Chapter Seventy-Six: The Battle of Crossing the River I

Seeing the more than 2,000 church knights who saw the female knight chief Selena rushing by, the "king" under Avi's seat couldn't help but hiss, I don't know if it was excitement or fear, anyway, Avi didn't hear the whispers of the animals. But Avi, who saw so many troops on the vast plain for the first time, couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and even his right hand, which held the knight's sword, was sweating. He immediately put on the old enchanted ring that he hadn't used for a long time to stabilize his mood swings a little, but even if he changed to other eighteen-year-olds, he would be intimidated by the black army in front of him.

Avi heard that Fried's predecessor had ordered all the men of the Potato Mercenary Regiment to cross the river and cross the opposite bank first, temporarily avoiding the Imperial cavalry rushing from the direction of the riverbank castle, so as not to become the target of the enemy's first round of attack. The big-nosed fan pushed his back, and then whispered: "It's amazing, this is a decisive battle of tens of thousands of people, and it is a competition of strength on the plains, don't you die!"

"Of course not, I'm sure Senior Fide will leave safely with us!" replied Avi.

But after leading everyone across the river, Feder immediately said that he wanted to join the battle that had begun, "Although we are not strong enough, my mercenary group will not become mercenaries who escape," he held the enchanted sword in both hands and "silenced", looking at Selena in the distance and the imperial cavalry of the river castle were already rushing together, " The Church Alliance also has mercenary groups and the regular army of the Kingdom of Sallins to support, so you don't necessarily lose, so you all follow me, our goal is not to protect anyone, and to take down the heads of enemy generals. ”

"But where are the enemy generals?" asked Hughes, the captain of the cavalry squad, aloud.

"All of you follow me closely, and I'll lead you to victory!" said Fed, looking at all his men.

Those mercenary subordinates all raised their weapons and raised their arms and shouted! Even the Marcus brothers, Nur and the other squad leaders were like chicken blood, and they instantly boiled. Originally, mercenaries were bloodthirsty existences, and many mercenaries who joined the potato mercenary group couldn't wait to make a big move, and now their leader said that they would take him to cut off the head of the enemy leader, and even Marcus, who has always been calm, is very much looking forward to it, waiting for Fei De to do what he did in Gansha City.

"Greif, you take Kesi back to the rear first," Fidel glanced at Kesi who had been looking at her, "This battle is too dangerous for me to keep her safe." ”

"I see, I'll take my sister back first. Of course Greif does, that's what he's supposed to do.

Kesi clasped her hands together and placed them under her lips, trying to say something to Fed, but she didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.

Avi noticed that the way Fried's senior looked at the warden Keth was a little different, which he had never seen before, perhaps because the two of them, who were lovers in Avi's eyes, were about to be separated on the battlefield.

The other girl, Ayana, was much more calm, she looked like a hunter who had just passed by, with no armor or other armor on her body, only a short wooden bow and quiver on her back, and a small dagger hanging from her waist. Ayana's gaze did not stop at the imperial troops, but instead looked in the direction of Crafe City, which may have been the direction in which reinforcements from the Kingdom of Salins came to support.

After seeing Greif and Cose leave the battlefield, Patrick walked over to Fielder and whispered, "Are you really going to find the leader of the Ogunati ** team?"

"That's right," Phyll's used to want to go alone, but now he has more than a hundred more brothers around him, and these powers have to be used, "We can't be consumed by other soldiers." ”

"Then I'll be by your side, and there must be the strongest warriors next to the enemy leader. ”

The rest of the men drew their weapons, led by each squadron leader and squad leader, and approached the location of the archbishop's agreement along the river. At this time, the Church Alliance army from the direction of Crafeld City also began to dispatch, more than 10,000 mercenaries and 20,000 church troops were marching towards this long river that divided the area between the rivers, and the lineup was also very huge, and it had the momentum of a life-and-death battle with the regular army of the East Oguna Empire.

