"Your Excellency Rodrigo, is it another day in vain? For a few days, we couldn't break through the Pyrenees, so what's the point of us leading our troops here? ”

Just after the end of the morning's feint, the commander of the Fifth Army, the commander of the Imperial Army, Roger . Morality. The Earl of Montgomery couldn't wait to come and ask.

"Your Excellency Count Roger, have you not received an order from His Majesty William? Tomorrow His Majesty Wilhelm will attack Navarre from the rear of the Castilians, and our characters will cooperate with His Majesty to flank the enemy and completely crush the enemy. ”

Rodrigo turned around and asked.

"Just blindly relying on His Majesty's strength, but there is no use in this battle, is this the duty of a courtier?

In any case, I will lead my deployment over the Pyrenees from the Songbo Pass to Pamplona, the capital of Navarre. Count Roger insisted with a stiff neck.

"Are you sure, Count Roger?" Duke Rodrigo is not an unreasonable person, but he is stable by nature, and he will never agree to things that he is not sure of.

"Nine out of ten! The Songbo Pass is an artery that leads over the Pyrenees to Pamplona, the capital of Navarre, and I have already sent someone to investigate it, but the Castile did not have troops stationed at the Songbo Pass, so there was no need to worry about our army being discovered. ”

"How many troops can pass? How much time does it take? ”

"About half an army, five or six thousand men, can cross the Songbo Pass in about half a day, and reach the city of Pamplona in the early morning of the next day at the latest."

"Indeed, it makes more sense to take San Sebastian and Pamplona first and then build a solid defensive line in the Pyrenees than to waste energy here, and you can try a thing or two." Roderigo pondered for a moment, then turned his head to look at Count Roger, nodded in agreement:

"Your Excellency Count Roger, I have granted your request, please return victorious!"

"Your Excellency Duke Rodrigo, I assure you." Count Roger nodded solemnly in promise.

At present, the Duke of Rodrigo has three legions and a number of auxiliary troops, totaling nearly 40,000 troops, and it is much more futile to send half of his legions to try to capture Pamplona, the capital of Navarre, from the Songbo Pass.

In order to cover the actions of Count Roger, Rodrigo once again launched a new feint attack on the fortress of San Sebastian.

San Sebastian, on the edge of the Bay of Biscay and close to the French border, was the key to the battle, towering over the West Pyrenees and sitting on the Bay of Shells, which is ranked as one of the top 10 best beaches in Spain.

William's landing in Biscabe and attacking the rear of the Castile army from the flank was also for this purpose, as long as he and his legions appeared in the rear of Sancho and the Castilles, the army of the fortress of San Sebastian would collapse without a fight, and the door of Spain would be completely open to the Normans.

After a feint, the defenders of the fortress of San Sebastian, like the protagonist of the "wolf" story, completely relaxed their vigilance, so they did not notice that a full half of the legions were missing from the camp outside the city.

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Pamplona, which was founded in 75 BC, was the capital of the Kingdom of Navarre from 1000 AD until the abolition of the Kingdom of Navarre in 1841.

In addition to being the capital of Navarre, Pamplona is also the logistics of the Pyrenees defensive line, its importance is incomparable, it can be said that the key to this battle, once Count Roger succeeds in capturing it, it will be able to break the morale of the defenders of the fortress of San Sebastian and cut off the logistics of the enemy army in the Pyrenees.

The reason for the fact that there were less than a thousand defenders left in Pamplona, which was so important, was that William had landed at dawn in the port of Bilbao in Biscaybe, and the news greatly shocked King Sancho VI of Navarre and King Sancho II of Castile, who in any case did not expect William to abandon his intention to break through head-on and land in their rear.

In order to stop William, King Sancho II of Castile and King Sancho VI of Navarre, after leaving enough troops to defend the fortress of San Sebastian and the Pyrenees, immediately led an army of nearly 20,000 towards Bilbao.

Protected by the fortress of San Sebastian and the Pyrenees, they believed that Pamplona was safe, so they left an army of more than 700 men, and with the militia in the city, less than 1,000 men.

In any case, they could not have imagined that an army of five thousand men would quietly cross the Pyrenees from the Songbo Pass to the city of Pamplona.

At dawn on the second day of the departure of the two Sancho kings, more than 5,600 soldiers of the Fifth Legion surrounded the city of Pamplona.

The defenders of the city were at a loss, they did not in any case expect the appearance of the enemy's army in the rear, which they considered absolutely safe, so much so that rumors of defeat at the front even appeared in the city.

These rumors undoubtedly greatly reduced the difficulty of Count Roger's capture of Pamplona, after all, even if the city of Pamplona has very few troops, it is the capital of a country after all, and its defense facilities are no worse than the fortress of San Sebastian on the front line.

"The enemy army has lost its fear, and the whole army has landed in the city!"

Seeing the panicked appearance of the defenders in Pamplona, Count Roger decisively ordered the whole army to enter the city.

Although they did not have tall siege towers, powerful counterweight trebuchets and heavy siege artillery, and even a few simple ladders, the enemy was now in fear, and our army was in high spirits, how could a mere lost dog resist a lion?

"Pamplona, I'm Roger. Morality. Montgomery has taken it! ”

Looking at the city gates that burst open, and the increasing number of Fifth Legionnaires pouring into the city, Count Roger laughed heartily.

"Baron Brevy, you quickly go and occupy the warehouses in the city, and you can't keep these food and grass supplies!"

"Gilbert, Joffvar, you two go and report the success of our army to Pamplona with His Majesty William and His Excellency Duke Rodrigo."

After the capture of Pamplona, Count Roger did not forget the purpose of his trip, and it was only right that William and Rodrigo quickly spread the good news.

"Yes!" The three of them took orders one after another.