Chapter 676: Battle of the Colonies

The fighting in the area of the kingdom of Arisera had come to an end, and the army led by Prince Saraska, who had attacked the fortress of Tiliste, was the main attack of the war.

If the next war breaks out, it will be at least a month away, and it is impossible for a large-scale battle to take place until the enemy's reinforcements arrive.

At this time, another battle of the same size as the Deliste Line was about to break out.

Delceth led the army in Marasburg, while the other forces united towards their home in Maras County.

They marched mightily, and the regular army with a large number of serf levies marched towards Marasshire, where Delceth was entrenched.

The logistical supply required for 30,000 soldiers is a huge number, and the consumption of war horses is definitely an astronomical amount.

However, the nobles took out their old capital, and the principality of Maineke had become very wealthy after so many years of governance.

Although it is the two old territories of William and Denberg Issamdenburg, it is much richer than the rest of the kingdom of Lorik.

Each of the nobles believed that they would be rewarded with a great deal after carving up the Duchy of Maineke, which is why they paid such a high price.

At this time, their formation was very scattered, and the 30,000 men did not gather together to march, but divided into several parts to form a marching column.

The quality of the serf conscripts was extremely low, and they were either fighting with their fellow villagers or using foul language.

They were very timid about going into battle, although they did not know what a terrible enemy they were going to face, but when they went to war, there would be casualties, and they were very afraid that they would die on the battlefield.

But at the same time, they felt some expectations for going to the battlefield, because on the battlefield they could get some things that the knights and nobles disdained to plunder, and if they sold them to merchants or took them back for their own use, they would improve their lives a lot.

Their mood is so contradictory, when the enemy is strong, they will cherish their lives immensely and flee the battlefield without hesitation.

But if the enemy is weak, they will turn into the most brutal soldiers, killing them with brutality and then plundering them of all their possessions.

Merchants and chicken girls wander the army with them, and they march with them around the perimeter of the army.

Whenever the army stopped to camp, the merchants would sell their knick-knacks to the soldiers, who were poor, but they were much better than the serfs.

They were still able to pull out a few copper coins, and the same was true of the chicken girls, who would never go to the dirty and cowardly serfs, and the strong, foul-mouthed, rude regular soldiers who could come up with the money were their benefactors.

Of course, if there were also a few rich people among the serfs, they would not mind committing themselves to him.

The marching forces of this coalition were scattered and unorganized, and they did not march in a certain formation.

Rather, it is based on the aristocracy, each nobleman leads his own army, and if it is two nobles who have a good relationship, they may act together.

In short, the coalition was very loose, but the nobles were confident that they could crush the enemy.

Delces, who constantly sent light cavalry on patrol, spotted the enemy coalition twenty kilometers from the castle of Marasbourg.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the enemy has appeared about twenty kilometers north of us, the number is about thirty thousand, the formation is very loose, and there are a large number of serf conscripts mixed in the middle!"

Delseth nodded, muttered for a moment, and then said to the herald, "Pass my order!" Order the hussars to harass everywhere, and the Iron Cross Knights look for an opportunity to charge the enemy's small forces and crush the enemy's small forces as much as possible! ”

Delceth now knew that the enemy's formation was very loose, which meant that it would be easier and easier to sneak up on the enemy's small forces.

And the enemy could not organize effective resistance and counterattacks, not to mention the charge of the heavy cavalry, the harassment of the light cavalry alone was enough for the enemy to drink.

They moved quickly, and they were very quick to carry out Delseth's orders, and they were very quickly ready to rush to the vicinity of the enemy twenty kilometers away.

A column commander of the light cavalry stood on the ground with his horse in his hand and said to his soldiers: "Get ready, the enemy is ahead of us!" ”

"Get on the horse!" The column commander let out a low shout, and more than one hundred and twenty light cavalry immediately mounted their horses, and their spears were placed on the hooks behind them.

"Forward!" The captain shouted, and then ran out first, and the light cavalry behind him also rushed forward after him.

They held the reins in one hand, and in their left hand they held the bow they had carried on their backs.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and this coalition force was suddenly startled, why did such horses' hooves sound in this wilderness? Everyone was in doubt.

This force was not very numerous, just an army of minor nobles, but it had dozens of regular army infantry, plus more than a hundred serf levies, and a dozen knights with decent equipment.

Moreover, this nobleman does not seem to be very popular, and only this army is present within a few hundred meters of the surrounding area.

The first reaction of these soldiers when they saw the light cavalry rushing towards them was not to resist, but to subconsciously flee.

This is their subconscious reaction, and if it was William's royal army that saw someone raiding them, then their first reaction would definitely be to form a formation of resistance.

However, these soldiers not only did not experience much war on weekdays, but also did not have a firm will to fight, so they appeared to flee.

Soon, however, under the orders of this nobleman and the restraint of the officers, the soldiers finally gathered again, and they gathered in a group, ready to fend off the attack of the light cavalry.

But unexpectedly, the light cavalry did not follow their plan for a long time, and the sound of the hooves of the light cavalry was so urgent, they thought that these light cavalry were going to charge them directly.

But the light cavalry did not hesitate to reload their formation, but went to a short distance and fired at them with their cavalry bows.

One hundred and twenty arrows suddenly sank into their array, causing them to let out a burst of screams, and the array that had been gathered to fend off the charge of the light cavalry made them even more inferior.

The dense formation was simply prepared for the cavalry bows in the hands of the light cavalry, and a round of arrows caused more than sixty casualties to the enemy.

This means that on average, every two arrows will hit an enemy, which is quite a rare hit rate!