Volume II, Chapter 7, Bloody Battle of Viruga

In the room, Fan Ming touched the woolen shawl, "Yuxin, my oath to you is fulfilled! I have made them suffer a hundred times more than mine! Now, you should also rest in peace!"

Then, he put the shawl at the bottom of the cabinet and sealed it forever, not to erase the memories, but to leave a little space for the future, in the Svadia barracks, "Your Royal Highness the King, don't worry! Your Royal Highness the prince must be fine, there are so many knights protecting His Highness, and there are a thousand peasant soldiers! Even if the 1,000 peasant soldiers run away, there will be 200 knights! Even if the 200 knights are dead, there will be no more of the prince's horse! Even if "Before the minister could finish speaking, the king had already pierced his throat with a sword."

"Even if my son returns, you will die," said the king, drawing his sword and wiping the blood from the body of the minister.

At a glance, you can see that this is a minister who can't speak very well, and he is not wronged when he is killed.

"Your Highness the King, the Scout is back!" said Hu Cong as he entered.

"Quick! call him in!"

The king was worried about the prince's safety, so he sent a large number of scouts to find out about the prince. Hearing that a scout had returned, it must have been news, so the king spoke eagerly.

Then the scout knelt down and reported: "Your Highness the King, we have found nothing on the mountain, but we have found the prince near Ziza, but you should go and see him yourself!"

When the king heard that his son had returned, he did not think much of it, and was led by the scouts to the outside of the camp, but when he saw it. Everyone almost didn't throw up.

At this time, the prince had no hands or feet, and his eyes, ears, and tongue were cut off, and the wounds were still thick. There was still some decay around him, pus was dripping down his face, and he was in a large clay pot, unconscious. On the side of the car, there were also countless corpses, more precisely, corpse parts, because these corpses had already been chopped into pieces during the battle between the two sides.

The king saw that his son had become like this. I almost passed out.

"My son, who made you like this! Are you the thieves! Oh no, my poor son!" the king cried out with the jar in his arms, and after a while he drew his sword in anger. Turning to the scout, he asked, "Who? I don't believe the little bandit would dare to challenge my wrath of King Harauth."

"Ah, I don't know, we just found this at the scene," said the scout, pulling a dagger from his bosom. It doesn't seem to be any different. But if you look closely, you will find that it is engraved with the symbol of Rhodok's striking crossbow arrow, which represents the possession of Rhodok's soldiers at this time.

"Damn! These cowardly Rhodoks did it! They can't do us on the battlefield, so they use this shady deed! Warriors! Let us fight those cowards to-morrow! Avenge my king!" said the king.

"Avenge the Prince! Kill the Rhodok rats!" At this time, seeing the Swadian knights being slashed like this, the warlike Svadia army felt greatly humiliated!

In fact, this is the plan that Bandas came up with, to cut off all the ears, tongue and eyes of Prince Starma, so that he will become a waste. And deliberately put the corpses and the prince near Ziza, because it was close to the camp of the Rhodok army. He deliberately left behind the dagger for the Rhodok soldiers, which completely shifted the responsibility to the Rhodok army! Not only did he avenge the blood revenge and shirk the trouble, but it also accelerated the plan that Fan Ming had formulated earlier

In fact, this strategy is not very clever, as long as a person with a little brain can see the clue at a glance, but, in the words of Fan Ming, 'to deal with the mentally handicapped, you must use the mentally retarded method'.

But pity the prince who has lived from now on is no different from death

In July of the first year of the Gregorian calendar, in the middle of the year of Qizha Village, shortly after the camp was built, the army of Rhodok, which was about to discuss the offensive plan, suddenly suffered a night attack by the Swadia army, and the two sides started a big battle.

However, because Qiza is located in the mountains, which is not conducive to the combat of the cavalry, and most of the Swadia army is cavalry, therefore, it has become a nightmare for cavalry in the mountains, because the cavalry is not easy to swing on the horse, and it is impossible to gallop in the mountains, this has no speed, and the second has no combat effectiveness, so it can only wait to be slaughtered.

As a result, after a night of fighting between the two sides, the Swadiya army lost more than 10,000 cavalry and more than 3,000 infantry.

Rhodok also lost more than 2,000 people in the early stage of the night attack, and only lost more than 3,000 people in the subsequent battle due to the terrain and infantry superiority, with a total loss of more than 5,600 people, which can be described as a complete victory.

At dawn the next day, the Count of Reizis set up King Grave, taking advantage of the high morale of the recent victory, to fight a decisive battle with the Swadian army in order to save Viruga.

King Graffo gladly accepted, and in Cadia, the greatest, most dramatic, and most unflattering battle of all time took place on the plains outside the city of Viruga.

Viruga, the richest and fur-rich town in Rhodok, is also the most prosperous town in the entire Cadia trade, so the Svadias have long coveted him, so the biggest goal of their trip is Viruga, and even used almost the country's heavy cavalry, and what they did before in Kurburg and Marasburg was only to cut off the Rhodoks' aid to Viruga and turn Viruga into an isolated city.

