Chapter 21: The Importance of Prestige
They continued to surround Suno, which was considered to be the execution of King Griffos's orders.
Without further ado, King Grievos had seen the Swadian knights rushing down the hillside, and he had learned what to do after fighting the Svadian army countless times.
"Divide part of the force, the holiday spear and shield wall, wash away the charge of the Svadian knights, and the other part of the army will crush the Nord army here with me, this group of Nord troops is already a tired army after a long journey, and it will definitely not be able to withstand our charge. Once we have defeated this group of Nord armies, we will join forces and flank Walls. King Griffos quickly gave orders to his subordinates, yes, in terms of his military talent, the king was not the top on the continent, but he had a wealth of combat experience, according to his pre-thinking, he had many years of combat experience against the Swadian knights, so he quickly let his men start to resist the charge of the Swadian knights.
But all this was obviously prepared too late, after all, the Swadia knights launched a sudden attack, and for a while, the army of the Rhodok Kingdom could not establish an effective defensive formation, and the longhair had not yet set up a shield wall, and the Swadia knights had already been killed, but King Griffos led another part of his army to attack the Nord Kingdom.
Dealing with an unformed army, Walls already knew that he had won the battle, he was also holding a heavy cavalry spear at this moment, wearing a helmet he hindered his career, but in front of his eyes there were shadows of enemy soldiers everywhere, without much effort, Walls's heavy cavalry spear had pierced the head of a Rhodok Kingdom soldier, yes, it hit the head directly, this Rhodok Kingdom soldier was killed on the spot, and then, a large area of Swadia knights was not to be outdone and launched a charge, Suddenly there was a wail on the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Rhodok Kingdom ran with their heads in their hands, and some of the guys who fought bloodily were also beheaded by the Swadian knight who drew his knight's sword.
Originally, these Svadian knights had resisted the attack of the Rhodok Kingdom today, and they should be exhausted, but Walls was the first to let this group of Swadia knights rest, because he knew that the Rhodok Kingdom would definitely intercept the reinforcements of the Nord Kingdom, so the Svadia knights who could fight well in the field, Walls were the first to let this group of knights rest.
Perhaps, the Swadian knights have not yet recovered their energy to their heyday, but it is more than enough to deal with this group of Rhodok kingdoms that have collapsed, after all, Walls has adopted a sneak attack strategy, King Griffos has not yet established an effective defensive formation, the time is too short, and each of his Swadia knights is wearing heavy armor, which is exactly like a tank rushing into the crowd and crushing the soldiers of the Rhodok Kingdom to death.
"Walls? Why are you here, shouldn't you be honest and stay in Suno? ”
The voice was somewhat familiar, and Wall turned around to see a man he had only met today, Blackridge Spear Manwell.
I didn't expect to see him just in the morning, and I could meet him again at dusk, I don't know if it was fate or fate in this life, this time, Walls will never be merciful, dealing with his enemies, Walls will never give up any opportunity to kill them. The knight's longsword was drawn from its scabbard, and this time Walls fought on horseback, and it was a matter of course to change the longsword.
Blackridge Spear Manwell saw the approaching Wall, he held the knight's sword in his hand and made him tremble, but fortunately, Manwell should not die, there were dozens of Rhodok soldiers in front of him, so he didn't need to worry about Wall would suddenly kill him at all, Manwell held her black spear, and quickly retreated, he wanted to return to King Griffos's side, he had been frightened by Wall, if he still kept his sanity, He could understand that it was not a good idea to return to King Griffos, and that he should fight to the death with Walls, and that dying on the battlefield was her ultimate fate. Returning to King Griffos' side in such a downcast would definitely bring shame on him for the rest of his life.
However, Manwell could not care so much about going at all, and he quickly ran in the direction of King Grivosfo, and some of his soldiers did not care to confront these Swadian knights after seeing their main general fleeing.
