In a flat valley three miles north of Fort Marsey, after a few days of busyness, a makeshift camp with a capacity of more than 1,200 men appeared in the northern army of Kodor. In order to prevent a sneak attack by the Wells legion, there was also an outpost a mile from the southern gate of the camp, and the garrison numbered about twenty men. There were also patrolling cavalry and light infantry within two miles of the camp.

The Kodorians were not stupid, and the intrigues of the Welsh Legion were well known throughout the country. Not long ago, news came from the camp of the southern Kodor army that the Welsh legion took advantage of the unpreparedness of the southern county soldiers to burn the grain and grass of the army. If it weren't for the timely firefighting and the preservation of a small part of the food and grass, the Kodor soldiers in the south may have begun to go hungry by now......

In view of this lesson, the command camp of the northern army has increased its vigilance. Not only were soldiers patrolled around the perimeter to guard against the sneak attack of the Wells Legion, but also sent outposts to secretly observe and monitor the Welsh Legion's every move. When the time comes, strangle the mongrels of the Wells Legion.

Although they had reached a distance of three miles north of Fort Marci, the northern army of Kodor was in no hurry to storm the city. Instead, he sent people to quickly contact the southern army, and sent a large amount of grain and grass to the southern army, and ordered the southern army to be stationed at the important pass of the southern trade route of Marssi Fort, and together with the northern army, formed a siege posture against Marssi Fort, and trapped hundreds of Wells regiments in Marssi Fort in the fort.

There are three main reasons for this deployment of the Kodor Northern Army Camp.

First, according to the report of the Kodor soldiers who escaped during the breach of Fort Marssy, all the grain and grass in the city had been burned by the order of the baron who was stationed there at the time of the destruction of Fort Marssy. Therefore, there was not enough food and grass in the city, and it was difficult to support a few hundred Welsh legionmen.

Second, even if the Welsh legion had gone to the villages around Fort Marci to collect grain and grass before the siege of the city, it would not have much to gain, because the Kodorians had already raided the surrounding area. Even if the Wells Legion could collect food, it would be pitifully small, not enough for the hundreds of people in the city to stuff their teeth.

Thirdly, as an important castle on the north-south trade route of the province of Kodor, the Kodorians know the Fort of Marsi, which they built brick by brick. The castle was built against the mountain, the terrain was steep, the walls were so high and thick that ordinary siege equipment could not help Fort Marsi. If it is attacked, it will only increase the number of lives. If it weren't for the Wells Legion sending people to lurk in Fort in advance this time, the inside and outside should be combined, Fort Marsey would never have fallen into the hands of the Wells Legion at this time.

Therefore, in view of various considerations, the command camp of the Kodor army decided to flank the north and south, adopt the strategy of besieging the city, and trap the Wells legion.

In addition, send outposts to spy on the perimeter of Fort Marsey, beware of reinforcements from the Wells Legion, and prevent the two from joining forces.

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On the mountain trail east of Fort Marsey, the outpost of Tiniecs' reinforcements from Fort Marcy was less than half a day's journey from Fort Marsi.

In order to keep the march of the army hidden, Bass sent seven or eight sentry scouts to walk half a day away from the front of the army. Just as they were about to cross the mountain pass to reach the side of Kodor Province, several soldiers in gray-and-white burqas suddenly appeared in their field of vision.

"Hidden!"

After seeing the unidentified armored soldiers in front of him, one of the sentry squad leaders urgently ordered several soldiers around him. A few people lay on the spot under the bushes around them, observing a few people at the pass on the top of the mountain through the gap between the bushes.

"Sir, there seems to be someone down the mountain." The soldier in charge of the guard task whispered to the patrol leader beside him, and motioned for the team leader to look in the direction of his finger.

I saw that in the bushes below the mountain, I could vaguely see seven or eight people who were also wearing gray-white burqas lying motionless in the bushes.

The patrol leader thought for a moment and said to the soldiers beside him: "Your Excellency specially instructed me to pay attention to the movement in the east yesterday, saying that our own people should be here in the next two days, so it is difficult to ......."

The squad leader held his chin in his right hand and stared at the seven or eight figures in the bushes.

"Could it be that Chief Bass's men have arrived?" The team leader said to a few people around him in surprise.

"So how do we know for sure they're ours?" One of the soldiers asked softly.

"Yes, sir, if it weren't for our people, we would have rushed forward, and we would inevitably have swords in touch." Another soldier continued.

The team leader thought for a while, and then had an idea.

"Ask them if they're from Governor Bath. If they don't answer, brothers, be ready to draw your daggers and go up with me and slaughter those bastards. With that, they had already put their left hands on the scabbards.

"Hey, are you guys from Chief Bass?" A question came from the top of the mountain.

"Chief Bass? They know Chief Bath?" A few people under the mountain exchanged heads.

Since Bass was wounded, he rarely went out of the valley, and more often he trained peasant soldiers in the valley and was responsible for the defense of the valley. Unlike Angus, Otto and Kazak, few outsiders knew about the existence of Bass. A few people on the hill could even know the name of Captain Bath, presumably from the Wells Legion.

