Chapter 70 succeeds

The city of Gerdos is not far from the castle of Burdock Manor, and the lancers can reach it in a day and a night. It can be replaced by a garrison brigade, but it has to march for three days and two nights, coupled with the mess of nearly two thousand peasant troops of several vassal territorial nobles, which has dragged down the itinerary of the entire army, and Count Cobilly regrets it too late now, so he can only order two squadrons of lancers to set off as the vanguard.

The army had been gone for a day, and had just set up camp in the evening, when the Earl of Corbilly received news from the Lancers, and unfortunately it was bad news, and the Earl had lost two more illegitimate sons, one of the Golden Order and the other of the Silver Rank. In the face of the enraged Earl, the lancer messenger, who had received the unlucky messenger because of the failure of the lottery, trembled and recounted what had happened.

Just this afternoon, two squadrons of lancers, acting as vanguards, spotted the enemy camp at the Moz Hill, blocking the way to Burdock Manor Castle. The Lancer Commander who was transferred back from William Mills Castle is also the illegitimate son of Earl Corbilly, and he has the strength of the Golden Rank. He stepped forward to look at it and found that although the enemy's camp occupied a favorable location and was condescending, it could not get rid of the problem of the bandits setting up the cottage. Rough, rudimentary, imperfect defense.

The bastard commander of the Golden Order thought that as long as he led the squadron of lancers in a single charge, he would be able to break through the camp and kill the bandits in front of him. So he did the same, but when he led his team to rush into this humble camp, he found that the front camp was a cover, and the back was a real enemy camp with perfect defenses. And the bandits also used the camp in front of them to set a trap, and when the squadron of lancers rushed into the camp, they were met with fire from the ambushed bandits, long arrows, crossbow arrows, and this huge crossbow arrow......

The Lancer Courier presented a long crossbow arrow like a throwing spear, which was pulled from the corpse of the bastard leader who was snatched back, even if he was a gold-level fighting strength, he could not stop the crossbow arrows fired by the twelve crossbows aimed at him, and even a silver-level bastard brother by his side also died.

The squadron of lancers who stormed the camp suffered heavy losses and only ran back with only two squads of men and horses, dozens of whom fled back wounded. Fortunately, those bandits only relied on the camp to defend and did not dare to go out of the camp to pursue. Therefore, after the other gold-level bastard commander gathered the men and horses, he did not dare to act rashly, so he could only set up a large camp opposite the bandit camp and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

"This is the crossbow of the crossbow...... "The battle-hardened Earl Cobilly was well-informed, and quickly recognized what the huge crossbow bolt was in front of him. But what angered the Earl was where the bandits got their powerful weapons?

Generally speaking, although the power of the crossbow is large, it can be bulky, inconvenient to move, difficult to maintain, and extremely expensive. Even if a crossbow is not used much, the crossbow arm must be replaced after a year or two, so as not to affect the power of the crossbow fired by the aging of the wood. In particular, crossbow strings need to be replaced after shooting a dozen arrows, and these crossbow strings need to be customized, which is very valuable. Except for the regular legions of the kingdom and some large cities that need to configure a few for defense, the nobles of the territory will not toss any crossbows, one is too unaffordable, and the other is too troublesome.

The bad news of the unfavorable division, the loss of generals, and the bandits' crossbows in their hands kept Earl Kobilly awake all night, and when it was still dawn, he couldn't wait to urge the garrison brigade to move, and after leaving behind the peasant soldiers recruited by several vassal territorial nobles, he finally arrived at the camp set up by the spear squadron at noon.

After resting for two hours, Count Cobilly ordered the sword and shield soldiers in the garrison brigade and the longbowmen to launch a tentative attack on the camp set up by the bandits with the cooperation of a squadron of lancers, and then the Earl found that it was easy to attack the camp in front, that is, after entering the camp in an open field, the bandits shot arrows like arrows from the camp behind, and Count Cobilly's men could not stand, and they left more than 100 corpses and then withdrew from the camp in front.

The Earl didn't find any traces of the crossbow, and sure enough, this thing was not played by the bandits, it seems that after using the crossbow yesterday, it is likely that the crossbow string was scrapped, and it will not be useful today, which is good news for the Earl. Although the tentative attack in the afternoon lost more than 100 men, it had already made the Earl clear the details of the bandits. It's just that it depends on the terrain and the strength of the bow and crossbow, and when the peasant soldiers of those vassal lords arrive in the afternoon, with these cannon fodder, it will be easy to capture the camp behind the bandits.

