Rise In Calradia

"Thank God, they don't have as many people as I thought."

On the walls of Amila Fortress, Byron stood there watching the army below with a sigh of relief. The flag of Count Tazias was flying in the camp outside the fortress, but Byron had been standing here for an hour. He carefully observed the scale of the camp and the number of people active in the camp, and wanted to find out in this era. The number of enemy troops is the most direct way. Byron was worried that the two earls would gather five or six thousand people for a long-term siege, but now the troops encircling the city are obviously not even half of what he expected. The difference in strength between the two sides is probably less than a thousand. For a siege war, This is far from enough.

"How are we preparing?" Byron asked the officers around him.

"All the people are on their posts, sir, if they are just this person, then our crossbowmen will be enough to repel them." Bandak picked up the siege crossbow, obviously he is energetic and has done it well. Prepared for battle. But Byron guessed that he must have been lazy these days.

"But we didn't see the family flag of Earl Leyland. The scout said that the flag of Earl Leyland had disappeared from the day before yesterday." Fattis also boarded the city head and looked at the flags flying outside the city. Feeling a little confused. After all, when he led the cavalry to raid the enemy before, the banner of Earl Leyland was still there, even if it was raining, he could see it clearly. "Earl Leyland is likely to go back to Fort Garmisch for support."

"Yeah, if that were the case, it would be great for us. They were tired and braved the heavy rain. They were attacked by us and lost a lot of money. Now is their weakest time."

Fattis lowered his head and thought for a while, then stepped forward and said to Byron: "If you agree, I can immediately lead the army out of the city to fight."

"I believe in your ability, Fatis, but..." Byron looked at the camp outside the city and seemed hesitant: "This may also be a trap. It is to lure us out of the city to attack and deceive the city gate."

"It's up to you, sir, but there are not many chances of defeating the enemy at once. We don't know how many reinforcements they will have. This may be a chance to defeat Earl Tazias in one fell swoop."

"You're right." Byron nodded, as if standing a little tired, and walked down the wall.

"We have to try, but to be safe, let the army be prepared and send a few more scouts to detour outside the city to see what is going on."

So in the afternoon of the same day, the gates of Fort Amira opened, and less than a full day after Count Tazias had returned to his castle, Byron’s army took the initiative to come out of the city and quickly settled outside the fortress. , And then immediately attacked the Rodok army ahead.

"What's the matter, what is von Byron doing? Is it possible that he really wants to leave the strong fortress and take the initiative to attack?" Count Tazias outside the city was a little surprised by Byron's initiative. Of course he knew the other party. It may be seen that they are now in a period of weakness, and even the camp has not been repaired, and his brother Earl Leyland did indeed bring all the cavalry and 200 horseback infantry to the Garmizi Fort to summon the army to support, but even so They still had a force of about 1,700 men, and he didn't think that Byron would take such a big risk to attack them at a distance that was difficult for the cavalry to play.

But soon, he knew Byron's confidence. In the previous siege battle, Byron strictly sealed the news and arrested pedestrians passing by. After the return of Count Tazias, the specific number of Byron’s army was still accurate, and the local farmers could only say about this. Roughly speaking, many people attacked, but many people died. The earl could only guess that after a great battle, Byron had at most 600 to 800 people left, because he heard that the opponent had used siege equipment and troops to attack the fortress (according to the locals). Believe that the other party must have suffered heavy losses. Moreover, Byron had left a lot of troops in Serendil before, and sent hundreds of people to Veluga. There was no reason why he could organize an army to attack the city. Even if the fortress was lost, he felt that it was because the troops he left behind were not defensively, and suspected that they had surrendered after resisting for a few days. Count Tazias did not know until now that the soldiers he stayed behind bravely resisted, because in his eyes those were only the weakest of his troops, they were too lowly born, poorly equipped and inexperienced, and he had never looked down upon him. pass.

But looking at it now, he obviously underestimated Byron's strength. Count Tazias can be sure that at least 1,000 people are advancing towards them in front of him, and there are still established troops in the city behind them.

"Swish—touch!"

With two cracks in the air, two heavy and huge stones smashed into their camp. First they lifted a whole row of wooden fences by their roots, and then fell into the crowd with inertia and killed a few. Unlucky. Obviously, Byron was correct to place the counterweight stone thrower behind the city wall. If he went a little further, these stones would not reach the target.

A group of cavalry in red cloaks appeared from both sides of Byron's army. They rode tall Swadian horses and held the Peony flag high, blowing the horn of attack.

"Line up and prepare to defend!"

Count Tazias ordered the horse to be uploaded~www.readwn.com~ Rhodok’s spearmen rushed to the place with their tired bodies. They repaired until the wooden fence had not been repaired just now, and set up the rain. The very slippery spear prepared for defense. The earl didn't plan to leave the camp to fight, although it was incomplete, but the camp was considered a defensive position at any rate, not to mention that they had no time to line up outside the camp to meet the enemy.

But the cavalry unit under the command of Fatis was not stupid. They walked directly along the fence of the camp. At this time, the heavy rain stopped and the crossbowmen had just taken out their weapons. In a hurry, the accuracy of their heads was naturally not good, plus The speed of the horses was very fast, and hundreds of Rodok crossbowmen only shot dozens of crossbow arrows, and did not kill a cavalry.

The horses circled towards the rear of the camp. Along the way, the archers shot arrows, and the rest of the cavalry threw javelins, axes, and other weapons suitable for throwing. The light cavalry used throwing weapons on the Rodoks who did not have a good shield. Killed, while the heavy cavalry used lances and spears to assassinate the Rhodok infantry who had not had time to enter the camp's defense line. In this regard, Count Tazias had nothing to do. Their cavalry was taken away by his brother. The line was not stable yet, and he could not pursue and intercept these pesky cavalry.

But this was just the beginning. When the cavalry went to the sides, Count Tazias saw hundreds of crossbows and arrows falling from the air, and a whole row of people walking under the rain of arrows The Nords, holding a large circular shield, struck the shield with their axes, and marched in neat steps, covering the huge team of infantry and crossbowmen behind them.