"I'm sorry, Lord Earl!" said Gray, bowing to Earl Lockton, who had greeted him at the door of the tent. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Gray commanded the troops to retreat to the north bank in an orderly manner, and then repelled the enemy who was sneaking up on the right side of the camp, and in the pursuit Gray found that the enemy had built a pontoon bridge ten miles from the camp in the lower reaches of the Erni River.

However, after the enemy retreated to the other side of the river, the pontoon bridge was set on fire by itself.

After Gray repelled the enemy, he handed over his troops to Pula and other knights, and came to the main camp himself, and the Earl of Lockton led many nobles had been waiting at the gate of the main camp for a long time, Gray didn't care about anything else, and quickly admitted his mistake.

The Earl of Lockton laughed, glanced at the nobles around him casually, and said: "Sir Grey is quite modest, the battle in the morning was very good, at least two thousand enemies were annihilated, and our own losses are less than five hundred!"

Gray didn't know what the Earl of Lockton meant, this battle could be said to be a whole army, but it turned out to be like a joke, what to go out and what to come back to.

"Haha, Sir Grey don't have to be careful, you have done a good job, not only have you completed the set task, but you have also destroyed nearly two thousand enemies with few losses of your own!" said the Earl of Lockton again, the result of today's battle, the set task was of course to uproot the towers on the opposite bank of the river.

Gray was relieved at this time, and the surrounding nobles immediately echoed, but most of them were smiling and not smiling, only a round-faced and big-bellied nobleman smiled very really, and he also said: "Sir Gray, the changes in the battlefield are impermanent, and if you can gain an advantage in the war, this is considered a victory!"

Gray knew this man, but he was too impressive, his name was Biton Mura, a baron nobleman, and his domain was in a small town north of the Herian Domain.

As for the name of the town, Gray didn't know, he just knew that this man was known as a noble merchant, and his family had been in business for generations, and he was one of the wealthiest nobles in Herien's domain.

Don't look at his smile very real, maybe he laughed the most fake among all the nobles present.

Gray listened to him, looked at him and nodded kindly, after all, he was helping himself by saying this.

"Yes, what would have been a good situation has turned out to be like this!" the other nobleman said coldly, and after speaking, he also snorted coldly at Baron Mura, this person seemed to want to target Mura, and Gray was only incidental.

Baron Mura still smiled: "But in the end, our results are more advantageous!"

Gray could only remain silent, he only had a knighthood now, although he was already nominally a nobleman, but it was only nominal, so he didn't want to join the nobles in the struggle now.

"Well, it's not easy to have such a result this time, Sir Grey has a meritorious service!" said the Earl of Lockton, who glanced at the nobles and then turned his head and went into the tent.

Baron Mura actually bowed very politely to the nobleman who had just refuted him, but no matter how Gray looked at it, he was provoking rather than saluting.

In the camp, Gray stood to the left of the earl's head as the lieutenant general of the Earl of Lockton, and the other nobles sat on either side.

After everyone had sat down, Earl Lockton asked, "How many troops are there in the enemy this time?"

Gray hurriedly replied: "I have asked the scouts to repeatedly find out that there are two regiments and two brigades of light infantry, two brigades of cavalry, three brigades of cavalry, and eight squadrons of hoplites and two hundred hoplites!"

As Gray's report grew, the nobles below also whispered, and Gray had to raise the volume again and again, but as Gray's voice increased, the nobles' discussion became louder.

Count Lockton slapped the table: "Quiet!" He rubbed his temples vigorously with his thumb and forefinger, if it weren't for the sake of the hoplites of the nobles' brigade and to prevent a fire in the backyard, he really didn't want to take this group of nobles into battle.

"So they have nearly eighteen thousand troops?" said Count Lockton, frowning.

Gray shook his head: "It's not that much, after these few days and today's consumption, there are only about fifteen thousand troops left!"

"The problem now is that our superiority in strength has been lost, the original battle plan has been completely scrapped, and we can't attack such a narrow shoal without the superiority in troops!"

He was right, his side could resist the attack of Viscount Donna for a whole nine days with a few thousand troops, although the opponent did not attack with all his might.

The Earl of Lockton pondered for a moment, then turned to the clerk who was with him and said, "Give the order to Sir Dale to recruit one more regiment of light infantry and two brigades of archers!"

This light infantry is easy to say, but archers, are there so many retired archers in the territory?

"And!" Earl Lockton turned his head and stared at the nobles below, "You also have to get me a light infantry regiment!"

When the nobles below heard this, a few people immediately stood up and wanted to speak, but Earl Lockton ignored it and preemptively said: "If we can win this decisive battle, it will naturally be no problem to attack the territory of Harrons!"

When the nobles who were about to speak heard this, they immediately closed their mouths and sat down.

It's a good deal! They only need to give a few people to get the opportunity to plunder the wealth of other people's territory, and although it may fail, it's worth the investment, isn't it?

As for the thoughts of the low-level soldiers, they may even prefer it, because they can always drink a little soup while the lord eats meat.

After the Earl of Lockton had finished discussing business with the nobles, one of the nobles suggested that the victory should be celebrated, and the Earl of Lockton readily agreed.

......

Since the first large-scale battle on the Ani River battlefield, both sides have tacitly quieted down, except for the occasional skirmish every day.

The tower that Viscount Donna had intended to build was never built after all.

Half a month passed in this way, and at noon on May 29, two regiments of light infantry and two brigades of archers ordered by the Earl of Lockton arrived.

However, before the Earl of Lockton could be pleased, at noon the next day, on the 30th of May, the scouts reported that Viscount Donna had also called up a new infantry regiment and two archer brigades, as well as a cavalry brigade.

In this way, the combined forces of the Earl of Lockton and the Viscount of Donna on both sides of the Erney River were close to 50,000 troops.

The Earl of Lockton had about 25,000 troops, and the peasants who had not been recruited, and the Viscount Donna's 23,000 troops, the peasants were not counted. The current military camps on both sides can be said to stretch for ten miles, and a big war is about to break out!

With so many troops concentrated on both sides of the Eyni River, even Grand Duke Deruney was alarmed, and he even sent people to both sides privately to persuade them, but the effect did not seem to be very good.

The wealth that the Red Rain Forest has brought to the two families in the past few decades is undoubtedly evident at this moment! Both of them knew in their hearts what this meant to them, but the two of their great nobles were now in a state where they had to send arrows.

However, the two armies did not immediately go to war as expected.

Because this war is no longer a local small battle, but a real Armageddon, the victory or loss of the war is directly related to the future fate of the two big families that have been inherited for hundreds of years.