"Legion Chief, wolf smoke has risen outside the city, are we sending troops out of the city to raid the enemy's flank?"

On the east wall of Vaal City, an officer of the garrison looked at the three puffs of wolf smoke rising outside the eastern city, and according to the agreement, it was time for them to go out of the city to fight.

"Don't worry, there are two hundred western troops under the city watching us, and we had better not rush out of the east gate."

"Moreover, how do I think the Welsh Legion doesn't look like it can withstand ~ this~"

Walter, the commander of the Vaal garrison, watched the battle outside the city, which was still raging, and the number of reinforcements was left aside for the time being, but Walter felt that the reinforcements were not as strong as Art's letter suggested.

Walter is the commander of the Vaal garrison, his highest mission is to defend the Vaal City, if he sends the only team capable of fighting out of the city to fight and cannot win, then the Vaal City, which has only about 100 peasants and soldiers, does not need to defend it at all.

"Baron Art said that their ambush soldiers will surprise the enemy's rear from outside the northern city, so we will sneak out of the northern city and sneak attack! The herald ordered the raiding army to be transferred to the north gate to stand by, and as soon as my flag waved, I would immediately go out of the city to attack! ”

"It's my lord!" The officer descended the city wall and led the two hundred defenders to the northern city.

To the west of the Vaal City, in a deserted wheat field a mile outside the Western army camp, Kazak and Tuba were lying on the ground whispering about the direction of the raid.

"The sentinel on the east side reported just now that the enemy army left more than 200 soldiers near the camp to guard against a sneak attack, and there seem to be many soldiers outside the east gate of Vaal City to monitor the inner city, so it is safer for us to sneak attack from outside the north city according to the original plan, although the distance is a lot far......"

While the two were quietly discussing, a soldier who was looking out at the sentry could not hide his cover, and ran down the south side of the hillside towards the wheat field.

"What's going on? Why not hide proximity? Kazak yelled at the panting sentry soldiers.

"Ka~ Lord Zack, give the order! Ordered! The sentry soldier said hurriedly.

Kazak stood up suddenly, and sure enough, three puffs of wolf smoke appeared faintly in the eastern sky, but they were in a low position and didn't notice it.

"Quick! Let's get up at once, we will bypass the enemy camp and bypass the Vaal from the north to attack behind the enemy. ”

A moment later, more than a hundred black-robed soldiers who had been lying in the fields all morning left the wheat field and quickly touched the western army camp towards the north of the city of Val......

............

Art has rarely participated in the first battle line in person, and the loss of life is one of the reasons, but the main thing is that the Wells Legion has hundreds of soldiers and a complete command system, and Art, as the core commander of an army, should no longer participate in hand-to-hand combat, which is not only too risky but also not obvious in terms of combat effectiveness.

However, today Art personally participated in the fierce battle of the Wells Legion, because the Wells Legion has highlighted the battlefield disadvantage, and the soldiers and officers need a breath of courage to maintain the last line, and the Supreme Commander personally wields the sword hand-to-hand combat is undoubtedly the best strengthening.

Sure enough, when Yate personally led six or seven baron guards to join the right-wing battle formation, the right-wing Bangada banner team, which was already powerless, suddenly broke out in the will to fight, and the most noble regiment commander was killed, how could ordinary soldiers and officers be embarrassed to break the battle and survive? Since everyone is dying, it will be much easier to fight, no matter how strong the enemy is, he will not want to die after all, and even the strongest person will be afraid in front of those who are bent on death, and this has little to do with personal combat power.

Art's melee martial arts skills are mediocre, especially compared to Angus, Rejerk, and Klaus, who have been tempered in the flames of war, Arte's melee ability is very reluctant. However, under the cover of the baron's guards, Art still achieved the record of killing three people and knocking down two people.

Ron also jumped off the horse, pulled out the knight's sword brought back from midsummer, and swung the stab left and right on Art's flank, and cut down several enemy soldiers in a short time, Matthew on the other side also carried a war hammer and desperately smashed towards the enemy's iron helmet, the sharp mouth of the war hammer pierced the iron sheet and drilled into the enemy's head, the enemy rolled his eyes and fell to the ground and twitched, Matthew couldn't pull out the war hammer embedded in the enemy's head for a while, so he had to take out the short sword at his waist, holding a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand to block the heavy sword slashed by the enemy on the opposite side......

Arte's horizontal sword blocked a heavy axe that slashed straight towards the head, and the huge force pushed him to a stumble, the enemy couldn't hit it and waited to rush over and slash again, Art's upper body leaned back slightly, and he kicked the enemy soldier's crotch, only to see that the enemy's eyes suddenly had a trace of blood red, and he immediately threw away the heavy axe and fell to the ground, holding his crotch with both hands and curling up in a ball of dead shrimp, and kept struggling.

