At night, through the dark clouds in the dark sky, a waning moon appeared from time to time.

At the door of the tent of the Welsh Legion's command camp, Art, dressed in plate chain armor, was holding the hilt of his sword in his right hand, looking up at the ray of moonlight.

"Maybe there's been some good weather lately." Art muttered to herself.

"Sir, what kind of good weather did you say?" Ron's voice appeared in Art's ear.

Art turned his head to look at Ron, and then continued to look up at the sky, "Didn't you go back to the tent and sleep for a while, why did you get up?" ”

Ron took two steps and leaned over to the campfire in front of the tent and stretched out his hands to bake, it was the height of summer and July, but there was still a chill at this time.

"Master, I can't sleep, I can't enter the city to garrison, I always feel unsteady in my heart, and the difference in strength between the enemy and us is huge, once they know our true military strength, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fight."

Art lowered his head and shook his stiff neck, followed to the campfire, stretched out his hand to bake it, and then picked up a firewood from the ground and put it into the campfire to burn the light.

"Ron, how old are you?" Arte had a sentence of questioning, so as to break the anxious and bored second half of the night.

"Master, it has been four years since I was your retinue when I was seventeen, and I should be twenty-one years old this year."

Art nodded, "Yes, yes, you're twenty-one years old. ”

"Ron, I didn't let you marry Ollie, are you a little confused?"

Ron was stunned for a moment, he did worry about Art's refusal to hold a wedding between him and Ollie for a few days, but now he didn't feel any knots, "Master, I know that you are for my own good, and I am worried that I will lose that ruthlessness after I get married, and you have long known that this war will come, and you don't want me to worry about it early." ”

Art turned his head and stared at Ron several times, "When did you come up with these truths?" ”

"I've figured it out since I went with you to the county of Longsummer, and I've figured it out, if Ollie marries me, and I die in battle, wouldn't she be a widow? So you have a deep meaning that I am not in a hurry to have a wedding. ”

Art raised his hand and patted Ron's brain, "What are you thinking about all night long!" There was actually only one reason why I didn't let you marry Ollie, and that was that I was going to wait until this battle was over to hold a grand wedding for you henchmen and officers, but the others were not as fast as you, so I asked you to wait for them. ”

"Huh? Is that so? I thought ~"

"You still think ~ think too much!" Art scolded with a laugh.

Ron scratched his head in embarrassment, an ugly smile on his scarred cheek.

"Your Excellency!" A herald stood behind Art.

"Say!"

"Lord Odo has reported that all the wài wéi around the barracks half a mile away have been cleaned, and the enemy sentries have been expelled by Lord Odo."

Art glanced up at the sky, clenched the hilt of the knight's sword at his waist, and commanded loudly, "Ron! The herald ordered the Welsh Corps to immediately tighten their tents and restore the camp to its normal size, and immediately dig trenches and pits around the camp and set up wooden fences to block horses. ”

"Yes!" Ron immediately regained his serious expression.

"Herald!"

Art ordered the herald in front of him, "The herald wài wéi's sentry guards and all flag teams should return to the camp before dawn, and wài wéi will not leave a single soldier behind, and everyone will return to the camp to hold on!" ”

"It's my lord!" The herald turned and ran out of the camp gate, running into the darkness.

After a while, the camp of the Wells Legion quietly began to pack up and reorganize the camp tent, the spacing that had been deliberately opened was reduced to a normal size, the redundant bonfire that had been deliberately raised was suddenly extinguished, and the soldiers who had deliberately patrolled and sentry were all retracted into the camp tent and snored like thunder

By the light of day on the second day, the huge camp of yesterday had suddenly shrunk by more than half, and the number of campfires in the tent had suddenly become five or six hundred people, and all the infantry and cavalry gōng nǔ soldiers shielded by the sentry of the camp had suddenly disappeared overnight.

Fifteen hundred suddenly turned into five or six hundred, and close to a thousand soldiers were steamed

The commander of the Western Army, who had just been awakened from a light sleep, jumped into a rage and scolded the baron and the officers who were in charge of monitoring the reinforcements of the "rebels" last night, "A group of things that don't have it! You can be more reliable with a dog! Thousands of people disappeared overnight, and you didn't know it! Are your eyes all born on fart*!! ”

The baron who was in charge of monitoring the rebel reinforcements was scolded and sweated, he quietly raised his hand and touched his forehead, and explained weakly: "Impossible~ My guards didn't close their eyes all night, more than a dozen pairs of eyes stared at the enemy camp, and they really didn't see anyone out of the camp~"

"Didn't see it? Didn't you see them turn into birds and fly into the sky? Did you sleep last night? The commander asked.

