"What's going on again?"

On King's Road, Kevon Lannister's tone was hard to hide.

"My lord, it was our soldiers who trampled on the farmland, and a group of stormland farmers came, shouting for compensation."

Kai Feng rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"Find the soldier who trampled the farmland, cut it off, and give the head to the Stormlanders."

"But my lord," said the herald carefully, "there are dozens ......of soldiers who trample the fields......

Kaivon waved his hand impatiently and said:

"Then find out and cut down the first person to step on the farmland. A warning to the others, and an explanation to the people of the Stormlands. ”

"Yes."

Sending his men away, Kai Feng sighed, only to feel extremely tired.

This kind of "army", he never wants to lead a second time.

Now he just wants to arrive at Bronze Gate City as soon as possible and consume these cannon fodder in the defense of the city.

"How long will it take?"

"My lord, at this rate, we should be able to reach Bronze Gate City before sunset tomorrow."

"Okay." Kevon was not satisfied with the speed, but he was helpless, and if he hastily accelerated the march, he feared that more soldiers would "scatter".

After walking for a while, he asked again, "Is there any news from the people of the Stormlands?" Where is the Riverbend Army now? ”

"Nope. The day before yesterday, the Stormland sent a messenger saying that a decisive battle was going to be fought, and at that time the army of the river bend was ......"

"No news yesterday or today?" Kevon snapped into vigilance.

"Nope."

Kevon became uneasy, and he immediately commanded the herald:

"You send someone to inform the front army, tell them to be on guard, and put the sentry horse a little farther away."

"Yes."

The commander of the Front Army was Count Buffrey Lake of Twilight Valley.

In fact, the Lake family is not a prominent family, they have neither a long history nor a strong strength, and they only became the lords of Twilight Valley more than twenty years ago.

Originally, the Darklin family, the lord of Twilight, blatantly imprisoned the "Mad King" Aerys because of a tax dispute, setting off the Twilight Town Rebellion, and was finally suppressed by Duke Tywin Lannister, who was the hand of the king at the time, and the Darklin family was also wiped out.

The Lake family was able to inherit the title and domain of the Earls of Twilight Valley.

Earl Rayfrey Lake has always feared and admired Duke Tywin's iron wrist, and has become the licking dog of the old lion, but unfortunately the licking dog is not so easy to be, at a banquet, Earl Rayley wanted to flatter Duke Tywin's "ability to produce gold", but ended up patting the horse's leg on the horse's leg.

Duke Tywin's cold eyes scared him away from sleeping well for several nights.

So ever since, Count Riverley has been hiding from Duke Tywin.

Before the conquest of Dorne, he only sent his son to lead the army to follow him.

After withdrawing from Dorne, the king's army headed south was led by Duke Tywin to Harrenhal to confront the Northern Alliance.

This time, while Kevon Lannister recruited 50,000 young men in King's Landing, he also asked the royal nobles to send troops to help.

The war potential of the royal leader is actually not large, and it was already hemorrhagic to gather 15,000 troops to go south to conquer Dorne before, and after receiving the conscription order this time, he only barely managed to make up an army of 5,000 people.

Among them, the Lake family has nearly a thousand people, which can be said to be quite hard-working.

Although Earl Riverley did not dare to face Duke Tywin, he still wanted to be a good licking dog of the Lannisters, and he did not dare to go to Harrenhal, but he was still on call to support the Stormlands when he went south.

"The Stormlanders haven't heard from us?" Earl Riverley frowned when he heard Sir Cayvon's order brought by the herald.

For he suddenly realized that the sentry that he had dispersed in the morning did not seem to have returned.

You won't really encounter the Riverbend people, will you?

"Probably not." Count Riverey said, as if to comfort himself, "The people of Riverbend shouldn't be coming so soon, right?" ”

"I don't know, but Lord Kevon tells you to be careful."

"Okay." Count Rivery nodded, and sent a few more sentry out.

Unbeknownst to the Lord of Duskdale, the sentinels he had just sent out had been torn to pieces by the riverbend cavalry squads roaming around, and there was no way to send the news back.

However, as the Hewan cavalry approached, there was no need for sentry horses to deliver the news, and the smoke and dust rolling up during the march and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves could not be concealed.

When the commander of the king's army, Count Richley, saw the cavalry army that appeared like a dark cloud in front of him, and he was immediately shocked.

His first instinct was to turn around and run, but years of experience in the war told him that running away would end badly.

This time, most of the troops in the south to support the stormland were infantry, how could a two-legged one outrun a four-legged one, and the infantry faced the cavalry, once the formation collapsed, they would definitely be chased and killed by the tail, and even driven to defeat the Chinese army for the enemy.

At that time, even if he can run away on horseback, the Lake family will not be able to run away.