Without the slightest hesitation, Art threw the shield in his left hand out horizontally and smashed back another enemy soldier, then rose up and raised the knight's sword in his hand and nailed it straight to the heavy axeman of the "shrimp bow" on the ground, piercing his back in the face, and the tip of the knight's sword came out of the enemy's chest, foaming blood spurted out......

"My lord, Chief Andrew was knocked unconscious by the enemy, and the left flank began to get out of control!" A herald circled the right flank from the rear and squeezed through the scuffle to find Art.

Art had just pulled out the knight's sword that had been nailed into the enemy's heavy axeman, and was holding his knees to catch his breath, when he heard that the left wing was out of control, he immediately stepped over the head to observe the state of the left wing, but he couldn't watch it at all in the crowd, "What about the sergeant major?" ”

"The sergeant major rushed to the front with his own guards to press the formation, but the left flank is getting heavier and heavier!" The herald replied.

"Matthew!"

"Matthew!"

"Matthew!!" Arter shouted three times in a row, and the guard herald Matthew, who was in a state of madness, heard the call, and he pulled one of the guards to his place, and then ran to Art's side.

"Matthew, order the gōng nǔ team to go into battle with swords and reinforce the left flank!"

Matthew immediately squeezed through the crowd, returned to the back and picked up the gōng nǔ flag that was placed on the ground to represent the gōng nǔ team and waved it, seeing the gōng nǔ team in the back formation, Matthew turned the flag three times, and then pointed in the direction of the left flank.

The gōng nǔ team received the military order, drew the short swords that had long been polished and polished, and ran towards the left flank......

After all, the Western Army gradually occupied the battlefield advantage, and the Eastern Army (Wells Legion) had filled all the troops that could be mobilized into the battlefield, but it only maintained the stability of the battle line for a moment, and finally began to retreat step by step.

First of all, the left flank, the gōng nǔ hands are not infantry after all, they are basically physical training and gōng nǔ shooting on weekdays, and rarely train swords, spears, axes and shields, although there is a fighting strength in their bones that is not afraid of death, but they are still powerless to parry in the face of the enemy's slashing and stabbing; The reinforcement of the Gōng nǔ team failed to inject strong combat power into the left flank, so the decline of the left flank became more and more obvious, and the enemy was also aware of the situation on the left flank, and they began to gradually tilt the forces of the central army towards the left flank of the Wells Corps.

The second is the right wing, the personal bravery and the morale of the commander are limited after all, the morale brought by Art's personal battle is used up after the battle situation is unfavorable again, the Western Army has more than 600 people, and the Wells Legion has less than 500 people, the Wells Legion is already at a disadvantage in numbers, coupled with the gap in weapons and armor and the time for soldier training, the right flank is losing and retreating.

The only place where the battle situation was better was the Chinese army (center), because there was Klaus's heavy infantry team resisting in the center, and the enemy seemed to shift the center of gravity to the two flanks more and more after charging the formation, so the battle situation of the Chinese army was the most optimistic, and Klaus even led the heavy infantry embedded in the enemy's camp.

However, in the case of the defeat of the two wings, the Chinese army did not dare to advance rashly, in that case, it would be stabbed in the side by the enemy.

The Welsh Legion had already lost nearly 100 dead and wounded, which was certainly a complete defeat in the other ranks, and the soldiers were able to maintain their positions by relying on the military discipline they had cultivated during their usual training.

A heavy rain that had been held back for several days finally poured, and the place where the eastern and western armies were fighting was drenched in the heavy rain, and the soldiers fought in the rain, and the blood and water gathered into thin streams under the rain......

Walter on the east wall of the Vaal City watched the battle of the army outside the city in a daze, he never imagined that there would be such a tenacious army, whether it was the enemy or the reinforcements regardless of casualties in the opposing camp, the two armies of different colors of armor and clothing completely became a pot of wheat porridge, and the water suddenly poured from the sky completely stirred this pot of wheat paste into a bloody pulp......

"Legion Chief, let's go out of the city again to reinforce the army!" An officer of the defending army in the eastern city witnessed the tragic battle outside the city, and the wolf smoke had been extinguished by the heavy rain, but the signal to attack the city had already been issued.

Walter raised his hand to wipe the rain from his face, and looked up again at the north, where the "thousands of volt soldiers" mentioned in Art's letter were still nowhere to be seen.

"Wait!" Walter chose to wait a moment.

As soon as Walter's words fell, a herald of the defenders of the northern city ran to the east wall in the rain, "Legionnaire! From the north, an army holding a wolf flag rushed towards this side, one or two hundred people, which should be the front army of reinforcements and ambushes. ”

"Only one or two hundred?" Walter questioned.

"Legion Commander, it should be a little forward in the ambush, and the brigade must be behind. My lord, let's hurry out of the city to attack the enemy's rear, otherwise it will be too late, if we don't go out of the city in time to rescue, we will definitely offend Baron Art, I'm afraid~" The defending officer once again advised the defenders to attack immediately.

