Chapter Seventy-Four: The Final Charge

Lord Count Corbilly thundered under the city of Gordos......

Ever since he had sent a small squad of lancers back to the city of Gerdos two days earlier to carry food and money, the Count had always felt uneasy, as if something bad was going to happen.

The battle situation in front of him was very unsatisfactory, the more than 2,000 peasant soldiers gathered by the vassal lord had killed more than 500 people, almost a quarter of which was consumed, but the garrison brigade and five spear squadrons under his command had only lost a dozen in the past two days, and they still maintained their combat strength.

In the past two days, only three camps have been captured, and there are still five in front of them, and the peasants and soldiers, who are the main force attacking the camps, are now in a state of semi-open disobedience, with heavy losses, and no silver rewards, and the peasants and soldiers complain a lot. When they were ordered to attack the camp, they always dragged on slowly, and every time they had to send out the lancers to force them to move.

Count Corbilly knew that he couldn't go on like this, and even the knights sent by the vassal lords to lead the peasant soldiers looked at him with strange eyes, as if believing the rumors that he wanted to take the opportunity to consume the vassal lord's strength.

There was only enough food left in the camp for three days, and to Count Corbilly's dismay, he had not received any news from the city of Gordos for the past two days. The city of Gerdos is not far from the hill of Moz, and the messenger can reach it in seven or eight hours with one man and two horses. In particular, he also sent a small group of lancers back to deliver supplies, so he should have received a reply from the city of Gerdos the next day, explaining when the supplies would depart.

The Earl of Cobilly could not sit still, and after thinking about it, he decided to go back. Leaving all the food for the garrison brigade, and summoning the knights sent by the vassal lords to lead the peasant soldiers, he encouraged them to assist the garrison in holding the camp, and everything was to be said after his return.

Count Cobilly went to the city of Gerdos overnight with a squadron of five and a half lancers, and he was ready to fill up the two squadrons of lancers when he returned. At the same time, Lorist at William Mills Castle had just finished purging and set out on the road back to Gerdos with Telman's knight squad and Josque.

At dawn, Count Corbilly and his lancers arrived at the gates of the city of Gerdos, and were relieved to see that the banner of the Cowberry family's bull head insignia was still hanging on the city. So he ordered someone to go to the door, and after running all night, people were sleepy and tired, and they all urgently needed a good rest.

Who knew that the lancers who went to call the door no matter how loudly announced that the Earl was back to the city, hurry up and put the drawbridge and open the city gate to greet him. The few garrisons guarding the city were indifferent, but pointed at the men and horses below, and even drew their bows and arrows to prepare for defense.

At first, Earl Corbilly was overjoyed, believing that the garrison was very vigilant and worthy of reward. But after staying in the city for half an hour, the Earl felt that something was wrong, and then he saw a large group of people coming to the city, led by the golden mercenary Farea, who had been imprisoned in the hard labor camp and refused to serve him.

When Fareya stood at the top of the city and shouted at Count Corbilly and the lancers that the city of Gerdos was under his control, Count Corbilly fell into a dream, and he could not imagine how Farea, as a prisoner, could take the city of Gerdos. The enraged Earl pointed to the bull-headed banner hanging at the head of the city and asked Farea why he was still flying the flag of the bull-headed coat of arms of the Corbilly family, since he said that he had taken the city of Gerdos.

Fareah smiled embarrassedly at Lord Earl, saying that there were too many things to do, and he was too busy to forget to take these flags of the Corbilly family's bull head badge to wipe his ass, and he was sorry. As he spoke, he ordered the flags to be taken down and placed in the toilet for later use.

Count Corbilly was so angry that he almost spurted blood on the spot, and a gold-level bastard next to him scolded Farea, saying that the Earl treats you so well and that you have taken advantage of the Earl's absence to seize the city of Gerdos, which is really ungrateful and wolf-hearted......

Farrea was furious, killed my adoptive mother, and imprisoned my whole family for more than a year.

The corpses of a dozen lancers were left in front of the city gate, and Count Corbilly retreated to a stone's throw away, and was furious, and ordered the lancers to cut down wood and make ladders on the spot, and prepare for the siege.

Count Cobilly had forgotten one very important thing, and that was that the squadron of lancers that had returned with him had just been formed, and not the old lancers who had followed him over the years in the civil war. These guys, who had been out of the camp for less than half a year, found that the city walls were full of old friends they had met in the camp.

On this side, the Count of Corbilly was furious and about to attack the city of Gerdos, and on the other side, the lancers were overjoyed and glad to learn that their families were safe and sound. So the siege order issued by the Earl was invisibly resisted, and it took the slow lancers a morning to get three siege ladders.

