The destruction of the king's army was only the bloody beginning of this encounter.

The king led the Chinese army, and when Sir Kaivon Lannister got the news, there was no luck in his heart.

The Stormlanders were unable to hold back the Riverbend army in the Royal Forest.

While he frantically cursed the nobles of the Storm Land in his heart for being unreliable, he was also making a final effort.

Although he already knew that this temporarily conscripted "army" was doomed under the iron hooves of the Riverwaners, Kaivon felt that it would at least cause some trouble and casualties to the Riverwaners.

In this way, he and the rest of the royal nobles could take advantage of the chaos and flee back to King's Landing.

As a result, Kaivon immediately ordered the whole army to gather, and arranged the mules and horses carrying heavy baggage on the periphery of the army to form a simple line of defense to hold on.

It's a pity that the people of the river bend came too quickly.

In other words, the army in front of the king was defeated too quickly, and it was defeated almost in a blink of an eye, and it did not buy any time for the main forces in the rear.

Samwell's tactics are to be quick as the first priority, and he does not intend to give the enemy a chance to react and prepare.

When the black cavalry spread like a tide, the earth began to tremble.

This horrific scene plunged these newly recruited recruits, who had not experienced much training, let alone the brutality of the real battlefield, into panic and confusion.

Some people just started running backwards.

The chaos soon spread, with soldiers pushing and trampling each other, chariots and horses tumbling to the ground, screaming one after another, and even though Kaivon had the military judges strictly enforce the law and cut off several heads, it still could not stop the spread of this chaos.

In fact, this situation is no different from a rout.

The untrained new army, when it met the elite iron cavalry on the wide field plains, was basically destroyed.

Even if this new army has an absolute superiority in numbers.

No matter how many sheep there are, they can't beat the lion.

At this point, Samwell was in some minor trouble.

In order to strive for speed, he did not take any rest after defeating the enemy's front army, and gave the order to continue his advance.

Under such circumstances, the formation of the Hewan cavalry army has changed, and there has even been some minor confusion.

But Samwell didn't panic, he knew that a large-scale cavalry group battle would inevitably lead to some situations.

At this time, making too many adjustments to the army may not be a wise choice, but can easily lead to greater chaos.

So, he simply followed the current formation and ordered the heavy cavalry to sit in the center and advance slowly, while the light cavalry advanced from both flanks.

These adjustments were made while keeping the enemy forward, and Samwell's strategy remained the same, which was to take advantage of the speed of the cavalry and rush over and crush the enemy before they had time to panic and line up.

A distance of several miles was approaching in the blink of an eye, and the right flank of the Bend cavalry was the first to make contact with the enemy position.

The commander of this light cavalry was Sir Garth "Grey Iron" Hightower, the second son of Earl Hightower, Lord of Old Town.

Sir Garth inherited the calm character of the Hightowers, and at this time, even when he saw that there was a large-scale commotion in the enemy army, he did not rush to charge the battle, but took the lead in taking off his bow and arrows, held them high above his head, and commanded:

"Horse Shooting! Ride and shoot to disturb! ”

At the same time, Sir Garth turned his horse's head and led his army to make a turn, thus avoiding the front of the king's army and whistling through the fields beside King's Road, and rounding the right side of the enemy.

In the midst of the gallop, the bowstring sounded, and the arrows of the rainstorm rose from the right flank of the Hewan cavalry, and fell towards the king's leading army, and the black pressure on the ground formed a large shadow.

The king's army suffered heavy casualties.

These temporary recruits lacked weapons and equipment, not to mention leather armor, not even unified military uniforms, coupled with panic and chaos, the array was also uneven, and suddenly encountered the most classic cavalry attack of cavalry, and the casualties can be imagined.

Countless arrows, with a terrifying whistling sound, continued to fall into the dense infantry camp, leaving them with nowhere to hide.

The popping sound of arrows piercing into flesh was so dense that it stimulated the already fragile psychological defenses of the recruits.

Patches of royal soldiers fell to the ground like ears of wheat in a storm, patches of bright red blanks appeared in the military formation, and a large number of lives disappeared in an instant.

At the same time, at the helm of the left flank cavalry of the Bend was Sir Oman of the House of Peck, who led the same cavalry attack to test the situation of the king's army.

As a result, it turned out that this army was really as Samwell said, almost all of them were composed of newly recruited recruits, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low.