Perhaps for them, they already thought that they would never be able to defeat this group of Svadian knights again. As a standard Swadian knight, Emilyada naturally followed Walls to deal with the soldiers of the Rhodok Kingdom at this moment, but there was an attendant by his side, who seemed to be an ordinary woman from his figure. It's strange that the Swadia knights recruited by Wall are all men, so how can there be a female Emilyda following.
This female knight is none other than Christina, this persistent guy has been following Emilyda, his father seems to have retired, as a nobleman of the Swadia Kingdom, the Nord Kingdom did not exterminate all the original nobles, so there is no benefit to the Nord Kingdom, in order to express his friendly advice to the people of the Swadia Kingdom, King Ragnar pardoned all the nobles of the Swadia Kingdom, except that they were not given rights, Everything else is provided for them, but of course they have to support themselves. As far as Walls is concerned, what King Ragnar has done is extremely beneficial to him, and if King Ragnar exterminates those nobles, will Christina stay by his side? And Emilyda and those Swadian knights will also follow her, ask the Haswadia knights are both powerful forces, but they are all nobles, and those big nobles have a foreign language connection with this matter, if they are killed, we actually have a lifelong hatred with ourselves, I am a nobleman of the Nord Kingdom, and these Swadia knights would rather die than bow to themselves.
At this moment, Christina and Emilyda were in the ranks of juniors, and the Rhodok soldiers had been told of the horrors of the Vadians since they were young, especially their hoplites.
When they do not have an effective defensive formation on holiday, on the plain, the hoplites and infantry fight against each other, and it is the hoplites who often win the victory, and their burst of charge can disrupt the favorable formation of the infantry, and if the formation is disrupted, it will cause the heart of the army to be shaken, and the spirit of the army is shaken, and the final result is naturally to fight for each other, and the final result of each battle must be that effective resistance cannot be formed, and if effective resistance cannot be formed, then it will cause a large area of escape, so there are countless deserters on the battlefield. There are very few Rhodok soldiers who are actually killed.
Walls only brought more than 40 Swadian knights, and they were followed by dozens of ordinary Nord light cavalry, the Nords are not good at riding horses, but they can still ride horses, which leads to a little Nord light cavalry in the army of the Nord Kingdom, their main role is to reconnoiter and raid harassment, and the real main force still depends on those Nord infantry.
It can be said that Walls was very bold, and with a cavalry team of less than a hundred people, he dared to kill the Rhodok army of more than 1,500 people in the south, such courage is indeed admirable, and his Swadia knights are indeed admirable.
Count Rayland saw that the Rhodok soldiers were fleeing, and knew that he was defeated in this battle, on the plain, the combat advantages of the Swadian knights were fully exerted, most of his elite soldiers and strong generals went to fight against that group of Nord reinforcements, King Graves held the command of the battlefield, most of the Rhodoc soldiers had to obey the dispatch of King Greyforth, Count Rayland was not a top military talent, but he had the same rich combat experience as King Griffos, At this moment, he was anxious about the Rhodok soldiers who were still obeying his orders, and asked them to form a short shield wall behind them, and the Rhodok crossbowmen aimed at which Svadian knights were behind, even if those Svadian knights wore heavy armor, Rhodok's crossbowmen could still shoot through those heavy armor in a row, and the swift and effective command of Count Rayland temporarily saved some of the situation.
However, the situation on this side was temporarily stabilized, but on the other side, more than a thousand reinforcements from the Nord Kingdom led by Salton Yar and more than 100 people from King Griffos began a great battle.
Salton Yar instructed a young lord that he was not experienced enough in battle, but fortunately, Salton Yar also had a Hewitt by his side, although Hewitt was also a young man, but he was a military genius, although he was not enough compared to Wall, but he was much stronger than Salton Yar.
Salton Yar handed over half of the command of the battlefield to Hewitt to command, although he felt a little disdainful of Hewitt who was born as a merchant, but the gentle Salton Yar did not take it to heart, but on the contrary, some other nobles of the Nord Kingdom looked down on Hewitt's merchant background and thought that he was an ordinary commoner.