Carried away by his rage, Earl Corbilly lashed a few of those he thought were sabotage, and ordered a dozen disobedient lancers to spearhead the first wave of siege.

As a result, Count Cobilly was so angry that he vomited blood, and the dozen or so lancers ran to the city wall with a long ladder that had just been built, but there were no arrows on the city, so they set up a ladder and climbed up. So the lancers threw down their weapons when they were about to climb to the top of the wall, climbed up with their bare hands, hugged the guards above, and made faces and shouted at Count Corbilly.

In the blink of an eye, the dozen or so lancers surrendered to the enemy in full view, and especially excessively, they also joined the men on the city wall to pull up the freshly made siege ladder. Earl Corbilly, who saw this scene, was so angry that his eyes were round, his face was red, and his mouth was open, and he vomited blood.

This time, Earl Corbilly returned to the city with a gold-level bastard, who was much more reliable than the one who scolded the street and was seriously wounded by three arrows in a row. Seeing that the Earl vomited blood and fell unconscious, the squadron of lancers seemed to show signs of instability, and hurriedly gathered several of his bastard brothers of the silver rank, first killed the mounts of the dozen or so lancers who had defected to the enemy, distributed the horse meat, ordered to bury the meat in a pot on the spot, eat something to cushion the stomach, tossed for a night and a morning, everyone was hungry and tired.

Here I discussed with my brothers how to pacify the squadron of lancers below, and it is pitiful to say that there are less than 50 of the more than 600 lancers under his command who are really loyal to Count Corbilly, and they are all old lancers who have followed the Earl for many years.

By the time Earl Cobilly came to his senses, there were only two paths left in front of him. If you want to attack the city, don't think about it, maybe the squadron of lancers will mutini on the spot, and they don't dare to take such a risk. Then the remaining two options are to return to the main camp to meet the garrison brigade, and then bring the brigade back to attack the city. The biggest flaw of this plan is that the garrison brigade is running out of food, and when the team returns to Gerdos City, it will be when the food is exhausted. Not to mention the siege, it is even worse if it will lead to a large-scale mutiny.

The second option is to head to William Mills Castle and use it as a place to stay. But this would mean abandoning the garrison brigade that was still on the hill of Moz and the city of Gerdos in front of him. However, as long as he waited for or contacted the sweeping force that headed for the western mountains, Count Cobilly still had hope of turning the book around.

Just as the Earl of Cobilly was hesitant to choose which way to go, the sound of horses' hooves rumbling in the distance was heard, and a group of men and horses came up on the road leading to William Mills Castle. It was Lorist who rushed back with Telman's squad of knights and Joske, and blocked Count Corbilly under the city of Gerdos.

Joske rode forward, and when he came thirty or forty meters away from the lancers, he threw three heads, which rolled on the ground and fell in front of the Earl of Corbilly, who looked like a lightning strike, and these three heads were his three illegitimate sons who sat at William Mills Castle. In this way, William Mills Castle has also fallen into the hands of the enemy.

Seeing that the magic arrow Josk turned his horse back to stand behind Lorlist, Lord Count Kobilly straightened up, walked to a distance of more than ten meters in front of Lorlist's horse before stopping, staring at Josk resentfully, and then turned his gaze to Lorlist: "Who are you, why do you want to go against me?"

Lorist sat on his horse and looked condescendingly at the sturdy, pale sideburns of the sixty-year-old man in front of him, Count Cobilly in the northwest of the famous town, and opened his mouth coldly: "Should I call you Count Cobilee? Or the leader of the horse bandits in the province of Podoolg, Redbeard?"

Earl Corbilly was shocked, with a panicked look in his eyes, and then calmed down again, and did not deny Lorlist's accusations: "Who are you? Is all this a conspiracy designed ......by you?

The Count pointed to the city of Gerdos, and then to the three heads.

"Who do you think you are when you devise a conspiracy against you? You will not forget all the sins you have done, you pretended to be a red-bearded horse thief and plundered the merchants in the province of Puerto Org, leaving no one alive, not even sparing women, children, old and children, and doing all kinds of evil. Do you think you will be able to get away with it if you return to the status of an earl? Do you think you can hide the evil you have done for a lifetime? Today, I am here, which means that your road has come to an end. I'm going to uproot your Corbilly's family, just as you did to the other lords, and slaughter all the men......"

