One hundred and fifty-fourth capture
The Night Wind Ranger is a light cavalry team established by the Joseph family after the massacre at Lake Maas, claiming to have more than 1,000 people in ten squadrons, but in fact the number of squadrons is not enough, and it will be more than half a hundred.
Not only is the number of people insufficient, but the quality is also not good.
Most of the troops collected some horse bandits and robbers from the Far East, so the military discipline was worrying, and the real combat effectiveness was worrying.
Arnold was the deputy commander of the Nightwind Rangers, and was very familiar with this team, and the Nightwind Rangers only fought with the wind in his opinion, and if the battle did not go well and there were casualties, the team would collapse in an instant.
But now that he is rushing ducks to the shelves, he naturally has no choice but to face the difficulties.
Fortunately, when I was training before, I knew the top soldiers in the team very well, and I thought that I was a dead person, so I selected the elite of the Night Wind Ranger under the murderous gaze of the Night Wind Ranger commander, and formed a Night Wind Ranger with a full number of 100 people, which barely reached the minimum standard of elite light cavalry.
The 100 miles outside of Pist are mostly flat wasteland, and the highest bulge is a house-high dirt slope, making it ideal for ranger attacks.
When he first saw Morey's army, Arnold was really frightened by the huge team of 2,000 people, the original Joseph family only had more than 500 people, and now although it was supported by the big people in the royal capital, it was only expanded to 1,000 people, and this Morey actually moved out of the team of 2,000 people, which was terrifying!
However, the Night Wind Ranger is a cavalry after all, and it still has a psychological advantage against the Morey army, which is dominated by infantry.
At first, as Arnold expected, these Nightwind rangers, who were accustomed to robbing the road, skillfully raised their bows and arrows on horseback, and accurately threw arrows into Morey's marching team, although there were no casualties for the time being, but the army, especially the group of militiamen, slowed down significantly.
Morey's army also has a team of twenty scout rangers, but without the protection of the army, it is naturally impossible to bargain against the elite Nightwind rangers alone.
Seeing that this tactic was useful, everyone immediately doubled their confidence, and the more they fought, the smoother they became, and on a few occasions they even rushed to the nearest place provocatively.
Morey couldn't bear it, and just as the Nightwind Ranger was approaching again defiantly, a meadow suddenly turned into a slippery black oil, and a Nightwind Ranger couldn't dodge and fell to the ground with his men and horses.
"Withdraw!" Seeing Morey's move, Arnold Lema stopped and shouted, and was about to take the lead in the turn.
But at this moment, a violent wave of magic continued to come, and before he could understand what was going on, he and his subordinates fell into the black oil.
"We surrender!"
Looking at the fireball held high in Morey's hand, Arnold raised his hands and shouted.
Although the rangers who were attacking in the other direction at the same time withdrew in time, they had to surrender helplessly when they saw that the commander was captured.
In the world of Becky, the boss is killed or captured, and if his subordinates escape by luck, the luckier ones are killed alone, and the unlucky ones will affect their families.
They were originally just horse bandits and robbers, and their identities were only whitewashed in the territory of the Joseph family in the Far East, and there were many people who wanted to exchange their heads for gold coins outside this territory, and maybe even the so-called "comrades-in-arms" around them would take off their heads in their sleep and change them to a half-official position.
So even though the place was wide enough for the cavalry to escape, they had to surrender to Morey.
Except for the unlucky guy who broke his leg after being hit by the [Greasy Technique] during the charge, the rest of the Night Wind Ranger still maintained their full combat effectiveness except for a little sluggish morale.
Through the "long talk" with Arnold, Morey also knew that the deputy commander of the Night Wind Ranger in front of him was really talented, he was an outstanding graduate of the 148th phase of the Royal Capital Knight Academy, and it stands to reason that he should have a happy future, but because he was too upright, he offended the royal capital when he rescued the girl in distress.
Although the family eventually gave up their revenge on Arnold with the help of the academy and alumni, he also lost the opportunity to join the Royal Capital Knights, and it was not until he traveled for many years that he came to the Far East and became the deputy commander of the newly established Nightwind Rangers.
But before he could train the team into a truly elite cavalry, Arnold was framed by his boss, the Nightwind Ranger Commander, who had always disliked him, and kicked him in front of the enraged Benjamin, and successfully selected for the "death squad".
