At the southern border outpost, what was originally a simple battle to capture the "flank platform" became the climax of the entire conflict.
After the second storming of the temporary camp, the "Dean Army" returned to the camp to make fire, cook, and rest for a midday.
The sun had just set in the west, and the siege army, which was mainly composed of several mercenaries, ran to the south of the outpost to avoid the constant flying arrows from the temporary camp in the north and began to attack the outpost as the "flank waiting platform" of the temporary camp with all its strength.
The outpost is guarded by the border guards led by Simon and Benjamin and the caravan guards who stayed behind. Although the outpost is not large, it has become very strong after the reinforcement of the wooden walls and the installation of jianzhuang and horses some time ago.
After a round of probing attacks on the outpost, the enemy hurriedly launched a strong attack. However, there were barbs on the top of the outpost's wall, and the front of the wall was also covered with various traps and pits. Faced with the attack by the mercenaries, more than a dozen defenders had been holding on for half an hour, and the outpost was already ablaze.
The arrows fired from the temporary camp could not support the defense of the outpost. Seeing that the pressure on the outpost defense was increasing, it was impossible for Art to sit back and watch the outpost fall. So after a short ideological struggle, Art decided to take this opportunity to have a final decisive battle with the enemy.
Matt stood on the arrow tower and observed for a long time. The "Dean Army" was divided into three parts, the miscellaneous soldiers and wounded soldiers who stayed at the camp, the mercenaries who attacked the outpost, and the caravan guards who defended in front of the camp. They were far apart.
“Is Lusignan ready?” Art adjusted his armor and walked towards Lusignan who was preparing his horse and saddle.
Lusignan took Art's horse and handed the reins to Art, "Sir, there are enemy soldiers guarding outside the main gate. We can't rush through. We can only go out and run to the right for a while and then go around to the outpost."
Yate took the reins and glanced through the gap in the wall of the camp at the enemy soldiers outside the gate of the temporary camp, which separated the camp from the outpost. They had raised their spears and bows, ready to welcome the defenders who came out of the camp to support the outpost.
"We will not go to the rescue outpost. After we go out, we will rush to the right side to avoid the enemy's arrows, and then attack the enemy troops guarding us from the flanks. It is best to lure the enemy troops outside the door away and open a path for the sergeant major and the others."
"Sergeant Major, if we can lure these guard dogs away, you can leave a few archers guarding the camp and lead all the soldiers to attack the enemy's rear flank of the storming outpost."
This tactical arrangement of Art is also an expedient. Now the enemy army is divided into three parts. The elite mercenaries are in a stalemate in front of the outpost. The temporary camp is only defended by about thirty teams composed of Dean family caravan guards. From a local perspective, as long as two waves of capable enemies are divided, Art can defeat them one by one. Therefore, he plans to lead the sentry cavalry to distract the enemies guarding the door, allowing Angus to lead the soldiers to attack the mercenaries stuck at the outpost.
After a while, Ate personally led Lusignan's sentry team and rushed out of the camp. They first galloped toward the right wing to avoid a wave of arrows that had been cocked. Then they turned their horses and took advantage of the speed of their horses to rush straight over the enemy troops outside the camp before they could react. The galloping war horses opened a gap in the enemy's formation. The sentinels who had penetrated the enemy's formation did not leave, and kept the enemy soldiers' appetites to attack and retreat. After a while, the enemy soldiers guarding the camp were attracted by the sentries, and under the leadership of several brave guards, they rushed towards the sentries...
The gate of the camp was suddenly empty. Angus seized the opportunity and decisively led two squadrons of soldiers out of the camp and rushed towards the outpost. The mercenaries who were still trying to storm the outpost separated most of their troops to fight against the people who rushed over. After a while, the remaining enemy troops who attacked the outpost also jumped off the wall to join the field battle.
Soon, an offensive and defensive battle centered on the border outpost turned into a fierce field battle...
Master Felix, what about it, we should provide support? It's already a pot of meat over there!"
In a low-lying area one mile west of the battlefield of the outpost, Felix and more than twenty new recruits lay here for a long time.
Before noon, while all the attention of the "Dean Army" was focused on the deafening sound of fighting at the outpost, the clever Felix led everyone to crawl here from the edge of the dense forest in the mountainous area to the west. They were less than 200 steps away from the camp of the "Dean Army", and the wails of the wounded soldiers in the enemy camp and the panicked footsteps of the miscellaneous soldiers could already be vaguely heard.
His brothers are fighting to the death with the enemy, and due to the small number of elite soldiers, his side has begun to show a disadvantage. Felix is also very anxious at the moment.
Looking at the veteran who offered to charge for support, he lowered his head and thought for a while, Felix said: "Okay, we have to rush forward to help, but we first kill the soldiers in the enemy camp and burn their tents and luggage. Disrupting the rear camp may depress the enemy's morale, and maybe force them to send some of their people back to rescue the rear camp, and then it will be more effective for us to charge out."
