"Sir, the deputy commander of the legion has sent someone to question us again, saying that if we don't rush to the ambush site, it will be too late. The Lombards have already packed their things and are about to set off." Ron came to Art, who was holding a small piece of rye bread and slowly chewing it.
"They are all a bunch of greedy guys. Do they really think that the Lombards are so easy to deal with? If the Lombards were so easily ambushed, the flag on Solburg should have been changed long ago." Angus was already a little annoyed by the urging of the deputy commander of the legion.
"I am not sure whether the Lombards will be ambushed, but it is undeniable that they will abandon the city and retreat. Just now our soldiers on guard near the south gate urgently reported that the Lombard baggage train has begun to leave the south gate, and all the defenders on the four walls of Solburg have withdrawn. They are probably gathering in the south city to abandon the city and return south."
“The adjutant of the legion is leading two flag teams and a cavalry team around the west gate to the south city. One is to monitor the Lombards leaving the city, and the other is that once the Lombards evacuate Solburg, they will immediately take over Solburg from the south gate with the city gate wide open in case something changes.” Ron also felt that there was no problem with the Lombards abandoning the city.
When faced with a siege and the enemy soldiers abandoning the city, it is also in line with normal logic to let the heavy supplies leave first, and then make the final evacuation after the army behind them confirms their safety, so Art is somewhat doubtful of his guess at this moment.
Angus saw Art's wavering and asked softly: "Sir, how about we take a small road and rush to the ambush point set by the legion commander. Even if we fail to ambush the Lombards in the end, the legion commander can explain it to us."
Ate hesitated for a moment, sighed, and said, "Okay, we will rush there after the Lombard army leaves the southern city -"
Ate suddenly paused.
"Listen! What's the sound? Is it an enemy horn!!!"
Att pricked up his ears and listened.
Hum~Buzz~Buzz~
Hum~Several enemy horn blasts came to the edge of the dense forest southeast of Solburg.
"Not good!!! The enemy horn came from the North City!!!" Angus exclaimed.
"Odo! Assemble the army! Enter combat status and march towards the North City!!!" Art ordered towards Odo.
"Sergeant major, you personally lead the sentries and cavalry to the north city first. Don't rush to fight. I will follow with the infantry."
Angus took the order, quickly took off the feed bag from the horse's head, took the reins and jumped on the horse's back to lead the sentry team towards the north city... Many elite Lombard soldiers charged towards the garrison camp of the Eastern Legion. Following von Bilen closely were the thirty or so Lombard heavy infantry wearing half-body plate armor. However, unlike ordinary infantry, these people charged on horseback. They would reserve their physical strength for the critical moments of the charge.
Von Bilen was very wily and calculating. He first used 150,000 pfennigs of gold cakes, silver coins and precious goods to relax the vigilance of the besieging army, and then sent people to escort about ten cars of "valuable" baggage to evacuate from the south gate first, making the besieging enemy think that they had supplies ahead of them, and the army would inevitably evacuate Solburg.
When the adjutant of the Eastern Army was fully convinced that the Lombards had begun to evacuate and rushed to the south city with two flag regiments and nearly two hundred soldiers of the cavalry to monitor the "escort", the Lombards suddenly rushed out of the city gate and charged towards the empty garrison camp outside the north city.
If there were still a lot of troops in the legion camp before the adjutant led his troops to Nancheng, then the camp was really empty now. The two hundred or so civilian mercenaries and baggage soldiers with average combat power could not resist the Lombards at all, and the civilian traders who accompanied the army could only be a drag.
Hence, when a urgent horn suddenly sounded from the siege tower outside the camp to defend against the enemy, the legion camp did not react at all. It was not until a few sentries rushed back to the camp crying and urgently calling for an enemy attack that the few officers who stayed behind remembered that they should immediately assemble their soldiers to form a formation to defend against the enemy.
However, if he hesitated for a moment, he would miss the opportunity.
The legion camp was only a thousand steps away from the North City of Sauerburg. Counting the sentries who noticed that the gate of the North City was open until the officers heard the warning and hurriedly gathered the soldiers scattered in the camp to leave the camp and form a formation, dozens of black-armored riders from the Lombards had already rushed to the front of the camp, and most of the Lombard soldiers behind also rushed over like chicken blood.
Before the soldiers in the camp could assemble into formation, the Lombards had already rushed to the camp gate and strangled the legionnaires who were about to leave the camp.