As a result, Hewitt only gained command of some of the Nord Kingdom soldiers, but with only these Nord soldiers, Hewitt was able to show his skills.
Hewitt quickly commanded his army to make a transformation, and soon an effective battle formation was formed, with the Nord heavy infantry holding their shields in front, the Nord light infantry behind, and the Nord archers at the back, at the beginning of the war, the Grivos Kingdom was eager to kill the group of Nord Kingdom reinforcements in front of him, so he ordered his soldiers to attack quickly after the rain of arrows, and the Rhodok crossbowmen temporarily stopped shooting, so as to prevent shooting their own people.
Although it is said that King Griffos gave up the most advantageous way of fighting, and chose to fight directly against the army of the Nord Kingdom, the infantry of the Nord Kingdom is the best recruit on the whole continent, they fight bravely, and few people dare to confront them head-on. Although the infantry of the Rhodoc Kingdom is also among the best on the continent, it is still slightly insufficient compared to the real Nord warriors.
However, the Nord Kingdom also has its own disadvantages, those Nords are on the way to march, and they are now exhausted after a day's walk, and they are unable to cause effective damage to the enemy army at all, so this group of Nord soldiers is obviously at a disadvantage when they first encounter with the army of the Rhodok Kingdom.
Although some Hewitt's temporary command temporarily suppressed such a rout scene, when a group of Rhodok soldiers rushed over, the Nord archers preemptively fired a wave of fire at them, although it was said that when it was approaching dusk, the visibility was greatly reduced, which also led to the Nord archers' accuracy was not very good, as we all know, the combat level of the Nord archers was far less than that of the Nord infantry, so this wave of arrows rained down, and there were very few Rhodok soldiers who could shoot.
Most of the Rhodok soldiers have rushed to earn money, the Nord soldiers did not talk nonsense, the warriors are not afraid of death, most of the Nords think so, the front is a group of Nord heavy infantry, they hold hard shields, provide effective defense for the rear, under Hewitt's ingenious arrangement, the combat soldiers in the first row are tired from the battle, the second row is replaced by the first row, fighting for them, and the soldiers in the first row can be replaced by the last row to rest, and fight to the end, Rhodok's soldiers suffered many casualties, but the Nord army was able to hold their ground.
But Hewitt can feel that his side is still at a disadvantage, because as time goes by, Hewitt can see that the biggest problem facing his army is that he is physically exhausted, and they have long been exhausted after a day's journey, and after this battle, their fatigue has been revealed, Hewitt calmly commanded his army to fight, and the group of soldiers of the Rhodok Kingdom pounced and bit like mad dogs, Just don't let this group of Nord soldiers have any chance to escape.
The Lord soldiers commanded by Hewitt were fine, but the soldiers commanded by Salton Yar on the other side were not satisfactory, and the military command talent of Salton Yar was far inferior to Hewitt, so on the side of Salton Yar, everyone could see that he was at a disadvantage.
But fortunately, they all knew that Walls had led reinforcements to save them, and yes, Count Rayland couldn't resist Walter's Swadian Knights, even if Count Rayland gathered an army to resist the charge of the Svadian Knights, but under the iron hooves of the Swadian Knights, this Rhodok army that had been hastily assembled and set up in formation was beaten to pieces, and after it collapsed, Count Wieland actually became a prisoner of Walls.
"Walls, if it weren't for the fact that my subordinate Drury wasn't here, I would never have been caught by you, and Drury would let you know how powerful the Rhodok Kingdom is." The expression on Count Rayland's face was so unwilling, as if he had suffered a big loss, his heart was full of 10,000 dissatisfactions, obviously his side had the advantage in numbers, but he was still suppressed by Sister Walls, anyone would be dissatisfied in his heart, especially Count Rayland is a person with extremely rich experience in combat command, seeing that such a good card in his hand has come to such an ending, how can he be willing?
