After crossing the river, the Earl's elite soldiers and the Orthocrusade Corps, led by the Earl's eldest son Duobei, the knight Dukai and others, went to look for food and victory.

After the scout riders of the army ran back and forth, and after making sure that there was no movement of Milanese in front of him, Duobei encouraged everyone with confident words.

They crossed two bridges and an intersection near their favorite Norma Hills.

Until a few years ago, it was a wooded area, with thousands of pine trees nestling on the hillside.

During the reign of Lujo II, a canonized cardinal died, and the Holy See planted 16 species of flowers and plants and a cemetery.

These trees, flowers and plants provide food and shade for wild creatures, and connect to the water source in the mountains, forming a very beautiful ecological area.

When you come here in the summer, you can smell the orchid, and in the winter, you can see the flesh-white lavender and dandelions.

There were also many knights who used this place as a stronghold for trysts with noblewomen, but after the Hanseatic League established a commercial base nearby, destroying the tranquility of the place, and using the show as a spy agency, the place was stained with earthly vulgarity, and it was never so quiet and beautiful again.

At this time, Duobei led the team, and he wanted to rely on the small road that his father had built in this hilly area earlier, so that he could pass quickly, and there would be a grain production near the enemy.

But when he went deeper, he found that the road had already been discovered by the Milanese, and a large number of broken trees blocked the way, as well as unburned ashes, everywhere.

The Milanese actually set a fire to this place, and if it hadn't rained the day before, the little holy tomb located near the hill would have been swallowed up by fire.

Duobei jumped off the war horse, looked at this mess, took a yellow herb underground, gritted his teeth and said, "This road is not passable, let's go back." ”

"Your Excellency, I object, although the road is difficult to walk, it is still possible to walk, and we are now far away from the castle and enter here, the enemy may be aware of it, and we will withdraw rashly, in case the enemy has surrounded us outside, should we not retreat back into the forest?

Even if we weren't surrounded, would we have to spend any more time finding our way?

Our rations are only for one day, and we have run back and forth, and we have exhausted our strength before we have met the enemy, and the plants in the hills can provide us with shelter, and the enemy cannot see us withdrawing, nor dare to enter rashly, and many of the knights and soldiers we brought with us are locals, and no one knows them better, and knows the water sources and the distribution of animals and plants in this hilly and mountainous area, and it is very safe here. ”

Tobei was convinced, so he asked his sturdy soldiers, with sharp weapons, to search for vine plants, repair the damaged bridges in the hills, and tie the broken wood to other pine trees in one place, and find a way to re-pass.

These soldiers were afraid of dying here, and they all worked hard.

Dukai even sharpened the surplus wood and erected it directly in the pine forest to form a trap.

That night, the Count's men did not stop, and all of them walked through the forest at the light of day.

After they break through, they will face Ambu's main force.

At this time, after receiving the news, the Desley army, which was guarding a few miles outside the hills, could not wait for the count's army to move, so they did not dare to rush forward.

Hield was also on the team.

Simon wears the same pants as Amb, so Desley's military tent is Hielde's best way out.

One is an earl, the other is a vice-earl, neither of them is from an orthodox aristocratic lineage, and the two get along very peacefully, and no one puts up a fight.

Hield said to Desley, "I was involved in the destruction of the interior a few days ago, normally speaking, it should be difficult to get through here, and I even had people set up traps, but these people didn't come out overnight, so there can only be one possibility, they passed through here strongly." ”

Also in charge of the destruction of this place were the men of Ambu, who were responsible for destroying his shortcomings, and when they were responsible for destroying the passpoints, they heard that Bran would give it to Ambu as an agent after he conquered this place, so they thought to themselves that in the future this place would be distributed to his cronies, and when they destroyed it, they did it hastily.

Therefore, the Earl's army can clear the road in the middle of the night and continue to move towards the goal.

"So what do we do?" Desley tests Heard.

"Send someone to inform Your Highness, and stand still until you get the order."

This is intriguing, and Desley understands when he thinks about it, even if the men and horses led by the Count really break through the forest, how can they compare with the well-fed Milanese defenders near the barn, and Ambu who went to support with reinforcements.

As long as Ambu is not stupid, even if he is a real hard encounter with the other party, he also has a six-point chance of winning.

