In January, at the coldest day of winter, when it should have been quiet in the barracks with a campfire to keep warm, a large army walked on the muddy roads after the snow melted.

This was the first time that the Welsh Legion had gone out to fight since its establishment, although the combat target was a knight with weak military strength, and along the way they were basically walking on the route controlled by the party, but the regimental command camp still marched in accordance with the requirements of the enemy's territory - except for the cavalry team, the task force, and the patrol team, except for the super wàiwéi sentry shielding of the cavalry team, the task force, and the patrol team, most of the subsequent legions also set up outpost guards and two wing cover according to the wartime enemy territory march, and there was a squadron of soldiers on the front and rear and left and right sides apart from each other half a mile apart to take turns to be on duty.

Most of the legion marched along the north-south trade route, and was divided into three sections: the front was the heavy infantry team and the first infantry company with mule carts, the second infantry company and the gōngnǔ team in the center, and the last was the regiment command camp tent {military priests, ideological and political officers, adjutants, servants}, baggage teams {including part of the military labor}, and the guard army law team {responsible for pressing the formation and supervising the execution of military law}.

There is a distance of more than 100 steps between the front, middle and rear armies in the middle of the array, which is to take care of each other and prevent the middle and the circle from being rounded.

However, during the war, the appearance of the enemy's march was made, but the speed did not slow down, after all, this is all the area under their own control, there is no threat of strong enemies, and the marching formation is more for the purpose of drills.

The Welsh Legion is still very poor, and the only military horses have to be prioritized for the cavalry team and the guard army, so the infantry and gōngnǔ, heavy armor and other teams of the entire Wells Legion are not even equipped with horses at the level of flag captain, of course, each flag team still has a few military horses, but most of these military horses are used to pull the ordnance and materials of the flag team, and it is too reluctant to ride them as war horses.

Time was everything, and after two days of rapid marching, most of the legion had already walked out of the birch grove south of Lane Manor, and the legion outpost had arrived at Lane Manor.

Ever since Baron Bazel was accidentally ambushed and killed outside Wincheston Manor, Lane Manor has lost its lordship.

Lane Manor, along with several other territories of Bazel, was returned to the superior lord, and in order to control several territories, the lord each sent a knight to take over temporarily. There was originally a young knight in Ryan Manor.

But now the Ryan Manor is unmanaged, because the sudden outbreak of bandits a few days ago affected the Ryan Manor, and the knights who temporarily managed the Manor were robbed by more than a dozen bandits before they could sit on the hot ass, and the Mansion of the Lord of the Ryan Manor was originally looted, and now some of the food and supplies brought by the new knights have been robbed.

The knight was humiliated and vowed to go back and lead his troops to kill the bandits, but two or three days later, the back of the knight's departure was never seen.

When the outpost arrived at Lane Manor, the manor was unmoved. The reason is very simple, in the past year and a half, not only has the army not oppressed the peasant serfs in the manor, but even the bandits who have entered the manor several times have not plundered ordinary peasant households, anyway, every time the soldiers and bandits cross the border, it is the gang of lords who live in the lord's mansion.

Andrew, a former woodcutter, joined Arte's army as a conscription peasant soldier when he fought against Schwabian in Talmu Fort, because of his bravery and repeated military exploits and his intelligence and good at learning, he was deeply valued by Art, and now he is the captain of the third flag of the second company of the Wells Regiment, and a woodcutter has become a middle-ranking officer in charge of fifty or sixty people in two years.

He wears a chain mail neck helmet, a long shirt and cotton armor underneath, a chest plate armor covering the outside of the chain mail (chest only}), a long sword at his waist, a broad axe in his hand, and a long scar extending from his elbow to the back of his hand.

There is a detour next to the Lane Manor, but now it is clear that there is no need to worry about trespassing on noble lands and being evicted. When Andrew entered the entrance of the village of Lane Manor with a dozen soldiers, several young and vigorous farmers had already taken out the prepared food and soup and stood at the entrance of the village to greet them.

Andrew called a few villagers to ask if there were strangers in the village, and after learning that everything was normal in the village and even the knight in charge had left, Andrew ordered the farmers of Lane Manor to go home and close the gates, and then a dozen soldiers searched the village and continued north.

In a few moments, hundreds of soldiers in armor followed, interspersed from Lane Manor in two formations, one heading west toward the Dean family's farm, and the other heading north toward Wincheston Manor......

On the morning of the first Sunday of January, which was supposed to be a day of peace to pray for the blessings of the Lord, the disaster of the Dean family struck as scheduled.

Wincheston Manor was surrounded by more than 400 Welsh legions at this time, and the soldiers besieging the manor had no intention of building a camp in Wàiwéi for a long time, and the battle would end before dark, when the army would be stationed directly in the manor.

Victory is certain, it's just a matter of the size of the price.

The legionnaires were resting more than five hundred paces beyond the walls of the manor, fastening their armor and polishing their weapons, and hurried to take out rye bread from their bags and nibble on it with water; The baggage team and the accompanying laborers used saw axes and hammers to make siege ladders, city breakers and other equipment.

Outside the main entrance of the manor, the legion commands the tent, and Otto and Angus are receiving two people who come out of the manor empty-handed

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Chapter 270: The Siege (1)