Chapter 514: Meeting Invitation
Whether it was Arthur's victory, who succeeded in regaining his father's and his throne, or the Duke of Valral, who drove Arthur and his army to the end and made all their efforts in vain.
All of this is still unknown, and the hard work and struggle of Arthur and others for a whole decade will finally come to fruition at this time.
As for whether it is an evil fruit or a wonderful holy fruit, it depends on the performance of both sides on the battlefield.
Norwin led the Denlenburg army behind Arthur's team, and the recruits in the group had a slight trepidation on their faces, after all, this was the first time in their lives that they had been on the battlefield.
This is not a child's game like playing at home, anything can happen on the battlefield, this is a battlefield that can really kill people.
Although they were a little uneasy in their hearts, the military discipline they had trained allowed them to maintain a complete and neat formation.
At this time, the hinterland of the continent was already close to summer, but since the Kingdom of Carmellot was located in the north of the continent, the weather still did not get hot.
Wearing heavy armor, the Denlenburg army slowly followed behind Arthur's troops.
They marched for about a day, and the next day they reached the plain of the war.
Because it was a plain, there was simply not that much timber for the soldiers to build a camp.
Even the Denlenburg army, which had the habit of camping anywhere, could not build a defensive camp.
However, for the sake of safety, Norwin doubled the number of soldiers patrolling around him and the sentry of the night vigil, just in case of the sudden arrival of the Duke of Valar.
About three or four hours after they had set up camp, the Duke of Vallar also led his army to the plain of the war.
Duke Valar sat on his war horse and snorted coldly as he looked at the camp in front of him with the golden griffin crown flag flying on a red background.
"Looks like my dear nephew can't wait to snatch the throne from me!"
The Duke of Valar ordered the troops behind: "Set up camp here!" Beware of enemy attacks! ”
After saying that, he glanced back at the golden griffin crown flag on a red background that was grinning in the wind, representing the dignity of the royal family of the Carmellot Kingdom, and turned to leave.
His coat of arms is very similar to the article used by Arthur in front of him, both of which are the same golden griffon crown on a red background, except that the Duke of Vallar's griffin has a golden sword in his hand.
Each ornament on the coat of arms has its own meaning, the griffin represents the correctness and legitimacy of the rule, and represents majesty, and the crown indicates that this is a royal family.
Duke Vallar was able to use such a banner because he was the younger brother of King Uther, who was also a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Carmellot.
As for the long sword he holds in his hand as a griffin, it means that he attaches great importance to military affairs.
From the coat of arms, you can see the ruling policy of a lord and noble.
The Duke of Vallar's troops also managed to set up a camp before dark, and arranged a sufficient number of sentries around the camp to guard against Arthur's surprise attack.
The camp set up by the Duke of Vallar's troops was significantly larger than that of Arthur's side.
The number of people on Arthur's side, plus the troops brought by Norwen, was only more than 5,100 people, which was still a little less than the Duke of Vallar plus the mercenaries, which was nearly 9,000 troops.
Although the Duke of Valral, in order to guard against the nobles who were ready to rebel at any time, left behind about a thousand troops in the city of Carmellot.
The number of troops still reached nearly 8,000.
This is almost an unbearable figure for the Camelot Kingdom, which has a small country and few people.
However, in order to maintain his rule in the country, the Duke of Valar still maintained a large army with all his might.
That night, the camps on both sides were brightly lit, and the uncle and nephew did not trust each other at all, for fear that the lights were not bright enough to attract a surprise attack from the enemy.
The night passed peacefully, and neither side made any moves, and spent a quiet night.
Early the next morning, a knight appeared in the camp of the Duke of Valar, and strangely enough, instead of a spear and a sword, he had a long bow.
He took his bow and shot arrows into Arthur's tent.
As soon as he finished shooting the arrow, he rode away from the place, which made the sentinels who had been waiting for him a little puzzled.
At the order of the captain of the sentry, one of the sentries looked at the arrows that came in.
Sure enough, there was a piece of parchment on it, which should be the message that the Duke of Valar wanted to convey.
The sentry, of course, did not dare to take matters into his own hands, and did not even take the parchment from the arrow, but sent it directly to Arthur's tent with the arrow.
At this time, Arthur's tent was filled with Gawain, Bedwell, Lancelot, and Bradyon, as well as Robin Khan, who was listening.
Of course, Bradion was only here to counsel, and although he was the commander of King Uther's army, it was Arthur who commanded the battle this time.
In addition to a few of them, there is also Norwin here, after all, the Denlenburg army he brought is also a fighting force that cannot be ignored on the battlefield.
There were only these people in the tent, because Arthur had not yet recovered the throne, and there were not many people on any small island, and the territory was not large, so there were no nobles at all.
Therefore, Arthur's army was all his troops, and none of the soldiers belonged to nobles or other vassals.
At least in this respect, the monolithic Arthur had an advantage over the Duke of Vallar, who had many vassals.
Their conversation and planning were interrupted.
Arthur took the parchment arrow and took it off and looked through it.
With a slightly subtle expression, he handed the parchment to Novon for him to see.
After reading it, Norwen didn't say anything, and passed it to Gawain next to him and asked him to take a look.
After everyone had seen the contents of the parchment, Arthur asked the others, "What do you think?" What is the opinion? ”
Norwen did not express any other opinion because of his different status, but Bedwell spoke: "I think...... It's okay to go, if we don't go, it will make the other person think that we are afraid! ”
"Yes, I think so too, if we don't go, it will seem that we are a little weak-minded!" Gawain also said.
Arthur heard the words of the two and turned his gaze to Bradian on the other side.
As the chief military officer under King Uther, he has a wealth of experience.
Seeing that Arthur was asking for his opinion, Bedwell also groaned for a while, then nodded his head to show his support for this matter.
Seeing that the few people present all had this opinion, Arthur didn't talk nonsense, slapped the table and stood up, and said, "Gawain, send someone to deliver a message to the Duke of Vallar, I will rush to meet him this afternoon!" ”