Chapter Forty-Eight: A Strategy for Exhausting the Enemy
In the camp, Evan carefully scrutinized with each captain, assigned their own tasks to them, and told them some things to pay attention to when fighting.
After saying everything, the entire camp was like a machine, slowly running to show its power to everyone who underestimated the Snapdragon Army.
Looking at the various squads that gradually disappeared into the distance, Ai Wen felt a lot of emotion in his heart, wondering if his plan would succeed after this battle. If it succeeds, the reputation of the Snapdragon Army may spread throughout the two warring countries, but I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
"Your Excellency, are you worried about them?" Ickert, who was beside him, asked cautiously.
"To say no, to say no is to deceive yourself. But from now on, you will have to be on your own, not only will you learn to find the best way to do it independently, but I will also learn to trust you and believe that you can accomplish the task alone." Evan said without looking back.
Near the border, the East Anglolian barracks.
More than a dozen nobles gathered to discuss the current state of the war. Near them, more than 300 East Anglolian soldiers were setting up camp for the night, and judging from the progress, the whole camp was already taking shape, and it was sure to be completed before dark.
"What a shame on that fool Manan, if he can't hold out, how can those enemies take Sika Castle. Three generations of his grandfather and father had built the castle as it was today, but he lost it in one night. When I think about it now, I feel angry."
An East Anglolian nobleman scolded indignantly. The people around him glanced at him with contempt, and sneered secretly in their hearts, who doesn't know that you are a castle of greedy people, and now you still say such things.
However, no one showed any abnormality, just looked at the Earl of Suffolk, who was sitting at the top. The latter frowned, looked at the map for a long time, and did not say a word.
"I've always had a question, do you really think there are many enemies?"
The words of the Earl of Suffolk surprised all the nobles present. Many people immediately began to wonder why the Earl of Suffolk said this, and whether there was any deep meaning. But after thinking about it for a long time, everyone didn't understand why their Earl said this.
"I don't know what you mean?"
After a while, the nobles asked the Earl of Suffolk why. The Earl of Suffolk was about to answer, when suddenly several screams rang out from the outskirts of the camp.
It didn't take long to hear the sentinels around the camp shouting loudly about the enemy attack, calling everywhere for the levies who were building the camp to gather to defend against the enemy.
The Earl of Suffolk was taken aback, quickly got up, and with the help of his attendants, put on his armor and went straight to the place where he was attacked by the enemy.
When the Earl of Suffolk arrived at the scene, he found no sign of the enemy, and there were several corpses of his own soldiers lying on the ground. Judging by the arrows stuck in the corpse, it should have been shot by the enemy from a distance.
"These bunch of crumbs!"
The Earl of Suffolk scolded angrily, looked around, and found no trace of the enemy, so he could only return in a huff. As soon as he sat down, before he could drink his saliva, his subordinates came to report that the soldiers patrolling the camp on the other side were also attacked by unknown people.
The Earl of Suffolk twitched in the face, and he didn't have to think about it to know that the enemy army must have been wandering around just now.
"Send out eighty soldiers to expand the patrol, and the others speed up the establishment of camps. The enemy just wants us to not be able to set up camp, who dares to be slow, and execute them directly!"
The Earl of Suffolk, who was holding his breath, returned to his tent in a rage. Seeing this, several nobles also swallowed the words on their lips, and the province was scolded by the Earl of Suffolk, who was in a bad mood.
After a while, another subordinate came to report that two unidentified troops had been found around the camp, but they had driven them away. Hearing this, the Earl of Suffolk, who was full of anger, finally looked better.
The setting sun gradually put away the last rays, Suffolk walked around the camp, saw the camps that had been built around him, and finally put down the big stone in his heart, he had been marching all day today, not to mention others, even he himself was very tired.
But at dusk, he was harassed again, and more than a dozen soldiers died on his side in vain. Although the attack did not last long, it terrified the entire camp. Many of the soldiers looked panicked, which undoubtedly made the Earl of Suffolk lose his face.