The Earl had the peasants make a hundred wooden carts overnight. On the morning of the next day, he led the peasant soldiers to push the wooden carts in front to block the arrows, and soon attacked the camp behind. Seeing that the situation was not good, the bandits released a flurry of arrows to block the pursuit of the lancers, and fled as fast as they could.

The capture of the camp was extremely smooth, with minor losses. It was only when Count Corbilly arrived at the second camp that he found that there was another camp in the middle of the avenue a few hundred meters ahead, and the flag was waving on the hill farther away, and it was vaguely seen that it was still a camp.

Moz Hill does not refer to the name of a hill, but a general name for more than a dozen hills large and small in this area. No one knows why it is called Moz Hill, but it is called so on the map that has been handed down. The road leading from the city of Gerdos to the castle of Burdock Manor passes through these hills on the hill of Moz. These large and small hills, which originally looked inconspicuous, were blocked by the rough and simple camps set up by the bandits, and they became the key points to control the passage of the avenue.

Earl Corbilly was saddened to find that in order to reach Burdock Manor Castle, he had to conquer the dozen or so camps that blocked the avenue in front of him. This discovery made the Count so angry that the nose was not the nose, and the face was not the face. It's disgusting, isn't it, obviously he can't resist the Earl's soldiers, but he has set up these camps to burp people, you have to ignore it, he can hide in the camp and shoot arrows at the avenue, you can't pass. Let's deal with it, we have to attack the camps one by one, and it takes time and effort to lose some men and horses.

The Earl really wanted to wave his troops to level the first few camps, but not to mention anything else, it would take several hours for the hundreds of wooden carts to block arrows to push these hundreds of meters away, and he didn't sleep last night, and the peasants and soldiers who attacked the camp this morning were tired and lay down, so the garrison and lancers went to attack the camp, and the Earl was reluctant to consume his own troops, so he had no choice but to rest for one night.

The next day, under the heavy reward of the Earl, the peasants marched forward bravely, and conquered three camps in a row, although more than 200 unlucky ghosts were killed, but these peasants were cannon fodder after all, and for the Earl of Cobilly, as long as the losses of his garrison and lancers were slight.

On the third day, however, the peasants began to grind, for the simple reason that the Earl had not fulfilled his promise yesterday to reward him with an Imperial silver coin for conquering a bandit's camp. The Earl couldn't help it, who went out to suppress the bandits and carried thousands of imperial silver coins with him, so he had to promise once again that he would definitely give out the bounty when he arrived at the castle of Burdock Manor. However, the peasants felt as if they had been deceived, and it took them a long time to capture a camp. Although the loss was smaller than yesterday's, the Earl was not pleased, and there were still seven or eight camps in the future, all of which would not have to be delayed for five or six days at today's efficiency.

The Earl wrote a letter and decided to send a small group of lancers back to the city of Gerdos, firstly, to prepare a batch of grain and grass, because the Earl did not expect that the bandits would have to conquer the camps. Before leaving, he only brought the food and grass that the troops needed for seven or eight days, and the idea of fighting a quick battle was to fight quickly, and it was very simple and easy to deal with these bandit mobs, and it would be a joke if he was really prepared for a big battle.

It's just that I didn't expect these bandits to set up so many camps and drag the Earl to Moz Hill alive. The Earl's fear now is that when all the camps have been captured, his own bandit troops will be out of the Moz Hill area, and they will have no food to go home. In that case, it was really a big joke, and before the rain came, the Earl was ready to let the city of Gerdos transport a batch of food and grass supplies enough for the troops to consume fifteen days.

The second is to bring some goods over, first distribute the bounties of those peasant soldiers, and let these peasant soldiers raise their spirits and be willing to be cannon fodder. After the elimination of those bandits and mobs, Lord Earl will naturally settle accounts with these peasant soldiers, and let these stinky guys who see money understand that Lord Earl's money is not so easy to take.

The third order is to let his golden illegitimate son who stayed in the city of Gerdos to increase the recruitment of the territorial people, this is an intuition in the earl's heart that feels faintly uneasy, these bandits in front of him have changed the habit of grabbing a handful and leaving, and actually learned to fight against the earl's bandit troops, what is the reason why these bandits have such confidence? The Earl seemed to feel that the battle against bandits that he had expected like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves had changed a lot, and perhaps this battle would be difficult to fight.

