No, all signs point in the same direction, Viscount Hollis has already brought those cavalry teams to the middle of these three small cities! Ever since he heard about the strange situation in Crafeld, he had always felt that things were not so simple, and the mercenaries of the Church Alliance were a little too smooth. It wasn't until Marcus said that Fed realized that they had been hit by Hollis's gloves.

"What do you mean, Deputy Head Fidel?" Marcus asked immediately. But before Fei De could explain it to him, a mercenary rushed in from outside the city.

"Chief Commander! Something is wrong! An unknown number of cavalry have appeared outside!

This time node is really just right, and it is about the same as I estimated. Fei De immediately led his men to the city walls, and the order to close the front and rear gates and garrison the city walls was immediately issued. The guards of the city wall were in charge of the mercenaries who tore the mercenary group, and when they saw that the momentum was not right, they were so frightened that they closed the city gate in an instant before Fidel's order was given, and turned away the thousands of mercenaries stationed outside the city.

"Chief Commander! The mercenary group outside the city has been attacked by the cavalry! but we can't see the situation outside because it's pitch black outside!" a mercenary reported loudly as he ran from the city walls.

Fei De and his party immediately walked in the direction of the city wall where the mercenary group was stationed, and "Sharp Claw" also put on his armor again, and caught up with Fei De from behind with a lot of alcohol. The mercenaries who had not left the city walked to the city walls to stand guard, and from the direction where the mercenaries had been stationed on that side, there were roars and shouts.

In a few moments, some of the mercenaries had already run to the side of the wall, and they were either losing their armor or covered in blood, and they all looked very embarrassed. The mercenaries shouted "There are a lot of cavalry behind!" as they ran, "Drop the ladder and let us go up!"

Fidel looked at the mercenaries escaping from the dark plains, and there was a little fire behind them, which looked like huge fireflies flying at high speed.

At this time, several cavalry rushed out of view, and they were chasing more than a dozen mercenaries running in the direction of the city wall. "Sharp Claw" immediately asked the crossbowmen around him to aim at those cavalry, and those cavalry were also very alert, and as soon as they were exposed to the range of the archers, they immediately turned around and left, no longer chasing the dozen or so mercenaries who ran out.

"Walk along the city walls, go in the direction of the city gates!" Fed shouted to the mercenaries who had survived the city from the city walls, and he also told the city gate to let the mercenaries of his own side enter the city, but he had to pay attention to the movements of the Imperial cavalry.

There were still shouts in the distance, and if Fidel was not mistaken, the cavalry were now wantonly killing the mercenaries stationed outside with their rifles, and all this was covered by the darkness of the night.

"What the hell is going on?!Didn't our men take two cities, and then attack the last one???!!" "Sharp Claw" slashed at the battlements with its steel claws, leaving a deep mark. And after drinking a lot of wine, his face was flushed, and he didn't know if it was because of the strength of the wine that he was so angry.

Fid asked some knights sent by Kiro to report the situation here to Hana City immediately, and asked Nur to choose one of the best horses and pass orders to the two mercenary groups moving in the direction of the buffer zone, so that they could stand guard in the buffer zone to prevent the cavalry from breaking through the border and entering the territory of the Papal States.

Marcus: "This group of cavalry attacking us must be the cavalry stationed in the Riverland area, right?

Fidel shook his head, and he explained, "No, we have fallen into the trap of the enemy. ”

"Traps, but we've already taken two cities," Marcus said, puzzled.

Fed sent some mercenaries to patrol the city, leaving most of the remaining mercenaries to guard the city walls to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. He took his men and Talon to the lord's hall without saying a word.

After the leaders of the other mercenary groups and their captains were seated, Fei De immediately summoned those who had been lurking in the city of the road to serve as spies who should assist the Church Alliance in taking the city.

"Have you ever come across these cavalry teams that are now surrounding us?" asked Feder to the spies.

"No," replied one of the spies dressed in civilian attire, "the cavalry would hardly cross this side of the river, let alone the cavalry, and even the guards in this small city were so lax that they did not anticipate our arrival at all. ”

"Did that Viscount Hollis visit Trail City today?"

"That's right, the viscount came here this morning with some of his own soldiers, they talked to the lord for a while, and after lunch, they went back in the direction of the castle. ”

The other commanders didn't understand why the chief commander was asking these innocuous questions, the most important problem now was how to deal with the cavalry team outside!

"Chief Commander, why don't we send mercenaries to support Arturas and Jennifer?!" said one of the regimental commanders.

