Chapter 158: The title is too difficult
The heroic knights interpret the aesthetics of violence with a brutal charge, and their unfancy horses charge head-on into the array of Rune's spearmen.
Guns snapped, shields broke, blood splattered. The heroic knights had taught the Runians how naïve it was to use such a rudimentary spear formation against them.
The long-cherished spear formation, which had been pinned on high hopes, was cut through the front, and the morale of the remaining Lune soldiers was severely damaged. Hu Bin led the knights behind him to slightly turn the direction of the charge, and then rushed in the direction of the Isilis rangers with a cloud of flying dust.
Okov had already dropped his bow and arrow, and the spasm of his arm made it impossible for him to pull away and continue shooting, and the other rangers were in the same situation.
"Draw your sword!" Okov roared and took the lead in rushing towards the enemy who had already rushed up the hillside, although the Icylian Ranger was a reconnaissance unit skilled in guerrilla, but as a unit of elite warriors, their melee skills made them not actually as vulnerable as they seemed. As soon as they fought, the rangers used their nimble sword skills to take out the first wave of enemies that rushed up.
But the follow-up Lune infantry continued to come up, although the shields and armor they wore were not very elite, but the defense was much stronger than the rangers who only had a set of leather armor, and many rangers were made to shrink back by the wound-for-injury style used by these infantry, after all, all the training they had received before was based on life-saving sneak attacks and covert reconnaissance, and such a hard-fought head-to-head duel was not as adaptable as ordinary soldiers.
However, this disadvantage soon ended, seeing that the cavalry had set their goal on supporting here, the Lune infantry, who were about to complete the outflanking of the rangers, abandoned the rangers in front of them one after another, and turned to face the menacing cavalry, and those who only had more than thirty cavalry swept in two neat queues, and even gave them a momentum that was better than thousands of horses.
A group of infantry with no formation to speak of in the wilderness faced a group of charging cavalry, and the result can be imagined. The heroic knights even made a small change in formation in a short period of time, turning the two cavalry formations into a longer cavalry line. They thought that the enemies who stood in their way did not need to be stabbed a second time.
The cavalry spears pierced a corpse without hindrance, and many more enemies were overturned by galloping horses and then trampled to death, and there was not a single enemy to stand on where the whole line of cavalry passed, and the wailing wounded soldiers were dying on the hillside, making their companions tremble as if they were the ones lying there the next moment
In the space of three minutes, the remaining one hundred and fifty soldiers of the Rune had been reduced by nearly seventy again, and their commander had the misfortune to die when the pikemen had broken through. As a result, although they still have half of their men left, they directly lose the courage to continue fighting. I don't know when it started, maybe a soldier was misunderstood by his teammates as an escape in the process of subconsciously retreating, and the partial escape turned into a rout of the whole line when no one came out to stop it. The Rune were completely unaware that they still had a lot of troops left, and that the fifty archers of the opponent's main force had lost their combat effectiveness.
Looking at the last enemy who was cut down by the rangers and the Rune soldiers fleeing in the rear, Hu Bin grabbed the reins of the horse and took off his helmet, and the tight breath was released with a sigh, if he didn't support here in time, the rangers would definitely suffer heavy losses under the impact of these Runnes. However, it was precisely because of their persistence that their cavalry was able to destroy a large number of enemies so smoothly, causing the enemy to fall into a state of collapse in advance unexpectedly.
When Okov saw the enemy retreating, he sat on the ground and gasped for air. Seeing Hu Bin, who had ordered his men to pursue and rout after him, Okov struggled to sit up straight.
The rangers paid a lot of casualties when they held on here, and 15 soldiers lay on this hillside forever, which made Hu Bin's heart gloomy. His knights have also lost a few of them. But after returning to space, they can be resurrected at some cost, but these soldiers who have been together with flesh and blood will never come back.
"You're supposed to go according to plan." Hu Bin looked down at the exhausted Ranger Captain on his horse and said helplessly.
"Isn't it going to be good?" Okov said with a laugh.