The baron's sweat began to flow down again, "I, I just stared at it for a short time in the second half of the night~"

"But my guards are all wide open!"

The commander's face became even more ugly, "I let you star, you let your guards star, your guards let the soldiers star, the soldiers let the miscellaneous soldiers stare, the miscellaneous soldiers are asleep!" ”

The baron did not dare to give the slightest explanation.

The tent fell silent suddenly.

After a while, an older man who looked like an advisor to the army stood up, "Legionnaire, you don't need to be angry with Lord ** anymore, I think maybe the enemy army is using tricks to confuse us at all." They started with only five or six hundred people, and they deliberately built the camp so big for the sake of bluffing. The palace has already sent a message that in five days at most a second group of 1,200 troops from the province of Saône will arrive in the Vaal city, and that we will have the advantage of our forces and have no fear of these rebels. ”

"The sentries have always estimated that the enemy reinforcements are more than 1,500, but they are all estimated on the basis of torches and campfires, and they do not really see the enemy. I have heard that the commander of the rebel Wells Regiment is a shameless man, always insidious and cunning, and perhaps this is another trap laid by a cunning fox. ”

The baron who was scolded just now nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, that group of mongrels must have deliberately bluffed to make us mistakenly think that they were outnumbered, and no one left the camp at all." ”

"But~" the crowd retorted in a low voice.

"But what? Say it! The commander shouted angrily.

A small officer stood up in a snort, "But in the second half of last night, the enemy's wài wéi did suddenly send troops to sweep up the sentry we planted in wài wéi, especially the enemy army on the east side drove our sentry two or three miles away~ Maybe they withdrew from the east~"

"Withdraw to the east? Where can you retreat to the east? Aren't they fighting? Running back to Jonah City? Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand! The scolded baron sarcastically asked, unwilling to admit that most of the enemy had indeed disappeared suddenly.

The petty officer glanced at the commander, who nodded affirmatively and motioned for him to continue.

The petty officer walked to the abstract and rough topography map hanging in front of the camp tent, and pointed to the valley that was separated from the Vaal by a mountain range, "Commander, this valley running east-west leads directly to our back road, and not far to the east of the enemy camp there is a mountain road that can be inserted into the valley, and the carriages cannot walk, but the line infantry can pass through. ”

The tent people took a sharp breath of cold air, and suddenly a chill hit.

"Army~Legion Commander~" An officer hiding at the end said in a trembling tone.

"Baggage officer, what are you interfering!"

"Adults~Adults, I forgot to report a small matter to the adults~"

"What's the matter, tell me quickly!" The commander was already impatient.

"Two days ago~ I sent a grain collection team out to collect grain~ They haven't come back yet, I~ I thought they went to other places to collect grain~"

"Where did you send the conscription team?"

"It's in ~that valley~"

The pupils of the commander of the Western Army rapidly dilated, "Quick! Send troops to the west to scout at once! Send someone to that valley again~ Quick! ”

A mile west of the Vaal were scattered among the vast farmland and dense wheat fields, where hundreds of heavily armed soldiers were prostrate, keeping their bodies as low as possible and not moving, and would not have been visible if they had been seen from the ground.

Colin stretched his limbs slightly, relieving his numb hands and feet a little, "Lord Kazak, how long do we have to wait?" I climbed all morning and didn't see the enemy searching the hills and dense forests? ”

Kazak was also scratched by the stalks and leaves in the wheat field, and the insects in the field kept biting, but he chose a supine position and slept "comfortably" for a morning, "It's been two days, the enemy must have sensed the abnormality of that grain collection team, and they will definitely send people to search for nearby places where people can hide, and more than 100 of us are easily exposed." ”

After killing all the miscellaneous soldiers of the Western Army in the villages on the west side of the valley, Kazak and Tuba with two flag soldiers lurked in the hills and dense forests on the south side for a day, but Kazak had a hunch that the Western Army would definitely send troops to search for ambushes, so he brought more than 100 soldiers to this wheat field before dawn today. Therefore, the wheat in this wheat field is very lush, as long as you don't mind climbing on the ground for a long time, it is really a good place to hide soldiers.

