Chapter Forty-Six: The Law of the Sea Colony
Led by the Nord commander, the vanguard of 20 Nord warriors rushed directly through the front of the pirates, and under their fierce impact and axe slashes, more than a dozen pirates fell to the ground.
Once the opening is opened, it cannot be closed.
The pirates can't use their housekeeping skills and axes to suppress and kill the enemy, the other party has already rushed into their ranks, and it is easy to accidentally injure their own people when they fight.
The pirates were at a disadvantage in formation, and the Nord warriors split the pirate team in half like a blade, while the phalanx of light infantry and mercenary infantry followed suit, raising their spears and stabbing at the pirates as they were pushed away by the Nord warriors, with a third of their spears hitting their targets.
Byron was now following the soldiers in the first row, mace in his hand. When the spears stabbed the pirates, who were infantry and sailors, they followed with their swords, and with a single hammer they could smash their skulls.
Byron felt no pressure on this, because he had turned out the skull of the sea coar from the previous loot and made it into a wine bowl!
The more than 50 pirates on the beach were directly broken by nearly half under the impact of more than 100 people, and those pirates who rushed to support had not yet engaged Byron and their troops at this time. If they come collectively with a wave of axes now, I'm afraid Byron will have to kill and wound dozens of people.
However, they were in such a hurry that they threw less than ten axes in total, and cut down two or three people, but that was it.
The pirates failed to intercept them, and many were knocked down or stabbed with spears, and the line was dashed.
At this time, the soldiers who had been on standby a few hundred meters away also rushed over from the other side of the beach, and in order to maintain good contact with them, the Nord commander used three people to transmit the signal.
The sand flew under the trampling of the horses' hooves, and a large group of roaring horsemen rushed towards the pirates who had just arrived in front and had just engaged Byron and their troops.
The leader of the pirates was very puzzled at this time, because the terrain was not good in that direction, and they also had people standing guard. How did he know that before Byron arrived, the scouts in charge of gathering intelligence had been here for a day to figure out the pattern of their changing of the guard, and then killed the patrols and sentries before the changing of the guard, and found a place where the large herd of horses could stand.
But even if he couldn't figure it out, it didn't matter now.
Because the cavalry spear of Fatis and the tomahawk of the rider of Vecchia were already in front of his eyes.
His arm pierced through his spear, and his body was taken several meters away from the force of the impact, and a large piece of flesh on his arm had been separated from his body.
But before he could scream, the Vicchian rider's axe had already slashed through his collarbone, blood spurting from his mouth, and he was hopeless.
The effect of the charge of fifty cavalry was already very visually striking, fifty horses carrying their riders to occupy half of the beach, and between the back-and-forth sprints, the riders on the horses were slashing downward, roaring and wailing.
There were more and more corpses of the pirates, and even the crazy and arrogant bandits began to throw down their weapons and flee. After the death of their leader, there was no one to stop them from escaping the place, and how long would they live once their backs were exposed to the cavalry galloping on the beach?
The infantry was no longer confined to the previous phalanx, and the other side had begun to rout, brandishing their weapons and charging at the enemy who had ravaged and plundered them on the trade routes.
Once the rout begins, the valiant knights and savages will be pinned to death by a group of peasants.
"Victory is ours!"
I don't know if it was the captain of the mercenary team who shouted, which aroused the morale of hundreds of people, and a group of people rushed forward waving their weapons, forgetting their catties for a while.
Several of the mercenaries, who were not very strong, were severely injured by the cowards who turned around with axes to split their heads or chop them off.
However, Byron did not encounter this, thanks to the sturdy shield and armor-piercing mace. In the panic, Byron's ability to fight was greatly reduced, and Byron hit him in the calf with a mace, knelt on the ground, and was then smashed in the face by Byron with a hammer.
Actually, he blocked, but his axe was not of good quality, and the handle of the axe was broken.
At the end of the battle, most of the pirates were killed by them, and the remaining ones also chose to surrender. Except for a few sentries who had been standing alone in a dangerous place and were able to escape, they had all taken care of the rest of the pirates.
Commander Nord was very satisfied with the operation, killing more than 80 enemies, taking 15 prisoners, and littering the ground with the corpses of pirates.
And their losses, six dead and more than a dozen wounded, are nothing in comparison, after all, the other party is a murderous pirate is not.
It's just that although there was not much effort and not much damage during the battle, there was a quarrel between the mercenaries when the spoils were distributed.
The salt stamps given by the nobles were important to Byron, but the hired professional mercenaries valued the pirates' plunder and their weapons and armor. These are more realistic and easier to sell than the salt that needs to be sold.
If it weren't for the fact that it couldn't be transported, they would have been eager to pull the ship away and sell it.
So several mercenary captains quarreled because of the distribution, and they were so red in the face that their weapons were drawn. The commander of the Woche Ze didn't see it, it wasn't in their interest for the mercenaries to be too powerful, and he didn't want to share the responsibility in this situation. And Byron had no choice but to make a big circle next to him, after all, his troops were the largest among the mercenaries in terms of numbers, and his words still carried weight.
Byron took the initiative to give up some of the spoils on the grounds that he valued table salt, so that the mercenaries would humble each other a little, so that they would not draw their weapons and cut each other on the spot.
Of course, he didn't really want to give up his part, but the biggest yellow arrow in her eyes pointed to a wall near the cave, and the other mercenaries didn't notice it. And when interrogating the captives, they confessed a lot of places where things were hidden, except for a small treasury of the leader that they did not know where, and Byron estimated that it was the one.
Soon, the gang stripped the corpses and took out all the valuable things in the cave, and burned the rest, including the speedboats.
The pirates were also the masters of the goods, and the mercenaries brought out chests of gold and silver utensils, sacks of salt, and two large piles of silk from the cave and from the ship.
Several mercenary teams each took a bunch, and they were not polite to Byron at all. The last thing left for Byron was the bags of white salt and some silk.
Byron said that his team volunteered to stay and clear the battlefield, but the other mercenary captains had sarcastic smiles on their lips. They all understood that Byron was trying to find the vault of the so-called robber leader here, but they did not believe that Byron could find it.
Of course, as soon as they were far away, Byron's soldiers began to complain, but before they could complain, Byron found a moving stone near the cave and smashed the small stone wall open.
Two heavy wooden crates were removed, and the soldiers who had an opinion also kept their mouths shut.