Hearty laughter infects the other rangers. They covered their wounds and endured the pain, buried the sadness of their teammates' deaths in their hearts, and then laughed with the captain.
"It's been a long time since I've encountered such pure laughter!" Hu Bin looked at this group of child-like warriors smiling and laughing and shedding tears, maybe the reason why Sauron failed in the end in the original plot was because human beings still have such a beauty in their hearts. At this moment, victory undoubtedly belonged to these indigenous warriors.
"Master, you'd better come and see!" Ted, who had been sent out by Hu Bin to pursue the rout and destroy the wagon, hurried back, and Hu Bin received Ted's report and left Lorraine to treat the rangers, and he ran after Ted towards the convoy.
"Whew!" Hu Bin was attracted by the large amount of materials piled up on those trucks, and the heroic knights around him also stared at the goods with wide eyes.
"If those infantry had just put on these equipment, we might not have had such an easy time." Hu Bin took out a two-handed battle sword from the weapon pile and wheeled it twice, feeling that it fit very well, and the weapons that a warrior of his level liked, you can imagine the sophistication of this batch of equipment.
Although he had speculated that the Lunes would take advantage of this opportunity to transport some more valuable supplies, Hu Bin still did not expect that they would place such a large amount of bait, a full ten truckloads of high-grade military supplies, worth enough to be worth a year's tax revenue in Baicheng.
For the first time, Hu Bin felt that his thirty cubic meter space ring was a little insufficient, and after discarding a large number of low-value sundries and food, he finally put away the most valuable batch of weapons and equipment in this batch of goods, believing that whether it was sold to Bai Cheng or other numbered persons, he could bring himself a huge fortune.
"Master, what about the grain?" Ted filled his own bag of grain, but was still reluctant to keep the food left.
"These trucks are moving too slowly, we can't take the grain away, Ted!" patting his number one foodie on the shoulder, Hu Bin said in a regretful tone.
"Okay. Master, though we might be able to get the rangers to take a little with them, after all, they have their share of the loot. Ted quickly adjusted his mood and said reluctantly looking at the supplies.
"No problem, I don't see much in their stronghold. Wait, Stronghold! Hu Bin stroked his chin, he had just thought of something in a flash of inspiration.
"Maybe we've walked into a misunderstanding, Ted, count the rest of the materials, and pick half of the small ones with high value. The rest was doused with fire oil and burned along with the trucks, and we were in a race against time. ”
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Lawrence held the reins of his horse and stayed silent, watching his men and cavalry sweep the fleeing enemies on the battlefield over and over again. The men who had been hiding in the wagons and the two hundred infantry who came to support them completely crushed the remaining main force of the Gondor-numberers, who, when they realized that they could not do anything, summoned their mounts and prepared to flee in all directions, and the result of this was to trap a group of their comrades who were still fighting.
"Those who succeed in escaping can arouse the idea of others to escape, so that the remaining numbered ones will not immediately fall into a death battle, and people will always hold on to unrealistic thoughts, but this will make them lose sight of reality." Before sending his men, Lawrence warned them to spare the first group of fleeing enemies. Concentrate your forces and strangle those who are left to be numbered.
The numberers of the dark side let out a wild laugh at the imminent victory of their side, but their laughter did not inspire Lawrence with the slightest joy. As the mastermind of this operation, Lawrence does not have to make a move to get a large share of the profits from the hands of the players, which is in line with his usual cautious attitude. If he can not take the initiative to shoot, he will never shoot, he has always regarded himself as a wise man, away from danger and unscrupulous means to make his consistent style, and the kind of guy who confronts the enemy head-on in order to prove his faith and courage does not know how many dead in his hands. Belikov was not the first, and certainly not the last.
Suddenly, Lawrence saw one of his team members hurrying towards him with a Rune soldier behind his back. For some reason, Lawrence had a sense of foreboding.
