Chapter Ninety-Four: King Ragnar's Trick to Tempt the Enemy
After the smoke of the explosion cleared slightly, Ye Tianlong took more than a dozen guards to check the results of the round of bombing just now.
Perhaps because those enemy troops were too densely crowded, Ye Tianlong found that many of the enemy soldiers in the most central position were not dead, but were only slightly injured by the shock wave of the explosion.
The commander of the enemy army, Teswe, did not appear to be injured because he was wearing a thick steel plate armor.
After recovering from the vertigo caused by the explosion, the Earl saw a soldier walking towards him with a rope in his hand, as if to tie himself up, and his head was still a little confused, he grabbed a long sword from the ground and stabbed at him.
It's a pity that as soon as the long sword in his hand was stabbed, he was slashed by another enemy soldier next to him, not only split the long sword in half, but even the tiger's mouth holding the sword was also cracked, and blood flowed for a while, making the earl scream out in pain.
In addition to the Count of Sweden, there were many other low-ranking nobles and officers of the Swadia Kingdom who were captured alive, after all, these guys wore better armor and had a higher chance of surviving the bombardment just now.
Except for the Count of Sweden, the other captured unlucky people did not resist much, after all, these Western nobles and officers did not feel that it was a shameful thing to be defeated and captured, they had done their best in this battle, and in the end they were defeated, it can only be said that the enemy is too strong, not that they are not brave enough.
Ye Tianlong is also very aware of this, so he will let his subordinates arrest these enemy nobles and officers, he used to catch the enemy nobles when he played horse slashing, and then waited for the other party's family to take money to ransom people. This way of making money is also one of the easiest and fastest ways to make money in the game of riding and chopping.
In addition to these nobles and officers, Ye Tianlong also captured more than two hundred enemy soldiers this time, these enemy soldiers he felt could be slowly transformed, and finally absorbed into his own soldiers, of course, if the Svadia Kingdom side is willing to give these ordinary soldiers a ransom, Ye Tianlong does not mind putting these guys back to make more money.
And just when Ye Tianlong and the others began to clean up the battlefield in the enemy camp, the gate of Rudburg not far away finally slowly opened, and a team of soldiers with torn clothes and tired faces slowly walked out of the castle under the leadership of Count Olaf.
This is not to blame Count Olaf for their slow movements, but because the gate of Rudburg has already been blocked by Count Olaf with a large pile of rubble and earth, so as to prevent the enemy from attacking the city through the gate.
It's just that this makes it inconvenient for them to get out of the city, and they need to dig up the gravel and dirt that blocks the gate first.
When Ye Tianlong and Baron Sol saw that the defenders of the city had come out, they all went out of the camp to greet them. Being able to hold out for more than half a month under the onslaught of the army of the Svadia Kingdom, these defenders are indeed worthy of their respect.
What Ye Tianlong and Baron Thor didn't know was that Baron Olaf was even more surprised at this time, you must know that he was originally worried that with so few reinforcements here, he would not be able to break through the interception of the enemy army outside the city and enter the city to join them!
But I didn't expect that this reinforcement army, which only had a few hundred people, would simply and neatly kill all the 3,000 enemy troops outside the city. Even the noble lords of the enemy were captured alive without having a chance to escape, which was definitely a rare victory for the Nord Kingdom!
And at the same time that Ye Tianlong and Baron Saul were entertaining Baron Olaf who came to the camp, on the side of the main battlefield of the two countries, King Ragnar looked at the sun that was about to set, and his mood became more and more irritable, because two days ago, Baron Saul's connection with his side was suddenly cut off, and the other party would send a herald back every half a day to report the situation to him!
Another noble lord on the side saw the restless appearance of His Majesty the King, and comforted him: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be so anxious, the cavalry of the Svadia Kingdom is much stronger than our Nord Kingdom, and the cavalry under the command of Baron Thor is scarce, probably because the return route was cut off by a cavalry of the Swadia Kingdom that happened to pass by, resulting in the herald being unable to come back in time to report the situation. Maybe he had already arrived at Rudburg with his troops and joined Count Olaf! ”
"I hope so! However, the cavalry of our Nord Kingdom is indeed too few and too bad! After this war is over, I want to train a scout cavalry belonging to our Nord Kingdom, not to ask how strong these cavalry are, but they must be equipped with good horses, and they are fast enough to ensure timely communication between our various troops during the war! King Ragnar, perhaps knowing that he was in a hurry here, stopped pacing back and forth in his tent, and sighed as he sat down on his throne.
The other Nord nobles in the camp also agreed with this proposal, after all, the cavalry of their Nord kingdom was really too few and too weak, and sometimes they even had to pay a high price to hire those mercenary cavalry in order to make up for this shortcoming. At the same time, these nobles also wondered in their hearts whether Baron Nasol was dead now.