The captain of the sentry squad under the valley opened his throat and yelled, "That's right, we are Captain Bass's men. Who are you, and how do you know our Bass chief? ”

"Hahaha......" Several people on the mountain suddenly laughed loudly, looking left and right.

"Have you ever drunk Valley beer?" The patrol leader said to a few people down the mountain.

The Valley Beer is a homemade beer from the Valley Brewery, and on weekdays, the soldiers of the Wells Regiment would go to Emma's tavern for a few drinks when they had time.

As soon as they heard the words "Valley Beer", the tense strings of several people at the bottom of the mountain finally loosened, got up from the bushes, and informed the patrol team at the top of the mountain of their identities.

"You two, go back at once and tell your lordship that Lord Bass has arrived with reinforcements." The patrol leader commanded the two soldiers behind him. With that, he walked towards the sentry soldiers at the bottom of the mountain.

Less than half a day later, Ron, who had come with the heralds, met reinforcements from the Bath detachment who were resting halfway up the hill on the side of the province of Kodor.

Ron and Buzz met and exchanged a few brief pleasantries. Due to the urgency of the military situation, Ron called Bas aside and whispered, "Sir Bath, my lord has specially ordered me to come and tell you......"

"Ron, you go back and tell your lordship, please rest assured, I will arrive on time." Buzz whispered to Ron after receiving the secret order.

"Lord Antayas, please come over for a moment." Bas said to Antayas, who was sitting under the tree.

"According to the secret order of the Lord, you lead the headquarters of Fort Andermatt ......"

After the discussion was completed, Ron followed the hundred men of Fort Andermatt led by Antaas to the bottom of the mountain.

Seeing this, Wall, the captain of the Tignats County Garrison Company, hurriedly ran to Bass's side and asked, "Lord Bass, why don't we go with them?"

Looking at Wall, who looked puzzled, Buzz said lightly: "You'll know later." ”

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"Brother Ron, your lord is really brave and resourceful." Antaas said to Ron, who was walking down the hill with him. He admired Yater's deployment so much that he threw himself to the ground.

"Lord Antayas, my lord has specially explained that I will take your hundred defenders and march towards Fort Marci with great fanfare. Recently, the Northern Army sent sentries to monitor Fort Marsi, and also sent a cavalry team of nearly 50 people to cruise around Fort Marsi. My lord judged that this was a disruptive army sent by the enemy to prevent us from joining up with reinforcements. Ron whispered to Antayas about Art's deployment.

"When we approach Fort Marssy, the sentry of the northern army will definitely inform the cavalry team, and when the time comes, you let the brothers resist the attack first, and the lord will send cavalry and infantry to rush out from the north gate to meet us."

"No problem, I haven't been on the battlefield for a long time, my sword is almost rusty, this time it's just the right time to let it taste the blood of those Kodor mongrels." Antayas said excitedly, touching the broadsword at his waist.

As they spoke, the group could already see Fort Marcy in the distance.

On the walls of Fort Marsey, the legionnaires of Wales were on standby, and the defensive equipment such as stones and fire oil were piled up all over the walls of Fort Marssy. In the open space inside the fort, the soldiers are practicing to warm up for the upcoming big battle......

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"Report!"

The Northern Army of Kodor commanded the camp tent. The officers were sitting around a long wooden table discussing strategies to break the enemy.

"Report to Lord Earl, a team of about a hundred people has appeared on the mountain path east of Fort Marcy, and is moving towards Fort Marcy." Hearing the news, everyone in the command camp talked a lot and exchanged heads.

"What's the noise!"

The Count of Kodor, who sat at the head of the long wooden table, shouted angrily.

After receiving a secret letter from the court of the province of Saône, the Count of Kodor personally arranged for the battle to encircle and suppress the Welsh Legion in the south. As the count of Kodor Province, a wolf suddenly popped out of his territory, and it was a fierce and greedy wolf, and the count naturally couldn't sit still. He could not tolerate someone snatching any piece of meat from his bowl, let alone the fattest one.

After swearing allegiance to the court of the province of Saône, the Count of Codor was destined to be tied to a rope with Bernard. At this time, the battlefield in the north was stalemate, and the war broke out in the south. The Count of Kodor really had no choice but to put on his own clothes and go south to defend against the enemy.

Although most of his forces were sent to the north, the Count collected an army of more than a thousand men within his domain. And this is thanks to the richness of the province of Kodor and the accumulation over the years.

"Is it reinforcements from the other side?" The Count asked, staring at the herald.

"Their armor is the same as that of the men in the fort."

"Okay, that's what I'm waiting for." The Count's right hand slammed hard against the table.

"Immediately order the cavalry around Fort Marcy to cut off the heads of these bastards for me, and let the bastards hiding in the city see, this is the fate of the enemy against me!" Count Kodor almost roared, spitting and flushing his face.

"Yes, Lord Count!" The herald was turning away.

"Wait!" The Count said to the heralds, "Tell them that if you kill one of the enemy, you will be rewarded with two thousand five hundred pfennigs, and if you kill five or more enemies, you will be given the title of knight and a hundred acres of fiefdom." After hearing this, the officers around him began to talk again, and some even jumped to try.