"If your right-hand man Drury is here, I will also let him know how powerful the Nord Kingdom is, or how powerful I am with Wall." Not to be outdone, Walls also waved the knight's sword in his hand, if he was not careful, it was very likely to cut off the head of Earl Rayland, Count Thunderland naturally knew that he had become a prisoner, as long as Walls moved his fingers, he was afraid that his head would fall to the ground, although in most cases, the Wall in front of him would never kill himself, at most he would only throw himself into the dungeon, and then wait for the war to end, Or wait for your family to pay the ransom money to redeem yourself.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
Things were really as Count Rayland guessed, Walls recruited a few Nord light cavalry to suppress Count Rayland, and he himself led the rest of the army to rescue the reinforcements of the Nord Kingdom, this group of Nord troops to save themselves in the end had to rely on Walls to save them, I have to say that this is a big joke.
After a battle, the physical strength of the Swadia knights was no longer as strong as it was at the beginning, but Walls also knew that after a great battle with the army of the Nord Kingdom, the group of Rhodok troops led by King Grievos was also exhausted, so as long as Walls gave an order, let his Svadian knights launch another round of charge, and the army led by King Grievos would be destroyed in an instant.
And it was indeed as Walls had guessed, that the army led by King Griffos was backed by Walls, and the realization was simple that Walls could lead his knights to charge from behind this army, and when the time came, the Rhodok army would fall apart.
"My knights, now is the time for you to make a difference, believe me, the enemy in front of you is just a herd of ordinary sheep, but you are brave knights, take up your weapons, rush down with me, and crush them fiercely. Let them know that they can't be my enemies. "Walls has already picked up the heavy cavalry in his own hand, and the tip of the cavalry spear is fiercely pointed at the seat of King Graves, and yes, this time Walls has decided to lead his knights to attack the seat of King Graves first.
The thief captured the king first, captured King Grifusbo, and the remaining 100 Rhodok Kingdom troops will definitely be defeated.
The knights roared by, the neighing of their horses was incessant, dozens of horsemen rushed from behind the kingdom of Rhodok, and the soldiers with brighter ears heard the sound of the earth trembling, and they turned back to find out, and they were surprised by what they saw, and a group of Swadian knights actually picked up their spears and charged at them. It's like death beckoning to them.
"Your Majesty, King Grifus, look, look, a group of Swadian knights are coming at us behind us, so let's get out of here and take shelter." One of the guards said to King Griffos, horror written all over his face.
"What? Svadia knights led by Wall? That guy from Count Rayland was defeated. King Griffos looked back at the back.
Just in time, you can see the leader of the group of knights, King Graves saw the leading knight, he was wearing a helmet, in the twilight sunset, King Greys couldn't see his face clearly, but judging from the breath, this guy was Walls, this was King Graves' own feelings.
King Graves thought about it, and felt that he had not been able to find a guy in his current army who could fight with Walls, maybe Count Rayland's Drewry could compete with Walls, but unfortunately, Drury participated in the battle today and was exhausted, so Count Rayland put it among the 500 people who surrounded the city of Suno.
So, Drury isn't here at all, and he has no one here to compete with Walls, so is he going to run away?
"No, I'm not going to leave here, we have 100 men, the other side is less than a hundred, we are going to be chased and beaten by the enemy, if this gets out, won't my reputation be ruined, quick, gather my army to stop that cavalry team. It's definitely not going to get them to get a step closer to me. King Graves almost yelled at his men.
The army led by Earl Rayland was actually defeated by Walls, and the army of Count Rayland was several times the number of Walls' army, but Walls was able to win more with less, so Count Rayland's reputation naturally plummeted, but the army led by King Graves was more than 100 people, and if more than 100 people were defeated by the number of less than a hundred people in Wall, then King Graves' reputation was not as good as that of Count Thunderland.
As a king, King Graves naturally knew how important prestige was to a king, so he would never allow his prestige to disappear, so King Graves would surely defeat Walls. At least that's what he said in his own heart.
At this moment, this battle of Walls will surely go down in history and be written about in the big books.