"Sergeant Major, you personally lead the cavalry team, and then select two slightly complete flag teams to follow Kazak and them to pursue the enemy for three miles, remember to return to Vaal City immediately after the pursuit of three miles, you can't fight, the enemy will definitely react after a long time of pursuit."

"Odo, if you take forty men to the enemy's camp, they will not have time to return to the camp and move everything, and everything that can be taken will be brought back to Vaal City, and the baggage equipment that cannot be taken will be poured with fire oil and burned."

Angus and Otto were exhausted after the battle, and returned to gather their soldiers to complete their mission.

"Medic! Medic! Where's the medical captain? Art shouted around.

An officer in a light burqa ran from a little distance, blood still dripping from his hands.

"My lord? I'm the head of the medical team. ”

Art glanced at the medical captain, this guy is not from the army, he is the apprentice selected by the healer Thomas in the valley two years ago, after Thomas was transferred from the civil administration to the commander of the command camp of the Welsh Legion, this proud apprentice was also transferred to the army as the medical captain, Spencer led the baggage team arsenal, the baggage team and the garrison team, and most of the military servants rushed to St. Ryan County in advance to establish a baggage supply depot, and the medical team and the gang followed most of the legion.

"What about Healer Thomas?" The knight's sword on the chest of the enemy soldier on the ground wiped the blood from the enemy soldier and asked the medic captain.

The medic captain looked at the enemy soldiers on the ground who were repaired with swords, "Healer Thomas is treating Chief Andrew, Chief Andrew has broken his sternum and has fainted, and the healer is trying his best to save him." ”

Art glanced in the direction of Andrew's flag team on the left flank, and sure enough, there was a group of people gathered around.

"Outside the city could not stay long outside, the medical team quickly carried the wounded soldiers to the city of Vaal, and when they got there, they treated the wounded, and if there were not enough men, let the soldiers who could move help. Fast! ”

The medics turned around and organized men to carry the lightly wounded soldiers into Vaal City.

"Matthew, let everyone else clean up the battlefield, weapons and armor will be collected first, the weapons and armor of the Western Army are really good."

Matthew immediately called out to the soldiers who had no task and were lying on the ground to trim themselves, and began to peel off their weapons and armor and pick them up from the enemy soldiers scattered all over the ground.

With a few of the most important things arranged in order, Art took out a rag from his waist to wipe the blood on his armor, glanced up in the direction of Vaal City, and commanded the guard officer Ron: "Ron, we should go and meet Lord Walter who sent troops to help at the critical moment."

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

In the east of Vaal City, the 200 infantry of the 1st Regiment of the Jonah Legion, which was pursuing the rout of the Western Army, had returned to the castle, and the face of the commander of the Vaal defenders was very ugly.

“...... If I had known that you didn't have a thousand soldiers, I wouldn't have risked breaking the city to follow you crazy. Five or six hundred people dare to pretend to be one or two thousand, and you are too bold! Walter's face turned pale, and he had been counting Art's insidiousness and treachery ever since he entered the city to meet him.

When Walter saw that the so-called "more than 1,000 ambush soldiers" behind him were actually less than 200 people, his cold hair stood up, and he did not continue to participate in the action of the "ambush soldiers" to pursue the remnants of the enemy army, but took advantage of the fact that the enemy had not yet reacted and hurriedly returned to Vaal City with 200 troops on horseback.

"Yate~My Yat-sama! Did you even listen to what I said! Withdraw your army to Vaal City, or I won't be foolish enough to believe your lies after being besieged by the returning enemy! Walter roared loudly at the careless Art.

The corners of Art's eyes slowly lifted.

"Walter! You shut up! ”

Art was enraged by the last roar, today's bloody battle had already caused a lot of losses to the Wells legion, and now that the enemy army was defeated and the crisis of Vaal City was relieved, the commander of this mongrel defender actually dared to grab Art's tail and not let go.

Walter was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to get angry.

"If it weren't for the Wells Legion, you and your army would have perished with Vaal City long ago! If I hadn't deceived the enemy with my stratagem, would they have stopped the siege and turned against me? If it weren't for my soldiers fighting the enemy outside the city, you, Lord Walter, would be standing here blaming a man who saved the lives of the city? ”

"Lies? What were you doing when my soldiers were slaughtered by enemy troops outside the city? Watching? Hesitate? Or are you glad that it wasn't your soldiers who were killed or wounded? You went out of the city to rescue regardless of the prior agreement, who broke the trust of others? Who is insidious and cunning? ”

"Don't say you're just a little private baron, even if Czaris stands in front of me personally, I dare to say that I didn't make the slightest mistake!"

Walter muttered a few words, never answering.

After Arte vented his anger, he didn't want to say more, and raised his head and ordered Walter, who was a little speechless: "Baron Walter, I guess you know that I also have the rank of adjutant of military affairs in the East? It was a military rank granted to me by the court during the reign of the Marquis of Ivrea. ”

Walter recalled, and seemed to have such a thing, and nodded reluctantly.

"Well, in the name of the Adjutant of Military Affairs in the East, I now order the defenders of Vaal City to go out of the city immediately to assist the Wells Regiment in collecting and relocating the wounded soldiers, clearing the battlefield, and then send people to the west to meet the army pursuing the enemy against the city."