With the help of Morey's [Suggestion], Arnold "voluntarily" left his soul mark in the Blood Moon, and then the Vice-Commander was promoted.
He is now the commander of the Red Leaf City Rangers, and his command is the one hundred Nightwind Rangers he led who surrendered.
Of course, for the sake of his wife and children in Pister City, this appointment was only announced on a small scale, and now his main external identity is still "a high-ranking enemy general captured by our army".
When he learned that Arnold had been captured by Morey, Benjamin didn't say anything more, but the commander sent someone to silently embellished the two mothers and sons who had been kicked out of the army's high-class barracks, and only waited for the end of the war to be put into the room.
Pister City is an important town of the Joseph family, guarding the southern gateway of the Joseph family, the city is high and the walls are thick, if you attack, Morey will naturally return with a feather, but the purpose of this trip Morey is only to send medicine to the countryside, and there is no need to attack the city, you can't enter the city, you can't let people come out to buy it?
So Benjamin had no choice but to pull the team out of the city and seek a "dignified" head-on showdown.
At this time, it was exactly 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and the army of Momiji Castle, which had been resting for a while, and the combined forces of nobles and mercenaries, who had been waiting for work for a long time, set up a posture outside the city.
The Xiangcheng side is led by Morey, and is composed of a hundred saber guards, a thousand city guards, and more than 1,000 Red Leaf City militia, forming the Red Leaf Castle Army.
On the opposite side is a combined army composed of the Joseph family's troops, the alliance of the Far Eastern nobles, and the mercenaries, and in terms of numbers alone, the two sides are about the same, and Momiji City still has a slight advantage.
But in terms of morale, with the back of the fortified city, the mage group releasing buff spells on the body, and the free combat potion provided by the Alchemy Guild in his hand, the morale of the combined army is much higher than that of the Red Leaf City army that came from afar.
It can be seen from the fact that Benjamin, who spared his life, actually stood at the front of the team on horseback unusually.
"Baron Morey, it's too late for you to go back now!" Benjamin said in high spirits.
His own men were all elite, and on the opposite side was a group of untouchable troops, which made Benjamin's confidence extremely inflated.
"If you want to fight, you will fight!" Morey went against the grain and slammed back.
Although Morey was certain of a final victory, he didn't mind using some tactics to reduce the casualties of his soldiers until then.
"Humph!" Seeing that Morey was so faceless, Benjamin returned to the army.
"Take Morey's head off for me!" Walking in front of the Night Wind Ranger Leader, Benjamin said fiercely.
"Yes!"
"Whew!!"
A low trumpet was sounded, and the decisive battle began.
The first to attack was not Benjamin's Nightwind Ranger, but the dragoon, a mercenary hired by the Alchemy Guild at a high price.
This dragoon is not a dragon rider, if it is really a legendary dragoon who attacks on a dragon, Morey will naturally surrender early.
This is a heavy infantry mercenary army composed of seventy-seven people, and it can be seen from his configuration that this is a professional mercenary who specializes in mercenary warfare, not those promiscuous guys who dare to claim to be mercenaries when they sell dog meat on the head of a sheep and help run errands to escort convoys.
As for why a mercenary who is all hoplites should be named a "dragoon", it naturally comes from their captain, a dragonborn with the blood of a rock dragon.
I saw this stout man, stomping his feet fiercely, and the gray rocks covered the skull from the surface of his feet, plus the rock spikes on his shoulders, head, and back, forming a pair of rough and violent rock armor.
This is not the end, the captain named Merris roared wildly, and a gray aura spread from him towards Zizhou, just covering his seventy-seven subordinates.
"Charge!"
A [Collective Acceleration Technique] then covered everyone, and with the captain's [Weight Reduction Aura], the group began to accelerate towards Morey's team at a slightly slower speed than the heavy cavalry.
The Nightwind Rangers were a little behind, following the dragoon mercenaries.
It is conceivable that these dragoons, who act as battering rams, once the defense line is breached, the Nightwind Ranger will expand their success, buy time for the following troops, and then completely bury Morey's team.
As they ran, the dragoons grew faster and faster, and from a distance, they looked like a rock dragon surging wildly on the ground and pounced on its prey.