Lord Riverley seemed to see Duke Tywin's cold eyes, and then thought of the fate of the Darklin family, the former lord of Twilight Valley, he shivered, and then gave the order hoarsely, gathering all the soldiers and getting ready for battle.

At the same time, he did not forget to send someone to report the news of the enemy's attack to the Chinese army.

There is no doubt that Count Rivery has done everything a good general should do at a critical juncture.

But alas, tactical correctness does not compensate for strategic disadvantages.

When Samwell led the Riverbend cavalry army to intercept the king's army in front of Bronze Gate City, the Riverbend people had already occupied an absolute strategic advantage.

The army of the bend spread along the King's Road, ignoring the crops on either side of the road, and the fertile fields were destroyed wherever they passed, and the army swept away like a tide towards the enemy in front.

After several baptisms of war, coupled with the personal guidance of famous generals of the Seven Kingdoms such as Randolph Tully, Samwell now has his own understanding of marching and fighting.

And the key to cavalry combat is a quick word.

This is what it means when it is said to be as swift as the wind and as swift as fire.

When he learned that there was a front army led by the king in front of him, and there were only more than 2,000 people, Samwell did not talk nonsense and directly gave the order to attack.

The Hewan cavalry did not make any stop or rest, and completed the preparations for the attack on the march.

The tactics were also simple and crude, with heavy cavalry as the precursor, and light cavalry swarming up.

In this kind of situation where the troops are superior and the troops are restrained, there is really no need to waste too much time, and it is the best choice to simply and rudely crush the past.

This time, the heavy cavalry of the Hewan North Route Army was actually not much, only more than 600 cavalry, but even so, it could show extremely terrifying power against such unprepared enemy troops on the plain.

Under Samwell's leadership, the heavily armored cavalry, like a moving fortress, is not fast, but it is the biggest nightmare of the infantry formation.

The king led the army, but he was too flustered when he suddenly encountered the enemy.

In fact, this former army is already the elite of the king's army that went south this time, after all, it is a regular army made up by the king's lords and nobles, and there is no young and strong army that Kai Feng temporarily recruited from King's Landing.

But even so, they were in a mess at this time.

Because the enemy came so quickly, too suddenly.

Urged by the hoarse shouts of Earl Refley Lake, the soldiers drew their spears, but their shields were only unevenly placed in front of them, not so much for protection as for courage.

Seeing that the large array of guns and shields had not had time to form, and that the riverbend cavalry on the opposite side had already slapped their horses and killed, Count Riverley closed his eyes in despair.

Finished.

No one could keep their cool when a cavalry in hideous steel armor rushed towards him at high speed, and it was even worse when there was a white dragon hovering above this cavalry.

In fact, Cleopatra doesn't have much attack power now, and the dragon flames that spit out burned a dozen people to death at most, but the fear of dragons has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of every Westeros with the war of conquest three hundred years ago.

The royal soldiers in front of the line finally broke down, screaming and throwing down their weapons, and fled backwards.

Chaos began to spread immediately.

Count Riverley hurriedly summoned the military judge and beheaded the soldiers who had left the battle without permission.

But it all seemed so futile.

"Archers, shoot, shoot!" Count Rivery roared and ordered.

Arrows flew out of the formation, clanging against the armor of the riverbend cavalry, making a crisp sound, but causing no damage.

Only a handful of unlucky horses were shot in unprotected eyes and tumbled to the ground.

After a rain of arrows, Samwell had already led his army into the formation of the king's army.

Rumble!

With a loud bang, countless figures spurted blood and were knocked out like tattered rag dolls.

The heavy cavalry in the front row broke off their spears, smashed their shields, and rushed into the king's leading formation almost without hindrance, leaving bloody passages that crushed everything that stood in their way.

Samwell didn't even bother to pull out the greatsword [Dawn], just the ordinary weapon he used.

The royal army had little to do in the face of the Hewan Heavy Cavalry.

They were in the worst battlefields, they met the worst enemies.

Rows of heavy cavalry pushed past, and the army formation of the king's front army was already fragmented.

The Bend Cavalry followed closely behind and killed the scattered soldiers of the royal leadership who survived.

The army trampled through, and the King's Road was in disarray.

There was not much blood on the swords of the Hewan cavalry, but the hooves of the horses were bright red and dazzling.

Count Riverley Lake was killed on the spot without incident.

In fact, the army in front of the king had no chance of surrendering, and the Hewan cavalry rushed through like a tidal wave, and in just over a quarter of an hour, they were almost completely annihilated.

The spacious King's Avenue, where strangely shaped corpses were trampled by war horses.

The land was dyed bright red, and the strong smell of blood was almost suffocating.

(End of chapter)