Volume 2, Chapter 8 My Name is Bush

King Haraus was overjoyed to see that all the Rhodoks had been thrown into battle, and that even the crossbowmen he feared the most had entered!

He had already seen King Rhodok's intentions, so he first used militia and peasant soldiers to block the charge of the elite infantry, and when they advanced to a sufficient distance, he released the cavalry, took a detour from the rear to take the unprotected crossbowmen, and finally flanked the Rhodok infantry with the mace from the rear.

As for Sergeant Rhodok, this kind of heavy cavalry, which is invincible in melee siege fighting, and has heavy helmets to protect both men and horses, is simply an ornament, and it is not as real as the spear of the people.

But he didn't expect that King Grave, who didn't understand war at all, would line up crossbowmen and sergeants to the battlefield, which saved him a lot of trouble.

As a result, a heavy 'tank corps' of more than 30,000 knights and heavy cavalry raised a long form of sand and dust, and approached the infantry phalanx of crossbowmen, sergeants, and peasants to the left and right.

Tens of thousands of horses' hooves were noisily trampling on the earth, and the sound was deafening, and the earth trembled.

The cavalry was in a triangular formation, interspersed with the advancing soldiers on the left and right at the same time, and suddenly entered a meat grinder, and everywhere it passed, there were pieces of blood raised, and the spears held by the cavalrymen, under the effect of the inertia of the charge, could pass through three or four corpses in one breath, and the intestines and internal organs flowed to the ground.

"Quick! The spearmen formed a spear formation to block the cavalry charge. Lord Jemohar shouted hoarsely. The spearmen quickly approached and leveled their spears, forming a wall of spears in an instant. The heavy cavalry did not have time to stop. Hit the spear wall, and the flesh and blood blurred in an instant.

This is different from the Battle of the Valley, where the cavalry charge at high speed due to the short distance of the cavalry charge, so there is no momentum, and hitting the spear will not cause much damage to the armor. In addition, the heavy cavalry wore chain mail, and the protection was much worse than that of the knights in the chain mail and plate armor, so the flesh and blood were blurred when they hit the spear.

The heavy cavalry, which did not have time to stop at the beginning, suffered a loss. However, the excellent cavalry commander Dai Grana quickly adjusted his tactics and allowed another cavalry to break through the spear formation from the rear.

Sure enough, another pair of cavalry stabbed like a spike into the back of the spearmen. The spearmen immediately fell apart. Jhammor also insisted on organizing small spearmen in small spearmen, but this did not stop the cavalry from charging and killing.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Gehamor pulled Tacias and Count Reizis and ran, although he was wearing armor, the speed of the fight was terrifying, and the heavy cavalry chasing behind him sighed: "We are the leader in the cavalry world, and you are invincible in the escape world!"

Seeing that his lords had fled, he quickly lowered his head. The infantry began to flee in all directions.

And the cavalry also had a lot of casualties at this time, and these casualties were not caused by the other side. But because the cavalry in the front row was cut down, the rear could only step on him, and the enemy who was knocked down was also reduced to minced meat under the horse, and in an instant, the flesh and blood of the Rhodoks, Swadians, and war horses on the battlefield were cut and stirred together by these two meat grinders that echoed and turned. The whole plain was covered with blood.

And the mace militia, seeing that their cavalry had taken the initiative in the rear of the enemy, quickly boosted their morale and began to counterattack.

After several intersperses, the cavalrymen also threw away their broken spears and replaced them with knights' swords to slash and kill.

King Graveford looked at the instantaneous changes on the battlefield, the whole heart seemed to stop beating, if he lost this battle, the entire Rhodok kingdom will no longer have knights to fight for him, the general will have no soldiers available, it will also become a sinner who buried the country, suddenly chest, he felt a tumbling, a mouthful of blood spit out, fell to the ground, the soldiers saw that the situation was not good, so they fled with the king and the battlefield at this time, because of the heavy cavalry's several charges, like a sickle, almost harvested the lives of all the infantry, the rest of the infantry fled and scattered, and there was no longer the ability to fight。

And those foot knights, ready to return to the army to support, but it is too late, by the time they arrive, the rest of the army has already collapsed, facing the cavalry and hammer soldiers, they can only surrender.

Then King Harauth cried out, "Let them take up arms! Let them bear the price for what the prince has done!" and then, before they could react, he cut off the head of a knight on foot with his own sword.

The cavalry also understood, raised their swords and surrendered, and suddenly their heads were all over the ground, and blood flowed like a river.

After a whole day of fighting between the two sides, the whole plain was full of corpses, mountains of corpses were piled up, severed limbs, stump arms, internal organs, covered the entire battlefield, everywhere was mud made of minced meat, and blood was collected and flowed down the Viruga River into the sea.

The Swadians piled up the heads of the war dead into hills, fed the vultures, burned the corpses, and the king sent cavalry to chase down the fleeing Rhodok soldiers. Once discovered, shoot and kill.

