Today's two chapters are five thousand words in one.

"Bang!" In Kadesh's gorgeous palace, the sound of things being smashed kept coming from Kaul's dormitory, and the surrounding female officials and chamberlains all dared not come out, all of them lowered their heads and regarded themselves as backgrounds, Kaul's temper was very bad, and the number of female officers and chamberlains who were executed for trivial matters was as high as hundreds.

"Someone!" shouted Kaul from the dormitory.

A chamberlain cautiously walked into the dormitory, bowing his head and waiting for Kaul's orders.

"Go and call General Rush!"

"It's Your Majesty. ”

After receiving that the Kaul Pass Fortress was breached overnight, Kaul's reaction was impossible, and in the original plan, the Kaul Pass Fortress should be able to withstand the crusading army for a month and inflict heavy casualties on the other side, so that Kaul could calmly mobilize troops and materials to deal a fatal blow to the exhausted crusading army.

In the first two days, the crusading army attacked the fortress fiercely and left a large number of corpses, but from the third day, he received a report from the front that the siege of the crusading army was like child's play, and each time it was a big start and an anticlimactic end, and this was the case for several days, and then he received the news that the fortress had been breached and most of the defenders had surrendered.

As for how the fortress was breached, what kind of condition the defenders of the fortress were at that time, the vague mention in the report is not clear, but Kaul arbitrarily believed that Count Bennard betrayed his trust and fell to the crusading army, and ordered the arrest of Bennard's family, two sons were killed, three wives and four daughters were sold as slaves, and later after learning the news of his family, Count Bennard, who originally refused to surrender, wept bitterly and surrendered to Duke Simon, and asked to give him a team of men as a forward to open the way for the queen。

General Rush, Kaul's most trusted and courageous general, was trusted by Kaul.

Rush walked into Kaul's dormitory, carefully avoiding the debris on the ground, and half-knelt down in front of Kaul and said, "My Majesty, what is the matter with your summoning me?"

Kaul helped Rush up and said with a smile, "Rush, my most loyal general, how about I order you to lead my army to crusade against those damned rebels?"

"It's my pleasure, Your Majesty, but ....... ”

"But what?" Kaul asked.

"The rebels are strong and numerous, and our army still has a lot of troops that have not arrived in time, so we will suffer in terms of numbers. ”

Since the news of Kaul's order to massacre his own people and the return of the former queen spread throughout the Kadesh Kingdom, many nobles have changed their normal behavior and become ambiguous, adopting a policy of disobedience to Kaul's summoning order, procrastinating in mobilizing supplies, gathering private soldiers and farmers in the territory are also procrastinating, and even if they set off, they only walked ten miles a day to rest, and now most of the nobles' soldiers and horses are still on the way, except for the arrival of a dozen or so nobles who are diehard with him.

Kaul comforted Rush: "I have my own way to do this, you just have to lead the army and set off, there will be reinforcements on the way to meet you, you remember to win!

"Yes. Rush replied.

Two days later, Rush led more than 20,000 men from the royal capital to engage the crusading army, and when he led the army to approach the crusading army after a five-day march, the crusading army had already lost six cities in a row with slight losses, and the morale was high, and many neutrals in the north and nobles who were dissatisfied with Kaul sent envoys to establish contact with the crusading army.

At night, at the gate of the camp of the Rush legion camped on the top of a hill in a hilly area, Rush looked at the crusading army that had been holding against him for a few days in the distance and camped on another hill and sighed silently.

When he was about to turn back to his tent, he suddenly found that there were five people standing behind him, and a dozen of his own guards were all like puppets, standing motionless, if it weren't for the fact that their eyes were still moving, Rush would have thought they had been killed.

Of the five men, four men and one woman, Rush took a defensive step back and asked, "Who are you?"

The old man dressed as a robed magician standing in the middle of the five said, "General Rush don't be nervous, we are here to reinforce you, this is the proof written by His Majesty Kaul himself." ”

Rush took the certificate suspiciously, and then looked at the fire in the camp, it was indeed Kaul's handwritten certificate, he put away the certificate and asked, "Just the five of you to reinforce me?"

"Huh...... Unless the five of us are all Sword Saints and Law Saints, we can't deal with an army of 40,000 people, and we brought 30,000 troops to hide not far from here, General Rush, you will ...... like this tomorrow and like that. ”

"Hahaha...... Okay! Just do as you say! By the way, I haven't known the names of you for a long time. Rush asked happily.

The old man pulled down the hood of his robe and said, "Old man Meyer." ”

————————I'm the dividing line that only came out once in a long time————————

The next morning, after each of them had eaten breakfast, the two armies came out of the camp at the top of the hill and set up positions below, because it was a hilly terrain, and there were many hills, and a small river crossed through them to divide the battlefield in two.

