January, the coldest time of winter, when we should be quietly hiding in the barracks with bonfires to keep warm, a large army was walking on the muddy roads after the snow melted.
This is the first time that the Welsh Legion has gone out to fight since its establishment. Although the target of the battle is a knight with weak military strength, and the route is basically walking on a route controlled by its own side, the legion's command camp still fights according to the enemy's territory. The requirements stipulated the march - except for the ultra-peripheral sentinel shielding of the three teams of the cavalry, task force, and patrol team. Most of the subsequent legions also set up outpost guards and two-wing cover according to the wartime march on the enemy's territory. There were a squadron of soldiers in the front, rear, left, and right, half a mile apart, taking turns to guard the front.
Most of the legion marched along the north-south commercial road, and was divided into three sections: the front, middle and back. The front was the heavy armored infantry team carrying armor on mule carts and the first company of infantry. In the middle was the second company of infantry and the crossbow team. The last one was the legion command camp (priests, ideological and political officers, adjutants, and servants), the baggage team (including some laborers with the army), and the military law team (responsible for holding down the formation, supervising the battle, and enforcing military law).
There is a distance of more than a hundred steps between the three marching arrays in the front, middle and back. This is to take care of each other and prevent them from being ambushed.
However, the appearance of marching in enemy territory during war was made, but the speed did not slow down because of this. After all, this was all an area under one's own control, and there was no threat from strong enemies. The marching formation was more for the purpose of drills.
The Welsh Army is still very poor, and the only horses they have are given priority to the cavalry and the Guards. Therefore, the entire Welsh Army's infantry, crossbows, heavy armor and other teams do not even have horses at the level of flag captain. Of course, each flag team still has a few horses, but most of these military horses are horse and miscellaneous horses that are fine for pulling the flag team's ordnance and supplies, but it is too reluctant to ride them and use them as war horses.
Timing is everything. After two days of rapid march, most of the legion has walked out of the birch forest south of Lane Manor, and the legion outpost has arrived at Lane Manor.
Since Baron Barzel was unexpectedly ambushed and killed outside Wincheston Manor, Lane Manor has lost its lord.
Lane Manor, along with several other territories of Bazel, were taken over by the superior feudal lord. In order to control several territories, the feudal lord sent a knight to take over temporarily. A young knight originally came to Lane Manor.
But now Lane Manor is unmanaged, because the sudden outbreak of banditry a few days ago affected Lane Manor. The knight who was temporarily in charge of the manor was broken in by more than a dozen gangsters before he could even get hot. The lord of Lane Manor's mansion was originally ransacked, and now some of the food and supplies brought by the new knights were also robbed.
The knight felt humiliated and vowed to go back and lead his troops to kill all the bandits. However, two or three days passed, and the knight's leaving figure never appeared.
When the outpost arrived at Lane Manor, the manor was completely unmoved. The reason is very simple. In the past year and a half, not only have the army not oppressed the peasant serfs in the manor, but the bandits who have repeatedly invaded the manor have rarely robbed ordinary farmers. Anyway, every time the soldiers and bandits cross the border, it is the gang of lords who live in the lord's mansion who suffer.
Andrew, a former woodcutter, joined Art's army as a peasant soldier when he was fighting against the Swabians at Talmuburg. He was highly regarded by Art for his bravery in combat and repeated military exploits, his intelligence and his ability to learn. Now he is the captain of the third flag of the second company of the Welsh Army. A woodcutter has become a mid-level officer in charge of fifty or sixty people in two years.
He wears a mail collar and mid-helmet on his head, a long cotton coat underneath, and a breastplate (only protecting the chest) on the outside of the half-mail suit. He carries a long sword at his waist and a broad ax in his hand. A long scar extends from his elbow to the back of his hand.
There is a road that bypasses Lane Manor, but now obviously there is no need to worry about being evicted from trespassing on noble land. When Andrew led a dozen soldiers into the village entrance of Lane Manor, several young and vigorous farmers had already prepared food and soup and stood waiting at the entrance of the village. They might not be familiar with the appearance of the visitor, but they were very familiar with the robe decorated with the heraldry pattern of the blood-eyed howling wolf.
