Chapter 6: The First Battle and Night Attack
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The cold moon of late autumn hangs high in the sky, and dark clouds flow like water in the inky sky.
Du Yu crouched in the bushes, carefully observing the crescent-shaped small lake at the foot of the mountain with a simple camp built of wood, the location of this camp is very good, completely using the higher slope of the small river embankment by the lake to build a wooden fence, outside the camp is a small river up to 2 meters wide, like a simple small castle.
From the higher position on the mountain, you can clearly see that hundreds of soldiers wearing light leather armor are sitting around the bonfire, watching with great interest the two big men in the middle of the bonfire are fighting each other, although they are using wooden long swords, but in the distance can also clearly hear the "bumper" sound of the wooden sword impact, which shows that the strength used by these two big men is great, like a life and death fight.
One strong man finally struck the other strong man in the waist with the wooden sword in his hand, and then used the hilt of the wooden sword in his hand to hit the opponent who was bending down in pain, causing the soldiers around to howl.
"My lord, this should be the army of the Kaitoka family that attacked Lord Kesrato, you look at the eagle's beak family flag on the tent, it should be the vulture battle flag of the Kaitoka family" Statunko, who was lying beside Du Yu, pointed to the military flag fluttering on the top of the most luxurious big tent next to the bonfire, and looked at the army of the Kaitoka family who was still howling excitedly in the distance with a cold face.
This time, Du Yu decided to personally lead the 200 peasant recruits who had just finished training to ambush the army of the Kaitoka family, which was strongly opposed by Statunko, although these 200 farmers had undergone a month of hard training, but to fight against the Kaitoka family, which is known as the vulture of the battlefield, the chance of victory was too small.
"Xinding can't defeat the veterans of the Kaitoka family, not to mention that there are 13 orthodox knights who have experienced a hundred battles" Statunko felt that his lord must be overwhelmed by blood, and he was ready to use 200 peasants to fight against the battlefield veterans led by knights.
"The veterans also came from Xinding, they have never seen blood, no matter how well they are trained, they are still Xinding, what about knights, have you forgotten how you were forced to die by the shield wall to the corner, you hope that the army you trained will never be able to go to the battlefield, you hope that they will always become the new Dings in other people's mouths! If you hope so, then what else do you train them to do, they will be hacked to death by the enemy!"
The cruel words that came out of Du Yu's mouth made the tenacious Statunenko speechless, his own sovereign would never be able to guess what he was thinking, the army that formed this special attack method was like this, and the magic rocket that would never be extinguished was so, and he would never be able to keep up with the sovereign's footsteps.
"Order everyone to get ready" Du Yu waved his hand at Statunko beside him with a gloomy face, all the people were trying to suppress their breathing, this was not a deliberate act of everyone, all the soldiers were new soldiers, training to kill people and real killing were completely different things, and all of them were nervous and didn't dare to breathe.
This is also Du Yu's first battle, and he is also a newcomer to the battlefield, Du Yu feels that his fingers holding the short sword have become a little stiff because of the excessive force.
The lush bushes on the periphery of the camp provided good cover for Du Yu and the peasant soldiers, and the whole army had already lurked and advanced to a distance of about 100 meters from the Kaitoka camp, and beyond that was the range where the sentries could be found, although most of the soldiers were gathered around the campfire, the sentries could still be seen walking back and forth on the simple camp watchtower.
"Can you shoot off the sentry on the watchtower on the west side?" Du Yu turned his head to look at the hunter leader Croresat who was following behind him, and his shining eyes startled Crorissat, who had always hunted in the mountains, "These are simply a pair of beast eyes"
Du Yu could already clearly see that there was a simple stable set up in the upper left corner of the camp, and there were more than a dozen war horses in it that were gnawing on the withered grass in the wooden trough, which should be the war horses of the 13 knights.
Whenever he thinks of the fluent and gorgeous knightly knife pulling technique performed by Statunko in the castle square, Du Yu shuddered, if these orthodox knights who kill as a profession are allowed to ride on war horses, no matter how seamlessly their warriors cooperate, more than half of these battlefield newcomers will definitely fall, which is why Du Yu chose to raid at night.
As long as these knights can't ride on their horses, no matter how powerful the knight is, he is just a good infantryman, and as long as he encounters well-trained shield wall tactics, he will definitely be cornered.
"My lord, it's too windy tonight, it's hard to kill the sentry at such a distance, at least I can break through to within 40 meters, and I'm sure to kill the sentry."
Crorysette looked at Du Yu and shook his head regretfully, an arrow shot at a moving sentry 50 meters away, this is still possible in a windless area, but this camp is arranged by the lake, and the strong wind blowing from the open lake makes the arrow very accurate to shoot the moving target.
"It's easy to shoot off the sentry, Statunko, I'll sneak in and kill the war horse first, and when the camp is in chaos, you will organize a soldier shield array assault" Du Yu ignored the hesitation on Statunko's face, turned around and disappeared into the dark night, only to see a black figure quickly touch the camp.
Du Yu slid forward quickly against the turf, and then flicked his feet, like a flying fish jumping out of the water, he crossed over the small river about 2 meters wide outside the camp, and after a few small jumps, he had already stuck to the fence outside the camp, and finally supported his fat body with his hands, like a gecko lying in the corner of the wall, and lightly climbed over the wooden fence up to 3 meters high.
The idiot lord's agile body style made everyone stunned, and even the hunter leader Crowissat, who had always thought that he was as light as a swallow and looked at the mountains and valleys like flat ground, was completely convinced, "Is this guy still human!"
