Chapter 364: The rebels are constant
"Tell the attendants to prepare their horses, and if the enemy approaches, use the cavalry to push back, and resolutely not let them be next to the city wall."
I was worried and stepped on the dirty muddy water on the ground, and the situation forced me to fight hard even if the time and place were not on my side.
"The enemy is attacking again!" The herald shouted at the top of his voice, and from his eager expression, he could feel that the enemy was approaching this time.
"Before I can figure out a good solution, tell everyone to cheer up, although the army of the puppet king is a rabble, the numerical advantage can still be like a dense swarm of ants, gradually eating away at the mighty giant elephant."
I dodged the squire who was hurrying to carry the arrows, and earnestly instructed Rollo, who was busy re-tying his leggings with beads of sweat on his forehead.
"I understand, my lord, please rest assured that for a knight, every battle should be taken seriously, because no one knows if this will be his last."
Luo Luo finally tied the wrapped leggings tightly, his upright posture was majestic, and the appearance of holding the long sword at his waist was like a little sun with charming light, how many girls would such a proud teenager be favored and pursued?
Learning from the lesson of the last time, the puppet king Aduin learned to be obedient, he arranged his siege troops into three parts, the middle team was slightly forward, constituting the lead and fist of the entire offensive formation, this formation was very popular in the field, known as the boar's head, if the two wings were matched with a certain number of cavalry, it could counterattack the opponent's flank, hit the relatively weak back, and finally destroy the entire defense line.
"Perform this disguised three-stage attack, where the three teams cover each other and attack alternately, to maximize the dispersion of the defender's firepower......"
I chattered as I watched the disorganized rebels staggering into the corpse-strewn battlefield, and the excited Basel throwers tightened their nooses, waiting for the moment to strike back.
"Don't care whose offensive sequence is in front, aim a little bit for me and hit hard, as long as one is disabled, the remaining two won't be able to jump out of the sky!"
The horn of the assault sounded from Adouin's position, and the officers in charge of the command mixed in the ranks raised their weapons above their heads, and the soldiers who received the signal quickened their walking, slowly turning from trotting to galloping, and the formation of the boar's head was immediately scattered.
"Get close and steady!"
I used the back of my sword to knock on a slinger who couldn't help but want to shoot, and sharply restrained the soldiers whose faces were becoming more and more solemn, thousands of troops rushed to the face, not everyone could control their emotions as calm as ever, and they were calm and relaxed on the surface, but in fact, their legs and stomachs were already twitching, and they released the pressure that was about to explode by means of almost breaking roars and fierce internal beatings.
The enemy had already crossed the area with the highest concentration of corpses, which meant that they were definitely within the range of the long-range fire on the city walls, and everyone turned their heads eagerly to look at me, after all, as the distance between the two sides gradually decreased, the possibility of victory and defeat becoming unpredictable.
Outsiders couldn't see the cold sweat in the palms I was holding, and the clenched back molars supported the nerves that were about to collapse: "Wait, wait......"
Only by shooting suddenly at close range can you swing the power of the rope and bow to the maximum, and destroy the enemy's living force as much as possible.
The enemy soldier at the head was a tall man with a spear, judging from the neat armor he was equipped, he should be a nobleman or a knight in the field, but the money bag was shy, and he couldn't afford to buy a war horse to ride, so he had to surrender himself to join the rebels of the puppet king, and the same group of citizens and comrades-in-arms from tenants crowded to fight on foot.
The jolting of the wild run made his cheeks appear red, and the heavy armor stacked on his thin body was not like protective armor, but more like a flail that bound his hands and feet, adding to the burden of running.
"Put!"
I stared at his crimson cheeks and the wisps of black fluttering in the wind under my peeping eyes, and decisively gave the order to shoot, and the soldiers who had been waiting impatiently for a long time were like a monstrous torrent that broke through the embankment, and instantly gushed out for thousands of miles!
The knight's feathered arrows were the first to be fired, and they didn't take much time to prepare, and they crashed head-on into the living flesh and blood, causing massive casualties in an instant.
Not to be outdone, the slingers shook the rope vigorously, squinting at the enemy who was overwhelmed by the arrow, and the dense rain was solid, so that the enemy who was lucky enough to avoid the arrow rain attack had nothing to hide, and suddenly wailed all over the head of the rat.
