"As a commander, no matter how powerful an army you have, you must not underestimate your opponents. But excessive caution can sometimes lead to the mistakes of fighters. ”

This passage was uttered by Li Yuxuan at a military meeting held on November 23, 173 years of the imperial calendar, the day after the "Battle of the Plain of Gorrell".

Indeed, if Remel had no doubts after learning of the "Battle of the Plains of Gorrell" and continued to approach Suger, then Li Yuxuan's army, which had fought a hard battle, would definitely not be able to resist its attack and would definitely choose to retreat. Once the Atterbury Army occupies Sugal, the initiative of the war in the northern part of the kingdom will once again return to the Atterbury Army. After losing logistical support and psychological support, Li Yuxuan's army will fall into a rather unfavorable situation. But Remel clearly missed the best opportunity in front of him, and like most people, he chose a different path, which allowed Li Yuxuan's troops to get plenty of rest.

When the Atterbury army suffered setbacks and stalled, Li Yuxuan's generals were also overwhelmed by an unexpected problem.

Nearly 3,000 captives not only filled Sug's prison, but also converted many abandoned houses into "temporary shelters", so a large number of additional troops were deployed to guard these prisoners. At the same time, they also have to eat, and the amount of food they consume every day is also a staggering figure.

Li Yuxuan's generals were divided into two factions on the handling of this issue.

One faction, led by Li Fang and Su Mi, advocated that all the people be killed in a trap to deter the enemy.

On the other hand, the young generals led by Tang Xu, Li Yuyang, and Lang Zhong advocated releasing people and attacking the enemy.

The two factions quarreled with each other, and finally put the issue in front of Li Yuxuan so that there could be a final decision.

And Li Yuxuan's very simple sentence completely solved this problem that the generals were arguing about.

"My food isn't for food buckets, but I don't like to kill senselessly. ”

So, the three thousand captives, having their armor and weapons confiscated, were driven out of Sugal with hunger.

Their destination was the town of Deno, a two-day trip from Suger.

In such a cold and snowy place, more than 3,000 hungry and thinly clothed "wanderers" are struggling to support the hope of survival. Of these, only five hundred and thirty were the last to reach their destination, and the rest fell on the way.

This made the already demoralized Atterbury army even more severe, and the army had begun to show obvious war weariness. In particular, some lower-class soldiers have repeatedly deserted.

At the same time, military discipline has also plummeted, and the town of Deno is a place where the entertainment industry is very developed, brothels and taverns are numerous, and there are dozens of incidents of soldiers drinking and making trouble and fighting every day.

These bits and pieces were exhausting for Rimel. Knowing that if you don't win another battle to boost morale, it will be difficult for the troops to take it down. However, the current situation is still uncertain, and after suffering such huge losses, it is afraid of losing another battle with the enemy. At that time, his army would really collapse, and the Atterbury expedition would be a complete failure.

In the face of such tremendous pressure and severe shape, Rimel, as a commander-in-chief, is really in a dilemma.

As a result, the northern part of the kingdom, which was originally the most tense in the war, suddenly fell into an inexplicable calm.

The two armies were only two days apart, but for the next seven days there was not a single fighting, not even skirmishes.

In this snowy winter, November 173 ended in a calm that followed, but what about the following December? Will it continue to be so calm? Will the armies of both sides remain deadlocked, holding their own fronts?

The situation of the troops may be good and bad, but the top commanders of the armies on both sides, whether it is Li Yuxuan or Rimel, are constantly thinking about the situation on the entire battlefield and the comparison of forces between the enemy and us. None of them wanted to drag on the war until the following year. This is destined to be December of the 173rd year of the imperial calendar, which will surely become the month of the decisive battle between the two sides.

It's just that all of them didn't expect that the battlefield of the first battle of the month was not in the north of the kingdom, but in the south.

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On November 25, 173 in the imperial calendar, on the fifth day after the destruction of Kefield City, and the third day when the two princes of Carol were killed by "thieves", the 34,000 soldiers of the First Legion of Fengxiang, who had already been stationed on the border, crossed the border under the leadership of its commander, who was also the leader of Fengxiang Wang** Wu Shang Shufeng Shaojun, crossed the border and advanced to Kefield, the capital of the original Carol Kingdom.

At the same moment, a mysterious force hidden behind it also broke into Carol's territory from another direction without knowing it.

On December 2, after several small battles, Fengxiang's 1st Army finally reached Kefield, and Basr's more than 20,000 cavalry were also lined up outside the city, waiting for its arrival.

In fact, abandoning the strong walls of Kefield and facing off against Feng Xiang's infantry corps outside the city, Pika, the commander of Basr's side, was also forced to helpless.

The Fengxiang Kingdom is located in the southernmost part of the southern part of the continent, although it has a vast plain, but it is formed by the sea water after thousands of years of erosion, and the waterways during it are not conducive to the movement of large cavalry legions. Therefore, since the founding of Fengxiang, except for the scout troops, there has never been a cavalry establishment in Fengxiang's army.

But this does not mean that the strength of Feng Xiang's army is weaker than that of other countries, in terms of attacking and defending cities, if Feng Xiang's infantry corps is called the second in the south of the mainland, then there will definitely be no infantry corps of any country that dares to call it the first.

It was in this context that Pickup shifted the battlefield outside the city, turning the original city attack and defense battle into a plain array battle.

The purpose of this was to force away the enemy's strengths in siege on the one hand, and on the other hand, to give full play to the advantages of his cavalry in plain warfare.

At the beginning of the battle, Pika used the strong impact power and high mobility of the cavalry to frequently attack Fengxiang's tight infantry formation from the front, but with little effect.

Although the infantry was obviously weaker than the cavalry in flat ground operations, Feng Xiang's infantry corps of more than 250 years spent a lot of energy on flat ground operations against cavalry, and finally formed a set of effective formations to resist the impact of plain cavalry.

First of all, the shield at the front of the array, a giant shield up to about one person erected a strong "city wall" in front of Feng Xiang's array, and behind it was a spear unit holding a spear of nearly five zhang, which was used to delay and block the impact speed of the enemy cavalry, and kill and wound the enemy cavalry under the cover of the shield.

Followed by the archers, they were used to kill the enemy at close range when the speed of the enemy's cavalry was slowed down by the spearmen. They were followed by longbowmen, who were used to shoot at the well-formed cavalry attack queue in the distance. Finally, there are the large numbers and the ironclad hoplites that Feng Xiang is most proud of, and they are the force that decides the final victory. On the periphery of the entire Fengxiang infantry legion's battle formation was a mixed force of longbowmen and shortbowmen, and if the opponent wanted to outflank him from both sides, he would definitely put his own cavalry within his killing range.

After a morning of fierce fighting, Pickup changed his single tactic of attacking from the front in the afternoon, and instead attacked the enemy from the front and both flanks at the same time, trying to break Feng Xiang's infantry formation into several pieces, and finally take advantage of the chaos to annihilate it.

However, the cavalry attacking from both flanks first suffered losses from the arrows of the enemy's well-trained long and short archers, and then were blocked by the heavy infantry protruding from the array.

After nearly three hours before and after the battle, the Basr cavalry, at the cost of more than 3,000 casualties, achieved nothing but the elimination of a part of the enemy's pikemen and hoplites.

As the commander of this army, in addition to scolding his subordinates for their incompetence, he couldn't think of a good solution.