Chapter 54: The First Battle of the War

As the negotiations broke down, meaning that the war could no longer be resolved peacefully, Jon Arryn felt extremely sad as the lord of the Vale, whether it was Seagull Town or his own side, they were all the people of the Vale, and it was certainly not easy for Jon Arryn to see his own people killing each other.

Jon Arryn considers himself a charismatic leader, having ruled the Vale for over two decades, and his emphasis on honor has earned him the approval of the nobles of the Vale.

Earl Mark Grafson's father, Earl Aried Grafson, was a close friend of Jon Arryn, and to this day, Jon Arryn didn't know whether to admire Marco's loyalty or despise his rigidity and stubbornness.

Jon Arryn grew up watching Marco Graffson, his father asked his old friend to take care of his son on his deathbed, and Jon has always done so, he personally taught Marco Graffson, raising him to be a proud, loyal and upright knight, Duke Arryn was very proud of this, and now, Jon Arryn is even beginning to wonder if he has taught him to be too pedantic.

Seeing that this war was inevitable, Jon Arryn suddenly felt as if his strength had been drained, and he called Robert to his side: "Robert, I am old, and Marco was brought up by my own hands, but he •••••• alas! It's up to you to command this war! I am tired! With that, Jon Arryn dragged back to his tent to rest, not even knowing how to explain it to his old friend.

Robert was obviously very happy about this, and he called Han Xing and immediately prepared to plan an attack.

Robert put 2,000 archers at the front, and then put 8,000 levies in the middle as the main force, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks was evenly divided.

"Robert, will you not be attacked by the opposing cavalry if you put the archers in front?" Han Xing asked with a little doubt.

"Hahahaha, our cavalry is more than twice as large as them, if they dare to assault the archers, they will be surrounded by cavalry on both wings, and the infantry of the Chinese army will be pressed again, and they will be destroyed in an instant." Robert looked unusually serious about fighting, not like his usual irritable and impulsive appearance, as if he was a different person.

"By the way, Hanschel, I have a task for you!" Robert suddenly had a gleam in his eyes and said to Han Xing.

"Say it!" Han Xing also said with a straight face, obviously war is not a joke.

"I want you to lead 1,000 followers from the forest on the left back to the rear of the right wing on the opposite side as an ambush, waiting for the opportunity to move, I know I can trust you!" Robert pointed to the map, drew a route with his fingernails, and said to Han Xing with a straight face, and after speaking, he stepped forward and patted Han Xing's shoulder cordially.

Han Xing nodded heavily, turned around and walked towards the outside of the account, thinking: "This is really a good move, the opponent's right flank is all archers, although there are 2,000 levies on the front, but it is far away from the water and close to the fire, as long as the army rushes, these archers will collapse in a moment, and they can even take advantage of the situation to attack the rear of the opponent's levies in the battle, under the enemy's back, the other party will definitely collapse, and the work that Robert has given himself can be described as the top priority." ”

Just as he was about to leave, he heard Robert's voice, "By the way, you can choose the best of them and go with you." ”

"Hmm!" Han Xing turned around and replied that he understood, but before he could take two steps, Robert's voice sounded again, and this time there was even some choking, "Hanschel, you have to take care!" ”

There is no doubt that every separation on the battlefield can be a life and death. Although Robert is very general, this battle is still the first time, and he was only strong before, and he was still very nervous about Han Xing's safety in his heart, Han Xing's work is naturally crucial, but it is also extremely dangerous.

Han Xing smiled back at him, and walked towards the door without looking back.

Han Xing selected 1,000 cavalrymen, and these young people's yearning for war and honor made them extremely interested in such a dangerous mission.

Especially when Han Xing described to them the bright prospect of killing after he and the others touched the back of the enemy, these young people immediately signed up. If it weren't for the fact that only 1,000 people could be selected, Han Xing might be able to take more, Han Xing's 1,000 people almost gathered the essence of Hu Congzhong, almost all of them were wearing chain armor, and there were dozens of people wearing plate armor.

When Han Xing took this "strange soldier" back to the rear of the enemy's right flank, the war had already begun in full swing, and what Han Xing needed most was to pay attention to the movements of the opponent's cavalry, as long as they were not entangled by the cavalry on the opposite side, they would be invincible.

On the frontal battlefield, the 2,000 archers of the Erin family have begun to shoot arrows at the other side of the march, don't look at only 2,000 people, they pull their bows and arrows, use projectiles, and pour arrow rain towards each other, a wave of two thousand arrows is already overwhelming, and the Chinese army marching on the opposite side has not yet had time to hold the shield above their heads, so a large number of enemies were shot by bows and arrows, and some were directly killed, which was lucky, and some were shot in the torso, but they couldn't die for a while, especially those who were shot in the lungs, which can be described as " will breathe pain", can only let out bursts of wails on the ground, crying dad and calling mother, with medieval medical technology they are basically not saved, this is the worst; There are also unlucky ones who were shot in the limbs, if they were shot in the arms, they could at least continue to move forward, and those who were shot in the feet were miserable and could not walk, so they had to wail with the seriously wounded, struggling and crawling on the ground, this war has almost nothing to do with them, even if they are saved after the war, if they just shoot the bones, what awaits them will be the doom of amputation.

