Chapter 135: Garrison Station
After annihilating the rebel cavalry, Richard immediately ordered his soldiers to clean up the battlefield and sent heralds to the city of Victory to inform Duke Roger, who was besieging the city.
The battle annihilated more than a hundred rebel cavalry, with negligible casualties.
The soldiers killed the fallen horses, peeled off the skins to remove the fat, cleaned them, sprinkled them evenly with a handful of salt, and rolled them up. Horse meat to be taken away and eaten in the evening.
The head of the rebel professional is cut off, and he can ask Duke Roger for credit.
Having defeated a small group of rebels, Richard had his soldiers rest in the village for a day before advancing to the city of Victory the next day.
Halfway through, Richard received an order from Duke Roger.
Duke Roger ordered Richard not to rush to the city of victory to rendezvous, but to join forces with Baron de Young, obey the command of Baron de Young, protect the grain routes, and exterminate the rebel cavalry roaming outside.
Baron de Young is a general under Duke Roger, the leader of the Warcraft Cavalry Regiment, and is already a fifth-order knight, commanding one hundred and twenty Warcraft cavalry.
Although the one hundred and twenty Demon Beast cavalry is very strong, they need to protect a hundred kilometers of grain routes.
The scarce number of Warcraft cavalry is a little overwhelmed.
Richard took his soldiers and walked twenty kilometers north, came to a military station where he stored grain, and met Baron Deyang.
"My opinion is to concentrate the cavalry, I will lead the cavalry to pursue the rebels, and Baron Richard will lead the infantry to guard the grain station."
"Who is responsible for escorting the grain and grass?"
"We don't need to worry about this matter, Duke Roger has communicated with the Knight Academy of the Grant Kingdom, and the Knight Academy will form a temporary cavalry regiment to be responsible for the escort of grain and grass along the way."
Richard knew that the Knight Academy of the Kingdom of Grant could be urgently mobilized in a state of war to form a strong cavalry.
Although the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy is not a Warcraft cavalry, its combat effectiveness is very strong.
Dozens of professionals in the Knight Academy, plus hundreds of students who have been trained for many years, have real combat power much stronger than the Warcraft cavalry commanded by Richard.
The reason why Duke Roger transferred Richard into Canyon County to quell the rebellion was to deal with this cavalry that was roaming outside and disturbing the grain routes.
But the Duke was obviously prepared with both hands, communicating with the top management of the Grant Knight Academy.
After the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy was mobilized south, the importance of the aristocratic coalition commanded by Richard decreased considerably.
Richard knew in his heart that after the Knight Academy of the Grant Kingdom mobilized to participate in the war, Duke Roger no longer wanted Richard to take the noble coalition army to the Victory City.
Duke Roger clearly wants to have the honor of conquering the Victorious City alone.
The battle exploits are also prepared to be left to the Knight Academy.
The coalition of nobles commanded by Richard was now used by the Duke as a soldier.
The academy cavalry regiment joined the counterinsurgency war, and the task of Richard and Baron Deyang was immediately a little easier.
After the two sides divided their troops at the station, Baron Deyang led the cavalry to pursue the rebels, and Richard led four squadrons of infantry to garrison the Tunliang station.
The Tunliang Soldier Station is located in the middle of the Knight Academy and the Victory City, 30 kilometers north is the Grant Kingdom Knight Academy, and 50 kilometers south is the Victory City.
Along the way, the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy escorted a large amount of grain and grass, and Baron de Young followed closely with the Warcraft cavalry.
The rebel cavalry fighters are getting fewer and fewer, and the space for movement is getting smaller and smaller.
As if a noose had been put on, as the noose tightened, the fate of the rebel cavalry was already doomed, and they were about to be hanged on the noose.
The only way to get out of the trap is to defeat the pursuing Warcraft cavalry, or defeat the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy escorting the grain, or defeat the aristocratic coalition army commanded by Richard and destroy the grain station.
These three are all hard bones, and none of them are easy to gnaw.
If you can't bite it, not only will you be broken your front teeth immediately, but you may also be caught by the tail and fall into the main decisive battle that is most unfavorable to the rebels.
Fighting at a disadvantage, sometimes you have to beat the strong to break the deadlock.
The rebel cavalry had been cornered. In desperation, he had no choice but to attack the station.
After all, no matter how you look at it, it is better to fight the infantry commanded by Richard.
Just after the afternoon, more than a thousand rebel cavalry appeared near the station.
Because the Warcraft cavalry under the command of Baron de Young was still behind, the rebels did not have enough time.
If the station cannot be captured in two hours, Baron de Young will rush to the vicinity.
This battle is already a hammer deal, and if it is not impossible to break through the station, the defeat of the rebels is already assured.
The military station was built very strongly, the grain was stored in the military station's treasury, the outside of the warehouse was covered with stone walls, and the roof was covered with mud.
A trench was also dug outside the station, which was six meters wide and three meters deep, and the river water was introduced to form a moat around the station.
The drawbridge over the moat was very narrow and not suitable for cavalry charges.
Seeing that the rebels were surrounding, Richard directly asked the soldiers to release rockets and burn the drawbridge.
Seeing that Richard had very decisively burned the drawbridge, the rebel commander's heart tightened, and he felt that the odds of victory had been reduced by a few points.
Because of Richard's quick reaction, the surprise attack lost its suddenness, and the war developed to such an extent that only human lives were used to fight.
There was not enough time to make the drawbridge, and the military station had to be attacked.
The rebel commander thought for a moment, and commanded the soldiers with a grim face, because there was no time to fill the trenches. The rebels can only kill the horses and let the dead horses fill the moat.
More than 200 war horses were killed by the rebels, abandoned in the moat, and a gap of more than 20 meters wide was filled, opening the passage to attack the camp.
War horses are the second life of cavalry. The affection with the cavalry was very deep.
Now that they had no choice but to kill their horses, the rebel cavalry was furious and wanted to cut the defenders in the garrison into pulp to vent their hatred.
The first echelon stepped on the carcass of horses, and as soon as they crossed the moat, a rain of arrows immediately came over.
There were twelve hundred defenders in the camp, more than five or six hundred veterans. These veterans' archery skills are already very good, and the lethality of the arrows they shoot is amazing.
In just a few rounds of arrow rain, the rebel vanguard has already suffered more than 100 casualties.
Seeing that the advance battle was unfavorable, the rebel commander was ruthless and immediately distributed a hundred boiling blood potions for the weakest cavalry squadron to use.
The side effects of the boiling blood medicine are extremely great, and after taking it, the physical fitness has decreased very much, which is almost equivalent to a waste person.
The Scarlet Horn is a cult organization that is generally used as cannon fodder for converts.
Cavalry training is not easy, and the Scarlet Horn has only trained a few thousand people in the past ten years.
These people are elites, and they won't let them take boiling blood potions easily.
But now it was an existential stake, and the rebel commander had the only hundred boiling blood potions in his hands for his soldiers to use.
It is hoped that with the help of the powerful explosive power of the Boiling Blood Convert, the defenders will be routed in waves.
The garrison was breached, and the grain and grass were burned. This rebel cavalry still has a role to play.
If they can't break through the station, when Duke Roger captures the city of victory, the cavalry roaming outside will also inevitably be defeated.
(End of chapter)