The deep night covers the land, and the dense jungle is even more frighteningly gloomy and depressing.

Fortunately, hundreds of bonfires held up a piece of light, keeping the darkness out of the camp of the army.

"Who!" The soldiers of the night watch, alarmed by the movement above their heads, were drawing their scimitars when they saw a large shadow envelop them.

The bonfire around him suddenly rose and jumped, as if to greet and greet.

"Lord Caesar!" The soldier finally saw the white dragon clearly, quickly put away the knife, and leaned over to salute.

Samwell jumped off the dragon's back, nodded at the soldier, and asked:

"Where is the commander's tent?"

"I'll take you there."

"Okay." It's a black rumble, and it really takes Samwell to find it himself.

Cleopatra seemed to be exhausted and paralyzed, lying on the ground and not wanting to move.

Samwell had no choice but to pat it on the head, "Okay, you can stay here and rest." It's been a hard day. ”

After explaining some precautions to the night watch, Samwell went to the Chinese camp.

Earl Landau hadn't slept yet, and was staring at the topographic map in a daze, and when he saw Samwell come in, he stood up and asked:

"Why did you come back so late?"

Samwell didn't talk nonsense either, and directly said the latest information he had discovered: "I found reinforcements from the Lannisters!" They were heading south from the King's Road, just to the Wende River. There were 50,000 or 60,000 people visually. ”

"Fifty or sixty thousand?" Earl Landau was also taken aback by this number, but then frowned, "Where did the Lannisters get so many soldiers?" They don't care about the threat from the north? ”

"I took two captives, and they said that most of them were recruits that Kaivon had urgently recruited from King's Landing. I also went to see it in person, and it is true that the military discipline is very bad, and the weapons and equipment are not complete, it should be a new army that has been improvised and will not have much combat effectiveness. ”

"That makes sense." Count Landau stood up from his position, paced back and forth in the tent, and said, "It seems that Kaivon is preparing to use this new army to defend the city, and by the way, to alleviate the population pressure in King's Landing, after losing the support of the two granaries of Riverland and Riverland, the Lannister family's current supply of grain and grass must be very tight." ”

"Yes, Father. I think we should decisively abandon Luomu City and intercept this new army heading south. In the wilderness, they are vulnerable, but if they are allowed to hide behind the walls, I am afraid they will cause us great trouble. ”

After thinking for a moment, Count Landau slowly shook his head:

"Nope. It is true that the city of Falling Wood can no longer be fought, but the direction of our march cannot be changed, and we still continue to the east. ”

Samwell was puzzled: "But the king leads the army to our northeast ......"

As soon as he spoke, he realized something and asked:

"Father, are you going to go east and then north?"

"Yes." Earl Landau nodded, "Heading east can leave the Royal Forest as quickly as possible, this is the first goal of our march, and it cannot be changed by the appearance of a new enemy." But after leaving the Royal Forest, we will not attack Luomu City again, but will reroute to the north and go to Tongmen City to intercept the king's army heading south. ”

"Won't it be too late?"

"But it's the safest way to do it." Count Landau emphasized, "Don't forget the trouble you're solving because of the new ones that arise." The Royal Forest is still too dangerous for us to pass through.

Moreover, now that the enemy knows that we know of their existence, the attacks of the Stormlanders will only intensify in the future.

When the army leaves the Imperial Forest, you lead all the riverbend cavalry to the north to harass the royal army and delay their entry into the Bronze Gate. ”

"Is it just procrastination? And then wait for you to lead a large army to come and launch a combined attack? Samwell asked, "I'm afraid you're not even here before the king's army enters the city." ”

"It's up to you to decide whether you want to attack or not. Although the royal army is numerous, if your previous intelligence is accurate, the combat effectiveness should be very poor, you can test it and see if you can find a fighter. ”

"Good!" Samwell nodded heavily, fire dancing in his eyes.

……

In the next few days, the army of Hewan was attacked more and more fiercely.

The Stormlands Light Cavalry has significantly increased in both the number of sorties and the number of raids, and sometimes they even try to steal the camp at night.

However, night action is a very risky thing for cavalry, especially in the jungle with a complex environment, the war horse does not dare to run at full speed, and it is also extremely easy to be sprained by the potholes on the ground.

Count Landau arranged the camp in two circles inside and outside the city, the outer ring was responsible for guarding, and the people in the inner circle were all sleeping with their ears plugged.

After three days like this, seeing that the army of Hewan was about to walk out of the Royal Forest, the people of Stormland were really anxious.

"We must stop the Riverbenders!" Earl Heywood Fell said loudly.