"Where's my knight!"
The blast was in full swing, and it was the perfect time for the cavalry to attack, and I shouted at Rollo, who roared back in the same hoarse voice:
"Ready, just wait for your order, my lord!"
As soon as the words fell, as if to answer me, Luo Ze, who had been in ambush for a long time, led the knights to rush up from their hiding places, chasing the enemy's ass and beating them fiercely, so that the three phalanxes on the left, center and right could not rescue each other, and the situation became more and more chaotic, and the rebels who were too busy to take care of themselves could not organize an effective counterattack, and the attack was in a trap.
"It's now!"
I commanded the soldiers to turn the winch that controlled the lifting of the wooden gate, the sharpened fence carved several deep grooves in the ground, and the horses that were bound by the reins and could not hold it felt the halter loosen, and suddenly opened their hooves and galloped away, and a hundred and ten knights in helmets and armor converged into a rolling stream of steel, roaring and leaning into the enemy formation that could not look at each other, wedged a terrible hole like entering a no-man's land, and the broken edges fluttered and flowed, not blood and flesh, but stumps and broken arms, and the scene was terrible.
The battlefield of nearly 1,000 people fighting was stirred into a pot of rotten porridge, and the knights who rushed to kill with the wind and water were soon lost in the enemy group, and they suddenly returned to the assault, only to see their comrades in front and behind and left and right were nowhere to be seen, and the hideous rebel soldiers surrounded and dragged the stabbing belt one after another, and dragged the knight who was invincible with two fists and four hands from the horseback, and all kinds of weapons could not help but say that they greeted according to the door, and the flesh and blood were confused.
Rollo stared at my face to capture the subtle changes in expression before the decision, and as the minutes ticked by, I silently endured the fact that the knights kept falling, and gave up the practice of continuing to invest troops to reverse the decline: "Blow the trumpet to collect the troops, and send the Basel people out to meet the retreating knights......"
The order I had to give to retreat was finally transmitted through the mournful sound of the horns of the heralds at the head of the city, and the knights, who were fighting bravely in the midst of the enemy group, heard the sound, as if they had been instantly drained of their strength, and retreated like a landslide, and the excited enemy was stunned for a long time, and immediately chased after him with all his might.
"My lord, let me go!"
Luo Luo picked up a spear, ran down the city wall, and pleaded in a resolute tone, "Let me rescue Lord Luo Ze!" ”
"No, it's too dangerous......"
As I stared at the retreating knights and the menacing enemy army behind them, I hesitated and said, "You leave me and I'll send someone else." ”
"It's too late, sir!"
Rollo picked up the people of Basel who had left the city, and left this half of the sentence far away: "I will definitely save everyone!" ”
For the first time, the bewildered people of Basel faced each other with their weapons and slings strapped to their waists, but this was not the first time they had set foot on the battlefield, and the mountain lords often recruited them during the off-season, fought privately with the neighboring nobles, plundered land and population, or fought over trivial matters.
But the kind of small fights with big sticks and hunting bows often do not hurt lives, and are more like street gangsters who show off their might, whoever has more people and fights bigger, who will take the lead to take the advantage, forcing the other party to sit down and negotiate with a sigh of relief, and then pay to buy a safe thing.
Perhaps the insatiable dominant side took the opportunity to open his mouth, and the other side could not bear this sky-high asking price, lifted the table and kicked the stool with his sleeves rolled up and went into battle, beckoning their best fighters to come out and put a heads-up, and the others were cheerleaders, and the final victory was decided by the result of the duel.
Without waiting for Rollo to cross the crowd to the front of the formation, the Basel mountain people were close together according to their habits, flattening their spears to form a large hedgehog with spears and halberds, and surrounded more than a dozen skilled pitchers in the middle.
The knights who could escape back basically lost their horses, and they supported each other and galloped wildly, and the embarrassed appearance of being so tired that they couldn't breathe was quite cheap, and Luo Luo was worried that the knights who were left behind would not be able to survive to the city gate, so he ordered the two spear phalanxes to move forward, and the battle against the siege began.
