Chapter 379: Rangers
After a night of silence, Alice gathered all the vassals and nobles under her command and informed them of the distribution of operations for the Battle of White Rock City.
All the minor nobles looked at each other, and then scolded the king for injustice, and many of them still fantasized about whether they could get a reward.
Now they were sent to the west of White Rock City alone, not to mention competing for rewards, this was completely to drink the northwest wind.
Gervais hadn't made it to Alice's camp, as he had known the more detailed results last night, so he had taken Gandalf to the west of White Rock early this morning.
The purpose of his trip was to prepare for the Jones family's relocation of camp.
Now that the direction of the attack has been divided, their camp certainly needs to be separated from the camps of the other counts.
After all, there is a distance of four or five kilometers from the north to the west, and it is completely impossible to go back and forth every day.
Accompanied by Gandalf, Gervais and his party rode dozens of horses and soon came to the west of White Rock City.
"Father, there is no way to attack this west!"
Crossing the river, Gervais and the others looked at White Rock City on the other side of the river, their brows furrowed.
There is an artificially dug moat on the west side of this white rock, so there is still a hundred meters of open space outside the city wall.
But to land in the open space, which is more than 100 meters, you need to cross a wider river.
The moat is only forty or fifty meters wide, but this natural river is at least seventy or eighty meters wide, and the current is so fast that it cannot be crossed by human wading.
"That's true, if we want to attack, we still need to build a pontoon bridge, but fortunately there is a dense shuttle forest here, and the materials for building a pontoon bridge are convenient!"
"But even if you build a pontoon bridge to reach the opposite bank, you will be within the range of the enemy's bow and arrow, and you will not be able to spread the team at all."
Gandalf naturally saw the big problem in this, and silently looked at the surging river in front of him and frowned.
"Forget Father, let's check the location of the camp first! As for the attack, let's settle down the camp first. ”
Gervais's brows have condensed into Sichuan characters, this system is too cheating.
Originally, if there was no system task in his body, this assignment was the most satisfactory to him, after all, the king did not really expect them to make a big effort in the west.
And there is a big river dozens of meters wide, grinding the construction period of the bridge, they can reach seven days later, no one can find fault, and it will not let people swim over.
But now that there is a system task, Gervais has to be careful, even if the chance of completing the task this time is very slim, but a little use of his brain is still needed, which is worthy of himself as an excellent traverser.
Gervais's gaze couldn't help but look towards the upper reaches of the river, which flowed directly from the west, and then turned a little around and flowed past the west side of White Rock City.
Seeing this fairly wide river, Gervais's first thought was of flooding White Rock City.
However, in the next moment, he denied it again, the outer walls of this White Rock City were all built with thousands of pounds of boulders, and the flood could not help such a city wall at all.
"My lord! There are small groups of enemies in the West! ”
Just as Gervais and Gandalf were about to take a turn around, dozens of rangers rushed to the bank of the river in the distance, and the two teams of rangers were fighting in the direction of Gervais.
Gervais took out his monoculars and looked over there, and soon saw that the rangers fleeing in front belonged to the Duchy of Jean, and there were only eight or nine of them.
Behind them were the rangers of the Duchy of Alban, numbering more than fifty people, and it should have been a combination of three ranger squads.
"All men on horseback, ready for battle!"
Gervais and Gandalf looked at each other, then flipped on their horses.
Although they did not treat the king and other earl families very well, the Rangers did make them feel good.
It was now the cavalry of the king who was in charge of fighting the enemy rangers.
It was precisely with their vigilance and spying on the enemy's military intelligence that Gervais and the others were able to swagger dozens of people to appear in the west of White Rock City.
For they had already encountered two waves of Rangers returning to the camp on the way when they came, and it was confirmed from them that there was no large force of the enemy on this side.
The rangers of the Duchy of Jean in front also saw Gervais and the others, and the direction was slightly deflected, coming directly towards them.
Ingwis: The guards behind them all wore flags.
Gervais and Gandalf's banner is estimated to be unknown to them, but now they are on the battlefield, so Gervais still has a Jones family rose banner in his team, which is also to facilitate the identification of friend and foe.
The rangers in the distance apparently recognized the Jones family's banner and came to their side to ask for help.
"The guards draw their swords!"
With a few clangs, both the guards and Gandalf's guards drew their swords from their waists.
"Charge!"
"Kill!"
With Gervais's order, all the cavalry urged their horses and rushed straight in the direction of the rangers.
Such a small group of cavalry fought head-on without any strategy at all, and just rushed up and crushed it.
The horses ridden by Gervais's guards were much better than those of Gandalf's guards.
As the charge became faster and faster, Gervais's personal guards slowly rushed forward.
400 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters......
The Rangers of the Duchy of Alban were not afraid when they saw Gervais and the others, and did not turn their horses' heads.
Maybe they think that the number of people is not less than Gervais and the others, and they also want to test the strength of Gervais and the others in a wave of charges, and if they really can't beat it at that time, they won't be in a hurry to run away on horseback.
"Kill!"
Burst! Burst! Burst!
The Rangers of the Principality of Jean and Gervais and the others turned around slightly in front of them, skipping in front of Gervais and the others.
In the rear, the Rangers of the Duchy of Albanne were brandishing their long swords and colliding with Gervais and the others.
The cavalry carrying the banner was the first to make contributions on Gervais's side, because the flag was also more than three meters long, they directly raised the flag at this time, and the spearhead reserved above the flag directly pierced the body of the rangers of the Duchy of Alban.
Then came the clinking of swords and armor.
The cavalry on both sides snorted and collided together, and then they were interspersed with each other.
After a slowdown of dozens of meters, Gervais and the others turned their horses again, only to see that there were not many more than 50 Principality of Alban's rangers left behind them, and they could only afford to have more than 20 horsemen left.
And there were no casualties on their side, because the people who rushed to the front were all Gervais's personal guards, and their weapons and equipment were all forged by Mithril, and even if they were cut down, they would not be affected by the Great Shanghai.
"Retreat!"
The Rangers of the Duchy of Alban, seeing that more than half of their side had been lost by a charge, but that they were not even hurt, finally sensed that something was wrong, and immediately turned their horses' heads and galloped to the left to prepare to escape.
"Chase! Don't let them run! ”
Now that there is a fight, Gervais certainly won't let them run away easily.
After turning the horse's head, he roared loudly, and led everyone in pursuit with his long sword.
It was only after chasing for a kilometer that Gervais stopped the team.
And the rangers who finally escaped from the Duchy of Alban were only seven or eight horsemen.