The original plan was that Selena's containment team would follow the river that divided the three small cities and castles last night and today, and contain the Imperial cavalry of East Oguna that might appear here. Not only did the cavalry appear at dawn, but they moved not in the direction of the three small cities, but the castle between the rivers!

In this way, things were completely unexpected by Satnam's original plan. Originally, Selena and Avi were arranged to contain the possibility of crossing the river to support the three small cities, but now it seems that Viscount Hollis had deployed the cavalry around the three small cities before they attacked, which also made Avi and their return in vain.

However, Selena and Avi decided to patrol the river for the rest of the time, and if necessary, to reconnoiter in the direction of the rivercastle.

There were less than 500 cavalry squads in total, and it was supposed that each mercenary group would send dozens of mercenaries, but in the end, some regiment commanders claimed that there were no horseback mercenaries in their regiment. Of course, the female knight chief knew that this was a lie from those captains, but she didn't care, after all, in her eyes, those church knights who followed her were the main force of this squad.

Avi, Hughes, and Lukka became the leaders of this squad, and their main task was to assist the female knight captain in her work, while managing the mercenary cavalry behind her.

They patrol from the lower reaches of the river to the upper reaches of the river, which is neither wide nor deep, but it still requires a ferryboat to cross the river. They don't know the name of the river, but in terms of the direction in which it leads, it's the only way to the castle between them.

Movement along the river revealed the bodies of some mercenaries floating down from upstream to downstream, and several sharp-eyed mercenaries on horseback recognized their companions, and these corpses contained mercenaries from the Servant Mercenary Regiment. For the rest of the road, a number of wrecked river crossings appeared on their side, possibly small boats transporting the Imperial cavalry.

"So many mercenaries have died, I guess they have encountered very stubborn resistance, but why did this mercenary corpse appear in the river behind the city?" Hughes dismounted, and brought up the body of a mercenary who had not been soaked much, and found that it was indeed a mercenary of a mercenary group in the Church Alliance. The mercenary's corpse was shot in the back, and it was a one-hit kill, and the opponent's attack was very powerful, directly penetrating the mercenary's chest.

"All of them were chased here by cavalry before they fell into the river," the chief knight Selena wore a cyan helmet, covering most of her hair and face, "that is, in addition to the main battlefield of the city, there were also fierce battles along the river. ”

"Could it be that our mercenaries have forced those Imperial cavalry to the river, but why haven't I found a single corpse of Imperial cavalry?" Hughes brought up another corpse, and after confirming that it was not a mercenary of the Potato Mercenary Regiment, he casually threw the corpse aside.

Selena and Avi both shook their heads, each with their own ideas, but neither of them said it, instead urging the containment team to continue their upstream.

At this time, the city of Crafeld had been taken over by the mercenaries of the Church Alliance. Most of the mercenaries were busy disposing of the corpses scattered outside the city of Crafe, while the remaining part began to prepare firewood and fire, intending to burn all the corpses of the more than 10,000 mercenaries.

This was the order of the chief knight Kiro, although the mercenary vanguard lost nearly half of the troops, but it was still an encouraging thing to take the three small cities, so he sent the knight to bring the news of the victory back to the Holy Light City, and wrote in the letter "mutual damage".

Originally, as the chief head of this front-line mercenary group, such a report should have been written by Fid, but the actual power was in the hands of the knight captain Kiro and the servant mercenary group Arturas. Now Arturas is dying, and the remaining knights saw this, and immediately took over the remaining power, and no one knew if he would put the responsibility on Fide in the letter, anyway, the purifier was self-purifying, and Fide didn't ask much.

Most of the mercenaries didn't have lunch and began to dispose of the mercenary corpses, which were built into a small mountain, and then threw a fire into them, burning all the mercenaries who had been attacked and died in the night. Kiro said that they still needed to move on, so there was no way to bury the mercenaries and could only burn them on the spot.

This caused a lot of mercenaries to be dissatisfied, but the knight chief Kiro ignored this dissatisfaction, he only said that those mercenaries who participated in the burning of the corpse could gain the right to search for the mercenary's belongings before burning the corpse, and the items harvested after that could be owned by the individual. As soon as this condition was given, many mercenaries actively participated in the task of disposing of corpses, and the knights around Kiro looked at these mercenaries coldly, and none of the knights participated in it.

In addition, Kiro also brought all the church medics into the city of Crafeld, and Fed was in charge of the main treatment matters.

Fed stood in the medical camp, the environment reminiscent of his time in Dry Sands. However, there were not many lightly wounded here, most of them were seriously wounded and dying, and they were the few who were lucky enough to escape the cavalry spears. Arturus, who underwent emergency surgery, was in a severe shock coma. He was in a particularly critical condition due to the loss of blood and the loss of an arm and a leg.

Fidel knew that the other party was in great need of a blood transfusion right now, but that kind of medical skill was only understood by that weird George, and he couldn't do anything about it. Although the Arturus had repeatedly despised him, he was a fellow member of the Church Alliance, and Fed proposed a blood transfusion to the church doctors.

Of course, the doctors did not understand what Feder was talking about, and when they were learning how to treat them, they knew that if blood that was not related to them was transfused to an injured person, that injured person was likely to have some kind of rejection, which would lead to the destruction of some internal organs and death.

But now the doctors have nothing to do with Arturus, who has lost too much blood, and there is no other way than to watch the head of the mercenary group, who is loyal to the archbishop and the church, die. Eventually, they tried, following Fed's advice, and selected some mercenary corpses with skin and hair similar to that of Aturus' leader, and infused their blood into Arturas's body.

Fei De is not at all sure, now he just hopes that this brave regiment leader can survive, after all, this small city can be regarded as this bald mercenary leader to defeat.

At this time, Jennifer, the leader of the Shepherd Dog Mercenary Regiment, was carried into the medical camp on a stretcher by several men, and she looked as if she was asleep. The sheepdog, whose hair had been dyed red, was still following Jennifer's stretcher, barking incessantly, not leaving an inch.

"Captain Jennifer was found north of Crafeld City, presumably knocked unconscious by a warhorse, and she had no fatal injuries other than some external bruises. A knight said to Fed.

Fede nodded, and walked towards where his mercenary group was stationed.

Marcus stepped forward when he saw Fidel, "We don't have a single man, but according to the rough statistics of those knights, we have lost nearly fifteen thousand men in total, and this is not counting the wounded guys. ”

Kesi also said: "I heard that seven of the more than ten mercenary group leaders sent out have died, and people like Arturus are also in danger, alas..."

Marcus continued: "Field, what do you think we should do now? The Church Alliance has lost so many mercenaries, I wonder if it will be blamed on you as the chief leader?"

When the other captains heard Marcus say this, they all expressed their concerns, and the big-nosed fan teased: "If Avi and they can kill all those imperial cavalry on the other side of the river, maybe it will not be surprising that the Pope and the Archbishop will reward us." ”

The others were very upset and disappointed in the face of such a big defeat of the Church Alliance, but fortunately, under the command of Fidel, a large part of the mercenary group's strength was preserved.

"I've discussed with Kiro that we plan to continue our march into the area of Rivercastle tomorrow, occupy more strongholds, and wait for the support of the Church's armed forces before launching an attack on Rivercastle. ”

Fidel's words made everyone let go of a hanging heart, and the captains of each team saw the power of those imperial cavalry on the plain. The mercenaries, who were mainly infantry, could not resist the cavalry of the Eastern Oguna Empire.

Just then, a knight ran into the camp of the Potato Mercenary Regiment, "Chief Commander, an emissary claiming to be Viscount Hollis has come to the outside of Klefe City and asks to meet with our leader!"