Chapter 40: Flanking Attack

The Cheker soldiers walked into the square in front of the city gate, which was empty, but the gate of the main fort was closed, and there was no need for such a surrender.

This was the idea of all the Chekels, and after receiving the report from the heralds, Mutus subconsciously felt that it was not good for a long time, but he did not know what was wrong, so he ordered the other chiefs and ministers not to enter, and let the soldiers and junior officers enter to test it.

"What does it smell like? Do you smell it? A Cheker officer said to the soldiers beside him.

"yes, I smell it too, this smell...... It's like lamp oil,......" said one of the soldiers, with a thoughtful expression.

"What? Kerosene! When the officer heard this, he was immediately shocked: "Get out of here quickly!" ”

He understood the situation here, and many officers also discovered this problem and ordered his soldiers to exit the castle, but the soldiers behind did not know about it, they only knew that they rushed in to take their own credit, and for a while, the scene was extremely chaotic, and those inside could not get out, and those outside could not enter.

At this moment, a group of soldiers suddenly appeared at the window of the castle, holding bows and arrows in their hands, and the tips of the bows and arrows were still burning with flames.

The air stopped for a moment, and the originally noisy scene suddenly fell silent.

"They're not...... Surrendered?! This is the last thought on the minds of this group of Chekels.

Hundreds of arrows burst through the air with flames and fell to the ground, and the oiled incendiary "poof" ignited instantly, and in just a few seconds, the small square became a sea of fire.

Even on the city wall, there was the presence of oil, and the enemy on it was burned beyond recognition, and let out heart-rending screams, and after struggling, they fell to the ground, and gradually became a coke.

The Count of Loire is worthy of being an old fritter who has been mixed for many years, and even the dead end in William's plan has been found and helped to make up for it, originally according to William's plan, the city wall is a dead end, and the enemy can completely control the scene as long as he climbs the city wall, but the count found the shortcomings, but did not point them out, and silently made up for them.

Mutus looked at the firelight in the city, his eyes erupted with angry flames, his bloodshot eyes widened, and he grabbed the herald beside him and said word by word: "Blow the trumpet and retreat!" ”

His heart was bleeding, and thousands of soldiers had died in the flames of the enemy, and now he had even fewer soldiers than the defenders of the castle.

The soldiers who had not had time to squeeze into the castle immediately retreated when they heard the sound of the horn, in fact, after seeing the situation inside the castle, they would have run back on their own even if they did not blow the horn of retreat.

The soldiers in the castle were basically hopeless, and now there was no wailing, and the remaining 5,000 people ran back.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from behind them, and more than two hundred knights led by William finally arrived at the battlefield, but fortunately it was not too late.

The armed infantry was left behind, and the knights picked up their mounted spears, which were more than three meters tall in the hands of more than two hundred knights.

The Chekers were stunned for a moment, they could not have imagined how such a large knightly force could appear in their rear.

William rushed to the front, as the commander of the army, he needed to lead the way to establish his prestige, and the first contact they came into contact with was the janissaries around Chief Mutus, and more than 300 light cavalry wearing scale armor and chain mail were ordered by Chief Mutus to stop the knights.

These light cavalry did not carry the knights with all the long lances in their hands, but carried a variety of weapons, some with war hammers, maces, some with spears on horses of more than two meters, and most of all, with scimitars.

"Chieftain Guard, charge!" One of the men who looked like officers at the head stood tall with his stirrup, brandished the scimitar in his hand, and shouted loudly.

"Kill these infidels and drive them back!" William also shouted in the loudest voice.

The two cavalry torrents officially collided, and William aimed his cavalry gun at the officer in front of him, and the cavalry spear was more advantageous than the scimitar in the first charge.

"Click"

The cavalry was broken at the sound of the rifle, and the enemy officer was stabbed in the shoulder by William, where the scale armor was so strong that although he did not die immediately, he was thrown off his horse, and in such a situation, falling off the horse meant death.

