Chapter 712 Touching the Camp
.—Lord Baron, the situation ahead is unclear. I will take a few guys over to check out the situation.
Halfway up a hillside to the east of the village, the blond baron ordered people to hide the horses in the nearby bushes, and then planned to take people there to camp in person.
At this time, the knights on the side volunteered and planned to "take the risk" and go to the Burgundian camp to find out. For him, this was a rare opportunity to show his face, showing his loyalty and courage, killing two birds with one stone.
The blond baron certainly knew what this guy was thinking, so he didn't stop him. "That's good. If there are more people, it will be easier to be exposed. In this way, you take two people to go there," the blond baron pointed to the top of the mountain not far away, "Find out for me where their supplies are~"
"Yes, Lord Baron!" After hearing this, the knight turned around quickly and planned to run down the hillside.
"Don't worry, sir~" the knight replied confidently, and then called the two soldiers beside him and ran down the mountain.
The blond baron led his men to hide among several boulders halfway up the mountain, observing the surrounding situation.
In a blink of an eye, the knight led two soldiers to the foot of the hillside and climbed step by step towards the highest hill to the east of the camp.
To the east of Xuqiu, the fifty soldiers left behind by the Palace Guards were waiting in full formation. Coincidentally, these fifty warriors did not use the highest hillside as their ambush site, but chose the relatively short ridge lines on both sides.
The east hillside is high enough to overlook the entire camp, making it an excellent observation location. However, this place is relatively steep and is not conducive to cavalry raids. If you want to attack the camp, you must go around to the west to the entrance of the village. At this time, this hillside became an excellent observation point for Lombard sentry scouts.
"Hurry, keep up!"
The knight took the lead. After looking around, he lowered his body and moved towards the hillside with all four limbs on the ground. The two soldiers following him looked to the left and right, glancing around from time to time.
In the blink of an eye, several people have reached the top of the hillside. The knight clings to the ground, carefully sticking out half of his head to take a look at the garrison camp down the hill, and then immediately shrinks back, for fear of being discovered.
"You two, one is responsible for guarding, and the other is responsible for recording the defenses in the camp for me."
"As ordered!"
After the knight finished assigning the task, he held his breath, lying on the ground and gently moving his body upward. The withered hay under him made a rustling sound under the friction of his armor.
When the knight showed up again, he had a panoramic view of the entire camp - from the location near the mountain pass to the east, the supplies covered with tarpaulins were piled up like hills, all the way to the military tent at the entrance of the village.
Except for the dozens of military tents next to the mountain pass, the rest of the tents for the native soldiers to camp were set up at the entrance of the village. Looking toward the village through the bonfire in the camp, the knight did not find anything strange inside except some collapsed stone walls and burned wooden houses.
Close to the village, a few soldiers were sitting around a campfire, drinking and gambling beans. They did not notice a pair of clear eyes on the east hillside staring at them.
Other than two teams patrolling back and forth, there were no other people moving around in the camp. There are two arrow towers on each side of the wooden gate near the mountain pass, manned by a spear-wielding soldier and two archers respectively. Several soldiers at the door kept rubbing their hands and walking back and forth near the camp gate to dispel the cold air on their bodies. The moisture from their breath was particularly conspicuous under the firelight emitted by the two torches at the camp gate.
Looking at the countless amounts of food and grass inside, the knight wanted to lead his men in and plunder. But compared with the amount of these supplies, the camp's defense seemed somewhat unsatisfactory.
The knight thought for a moment, and then shifted his gaze to the two hillsides to the south and north. He opened his eyes wide and tried to search for possible signs of an ambush.
But as far as the eye can see, there is no one on the two hillside. For the sake of caution, the knight said to the two soldiers beside him: "Two of you, one is responsible for the north hillside, and the other is responsible for the south. Go over and see if there is anything suspicious." Looking at the darkness all around, the two soldiers looked at each other, obviously not wanting to take this job.
"My Lord Knight, the tops of the mountains on both sides are bare, and there is no way to hide anyone. Besides, their people are all siegeing the city at Soronborg, so how can they leave so many people in the rear camp." The soldier lying on the left side of the knight was talking nonsense seriously, trying to refuse the task.
bang!
