When Baron Balian led more than 20 cavalry to the top of the hillside and prepared to dive, more than 20 heavy infantry armed with spears and wearing heavy armor had gathered more than ten steps outside the enemy's camp. They faced the cavalry rushing down the south hillside. They pointed the spear tips in their hands at an angle at the enemy and leaned forward slightly, forming a spear fence formation to resist the cavalry charge.
It is not without reason that the Lombard army was able to march straight into Provence. When faced with a night attack, they showed their ability to change quickly and cannot be underestimated.
Baron Balian had seen the power of the enemy's spear fence formation. He saw the enemy soldiers pouring out of the enemy camp to join the horse-repelling formation. When the two armies were fifty steps apart, he loudly ordered the cavalry following behind him: "Divide into two teams, go around left and right, and gather in the middle to charge!!"
More than twenty cavalry automatically divided into two teams, turned to the left and right sides respectively, bypassed the spear-repelling horse formation in front of the camp and went straight to the main camp.
The enemy's horse-rejecting formation discovered Baron Balian's purpose of dividing his troops and detoured. The spear-repelling horse formation immediately broke off in the middle and moved quickly to the left and right sides. As long as they withstood the first round of cavalry impact, most of the soldiers in the battalion could react and join the spear formation. Once the spear formation was formed, the more than twenty light cavalry alone would not be able to penetrate the camp.
However, tonight the God of War is on the side of justice.
The slope of the hillside gave the night attack cavalry a great acceleration impact. Normally, fifty steps away was enough for the spear and horse formation to separate the two guarding sides, but tonight the horses were much faster due to the slope. Before the spear and horse formation was in place to block the cavalry, the two groups of cavalry had already passed by the spear and horse formation and rushed straight into the camp without fence guards.
The night is dark and windy, with a faint moonlight.
A Lombard soldier who had just woken up from his sleep was about to open the military tent and go outside to see what was going on. He saw a war horse neighing and rushing over, and a knight's sword slashed straight at his head. When his eyes went dark, what flashed in his mind was a black figure wearing a black robe and cape with eagle eyes like hooks.
At the entrance of the camp, he killed the guy who was still wearing his clothes and belt with a sword. He then turned his horse's head and leaned over to take out a torch outside the tent. He lit a circle around the tent with the torch. In an instant, the entire tent burned violently as if it had been poured with kerosene. The soldiers inside the tent who were looking around for armor and clothes to receive weapons were surrounded by fire. An enemy soldier who was on fire was rolling to the ground in the tent and trying to extinguish the flames, but he forgot. The ground was covered with messy animal skin blankets and woolen felts. As a result, the fire on his body ignited the blankets and blankets on the ground, and the more intense flames quickly ignited the corners of another soldier's clothes~
Heart-piercing cries came from the camp...
Art ignored the tragic images in the military tent, raised his sword and kicked his horse and continued to charge north, "Ron Jason, continue to charge, break through the camp and run north!"
Jason followed Atron and rushed into the enemy camp, but he was not as agile as Ron in riding his horse. His horse could not move easily in the military camp filled with military tents. Just as he accelerated his horse and knocked down an enemy soldier who rushed out of the tent, a spear pierced the neck of the horse beneath him. The horse raised its front hooves high in pain and fell to the ground with a thud.
Jason on the war horse suddenly fell on his back and lost his breath, and his left leg was tightly suppressed by the horse. After taking a breath, Jason tried to pull his left leg out from under the struggling horse, but the enemy soldier who had just stabbed the horse did not give Jason a chance to get up. A spear had already passed around the horse and stabbed Jason's neck.
Jason's eyes were full of despair. He did not expect that after escaping for a long time, he would eventually die at the starting point of his escape. He closed his eyes tightly and gritted his teeth, waiting for the bloody spear to pierce his body.
Bang! A crashing sound reached Jason's ears.
"Get up and lie on the ground waiting to die?" Knight Ivan roared angrily and stretched out the cavalry spear in his hand towards Jason. Jason climbed up with the spear shaft, picked up the broadsword on the ground and took off the riding bow quiver on the saddle. He looked back distressedly at the horse that could no longer get up, and limped towards Ron.
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While the enemy camp at the foot of the hillside was filled with killing sounds and flames rising into the sky, a dozen four-wheeled carriages carrying patrol soldiers and cart drivers on the business road on the other side of the hillside were speeding desperately northward. Due to the lack of food cargo, in addition to the carriages carrying some military equipment and grain harvests, the convoy also had sixteen empty carriages. On average, one carriage carried two people and was almost empty. It ran very fast.
Under the moonlight, Odo’s strong voice sounded.
"Bas, step forward and lead the team. Remember not to take the wrong path in the dark night."
"Kazak, you are in the middle and pay attention to the enemy situation on the left and right sides."
