Chapter 46: The Owl
The clashing of swords rang out, blood spilled on the dirt, corpses fell, and countless heroic soldiers rested there.
The war entered a white heat, began a tug-of-war, the formation has been completely destroyed, the two sides entered a melee, although on the battlefield Karazan army has a slight advantage, but the elite of the Count of Noamon also resisted to the death, the two sides began to fight for a few meters away from the front, the rest is the time to compete for the morale of both sides, whoever loses the armor first will lose the war.
As the sun goes on, the sun is about to set, and the moon at night shows a pale white and hazy silhouette in the sky, and Julian must end the war before the sun sets, because once night comes, even if the mad dog knights of Baal arrive, they will not be able to go on the offensive. In this era, most soldiers suffered from night blindness due to the lack of fruit supplements, and once the sun went down and darkness covered the plain, the risk of launching an attack was too great.
"Damn, where the hell is Baal, didn't you say you're coming?" asked Julian as he turned to the soldiers of the Mad Dog Knights who had arrived to deliver the letter.
The messenger replied in fear, "Soon, soon, sir." โ
"I asked you half an hour ago, and you said the same thing, and I don't need an ambiguous answer, tell me, where is Barr?"
The messenger replied with difficulty: "According to the scheduled itinerary, it should have arrived by now." โ
"What about the Bals now?!Where are the Mad Dog Knights?, tell me, where are they now?" asked Julian in a loud voice like a roaring beast.
"My lord, I don't know, sir, I really don't know anything. The Messenger pleaded bitterly.
". Julian threw the messenger with a whip and kicked him away, and the messenger crawled down, and Julian was like an erupting volcano, and no one dared to anger him at this time.
Julian walked in place, clenched the whip in his hand anxiously, and said after a while, "Tell Edgar to let him attack now." โ
After Edgar received the order, he said to the knight who came to deliver the message: "Go back and tell the Earl, since the Lord has transferred the command of the cavalry to me, then I have my own judgment and control of the battle situation, I don't think it is time yet, I will not send cavalry." โ
"But .....," the knight hesitated, for he couldn't go back to the business.
"If the battle is defeated, the responsibility will be borne by me alone, and you can go back. Edgar had made up his mind, and he didn't want Julian's orders to mess with his judgment.
After the messenger had departed, Max asked Edgar, "Is the battle really so bad? โ
Edgar sighed: "The adult rules the entire county at the age of fifteen, and shoulders the future of the entire southern realm, it is inevitable that there will be some impatience, the adult is a child after all." โ
The knight delivering the message knelt on the ground, waiting for Julian's thunderous rage, and he bowed his head tremblingly, not even daring to look Yurian in the eye.
Julian was indeed very angry at this time, Edgar openly disobeyed his orders on the battlefield, and he even wanted to forcibly regain the command of the cavalry and hang Edgar directly. But his intellect told him that he was now as ugly as a funny clown, and his eyes were blinded by his panic, and he could no longer see the direction of the war, and he could no longer command it, and if he continued like this, he would only be as irrational as a filthy wild dog.
Eventually, Julian's sanity overcame his anger, and he forcibly suppressed his anger and said, "Go down." โ
Before the storm came, the knight looked up in disbelief, only to find that Julian had already turned around and looked at the fierce battle, and the glow of the setting sun was like a light veil draped over his body, which looked extremely lonely.
"Haven't you come yet?" Count Noamon asked worriedly as he looked at the line that was gradually moving back, but no one around answered him, and Count Noamun's vassals had the same doubts in their hearts.
"It's a shame that he was able to hold his breath. Noamon looked at the darkening sky and said, half of the sun had sunk below the horizon.
"Let the heavy cavalry with axes throw into the position of the heavy swordsmen on the right flank, as long as the line is maintained, then wait for the sun to go down, and the victory will be ours. "The Count of Noamon gave his verdict.
In the cavalry of the Count of Noamun, regardless of previous losses, there were 500 knights, 300 heavy cavalry with axes, and 700 light cavalry, while Julian had 300 knights, 600 heavy cavalry (their weapons were mainly spears and maces, spears were used when charging, and armor-piercing weapons such as maces were used in close hand-to-hand combat), and 400 light cavalry, although the number of cavalry was not as good as that of Noamun, but it was superior to Karazhan's high-quality horses and more heavy cavalry, but this was also the reason why the Count of Karazhan was overwhelmed financiallyใ
When the axe-wielding heavy cavalry broke into the position on the left flank, the line that was on the verge of rout was immediately reversed, and the Karazhan light infantry could not withstand the impact of the heavy cavalry, and saw that the occupied position was about to be lost in an instant.
When Baal was delayed, he prepared for the worst, he had to rely on the only force at his disposal to win the war himself, and the most efficient of them was to capture the thief and capture the king first, as long as he captured the Count of Noamun, then even if the frontal battle failed, then it was enough to win the war.
The axe-wielding heavy cavalry can be said to be the king of hand-to-hand combat among the cavalry, they are armed with one-handed giant axes, and it can be said that the selected soldiers are all tall and strong men, so with them, Edgar is not completely sure of capturing the Count of Noamun's own formation and capturing the Count of Noamun, but now the axe-wielding heavy cavalry has been sent to the front line by Noamun, it can be said that Edgar has been waiting for this opportunity.
In addition to the 100 knights who guarded the camp to protect Julian, Edgar now had 200 knights and 600 heavy cavalry, and 400 light cavalry, while the 300 axe-wielding heavy cavalry of Count Noamon were now trapped in the central battlefield and difficult to get out, with less than 700 light cavalry and 500 knights around him.