rise of empire total war

Chapter 125

"The whole army set out to suppress the rebellion!"

Outside Luwen City, the Royal Army, which had been repaired for a whole day, set off again and headed west.

Richard was very confident. Judging from the intelligence he had obtained about the rebels, most of the troops blocking his return were militiamen and peasant soldiers with low combat effectiveness. There were only a few hundred heavy infantry capable of fighting in a war. , and more importantly, the number of cavalry in this rebel army was sparse and could not pose a threat to Richard at all.

If this was a field battle, Richard could easily crush the enemy head-on.However, when the enemy was relying on the temporary fortress to defend, Richard had to be cautious. After all, attacking the enemy with defensive facilities would always pay a high price under any circumstances.

"My lord, you don't have to go that way." During the march, Renato, a young knight from Ravana, said to Richard. The latter was taken aback, and quickly asked, "What do you mean?"

"The rebels had already fortified here when I went to Yakik City. In order not to have any accidents, I followed the advice of the local residents and took another relatively unknown path. The path is very narrow and can only be used for Traveling alone, but safe."

"Where is that path?" Richard continued to ask.

"It's just to the southwest, and it's estimated to take four days to get there." Renato replied.

"Okay, Knight Renato, you are responsible for leading the way, and I will let a group of foot knights go with you." Richard immediately gave the order: "After crossing that path, you all find an opportunity to touch it from behind, cooperate The main force attacked the rebels back and forth."

"Understood, Your Majesty the Earl." Renato quickly saluted and agreed. From his excited face, it was easy to see that the young knight was very satisfied with Richard's appointment.

Seeing his appearance, Richard couldn't help but sighed in his heart, Renato is so naive, if he thought that the feudal knights on foot who moved with him would obey his orders, that's really true It was whimsical, that group of proud knights would only obey the orders of Richard or the imperial nobles, people like Renato, who were just little knights, were not birds.

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Five days later, the army arrived at the avenue guarded by the rebels. This paved avenue passed through the center of two hills. The road was lined with low bushes and trees in twos and threes. The two temporary fortresses are very conspicuous, and the flags hanging high above seem to be swearing sovereignty to Richard.

The arrival of Richard's army made the soldiers in the rebel outpost on the road panic. They knew that their resistance was useless, so they abandoned the post and ran back to the temporary fortress to report to their general.Richard was not in a hurry, he waved his hand to signal the army to stop advancing, then gave Condora a few instructions, and looked at the wooden fortress on the hill with interest.

The city wall of this fortress is very simple, it is just a city wall made up of logs three to four meters high, and a small trench was dug outside the city wall, and it is unknown what was inside.

From the perspective of scale, the fortress on the right should be the part where the main force of the rebel army is stationed, and it also has the most flags hanging inside.Looking at the smaller fortress, Richard suddenly had an idea in his heart, since it is impossible to take down two fortresses at the same time, why not attack the weaker fortress one by one?

What's more, Richard didn't think that the rebels would watch them storm and would definitely come to rescue. At that time, Richard only needed to come to a wave of reinforcements to greatly weaken the rebel army.

Just as he was thinking about the next battle, a group of cavalry came out of the temporary fort on the right. In the eyes of everyone, they quickly arrived at the outpost, and then stopped their horses on the spot, watching Richard and him from a distance. army.

After a while, a knight was separated from the team of cavalry. This knight was dressed in exquisite armor, and his face under the nose helmet was rough and calm.He met the eyes of the Royal Army soldiers and slowly walked towards Richard.He quickly entered the range of the crossbow, and Toolagris, who was standing next to Richard, asked softly: "Your Majesty, do you want to order the soldiers to release arrows and shoot him to death?"

"No, let's see his purpose first." Richard also replied softly, and then turned his gaze back to the knight.

At this sight, the knight stopped his horse again, stopped where he was, like a victorious rooster, nodded and looked at Richard and the others, and said loudly: "Dear Earl Richard, I am Ravana Gehrman Corbett, the military chief appointed by the most orthodox heir of the kingdom, Bandak, is honored to meet you, a famous general who has defeated the Ramirez people several times."

Hearing Gehrman's words, a slight smile appeared on the corner of Richard's mouth. He leaned back tactically, looked at the military chief from Corkland, and asked with a smile, "Boss Gehrman, are you leading the army to station?" Is this preparation for me and my triumphant army?"

"If you are willing to support His Highness Bandak as the legitimate ruler of the Kingdom of Ravana, we will welcome you, the great hero who defeated Ramirez's invaders, with fine wine and food, and even give you all the territories you have conquered. you."

"But." Gehrman changed the subject, like a smiling tiger, and said, "If you insist on the rule of the false king, then we can only welcome you and your army with a sharp sword."

"Hehe." Richard seemed to have heard the funniest joke of this century. He pointed to the elite army behind him and said with pride: "My army can easily defeat the Ramirez people head-on on the battlefield. The main force, I don't think your poor soldiers can defeat them."

Hermann was not annoyed by Richard's ridicule, and still had a calm expression, "Your Excellency, the outcome of the war is unpredictable. With loyalty to His Highness Bandak, we will defend here. If you want to cross this avenue, you have to cross over our corpses."

"In this case, let's see the truth on the battlefield." Richard said with a sneer, raised his hand as a gesture of invitation, and signaled Gehrman to leave. The latter didn't say much when he turned his horse's head direction.

Watching his leaving back, Toolagris next to Richard asked again: "Your Majesty, do you want the crossbowmen to shoot? Shoot him now, and we can take advantage of the rebel army's leaderless attack. Attack with force and break through their defenses in one fell swoop.”

"..."

Hearing what Toolagris said, Richard hesitated, and the rationality in his heart told him that he should take the opportunity to sneak attack and quickly solve this stumbling block, but the subconsciousness that has been nurtured by the aristocratic qualities passed down in this world for four or five years made him unable to do so. out of this kind of thing.

It wasn't until Gehrman walked out of the range of the crossbowmen that Richard sighed leisurely and said with a wry smile: "The soul in my body does not allow me to agree to your proposal."

(End of this chapter)