"Tuba, you hold back, and you cannot let a carriage fall behind."
< br/> "Read (recruit of the sentinel cavalry), follow me, we will rush to the sentinel one mile in front of the convoy."
h Otto was on horseback instructing the division of tasks for the breakout convoy, while turning his head to look at the light of fire coming from the other side of the hillside, he secretly prayed for the three Arturs who participated in the attack on the camp.
Holding his right arm that was stabbed by a spear, Art loudly said to Baron Balian who had rushed through the enemy camp: "Sir, we are leaving immediately. May God be with you, and victory will always belong to the righteous army."
"Goodbye Brother Art, God bless you." Baron Balian turned his horse around after saying that, and rushed towards the enemy camp again with the remaining dozen cavalrymen...
"Ron, put the Jason, help your horse, let's go after the convoy. "
Ron helped Jason, who was crushed by the fallen horse, onto his own horse, got on his horse and ran northward with Art...
On a hill to the north, Art stood on the horse and looked back at the fire in the distance. He was silent for a moment, turned the reins and clamped the horse's belly tightly, and galloped to catch up with Ron and Jason...
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When Art, three men and two horses caught up with the convoy, the convoy stopped in a small wood eight miles north of Fort Kalk.
Odo arrived at the back of the team, took Art's reins and reported the situation urgently: "Sir, we just went to the manor in front to investigate, and there was light on the manor tower. We were worried about being discovered by the enemy, so we didn't get close."
"Are there roadblocks on the road outside the manor?" Art was most concerned about whether the enemy had blocked the road to the north.
"There are no roadblocks and no soldiers on patrol."
Att took a bite of the dried meat handed over by Ron, lowered his head and chewed for a while, and said: "It's too late to touch the sentry again. I guess there won't be too many enemy soldiers stationed in the manor. Let's force our way through. Everyone, be silent now! Rest for another hour and feed the horses and livestock with grass and water."
After saying this, Art walked to the war horse, took off the water bag and grindstone, pulled out the knight's sword that had been notched during the attack on the camp, and sat on the ground to polish it carefully.
Everyone in the woods was sitting beside the carriage to rest. Kazak took the soldiers of the second team to look out in and around the woods. The leaders of each combat group were also busy inspecting the weapons and equipment of the team members. "Kitchen Steward" Spencer took down the rye bread from a carriage and distributed it to the soldiers and coachmen, while comforting the eight terrified coachmen.
After a while, the team began to rush through the barrier...
Five Lombard soldiers stood on the manor tower built on the north-south commercial road. They were recruits who were temporarily transferred to garrison here. A few days ago, the eight veterans who had set up a checkpoint in this manor were slaughtered. The checkpoint commander who narrowly escaped with his life was dragged out and beaten severely after returning to the camp. This is one of the important channels for controlling the transportation of food and supplies from the north to the Aosta area, so the Lombard army sent a team of new recruits that had just been brought to the Aosta theater to station here.
"Sir, do we want to go down and intercept?" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old soldier asked the commander of the squad next to him, holding a short spear in his hand.
The commander of the squad was also a veteran who had just been promoted. He looked at the fleet of carriages and the few blurry cavalrymen leading them in front of the carriages in the moonlight. He remembered the tragic situation on the northern business road a few days ago and had already made up his mind to kill him without leaving the manor. "Are you blind? Didn't you see that there are so many people on the other side? There are several cavalrymen. If your own people are fine, if it is the enemy, how many heads do you have for them to chop off?"
"Besides, the Commander just asked us to intercept the food supplies transported in from the north. They are coming from the south. Who asked you to intercept them? Go and check whether the gate of the manor is closed. You Keep an eye on the rest of you. If the enemy touches the sentry again, I will chop off your heads before fighting the enemy." After saying that, the team commander left the tower wall and hid in the sentry tower, and the two stronger soldiers also slipped down.
Only two small recruits, who were usually bullied, were left on the wall, trembling and looking at the convoys rolling in from the north and south.
The convoy has successfully passed the manor sentry, and Art has not yet thought about it. He was ready to take Ron Kazak and another patrol team sentry to forcefully break through the card to clear a bloody path for the convoy behind. However, when the convoy passed the manor, he only saw two black heads emerging from the wall on the top of the sentry tower. There was neither a card to intercept nor troops to attack in the manor, and not even an arrow was fired at the convoy.
"Isn't it the enemy? But they don't know our identity?" Art felt confused for a while, but he was relieved to be able to safely break through the last "line of defense" in the Aosta theater.
Atl tightened the reins, turned around and shouted at the convoy that was coming up behind him: "Don't worry about what's behind, the convoy will speed up and try to get to Hades Village before dawn."
hhh After saying that, he patted the war horse with his scabbard and led the convoy towards the north quickly.