Chapter 71: Counterattack (3)
On the outskirts of Bilochi, the Bloodline camp. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Marven stood on a small hillside, staring at the ruined wall of Biloch in the distance, with a worried expression.
Immediately after escorting Princess Talis back from Habsburg, he was sent by Orrenville to assist in the attack of the Bloods, and when he arrived at the front, the Bloods were blocked by a large militia in a village called Farouk, and the supply lines were almost cut off, and the offensive had to be temporarily halted.
"The situation doesn't seem to be good...... Marven muttered to himself, and there was a gloom between his eyebrows. In his opinion, although the Morowing militia fought extremely tenaciously, after all, they were only some civilian armed forces, and their military literacy was limited, so it was difficult to have a decisive impact on the overall battle situation, and the Morovingian regular army was never visible, let alone an organized counteroffensive. If this continues, the demons will inevitably grow and develop in Morowing, and Hypatia, who is far away in the Eternal Forest, will have to face the situation of being attacked on her back and be in a worrying situation.
"Hey, Xia Magician, there's a nice human girl here, would you like to come and have some fun?" Norton grabbed a handsome girl and walked over with a smile on her face, "This girl is not bad, it is said that she is the daughter of the village chief just now, I can borrow you to play for a while before I kill her, you know, such good goods are usually handed over to Lord Orrenville." β
Marven looked up, only to see that the girl was untidy, her face was full of tears, her neck was pinched fiercely, and she could only let out a low whimper from her mouth, Norton showed her long fangs, like a hungry wolf, greedily staring at the girl's large bare skin.
Marven turned his face away and shook his head in disgust.
"I haven't seen you touch a woman, I really doubt you're sexually dysfunctional......" Norton muttered twice, then opened his mouth and bit the girl's neck hard.
The girl let out a feeble scream in her throat, and her slender legs jerked a few times before she was silent.
After a while, Norton wiped the blood from his lips, then threw down the girl's body and walked over to Marven, "You seem to be worried?" Seeing that Marven didn't answer, he said to himself: "Yes, we have suffered a setback at the moment, but it's not a big deal." He snorted coldly and said hatefully: "It's just a bunch of ants, can it turn the sky upside down? When the time comes, when Salian brings reinforcements, I will have to arrest these arrogant and ignorant fools one by one and drain their blood!"
Marven glanced at the Blood Clan soldiers who were still slaughtering the villagers in the distance, and said coldly: "If you continue this senseless killing, it will only provoke more people to resist, and then they will be like wasps, attacking us all the time, and we will not even have a chance to sleep peacefully." β
"Treat your enemies with cruelty, my magician. Norton pouted disapprovingly.
"Our enemies are the soldiers of Morowing, not these women and children who can't even hold their weapons. Marven disagreed.
"Huh... Ha... "Norton laughed and joked, "Master Rickon, you are so naΓ―ve, do you think that women and children are not a threat?"
He pointed to a large pile of naked corpses of women and children not far away, and said, "You see, if we don't kill them, those boys will eventually grow up and become strong warriors, and those women, they will keep giving birth and producing countless offspring, and they will form an army that is unimaginably large, so these humans will still pose a huge potential threat to us, and we need to nip the threat in the bud, only in this way can we ensure our stable rule." β
Marven was silent and couldn't bear to look at him directly.
Several Blood soldiers came up and dragged the dead girl to a shiny rock, stripped her corpse of its clothes, and then, with a sharp knife in it, stabbed it hard, and after a few moments, pulled out a large tuft of internal organs.
Marven's stomach was tumbling and he wanted to gag.
"I'm sorry, Xia Mage, I know you don't like eating human flesh, but I'm afraid I'll have to settle for the next few days. Norton shrugged, "You know, we're running out of supplies right now. β
As he spoke, he saw the Blood Clan soldiers quickly dismember the girl's body, and then sprinkled a large amount of salt and spices to pickle it.
"No, I brought some dry food myself. Marven wanted to turn away, but he was still uncomfortable with the pungent smell of blood.
