Chapter 114: Crossroads
Wood's wait-and-see plan was suddenly completely disrupted by a letter from his ill-intentioned stepbrother Samaras, but because the strength of the Sheffield Border Forest Patrol Brigade was too weak compared to the rebels of Sattar and Nildagaon-Snowdan who were about to clash, in order to stabilize Samaras, the defense chief of Sattar City, who was raising the banner of the 'King of Justice and Diligence', Wood had to bite the bullet and ask for satisfaction. Secretly instructed Baron Glenn to lead a supposed-ordinary-sized Wood Elf Cavalry Third Squad to support the Governor of Sertal City in accordance with the method he had improvised to follow, but this seemed to be a decent size only for Sheffield's Border Patrol Brigade.
After Baron Wood led his troops from Baron Glenn to the Settar joint camp stationed at the crossroads, he immediately summoned Legral and Claudir into the Commander's Tent and secretly instructed him on the arrangements for making dangerous moves. The clouds of war have finally ushered in a stormy moment.
"Team Legral vice, my partner. Now, the war is imminent, and the changes are also extremely varied. I order you to lead the 1st Squadron of the Sheffield Infantry, the 2nd Squadron, the 1st Cavalry, and the 2nd Cavalry Squadron with me immediately to the hillside of Mount Colin to ambush. Our ambush must remain silent! Can't be discovered by anyone! Do you understand? Wood's expression was solemn, but he was very calm. Although he has now been put on the bowstring of war by Samaras.
"Understood." Legral had clearly understood Wood's intentions, and nodded affirmatively, his face just a grim old engraving, "If I were to take this approach, I would be very careful." Let's hope Forrester will make our project a success. β
"Crodil Griffin. This time, you'll have to take command of the army on your own, and I'll need you to deal with this rapidly changing situation on your own. I hereby order you, to take control of this tent, and I will leave to you the 3rd Infantry Squadron of the Sheffield Border Patrol Brigade, and from the time we leave the place where we are stationed until the end of this forthcoming battle at the crossroads, you must disguise me and defend this pass, so that it does not appear to be lacking a single soldier. Do you have the confidence to complete my mission? Wood's deep eyes moved his gaze to Claudir, full of anticipation, "Also, if our companion Liberas returns here, let him trace me to Colin Hill." β
"Trust me, Your Excellency. I'm good at adaptation. I have followed the lieutenant of Legral through several battles, large and small, and I dream of one day being able to take charge of the army myself. It's just a disguise, but I'm going to be presentable. I am honored that you have trusted me with this opportunity. Crodil closed his green eyes and smiled, his square face was even more thick, and his tall and mighty figure looked trustworthy, and indeed he was worthy of Wood's trust.
The crossroads were an open area where a well-fortified joint camp of Setar's large number of city guards was stationed. To the northwest of it is Mount Colin with the famous altar of the Lord of Colin in Ervinia, and if you stand on the top of Mount Colin and look in the direction of the crossroads, you can see the full view of the crossroads, which is like a cross-shaped plain abruptly appearing among the vast woods, this plain stretches its limbs and naturally stretches to the end of the sky. To the northeast of it is the majestic Green Mountain, where the Eagle King's Mother Nest is located, and between the Collin Mountain and the Green Mountain is the dangerous pass guarded by the Sheffield Wood Elves. Its muddy western road connects the only road to Sethal and its north is Fredet Boulevard, which connects to the wooded town of Sheffield, and Fredet Boulevard turns east through the Setar joint venture at the intersection to extend 250 miles to the Unocal Wood Elf King. To the south of it is a wide open natural weed shrubland, which is made even more spacious by the fact that the Nicholas Grove West was harvested by the Sytarmu Elves for the construction of the Crossroads Consortium. It bisected the Nicholas Grove from the middle with a large crack that split the woods.
The troops of the Setar Governor Samaras stationed at the crossroads appear to have received news of the approach of the Nilda Gang and Snowdan rebels, led by Witt, Baron of Snowdown. A large number of Settar city defense troops at the crossroads had already poured out of the joint camp wooden fence stationed in the joint camp, and they set up huge wood elf infantry phalanxes one after another in the weeds and bushes outside the joint camp wooden fence to the south of the crossroads, and all the Settar wood elf warriors in these squares looked at the southern smoke and dust rolling horizon one by one, quietly waiting for the arrival of the king of wolves in their eyes, the leader of the snow ghost. Samaras didn't keep all of his troops at the forefront of the upcoming conflict, after all, he was still in charge of the Tent of the Crossroads Coalition, so he also deployed the most elite Sertal Elf warriors of the part of the troops he had set aside for defense to defend himself. The rest of the remaining Setar Wood Elf warriors had all gone up to the Senkaku Arrow Tower on the wooden fence that surrounded the joint camp, and it was a large number of wood elf archers, who had already brought enough bows and arrows to wait for the infantry outside the joint camp. Sheffield's cavalry was the only one that did not appear in the formation.
In the tent of Setar's commander, only Samaras, the governor of the city of SΓ©tar, and Sheffield from Baron Glenn, who came to support, were left in the tent, and the atmosphere was very awkward, especially after Samaras's ridicule and sarcasm.