The knight of Nijmegen on the city wall used his bow to kill the enemy who was too excited, and slightly deterred the rebels who were running too far ahead, so that the two sides of the pursuit were separated by some distance, and the knight on foot, who was the commander, shouted to gather his soldiers and withdraw from the range of his bow and arrows, and he had already seen the Basel people waiting under the wall.
"Squire, prepare hot water and drink sackcloth, and immediately bandage the wounds of the wounded!"
I turned around and was about to walk away when the herald suddenly pointed at the army of the puppet king Aduin and shouted, "Oh no, sir, look, is that the enemy's reinforcements?" Oh, my God! It's all flags! ”
I don't know if it was the puppet king Aduin who left a hand, or God deliberately wanted to trap me, the battle under the city of Colico had such twists and turns, first when the heel was not steady and the breath was still panting, the enemy did not say a word and pounced to trap us in the lonely city, pretending to negotiate and make it clear that he wanted to make a move, and then took advantage of the intermittent stop of the shower to start the siege, magnified the advantages of climate and terrain, and used the tactics of the sea of people to swallow the hundred and ten knights and the offensive did not disperse, and at this moment urgently received reinforcements.
This is the rhythm that is going to kill me! No wonder Emperor Henry has always regarded Adu as a rabble, but he has always allowed the jumping beam to not take action, it turns out that the combat effectiveness of the rebels is very high, and it is not so easy to exterminate, so why not tell me to kick to the iron plate!
The reinforcements of the rebels appeared from the edge of the forest under the banner of the puppet king, and the vanguard troops that continued to appear in 66 continued to appear like drops of water falling from rocks, and gradually gathered into a crowd of people with great visual impact, although they could not see their equipment clearly from a distance, but the shock brought by the number alone was enough for the most determined warriors to tremble in their hearts, and Adouin's scabies disease finally evolved into an overwhelming flood of beasts, and the navigation of the warships in Nijmegen was not expected to be unexpected, so they were lost in the vast sea of rebels.
"Damn! Is this the rhythm of his life-long struggle? I gritted my teeth and looked around at the enemies all over the mountains, and a chill ran down my spine.
The phalanx of the people of Basel came to a halt at a safe distance, and the retreating knights all returned to the city under their cover, but a dozen of their comrades were still lost to the battlefield, and the attendants were busy caring for the wounded, and everyone's face was gloomy.
The defeat of the invincible knights at the hands of a rabble, and the failure of Nijmegen's best strategy of flanking and flanking the knights to shame and indignate the knights, who regarded honor as their life, and who knew that knights would never fail, and even if they were defeated, they would only be defeated by other knights.
The integrated rebels once again discharged the boar head, perhaps the battle just now made them burst with confidence, and still decided to use this offensive and defensive formation, due to the fierce battle The losses were also relatively serious, the opponent's boar head
It was obviously a little smaller, but the sharpness of the central formation became sharper.
The enemy began to jog into the attack, the noisy noise and the sound of weapons clashing amplified the aggressive momentum, after all, the Basel people on Rollo's side were mountain people who had never seen the world, and some of them could not bear the pressure and dropped their spears and fled back, and before they could get close to the city, they were shot one by one by the condescending knights, and most of the mountain people only stabilized their positions with a slight commotion, because they refused to give up their father and brother who fought side by side with them.
In order to save firepower, I ordered the knights not to release arrows, so that the rebels who charged smoothly were not fired at by the archers on the walls, and the bewildered enemy did not remember the power of the Basel people's ropes, so they switched from jogging to sprinting, and when the two armies were about to fight, the screams of the enemy group resounded one after another, and the soldiers in front all fell down with their sore spots, and the people of Basel did not leave them a chance to get up, and rushed out with their spears to bloodlet the rebels one by one with the spears in their hands, and struck them fiercely on the head.
The enemy who had been beaten was instantly stunned, and they did not expect that the inconspicuous-looking and disheveled mud legs would let themselves be deflated, and their bursting self-confidence fell like a diving platform, shattering into a glass ballast.
The foot knight in charge of the command was quite miserable, he was especially conspicuous in the crowd with neat armor, and he suffered a lot of stones like a live target, thanks to the helmet he was wearing to protect his head, he did not fall and broke the blood, but he was also beaten enough, and he was dragged back desperately by his arm left and right, and finally avoided the thrust of the Basel spear.
(End of chapter)
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