The Lombards were wise, and if they hesitated a little longer, the outpost led by Art would have been desperately bitten from behind. 77dus

However, the army that was stuck in a stalemate could not be withdrawn at will at the first order, not to mention that the two infantry banners had already entwined the Lombards' front line, and the cavalry team that was roaming the periphery alone would not easily let the Lombards leave.

If there is no sudden reinforcement, perhaps this cavalry will protect itself and take the initiative to withdraw from the battle to preserve its strength before the defeat of the side. But now that the tide of battle has taken a shocking turn, they certainly won't miss a good opportunity to beat the Reservoir Dogs.

The natural superiority of the cavalry over the infantry would never change, and the legionary cavalry, sensing the intention of the Lombards to retreat, did not hesitate to bite it.

The seventy or so cavalry corps that bit Lombardy were divided into two teams. A group of more than forty men kept circling around the Lombards to stop their advance, and from time to time they rushed in and threw a few throwing axes or throwing spears; Another group of thirty or so men was even more desperate, and they formed an arrow cavalry formation under the leadership of the cavalry captain, and constantly rushed towards the flanks of the fleeing Lombards, dividing the Lombard ranks into several sections, and then scattered and surrounded by the pursuing legionnaires.

In this way, under the entrapment and interspersed division of the cavalry, the remnants of the Lombards' fleeing army were once again consumed little by little, and when the Lombards were about to flee to the edge of the dense forest, less than a third of the more than 200 people were left when they left the city, and the rest either became corpses lying in the mud or became prisoners who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and more were surrounded by soldiers from the pursuing legions......

"Lord Yat, the deputy commander of the legion ordered you to lead the outpost to pursue the remnant enemy commander, the commander of the Lombard army is Viscount von Billon, if we can capture him, we will have a great achievement!" The lieutenant of the legion ordered his own soldiers to find Art, who was commanding the siege and annihilation of a lone Lombard army.

"Why don't you chase it yourself, are you willing to give us such a great good thing?" Jason, the leader of the crossbow squad beside Art, sneered at the herald, Jason knew that the adjutant of the legion did not dare to provoke the heavy infantry around Feng Bilun, but he was reluctant to let go of this piece of fat, so he asked Arte's outpost to touch the nails, and then the adjutant of the legion led people to reap the profits.

"This~ The deputy commander of the legion wants to command the army to annihilate most of the Lombards, and he has no energy to pursue the small group," the herald himself felt a little embarrassed to continue.

"Okay, it's just that you can't beat the group of plate infantry next to the commander!" Jason laughed.

"Lord Art, you have to pay attention, that group of heavy infantry is indeed difficult to deal with, otherwise the deputy commander of the legion will not let the elite outpost pursue." The herald had apparently experienced the horror of the heavy step of the plate armor in the battle just now.

Seeing that Odo had led people to surround and kill more than a dozen Lombard remnants, Arte glanced at the elite Lombard team that had been chased to the edge of the dense forest by the cavalry step by step, and said to the herald: "You go and tell the deputy commander of the legion, let him clear the remnants of the enemy as soon as possible, clean up the battlefield and reorganize the army, it is best to take Solburg immediately, now Solburg is almost an empty city with a closed door, whether it is persuasion or hard attack, it must be in our hands."

"Besides, you'd better send someone to get the Legion Elder back, we need the Legion Leader and the two hundred elites he took away as support."

"As for the remnants of the plate armor, we will hand it over to the outpost, and we can kill a few. Be sure to remind the Legion Lieutenant that Thorburg is the core, and only when the Legion flag is planted in the lord's hall will Thorburg truly belong to us. ”

Art explained a few things to the herald and then ordered Jason's crossbow squad to temporarily act as a guard: "Blow the trumpet and assemble, charge the remnant commander!"

At the sound of an order, seventy or eighty outpost soldiers gathered from all over the battlefield and rushed towards the Von Bylon plate heavy infantry that had been tightly bitten by the legionary cavalry.

There were only about sixty soldiers left around Feng Bilun, including more than two dozen elite plate armor heavy infantry with his most confidants, and at this time these plate armor heavy infantry had already dismounted and fought on foot, blocking the legion cavalry to the perimeter, and fighting and retreating. Once they retreated into the forest, the enemy's cavalry could no longer inflict fatal damage on them.

Seeing that they were only about a hundred or so steps away from the edge of the jungle, a sharp-eyed Lombard officer spotted a black-robed army rushing towards them.

"My lord, that black-robed army is entangled again!"