However, after waiting for a while, these nobles of the Nord Kingdom not only failed to wait for the news that Baron Thor had hung up, but instead waited for the news that the other party had successfully defeated the ambushed Swadia Kingdom army and continued to march to Rudburg.
Naturally, the two viscounts who had been sent to rescue Ruderburg with Baron Sol had sent this news back.
These two guys had been making various excuses to delay the march before, but at the same time, they had not relaxed their monitoring of the situation on Baron Thor's side, so they learned the information that the other party had eliminated the ambushed Swadia Kingdom army with the help of reinforcements.
Although the support army is also under the banner of the Baron Sol family, the two viscounts feel that this support army is definitely not Baron Thor, after all, the other party is a small baron, and it is estimated that the more than 300 soldiers who can take out the previous three hundred soldiers are made up by smashing the pot and selling iron. Where is the extra money and resources to arm another army of a few hundred men!
So the two of them guessed that the reinforcement was probably secretly sent by King Ragnar, after all, King Ragnar has always valued Thor's kid as a well-known thing. Only the Ragnar Kingdom is the only one that can have such a strong combat power, and none of the troops in the hands of these noble lords of the Nord Kingdom are equipped with such powerful and advanced firearms.
And the other nobles who stayed in the camp also agreed with the verdict of the two viscounts after reading this information, thinking that their Majesty's acting skills are good enough! deliberately pretended to be anxious and worried, but in private, he had already sent someone to rescue Sol's kid.
Realizing that their plan had failed, they didn't dare to continue to play tricks for a while, and they all stayed quietly in the camp, patiently waiting for the victory or defeat on this main battlefield.
Early the next morning, two scout cavalry sent by Baron Saul finally rushed back to the camp and reported to King Ragnar that the siege of Rudburg had been successfully relieved. At the same time, he also told King Ragnar in detail a series of encounters after Baron Saul set off with his troops.
After listening to the report, King Ragnar immediately guessed that this must be the ghost of other old nobles, these guys rely on their old qualifications and have always rejected those new nobles. At the same time, the orders of the king are always disobeyed. But because these guys are old enough and their power is entrenched in the Nord Kingdom, he doesn't have the ability to eradicate these old things when he first ascends the throne.
In desperation, he can only slowly cultivate his team while making false promises with these old guys.
Baron Sol is a candidate he values very much, and he is ready to promote him later! But as a result, he almost let this subordinate general die by those old things.
Fortunately, Baron Sol met an overseas merchant some time ago, and gave him a knighthood and a territory. The other party reported that he acted in time when Baron Sol was in crisis, saved Baron Sol and dozens of remnants under his command, and then successfully annihilated the 3,000 troops of the Svadia Kingdom surrounding Rudburg, completely relieving the crisis of Rudburg.
Since there is no need to rush to the rescue of Rudburg, King Ragnar can also calmly deal with the enemy army in front of him.
In order to break through the enemy's interception as soon as possible and go to the rescue of Fort Rud, King Ragnar let his army launch several strong attacks, and the casualties were not small, and the original army of more than 7,000 is now only more than 5,000.
So he now deliberately pretended to be invincible, and began to slowly retreat with the remaining 5,000 or so troops, leading the enemy army to a nearby wood.
In the woods, it is difficult for the enemy's hoplites to rush up, and their combat power will be scrapped by more than fifty percent at once, but on the contrary, their own hoplites can exert their full combat effectiveness, as long as the other party really dares to chase in, he will definitely leave these Svadians with an eternal and unforgettable memory.
To tell the truth, this strategy of the king of Ragnar was not very clever, and several great nobles of the Swadia kingdom guessed the purpose of the other party after the enemy army had just moved, and they all advised their own kings to accept it when they saw it and not to continue the pursuit.
It's a pity that King Harauth has just ascended to the throne, and he wants to win more victories to improve his prestige and consolidate his position! In addition, he himself is also a character who is happy with great achievements, so Haraus did not take the admonitions of his subordinates seriously at all, and insisted on continuing the pursuit with his army.
At this time, the forces of the Swadia Kingdom even have a certain advantage! There are only more than 5,000 people left on the Nord Kingdom's side, but there are still more than 6,000 people on his side! There were more than 2,000 cavalry among them, so it is no wonder that King Harauth insisted on doing it knowing that there would be a certain danger in continuing the pursuit.
The armies of both sides chased and fled in this way, and soon came to the entrance of the woods, and the soldiers of the Nord Kingdom naturally got into the woods without hesitation under the leadership of King Ragnar.