"Damn it!" Lawrence slammed his fist into the saddle of his horse, and he learned from the Lune soldier that the remaining troops had been attacked, and from the moment he received the news, the important supplies of the Lunes had been in the hands of the enemy for almost ten minutes.
"Gather all the cavalry, let's go back and see! You lead the way. Lawrence quickly gave the order to return to the reinforcements, and although he no longer had any luck with the supplies he guarded this time, he still wanted to see who had attacked the convoy left behind.
"Did they set their sights on the convoy in front of them in the first place? No, the timing of the sneak attack was too coincidental, it should have been an ambush for a long time before it started, and their camp was near there. However, why didn't they attack after the cavalry left, the strength was insufficient, the number was less than two hundred, and it seemed that it would be enough to use the cavalry to pursue them. Lawrence was constantly pondering the clues of the enemy as he quickly returned with his men.
"Using the lord's coalition army as bait, attracting troops near the target, and then taking it in one fell swoop, the action is too clean and neat, not like an accident, but like they knew that the convoy in front of them was the real supply team. However, how could those numbered lords be willing to use it as bait, it seems that they don't know that the convoy behind them is the real bait. So, the most important question is, how do they know where the real supply convoy is? Lawrence frowned, and a figure popped into his mind.
"David? No, it can't be him, with his ability, he can't do such a thing, so who is it who saw through our arrangement and concealed the alliance of the Lords of Gondor? Lawrence, who was stuck in a dead end, was suddenly interrupted by his teammates.
"Captain, we're here."
The roaring wagons made the faces of the numbered men of the dark camp gloomy, and the original victory was shattered, and the sneak attackers still had time to pile up the corpses of the remaining Rune soldiers and burn them, and that kind of easy behavior was almost like slapping them in the face.
The members of his team shouted orders the cavalry under their command to find a way to extinguish the fire, but everyone knew that under such a strong fire, the cargo was no longer saved.
Looking at the raging van, a trace of doubt flashed in Lawrence's eyes.
"It took us ten minutes to get the news that the truck had been attacked, but the fire here seems to have been ignited not long ago, which means that the enemy has not gone far. The most likely route is the woods. Lawrence suddenly called the Lune soldier who had reported the news and led the way. By what means did your attackers defeat you? ”
"Sir, first a group of archers fired arrows at us on the hillside, and then a group of cavalry attacked us from the flanks as we attacked those archers." The Lune soldier was a little stunned when he spoke of the cavalry, and it seemed that the battle had made a deep impression on him.
"Cavalry plus archers? Sure enough, it is a configuration that is very suitable for ambush and sneak attack. Lawrence mused.
"Captain, those bastards have spent a long time cleaning up the corpses on the battlefield, they must not have gone far, shall we catch up and kill them?" One of the numbered people asked through gritted teeth when he saw that the supplies were no longer salvageable.
"No, the direction of their retreat is the woods over there. It may be that a trap has been set up there waiting for us, the cavalry is not suitable for combat in the woods, this escort mission has failed, let's go back! Lawrence said calmly.
"Yes, Captain!" Although he was a little unwilling, the numberer still agreed.
"Captain, the battle damage here has been counted, half of the two hundred soldiers left behind were killed on the spot, and most of the rest are missing. We've only gathered some of the deserters scattered nearby! However, according to a low-ranking Lune officer, the number of incoming enemies was not very large, only about fifty archers and about thirty cavalry. But those cavalry were powerful enough to break through the spear arrays of soldiers head-on. We also found quite a few broken spears and shields on the battlefield. The other numberer handed Lawrence a broken spear and an arrow.
Lawrence glanced at the spear and threw it away, if it was all numbered cavalry, thirty men would be enough to kill all the Lune infantry in the field, and it would not be difficult to break through the pikes head-on with their defenses. But it was the arrow that made Lawrence care.
"Icyrian Ranger troops!" Smelling the faint fishy smell on the arrows, Lawrence was a little clear, and many of the places that had not been sorted out suddenly became a lot more transparent.