The Rush Army and the Raiding Army were separated from each other on both sides of the river, Ouyang Yu wore gorgeous gold and silver armor and a red cloak embroidered with the crest of the Kadesh royal family, riding on a white horse without a little variegation to play the role of a mascot, and around her were thirty guards arranged for her by Duke Simon.

Ouyang Yu pointed to the Rush army on the opposite side and asked Duke Simon beside him: "Lord Duke, isn't Rush the most powerful general under Kaul?

Although Duke Simon was surprised that this "waste prince" still had a bit of tactical vision, he said indifferently: "Your Highness, according to the information from our internal line from the royal capital, Kaul was restless during this time, Rush was ordered to fight with us before he set off, and after the news that he was immobile in the past few days was known to Kaul, Kaul's three envoys a day asked him to fight a decisive battle with us, and today I estimate that he can't withstand the pressure and has to come out to fight with us, right?"

"Hmph! The most taboo thing for the general to lead the army outside is that someone commands from the air without knowing the situation, and Kaul is simply killing himself by doing so. ”

"Your Highness is wise. Duke Simon complimented, then turned to the herald and nodded, and the herald began to wave the handsome flag in his hand.

Commanders at all levels, who had been paying attention to the handsome flag, began to give orders after seeing the handsome flag being waved.

"The archers come forward!

"The enemy is two hundred meters away, and the direction is from three to seven from the left to the right!

"Pikemen, sword and shield soldiers began to form a phalanx and prepare to attack!"

Orders rang out loudly in the crusade, the soldiers moved quickly under the leadership of their commanders, the soldiers in charge of the catapults laboriously put baskets of gravel into the throwing baskets, and the archers came to the river in a neat line to raise their bows and draw strings.

"First column, put!"

"Second column, put!"

"The third column, put!"

"Catapult, let's go!"

A steady rain of arrows and debris fell from the sky and into the positions of the Rush, and the soldiers who were hit by the arrows or the rubble screamed or fell to the ground before they could scream.

The Rush army launched a counterattack without showing weakness, bows and arrows, and gravel were also shot into the position of the crusading army, and the two sides were very happy to shoot back and forth, but most of the dead and wounded on the crusading army's side were the private troops and mercenaries of the nobles, and more than 10,000 regular troops were basically hiding behind and preparing to attack, but the Rush army was a real regular army, and the death of one less was one, and the Rush was heartbroken to watch.

The two sides exchanged firing for more than a dozen rounds, and the archers ran out of strength, and the soldiers who turned the catapult winch also trembled with their hands and lost any strength.

"Start attacking!"

The soldiers of the crusading army, who had assembled to form a phalanx of spears, marched in a neat step to the beat of the drums, wading through the river that was only up to their calves, and walked towards the Rush, behind them the regular archers began to cover and shoot, and the peasants replaced the exhausted soldiers and began to load the trebuchet with gravel and turn the winch.

However, the Rush army had no new force to replenish, so it could only be beaten and could not fight back, and was suppressed.

The small river that was not wide was soon crossed by the crusading army, and the two sides began to engage in short-handed combat, and the suppressed Rush army formation was disrupted and could not form an effective combat effectiveness, coupled with the high morale of the crusading army in successive battles, Duke Simon promised a lot of benefits to the soldiers before the battle, and the morale changed from high to fanatical, and they were all fierce and fearless in battle, and soon eliminated the 5,000 people arranged by Rush at the front.

"Order the soldiers to retreat to the mountainside and enter the defensive line!" Although Rush was distressed by the 5,000 men who had been exterminated, this was a part of the plan, and it was a helpless thing, and he ordered the soldiers to build a simple defensive line made of stones and trees on the mountainside of the camp hill in the past few days, and all he had to do now was to let his soldiers enter the defensive line to resist and lure the raiders to attack.

Sure enough, the 40,000 crusaders were successfully attracted and surrounded the hill where the Rush army was located.

Ouyang Yu, Duke Simon, and the nobles of the crusading army also crossed the river to the foot of the hill, and looked at the Rush army besieged on the top of the mountain, and smiled, as if victory was within reach.

Duke Simon commanded in a loud and triumphant voice: "Attack with all your might! I want to see Rush kneeling in front of me before it gets dark today!"

"Yes!" the herald commanded.

"Kill!"

The crusaders began to attack, because the catapults could not cross the river, and only bows and arrows were used for long-range support, but the crusading soldiers, who already felt that they were invincible, did not care, and one by one they screamed and rushed to the defense line on the mountainside with their weapons.

"Hmph! A bunch of idiots who don't know what to do until they die, tell the soldiers that reinforcements will arrive after a few hours, and none of these rebels will be able to run away by then!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the news that reinforcements were coming, and Rush was usually good to the soldiers, his soldiers all fought back in order to survive and repay him, with the help of improvised fortifications and the intractable killing of the crusading army.