The lord of Fallwood City had a horse's face, beard, and long hair that were grayish-brown, messy and lush, like a wild weed.

"I'm afraid I can't stop it." Sir Kunta Bukele from Bronze Gate looked melancholy.

He had always been so melancholy, ever since he found it attractive to the girls.

"If you can't stop it, you have to block it! We can't let the Riverbend people into our territory! Earl Heywood spat wildly at Sir Quinta.

"Master Heywood is right." Count Astan Selmy spoke up.

The Earl of Harvest Hall was the nephew of the famous captain of the Kingsguard, Barristan Selmy, who had been ordered by the Duke of Storm's End to lead the northern princes of the Stormlands against the North Riverbend Army.

"Don't leave anything to chance." Count Astan solemnly reminded, "Once the Riverbends have captured your castle, they will not give it back to you. So, this time you're not fighting for Duke Edric, or for King Tommen, but for your own castle, your realm, your title! ”

This rather blatant remark made the hearts of the nobles of the stormy land awe-inspiring.

They had indeed hesitated a little before, after all, the Duke of Storm's Breath now had no prestige, and his background was problematic, and few nobles of the Stormlands were willing to serve him.

As for the king on the Iron Throne, few of the nobles of the Storm Land were willing to admit it.

But Count Astan is right, no matter what their political stance is, they have to go all out in the face of the Riverbend people this time, otherwise the castle and title they lose will be their own.

"For the Stormlands!" Seeing this, Earl Heywood hurriedly roared.

"For the Stormlands!"

"For the Stormlands!"

Finally, the nobles of the Stormlands decided to fight their way.

Just after the afternoon, this jungle resistance battle came to the climax stage.

The people of the Stormlands no longer just sent light cavalry to attack and disturb, but the army pressed down, and for a time the arrows were dense like rain, pouring towards the army of the river bay.

The army of the river bend had long been in battle, and the sword and shield soldiers in the outer circle held their shields high in front of them, while still maintaining a slow but determined forward speed. The archers followed closely behind, returning fire without forgetting to move forward.

Even at this time, Count Landau still insisted on the first military goal he had set-

Get out of the Royal Forest as soon as possible.

During the march, there will inevitably be gaps in the shield wall, and in the face of a large area of arrows, even if there is a shield and leather armor to protect it, there will still be casualties.

But Count Landau did not intend to halt the army's advance, even if it was likely to be the most ferocious attack of the enemy.

Seeing that the rain of arrows could not stop the pace of the Riverbenders, the Stormlanders began to change formations.

As the flags swayed and the drums rumbled, the archers of the Stormlands retreated, and the axemen began to press forward.

It's time to get ready to charge.

Seeing this, Count Landau issued a new military order:

"All the cavalry are assembled in the formation, and the whole army slows down, but must not stop advancing!"

While the heralds scattered to deliver orders, the Stormlanders had begun to charge.

The first of these charges is generally cannon fodder, which is used to consume the arrows of the Hewan people and wear out their swords, and at the same time, they also use the lives of these cannon fodder to shake the Hewan military formation, so as to find flaws.

Cruelty, but it is the basic law of warfare in this era.

Samwell clearly saw that there were few people in armor in the first wave of stormlanders, and it was estimated that most of them were urgently recruited people, and after simple training, they were sent to the battlefield with weapons, but their number was indeed quite large, and at a rough glance there were two or three thousand people.

A wave of charges can have this scale, which shows that the people of Stormlands have really made a bloody investment.

In the face of such a charge, the first thing is to stabilize the formation.

As long as the formation is stabilized, the Stormlanders will collapse on their own due to the surge in casualties.

In fact, it was best for Lord Riverbend to stop and fight at this time, but for some reason, Count Landau still insisted that the army keep moving forward.

Even if it's a little slower, move forward.

Amidst a burst of shouts and strange screams, the two armies began a brutal hand-to-hand encounter.

The dense stormlanders rushed into the military formation of the Shanghewan people like a tidal wave, splashing bright red blood flowers.

The patchwork of the riverbend array cost the stormlanders' charge dearly, but their tenacity exceeded expectations, and they managed to fight with a large number of casualties and further crash into the bow and crossbow array.

Fortunately, the crossbowmen of the river bend also wore leather armor, and the soldiers who could bend their bows and shoot arrows were not small, even if they put down their bows and arrows and drew their waist swords, they could fight.

However, in this way, the long-range killing efficiency of the Hewan Army has been affected.

More and more Stormland soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to break into the formation, and the fighting became more bloody and more tragic.

(End of chapter)