At night, the entire camp was bathed in moonlight, and most of them were in a sweet dream, except for a few soldiers on duty who stood on the watchtower, and some patrolling soldiers who walked back and forth in the camp.
On one of the watchtowers, the sentry yawned and rubbed his sleepy eyes, hoping that he would be more awake.
Sou...... Suddenly there was a sound of breaking wind in the night sky, and an arrow struck the sentinel's head with precision. Boom, the sentry fell to the ground, desperately trying to scream, but couldn't make a sound.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
In the night sky, a terrible sound seemed to pierce the night sky. The entire East Anglorian military camp was boiling in an instant, and many soldiers were awakened in their sleep, hurriedly picked up the weapons around them, and ran out of their tents.
In the middle of the tent, the Earl of Suffolk was also awakened, and in a hurry he hurriedly called his attendants, asked them to put on their armor, and looked anxiously outside while urging.
When the Earl of Suffolk and several other nobles arrived at the camp with their elites, they found only two or three soldiers who had been shot, as well as the long-dead sentries on the watchtower. Outside the camp, it was pitch black, there was no sound, only a small animal that came out from time to time.
"Beasts, all beasts who deserve to go to hell!"
The Earl of Suffolk scolded angrily, venting the anger in his heart. However, before he could curse a few words, suddenly the sound of arrows sounded in the night sky.
Whoosh, the Earl of Suffolk who heard the sound of breaking the air felt numb in his scalp, and subconsciously hid behind the attendants beside him. The attendants around them also hurriedly raised their shields, trying to block the arrows that came from nowhere.
"Ah! I've been shot!" "Help!"
While many East Anglolian soldiers raised their shields, the conscripts were not so lucky, and many fell to the ground with arrows and screams.
The arrows soon stopped, presumably the enemy troops outside the camp had left. However, the East Anglolian soldiers in the camp were still on the lookout for the reappearance of the enemy who had been hiding in the night.
The Earl of Suffolk, who had been nearly killed, returned to his tent under the protection of his attendants, and he gradually recovered when he heard the noise outside fade away.
"Quick, order everyone not to sleep tonight, to prevent the enemy army from coming to attack again!"
The Earl of Suffolk, who had not slept all night, ordered the army to hurry forward as soon as it was dawn, and after all that happened last night, he no longer wanted to stay in this place anymore, and after conquering Sika Castle as soon as possible, he would have completed his mission.
When the time comes, no matter how harassed by the enemy, as long as you stay in the castle, you will be fine. The tired East Anglolian army slowly packed up their camp and continued on the unknown road, heading for Sika Castle.
At noon, the East Anglolian army, which finally couldn't stand the fatigue, didn't even eat lunch, and fell directly to the side of the road, and the sound of whirring resounded through the forest.
Whatever the Earl of Suffolk and other nobles used, the levies refused to go one step further. In desperation, the Earl of Suffolk had no choice but to allow the soldiers to rest on the side of the road.
I don't know if it was because the enemy who attacked last night was tired, or if it was God's protection. Until the afternoon, the Earl of Suffolk had not been attacked or harassed in any way. Overjoyed, the Earl of Suffolk hurriedly commanded his army to continue to advance, and as he advanced, he silently prayed to God.
"Ahh
There were screams again from the front of the army, and the Earl of Suffolk was startled and hurried to the front of the army. As soon as he got to the front, he found that it was a nobleman on horseback, and the horse got into a pit and threw the knight on his back out.
Seeing that he was covered in blood, the Earl of Suffolk felt a burst of fire, how could he fall into the pit while riding a horse, are his subordinates like this?
"Damn it! Hurry up and get a few people to help him up."
Several attendants hurriedly went over to help the nobleman who had fallen off his horse to his feet, but when they approached, they found that the nobleman seemed to have been injured and had lost his breath.
The Earl of Suffolk had no choice but to bury him hastily on the side of the road and continue to urge the army forward. But when he always had something abnormal in his heart, it was as if someone in the dark had been watching him and watching his every move......