If you see the opportunity to act, change the direction to support Ambu, you really win, you have a great chance of achieving Ambu, and if you lose, you have to take the risk, and it is best for Ambu to suffer a big loss, and then His Highness will bring people to come, merge the forces with him, and annihilate the opponent in the field.

The Count's men suffered because the land fell too quickly, and a large number of villages and arteries were controlled by the Milanese, so they could only fight quickly, and once they were dragged down, the Milanese would be able to support them from all directions.

And Ambu had 7,000 men in his hands, plus the local defenders, more than 10,000 people.

That's why Desley and Hield weren't afraid to do so and lead to a big defeat.

When Duobei and the others passed through the pine forest, their morale was greatly boosted, and Duobei encouraged morale, saying that if he won this battle, he would regain the village, and at the same time, his father had already sent someone to Rome for help, and it would not be long before the Milanese would roll back in disgrace.

As they finished their last bite of food, the soldiers clenched their weapons.

They crossed river banks, hills, and spent more than a day connecting several checkpoints.

It was nearly noon, a little dry, but the sweat had already soaked Duobei's whole body.

They managed to make their way into the heart of the plains in front of the Norma Hills.

When they appeared, the population of a village that had belonged to the Count quickly turned against them under the counterattack of the people of the Duobei Belt.

At this time, the morale of the Earl's defenders was at its highest, and they turned into monsters, spears like thorns.

Cut through a team of Milanese people looking at the village.

This force came from the command of Ellen's wife, Count Bailey.

After losing more than 300 of the 300 local Milanese, their morale collapsed and they fled to the north, and the Count of Bailey fled to the middle of the column.

Duobei had seen Bailey herself, and she thought that if she could win the countess, wouldn't it increase her chips?

He had twenty bows in pursuit, and the archers chased them until they reached the edge of the ground, and after a while, they slowly returned.

"Your Highness, the woman escaped."

"If he's lucky, the enemy will definitely fight back soon, and we'll retreat to Anya Town and regroup."

This is a vast plain area, after crossing the hills, only a small number of riders remain, if the other side has cavalry, this is like sending the head up, waiting for the other party to cut.

After noon, the air was a little cooler, and at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Angbu army suddenly appeared.

Countess Bailey was injured all over her body, and fell on her horse, but fortunately she was finally found by Ambu's repulsion team, otherwise it would be unimaginable.

But the battlefield doesn't show much mercy to women, and Bailey, dressed in a heavily armored helmet, is bloodied after falling from the fast-moving ground.

"Ahh

When the soldier removed her helmet, the bones under the countess's eyes were completely dented, and even if it was cured, it was disfigured......

Alan followed Ambu in the procession, and it was he who personally delivered his wife to the doctor.

Alan was already an adult father, and when he saw the scourge of his most important relative, he angrily drew his sword and slashed indiscriminately.

Thanks to his sister Laura, Alan was considered by Simon, or Ambu, to be accepted as a member of the same faction.

Ambu patted him on the shoulder and told the boy, "Take off the enemy's and let them feel great pain." ”

This night, Ambu's riders have been looking for this adventurous Earl's troops.

The next morning, the two factions finally met.

When Alan saw the Earl's men and the cross flag, he angrily said blasphemous, "Lao Tzu is going to cut this flag into a reverse cross."

A battle stronghold, located next to a forest.

The White Dragon Guard and Teutonic riders, nearly two hundred riders, could make a strong sound of battle just by walking.

"Cavalry advance!"

This was the first time that Ambu commanded a battle as a commander with more than 3,000 soldiers.

At this time, there were six thousand sergeants by his side, and the knights beside him held high the military flag.

"Warriors, crush them for me."

Duobei was not afraid, he gathered the formation in front, raised his guns and shields, and let the heavy infantry team go up to block.

The counts in this battle are all elite, but on Ambu's side, there are also some logistics troops composed of farmers.

2,000 elite soldiers against 6,000 mixed troops.

Ambu did not treat the logistics peasants seriously, and when the two sides began to charge, he ordered a regiment of light infantry with relatively poor equipment to directly ram the flank of the Count's main crusade.

Even if it is three for one, Ambu is confident that he can replace his opponent with death.

Among the officers who led this light infantry unit were forty dark-skinned men, and they used strange weapons.

When you start to move, it seems to be out of order, but it hides a murderous intention.

They belong to one of the mobile teams.

There was even a black warrior who bit the enemy with his mouth when he was fighting with him, biting off the soldier's ear on the spot.

