn even saw one of the most cowardly peasant soldiers among them, holding a soldier against his shield with his eyes closed and stabbing him to death with a short sword.

"Surrender! Or die! ”

Zhao Hu waved his hand to make the soldiers stop attacking, and in the middle of the circular formation formed by the shield wall, there were only a dozen soldiers left who were still resisting, and only three of them were knights wearing scale armor, which made Zhao Hu, who had always been wary of the impact of knights, breathe a sigh of relief, "It seems that most of the knights are not in the camp." ”

"We surrender, we demand justice, and our family will pay the ransom for us!" The three knights first threw down the weapons in their hands, there was no point in resisting, and the knight's loyalty was limited.

"What about your Marquis of Cato? Where is he? "Zhao Hu is very angry about the lord who didn't find the enemy in the camp, the lord is the big fish, these small fish and shrimp are not worth much.

"He and Captain Stuwei went to Lord Liu Ming's castle to negotiate." The captives' answers made Zhao Hu, who was puzzled, even more puzzled, what was going on, he was fighting to the death with the enemy here, but his cheap father-in-law began to negotiate with the enemy, and the feeling of being deceived made Zhao Hu angry, "This old fox, see how I clean you up"

"Let's go, take these people down, pack up all your things, and let's go to Lord Liu Ming's castle." Zhao Hu shouted at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield around him.

"My lord, look at what I found, there are at least three hundred gold coins here!" With excitement on his face, Starn secretly dragged Zhao Hu into a black tent on the upper left in the middle of the camp.

Stahn, who had lived in the barracks for a long time, knew that the army was accustomed to storing supplies, and it was usually in the upper left corner of the tent in the middle, because this position was close to the middle, and the defense was tight and unobtrusive.

Especially on the mountain just now, Starn had carefully observed, and the tents in the middle were unlit and guarded by sentinels, all of which were in line with the characteristics of the material tents, so as soon as the battle was over, he immediately ran into this strange tent.

By the light of the torches, Zhao Hu saw several open red brown wood boxes full of all kinds of glittering things, Zhao Hu felt that these boxes should be filled with the property obtained by the Marquis of Cato from the village, but he didn't expect the Marquis of Cato to work so hard for so long, and he actually cheapened his "outsider" in vain.

"Go out and call a few people to carry these boxes to the center of the camp." Zhao Hu closed a few boxes, and the words that came out of his mouth made the excited Starn stunned, he didn't know what kind of madness this lord with strange ideas was going on, according to convention, these found trophies were all attributed to the lord.

The hunters were busy capturing a dozen horses that had fled in fright, and the peasant soldiers were shedding their leather armor and picking up enemy weapons from the corpses of the enemy, which were worthless, but they were still their own trophies.

Although the enemy was easily routed in this raid, three peasant soldiers were killed and eight were wounded of varying severity, four of whom were stabbed by their own men in the crowd.

Seeing the dead companions and the wounded soldiers wailing and wounded, there was an indescribable silence in the whole team, and everyone suddenly saw their lord commanding several peasant soldiers to carry several large wooden boxes to the center of the camp, and immediately stopped what they were doing and surrounded them.