Chapter Eighty-Eight: Rescuing Baron Saul (I)
After Ye Tianlong found out the news, he immediately understood that this Baron Sol was afraid that he had been betrayed by those colleagues, and the two viscounts before deliberately slowed down the march, which should be to send someone to inform some noble lords who had a good relationship with them in the Swadia Kingdom.
And the reason why the two viscounts of the Nord Kingdom dared to do this was probably the acquiescence of the other nobles.
After all, Baron Saul is a new aristocrat who has only recently emerged, and in the eyes of those old nobles with older qualifications and higher titles, he is probably just an upstart.
However, this nouveau riche was valued by King Ragnar, and this time he didn't know how to get so many sophisticated weapons and armor, and pulled out an army of more than 300 people.
If there are no accidents, Baron Saul, who has hundreds of elite soldiers, will definitely be able to make more military achievements in this national war than in the previous war. At that time, their titles and realms will definitely be greatly improved.
Of course, those old nobles of the Nord Kingdom can't bear this! A small nouveau riche is about to climb on their heads so soon, and it is even more likely that they will have to divide a part of their territory to reward Baron Thor who has made great achievements at that time, and this kind of direct infringement of their interests is as uncomfortable as cutting their flesh.
So it is estimated that those guys have been holding back for a long time and want to kill Baron Thor. This time, Baron Sol took the initiative to invite Ying to fight, which can be regarded as allowing this group of guys to find an opportunity, and they simply sold Baron Sol.
The question now is whether to save this Baron Sol, after all, Ye Tianlong is not the real subordinate of the other party, so whether to save the other party or not depends entirely on Ye Tianlong's own thoughts.
After thinking about it for a while, Ye Tianlong still decided to save the other party, after all, in his opinion, Baron Sol is relatively simple among those nobles, and it can be seen from the fact that the other party will be calculated so easily by the other two viscounts this time, this Baron Sol is really an honest child! I didn't expect that other veteran aristocrats would not hesitate to betray the interests of the country in order to get rid of him.
And Ye Tianlong spent so much money, and the relationship with that Baron Thor is not bad, if he sees the other party being killed by other nobles, and when the time comes, a new noble lord will come over, and Ye Tianlong will have to spend a lot of money to buy the other party. And it may not be able to be successfully bought, after all, other nobles are much more treacherous than a nouveau riche who has just ascended the throne like Baron Saul, maybe he will be sold by the other party mercilessly after spending a lot of money, just like the Baron Saul.
After Ye Tianlong told his thoughts and other team members, everyone agreed with Ye Tianlong's decision.
So Ye Tianlong did not lead the troops to meet His Majesty the King first, but turned his head to rescue the Baron Sol.
Ye Tianlong's troops under the command of almost all mules and horses marched extremely fast, and soon arrived near the battlefield, Ye Tianlong used the binoculars to check and found that Baron Saul's situation was very dangerous at this time, and there were more than 300 soldiers under his command, and now there were only more than 50 people left, and all of them were trapped on a small dirt slope.
Around the small dirt slope, there were quite a few corpses, most of them the corpses of soldiers under the command of Baron Thor.
This is actually normal, after all, except for a small dirt slope, the rest of the area is plain, which is very suitable for Swadia hoplites to charge.
The reason why the Kingdom of Svadia was able to occupy such a large and rich area on the continent of Calradia was because of its powerful heavy cavalry troops, or shock cavalry.
The so-called shock cavalry is a cavalry unit that relies on cavalry to charge and break the formation, although they are not necessarily heavy cavalry units with men and horses, but their main mode of combat are melee cavalry units that rely on cavalry spears to charge.
This type of cavalry unit can be said to have a great advantage in the face of the Nord Kingdom, which is dominated by infantry, on the plain terrain.
In addition, Baron Thor was still attacked unprepared, so it is likely that soon after the battle began, the troops under Baron Thor were scattered and cut by the other party using a large force of heavy cavalry.
And once the infantry is broken up by the cavalry and cut into small pieces, then the next can almost only wait for death, after all, the mobility of the infantry is far inferior to the cavalry, even if it is found that it is not good, it cannot rely on the speed advantage to break through like the cavalry, and can only be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy one by one by using the advantage of strength.
However, Baron Sol can be valued by King Ragnar, and he is obviously not a waste, and in the face of that unfavorable situation, he is still able to lead dozens of people to break through to a small dirt slope to defend it.
Although the small dirt slope was only a few dozen meters high and the area was not large, it was able to restrain the shock cavalry of Svadia very well.
After all, if the shock cavalry of Svadia wanted to launch a cavalry charge, they had to let the war horses reach a certain speed, but the small dirt slope in front of them made them have to attack upwards when they wanted to attack, and the speed of the war horses would inevitably slow down due to the terrain, and they could no longer charge with cavalry.
And the shock cavalry, who could not charge with a spear, would have lost at least seventy or eighty percent of their combat strength, and if they continued to attack, they would definitely be killed and injured by the hoplites under Baron Thor.
