At the beginning of the uprising, the miners' rebels fought with an instinct, and their organizational and military abilities were very average. After killing the foreman, Blackbeard Sawyer was supported by some miners, and in just a few months, as if in a dream, he became the leader of tens of thousands of rebels, and the name "Prince Tara" made Blackbeard excited for many days.

After the capture of Tara, Blackbeard was once disoriented, lacking knowledge and the ability to command his troops, and he was momentarily overwhelmed by the attacks of several nobles in the territories near Tara, even though he already had thousands of troops under his command. Blackbeard's initial idea was to leave the city of Tara behind and flee to Sunset Mountain to become a gangster. At that moment, in Blackbeard's makeshift camp in Tara, a man in black offered himself a way to help fend off the incoming noble privateers.

For Blackbeard, it was as if the man who had fallen into the water had caught a piece of driftwood, so the mysterious man in black named Tours was ushered into Blackbeard's camp, and after a short conversation, Blackbeard announced that Tours would become his prime minister, responsible for military command and decision-making. Of course, Turce did not disappoint Blackbeard, and for the first time after taking office, the four thousand rebels defeated more than a thousand well-armed noble private soldiers, and two barons and four knight lords, a total of six nobles, became Blackbeard's prisoners.

Later, under the command of Tours, Blackbeard's miner rebels pacified the Western Wilderness, routed the combined forces of the Mossat Native Army and the New Ninth Army in the Rivette Hills, and then marched south to plunder the southern city, besiege the Mozart capital, and besiege the Grand Duke. Most of the Duchy of Mossat trembled at the feet of "Prince Tara".

Unbeknownst to the Kester's scouts about the incoming Blackbeard rebels, they did not know that the command of this army was actually Blackbeard's Prime Minister Tours, who led an army of 20,000 miner rebels from outside the city of Mozart to the west of Chaos Ridge. Of the 20,000 people, about 3,000 were Blackbeard's miners' army, and after many battles, their combat ability skyrocketed, making them the most powerful part of Blackbeard's rebel army. The rest were peasants, workers, servants of the nobility, and captives who were searched from all over the place, and their fighting strength was weaker.

The miner rebels were not particularly well armed, mainly finished weapons from the Tara Smelter, most of which were steel machetes, spears, longbows and iron shields, and the entire army did not have many horses, and only a small number of officers were able to travel on horseback. Basically, it is still a relatively primitive unit.

When the vanguard of the miner rebels routed the scout camp at Kist, Turce also received definite news of Kaman's reinforcements. This force is the New Sixth Army sent by the Merchant Alliance to maintain order in Mosat, and the New Ninth Army that they defeated before belong to the new formation of the Merchant League, judging from the news from the rout of Seyfrith, their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the New Ninth Army.

As a result, Tours, who did not dare to be careless, placed his most combat-ready miner regiment (Note 1) at the forefront of the battle formation, hoping to defeat the Carman reinforcements in one fell swoop. Judging by his performance against the scout camp, his intentions seem to be quite plausible. About a hundred of Kaman's scouts, when they were almost close to the main formation of the miners, were caught up from behind by the rampage, and it took great difficulty to escape from the pursuit, losing some men.

The miner soldiers who had seen blood, their combat effectiveness was quite amazing, which had been reflected in many battles in the Mossat before, so even an experienced wing captain like Robertson was careless for a while.

However, Robertson's carelessness does not mean that Kerst will be careless. After entering the territory of Mosat, Köster inspected the remnants of the soldiers they had collected, and also learned more about the Mossat war from Christit, and in his mind, the fact that the newly formed rebel army was able to defeat the private army of the Mozart army and the nobles at all levels on several occasions showed two things: the combat effectiveness of this army was quite impressive, or the fact that this army had a fairly experienced commander.

So, as Tours' miners approached the eastern exit of Chaos Ridge, they were ahead of Jon's 1st Battalion, and behind the 1st Battalion was Rickon's 3rd Battalion. Less than 2,000 Kaman soldiers lined up on the plain at the mouth of the Chaotic Ridge Valley. The second battalion of Rober stationed at the South Ridge was temporarily controlled by Commander Duncan, and Commander Duncan received instructions from Commander Kerter to hold South Ridge and not be fished by the enemy, and the second battalion of Rober was ready to support as a reserve.

The first battalion and the third battalion had a total of 1,500 men, and the attacking miners were about 3,000 people, even if the terrain of the eastern valley mouth of Lingdong was confused, and the rebels were not allowed to deploy all their forces at one time, even those 3,000 "miners" were probably enough for Jon and Rickon to drink a pot. This was the reaction of the leader of the miners when he first saw the formation of the Kaman army, and it was also the question of Rika and Feida beside Koster.

Feida apparently trusts Kerst unconditionally, and Rika appears less confident. As if he knew the two of them, he smiled and pointed to the black carriages among the soldiers at the bottom of the mountain. Also noticing the wagons was the head of the rebel miners' regiment.

