53. Fort of the Raging Lion
Soon, they figured out the situation, and two armies came towards them, one on the left and one on the right, separated by more than ten miles, taking care of each other. Attack one of them at will, and the other will quickly pick up, and it seems that the Count of Normandy is determined to eliminate Robin.
Everyone immediately got busy, and the cart immediately began to load the goods, and they were preparing for the transfer.
Robin and the general high-level officials gathered in the house and discussed the battle map, and Wang Qinian was also called into the house by them.
"This time the Count of Normandy is menacing, and it seems that he will not give up until he has achieved his goal. "The two teams, Normandy and Bonama, carried ten bronze field cannons, and the musket corps, from which we could only avoid them." Look, what are we going to do with them?"
Everyone was gossiping, and Wang Qinian only listened to them from the sidelines, saying that he didn't know the specific situation and was not good at expressing his opinions.
Listening to everyone's opinions, Robin said: "Let the women and children be transferred, we will attack the enemy in the jungle and slow down the enemy's movements, but unfortunately we have only more than 1,200 men, although our total number is relatively large, reaching 3,000, but most of them are women and children, and some are old people, who have produced guns and arrows for us, not combatants." Without foreign aid, this battle is very difficult to fight. I wonder what you think?"
Robin looked at Wang Qinian, Wang Qinian was looking at the map, and when he heard Robin's question, his body was stunned, and he said, "No, you arranged it very well." ”
Obviously perfunctory, Robin sighed secretly, Cecilia frowned, but Andrea was unhappy: "At this time, there is still a tuck, I teach this apprentice in vain." ”
Wang Qinian was ashamed in his heart, and a sentence unconsciously popped up in his mind: "A slut is hypocrisy!" Isn't this what he said himself? He smiled awkwardly: "I have an immature idea, we can't be beaten passively." ”
"Tell me about it. Robin's eyes lit up, and everyone looked at him.
Wang Qinian stood up, walked to the side of the map, and pointed to a point on the map: "This is the Angry Lion Fort, more than 200 miles away from us, this is a small market town not far from the Angry Lion Fort, with a population of about 500 people. ”
"You are going to fight the idea of the Angry Lion Castle, I advise you to give up, the Angry Lion Castle we will all press, whether we can defeat it, the success rate is less than one percent, and the casualties are too large. Sam said, and everyone nodded.
"I'm not trying to take down the Angry Lion Castle, all I have to do is to attract the enemy army, make a stance, and let the Count of Normandy retreat and rescue him. Wang Qinian said.
The crowd was amazed that this method was feasible, and Robin said, "How many men? Who of you will lead the troops?"
The crowd fell silent all of a sudden, and one of the generals thought for a moment, stood up and said, "I'll go, at least give me five hundred men." Everyone asked for help, and Robin looked at Wang Qinian.
"Two hundred people are enough!" Wang Qinian said with a wry smile, "I am the proposer of this plan, so let's go." ”
"Isn't two hundred too little?" Robin suspected.
"Two hundred people are enough, and it's not to take the Angry Lion Castle, too many people are not good, lose the suddenness of the battle, but these two hundred people have to be cavalry, and at least a quarter of them are archers, with some magic arrows and throwing guns, I want to give the Angry Lion Fort a false appearance, that is, we have enough strength to take the Angry Lion Castle." Wang Qinian said lightly.
After hearing this, Robin nodded and said, "Okay, I'll prepare you eighty archers, and twenty of them are demon archers." ”
Wang Qinian nodded: "Then without further ado." ”
Andrea shouted, "Wait, I'll go with you!"
Wang Qinian frowned: "What are you going to do with me? You are still with Robin and them." ”
"No, I'm also a knight, and although I haven't activated my sword qi yet, I have a magic sword and a secret weapon you made for me, and I'm going with you!" Andrea said angrily.
Robin and Cecilia glanced at each other, Cecilia nodded slightly, and Robin said, "Then please, you take Andrea with you, she is not a weakling." ”
Wang Qinian looked at Robin and the two, and sighed in his heart, Andrea is still young, you want to use her to restrain me, okay, I'm ready to go, after this battle, I won't come back.
"Okay, but you'll have to follow orders. Wang Qinian smiled and went out, came to the door, as if he remembered something, turned back to Robin and said: "The military strength of the Duchy of Tamil on the border can be mobilized, so as to put some pressure on the Count of Normandy." ”
Andrea excitedly followed Wang Qinian out of the house, and Robin said to Cecilia: "Is this appropriate? Andrea has a good impression of Qinian, and she doesn't know what love is." ”
"If she likes it, let her go, this person is a talent, if you can take it for your own use, you did a very good job this time, and when he comes back, he will be worried if he wants to leave. Cecilia said.