In a desperate battle, Supreme Commander von Bilen personally led the charge, and the bloody courage of the Lombards was instantly inspired. Without any need for the officers to say more, the Lombard soldiers all gave up their fear of death and attacked the Eastern Legion's camp without risking their lives.
At the gate of the camp, although the soldiers of the Eastern Legion fought desperately, they were still unable to cope with the sudden attack of the Lombards. In addition, more than thirty Lombard heavy armored infantry rushed forward and broke through the gate. The battle at the gate of the camp soon became one-sided.
The legionnaires left behind in the camp were killed by the Lombards' heavy hammers, axes, steel knives and sharp swords. Corpses were scattered all over the ground. Those servants and civilians who stayed behind in the camp panicked and fled in the face of the sudden disaster. The Lombards who broke into the camp were just chopping melons and vegetables. The camp quickly turned into a Shura hell...
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Von Bilen raised his hand and slashed, slashing the steel sword diagonally into the soldier's neck. The soldier who was hit suddenly felt pain, and his facial features suddenly distorted. He dropped the weapon in his hand and hugged the exposed blade with both hands, trying to prevent the sword from going deeper.
Von Bilen raised his foot and kicked the soldier in the abdomen. He pulled out the sword suddenly and the sword was pulled out from the soldier's neck. He also cut off the fingers of both hands that were holding the sword. The soldier fell to the ground. Bing tried to cover the huge wound at the base of his neck with both hands, but the fingers of both hands were long gone, and scarlet blood spurted out from the base of his neck~
Feng Bilen turned his head and glanced while holding the bloody long sword. He glanced in the direction behind him, looked back at the Lombard soldiers who had rushed into the camp and killed the enemy, and shouted to the guards who were following him: "Send the order, don't be reluctant to fight, collect firewood and supplies, burn the camp, and return to the city quickly!!!"
The Lombards, who rushed into the camp and chased and killed the defeated enemy soldiers, heard the military order and immediately stopped killing the defeated soldiers. Instead, they looked around for horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, and moved the firewood piled in the camp to the carriages to be transported back to Sauerburg.
Seeing that almost all the enemy soldiers who were worthy of fighting in the camp were killed or surrendered on their knees, Feng Bilen decisively left fifty or sixty soldiers to watch the surrender soldiers collect supplies and destroy the enemy camp, and then led most of the remaining elites to intercept the enemy soldiers' return route in Nancheng.
The Lombard attack was so sudden and rapid that when the eastern legion camp was breached, the legionary adjutant who was monitoring the "enemy soldiers abandoning the city" outside the south gate had just led the army in a hurry to return to the northern city camp for reinforcements.
But just after passing the west city gate, the return team led by the adjutant of the legion collided with the blocking army led by von Bilen. The two armies of equal numbers immediately fell into a melee when they met...
East of the eastern legion's garrison camp To the south, Art was leading five outpost squadrons and a crossbow squad of more than ninety soldiers to rush for reinforcements. Hundreds of steps away, Art had already seen the flames rising in the camp. A group of Lombards were escorting a dozen carriages out of the camp and quickly returned to the city in the direction of Solburg.
Angus led a sentry team of seven or eight cavalry to harass and delay the Lombard army returning to the city. The Lombards separated about twenty soldiers to drive away the harassing cavalry, while pulling the carriage straight to the north gate of Solburg. At this time, the north gate of Solburg was opened, and three or five soldiers were waiting at the gate to welcome the Lombard soldiers returning to the city.
"Odo, lead the first and second squadrons to the north gate of Sauerburg, occupy the north gate, and block the Lombards' retreat." After measuring the enemy's troops, we gave up the rescue and rushed to the north city gate to block the enemy's retreat."
"Kazak, Ron, and Jason, lead the troops with me to intercept and kill the Lombards. We cannot allow them to retreat into Sauerburg with firewood."
Several commanders took their orders and led their teams into three teams to advance towards the target at full speed.
Hurrying fifty steps in front of the Lombards who were escorting the firewood and baggage, the Lombards once again separated out about thirty people and hurriedly formed a formation to meet the charging enemy troops, and withstood the attack for the remaining few men who were rushing to the north city with the baggage.
Atler dismounted his horse, turned his horse's head and ordered the thirty or forty soldiers who were catching up behind him: "Charge in formation!"
Kazak and Ron quickly slowed down the army, and after roughly forming a formation, they charged towards the Lombards who were rushing towards them more than thirty years away. Jason stopped, took off the quiver from his waist, and let the crossbow team shoot a hail of arrows at the Lombards who were about to rush. As soon as they hit three people, their own army caught fire with the Lombards.
