Chapter 382: The Twelve Paladins
On the other side of the northern battlefield, Roland and Siegfried were leading an army of 5,000 to the aid of Baria Pass, and on the way they met Rowell, who was escorting Audrey, the daughter of Baron Donter.
The teams on both sides were staring at each other, and there was an atmosphere of awkwardness in Rowell's ranks.
They were ordered to escort Audrey to the Roland Legion in an attempt to contain Baron Donte through her identity, but before they could arrive, the battle was over.
They even found the calm-faced Baron Donte among the captives, and Rowell felt even more embarrassed.
But fortunately, he also brought information about the Baria Pass on this trip, which was not a trip in vain.
It's just that the information he brought is not optimistic, but it makes Roland more aware of the impact that Baria Pass will face next.
Count the time, and even their battle may have begun.
In desperation, Roland had no choice but to leave a thousand troops to be escorted to Lonnatt to escort the prisoners, and the rest of the men followed him to rush to the aid of Baria Pass, and it was necessary to stabilize the situation before Jason's reinforcements arrived.
He couldn't help but gasp as he reached the Baria Pass, for the situation was worse than he had imagined.
They looked at the thick smoke rising from the fortress city of the Pass Pass in the distance, and if it weren't for the fierce shouting and killing voices still coming from there, they might have thought that the Barya Pass had completely fallen.
But Roland's 4,000 troops were mostly cavalry, and excluding the 1,000 cavalry left for Lonnat and the only 1,000 cavalry left in his own hands, he only had 2,000 foot soldiers under his command.
The cavalry will greatly reduce its combat effectiveness if it leaves the war horse, so Roland definitely doesn't want these cavalrymen to dismount and use their bulky weapons to participate in the defense of the city, that is not to fight, that is simply to die.
Therefore, they can only be used as a surprise army, but 2,000 cavalry is also extremely difficult in the face of an army of 50,000.
If they were replaced by 2,000 heavy cavalry, they might still be able to fight with 50,000 enemy troops on the plain battlefield, but unfortunately, the cavalry of the Iron Tooth Collar were all half-armored cavalry, a kind of cavalry between light cavalry and heavy cavalry.
In fact, they are better at throwing spear strikes, and although they can also do cavalry charges, this is not their strong point.
"General Siegfried, the cavalry army is not good at city warfare, so please take the cavalry team and wait for the next order, Leonidas and I will first enter the Baria Pass with our soldiers to support General Atum. ”
After thinking about it for a while, Roland turned his head to Siegfried and said solemnly, because Jason's order was to follow Roland's command in all actions, so Siegfried was actually under his command.
At least for now.
"Command, Your Excellency. ”
Sieg Fei immediately saluted, and since Jason had ordered him to obey Roland's command for the time being, he just did so.
"Roland!!"
At this moment, a shout came from the sky, accompanied by a violent wind, and Astolfo jumped down from the air four or five meters away, and landed very smoothly in front of Roland.
The two stood together, and Astolford's height was actually only up to Roland's shoulders, which made him have to look up at Roland.
"I've just flown around the sky, and I've noticed that the scenery around me is really nice! Let's call Ronnat and Tobin to play afterwards!"
After hearing this, Roland was also full of black lines, with a crying and laughing expression, it turned out that he flew in the sky for a long time just to observe the nearby scenery?
He also thought that Astolfo had gone to find out the enemy's military camp disposition and the state of the battle......
"Aha!
Astolfo patted Roland's shoulder with a nonchalant face, laughed twice and continued: "Just now I took a look at the enemy's military camp by the way, and the Baria Pass, is that what it is called? The situation in the Baria Pass is quite unoptimistic, the enemy has already killed the city wall, and it is very difficult for them to hold on. ”
After saying the last sentence, he actually shook his head with hatred, and said with some sadness: "If all of our twelve paladins are here, where will it be the turn of these 50,000 soldiers to show off their might?"
In the legend of Roland, Roland took all the paladins to break off the queen for his king, killed tens of thousands of enemies, and was finally besieged to death, although there may be an exaggeration, but this undoubtedly shows the strength of the twelve paladins.
It's just that after his words were heard by some well-intentioned people around him, he didn't feel this way.
Most of them are not generals directly recruited by Jason, but have climbed up from the bottom step by step, or some generals with certain abilities recommended by nobles from all over the world.
They were very keenly aware of some of the information that came out of Astolfo's mouth.
Roland and Astolford are supposed to be from the same group, the name of this group is called the Twelve Paladins, as the name suggests, there are ten of them in addition to the two of them, and among the ten people who have been identified are Sir Ronnat, who first followed Jason, and a man named Tobin.
Thinking of the Twelve Knights of the Round Table that was revealed from the mouth of a certain big man in the past, could it be that in addition to them, another powerful interest group has appeared within the Iron Fang Territory?
Thinking of this, they looked at Roland and Astolford differently, and became more eager.
It's just that they are a little puzzled, why is this name so in line with the Holy See's title?
As for the big man who revealed the Knights of the Twelve Round Table, it should be Kai, although his loyalty is worthy of recognition, but this point of his mouth is known by Jason when he summons him.
But fortunately, he also knows the severity, and knows that he can't say anything about what he can't say, otherwise Jason might really consider expelling him from the power center of the Iron Fang Territory, instead of letting him manage the two important towns of Iron Fang and Erbia during the war.
"Say no more!"
Keenly aware of the gaze of the people around him, Roland's heart sank, he knew that Jason actually didn't like these henchmen to form interest groups against each other.
The smell of gunpowder between Hassan and Lancelot was enough for him to have a big head.
Knowing that he had lost his words, Astolfo immediately shut his mouth and pretended that nothing had happened.
Roland looked around at the surrounding generals, drew his saber and ordered in a loud voice: "Everyone assemble their armaments, prepare to go, and support Baria Pass!"
Astolford also hurriedly summoned the eagle and carried him into the sky, he was afraid that Roland would continue to reprimand him.