And now, at the cost of nearly 30,000 people lost in more than a dozen sieges of the Swadia army, Viruga is already in danger, as long as he can repel the army of the Rhodoks, he can take Viruga in one fell swoop, and this southern expedition will also be completely victorious.

On the plains outside the city of Viruga, the battle can be so dramatic, the Swadias have just suffered losses due to the mountain cavalry, but the Rodoks have no long memory, and they have to fight the Swadians in the plains, it can be seen that there is no IQ to talk about in these decision-makers!

The camp of the Swadia army consisted of 8,000 Swadian knights and 25,000 Swadian heavy cavalry. Twenty thousand Swadia mace militia, and seven thousand forcibly conscripted Rhodok peasant soldiers, among them. The Swadia cavalry and Swadia hoplites were the trump cards of the Svadians. Since Svadia advocates that everyone is martial, the 20,000 hammer militia also have the power to fight, as for those Rhodok peasant soldiers, there is no need to say it!

The Rhodok army consists of 10,000 Rhodok foot knights, 10,000 Rhodok sergeants, and 20,000 Rhodok crossbowmen. It is composed of 30,000 Rhodok spear militia, the most famous of which is the Rhodok crossbowman, who has a special Rhodok crossbow. It has great strength and can pierce armor, but it is extremely slow, and it can only shoot two arrows in a minute. In addition to this. The remaining 30,000 spear militia. It is not so much a militia as a people's husband, and the so-called spears are nothing more than wooden sticks with a small tip, and their combat effectiveness is negligible. At this station, Rhodok is also fighting with all the strength of the whole country.

Therefore, it seems that the ratio of the battlefield is 6:7, but in fact, the real strength is 5.3:3, and it is also a plain! Or rather, the nobles of Rhodok were carried away by the victory. Either that, the nobles of Rhodoc do have limited intelligence.

Rhodok Fang, "Duke Mateas is under your command of the Foot Knights. Hold off their cavalry charge and charge them after two rounds of crossbow arrows".

"Count Reizis, you are in command of Sergeant Rhodok, divide into two wings, and after Duke Mateas has blocked their cavalry, attack from both flanks and kill their cavalry. ”

"Count Takias, you command the crossbowmen"

"Count Jemohar, you support Duke Mateas with a spear militia!"

"Now that the battle plan is clear, let's all go and prepare, I'm waiting for everyone's good news here!haha, go, go!" King Graveford was obviously carried away by the victory the night before, and he had no brains to think that the victory was absolutely his.

Finally, with the drums of the Swadiya army, the battle began.

The first to move were the Svadia Mace militia, and the peasant soldiers, who rushed towards Rhodok's front.

Seeing that it was not the cavalry that came again, Duke Mateas looked like King Grave and asked what to do, but King Grave waved his hand disapprovingly, meaning that he would not be left alone, and he would win no matter what he was confident about.

So, Mateas led 10,000 foot knights and Jemohar's 30,000 spear militia, and 20,000 mace militia collided, as soon as they touched, the mace militia fiercely waved the mace in his hand to smash like a walking knight, for the armor of the foot knight, the mace is a very effective weapon, it seems that the Swadians have been prepared.

The foot knights are not so easy to deal with, they have been trained in swordsmanship since childhood, so they are already hand-to-hand for killing, and the familiar can not be more familiar, so the two armies are against each other, at the beginning, the hammer militia can still rely on the domineering hammer in their hands to block the charge of these 'tanks', but after a few rounds, it gradually loses, and the foot knights rely on skilled swordsmanship skills, strong armor, and harvest the lives of the hammer militia with only leather armor.

On the plains, 60,000 infantry unfolded under black pressure, hammers, spears, and knights' swords flew sideways above people's heads, colliding, and crazy plunderers of each other's lives.

At this moment, the crossbowmen were also loaded and fired at the enemy formation, and the crossbowmen's position was on a slightly protruding platform, so it was high and dying, so it was easy to fire.

In an instant, 20,000 crossbow arrows rushed towards the hammer militiamen, the dense crossbow arrows blocked the sunlight, and the huge arrow force penetrated the bodies of the militiamen, and some even fixed them to the ground, and this round took the lives of thousands of hammer soldiers and peasant soldiers.

And the knights also fought hard, the battlefield was full of severed limbs and stumps, blood had stained their armor red, and the spearmen who followed behind, although they were also reluctant to follow, but basically nothing did to them, just ran along the field.

It was obvious that the battle situation was already one-sided at this time, and King Grave was completely excited when he saw this! He had already begun to dream that he would be respected by countless Rhodoc people and become a noble Cartier ruler like Mans the Great!

He couldn't wait for victory, so he ordered the remaining 10,000 Rhodok soldiers and 20,000 crossbowmen to join the battle, and in his opinion, the war was already won.

However, he forgot something, and that was the cavalry. (To be continued......)