Du Yu jumped over the 3-meter-high wooden fence, and there was a soft feeling of landing under his feet, because Du Yu's movements were too fast, and did not attract the attention of the sentry, with the memory of the observation on the mountain just now, Du Yu found the stable where the war horse was locked very lightly, but only to find that he had missed an important problem.
"How do you solve these horses?" The vitality of the horse is very strong, unless the horse's head is chopped off with a knife, it is only difficult to kill it directly, and the fallen war horse will definitely cause the other war horses to scream, Du Yu looked at the war horses in the stable and fell into a predicament for a while, and several war horses in the stable also looked at Du Yu with bulging eyes, the sensitivity of animals is always much stronger than that of people.
"Yes, set fire to the horses, these war horses will definitely run around when they are frightened" Du Yu's eyes suddenly fixed on the torches on the pillars of the stable, and then took the torches burning with pine oil from the pillars of the stable, and then opened the wooden fence door of the stable, and set fire along the thatch on the roof of the stable.
The night wind by the lake was very strong, and the fire soon spread to the entire stable, and the scorching flames suddenly made the war horses frightened and tried to rush out of the fence, and for a moment the sound of wind, fire, and the frightened neighing of the war horses were mixed together,
Seeing that there was such a big situation on the side of the stable, the soldiers of the Kaitoka family gathered around the campfire, led by several knights wearing chain mail, ran towards the stable in a panic, but they did not notice that the soldiers on the watchtower had been shot down by several cold arrows from the bushes outside the camp.
"What are you in a daze, waiting for the enemy to shoot you, quick, pass a few people over the wooden fence, open the camp gate" Statunko hurriedly commanded these newcomers who had just entered the battlefield,
The sentinels had been dealt with by the hunters, but the newcomers were still in a daze under the fence, not knowing what to do after rushing under the fence, so Statunko, who thought he was the commander, yelled angrily.
Hearing Statunenko's words, the peasant soldiers who were also flustered and excited reacted, and several of them began to climb up along the wooden fence, but at this moment, the camp gate opened from the inside with a "squeak", and Du Yu's fat figure appeared from the door.
"What are you still doing in a daze? A group of six, according to the training, put on an assault formation! Remember, the enemy is not finished, do not turn back, and those who turn back will be killed!" Du Yu saw the soldiers who were messing around outside, and scolded in the same annoyance, at this time, the soldiers of the Kaitoka family had already discovered the abnormality here, and a knight rushed to the camp gate with a dozen soldiers first. The peasant soldiers who were forming in groups could even feel the bellows-like panting of the Kaitoka family soldiers on the opposite side.
"Assault!" Statunko shouted, and the front shield wall of 30 squads moved forward quickly, pressing down on the stunned enemy on the opposite side like a moving mountain in the dark night.
"Enemy attack! An enemy has rushed in" The knight on the opposite side saw the black shadow of the crowd in the night, and panicked, although he had just found out from the fire in the stables that someone was deliberately making trouble, but he didn't expect that he would encounter the enemy's night attack, and someone would dare to attack the Kaitoka family!
The knight's mournful shout attracted dozens of soldiers who were extinguishing the fire in the distance, looking at the approaching shield wall, these veterans drew their weapons one after another, and calmly posed two straight lines, this is now in the field, the infantry is a very traditional queue, which is conducive to putting the attack power of each soldier in the front.
"Bump, touch" The moving shield wall finally hit the Kaitoka soldiers who were waiting for the battle, and the sound of the weapon hitting the shield was as continuous as the sound of beating the drum, with the occasional mixed "poof, poof" sound, the Kaitoka soldiers who were held up by the shield wall quickly fell down a dozen, this inexplicable way of death, so that the Kaitoka soldiers who rushed up behind were shocked.
"Be careful, their daggers! you vile bastards!" a knight cried out in pain as he fell back in grief, and a short sword that had not yet been drawn was stuck in his blood-stained waist, and it seemed that the delicate chain mail he was wearing stuck in the peasant soldier's dagger survived.
This shout caused many of the soldiers who had been blocked by the shield wall to retreat, but more than half of them had fallen, according to the previous training, the shield wall had broken through the defense line of the Kaitoka family, and was surrounding the middle from both sides, like stuffed dumplings, and the soldiers of the Kaitoka family were surrounded in the middle.
"This is a massacre, a one-sided massacre" Statunko felt that he was going crazy, judging from the few soldiers who had fought with him just now, these were all veterans of the battlefield, although they were attacked by the superior enemy, they still calmly formed a defensive formation to resist, but this qiē was vulnerable in front of this strange shield wall.
Statunko even saw one of the most cowardly peasant soldiers among them stab a soldier to death with a short sword against his shield with his eyes closed.
"Surrender or die" Du Yu waved his hand to make the soldiers stop attacking, and there were only a dozen soldiers left in the middle of the circular formation formed by the shield wall, and only three of them were knights wearing scale armor, which made Du Yu, who had always been wary of the impact of knights, breathe a sigh of relief, "It seems that most of the knights are not in the camp"
"We surrender, we demand fair treatment, and our family will pay the ransom for us!" The three knights first threw down the weapons in their hands, there was no point in resisting, and the knights' loyalty was limited.
"Where's your Marquis Ketoka, where is he?" Du Yu was very angry about the lord who didn't find the enemy in the camp, the lord was the big fish, and these small fish and shrimp were not worth much.
"He and the captain of the Storery guard went to Lord Caslato's castle to negotiate" The captives' answer made Du Yu, who was puzzled, even more puzzled, what was going on, he was fighting with the enemy here, but his cheap father-in-law started to negotiate with the enemy, and the feeling of being deceived made Du Yu angry "This old fox, see how I clean you up"
"Let's go, take these people down, pack up all our things, let's go to Lord Caslato's castle," Du Yu shouted to the soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield around him.
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