There are many hills and dense forests nearby where soldiers can be hidden, and it is difficult for the enemy to think that they are hiding in this ghost place.

"If you feel uncomfortable, roll over and sleep for a while, I think it's going to rain right now, and you won't be able to sleep if you want to."

"Whisper the word, let everyone be patient, I guess this lord has already arrived at the city of Vaal, and will need us soon."

Colin nodded, moving back inch by inch, and then whispered to his heralds: "Quietly pass the order, let everyone be patient, there will be action soon." Tell everyone, even if you, you will pull me on my stomach, do you hear? ”

"Ah~ how do you on your stomach?"

"I don't care, I just can't stand up anyway, if anyone reveals his whereabouts, I'll chop him first!"

The herald let out an "oh" and began to move to the side.

"This TM, I really can't pull it out on my stomach~" Kazak rubbed his belly that was swollen from eating special bread~

In the open space outside the east of Vaal City, more than 600 elite western troops lined up neatly in formation, although they were exhausted after more than ten days of fighting, but when the battle came, they still showed strong fighting enthusiasm and calm battlefield military discipline.

The more than 600 western troops were roughly arrayed in three squares, and almost all the soldiers and officers in the front row were wearing fine armor, and the long swords, short spears, shields, knives and axes in their hands were also glowing with the cold light of a hundred refined steel.

The army fed by the whole country is indeed elite enough.

On the east wall of Vaal City, the eastern army defending the city also wore armor and stood on the battlement wall, Walter led the guards to the city to watch, and there were more than 200 selected elite defenders under the city wall, as long as the three wolf smoke outside the city rose, they would fall out of the city.

Near the eastern wall were more than a hundred Western Army surveillance troops, who had to guard against the defending army that might go out of the city to join the battle.

Unlike the enemy on the opposite side who was about to explode at the touch of tension, the Welsh Legion did not see any appearance of fighting at all, although the legionnaires all put on armor and took up weapons, they just sat on the ground in the combat readiness area in the flag team as a unit, and even some big-hearted soldiers and officers couldn't bear the loneliness and began to chat and have fun, only a small number of military judges wearing white feather helmets shuttled back and forth.

The Wells Regiment was arrayed in wài wéi, with a dozen cavalry roaming around to prevent the enemy's vanguard stragglers from approaching, and several Western Army officers who had come to talk before the battle were also driven away by the cavalry.

The entire Welsh Legion is a complete "waiting for you to fight" ruffian.

The more the Welsh Corps looked like this, the more the commanders of the Western Army felt very abnormal, and they hesitated between "bluffing" and "intrigue".

In particular, they knew that an army had infiltrated behind them but lost their whereabouts, and the defenders on the east wall of Vaal City also saw the Western army being slaughtered and planned to come out and kick a few feet, which made the Western army even more uneasy.

"Legionnaire! Those bastards are just deliberately pretending, and we just rush to it! Anyway, there were two or three hundred people left behind him, and he was not afraid of the enemy's surprise attack. "The baron who led the soldiers was scolded all morning this morning, and he was full of anger.

"Wait, I'll see how long they can fit!" The commander of the Western Army again rejected the admonition of his subordinates to attack.

"Let the soldiers wait patiently, and we will rush over as long as the enemy army makes the slightest move!"

At the back of the Wells Legion, a group of officers also sat on the ground, and the adjutant of the Legion, Otto, got up and walked gently to the side of Art, who was standing aside, and whispered, "My lord, shall we continue to drag it on?" I'm worried that after a long time, the enemy will see through our army's plan, and if we do rush over, I'm afraid we won't be able to resist it. ”

Art was calm on the surface, but in fact, he didn't have a bottom in his heart, the enemy couldn't let them enter the city smoothly to garrison, and the field against the Wells Legion really didn't necessarily beat the elite palace guard legion, if he didn't use some dangerous moves, he really didn't know how to solve the crisis of Vaal City in the shortest time.

"Otto, are you ready for the retreat route you arranged?" Art lowered her voice.

"My lord, I planned it overnight, in case the battle is lost, our army will quickly evacuate~"

"Okay."

Yate turned around and ordered several key officers on the ground: "Order, the whole army fights!" ”

"Yes!"

The officers rose to their feet and ran towards their respective ranks.

With a few shouts, the Welsh legionnaires, who had been sitting and laughing a moment ago, suddenly all stood up and stood solemnly, and the messy procession was in unison for a moment