Chapter 223: An Awkward Battle Situation
The knights of Uxhall raised their spears and smashed them like hammers at the hastily lined Coolmar soldiers. Those soldiers who were well equipped, but whose combat experience were all fighting in the dense forest and bandits, had never seen this battle, and they couldn't even form a queue in a panic, and were rushed by a neat array of mounted guns.
With just one round of assault, these excellent cavalry overwhelmed the opponent's formation, and even the cavalry of Fort Kurma did not rush over to finish the forward force of about 200 men, and their own losses were almost negligible.
The troops at Fort Kurmar stopped, and their commander did not expect that von Byron was still hiding a troop. Of course, he didn't know the contradiction between the Uxhall cavalry and Byron, and subconsciously thought that it was a leak of his own intelligence, or that this little baron Byron did have two brushes in tactics.
He didn't dare to advance easily, instead sending scouts to the vicinity to search for other Swadian troops or mercenaries. Although the opposing force was no match for them in terms of numbers and combat power, he did not want to be caught off guard by another force that suddenly appeared.
He changed his tactics, and the mountain people and crossbowmen who had been recruited by them took out their bows and crossbows and walked to the front of the formation, changing from an offensive formation to a defensive formation.
The army of Fort Kurma halted its advance, but the soldiers of Count Mateas's army were full of Swadian cavalry trampling their own reinforcements. Some people are desperate to believe that the reinforcements have been routed by the other side, and most of the more optimistic and intelligent people are also skeptical that their allies will abandon them. The confidence that had been galvanized by the arrival of reinforcements quickly collapsed, and many abandoned their weapons and fled, while Kenrad gathered the remaining forces and launched a pursuit.
Those who escaped some distance and found reinforcements from a distance only stopped and regrouped, and the enemy did not have as many people as expected, did not have the opportunity to run back to tell their comrades. Pursued by the Kugit riders, they had no choice but to desperately flee away from the battlefield.
The rear of the Agoronburg forces quickly collapsed, and the number of enemies that crushed them was less than a third of them. Although Kenrad stopped his offensive after Uxhall's forces turned to the direction of Fort Coolmar's army and cleared up the rout of Rhodok, the defeat in the rear still dealt a heavy blow to the rest of Count Mateas's troops.
Their morale was devastated, and Count Mateas's heart was raised once again. He was convinced that Byron could mobilize so many troops. Even with the support of other Swadia lords, there would be no other troops that could be called upon except for this cavalry unit that suddenly appeared.
But it was not enough for him to understand, and his unscrupulous officers and soldiers did not know the exact number of Byron's troops. For a while, the morale of Rhodok's side plummeted, Byron took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack, and after paying the price of dozens of deaths again, the Peony mercenaries finally rushed away from the opponent's front army, tore this army into several pieces, and then divided and surrounded and destroyed.
Of course, even if the strong Rhodok sergeants were surrounded, they would be very difficult to deal with, and the three of them leaned together to raise their shields and set up their spears, and 10 mercenary swordsmen could not take them. In the end, it was the mercenary halberdiers and halberdier sergeants who took them down with a lot of casualties and completely routed Rhodok's front army.
The front army was routed, and Count Mateas's Chinese army naturally fell into a bitter battle, which was the last thing he wanted to see. He concentrated a large number of troops to stop the other side, and he himself rushed to the rear with a small number of elite and officer nobles.
With the strength of Kenrad's army, it is naturally impossible to withstand the attack of so many troops. He was a mercenary, not a knight, so he didn't averse to running away on the battlefield. He immediately retreated with the mercenaries to the horses, and the cavalry archers took out the last arrows to cover their withdrawal from the battlefield, leaving Uxhall's cavalry there.
The former royal knight didn't feel angry or panicked when he saw his allies abandon them and flee, but just spat at the ground with disdain, scolding "Coward!" It seems that this situation has been expected by him for a long time.
He rode his tall horse into a corner of Rhodok's formation, smashing his spear through the shields of the two spearmen, and then plunged deep into the neck of a sniper who was shooting from behind the shield.
Then he dropped his riding gun, pulled the hammer from the belt of his horse, and threw it out. A chain hammer full of iron nails smashed into the head of a spearman who was raising his machete to cut down on the side of the warhorse, and the sturdy pot helmet was directly deformed, the skull was cracked, and the cervical vertebrae were twisted. Even though it didn't seem like there was a drop of blood, he had already lost half his life.
"Attack! For Svadia! ”
Under his leadership, the soldiers of Uxhall fearlessly launched an attack, and relied on the powerful impact force to force the troops of Fort Kurma back dozens of meters for a while, killing almost 100 people who were seriously wounded.
However, the battle did not go on forever, and when Count Mateas arrived with his elite troops, the soldiers of Uxhall were surrounded. The opposing side was nearly four times as numerous as theirs, and more than half were spearmen. When the encirclement was formed, Svadia's proud cavalry was immobilized, and the knights and heavy cavalry were targeted for spears and crossbows, and their commanders paid the price for their arrogance.
And the Peony mercenaries were also massacring the militia of Fort Agorlon, whose formation had collapsed, the cavalry of Suno and the cavalry under the command of Fatis tore apart each other's defenses from both flanks, and the Chinese army was also taken away by the earl, and the huge defensive front collapsed in a blink of an eye, and was divided and eliminated by the Peony Mercenary Regiment and Suno's troops, and only a part of the soldiers escaped from the opening deliberately left by Fatis.
The battlefield became chaotic for a moment, with soldiers in various colored burqas, flags and weapons rushing at each other, screams, roars and shouts everywhere, and even the sergeants could not find their soldiers.
This situation lasted for about 20 minutes, by which time Byron's Peony mercenaries had routed the armed peasants and the original garrison of Fort Agorlon, which had been left behind by Count Mateas, and the Count's side had wiped out half of Uxhall's forces and captured several knights, including their commander. Only a handful of heavy cavalry desperately broke out of the encirclement and returned to Byron's side. At this time, they no longer have the arrogance they had before.
When both forces regrouped, the Byronic side lost more than 500 soldiers, including about 200 cavalry. Countless people have been injured, and whether they can survive depends on the medical conditions that Byron can provide. Su Nuo's soldiers were reduced by thirty percent, a large proportion of losses, but they defeated far more enemies than they were. Uxhall's troops were less than 100 men left, and the morale of the troops was very bad.
And Count Mateas's side was even more miserable, because the killer move of the reinforcements at Fort Coolma was really not good, which led to the failure of Count Mateas's plan, the troops suffered more than 1,000 casualties, a large number of soldiers fled, at least 500 people laid down their arms and surrendered to Byron when they were surrounded, more than half of the 4,000 army was lost, and the morale of the remaining troops also fell to the bottom. Although there were more than a thousand reinforcements, the Count did not think that they would be able to win by attacking now.
Similarly, Byron had a similar idea. The purpose of attacking the military strength of Count Mateas has been largely achieved, not to mention that the other party still has Kurmar reinforcements, and if there is another fight, Byron himself is not sure.
In this way, the armies of the two sides confronted each other for half an hour, during which neither side did anything, and they were all testing each other.
Eventually, Byron took the advice of the people around him and retreated to lure the enemy deeper. What he didn't expect was that as soon as his side retreated, Rhodok's army also began to retreat, still lined up, fully armored, and steadily retreated.
No one could say exactly how the battle would end, and no one could have predicted that a battle of this magnitude would end so quickly and awkwardly.
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