So, after confirming this, Sir Oman decisively drew his sword, raised it above his head, and shouted:

"Rush! Rush up! ”

He clamped his horse's belly with all his grip and loosened the reins completely, allowing his horse to rush to the front of the army.

The shouts of killing soared into the sky, almost drowning out the sound of rumbling horses' hooves.

Under the brave leadership of Sir Oman, the fierce riverbend cavalry drew their swords one after another.

As the flag was suddenly inserted into the army of the king's army, the follow-up river bend cavalry also rolled up.

At this time, the left flank of the king's army was already in disarray, and it was suddenly unable to cope with the impact of the Hewan cavalry, even if it was just the impact of the light cavalry.

In a series of collisions, a large number of royal soldiers were knocked down, and the raised scimitars slashed down like waves, blood splattered, heads rolled wildly, and stumps and severed arms flew in all directions.

The terrible screams were all in one piece, but they were drowned out by the cacophony of sounds on the battlefield.

Samwell finally led the heavy cavalry to kill at this time.

Seeing that both wings of the king's army had collapsed, he no longer hesitated, did not make any temptation, and directly led the army to rush in from the front of the enemy position.

Rows of heavily armored cavalry were like steel monsters, tearing through the frontal defenses of the king's army with an incomparably brutal attitude, crushing all obstacles in front of them.

In an instant, the entire royal army completely collapsed.

It was less than half an hour from the meeting of the two armies to the time when the soldiers led by the king abandoned their formation and fled in groups in the opposite direction.

It was almost two rounds of charges, and the king's army was declared defeated.

And once it begins to collapse, it will trigger a chain avalanche reaction, and no one can save it.

In fact, at this time, the casualties caused by the Hewan cavalry are at most thousands, which is not much damage for an army of more than 50,000 people.

But this is obviously impossible.

The hastily assembled recruits do not have this kind of courage and quality, and they have no idea that at such times, the fate of escaping is actually even worse.

After defeating the army of the king's army, the iron cavalry of the river bend pursued and killed the deserters as if driving a flock of sheep.

And these driven deserters took advantage of the situation to break the rear army's military formation, and finally formed an unorganized rout. Like headless flies, they threw down pieces of corpses and all sorts of weapons and scattered in all directions.

As far as the eye could see, the entire King's Road had been dyed a blinding blood red.

Samwell slowed down his horse, and ordered his cavalry to be divided into a team of 100 to chase the rout, demanding that the king's army be wiped out in the Stormlands.

And he himself set up camp in the nearby fields.

Groups of Wang Ling's troops were sent here one after another.

By the time the sun set, the number of troops surrendered exceeded 20,000, and nearly 100 knights from royal families such as Lake, Stolickworth, Harvard, and Staunton were captured, and this number is still increasing.

Obviously, Wang Junjun has already begun to surrender in formation.

After waiting in place for two days, Count Landau also led the main force of the Hewan North Route Army to converge, and the number of prisoners at this time had reached more than 30,000.

"It's a pity we didn't catch Kayvon Lannister." Samwell said with some regret.

This person is the younger brother of Duke Tywin, the number two person in the Lion family, don't look at his reputation, but he is actually quite outstanding.

If he could catch Kaivon, the old lion would probably give him an extremely generous ransom.

Count Landau didn't care, and said, "These royal lords and nobles have taken enough prisoners, and sending someone to negotiate should be able to get you a lot of ransom." ”

Because this war of annihilation was commanded by Samwell, those captives also belonged to him technically, and he could take the lion's share of the ransom in return.

"Hmm. What about the rest of the soldiers? Especially for the recruits recruited from King's Landing, it is estimated that the Lannisters will not give them a copper plate. ”

"Then put it back." Earl Landau said, "But you must first negotiate with the Lannister family, so that the other party will explicitly refuse to redeem these people." Then tell the news to the captives, and then release them. ”

Samwell nodded thoughtfully, "You're trying to make King's Landing hate the Lannisters." ”

"Yes." Earl Landau admits frankly, "Actually, Lannister's reputation in King's Landing is already very bad. Back then, Tywin captured King's Landing and connived at his men to burn and loot, but the people of King's Landing have not forgotten it. ”

"Good. I'll arrange for someone to do it. Samwell smiled in response.

He suddenly felt that this method was a good way to incite the people of King's Landing to be hostile to the Lannisters, and he remembered that in the original books, there was a popular riot in King's Landing, and the old men in the Red Keep were almost killed in the streets by the rioters.

Hopefully, this time, the people of King's Landing won't let him down.

(End of chapter)