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The castle of the Dordogne is strategically evident in its design, and the name of the Sivalier-style name goes a long way to explaining its origins – just like Vavasika, the "Crescent Moon" Dordogne was designed and built during the honeymoon period in Avenella and Sivaliers by the creative and romantic castle architects of the Knights' Land.

The castles in the middle of Avenella are mostly built on the flat land that exists on both sides of the Garril River in the long Neila Forest, and it is obviously better to go down these flatlands if a large group of people go down the river than the rugged forest roads - and because of the mottled thick forest on both sides, this long irregular flat land in the middle of the Neila Forest is also called the "Neila Forest Corridor" by the southerners.

Vavasika was a frontier fortress in the Grigley Rift, and once it was lost, the army would retreat to Ashinir and then to Dowofborg, but one of the two territories was a commercial province and the other was a solid shield, but in reality it was only a relief to fight and retreat. If the army in the south cannot be assembled in time, and even Dowofberg has been lost by the time they are gathered, then the army on this side will naturally need an open and favorable terrain to meet the enemy.

The establishment of the Dordogne was quite in line with the way of thinking of the West Valiers, compared to the other realms of the stars and the moon with the castle as the center point and the combination of many villages, the Dordogne designed only a long wall, all the peasants and town buildings in it—this long crescent-shaped wall covered a large area facing north, and the three open gates above and the flat land reserved in front of it were obviously designed to facilitate the cavalry charge.

Although it is only a marquis, and the noble cavalry it usually has is not much more than that of Dawofberg, but it was designed with the space required for the deployment of one or more duke-level troops at the beginning of its design, so when Grand Duke Duran led nearly two thousand heavy cavalry and tens of thousands of militia here, they lined up in front of the crescent moon city wall, which looked really imposing.

The central part of Avenella had a little more heavy cavalry than the north, and Edward had a lot of men in Ashenir and Vavasika and Fort Ellen in order to be prepared, so although the army on their side far outnumbered the opposing coalition in total numbers, it was actually quite difficult to use this advantage when it came to operation.

According to the original plan, the cavalry must preserve its strength in order to cope with the cavalry of more than 3,500 men and the elite knights of the royal capital who still exist in the two grand dukes, so the main force of the battle will inevitably be the archers and melee infantry composed of the militia - in fact, this is the real right thing to do in a large-scale war, the cavalry certainly has a strong impact power, but it is obvious that the charge with full armor cannot last forever. Therefore, such a frontal battlefield advance is obviously the work of the infantry, the two are matched with each other, the infantry pushes the line frontally, and the cavalry is used as a flank to intrude and cover their own infantry is the traditional war of the West Coast people, such as the previous situation when Sivalier was intercepted by Yavenella, in addition to being caught off guard by ignorance of the terrain, arrogance to think that the cavalry can conquer everything is also a very important cause of defeat.

It's just that for now, Edward really hopes that he can also have more than 10,000 cavalry like Sivalier.

Now that the cavalry under their command is not able to exert an overwhelming advantage over the coalition forces, they can only choose to fill in this open territory that is the home of the cavalry. The opposing army also has infantry, although most of the militia archers who only pick up farm tools and inferior wooden shields are much smaller than on this side, and the formation is also crooked—but don't forget, the only people who have been trained and experienced the war in the real sense of the word are only more than 30,000 to 40,000 veterans who fought more than a year ago, and this part of the people still has 13,000 left in Vavasika, and only 26,000 have set out with the army.

Among the remaining tens of thousands of people, there are nearly 10,000 low-level mercenaries with some experience, these people can be used as a good force if they play well, but the result of giving them trust is often in exchange for betrayal, mercenaries are synonymous with indiscipline, and if they are reused wrongly, the damage will be greater.

Fight for your dreams, for your freedom, for your homeland, for your own life. Edward's militia was psychologically stronger, but physically they were not much different from the other peasants, except for the peasants in the north, the rest of the refugees and the like were also emaciated and weak, and they were only in Dowwolfberg before, and when everyone had to be prepared for a fierce battle on this side, it was impossible to say whether any of them would run away and have a mental breakdown.

An army of nearly 120,000 men remained on the edge of the Dordogne, and the logistics and supplies who had been assigned before became more familiar with everything as they marched along the way, and many of them who had learned some numbers were given the position of management class to calculate the daily consumption of various food for this huge army, and it was only at this moment that Edward clearly realized how terrible the cost of war was.

If the soldiers are not fed, they will not have combat effectiveness. In order to feed such an army of 100,000 people, thousands of livestock had to be slaughtered every day. The average person needs at least 500 grams of flour per day to make bread, and this figure multiplied by 120,000 becomes extremely staggering. The queue of animals pulling carts is very long, and these animals need to be cared for by people, and they need to eat grass and drink.

Taking care of and slaughtering livestock, driving to lead the logistics and transportation team forward, making meals, accommodation arrangements, these various problems need to be solved by manpower, and the army of 120,000 people seems to be strong, but in fact, the pressure of logistics and the various materials consumed are also rising in a straight line. Although it has the affluent Acasta Plains as a backing, if such a large combat force is maintained for too long, and no one returns to the countryside to farm, even if Edward wins the Arvenella, the prospects are worrying.

Fighting a civil war that emptied the whole country and made the people miserable was the worst outcome, but these entrenched nobles in the south could not be persuaded by reason. So they could only choose to resort to force, but under such a fierce logistical attrition, they had to fight quickly and save the strength of both sides from a tragic victory and excessive casualties, and when they encountered this tough battle in the Dordogne, their side was obviously unwilling and could only bite the bullet, and after the army was replenished on the spot for a short period of time, they marched towards the combined forces of the Duke and the Marquis.