"Also, my army needs to be repaired, so that your men have enough space in the city for soldiers to be stationed and enough food and baggage for the Welsh legion."

Walter was stunned for a moment, this guy in front of him really regarded himself as a growth officer, and he didn't move at all.

"Walter, if you dare to disobey my orders, I will put you on trial at Jonah's court. And sooner or later, the Western Army will notice the anomaly and re-besiege Vaal City with more troops. If my army chooses to withdraw because it is not properly settled by the defenders of Vaal City, you will have to wait for the court to send another army from the north to rescue you. Yate threatened.

"Lord Art, I'll carry out the military order immediately." Walter reluctantly replied.

Walter was reluctant to heed Art's bullshit orders as a military adjutant, but Art struck Walter in the sore spot, and Vaal needed the help of the Wells Legion.

With the help of the Vaal defenders and the city's laborers, the Wells Legion quickly cleaned up the battlefield and camp, and the army moved into a neighborhood of the Vaal where the rich and powerful lived, although the owners of these houses had already fled the war zone and fled to the heart of the province of Jonah to escape the fighting.

After settling the wounded soldiers, Art did not have time to count the soldiers' battle damage, so he mounted his horse and led the guards out of the city gate and ran westward.

After running for a mile, Art came to the Western army camp that was blazing with fire, and Odo was leading dozens of soldiers to carry the loot seized from the enemy camp onto a few broken wagons and carry them back little by little, and some scattered corpses could be seen in the camp, presumably the wounded Western soldiers who were killed by Odo.

When Otto saw Art coming, he kicked his horse and met him.

"Otto, why is there such a thing?" Art saw that the enemy camp had been set on fire, but the dozens of soldiers had not been able to collect much valuable booty.

"My lord, this group of Western troops also looks very good, it is estimated that the march is hasty, and there is not much reserve of weapons and materials left in their camp except for these tools for making siege equipment. In addition, the retreating enemy army has already searched first, and we have no time to search in detail. All the food and supplies that could be taken away were loaded on these broken carts that the enemy did not take away. "Otto thought that he could find a lot of gold and silver goods in the camp of the Western Army, and he could find a lot of weapons and armor at the worst, but he didn't know that the well-armed Praetorian Guard Legion and the elite of the Western Frontier Army were just donkey eggs.

"I just looked at the granary of the Western Army camp, even if the retreating enemy takes away part of the grain, the rest of the grain will definitely not last long, and I roughly estimate that the grain in the Western Army camp can last for three days at most. If we knew that they were short of food, we didn't have to attack at all, and we could drag them to death. ”

Art glanced at the western military camp that had been on fire, those large and small siege equipment had been buried in a sea of fire, and the camp tents had become frames, "No wonder they want to desperately capture Vaal City, it turns out that they don't have military rations, but we can't leave anything to chance, in case their follow-up team will arrive soon." ”

"Then we~"

"You first lead people to transport all the supplies into Vaal City, and then assist the defenders in arranging the city defenses."

"Remember to ask Walter for some food."

"Yes!"

After Arte had finished explaining Odo, he rode his horse westward, to see if the pursuing party had made its way back......

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

Three miles west of the Vaal City, the westward route of the King's Road was scattered with the corpses of the fleeing Western army, thinking that the Western army pursued by a large number of enemy ambushes was very embarrassed, although the Western army commander tried his best to stabilize the rout position and let the soldiers evacuate in an orderly manner to reduce casualties, but the sheep chasing the wolf behind the tail would not take care of the lone companion.

As a result, there are dozens of corpses of the Western army that came along the way, most of them are wounded soldiers who have been abandoned by physical exhaustion.

Angus wiped the blood from the spear that had been nailed into the corpse of the enemy and put it back in the sac of the saddle of the back of his horse, behind Angus was a neatly arrayed four banner soldiers, and a small number of infantry gathered the weapons and armor around the road to loot the corpses of the enemy.

There was a "click" sound, and the cavalry captain Lusignan returned from the west with two cavalrymen, and stationed beside Ma Angus, "Lord Angus, most of the enemy forces have withdrawn to a farm five miles away from here, and a small number of enemy troops have completely fled. They set up a Wài Wéi defensive line, the cavalry did not dare to go deeper, and Jafar and Reyek were leading people to monitor the farm Wài Wéi. ”

"Kazak. Kazak! Angus waved to Kazak, who was commanding four infantry flags to prepare for battle and take the opportunity to recuperate briefly.

Hearing the summons, Kazak called Tuba to continue his formation and ran towards Angus.

"Kazak, the enemy army has already stabilized its footing, and I am worried that they will fǎn gōng immediately, you immediately retreat to Vaal City with four infantry flag teams, and by the way, bring the military information of the enemy army stationed at the farm eight miles west of Vaal City."

"Yes, Lord Angus!" Kazak turned and ran in front of the infantry formation to direct the return journey.

"Lusignan, the cavalry will stay with me to spy on the enemy and set up wài wéi outposts along the way." Angus stepped onto his horse and led Lusignan to the west. 21