Feng Bilun swung his sword to block a throwing spear, and glanced at the black-robed soldiers who rushed towards him, "It's this group of black-robed dogs again!" Let the plate infantry abandon the perimeter, concentrate all in front, break through the resistance of the enemy cavalry, and we will break through into the dense forest as soon as possible! Rather than being carried away by anger and waiting for a battle to the death with the outpost of Art, he chose to break out as soon as possible to save some of his strength.

However, the legionary cavalry was not so easy to break through, and they also saw the reinforcements rushing over, so the legionary cavalry gave up the circle of encirclement of the remnants of the Lombard enemy, but concentrated more than two dozen cavalry to block the dense forest in front of the Lombards, and suppressed the Lombards from the front with a "wall charge" formation......

"The infantry followed, charging the enemy from the left front and right flanks to block their retreat. Odo led the 1st and 3rd squadrons to take charge of the left front flank, Kazak led the 2nd and 4th squadrons to take charge of the right front flank, the sergeant major led the sentry cavalry team to chase down the remnants of the enemy who had slipped through the net, and the bow and crossbow squad followed me around the front of the remnants of the enemy. Art maneuvered his horse to march in small steps to keep pace with the infantry, and at the same time gave orders to the officers who followed him to the left and right.

The outpost quickly divided into four parts, and quickened its pace towards the Lombards.

"After approaching the left front flank of the remnants of the Lombard enemy, the 1st Squadron of Colin was in front and the 2nd Squadron of Tuba was in the rear, first squeezing the remnants of the enemy's outer formation, and then encircling and annihilating them with a shield formation. If there are scattered enemies out of the formation, do not pursue, your own cavalry will pick them up! Otto hurried close to the Lombards, and made the final pre-battle disposition to the two squadrons behind him.

The distance of one hundred and ten steps was only one time to take a photo.

Otto pulled out the two axes in his waist pouch, raised his left and right hands at the same time, and threw them towards the Lombard enemy formation more than twenty paces away.

The axe swung in circles in the air and smashed into the Lombards, and one of them struck an ordinary Lombard in the chest, cutting off several of his ribs, and his chest and lungs were slashed, and blood foamed out of the wounds; Another throwing axe smashed into the iron helmet of the hoplite, knocking the hapless guy to the ground.

"Throw the axe!!" The first squadron leader Colin saw that the two throwing axes thrown by Otto hit two enemies, and also ordered his soldiers to draw out the flying axes issued by their waists and throw them towards the enemy formation.

"Shield! Charge! Otto gave the order, then raised his iron-inlaid oak shield and ran it over the Lombard's left flank.

In the camp of the remnants of the Lombard army, Feng Bilun desperately attacked the dense forest under the cover of a few personal guards and a dozen plate armor heavy infantry, while dozens of ordinary Lombard soldiers on the periphery had been completely killed by the black-robed soldiers who had besieged them.

Seeing that the surroundings had been caught up to see the black-robed enemy soldiers surrounding, a Lombard officer knew that it was empty to lead the army to break through, he squeezed to Feng Billen's side and said anxiously: "My lord, it is impossible to break through all of them, you hurry up and get on the horse, I will take the soldiers to cover your breakthrough."

Feng Bilun, who has always been calm and dignified, was also a little flustered at the moment, he wanted to break through with dozens of soldiers and the remaining elite plate infantry, so that after returning to the south, he could barely recover his strength with these elites, but at present, this wish could not be realized.

"I can't leave the soldiers alone and run for my life!" Von Bylon told the officer that he didn't want his men to think that the commander was greedy for life and afraid of death.

"It's too late, my lord, if you are caught, we will really lose miserably." The officer said with a sincere face.

"I am your guardian knight, and it is my natural duty to let you live!"

"If I'm still alive, please don't forget me~"

Definitely, this officer had left a way for himself to survive - only if Viscount von Billen, as the feudal lord, could survive and return to the south safely, he, a knightly officer, would have a chance at redemption. In other words, once Von Bylon left safely, he would immediately lay down his arms and surrender to the enemy. Anyway, as long as someone pays the ransom, as a noble knight, he will not have to worry about his life.

Feng Bilun pretended to excuse himself after a few words, followed the advice of his subordinates, rode on the war horse that had been prepared a long time ago, and tore a crack in the encirclement of the enemy army from the surrounding enemy under the desperate cover of several personal guards and more than a dozen elite plate armor heavy infantry, and galloped out of the crack and fled to the southwest~

"Von Bylon escaped!!" The sharp-eyed Jason saw a cavalry rush out of the enemy formation, and saw the commander who was being guarded by everyone.