Rolling logs and stones, which had been stored for several days, were smashed into the bodies of the crusading soldiers, and javelins made of sharpened branches were thrown from the fortifications, flying far away from a high position, and happened to pierce the face of one of the soldiers and burst out of the back of the head.

A bloody gravel knocked down five soldiers one after another before the sixth soldier could be heard.

The four-meter-long and half-meter-thick log is equally powerful, and its own weight of hundreds of kilograms under the effect of gravity can kill or knock many soldiers of the crusading army.

Just as the Rush had inflicted heavy casualties on the crusaders, the accurate and powerful arrows entered the chest of a soldier who had just dropped the stone, and then two more arrows flew and hit the soldier in the abdomen and left arm again.

Before he could pull his spear out of the Rush soldier's body, a basketball-sized boulder fell to his head, his helmet was dented along with his head, and his twitching body fell to the ground from the mountainside to the bottom of the mountain.

The battle on the mountainside became a brutal meat grinder, and both sides paid a heavy price, from morning to afternoon, the crusaders launched five attacks, all of which were stubbornly beaten back by the Rush, and even the mages of the accompanying armies on both sides joined the battle, and the battle became even more fierce.

The frenzied morale of the crusading army has become low in successive defeats, and the magic power of the magicians in the army has been depleted, but Duke Simon doesn't care so much, he only sees that the Rush army is also crumbling, and as long as he attacks again, he will definitely be able to break through the defense line on the mountainside and capture Rush alive.

At the urging of the officers, the exhausted and listless crusaders took up their weapons again and rushed towards the defensive line on the mountainside.

When he saw the soldiers rushing to the defensive line, the smiling Duke Simon suddenly heard a low horn sound from behind him, and then a terrible enemy attack sounded.

From behind a hill, countless soldiers in black armor appeared, and at the front of them were about two thousand black-armored cavalry, the leader of which was holding a great sword that could be used as a door panel, and Duke Simon was horrified to find that these cavalry were rushing towards his own people.

"Retreat! Retreat!" Duke Simon ran as soon as he hit his horse, and just after running a few steps, he heard someone shouting beside him: "Lord Duke, His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince has not moved yet!"

Duke Simon looked back, "Prince Andy" sat on the horse like a fool and didn't run at all, "Leave him alone!

The crusading army had no intention of fighting since the emergence of a new enemy in the rear, and the soldiers saw their commander, Duke Simon, be the first to run away, and ran with Saya despite the exhaustion of their bodies.

The soldiers of the crusading army, who were pursued by the Rush army and the new enemy, dropped their weapons and took off their armor, just hoping to run faster, but they were still ruthlessly killed.

The guards who protected Ouyang Yu looked at her anxiously, wanting to run but not daring to run, watching the enemy getting closer and closer, the defeated army on their side kept running by, and one of the guards couldn't help but turn around and hit the horse to join the ranks of escape, one and two, the guards who were not her cronies all ran cleanly, leaving Ouyang Yu alone to stand in the defeated army on a white horse, which was in stark contrast to the defeated army that fled around.

Ouyang Yu is not stupid, but since the establishment of the crusade army, the major nobles in the south have basically treated her and Queen Ryches as mascots, although on the day of Duke Simon's ceremony, it was announced in public that Duke Simon was in charge of everything, but he didn't say that he didn't interfere, but Duke Simon and a group of nobles took this chicken feather as an arrow, and never listened to Ouyang Yu's opinions and suggestions, whenever Ouyang Yu wanted to say something, Duke Simon always said, please rest assured, it is the honor of the old minister to serve His Royal Highness and His Majesty, and it will be good to leave it all to the old minister。

Every day, good wine, food, and beautiful girls never stop, even when the army was marching and fighting, four beautiful maids were arranged for her, saying that the march was very boring, and the guards were all men, afraid that they would not take good care of her, these four maids could not only take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but also relieve the loneliness on the road, including Duke Simon in these southern nobles, the hearts of Ouyang Yu and Queen Ryches were obvious, if the rule of Kaul was overthrown one day, the entire Kadesh Kingdom would fall into the hands of these southern nobles, Ouyang Yu himself didn't care, it was a big deal to kill all these people and pat their butts and leave, but she couldn't do that for the sake of Queen Riches.

Ouyang Yu simply pretended to be a very wasteful as they wished, flirted with the maids, stripped them naked at night and deliberately let them shout loudly for others to hear, and ordered people to collect food everywhere for their own enjoyment, but in the dark they have been paying attention to the battlefield and waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the opportunity to show their strong combat power, only when they see their strong combat power those conspirators will converge, with strong combat power can they bargain with the southern nobles led by Duke Simon, and win her due rights for Queen Riches。

Now that the opportunity has come, Ouyang Yu took out the horse battle axe, slammed it on the buttocks of the horse under him with a horsewhip, and headed straight towards the Rush army coming down from the mountain, she wanted to break up the weak Rush army as quickly as possible, and the best way was to kill General Rush.