Andrew called several villagers and asked if any strangers were coming in or out of the village. After learning that everything was normal in the village and even the temporary knight had left, Andrew ordered the farmers in Lane Manor to go home and close the doors tightly. Then a dozen soldiers searched the village and continued northward.
Hundreds of armored soldiers followed soon after, passing through Lane Manor and divided into two groups. One group headed westward towards the Dean family's farm, and the other group headed northward toward the Wincheston Manor...
On the morning of the first Sunday in January, it was originally a peaceful day for worshiping the Lord and praying for blessings, but the Dean family’s disaster struck as expected.
Wincheston Manor was already surrounded by more than 400 people from the Wells Regiment. The soldiers surrounding the manor had no intention of building camps outside for a long period of time. The battle would end before dark, and the army would be stationed directly in the manor.
Victory is certain, it just depends on the price paid.
The legionary soldiers were resting more than 500 steps outside the manor wall. They fastened their armor, polished their weapons, and took the time to take out rye bread from their bags and mix it with water to eat. The baggage team and the army servants took saws, axes, maces, and rushed to make the climbing ladders, battering rams and other equipment for attacking the city.
In the legion command camp outside the main entrance of the manor, Odo and Angus were receiving two "lobbyists" who came out of the manor empty-handed. These two guys were sent by the Dean family to make the final struggle.
“…(Omit 10,000 words here). Two commanders, I once again implore you to lift the attack on Wincheston Manor. My Mr. Dean is willing to pay a guarantee fee of two hundred thousand pfennigs to ensure that the Dean family has no possibility of collaborating with bandits.” A wealthy middle-aged man with a goatee respectfully expressed to Odo and Angus the last "sincerity" of the Dean family - two hundred thousand pfennigs.
Odo looked at the middle-aged man who looked like a caravan manager and nodded with a smile, "You look like the caravan leader of the Dean family, right? You can really tell!"
"Thank you for your praise." The rich middle-aged man returned politely.
"So, does this mean that the Dean family has transferred all the caravans back to Wincheston Manor this time? Whatever comes to mind, Mr. Dean is so thoughtful." Angus suddenly interrupted.
The rich middle-aged man didn't understand what Angus said, so Odo changed the topic, "Go back and tell your master and Sir, the court only asked Dean and his son to be escorted for investigation, but it didn't accuse them. You asked Dean and his son to come out and follow us. If it is true that he is not a bandit, can't you just say it?"
"How is that possible! Who doesn't know what bad intentions you have in your belly? Take out the palace documents and read them." Another young man who accompanied the negotiation replied viciously.
Angus sneered twice, "It seems that the Dean family is so powerful that there are bastards like you who don't know how to tuck your tail." As he said this, he winked at the guards in the camp. The guards immediately stepped forward and grabbed the young man's arm, and escorted him out of the camp.
Not long after there was a scream outside the camp, a guard returned to the camp carrying a bloody head, and threw the glaring, quarrelsome and ferocious head in front of the rich middle-aged man.
"Take this head and go back and tell your master that you can put down your weapons before noon and be captured. We will definitely give Dean and his son the fairest trial and courtesy."
"Otherwise, you will be just like this person!" The voice almost came from teeth.缝中出来的......
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中年富态男人抱着头颅战战兢兢地回到了温切斯顿庄园，但是迪安父子并没有开门投降，他们选择了拼死顽抗。
At noon, the six city climbing ladders and a city-breaking hammer rushed by the baggage team were completed. After lunch, the legion soldiers began to line up to prepare for battle.
Hurry horn sounds also sounded in the Wincheston Manor, and the manor guards and the lord's private soldiers also took up their weapons and climbed on the wall to prepare for battle...
Hum~
Woo～
Hong～
The battle sounded amidst three urging horns.