"Definitely. We were very difficult to deal with when those guys were hiding in the shadows, but the frontal combat ability was not high, and we blocked the fortress of Ojo and wiped out a number of them. The numbered man took the arrow from Lawrence's hand and said.
"David exposed, it seems that there are still some talents in the Gondor camp, good, great." Lawrence suddenly showed a frenzied look on his face, and the two team members around him knew that their captain had found their favorite prey again, and the two couldn't help but shiver at the thought of the fate of the numbered person who had been favored by the captain before.
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Hu Bin didn't know that his information had been learned a lot by the leader of the hostile forces, and he didn't know that the little time he had inadvertently delayed made the enemy dare not pursue him too much, and he was now busy carrying a large number of supplies back and forth.
Ted's suggestion reminded Hu Bin of the rangers' stronghold, which was hidden under the tree hole and had a large space to store the supplies. And the space ring of thirty cubic meters of space is not big for that batch of materials, but it is not small, Hu Bin can first carry the materials to be taken away to the woods to hide temporarily, and then slowly transport them back to the stronghold of the rangers, as for how to transport them back to Baicheng in the future, anyway, this batch of materials is very rare for the Baicheng side that is short of materials, so leave it to Gandalf and the regent for their headaches,
Okov was a little dumbfounded when he saw the supplies piled up in the stronghold, which meant that they would have to find another place to camp in the next few days, but if anyone asked him to give up those supplies, he would definitely fight with that man, although he didn't know the situation on the White City side, but judging from the fact that the fortress of Ooche had been breached once, the war was not going well, and the regent must have needed these supplies very much.
The information that this batch of materials was captured reached the table of the Lord Regent earlier than the information of the defeat of the Lord's Alliance Army, and the communication efficiency of the Icilian rangers has always been very fast, and this news has also attracted the attention of the White City, which is in dire need of this batch of supplies.
The biggest problem of transportation was unexpectedly solved, and although the numbered people led by Ta Dun and Lin did not make it to the task of attacking the supply team, they happened to encounter this large batch of supplies. After receiving the task, the numberers did their best, made a bunch of strange-shaped trucks out of wood from the woods, and transported the materials back to Baicheng by means of ants moving, the process made Hu Bin and Okoff and his party stunned, and I have to say that these people came at a really good time.
"Reed, you guy mustered these people, you can't have already calculated, right?" Ta Dun took a group of people through the motions and completed two missions in succession (the task of attacking the supply team was completed by default), and obtained a lot of prestige and military rewards, and now these numberers look at Hu Bin like the God of Wealth, looking forward to when he will release another mission.
"I didn't expect things to develop like this, I thought that the Lunes on the other side would send a lot of pursuit troops, who knew that they didn't even make a move, you don't want to be obedient anymore if you get cheap." Hu Bin said in a good mood that he had taken almost all of his contributions in this mission, which not only delayed the progress of the Rune's advance, but also weakened the power of the numbered lords.
Although it is a bit excessive to kill two numbered lords in one battle, there is no evidence that this has anything to do with Hu Bin. It can be said that the completion of this task is very much in line with the appetite of the White City side, and as for these additional supplies, it can be said that it is an unexpected surprise.
A lot of credit makes Hu Bin have a high reputation among the high-level leaders of White City, and Boromir even proposed to give him a formal military position, but due to the sensitivity of the elf's identity, this matter is not over, but the reward that should be given to Baicheng is not less at all, in addition to the task and the large amount of money and prestige rewarded by the batch of materials, Hu Bin's authority has also been further improved, and even elite troops such as the Isiris Ranger can be called up, but due to the shortage of troops, Most of the elite troops are still in the hands of Bai Cheng, and Hu Bin's authority in this regard is still just a chicken rib.
"However, there is now a ready-made force to call upon, and perhaps to move relations with Boromir." Hu Bin saw that the Icyrian 3rd Squadron, which had received an order to withdraw to Baicheng with Hu Bin, thought with some ill intentions.
Okov subconsciously shuddered, and then looked around suspiciously. (To be continued......)