"Yes!" The herald quickly ran towards the outside of the command camp.

Seeing the discussion among the officers around him, the earl's fat face showed a lewd smile, and he said to everyone: "As long as you destroy the bastard of the Wells Legion for me, I promise to let you enjoy endless glory and wealth." ”

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Outside the gates of Fort Marssi, after receiving an order from the camp of the northern army of Kodor, fifty light cavalry launched a surprise attack on a hundred or so men led by Baron Antayas, who had just walked out of the "unsuspecting" mountain path to the east.

"Shield Array, Ready!"

"Roar!" With Baron Antaas's order, the hundred or so people who had been prepared for a long time instantly took out the shields behind them and formed a semi-arc shield array. Behind the shield stood a soldier with a short spear, and then a squad of a dozen crossbows, armour-piercing and heavy arrows ready to fire.

Baron Antayas and Ron stand in the middle of the shield and command.

"Brothers, if you resist this wave of cavalry, your lordship will send troops to rush out from the north gate to meet us. When the time comes, a reward of fifty pfennigs will be given for killing one of the enemies. ”

"Yes!" After hearing this, the morale of the crowd was greatly boosted. They all set up positions and waited for the enemy cavalry to attack.

"Fifty Steps ......"

"Twenty Steps ......"

Facing the roaring Kodor cavalry, the Welsh legionnaires held their breath and looked at the approaching enemy cavalry, their long swords and short spears clenched......

"Kill!"

For a time, Kodor's fifty cavalry cavalry charged towards the shield array. The shield array could not withstand the first wave of impact under the onslaught of the enemy troops, and several soldiers holding shields in the middle were knocked to the ground by the menacing cavalry. Seeing this, Antaas immediately ordered the soldiers on both sides to divide into two parts, surround the city with shields, and form two ring shield formations to circle the enemy cavalry. Himself and Ron each commanded the soldiers in two shield formations.

"Hold on to the left! Left! Ron commanded the soldiers in front. He stabbed his broadsword through the gap in the shield array into the belly of the horse exposed in front of him.

With the sound of a neighing horse, the Kodor cavalry on horseback fell to the ground and was stabbed to death by a Welsh legionnaire with a short spear.

"That's all!" Seeing this, Ron said to the soldiers around him.

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As the battle entered a stalemate, the shield array had stabilized the offensive of the Kodor cavalry, but both sides were damaged. Several soldiers of the Wells Regiment had already fallen to the ground on the periphery of the shield, and the corpses of several Kodor enemy soldiers and horses were lying beside them.

"Kill!"

Just when the Kodor cavalry was helpless against the shield array in front of them, there was a neighing of war horses and the shouts of killing the enemy from the north gate of Marssiburg. With the addition of thirty cavalry and one hundred heavy infantry. The skirmish outside the city ended with the Kodorians running back to camp in dismay.

Standing on the city walls, Art watched the battle. After all the reinforcements entered the city and the gate was closed, Art looked halfway up the mountain trail to the east, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth......

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In the mountainous and hilly area south of Fort Marsey, under the cover of night, the sound of the forward sentinel team reporting was whispered in the dense woods......

"What's the matter, have I killed all the enemy outposts?"

"Lord Phoenix, the people sent by the Kodorians have been all cleaned up by the brothers, and the army can move forward with confidence."

"Good! Tell the whole army to go! ”

"Yes!"

After leaving the stone fort, the Sap's army made a covert advance. Since sentries were sent to lurk around the enemy forces in the south of Kodor in the early stage, the situation of the Kodors was clear. The outpost sent by the Southern Army in the direction of Sapp was assassinated by the people of Phoenix, clearing the threat that the Sapp army was surrounded by the Southern Army of Kodor.

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"What? It's been so long that no one has come back, and you're telling me now! ”

Large battalion of the Southern Army of Kodor.

A certain probationary knight in charge of the sentry mission found that there had been no news of the secret sentry sent out for several days, so he ran to the camp tent of the Chinese army to inform the viscount of the leading soldiers.

With a roar from the Viscount of the Leader, the apprentice knight's body trembled and pressed his head down.

"Send someone to the sentry right away, and if you let the barbarians of Sapu and Midsummer come down the mountain, I'll cut off your head!"

"Yes, sir!" The apprentice knight's voice trembled, and he left trembling all the way.

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In the hills and forests surrounding the southern army camp in Kodor......

Under the cover of night, the two armies that had left Sapu in the west and headed north to Kodor had unknowingly appeared around the camp of the southern army of Kodor. The soldiers approaching the sentry could almost hear the Kodor soldiers squabbling beans and drinking, and these guys were still shouting loudly, unaware of the dangers lurking in the night, as if they had forgotten all about the night raid that had just passed......

"Send someone to inform you immediately, the irises will bloom tomorrow night......"

"Yes!"

When the conversation ended, only the sound of footsteps rustling on dry leaves could be heard. Soon, a dark shadow appeared at the foot of the walls of the south gate of Fort Marsey......