In this battle, Rhodok's 10,000 foot knights and 10,000 Rhodok soldiers were almost wiped out, 30,000 militiamen were killed and wounded, more than 23,000 were killed, half of the 20,000 crossbowmen were killed and wounded, and the remaining Rhodok soldiers fled in all directions.

And the Swadia side also lost Yan zhòng, the hammer militia only had more than 3,000 left, and most of them were wounded, and the cavalry lost nearly half, mainly the heavy cavalry lost Yanzhong, more than 15,000 people.

After this battle, the Rhodoks were almost completely defeated, and after that, there was no army in the whole country that could fight the Swadians, and the lords did not dare to leave the castle again when they heard the news, and ran away when they saw the black bear flag of Swadia.

But at this time, the northern border of the Swadias was not quiet, and the Nords, who had been planning for a long time, took advantage of the fact that the Swadians had sent troops to Rhodok and the country was empty, so they invaded the territory of Swadia on a large scale.

King Harauth had no choice but to abandon his plan to besiege Viruga and return to his homeland, but he was not willing to go back empty-handed.

Thus, in July of the first year of the Gregorian calendar, King Haraus signed a Border Treaty under the threat of another war, in which the Kingdom of Rhodok promised to cede Fort Gruenwald and Fort Agorlon, and to redeem Fort Maras and Fort Kurma with 100,000 dinars.

King Grave had no choice but to sign the treaty, and it was a shameful day for the entire Rhodoc nation!

"Die, come back!"

Fan Ming shouted, and an eagle fell from the sky and landed on Fan Ming's arm with unmistakable accuracy.

That's right, this eagle named Yan is the Eagle King, since he came to Solenburg, Fan Ming has trained this Eagle every day in addition to watching the army train, and now this Eagle King has almost become a human eagle and inseparable.

It can be said that if you don't see him in the sky above Fan Ming's head, he is on Fan Ming's shoulder, and if you don't see him on Fan Ming's shoulder, then he is on his way from the sky to his shoulder.

"Boss, today's training is over," Lem said breathlessly.

"Oh, are you all back?" Fan Ming looked at Lem breathlessly, a little funny.

"It's okay this time, I'm half back, and the other half is crawling back!"

Since the last battle in the valley, Fan Ming has found many shortcomings of the legion, such as the lack of long-distance running, and the lack of strength in hand-to-hand combat, so after returning, Fan Ming doubled down on training, and what he wanted was a tenacious army that could run, fight, and fight.

Of the 1,000 newly relocated peasant soldiers, Fan Ming turned more than 100 of them into peasants, and the remaining 800 strong laborers were incorporated into pikemen, plus the remaining pikemen, which was just enough for a thousand pikemen, and the heavy armor was filled up, and the armor was completely replaced (I have to say that the full-plate armor of the Svadias is indeed much better than the armor made of iron plates of the Rhodoks).

Now there are 1,250 people in the entire Free Army, although there are not many, but they are all elite, in Fan Ming's opinion, there are not many soldiers, but they are elite.

"Hold on, they'll thank me for my training later!" said Fan Ming with a smile and looked at Lem.

"Come on, come with me to breakfast, go back to the castle," said Fan Ming, teasing Death, to Lem.

Arriving at the castle, Resarit and Bandas were already waiting here. Seeing Fan Ming coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

"My lord, the Nightingale has sent news that the Svadians have defeated the Rhodoks on the Viruga Plains, the Rhodoks have almost been wiped out and are now fleeing in all directions, the Svadias have lost more than half of them, and the remaining more than 3,000 defenders in the city of Viruga are still holding out," Resarit spoke first.

Because of Resarit's outstanding performance last time, as well as his outstanding ability, he has now been appointed as the first leader of the Nightingale by Fan Ming.

"O, Viruga is still holding on, is it possible that the tens of thousands of Swadian Iron Horsemen are all mixed food?" Fan Ming said excitedly.

"Haha, my lord, you can see what's going on with this information," Resarit said, picking up the second message.

This was brought by the merchants of the clubhouse: "While the Swadians were fighting the Rhodoks, the Nords from the north invaded Swadia through the Djerberg mountain pass, and now they have besieged Fort Repolet. So King Haraus had to return to his homeland" and, informing Fan Ming of the border treaty that had been signed.

"No wonder! It turned out that the backyard was on fire, so I went back to put out the fire. I really didn't expect that the timid Graveford would even sign this kind of treaty!hey" Fan Ming also had a sense of humiliation, after all, he was also a Rhodok now.

"Haha, now the Duke of Gothras has to thank the Nords!" Bandas looked at Fan Ming, and then said, "My lord, our plan"

"Well, it's time!" Fan Ming thought for a moment and said firmly, "It's time for us to exert our might!"

"Bandas, what's going on with the shochu?" (To be continued......)