Avi also began to look around, wanting to see where the troops of the Kingdom of Salin were, but there was no shadow of the king's ** team everywhere he could see. The mercenaries of the other potato mercenary groups knew that as long as the 40,000 men of the Kingdom of Salins were added, the chances of winning this battle would be much greater.

By this time the Archbishop's squad had crossed the river, and Lord Martin, Viscount Hollis's nephew, did not pursue the hundred-man convoy, and missed the opportunity to take Archbishop Arthur Auerbach. Rassad, who followed the archbishop, secretly accused the Empire in his heart of sabotaging his plan to capture the archbishop, and at this time, he also discovered that the river behind him was likely to be the key to this battle. As soon as he had escorted the archbishop back to the west side of the river, he rode his horse back to the armed army of the Church, where the chief knights of the other Church were commanding all the troops.

The Knights of the Church who were the first to fight had already been mixed up with the Imperial cavalry of Riverland Castle, and about six cavalry teams were sent to the Rivercastle to the south, and Selena's knights were only 2,000 men, and they were quickly suppressed.

The Potato Mercenaries watched Selena's Church Knights fall into a bitter battle on this side of the river, and Patrick, the leader of the archer squadron, immediately sent his fifteen archers to shoot at the other side of the river to support, but to no avail.

"The river is almost a meter and a half deep, and it's so wide, let's wait for the enemy to come, right?" Marcus suggested.

Avi noticed that the Papal States' army had lined up on the flat land downstream, leaving only a large clearing near the river, and did not continue to advance. Such a tactic was of course the most appropriate, and if the troops of the Eastern Oguna Empire dared to cross the river, they would be able to intercept the enemy as they crossed. But to Avi's surprise, the East Oguna army, which had already rushed to the river, actually caused a large group of armored infantry to jump into the river, which was not fast, and then these infantry all raised large steel shields and stood together in a heap, turning into a man-made bridge.

At this time, the potato mercenary group was still nearly three thousand meters away from this steel shield bridge, and a large number of Oguna Emperor** had already begun to cross the river! The imperial cavalry was divided into two halves, one group continued to circle the lower reaches of the river, intending to attack from the north of the city of Crafe, and the other group attacked in the direction of the Church Knights led by Selena.

The church armed forces and mercenary groups did not expect that those soldiers of the East Oguna Empire would choose to cross the river so decisively, they panicked instantly, and even the formation that had been set up early in the morning immediately became scattered. Of course, Rashad knew that he could not retreat at this time, and if he took a step back, all the soldiers would be crushed.

The deputy commander of the regiment, Rashad, shouted loudly and ordered the archers in the front row to aim at the enemy who was crossing the river and immediately shoot. The arrows knocked down some of the Imperial soldiers who had not yet raised their shields to defend themselves, but the later Imperial infantry immediately raised their shields and began to line up behind the river. The infantry behind them spread out along the sides, slowly unfurling the shield wall that resisted long-range weapon attacks, protecting the East Oguna Emperor behind them.

Seeing that his archers were unable to inflict enough damage on them, Rashad had the Church forces behind him prepare to step forward. Most of these Church soldiers were armed with spears, and they had little strong armor, so Rashad decided to let the mercenaries rush to the front.

Some of the mercenaries had already been shocked by the powerful steel shield iron armor of the East Oguna Empire, and they vaguely felt the uneasiness that permeated the air. Some of them pretended not to hear Rassad's orders, while others walked very slowly, and none of the mercenaries wanted to be used as front-row meat shields to protect the spear-wielding Church soldiers.

At this time, a large part of the infantry of the East Oguna Empire had already crossed the river, and they were only lined up and expanded to both sides, but they did not take a step forward.

From the east side of the river, the Imperial soldiers suddenly gave way to their positions, and the infantry who had already crossed the river all crouched down, revealing nearly twenty ballista carts, all of which were loaded with ballistae and aimed at the mercenaries and soldiers of the Church Alliance.

The mercenaries who saw the ballistas opened their mouths wide, and before they could run back, the strings of the ballistas were cut, and more than a dozen ballistas rushed straight over!