Early the next morning, the armies of both sides began to assemble and enter the battlefield, arranging along both sides of the river, preparing for a decisive battle.

When Stannis himself appeared on the battlefield, his side erupted in a tsunami-like shout, which was so loud that the knights on Garcia's side on the opposite side couldn't help but lift their armor and compete to stand on the stirrups to catch a glimpse of the so-called King of the East.

Stannis didn't know where to get a set of brightly colored armor to put on his body like a male peacock during mating, although the shape was very funny, but it did become the focus of the battlefield, even the people on both wings could clearly see him, knowing that his king would fight with them.

After the appearance, Stannis stood in the middle of the battlefield surrounded by layers of his subordinates, from here you could overlook the entire war, on the opposite side of the riverbank, Garcia's army of 30,000 people densely filled the riverside, compared to them, his number here is particularly small.

However, because there is a relatively fast river in the middle, the army on the side of Stannis still has a terrain advantage, and according to the rules of the battlefield in the Western Continent, it is generally the side with the superior number to attack, otherwise the two sides can spend a day standing on each other.

Sure enough, after the sound of the majestic trumpet spread throughout the line of Garcia's army, the vast army on the opposite bank began to move, and they began to cross the river in batches on the rafts they had built before.

"My lord, we can attack!" Korodov said anxiously, and at the pre-battle meeting, he strongly suggested that Stannis attack halfway and strike a surprise attack while the opponent's foothold was not stable.

But Stannis, who had promised before, changed his mind at this time, although he also knew that this tactic was indeed the best way to attack the enemy crossing the river, but the commander of the other party, Marshal Warren, was obviously an old fritter on the battlefield, he just sent two centurians to cross the river first, and dismantled the raft and erected at least a row of horse piles to build a landing point for crossing the river, even if Stannis drove these guys down the river, the enemy would only lose one or two centurians, and Stannis would have to bear the notoriety of not following the rules of the battlefield.

Stannis raised his hand to restrain his belligerent men not to be impulsive, and since the opponent wants to defeat him from the front, let them come.

"Let them set up the formation first, by the way, a battle of this level is to let the knights charge the formation first, right?"

Stannis's memories of knightly wars like this were the first act of a hedge between the two knights.

After receiving Korodov's affirmative answer, Stannis issued his second order, telling his knights not to charge without permission, and to use his spears to fend off the attack.

Although his order upset the knights who were ready to take the lead in the enemy line and take the glory, no one dared to disobey his order, and the knights evacuated to the flanks, while the pikemen who had been in the rear moved forward, and this time they would use their spears to the ground to confront the knights' charge.

After the enemy on the opposite side established a landing place, rafts and boats on the river began to take turns transporting soldiers and horses. Stannis noticed the knights and their heavy horses on the other side, who seemed to be waiting impatiently.

As he expected, the lords of the battlefield had always looked down on the infantry, and regarded the militia of peasants and townsmen as a rabble that would only take advantage of the fire, and would abandon their masters and run away if the war was unfavorable, or ambush the knights who had fallen into the wilderness.

After the knight and his men had crossed the river, they formed a formation and charged without waiting for their own infantry, and even Warren, as the marshal, had no way to restrain his men, and the fierce generals would not heed the orders of a knight who was not native to Tanis.

Led by Hillier, the spears who were supposed to be supporting characters on the battlefield began to slowly step forward, and Stannis watched the countless sun-reflecting spear tips around him line up in front of him, and the blood began to spring up in his head again. This time there was no horse rejection, it was the best moment to test the courage of his soldiers, and in the face of those steel behemoths of the plains, it was not invincible in mortal body. And now it's Stannis' turn to change the rules of the game.

After the cavalry had crossed the 400-meter shooting scale, the longbowmen again launched round after round of salvos, and the rain of arrows swept neatly across the sky before falling into the tight formation of the cavalry, as usual, these arrows still could not effectively penetrate the heavy armor of the gendarmes, and Stannis did not expect the bows to be effective against the cavalry, these constant rainstorms were only intended to disrupt the enemy's formation.

During the charge, many knights had to deviate from the established charging route in order to avoid the bow and arrow, and many of them were forced to fall alone, which made the originally tight shock formation scattered, and the slowdown greatly reduced the power of the charge.

"Spearman, prepare!" Stannis shouted, and then his orders were passed through the heralds around him.

After receiving his orders, his soldiers were trained hundreds of times to shoot their spears, and the spears behind them were stacked on top of each other to form a formidable wall of spears, and aimed them at the cavalry who rushed forward.

With two hundred meters to go, the two sides were about to officially meet each other, and Stannis's attention was drawn to a special group of guys in front of him.

There was a group of horsemen who rushed forward more than the others, and they were all young knights vying for glory, calling themselves the sons of Tanis, who dared to fight, and each time they were at the forefront of the cavalry charge, crushing the enemies who dared to stand in their way with their iron horses and their spears.

At the forefront of these menacing cavalry, a heavily armed knight stood out, carrying Garcia's most famous lion banner, allowing it to be fully mobilized in the air.

Stannis immediately recognized that guy was the 'Sword Wind' Labania, who was known as the first knight of Tanis, and as the duke's most loyal knight, he certainly would not miss the opportunity to serve him.

During the charge, Labania also found Stannis standing in the crowd surrounded and protected by soldiers, whose swaggering armor was difficult to discover.

The First Knight of Tanis immediately abandoned the original charging route, turned his horse's head and rushed in the direction of Stannis with all his might, he even wanted to take off Stannis's head by himself among the hosts!