This wave of fire caused about 500 casualties on the other side, and this was also the most glorious moment of the bow and arrow, because after that, they raised their shields above their heads, although there were still people screaming and falling, this is an arrow through the gap in the shield to hit the enemy, but the effect is far less than the first wave, each round can only cause less than 50 damage.

As the opposing infantry approached and the archers began to come into range of the enemy, 2000 archers began to retreat behind the levies.

On the other side, Count Marco Graffson was still stupid, and he actually led his cavalry to charge at the archers who began to retreat, and he and his cavalry rushed into the group of archers like a sharp blade, killing more than half of the archers at once. The levies who followed him also began to fight, and almost at the same time, Robert ordered his 8,000 levies to charge, and himself led the cavalry on the right flank towards the Earl of Grafson, apparently intending to play the decapitation operation.

At this point, the war entered a white-hot stage, the two armies began to engage in white-knuckle battles, everywhere there were shouts of killing, the infantry of both sides collided together, and began to fight desperately, the infantry of Earl Graafson was obviously more superior, and the infantry in the first few rows of them even wore chain mail, fighting bravely, and the levies of the Erling army that had been fighting for a time retreated.

But his brilliant achievements ended there, because Han Xing began to assault, he led 1,000 cavalry from the forest to the rear of the archers who were "forgetting" shooting arrows in the direction of the Erin army, these guys didn't seem to notice the existence of Han Xing's "strange soldiers" at all, and by the time a few of them found that the ground was shaking, Han Xing had already come to only 20 meters behind them.

The cavalry who rushed to the front put down their horse guns in unison, these archers had no power to resist at all, Han Xing's Hu easily penetrated the opposite formation from the cavalry, and the sound of "pop~~" of broken wood came, almost everyone's horse spears were stained with blood, and some archers were directly hit by the war horses and flew out a few meters.

They were like tigers that had killed a flock of sheep, pulled out the swords on their waists, and began to slash the remaining survivors, these poor archers had been frightened by the momentum of Han Xing and the others' charge before and the blood and corpses of their companions, they just ran away or knelt down to beg for mercy, for those who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Han Xing let it go as much as possible, but the problem is that kneeling and begging for mercy is only a matter of moments, and there are still some slow reactions who were killed and red-eyed servants chopped up.

Just as Han Xing was slaughtering these archers, a large number of cavalry suddenly appeared from the forest, which frightened Han Xing, and immediately thought that Count Marco Graffson still had a back hand, and he was suddenly scared into a cold sweat, if he was attacked by the other party now, his 1,000 people would be finished.

Unexpectedly, those cavalry actually charged towards the rear of Earl Graafson's Chinese army after being prepared, Han Xing realized that this was his own person, he and the servants around him had a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, he took the lead in cheering, and then the whole army also rushed towards the back of the 2,000 levies in front of him.

The 2,000 cavalry that came out of the forest were the cavalry of Robert's left flank, and when he found that Earl Graafson was leading all the cavalry to the center, he led the 2,000 cavalry joint levies to drag them down, and then ordered the cavalry on the left flank to follow Han Xing's footsteps and return to the rear.

Earl Graafson's army obviously followed the route of "good steel on the blade", all the elite troops were concentrated in the first few rows by him, which also led to the rear is its weak point, with Han Xing's 1000 cavalry from the cavalry and the cavalry on the left flank, the entire Earl of Graafson's army entered chaos, they were attacked on their backs, Han Xing and the cavalry on the left flank almost had a devastating magical effect.

In view of the characteristics of the levies, this also leads to the fact that the levy troops have become good at fighting with the wind, rushing faster than rabbits with the wind (in order to compete for the spoils of war), once there is a stalemate in a hard battle, they will immediately "wilt", and if they want to rely on them to win the battle, I am afraid that they will not lose their minds!

The entire local army continued to be on the verge of collapse, and the only thing stopping them from escaping was that they had no way to escape, so they just gritted their teeth and tried to confront the enemy, but their will to resist was soon completely shattered with Robert's roar.

"Count Marco Graffson has been slain by me! Count Marco Graafson is dead! Robert held aloft the helmet of Earl Marco Graffson, and even captured the banner, and it was clear that the foolish young man had paid the price for his stupidity.

With the death of Count Marco Graafson, the rebels surrendered completely. In the battle, the Arryn army captured more than 4,000 people, the enemy suffered more than 4,000 casualties, the Arryn army suffered only more than 1,000 casualties (mainly archers), and the casualties of the rest of the troops were low to double digits, which can be described as a complete and brilliant victory, which also means that Robert's star is rising.