"What's that?" all the rebel soldiers asked at the same time when they saw the black carriage in the array of soldiers on the other side. The carriages, each drawn by two armoured horses, were blackened all over, with only small openings in front and on the sides, which were still a little difficult to see from a distance.

Jon was the main commander of the front line, Rickon pressed behind him, two light infantry battalions of 1,500 people, lined up in a neat and thick phalanx, at this time, the uneasy commander Duncan, sent his two battalions and Rober down to help the battle, and there were many soldiers, crawling down from the South Ridge, and were slowly approaching the battlefield.

"Actually, it's not Jon and Rickon's forces that decide the outcome of the battle, it's my long-trained long-range support wing, which is also on the front line. Koster explained to the two ladies behind him, and hearing Koster say this, Feida's eyes lit up and she looked straight at the black carriage in the array. "You guessed it right, the Remote Support Wing is already in place in the 'Rush', this is my first real fight, and I am very much looking forward to them. ”

Before Duncan's reinforcements arrived, Kerst had already flagped Jon down the hill. Looking at the battle flag hanging high above the mountain, Jon put down the mask on his face, drew his command sword, raised it high and slowly drew three circles in the air.

As Jon finished the third circle of his sword, the trumpets sounded, "Woo-ha, woo-ha!" and the phalanx began to march forward to the rhythm of the bugles. After many days of training, the array of the phalanx was quite neat, and 1,500 people acted together, and the hearts of Feida and Rika on the mountain were beating with them.

And those black rushing cars in the phalanx also moved slowly with the phalanx. The people on the other side of the battlefield, no one knows, and the end that awaits them is already destined to be the arrival of the satanic demon.

Seeing that the opposing phalanx had been activated, the regimental commander of the miner rebels also shouted loudly to his soldiers, "Steady, steady!" A few whips, the regiment commander whipped his own war horse to boost morale. He didn't expect that the other party actually launched an attack first, which was really surprising, you know, the other party's team seemed to be less than 2,000 people at full strength, and he had 3,000 people here, not to mention, the prime minister was behind him, and beside him, there were 20,000 troops.

Turce lined up behind the miners, and around him were the rest of the tens of thousands of soldiers. Unfamiliar with the enemy army, Turce did not dare to act rashly, and it was Turles' plan to test it with his strongest 3,000 men.

When the two armies first started, they were about 800 grams apart, a distance of more than three times the range of a bow and four times the range of a crossbow arrow. A well-trained soldier would take about 1,000 steps to reach, a very familiar charge process for the formation of soldiers of the Thirteenth Regiment. Jon was in front, Rickon was behind, and the Wing Captain led his own team in the middle of the line, with rows of soldiers close to each other. The soldiers in the front row held machetes and iron shields, and in the back row, they held their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, and the whole team was like a beast with its fangs exposed.

The key is not yet in the weapon, the key is in the momentum. The phalanx of the Thirteenth Regiment, after walking more than half the distance, still maintained a tight formation. Seeing that the soldiers on the other side looked quite powerful, the commander of the miners' regiment was also a little apprehensive, and at a distance of four hundred grams, he finally couldn't help but give a loud order, "Archer shoot, volley!"

Hearing the order, a small number of archers behind the formation, under the unified order, threw a large number of feathered arrows into the sky (Note 2), of course, because of the lack of distance, before they could fully reach the front of the opponent's formation, they all fell weakly. A handful of particularly powerful feathered arrows were intercepted by the soldiers in the front row with a flick of their weapons.

After the first round of feather arrows, the thirteen regiments of phalanxes advanced a little, and finally entered the range of the enemy, and the second and third waves of feathered arrows followed. Jon was not in a hurry before the battle, the armor he was wearing was given to him by Koster himself, but the good things in the Kaman treasury, the rebels' feathered arrows that had reached the limit of range, could not hurt him at all. Jon shouted "Raise your spear, raise your spear!" and saw several rows of spearmen in the procession raise their spears, raise them to an angle of forty-five degrees in the sky, and then begin to swing rapidly!

The commander of the miner rebels looked at the scene in front of him in shock. The wielded spears intercepted all the feathered arrows flying in the air, and the few fish caught in the net were almost lethal. "What kind of trick is this!" the rebel soldiers were dumbfounded.

In a brief moment of hesitation, the phalanx of the Thirteenth Regiment had already quickened its pace and rapidly approached the defense line of the Miners' Regiment.

Note 1: Blackbeard's rebels, the earliest main force of which was the 3,000 miners in the mines of the Tara Basin. Some of these people, after becoming officers, were assigned to command the various units. And the remaining miners, after replenishing part of their forces, became the absolute main force of the Blackbeard rebels, the "miners' regiment".

Note 2: Projectile is a way to shoot with a bow and arrow, when firing, raise the arrow, shoot at the enemy's rear at a parabolic angle, and when the feather arrow lands, it will be increased by gravity and the lethality will be greatly increased. At the same time, the angle of landing is higher than the ground, which is difficult to guard.