"What? Didn't your master say that he would support us with all his might? Why, you were sent a humble Baron and a small squad of cavalry to assist us in defending against the insurgent forces? Samaras looked the yellow-faced nobleman up and down, "To be honest, you Sheffield are poor and pitiful, and even a nobleman is like this. Yo, isn't that my stepbrother's saber? Is my stepbrother doing the same as you? β
"Yes, Your Excellency. My Excellency the Baron has sent only my vanguard. The troops behind will come to your support one after another. Glenn was neither humble nor arrogant, and he answered Samaras's sarcastic questioning word by word.
"I just want your master to understand, don't try to play any tricks, he and I are in the same boat, and if I lose, I won't have any good Eltora fruit to eat for his Sheffield. Now it's time for the yellow-skinned Baron to appear, if I didn't have auditory hallucinations, I think I could have heard you say just now, Sheffield has follow-up reinforcements, which means that if you can't support it, Wood will be very anxious to send follow-up reinforcements. You're a trustworthy person for my stepbrother, and I'll trust you Sheffield for the time being. Baron of Sheffield, I order you, in your capacity as the royal family of Erwinia, to arrange your cavalry squad in a wedge-shaped charge, and the enemy, together with them, shall immediately charge and give the rebels of Nilda and Snowdan a head-on blow. Also, don't let Snowdam and Nildagang ghost brother pee your pants in Sheffield. Now, take your command. Samaras picked up a piece of Sertal token from the wooden desk and tossed it to Sheffield from Baron Glenn.
"Believe me, Sheffield's warriors are valiant. It will make your heart flutter. Glenn bowed slightly, shook off his dark green unicorn robes, and turned away from Sethal's tent.
Baron Snowdan's leader, the king of wolves, Werther, could already see the army of the Sertalwood elves and the handful of Sheffield's cavalry. The front army of his mighty rebel army was the Surrendered Unocal Forbidden Army, which wore a unicorn silver helmet and was about the size of a squadron in the vanguard. The Forbidden Squadron was followed by the Wood Elf Cavalry Reinforcement Brigade and 3 Wood Elf Infantry Brigades brought out of Nilda Heights, and Snowdown's personal guard troops were arranged at the center of the whole army by the side of this leader, which were 2 strong Wood Elf Infantry Squadrons, completely owned' Snow Ghosts' savage wood elf warriors, their faces are painted with white paint, they are dressed in Nilda Gang snow rattan wood armor, most of these rattan armor linings are padded with a thick layer of cold-resistant leather made of wolf's skin, in addition to preventing frostbite from the cold, they also play an additional role in the protection of rattan wood armor, and the wood elf scimitars forged from fine iron are uniformly equipped in their hands, and their strong physique makes the forbidden army wearing unicorn silver helmets in front of them look dwarfed. This large number of rebels, under the leadership and command of Baron Snowdaunt Witt, formed a long serpentine formation and poured towards the Sethal army, which was waiting for the crossroads without hesitation.
"Why, didn't the black-haired son of the Blade come to tell me that my weak third brother Wood didn't want to go to war with me? How did such a small detachment of cavalry be sent to block the path of our army's advance? "Snowdam's leader, Werther, the king of wolves, has a fierce look in his eyes.
"What are we going to do with Sheffield's army." The officer next to Witt questioned him.
"Let's see what these Sheffield cavalry are doing first, if they really attack us, then don't be polite to me and wipe them out, there is a wood elf head of the Unocal Forbidden Army in front of us." Although Snowddown's Baron Werther had a fierce look in his eyes, he was not provoked by this sudden temporary change of words and lost his coolness.
From the third cavalry squad of Sheffield allocated by Baron Glenn and Baron Wood to prepare for the charge in the front of the Wood Elves infantry of the city of Sattar according to the orders of Samaras, as the forward cavalry unit of the city defense of Matallas, Glenn has already seen the rare billowing smoke and dust in the forest of Erwinia, and the first to emerge from the smoke and dust are those infantry of the surrendered Unocal City Forbidden Army holding the Snowdan blue sky and snow flag, they are lined up in a regular phalanx, The unicorn silver helmet on his head shone in the open field south of the crossroads, shining with a silver dazzling light. The light blinded many of Sheffield's Wood Elf cavalry. They marched at the same pace, clearly a well-trained force, and suddenly, after a shout, they all stood still.
The smoke and dust raised behind the surrendered Unocal Forbidden Army slowly dissipated in the stillness, and the entire Snowdan and Nildagon rebel forces led by Witt slowly showed their true size. Sheffield from Baron Glenn and his third squad of Sheffield cavalry were like a boat in front of this formidable rebel force, greeting the raging waves of the vast sea.
"The leader of the Snowy Ghosts, the king of the wolves of Snowddown. They're already here! Forrester bless. From behind the third squad of the Sheffield cavalry led by Baron Glenn, the Wood Elf city guards of Sertar began to swallow their saliva constantly, and from time to time they peeked at the command banner held in the hands of the Sertar Wood Elf herald.