Lorist's words were filled with deep hatred, and he waved his hand to Telman to step forward, pointed to the angry bear badge on Telman's chest, and said, "Perhaps the Earl has not forgotten this badge, and there are two mahogany chests engraved with this badge in your bedroom. It was a gift that my third uncle wanted to give to his beloved woman, but the family caravan led by my third uncle met Redbeard, and all of them died in battle. Years. Our family has been on the hunt for the Redbeard Bandit. But I didn't expect that when I led my family convoy back to the Northland, I passed through Guidi and encountered the lancers who attacked our convoy......"

"Lord Earl, you can't imagine that your sweeping force wanted to attack our family's convoy, but we annihilated it instead. Then the captive confessed that you had robbed the province of Puerto Org years ago in the guise of a red-bearded horse bandit, and most importantly, that he had seen in your room the two chests with our family coat of arms inscribed on them. That's why we're looking for you......"

"You are the Norton family of the Northlands...... Count Corbilly muttered, of course he remembered which family this angry bear badge represented, that is, the caravan that robbed the Norton family, he lost a gold-level, a silver-level illegitimate son, and the family caravan in the Northland everyone fought to the death, fighting for their lives, which left a deep impression on him, so he kept the two chests as a memorial.

Count Corbilly is a very disgraced man, and now the bitter lord has come to the door, and the evidence is conclusive, and everyone has been stolen. I have nothing to deny myself. He stared at Lorist and smiled, "What can I do if Earl Ben did it, there are many merchants who were plundered by me many years ago." Since you've come to the door, I'll give you an explanation and see whose sword is powerful. ”

Lord Count turned around and left, and Lorist did not stop him, just watched Count Corbilly return to the lancers, and then put on his armor and mounted his horse, turned his horse's head with a riding spear, facing his side, and behind him, those illegitimate sons of gold and silver and the old lancers who were loyal to Count Corbilly also got on their horses, lined up behind Lord Count, and put on a charging stance.

Lorist waved his hand and ordered lightly: "Below the silver step back and line up, and above the silver follow me, ready to charge." ”

Joske and Telman rode out first, taking up positions behind Lorlist, who handed Lorist a spear. One by one, the silver-ranked knights took their positions behind Telman and Joske, equally ready to charge.

Together with Lorlist, there were twenty-seven knights in total, and they formed a triangular charge with Lorist as the edge, and on the opposite side, fifty-eight lancers, including Count Corbilly, were about to hedge.

Up and down the city, everyone stopped the noise and watched the final showdown. The atmosphere was extremely oppressive, and no one dared to make any unnecessary noise.

Almost at the same time, both Lorist and Count Cobilly charged, and the two groups of centaurs were rapidly approaching.

Lorist's spear didn't move, while Jost's spear behind him flashed with golden swords, and the spears of twenty-five silver knights including Telman lit up with a silver cold light......

Count Corbilly was overjoyed, he pointed the riding spear with a golden ruler sword at Lorist, it turned out that this kid was just a silver spear head wax gun, which was useless, not even a silver rank, as long as he won this kid, he still had hope of turning defeat into victory......

In the blink of an eye, the two sides had collided together, and a group of people turned on their backs...

Earl Corbilly stabbed the golden spear into Lorlist's left shoulder, thinking that he would take the kid off his horse first, and then slowly repair it when he had been captured......

Lorlist's spear rose and struck at the cavalry, which was blown into the air, and the spear retracted in front of Count Corbilly a few times like lightning, and the Earl fell from his horse with a look of incredulity. With a stroke of Lorist's spear, the Earl, who had not yet landed, flew up again, passed over the crowd of scuffles, and flew more than ten meters in the air and fell to the ground. He had two more spear wounds on his shoulders, and he couldn't get up on his own, so he could only scream on the ground......

Lorist rushed into the crowd, stabbing and picking, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen lancers were killed under his spear...

Lorist rushed back and forth three times, and there was no longer a lancer still on horseback. However, only about a dozen of the twenty-six men who followed him were still on horseback.

Telman waved his hand, and the Black Iron Knights in a line not far away rushed up, dismounted and began to heal the people on their side, and as for the undead lancers, they were mercifully added with a sword, so that they could end their suffering and die as soon as possible.

Thanks to the excellent protection of the whole body armor, after a while, Telman reported that eight were seriously injured and fourteen were lightly injured, including himself. Telman's left arm was cut and had just been bandaged. On the side of Count Corbilly, the old lancers who charged with him were all wiped out, his six silver-tier illegitimate sons were also hung up, and there was a gold-rank one who was entangled with Jost to the end, and finally died of defeat, and now there is only one Earl Corbilly left alive.

Looking at Count Cobilly, who was cowering on the ground and wailing, Lorist said, "Make a cross, I'm going to crucify him......"