William hurriedly put down the half-volley of the cavalry in his hand, drew his long sword, and the shield was erected in front of him, and the enemy in front of him was killed by the cavalry spear sticking out from behind.

In the first round of collisions, the knights had the upper hand, and the cavalry spears were too dominant compared to the scimitar spears.

William kept waving his sword and shield on horseback to block, and it didn't take any strength on horseback to kill the opponent.

After a round of fighting, the knights' training and sophisticated equipment from childhood were revealed at this time, although the chieftain's guards were also trained from childhood, but their equipment was not as good as the knights, the inferior scale armor could not protect against the cavalry spear, but the chain mail could offset a lot of their attacks, so that the knights chiseled through the enemy and split them in half.

"Ignore them, keep charging!" William Urn gave an order to the knights angrily, the remaining number of the chieftain's guards who were separately chiseled was no longer enough to pose a threat to the more than five hundred armed infantry behind, and they were not afraid of sneak attacks from behind, and the remaining more than a hundred people were no longer able to attack, and they were not afraid.

William led the remaining more than 100 knights to the assembled Chekel infantry, although he had lost more than 40 men in the charge just now, but these 100 heavily armed knights were a nightmare for the infantry with little armor and no numbered formation, and it was as easy to beat them as chopping melons and vegetables.

The knights with mounted spears were moved to the front, they had not been engaged, the physical exertion was relatively small, and although it was a little difficult to change formations, these knights were still barely completed after a while.

The Chekel soldiers were a little flustered in the face of more than a hundred behemoths rushing towards them, many of them were also cavalry, but they had never experienced such a thing as facing enemy knights on the ground, and they finally understood the feeling of forgetting the infantrymen when they bullied them.

They didn't want to feel the feeling if they could, but it was out of their control, and the soldiers on the edge of the Chekers had begun to disperse.

William kicked his horse in the belly and picked up speed again, ready to defeat his opponent in one fell swoop.

"Boom!"

The knights crashed headlong into the enemy, and with the sound of the cavalry spears breaking, William only felt the same sound in his ears, except for the sound of horses' hooves, which was similar to the sound of a meat grinder, the clatter of broken bones, and it was the first time he had crushed the infantry as a knight.

Finally, the sound ended, and they penetrated the loose array of enemies and reached the gates of the castle.

At this moment, hundreds of archers suddenly appeared on the city wall, and they drew their bows and arrows, aiming at the Chekers, and two rounds of arrows poured down.

The Chekels, who had already been demoralized by the knight's charge, now came another round of arrows and suffered heavy casualties, and suddenly collapsed and began to flee in all directions.

Chief Mutus had already fled when the knights broke through the infantry, so William did not notice him at all, and the armed infantry behind belatedly began to slaughter the enemy, and the light infantry in the castle also went out of the city to fight and began to pursue the victory.

William and the rest of his knights bypassed the chaos of the battlefield and made their way to the Cheker camp, where he thought Mutus might return to gather the remnants.

They arrived at the camp, and for a long time no one was found, so William had to let them disperse in search of finances, as was customary.

"Oh! William, we're rich! He came to William's side with a smile and said happily.

"What's wrong, Urimu?"

"War horses, all of them are war horses, they didn't use these war horses when they attacked the city, more than 1,200 war horses, more than 3,000 cattle, more than 10,000 sheep, they are all left behind, we are rich!" Even as the son of a tribal leader, he had never seen so much property, and he was very excited.

William couldn't suppress the ecstasy in his heart, he had forgotten the cavalry of the Chekels before, and these more than 1,000 war horses were more than 50,000 silver coins! This big slaughter is really profitable!

After this battle, if everything is sold, it is estimated that it can be sold for more than 100,000 silver coins, and sure enough, when it comes to the level of the earl, it is not a small fight, and the livestock of these nomads is not of ordinary value.

After tapping the spoils of war, William sent a knight to report the news, after all, these things are not his, and they will be distributed to the earl, but the earl will definitely not monopolize it, what is it for him to monopolize so many vassals, and he will definitely be able to take a lot of it if he contributes his own plan.