The commander of the Swadia Kingdom obviously saw this, so instead of continuing to let his cavalry troops attack, he transferred more than 500 elite infantry and crossbowmen, preparing to let these infantry and crossbowmen annihilate the last bit of force in the hands of Baron Thor.
Ye Tianlong noticed that most of the last dozen soldiers left beside Baron Thor were equipped with the same low-end version of the Tiefutu Heavy Armor as the soldiers under his command.
Although these armors are low-end in Ye Tianlong's opinion, in fact, the defense power is already among the top on the current Calradia continent, and it is precisely by relying on this elite hoplite under his command that Baron Thor was able to successfully kill on this small dirt slope and hold on to it until now.
However, Baron Thor's situation is getting worse and worse at the moment, because the enemy army has transferred hundreds of elite hoplites and crossbowmen, these guys are different from cavalry, they don't have so much requirements for the terrain, and even if they attack from the back, they can still exert most of their combat power. Even if Baron Sol had a geographical advantage, he would be completely wiped out if he held out for a few more hours at most.
Fortunately, at this time, Ye Tianlong led the army to arrive, and the team of more than 500 people, although not as many as the troops of the Swadia Kingdom here, was enough to pose a certain degree of threat to it.
Therefore, after discovering the arrival of Ye Tianlong's team, the commander of the Swadia Kingdom side suspended the attack on the remnants of Baron Thor's defeated army, and instead carefully dealt with this army of unknown origin.
Since Ye Tianlong is not an official nobleman now, he is just a knight, so he is naturally not qualified to use the heraldic flag that belongs to his family, and the banner he is wearing is still the family flag of Baron Thor, and the pattern of this flag is a simple pattern of two double-edged battle axes crossed by each other.
It is precisely because of this that the commanders of the Swadia Kingdom side feel a little confused, thinking that this baron of Thor is a mere baron, and it is already very surprising for them to be able to pull out these more than 300 elite troops! How can a troop with his banner pop up now! Seeing that there are more than the previous one, I'm afraid there are more than 500 people!
Different from the confusion of the soldiers on the side of the Swadia Kingdom, Baron Thor immediately guessed who the person was after seeing the banner, and he was moved that Ye Tianlong would send troops to rescue him at such a time, but on the other hand, he was worried that the other party would not be able to resist the attack of the army of the Swadia Kingdom.
At present, the army of the Svadia Kingdom here is more than 1,300 people!
At the beginning, the army of the Svadia Kingdom that ambushed him was a thousand cavalry, and in the process of fierce battles with the other party, he killed about two hundred cavalry of the other party, and the troops in his hands were also lost, if it were not for the timely breakthrough to the small dirt slope now, I am afraid that the dozens of people in his hands would have been drowned by the large number of cavalry troops of the other party.
After that, in order to avoid the precious cavalry troops from continuing to suffer relatively large losses, after besieging him here, the other party transferred more than 500 elite hoplites and crossbowmen, so now the Svadia Kingdom has a total of more than 1,300 troops here, and they are all obviously drawn elites, and the combat power is not bad. On Ye Tianlong's side, there are more than 500 people, and most of the soldiers are probably recruits who have just been recruited. It is no wonder that Baron Thor is worried that Ye Tianlong may not be able to withstand the attack of the Svadia Kingdom.
And Ye Tianlong, who was not far away, was facing the slowly approaching army of the Svadia Kingdom at this time, but he did not panic at all, and did not hurry to let his soldiers surround the carriages in the team and set up a car formation.
The carriages of these carriages were made of stainless steel, with sharp spears more than two meters long inserted into them, and a little later there were twenty gun carriages loaded with the small-caliber repeating guns. The melee soldiers who were also artillery soldiers had already quickly adjusted the direction of the muzzles of those guns, and the shells were being loaded into the guns.
Further behind, there were more than 300 ranged soldiers armed with flintlock rifles, reloading their flintlock rifles.
In the innermost, it was Ye Tianlong and his cronies. Not only Ye Tianlong, but also these cronies beside him, all of them were very calm on their faces, and they did not have the panic and nervousness of facing a big war at all.
And although the side of the Svadia Kingdom didn't know for a while what the team with the banner of Baron Thor's family was, the other party was obviously coming to rescue Baron Thor, so it was right, 1,300 against 500, the advantage was mine! Being able to get an extra handful of military merit before leaving is also a surprise for them.
The 800 cavalry troops, which had already been idle and a little panicked, quickly divided into three teams, ready to launch multiple waves of powerful charges against the enemy forces in front of them.
Of these three teams of cavalry, the first team is the most elite, although there are only about two hundred cavalry, but most of them are the ace of the Svadia Kingdom - Svadia Knights.
The remaining two teams, both about three hundred horsemen, consisted mainly of Swadia heavy cavalry.
According to previous experience, after the first team of Swadia knights charged, the enemy formation would basically be scattered, and then the next two teams of heavy cavalry would then charge, and the scattered enemy soldiers could be easily harvested.