Grand Duke Durand is a notoriously stone-like duke in the central part of the country, and in addition to being a man of few words, he is also stubborn, like a rock. As a result, there was no messenger exchange between the two sides, and the previous use of ships to transport with the help of water saved a great deal of marching pressure, so that Edward's side was able to recover most of his energy after only a short period of recuperation, and not to be attacked in exhaustion.

And just like that, at the end of April, on the plains of the crescent-like walls of the Marquis of Dordogne in the south of Avenella, divided into several legions under the command of high and bright battle flags, the armies of both sides began an absolute head-to-head confrontation.

This battle could not be regarded as a siege in the strict sense, because of the special environment of the Dordogne's territory, it was not a castle surrounded by all directions, but only one wall, but the horizontal coverage of the city wall for a long distance, plus the front came to intercept the army, so it was basically impossible for Edward and them to continue to march south, and the supply line from Ashinier's side to this place had become longer and longer, and it was becoming more and more difficult to supply, all kinds of reasons prompted them to take the Dordogne as a bridgehead to continue the attack。

Compared with Dow Wolfberg's siege, the time consumed in this battle will be greatly reduced, but this is not a good thing, because as the price of time decline, the army is facing the situation that Edward is most unwilling to see, the negative effects of casualties are extremely terrible, all kinds of wounds, infections, treatment, wounded transportation, etc., will cause greater logistical challenges, and the resulting blow to morale is also quite terrible.

Fortunately, Edward had Henry and Lesky in the present, even at the moment, this situation can only be hard no matter what, just like the logistics troops, the configuration has been arranged earlier, and now after a month of time, the run-in period has passed, and the relatively well-coordinated army is divided into several groups under the command of the two of them, and the level is much higher than that of the princely coalition army on the opposite side, although it is still a little immature, but the regiments that have a certain degree of order and cooperate with each other are much higher than the overall military appearance of the princely coalition army opposite.

"Command Viscount Robinson on the left flank, the phalanx of longbowmen to move towards the forest on the left and occupy the high ground. Lesky said that it was obviously not advisable to use the rider's herald command in the frontal battlefield as in the previous preparation stage, so they improvised a wooden platform next to the headquarters, and the flag bearer standing above received the message and raised the brightly colored flag, and used the visual signal flag to convey the instructions from a distance.

In fact, even the various battle flags are derived from the experience of the Luoan people, and these colorful flags and family coats of arms are made during the operation as the instructions for action and the identification of the major phalanxes. The huge banner fluttering in the wind and can be seen from afar is more rapid and effective than any other signal, and each phalanx has specially arranged a well-eyed mountain scout as a special flag interpreter, and a simple family coat of arms plus several colors of flags can be waved to become an instant command of what to do in a general direction, although because of the gap in people's individual comprehension ability, there will still be some problems in the execution of this order, but in the end it is much better than the general militia team that is messy and chasing ducks on the shelves of the Gonghou coalition army。

"The flank cavalry stretched forward, and the infantry phalanx in the center advanced. Lesky's orders were issued, and in front of the mixed infantry, which was the central phalanx that had to gnaw the hardest bones, in front were mercenaries and militiamen armed with shields and spears, and in the rear were the most elite longbowmen who had defeated Sivalier, who had experienced the battle more than a year ago, and now looked like veterans, and with these people in the rear, the camp composed of the militia and the junior mercenaries in front of them seemed much more stable.

One side was relatively orderly, while the other was in disarray, and after the infantry had come close to each other at a considerable distance, the war drummers on Edward's side, who had stayed in the midst of the 10,000-strong army, began to beat the drums of war.

"For Avenella!" their presence was clearly of great use in mobilizing morale, the roar of the powerful war drums and the neat shouting made the militiamen on the opposite side look at each other with obvious timidity and hesitation, and the Marquis of Dordogne, who was behind them on horseback and heavy cavalry, was at a loss, he had no experience commanding an army of this size, but this battle was not commanded by him.

Archduke Durán is one of the three dukes of Avenella, and at the age of sixty-seven, even if he has never commanded a legion, he still has some of the pride of being a nobleman and basic experience in leading troops, and the hoplites under his command are in the same vein as the West Valiers, and they also have combat capabilities that cannot be ignored. A stubborn but brave duke with 2,000 cavalry can do a lot of damage, and the 40,000 infantry and archers that exist as the main formation can easily be overwhelmed and scattered by them if one is not careful.

He wasn't as experienced as the Luoans, and he hadn't experienced much of a scene, but the instincts he had cultivated over the years of fighting still enabled Grand Duke Duran to read the other party's intentions - after all, strategy is always similar, nothing more than outflanking and splitting the impact, and the really difficult thing is how to convey his intentions accurately and in a timely manner-

Edward's militia was on the same side as him, and the Coalition was really just a duck on the shelf. Archduke Durand was as taciturn as people had heard, but his mind was not sluggish, and after knowing that he could not match Edward's side in commanding the army, the Archduke handed over the command of the infantry to the Marquis of Dordogne, and after leaving a brief "let them advance", he took the cavalry from the squire, held it up and stuck it on the hook on the right side of the breastplate, balanced it, and then pulled the reins and led the two thousand cavalry to advance forward.

“...... Forward, forward!" the Marquis of Dordogne, who was only in his thirties, waved his sword with sweat on his face as he sent the chaotic infantry forward, while on the other side, Lekis, Henry, and Edward, who were aware of the entrance of the opposing cavalry, sighed in unison.

“...... It seems that it is still the work of our cavalry. Charles, who was heavily armed, turned back to his son and the knights next to him and smiled bitterly, and then put on his visor as well.

The horse's hooves splashed, and the first arrow from the left flank fell from high in the air towards the infantry on the coalition side and was blocked by the shields that had been guarded against it.

This bloody battle began. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.