Therefore, when the conflict at the border outpost reached a fever pitch and the offensive and defensive sides were locked in a stalemate in the wilderness, a team had sneaked into the camp of the "Dean Army" and hacked and slashed at the soldiers and wounded soldiers left behind in the camp. These new recruits may have had poor combat capabilities, but they were still very brave in the face of the unarmed soldiers and wounded soldiers. Within a moment, the rear camp of the "Dean Army" was filled with fireworks and screams.
Dean, who was originally responsible for "supervising the rear formation" at a relatively safe distance between the rear camp and the battlefield, noticed that there was chaos in his camp, leaving two followers to "supervise the formation" for him, and then hurriedly returned to the camp with three followers to quell the commotion. As a result, as soon as he rushed back to the entrance of the camp, he ran into a group of strange soldiers who were killing each other with blood gushing out. Both sides stopped in place.
"Who are you?" Dean hadn't realized the other party's identity yet.
“Dean? He’s Dean!!!” Felix recognized the person in front of him at a glance and shouted to the soldiers around him.
There was no suspense about what happened next. Dean and his entourage were tightly surrounded by more than twenty recruits who had just committed murder and arson. They were unable to fight with four hands. Dean was captured after killing two recruits with his entourage.
"Stop, don't beat him to death, don't beat him to death, keep it for use, keep it for use!!" Felix tried his best to push away the angry soldiers who were surrounding Dean, and dragged out Dean who was beaten half to death.
"You guys tie up Dean."
"Let's go! After capturing the enemy leader, we will use this guy to unarm his soldiers! Haha!!" Felix wiped the blood from his face and couldn't help laughing. He never expected that Dean, as the commander, would leave the battlefield with a few followers to rescue the camp during the fiercest battle.
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In the plains outside the outpost, more than twenty soldiers led by Angus were still fighting a decisive battle with the mercenaries who had escaped. Simon and Benjamin also rushed out of the outpost to attack the enemy soldiers from both sides. The mercenaries' field capabilities at critical moments should not be underestimated. Faced with being attacked from both sides, they could still The mercenaries were able to fight in an orderly manner, and the mercenaries also grasped the key points of the battle. They basically paid no attention to the garrison rushing out of the outpost, but concentrated on attacking the elite soldiers coming out of the temporary camp. The team of soldiers led by Angus began to retreat step by step.
On the other side of the battlefield, the Sentinel Cavalry led by Art himself could not escape. Thirty or so Dean family caravan guards were led by them to a place half a mile north of the outpost. In order to prevent this group of guards from returning to the frontal battlefield in front of the outpost, they had to constantly cruise and attack, dragging down the enemy's position.
"My lord, no, the sergeant major and the others can't hold on any longer. We have to go back to support them. Even a round of impact can relieve their pressure." Lusignan has already seen that Angus and the others are beginning to show their disadvantage.
Yat controlled his horse and turned around, glanced at the few cavalrymen who were still following him, and then at the dozens of enemy troops that he had separated, and said: "No, they have already fallen into a melee, and it won't do much for us to rush over. Now, We can only hold back this group of enemy soldiers to prevent them from supporting the main battle. "Now we can only count on our final support..." Art immediately glanced at the edge of the dense forest in the northwest, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
“Okay, challenge me again.” As he said this, Art kicked the horse's belly and raised the knight's sword in his hand to rush towards the Dean family guards who were trying to get closer to the main battlefield...
Come on! Surrender immediately! ”
“Surrender immediately!!!”
Just when Angus and his soldiers were about to lose their support, a loud shout rang out from a few hundred steps away.
20 or so people shouted a dozen times in unison, and the rhythm of the battlefield slowly slowed down. The fighting soldiers stopped moving one after another. Except for the wails of the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground, the battlefield fell into an eerie silence~
“What’s going on?” At the end of another charge, Art, who was confronting the enemy, turned to Lusignan.
"Sir, there is a shout over there, "Dean is captured, surrender immediately." " Lusignan replied.
"My lord, Dean has been captured? Dean has been captured!!!"
"It's Master Felix, it's Master Felix, they captured Dean!!!" Lusignan exclaimed.
亚特惊醒过来，「哈哈，抓住了迪安？抓住了迪安！」
「你们的主人被我擒获了，赶紧投降！」亚特朝对峙的敌人吼道。
The guards of the Dean family opposite Art were also confused. They didn't understand what happened for a while, but at least they had no intention of making any more moves.
Twenty soldiers who were escorting Dean just rushed into the temporary camp in a strangely quiet atmosphere, passing through countless pairs of eyes staring at them on both sides. Art, Angus, and Simon also seized this opportunity, and slowly retreated to the camp and outpost while dragging the wounded soldiers and corpses of those who died in the battle...
The border battle ended in this weird atmosphere!