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This squad of lancers who returned to the city to deliver the message fell into the siege of Lorist, first several lancers at the head were thrown half to death by the tripping rope that suddenly appeared on the road, and then ushered in the charge of the Telman knights' squad, when Lorist's more than 30 throwing spears took the lives of more than 30 lancers, and a few lucky lancers finally managed to kill the encirclement of hundreds of infantry, but were shot by Josk who was cruising around the periphery. The remaining twenty or so lancers dismounted and surrendered to save their lives.

Lorist looked at the letter of order sent by Count Corbilly to the city of Gerdos with great satisfaction, and said with a smile: "With this letter, the city of Gerdos is already in our pocket. ”

Mr. Tim also put on his chain mail, and he complimented, "Baron Norton is really a good thing, even Earl Corbilly can guess that he will send someone back to the city to deliver a letter, so let's ambush here." I thought we had bypassed Count Corbilly's army and went straight to the city of Gerdos. ”

"Hehe, it's very simple, after the departure of Count Cobilly's army, our scouts found that he did not bring many vehicles to transport grain and grass materials, plus we made him delay in the Moz Hill for a few days, his grain and grass must be in a hurry, what can he do if he does not send people back to the city to transport grain and grass? With this letter, we can swagger to win the gates of Gerdos City. ”

"Alright, let's change into the clothes and equipment of the lancers and garrisons, and now let's go to the city of Gerdos. El, these lancer captives are in your care, watch carefully, and kill those who want to escape. Lorist commanded.

This time, Lorist took El and the general camp guards of the two squads, as well as Telman's knight squad, Yuri and the light cavalry scouts of the two squads, as well as Mr. Tim and his eight hundred soldiers with large bags, plus the archer Jost, to form a force to attack the city of Gerdos.

When Count Corbilly led the bandit army to attack the first camp, Lorist took this sneak attack force for two days, carefully bypassing Earl Corbilly's army and ambushing him in rear. Then, after a day and a night of waiting, I finally waited for the arrival of this squad of lancers who returned to the city to deliver letters.

In the evening, a small squad of lancers and a squadron of garrisons appeared in front of the gates of the city of Gerdos. The captain of the garrison guarding the gates was not suspicious, and when he learned that the lancers and garrisons below had returned to the city on the orders of the Earl to escort grain and grass, he quickly lowered the drawbridge and opened the gates. Then the spear squad leader came in and asked where the bastard of the golden rank of the earl sitting in the city of Gerdos was staying, and then waved his hand, and the garrison behind rushed up, tying the squad leader guarding the city gate and a dozen of his subordinates tightly, and stuffing a rag full of blood in his mouth, making the squad leader want to vomit in disgust.

Lorist commanded: "Yuri, El, you go and control the other three gates at once, leaving a small team to guard each gate. Telman, you take the knight squad with me to the Duke's Palace in the center of the city, Joske, you come too. Mr. Tim, restrain your soldiers, and when we take control of the entire city, it's time to reap, don't let it be a big loss, understand?"

"Rest assured, my lord, we will not let you down. Tim said.

Perhaps because the always strict Earl Corbilly went out to suppress the bandits, the illegitimate son of the golden rank sitting in the city of Gerdos was unrestrained and wandered, and in a side hall of the Duke's Palace, dozens of men and women were holding an uncovered assembly. Hearing the report from the doorman that the Earl had sent someone to deliver the letter, the bastard had already drunk a little, and got up from a white body, shook his head, and did not wear any clothes, and while picking up a wine glass and continuing to pour wine, he ordered the messenger to come in.

Lorist and Jost entered the side hall, and the conscientious doorman was just outside when Telman broke his neck.

Looking at the smoky miasma in the side hall, the men and women who were naked and bare-assed, and even the two pairs of men and women were unsightly, Lorist and Josk were a little stunned.

The big man in front of him was naked, holding a silver wine glass, with drunken eyes and a big mouth laughing: "Look stupid, bring me, my father, and my father's letter to me, you can also take off your clothes, have fun together, have fun, it's okay, all, it's all self, your own people, you can find, find men, men and women, you can ......"

Lorist and Joske looked at each other, and instead of taking a stand, they drew their swords at the same time......