"Yes, he is a talent, since he has come to me, he must leave him behind, he knows a lot about my affairs, but there is no need to mobilize the Tamil soldiers, I think the Tamil soldiers will take precautions themselves. Robin smiled.
A cavalry of 200 men first went north, then east, almost passing by the Count of Normandy, and at night, the camp was set up, and the scouts dispersed, and Wang Qinian gathered five captains for a meeting, each with forty men, which was a relatively large scale.
In the tent, Wang Qinian spread out the map: "We estimate that we will be able to reach Laishui Town, ten miles west of the Angry Lion Castle, at noon tomorrow, this town has about 500 people, I want you not to let any of them go, and capture them all." ”
Goth said, "Sir, we are an army, and we cannot attack innocent people. ”
Others also objected, Andrea said: "Why do you arrest them, it will increase our burden, is it to use them to threaten the defenders of the Angry Lion Castle, it's useless, the families of the soldiers in the Angry Lion Castle are in the Angry Lion Castle." ”
"No, don't you think we have fewer people?"
"However, they are not trained to go into battle, and besides, they don't need to be taken all of them, only young men. Alfred said.
"I'm not arresting them as soldiers, I'm arresting them to make up numbers, I'm going to create an army that looks like a thousand people, they are in the middle army, I will take precautions, as long as they make up the numbers, no matter what, tomorrow at noon, I will go and arrest all the residents of the town, and no one will be spared, this is an order!" Wang Qinian did not discuss with them, but gave an order.
Several people understood and nodded: "Okay, honorable Excellency, since it is an order, we will carry it out." They didn't say anything about an outsider to lead them, but they were still a little unconvinced in their hearts, Wang Qinian directly suppressed them with military law, and he didn't have time or need to convince them all.
As they went out, Andrea grinned and said, "You're so majestic, but this order sounds quite reasonable." ”
The next day, at noon, in Laishui Town, Tom was having dinner at home, recalling his career as a mercenary when he was young, and sighed: "Old, a good man doesn't mention the courage of the year!" He smiled, even a little envious, shit, they were going to get rich, as a survivor of the former mercenaries, he stroked the dagger around his waist.
In the midst of this association, the soup in the bowl on the table moved, causing ripples. There was a knight's troop coming, who was it? Just as he was thinking, there was chaos outside the door, shouting people, neighing horses, and chaos became a mess.
Tom immediately put down the bowl, took the great sword from the wall, and when he opened the door, he saw two knights coming on horseback, one of whom carried a maiden on his horseback, and said, "All assemble in the town square." ”
Another person Ha Lu Ha Da Lang laughed, he saw it, the fire surged up, the big sword in his hand was raised, and he rushed up, the knight saw it, raised his sword to greet him, when a sound, Tom's body shook, and couldn't help but retreat, the knight was just a knight level, but relying on the horse, he naturally had an advantage, with the help of horsepower, the sword in his hand was stirred, Tom only felt that the tiger's mouth was hot, and the sword in his hand flew out.
Tom roared, shook his hand, threw out the dagger on his waist, and went straight to the knight's throat, the knight subconsciously blocked his face with his hand, and the dagger was shot on the chain mail, but it did not hurt him, but he was furious, the sword in his hand was raised, blood burst out, Tom's head flew up, and Tom did not blink an eye.
Wang Qinian slowly pulled the horse, Andrea also rode the horse to follow him, the smoke in the town rose, Wang Qinian frowned slightly, but did not say anything, and flew over: "Report, the five hundred and twenty-three people in the town, regardless of old and young, are all in the square, and according to the requirements, they are all carrying food." ”
"Are there any casualties?" Wang Qinian asked.
"Three soldiers were slightly wounded, and the resistance, seven people, was completely suppressed. ”
Wang Qinian nodded, he didn't ask anything else, there was naturally some bad phenomenon among them, the robbers had to look like robbers, and said: "Let Alfred lead people to escort them, and the whole army will set off and go down three miles from the Angry Lion Castle." ”
A hundred cavalry in front, but behind were those townspeople, men, women, old and young, and even babies in their hands, stumbling towards the angry lion fort, the town was on fire only three or two households, the fire was not big, but the smoke was not small, the team was much slower, more than ten miles away, almost dusk.
Fort Lion, located in the southern frontier of the Principality of Portugal, covers an area of more than ten acres, is located in the throat artery, belongs to the military important place, people can not mix in at all, the city is high and the wall is thick, and there is a protective magic array, it is not opened in peacetime, it is opened in wartime, starting from the construction of the fort, after dozens of battles, it has only fallen once, and the recent Count of Normandy personally conquered Robin, which is even more heavily guarded.
The sunset burned in the sky, and an army appeared in the distance, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, it seemed that there were more than a thousand people, and the periphery was cavalry, and the black armor was covered in the body, and the knights rode forward like two black dragons rushing towards the castle.