"Yes, those cavalry will definitely intercept Lord Arturus, and we will attack with the Knight Captain Kiro of Hana City, and we may be able to destroy the cavalry that ambushed us!"

The other regimental commanders were talking about it, some of them advocating immediate reinforcement, while others said that it was safer to stay in this small city, after all, it was late at night, and it was pitch black outside, and there were an unknown number of cavalry.

But Fei De vetoed the regimental commanders with a word, "This night, no one can leave Lutu City, and wait until dawn to decide whether to send troops out of the city." ”

"What a?!" a regimental commander scolded secretly. He didn't look down on the young chief head at all, and in his heart, he thought that Fidel was just a guy in name. But then Fidel's explanation convinced most of the people in the lord's hall.

"It's a trap," said Feder slowly after everyone had quieted down, "If I'm not mistaken, Viscount Hollis intercepted information and knew of our movements long before we set off. And after nightfall, he gathered the cavalry near the castle between the rivers to cross the river, and ambushed them on the outskirts of the three small cities. ”

"Talw" drunkenly asked, "So we're almost finished?"

Ignoring him, Fidel continued: "These cavalrymen are only eight thousand men at most, but the actual number may be less than that. These cavalry who waited until we took the city of Lutu and Hana had only one goal, to intercept and kill the mercenaries who were in the middle of the three small cities and outside the city walls!"

Several regimental commanders showed expressions of fear and surprise, they must have imagined the mood of those mercenaries who were still in the field - in that pitch-black foreign land, at any moment a cavalryman with a torch in one hand and a spear in the other hand would suddenly appear in front of him.

"Based on the current situation, it can be concluded that Viscount Hollis only informed the lord of Crafeld City of Clevey about our invasion, and then asked the city in the rear to be on guard. In order to wait for us to take the city of Lutu and the city of Hana, when attacking the city of Krefe, we will cooperate with the defenders to attack the siege troops in the field. At the same time, they sent a part of their cavalry to ambush between the three cities, intercepting and blocking the mercenaries when they encountered them, and the plan was carried out in the dark and on the ground, and everything went smoothly. ”

The captains of the Potato Mercenary Regiment and the other leaders all opened their mouths slightly and stared blankly at Fidel. If it is really as Fei De analyzed, then these more than thirty mercenary groups are not far from the end.

"How strong are those cavalry?!" a regimental commander asked one of the spies lurking there.

"That's the cavalry of the regular army of the East Oguna Empire, which can easily deal with three or four infantry on flat ground. ”

At this time, all the regiment commanders knew in their hearts that the mercenaries whose combat effectiveness and equipment were inferior to the regular army were like pigs and dogs in the flat land of the night, and they were tortured and killed by those cavalrymen with spears, and they would not have the strength to fight back.

"These two small cities are gifts for us, but there is a hidden arrow underneath the gift," Patrick whispered, but everyone in the hall could hear it clearly, "Even if we take the two small cities now, the mercenaries who are still outside will definitely have no way to retreat, and our people will suffer heavy losses." ”

Fed nodded and said, "That's right, the mercenaries led by Arturas and Jennifer must be divided and surrounded by the cavalry team now, and there is no moon light at all tonight, they are afraid" Fed hoped in his heart that there would not be too many mercenaries heading towards Crafeld City, because the more mercenaries advanced towards that trap city, the more power the Church Alliance would lose.

Some of the regimental commanders still didn't believe it, "These are your personal analysis, I don't believe a twenty-year-old guy! Maybe there are only a few cavalrymen? Or maybe they're just here to rescue the city that has been attacked." ”

Fei De did not respond to him, because the heavy expressions on the faces of the others had already shown that they all believed Fei De's analysis-the vanguard mercenaries of the Church Alliance had indeed fallen into the trap of the Imperials, and these leaders who had just been complacent and despised the Empire were all "defeated" by the sudden predicament and fell into a dead silence.

Keth and Marcus weren't so depressed, after all, whether it was Dry Sand City or Pool Castle, more terrible and difficult situations had come. Moreover, they still have more than 10,000 mercenaries guarding this small city, and Hana City on the other side is also occupied by the knight chief Kiro, even if they lose some mercenaries, they are not in a desperate situation.

"We can't send people out tonight, because those cavalry may be in front of and behind the city gate, and when we open the door, they will attack in," the cavalry team is not good at attacking the city, but the mercenaries who leave the city walls are easy to deal with, "I just hope that the people sent to the buffer zone and Hana City can reach smoothly, and we will not have a chance to counterattack until dawn." ”