Chapter 263: Can't Stop at All
After successfully capturing the city of Morlé and burning most of the baggage of the Irish and Welsh forces, Jeanne rested in Morlay for less than a night, and early the next morning she mobilized her army to continue her march on Lanyon, the front line of the confrontation between the two sides.
The raid on the city of Morlay led by Jeanne can be said to have achieved remarkable results, not only capturing a large number of ships left by the coalition forces in the port of Brest, but also burning a large number of grain and grass baggage of the enemy coalition forces in the city of Morlai.
The Irish and Welsh could not remain in Brittany without supplies, and their best outcome was to leave Brittany by ship.
They also kept a large number of ships near the city of Lanyon on the front line, and with the support of two local rebel counts, these enemy forces had enough ships to flee across the sea.
But this is not what Jenny wants, and the ultimate goal of her raid on Morlay is to annihilate the Irish and Welsh forces in one fell swoop, and to stay here until they can react.
The more than 7,000 troops led by Jenny marched very fast, and their fighting spirit and morale were very high, not only because Jenny held high the banner and took the lead, but also because the previous battle gave them great confidence.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as long as they can defeat them with one sentence, they can get the first-class military merits of this battle, which can at least give these low-ranking noble officers a higher level in terms of rank and rank, and the four brothers Jeanne, Baron Ferdinand, and Sauron who presided over this battle can also have a lot of promotion, which is quite a huge temptation for them.
Therefore, no matter how sleepy, hungry and tired they were, they persevered, and marched at full speed with all their strength.
They were afraid that they had finally conquered the city of Morlai, burned the enemy's food and grass and caused confusion in the local army, and finally let Count Rodrigo's First Legion, Third Legion and Knights of Mortan-Enman take advantage of it, then they would regret it for the rest of their lives.
Jeanne was not in a hurry when she marched to the front, and she had already sent a few small troops of cavalry before she set out, so that they could be the first to set out, and thus spread the fact that the baggage in the city of Morlay had been burned, in order to disturb the enemy's morale.
She knew that her own march was much faster than the defeated ones who had fled, and it was likely that she had already arrived with her army before they had received the news, so that they would not be able to crush each other in one fell swoop.
Of course, Jenny's worries were completely unnecessary, and the fire in Morlay last night could be seen clearly even in Lanyon, more than 40 kilometers away, and the local coalition forces would soon know the bad news that their heavy grain and grass had been burned.
The distance of forty kilometers would have taken two days for the average feudal army, and a full day of forced march even for the well-trained Normans.
But now the army under Jeanne, with courage, self-confidence, and a desire for victory, appeared in the rear of the combined Welsh and Irish forces in less than six hours at two o'clock in the afternoon.
As soon as this army appeared, both the nobles and the ordinary soldiers in the coalition camp had confirmed their suspicions that the rear town of Morlai, where they had stored supplies and food and grass, had been captured by this army, and the fire that had been caused by the burning of their supplies last night had been caused by the burning of their supplies.
"It's over, it's over, we're being flanked!"
"Oh no, we're running out of food and supplies, we're going hungry, but how can we fight."
"Let's go, let's go, while there are still ships on the beach, let's hurry up and retreat by boat!"
Both the nobles and the ordinary soldiers uttered negative words, they had lost the confidence to continue fighting, and now they only wanted to leave here and return to their hometown.
Desperate, they had no intention of fighting, and suddenly a riot broke out in the camp, and countless soldiers scurried around the camp like headless flies, and even the nobles who tried to stop the soldiers' commotion were helpless.
The situation in the coalition camp had long been seen by Jenny with the monoculars given by William, and she did not hesitate to order the whole army to attack.
On the other side, Count Rodrigo, who was confronting the coalition forces, also discovered this situation, and he was extremely sensitive to military affairs, and immediately seized the fighter plane and began to mobilize his soldiers to attack.
Now, if you look from above the sky, the two armies, one large and one small, on either side of the coalition army, seem to have a tacit understanding, and they have launched an offensive almost simultaneously.
However, in the end, Count Rodrigo's movements were still a step slower, because it would take a long time for them to change from a state of confrontation to a posture of attacking the whole army, not to mention that their army was larger and more troublesome to command.
However, Jenny's army did not have this kind of trouble, first of all, they were all on the march, and they were also very close to the coalition camp, so they did not need to mobilize the army to attack, they only needed to blow the trumpet of the charge, and more importantly, the more than 7,000 people in the whole army out of worship for Jenny, the desire for war exploits and the persistence of victory, all of them worked together, and Jenny did not need to think about anything at all.
Jenny was always on the front line, only to see her holding the golden double lion flag on a red background in her left hand, holding the holy sword Durandar in her right hand, riding on a pure white war horse with her helmet on her head, leading thousands of knights and cavalry in the army to rush straight to the camp of the Welsh and Irish coalition without saying a word.
The Irish and Welsh were not good at building strong camps, and they had been able to confront the army of Count Rodrigo with their warlike Welsh archers, Celtic High Swordsmen, courage and numerical superiority.
But when the organization of the coalition forces was completely disorganized, these rudimentary fortifications were simply unable to stop the menacing charge of thousands of cavalry.
Jenny and the cavalry around her broke through the low fence and rampage through the coalition camp, killing all the enemies they came across with the spears and swords of the cavalry, and with the iron hooves of the horses, and no army dared to stand up to Jenny and them.
Behind Jenny, more than 6,000 infantry followed, and they formed a formation and rushed into the coalition camp with rhythmic steps, killing all the fish that slipped through the net in the rear of the cavalry.