Chapter Eighty-Four: Luring the Enemy

Dawn fell.

Lynn emerges from the tent, the charcoal fire in the furnace extinguished.

The scouts, who were in charge of the sentry, discovered that the enemy had begun to move his troops before dawn.

As expected, the opponent first sent an army of 300 men to conduct a tentative attack, still cavalry, but still defeated.

In a small space, the cavalry simply could not fully deploy.

However, after this attack, the soldiers of Twin Rivers City thoroughly figured out the reality of Lynn's forces in East City.

Soon.

There were more than 300 people in a column, and the armor and shield soldiers in a neat line came out in the center of the stone arch bridge of the Twin River City.

Behind the armoured shield-bearers were two hundred crossbowmen.

It's going to be a fight for your life.

Lynn, who got the news, gathered all his troops and stood at the head of the stone arch bridge.

Hold off the first wave of the enemy's vanguard and create a siege opportunity for the Iron Folk soldiers of the Greyjoy family who are in ambush outside the West Twin Rivers.

This is the first step in the plan.

Lynn said to the Knight of Reed, who was leading the infantry of the three hundred Ze people and waiting on the side, "Can the battleship of the leader of Holland arrive on time?"

The short knight called out to the Zeren soldiers behind him, and Zeren, who was carrying a raven cage alone, trotted forward and handed the cage to him.

"Commander Holland is not far upstream of Twin River City, so you can rest assured. ”

Lynn wasn't at all at ease.

He had already planned that if there was a problem in one of the three armies, such as the Ze people or the Iron Islanders, one of them would use the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, trying to delay the time to launch and let his soldiers consume too much here.

Lynn will definitely not hesitate to order his army to leave the battlefield as soon as possible, even if he surrenders the east city of Twin River City to the Frey family.

Lynn looked at the wide deck of the stone arch bridge, and below it was the turbid waters of the Green Fork River.

As long as the Zeren warship can reach the water gate on time and share the pressure of his troops, he is sure that the Frey soldiers on the bridge will be killed.

Just as Lynn pondered the Battle of Bridgehead, a long horn sounded from afar.

Rows of armored shield soldiers shimmering with silver-white light in the early morning sun began to slowly march towards the bridge head of Dongcheng.

The steel boots stepped on the bridge deck in unison, making a shocking sound of thump.

The serpent has been dispatched.

Lynn turned to Knight Reed and said, "Send the message." ”

The latter nodded, opened the raven cage, and the raven swept north down the Green Fork River.

Lynn looked up at the figure that was gradually becoming clear a hundred steps away, slowly approached, and said calmly to Shifu: "Go and prepare." ”

The sound of wheels sounded.

Ten two-wheeled carts loaded with hay and stakes began to push up the bridge from behind the tiger group.

The wooden cart reduced the width of the bridge deck, blocking the bridgehead, which could have been used by ten soldiers to advance side by side, into only six or seven men attacking side by side.

The Frey soldiers soon discovered Lynn's intentions, and the shield-wielding queue, which had been slowly moving forward, began to speed up.

So uncontrollable? Lynn's eyes couldn't help but smile.

The enemy's queue is getting closer.

One hundred steps.

Fifty steps.

Just as the enemy was about to reach the front of the wooden cart, Shifu's order sounded at the same time.

"Crossbow team ready!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

"The infantry is in position!"

The rain of arrows fell into the enemy's shield soldiers' positions, forcing them to pause and raise their steel shields to prevent each arrow from falling into it.

However, as long as it is in a marching state, the shield will never be able to maintain sufficient tightness.

Some arrows followed the shield-wielding soldiers forward, penetrating into the crowd in the gaps that leaked, and when someone fell from the arrows, a larger gap would leak out, and gradually the opponent was forced to stop advancing, completely filling the gaps in the loose defense of the formation.

Seeing that the other party stopped and tied the fence tightly, the crossbowmen of the Tiger Regiment stopped shooting.

"Infantry, attack!"

Shifu's voice rang out.

Ready to go, the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment, who had finished in a line of six, howled and charged forward.

They wield iron oak shields, and although they are not as powerful as their opponents' lavishly equipped shield wielders, they are lighter in their equipment.

When Shifu gave the order to charge, they quickly gathered a torrent of iron armor and rushed forward.

The infantry of the Tiger Regiment, which took the lead, also began to enjoy the same treatment as the shield soldiers of the other side.

The archers, who had long been prepared in the rear of the enemy, pulled the bowstrings, and the dense arrows smashed into the infantry of the Tiger Regiment.

However, there was no order to retreat or disengage.

The infantry team of the Tiger Ben Regiment still braved the rain of arrows without hesitation.

The oak shield in their hands was raised high, and their goal was to approach, to approach.

Quickly approach enemy melee combat.

The crossbowmen of Twin River City suffered the heaviest casualties on Lynn's Tiger Ben infantry at the beginning, and less than seventy percent of the 100 Tiger Ben soldiers in the first wave of engagement were alive when they came into contact with the enemy's shield bearers.

Regardless, though, the melee strangulation is complete.

Both crossbow teams had to stop firing in order not to injure friendly troops.

The combat ability of Lynn's level 3 soldiers is almost the same as the strength of the regular army on the Westeros continent, and the same equipment is strangled together, and the victory or defeat is also between five and five.

However, this time, the heavy steel plate armor and thick shield of the Frey family played a decisive role.

The infantry of the Tiger Ben Regiment who engaged the enemy was quickly at a disadvantage.

They resisted with all their might, but it didn't take long for there to be a clear decline.

Shi Fu commanded the Tiger Ben infantry to slowly retreat.

And the other party's shield soldiers did not give an inch to entangle the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment who were about to retreat.

Every time the infantry of the Tiger Regiment pushed away ten steps, the opponent advanced ten steps.

Ten steps and ten steps again.

The opponent's melee shield soldiers gradually found that their original formation of ten people had become a formation of seven or even six people, and I don't know when.

And in order to maintain the queue, the Twin River City crossbow team behind them could only follow closely behind the shield bearers step by step, maintaining effective support for the front row at any time.

When a sharp arrow suddenly plunged into the gap between the shield bearers and the crossbow team in the front row of Twin River City.

The commander of the Twin River City soldiers, who was in charge of the raid, finally noticed that something was wrong.

If his crossbow team takes the next step, they will be greeted by a rain of arrows from the archers of the Tiger Regiment.

At this moment, looking at the backs of the two hundred stainless steel shield-wielding soldiers who chased the retreating infantry of the Tiger Regiment.

The young officer, who was highly regarded by the Frey family, felt his throat begin to tighten a little, and he hurriedly waved his hand to stop, and the crossbow team continued to move on.

"Damn it," he shouted, "the shields are all back, back!"

"Stop moving forward. ”

"There's a trap ahead!"

However, at this moment.

Among the Twin Rivers Army, the most well-equipped and the most capable of breaking defenses has been completely cut off from the support of crossbowmen.

His order was given too late.

The three hundred armored soldiers, whom the Frey vassal was proud of and had been built with a lot of money from the Frey family, had completely entered the narrow passage with five wooden carts on the left and right.

On Lynn's originally cold face, the corners of his mouth showed a shallow smile at the moment.