The Lombards were also surprised by the sudden appearance of the enemy reinforcements in the southeast. However, these Lombards did not choose to retreat and escape. Instead, they formed two teams to resist the impact of cavalry and infantry.
The Lombards' chopping of melons and vegetables in the Eastern Legion's camp gave the Lombards the misconception that all Eastern Legion soldiers were lambs. They believed that as long as they withstood a wave of impact, these enemy soldiers would naturally be overwhelmed and defeated.
The Lombards obviously did not know how powerful this "unexpected" black-robed soldier was. When they came face-to-face, the black-robed soldiers in a wedge-shaped pig-shaped array pierced the Lombard line at once, splitting about thirty Lombards into two parts. Then the black-robed soldiers were also divided into left and right parts using the center line of the pig-bulged formation as the axis, dividing the Lombards into fighting.
The Lombards, who underestimated the enemy, thought that just like in the camp just now, they could overwhelm the enemy with a simple formation and charge. However, they still paid a heavy price for their underestimated enemy.
The outpost has been repairing for a month or two. During this period, there have been several small-scale peripheral expulsion battles. The energetic outpost soldiers poured out all the evil spirit and courage they had accumulated for many days on these thirty or so Lombards.
In less than a moment, the helpless Lombard soldiers left a dozen corpses and fled...
Att did not directly participate in the battle just now. He followed the crossbow team on a horse to watch the battle, and at the same time quickly analyzed the battlefield situation.
Kazak and Ron have routed the thirty or so Lombard enemy soldiers escorting the firewood, and are killing the remaining soldiers in the carriage team. And Angus also led the sentry team and led about twenty Lombards in circles.
Over at the legion camp, Tredok had organized the soldiers who had escaped the massacre by the Lombard raiders to extinguish the fire in the camp. A soldier ran to Art and informed him that the Lombard raiders were intercepting the team led by the legion's adjutant at the west gate, asking Art to quickly reinforce them.
"Send a message to Tredok to send someone to handle this batch of firewood, and the Lombards must not be allowed to transport it into the city."
The soldiers who reported the news rushed back to the camp.
"Ron, Kazak, give up the pursuit, gather your soldiers and follow me to the West City for reinforcements." Art shouted at Kazak and Ron, who were chasing the remaining enemies.
"Jason, let Odo take Colin and Tuba to the west city. The Lombard army is fighting with our army in the west city!" Art saw that the gate of the north city had been closed by the Lombards, so he simply asked Odo to go to reinforce.
Outside the west city of Saulburg, the elite Lombard soldiers led by von Bilen have reached a stalemate with more than two hundred soldiers led by the legion's adjutant. Although the two infantry and cavalry of the eastern legion have mediocre combat capabilities, the cavalry team left behind is indeed the elite of the legion. Sharp, when the infantry blocked the Lombard offensive frontally, the cavalry divided into two parts and continuously attacked the Lombards from the left and right wings. The Lombards, who had been holding on to the isolated city, did not have a dedicated cavalry team and were unable to resist the cavalry attack.
Fortunately, the heavy plate armored infantry around von Bilen were extremely powerful, and the two standard infantry of the legions facing each other had begun to collapse...
Just when the Lombards had just gained the advantage on the battlefield, Art led seventy or eighty men and appeared at the corner of the West City.
"My lord, a black-robed army suddenly appeared outside the north city. Our army escorting the firewood was wiped out. Now the group of black-robed soldiers has rushed towards our rear line!" A Lombard officer found von Bilen, who was commanding the formation, and reported the bad news to him.
Fon Bilen turned his head in surprise, and sure enough he saw a well-organized army in black robes charging towards their rear formation.
"TMD! You've been fooled, the enemy has an ambush!!!" Von Bilen exclaimed.
Seeing that he was about to fail, von Bilen shouted angrily: "Turn the rear line to meet the enemy soldiers in the rear!"
Him He planned to fight the enemy to the death.
"Sir, no! We have failed. The best result now is to break out with most of the elite." The officer stopped von Bilen's impulse.
Von Bilen glanced at the front line, and then at the black-robed enemy troops who were only about 200 steps behind, and said bitterly: "Send the order, everyone breaks out to the southwest!!!"
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"Sir, the Lombards abandoned their formation and ran away! They ran toward the southwest!!" Angus shouted to Art, who was charging on horseback.
"Outpost, turn southwest, pursue the Lombards~"