These people are warriors from the Songhai Kingdom, and they are led by Darabemba, who has shown his prominence in the Milan Tournament.

The king of Songhai was also a powerful lord of this generation, keen to establish relations with the monarchs of the Light World, and sent scholars to Rome and Cairo to copy and translate a large number of intellectual books back to China.

Dalaboba is now the envoy of Songhai in Milan.

After the collapse of the gods, many unrest broke out in Africa, and six of the nomadic tribes that had originally submitted to the kingdom refused to pay taxes.

When the people of Songhai smelled the smell of Tuotu, they immediately cooperated with Bran, and the two sides sent military personnel to each other.

In addition to these, King Songhai also sent one of his half-sisters to Milan to be Bran's lover.

A beauty from West Africa, King Songhai generously sent ten of them, so Bran also sent back ten women (mostly the second daughters and third daughters of small noble families)

A woman in the bright world, fair-skinned, tall and thin, and proficient in music and painting.

The Songhai people were very satisfied with this gift, but the Songhai woman, skin color and facial features, the nobles under Bran did not like it.

So Bran forced his subordinates to pay one person for each person.

This is against the doctrine of light, polygamy.

But in Milan, there was only one voice for those who contradicted Chaman's law, and that was Chaman's voice.

Angbu was forced to take in a Songhai woman and sent a relative woman to Songhai.

This Songhai woman made Angbu unsatisfied, so she only touched it once, but she didn't expect it to be ......

......

This group of Songhai people who directly bite the enemy on the battlefield makes the morale of the earl's army afraid.

But as Du Kai stepped forward to cut off a black head, when the ball was kicked out, the oppression of the Songhai people disappeared immediately.

The two sides fought, and no fugitives appeared in Sir Bir's soldiers, because this was their home and there was nowhere to run.

However, some of the inexperienced soldiers under Ambu were suppressed by the ferocity and shield formation of the Crusader Corps, and there were several scenes of discarding weapons and turning their heads to flee.

Ambu directly pulled out an arrow and shot him, and he was ruthless to his enemies, as well as to his own people.

He fired three arrows in a row, and as the chief officer of the war, he shot and killed three peasant soldiers.

More and more of his own men were killed in battle, but Ambu's eyes kept observing the opponent's formation and numbers, as long as the number of enemies continued to decrease.

The white dragon rider and the Teutonic knight rushed to kill four times, but they couldn't break through the opponent's shield at all.

As one of the commanders, Allen, no matter how dizzy he was at the moment, he knew that the battle situation was not favorable, and even faintly fell to the balance of defeat.

Aung Bu asked the logistics team to go up to be cannon fodder, and the enemy's scattered approach seriously affected the morale of his own army.

And this positive crusade corps, at this moment, is stronger and stronger, and the ability to fight against giants is completely stimulated.

You can win big, small, or even draw, but if you lose this battle......

"Whoever dares to retreat, I have stripped him of his skin, even his relatives!"

Ambu asked the knight beside him to give the order. , but still can't stop the troops from scattering.

If there is anything that the Milanese army has not done well, it is to underestimate this multi-decade-old and experienced heavy infantry armament.

Unbeknownst to him, Nehdomon had taken a large number of Sicilian stones from Sicily earlier, and incorporated them into the swords and armor of these warriors, creating three hundred and fifty ice shield steel swords.

It was these weapons that held back the Milanese's charge.

Based on past experience, Du Kai judged that the enemy was almost unable to hold on, but the difference in numbers between the two sides was three times.

At present, less than half of the people in the Orthocrusade Corps remain.

Even if you win, what about the future?

Bran could pull out more than 10,000 soldiers at any time, and that's desperate.

Both sides are betting on the last stand!

Angbu's eyes were red, and the banner bearer beside him persuaded, "Your Excellency, why don't we retreat, and after meeting with His Highness, killing these people is like stepping on insects to death." “

"Your Highness trusts me so much, thousands of warriors let me drive, if I can't win three times the number of troops, I would rather die in battle than go back to be embarrassed, let His Highness see my ugly appearance of running away with my tail between my legs, and I won't let that Gentile (Desley) laugh at me."

Unbu didn't know that it was because of this passage that he told the Flag Bearer that he was loyal enough.

After the fact, Bran judged the merits of the battle, and when he heard the report of the man who held the banner, he gave Ambu some merits from other places and exempted him from part of the punishment.