The herald also chimed in: "It should be the ambush forward of the friendly army, I see that there are also figures about half a mile behind that team, but the distance is too far to see the number of people, I estimate that there are hundreds of people."

Walter's head was thinking quickly, and he glanced again at the Wells legion that had been struggling with the enemy, and it was expected that they must have reinforcements, otherwise it would be impossible to hold on, "Order, the defenders of the eastern city are pretending to prepare to leave the city to attract the attention of the western army's surveillance team. ”

"Order, the north gate gathered troops to attack immediately, directly hitting the rear of the enemy army."

"Guards, follow me to the north gate and personally lead the army out of the city to fight!"

............

On the northwest side of Vaal City, the first banner of the first company, Zhangkazak, threw a throwing spear in his hand and pinned one of his pursuers to the ground.

Kazak and Tuba with two banners tried to bypass the edge of the enemy camp when they were found by enemy sentinels, the enemy army was obviously also on guard, they left behind in the camp of 180 people at first thought that it was the legendary thousands of troops attacking the camp, the left army of the Western army closed the camp gate to defend the barracks, but they immediately found that all the "ambush soldiers" were only about 100 people, so the commander of the Western Army immediately sent 100 people to pursue the army heading east.

Kazak didn't expect to be entangled in the tail by the Western army, so he could only personally lead two squadrons to stop the enemy.

"Don't care about the pursuers behind me, everyone will rush to the battlefield desperately, and the legion will not be able to hold on if it is one step too late!" Kazak decisively ordered the two squadrons in the rear to stop blocking the pursuing troops that were delaying the enemy.

So more than 30 soldiers gave up the task of blocking the enemy, turned around and chased the front team led by Tuba, and let more than 100 Western troops fall to the tail.

The long-distance running of the Wells Corps, which was trained on weekdays, was at an impact when the two banners of the Wells Corps were less than three miles away, leaving the Western Army nearly half a mile behind.

Soon, the two banners of the Wells Legion arrived at the foot of the Vaal City, and by this time a garrison of more than 200 people had already rushed out of the northern gates and charged towards the field outside the eastern city in the fierce battle......

Art's armor was already soaked, the soaked armor was very heavy and more and more difficult to wield, he had retreated to the rear and shot the enemy with his bow and arrow under the cover of the guards, but the rain was so heavy that his bow and arrow lost its strength, and after firing the last light arrow, he drew his knight's sword again and prepared for hand-to-hand combat.

The Welsh Legion was no longer able to retreat, the enemy was completely embedded in its own camp, and if it was ordered to retreat, it would inevitably turn into a bitter rout.

Art could only desperately hold on, counting on the more than 100 "ambush soldiers" and the defenders of Vaal City......

"My lord, you first withdraw to the camp and prepare to defend against the enemy, I will maintain the front here, if it is really not possible, we will withdraw to the camp first and hold on." Otto was covered in blood and had a long gap in his arm, and he hoped that Art would hide in the legion camp and organize the baggage defense, and then he would take the Wells legion to fight and retreat, and return to the camp to hold on.

"You can't retreat, as long as you give the order to retreat, it will inevitably turn into a rout!" Art rejected Otto's suggestion.

Just when Yat was a little desperate, Lusignan, who had been fighting with the enemy cavalry, left seven or eight cavalry to deal with the enemy cavalry, and then led more than ten cavalry from the Wài Wéi cavalry battlefield to return to the main battlefield of the infantry.

The charge was still quite effective, and the Western Army had to draw out about thirty soldiers to deal with the cavalry interference.

The frontal pressure on the infantry eased slightly, and the front stabilized again.

"Woo~~~~"

"Woo~~~~"

"Woo~~~~"

In the rear of the fierce battle, the horn sounded again and again.

An army of 200 people suddenly rushed out of the northern city, led by a banner belonging to the defenders of Vaal City, and rushed towards the battlefield of the battle between the eastern and western armies, while more than 100 people of the western army outside the east gate also noticed the movement and rushed towards the team diagonally......

"Woo! Woo! Woo! ”

There was another trumpet, and behind the defenders out of the city, an army with the Howling Wolf Banner appeared, which was the "ambush" of the Wells legion that had disappeared for several days.

The Western Army, which noticed the abnormality behind them, panicked, and they had already concluded that the enemy army did not have all the "ambush soldiers", but now two armies suddenly appeared behind them, and many Western Army commanders began to panic.

Perhaps the strength of the enemy's reinforcements of 1,500 is not fiction~

The morale of the troops in the rear of the Western Army was shaken, and a small number of troops began to retreat south as they watched the enemy troops that had been slaughtered behind them.

These small numbers finally affected a large number, and when the second team with the Howling Wolf Banner appeared in the field of view of the rear of the Western Army, a third of the Western Army broke and fled.

This escape completely reversed the established situation on the battlefield...... 21