"Want to escape? It's not that easy. Art chuckled and jumped on his horse.

"Order the soldiers to quickly wipe out the remnants of the enemy! Let the sergeant major lead the sentry cavalry to follow me! Art gave Jason a command and kicked the horse in the belly, and the horse neighed and chased in the direction of Von Bylun's escape.

When passing by the legionary cavalry, Art said to the cavalry captain: "Lord Allen, the enemy commander has broken through, I will lead the troops to pursue, please follow me to pursue the remnants of the enemy."

The cavalry captain glanced at the small number of elites led by Feng Bileon, who had already run more than thirty paces, and then at most of the remnants of the Lombard army who were surrounded by cavalry and could not get out, and hesitated.

Art saw that the cavalry captain didn't want to gnaw hard bones, and said, "I'll take >>."

People rush to the front, and you are responsible for supporting me. They must have a lot of money with them, and all the money they seized from Feng Billen will be yours. ”

The cavalry captain didn't want to pursue Feng Bilun anymore, because he had killed enough enemy soldiers today, and his military merits were definitely not small. The second is that the cavalry under his command is still blocking most of the remnants of the Lombard army, and he doesn't want to withdraw easily. The most important thing is that he also knows that the guards around Feng Billen and the group of plate armored heavy infantry on horseback are a difficult bone to gnaw, and if he doesn't get it, he will have to lose a lot of soldiers in battle.

However, Art proposed to lead the troops to the first charge, he was only supporting the battle, and the temptation of the word "gold coin" made a decision, he quickly made a decision, and said to the herald around him: "Order, leave the first squadron of cavalry to continue the encirclement, and the rest of the cavalry will all withdraw and follow me to pursue Feng Biron." ”

As a result, more than 40 cavalry of the legion cavalry and the sentinel cavalry pursued the fleeing Feng Biron......

At noon, when the commander of the eastern corps, who had been ambushed in the south, returned to Solburg with his face shut, a thrilling battle was over.

The walls of Thorburg were planted with the banner of the Eastern Legion, which had been besieged for several months, was regained in this unexpected way.

In the Hall of Lords in the city of Thollburg, Viscount Jeffrey slammed the table and fired at a room of officers.

"How can you let that old guy run away from Von Billen? Forty or fifty cavalry can't catch up with a dozen enemies? Impotent!!! Legion Commander Geoffrey's anger vented out to Art and the Legion Cavalry Captain.

In fact, what really made Jeffrey angry was not that he let Feng Billen go, but that his self-thought brilliant ambush plan almost wiped out the entire Eastern Capital Army.

"Legion Commander, the guards around that old guy Feng Bilun are too powerful, and our cavalry has been introduced into the dense forest and can't exert their combat power at all." The cavalry captain explained to Jeffrey.

Art stood in a silent daze, he did not respond to Viscount Geoffrey's question.

This morning's pursuit was so dramatic that Art didn't want to talk about it at all.

Time back to the battle of chasing Feng Billen, when Art led the sentry cavalry and the legion cavalry to pursue Feng Billen for more than ten miles, if he continued to pursue along the southern road, Feng Billon would definitely not be able to escape, not only the pursuers who were getting closer and closer behind, but also the elite first company of the legion led by the corps commander in front of the southern road set up an ambush.

Feng Bilun also knew that he couldn't run away on horseback, so when he saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately asked all the soldiers around him to abandon their horses and go into the dense forest.

Drilling into the dense forest, the legion cavalry team was not unable to dismount and fight, seeing that the remnants of the enemy abandoned their horses into the dense forest, Art and the cavalry captain also jumped off their horses and chased after them.

Just when the pursuers were about to catch up with the remnants of the enemy, Feng Bilun came by surprise - he ordered his soldiers to scatter the large number of gold and silver coins they carried with them, and it seemed that they were ready to flee immediately......

The shining gold and silver coins were particularly dazzling in the sunlight, and the pursuing legionary cavalry had to stop and remove the "traps" scattered all over the ground one by one......

Feng Billon "bought" the pursuers with gold cakes and silver coins worth twenty or thirty thousand fennigs.

Art could only look at Feng Bylun's distant back, and shot the quiver on his waist with hatred

Either way, it's a big win.

Tips: Enter "Panda Literature" in the search engine, you can find this site, thank you.

Chapter 203: A Great Victory