"Thank you two for your support, in that case, I'll go and prepare for the extraction right away!"

William nodded and said gratefully.

With that, William withdrew from King Leonac's tent and returned to his garrison to prepare his soldiers for the march.

The Grail Knights and Templars were also preparing at breakneck speed.

In the afternoon of the same day, William made all the preparations, prepared all the necessities such as food, and thus arranged a neat marching column, and left the camp of the Holy War Army on the Eastern Road while the other troops were pointing and pointing.

At the same time, thirty kilometers behind the Jihadist Army on the Western Road, Prince Kirunde, the eldest son of King Norweed, was constantly issuing military orders.

"Order Satuson's troops to go east and block the eastern retreat of these Lordes, and Delonus to the west with his men and block their western retreat!"

The herald busily shuttled between Prince Kirunde and the troops on the front line, conveying Prince Kirunde's orders to every unit.

"Get all the troops ready, and then send someone to inform the troops facing the Lorde offensive that we are about to prepare for contraction! Get them ready! ”

After Prince Kirunde had given all the orders, he looked up at the sun in the sky, and he felt that his time was coming.

And this so-called holy war launched by the Loald people will be the beginning of his glorious history.

He returned to his wagon, where the Norwedians, who had no horses, had domesticated an elk-like animal to transport goods.

The carriage was powered by the elk, and he looked at the map quietly in the carriage, wondering if there was anything missing in his arrangement.

At the same time, he was also waiting for news from the troops, and when they were all in place, they would send someone to deliver the news, and at that time, he could order the net to be closed.

At this time, the Western Road Jihadist Army did not rush to continue to advance, but built a simple temporary camp, and simple wooden fences were erected around it, and sentries were arranged, and they planned to spend the night here.

And those Norwidian heralds who are shrinking the encirclement actually take a long time, the army led by Prince Kirunde is more than fifty kilometers away from the troops blocking the Holy War Army, and it takes seven or eight hours for the herald to go back and forth each time, and then make the planned action, it is estimated that it will be two days later, and this is it, so that William was left with a chance to support, otherwise I am afraid that before William arrives, the Holy War Army will be annihilated by the enemy.

Two days later, all the Norweed forces finally reached the encirclement point, and the Norweed blocking forces, which had been forced to retreat by the Western Jihadist Army for a long time, also stopped retreating.

This made the nobles of the Western Road Jihadist Army a little stunned, they had become accustomed to advancing after simple contact, and they were a little unaccustomed to the Norwid blocking force that had suddenly become tenacious.

"What's going on? Why didn't they back off? Do they really want to fight us one last time? The high-ranking members of the Western Road Jihadist Army looked very puzzled.

At this moment, the sentries in charge of patrolling the two flanks suddenly came to report in front of the top brass of the Western Road Jihadist Army.

"Report to my lord, a large number of Norweed troops have been found twenty kilometers away from our left flank! A rough estimate is that the number is no less than 20,000! ”

The supreme commander of the Western Road Jihadist Army was an old general, who was one of the more respected generals in the western kingdoms of the mainland.

In this expedition, those Western Kingdoms who are reluctant to listen to the orders of the church also sent a lot of troops, in order to relieve the pressure on them from the church.

After all, the rule of the Church in the eastern and central parts of the continent is simply entrenched, and under their call, all the eastern countries are pressuring them.

I have to say that due to the geographical location of the Western Kingdom, their national strength is really inferior to that of the Eastern Kingdom, if it weren't for the fact that the Rhodeland Empire did not have the ranks to exert pressure, I am afraid they would not be able to withstand it.

The purpose of participating in the holy war this time is to show goodwill to the church and then completely integrate it into the scope of the church.

The veteran felt a little uncomfortable, but the other staff generals still said proudly: "I said why did the enemy suddenly become so backbone, it turned out that their reinforcements came!" ”

"Yes, even if the reinforcements come to separate, isn't this giving us a chance? Haven't the stupid barbarians even heard of the siege point for reinforcements? ”

Encirclement and reinforcement is a relatively common tactic, generally the attacker's strength occupies an absolute advantage, and then surrounds the defender, and uses the defender as a bait to strike the enemy's reinforcements, so as to achieve the purpose of consuming the enemy's vital force.

Truth be told, if William's actions are discovered, he will be the reinforcement to be hit in the siege tactics.

Although the staff generals and nobles are clamoring loudly, this veteran knows the depths.

He said: "Order the troops to stop advancing!" Set up camp now! Remember! Set up the strongest camp as soon as possible and in the shortest possible time! ”

The staff generals and nobles next to him were very puzzled by the old general's orders.

"Why? The nearest General Brinville, why did you give such an order? That's just 20,000 enemy reinforcements! Why do we face the enemy like this? It would be nice to just annihilate them! ”

"Yes, General Brinville, why are we so afraid of the enemy?"

Everyone present looked puzzled.

General Brinville, on the other hand, touched his sideburns, which had turned completely white, and said, "The enemy cannot be so fearless just because of 20,000 reinforcements, and I am sure that there will be more reinforcements than these!" ”

"The Norweeds are savage, but they can't be ignorant of tactics, they won't be stupid enough to let themselves fall into the tactics of encirclement and reinforcements!"

"Wait! Wait for the scouts on the right flank to report! If the enemy is not found on the right flank, we will destroy the reinforcements! ”

After saying that, General Brinville shook his head, narrowed his eyes, and didn't know whether he was talking to himself or to others: "I'm afraid that there are enemies on the right and behind!" We may be surrounded and unaware of it! ”

Sure enough, half an hour after the left sentry came, the right sentry also came.

"Report to the general, the left flank has found enemy reinforcements, the number is about 20,000, and it is rapidly advancing towards us!"

General Brinville's face changed greatly after hearing this, as did the nobles and staff generals present.

"Sure enough, we were surrounded! There must be enemies in the back, don't think about it! General Brynnville coughed, then said again: "Give the order at once, and set up the fence and the horses!" Build a sturdy camp as soon as possible! I'm going to see the full fortifications in three hours! ”

"How is it possible that the enemy suddenly has so many more living forces? In such a short period of time, even mobilization among civilians would not be possible! ”

A staff general said.