As soon as he had taken two steps, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some trembling under his feet, and the feeling became stronger and stronger from afar, and after a while, the roar of the horse's hooves could be heard clearly.
The corners of Marven's mouth inadvertently flashed with joy.
"Enemy attack! enemy attack!" the patrolling Blood Sentinel immediately sounded a hoarse alarm. Only a moment later, a soldier ran up to Norton in a panic, and said in a frightened tone, "Lord Norton! Cavalry!
"Assemble urgently! Prepare for battle!" Norton calmly gave the battle order, Norton's troops were less than five hundred even counting the ghouls and zombies, and they were all infantry, and in the face of highly mobile and heavily armored knights, there was no way to escape, and if he chose to fight to the death, he might be able to fight a glimmer of hope.
Norton climbed a dirt slope and watched the incoming cavalry from afar, only to laugh a moment later.
"Bullshit knights, just a group of light cavalry, I got information from the royal family of Morowing, Morowing's heavy knights were disbanded two days ago, I said, how can there be a knights!" Norton's face was relaxed after seeing the incoming enemy army clearly.
Marven's heart couldn't help but sink, he had already learned the news of the disbandment of the Morowingian Knights and the Mage Order through Princess Dalys, but he still had a glimmer of hope at that time, hoping that Naodinan could at least retain some of the elites, but now, it seems that the hope is completely dashed.
Although light cavalry and heavy cavalry are both cavalry, they are very different in terms of weapons and equipment and training level, and their combat effectiveness is completely different. The light cavalry was very mobile and very good at fighting bandits and thieves, but in the face of a strong and bloodthirsty Blood army, these warriors on ordinary horses, weak armor, and mediocre martial arts were obviously not enough.
"Heavy infantry! Prepare to meet the enemy!" Norton was full of confidence at this time, although those light cavalry were as many as a thousand people, and their momentum was terrifying, but in front of the strong blood soldiers, they would not have any chance of victory.
Wearing heavy armor and holding high steel tower shields, the Blood Clan heavy infantry immediately formed a tight phalanx and rushed towards the human cavalry.
With a "boom", the two teams collided violently, and for a while, the blades clashed, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the light cavalry that was still fierce just now turned over on their backs in a blink of an eye, leaving behind a large number of corpses. On the other hand, the blood clan heavy infantry suffered almost no losses, and even few were wounded.
Marven shook his head after seeing it, if there was a head-on collision, in front of the well-equipped and well-trained heavy infantry, the light cavalry would basically not be able to bargain for anything.
"Heavy infantry!" The human officer commanding the cavalry gasped and quickly ordered to stop the frontal assault, and the cavalry quickly adjusted its tactics and rushed towards the weaker flanks of the heavy infantry phalanx.
"A bunch of self-defeating guys, it's quite difficult. Norton, who was in charge of the Chinese army, unhurriedly ordered the formation to be adjusted.
"Brothers, fight!" With a roar, more than 100 seriously wounded cavalrymen abandoned their dying mounts, got up from the pool of blood again, and launched a final decisive charge against the heavy infantry phalanx that was adjusting their formation.
The Blood Clan was caught off guard, and two of them were cut down on the spot, these cavalry did not stop, and frantically rushed towards the gap exposed when the phalanx was adjusted, seeing this scene, the Blood Clan soldiers were furious, and made a decisive move, cutting down the few cavalry who rushed to the front to the ground.
The cavalry that fell to the ground still did not give up, and crawled towards the surrounding blood clan heavy infantry, dragging the opponent's leg to death, and did not let go until death.
Those seriously wounded and dying cavalrymen burst out with the greatest energy of their lives at this time, and they were using their last drop of blood to buy that precious time for their comrades who rushed up behind them.
The Bloods had to devote a part of their forces to deal with these crazy cavalry, and after they had chopped these difficult guys into minced meat, the cavalry in the rear had already stormed the flanks of the phalanx, and it was too late to adjust the formation.