The knight stretched out his left hand and slapped the soldier with his backhand. He shouted: "You bastard, where is it your turn to give orders? Get over here and find out!"
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Sir Knight, I'm going right now, right away!" The soldier covered his right face where there was a burst of pain, quickly slipped down the hillside, and then trotted along the slope to the west hillside.
The soldier on the right waited for a moment, then immediately ran towards the east hillside like a mouse meeting a cat.
At this time, Kazak and others, who had already received the news not far from the east hillside, lay motionless on the ground, waiting for the Lombard cavalry to arrive.
"Lord Kazak, why didn't you see them?"
In the darkness, Kazak's soldier asked curiously.
"Do you think the Lombards are all fools? They must be nearby observing every move in the camp. Just stay down and don't move. Even if you want to poop, you have to wait until the battle is over!" Kazak turned his head and looked over, and a dark figure was peeking out of the ridgeline————
“Oh, what a bad luck. Before the battle even started, I got slapped by that bastard.” After saying that, the soldier kicked away the turf under his feet, venting his anger. Then he walked swaggering in the direction of Kazak and others.
"Besides the withered yellow weeds, you can't even hide your butt~"
Poof～
A loud fart came from behind the soldier.
"Damn, it's really not the right time!" After saying that, the soldier ran towards a clump of withered grass not far ahead, took off his belt, took off his trousers, and bent down and squatted on the ground -··
"Ah, comfortable~"
After emptying his stomach, the soldier grabbed a handful of hay, wiped it briefly, and threw it on the meadow not far away. Standing up, a gust of cold wind made him shiver.
He glanced at the surrounding area, then turned around and walked back to the way he came."
"Cough, cough, cough!"
After the Lombard sentry left, there was a violent coughing sound under the meadow.
Suddenly, a few soldiers hiding below opened the meadow and vomited wildly towards the other side of the hillside~
"I must kill this bastard with my own hands!"
vomit~
On the east hillside, seeing two men returning at almost the same time, the knight hurriedly asked: "How is the situation?"
"Let me tell you, Lord Knight, everything is normal, there is no ambush." The soldier who returned from the north hillside spoke first.
The knight nodded and glanced at the guy on the left whose face was already slightly red.
"There is no situation on the south hillside, nothing~"
The knight was dubious after hearing this, and said harshly, "If the situation is not what you said, I will definitely chop off your heads before the battle!"
"Evacuate!"
In the pile of huge rocks on the east side of the hillside, the blond baron saw that several people had not returned and was about to send someone to check. Just when he was about to give the order, the knight who went to touch the camp was already running towards this direction with two of his men~
"How about it, are you sure about it?" The blond baron hurriedly took two steps forward.
"Report to the baron, sir. It's full of food and supplies, and the enemy's defenses are lax. Now is a good time to attack!" The knight told the blond baron exactly what he had found out.
The blond baron smiled slightly, "Okay! You two, go back immediately and tell the Viscount the news and ask him to bring his people. The rest of the people retreat, and when the army arrives, follow me and fight in!"
"Yes!"
Two miles east of the camp, the leader, Viscount Grant, who received the news, immediately ordered everyone to speed up. After meeting with the blond baron and others outside the enemy camp, he went around to the west of the camp behind the Burgundians. Taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, he immediately launched a surprise attack and burned the enemy's grain and grass.
In less than a cup of tea, the two men and horses met.
At this time, the two hundred Lombard cavalry were located between two gentle hills one mile due east of the camp. Walk west along the path between gentle hills for half a mile and then embark on a wide commercial road.
On the commercial road, a ten-man infantry team patrolled back and forth along the perimeter of the camp. If they wanted to approach the main gate of the camp quietly, the Lombard cavalry had to avoid the infantry and cavalry squads to avoid alerting the enemy.
"Quick, retreat!"
When Grant and his cavalry were less than 300 steps away from the commercial road, the patrolling infantry and cavalry team suddenly appeared at the end of the mountain trail.
The situation was urgent, and Grant immediately ordered everyone to stay quiet and stay put. Under the cover of darkness, he perfectly avoided the patrol.
A moment later, a group of people quietly walked onto the business road and walked along the foot of the mountain towards the gate of the camp to the west. "It was really dangerous just now. I almost collided with those bastards!"
On the business road to the east of the camp, the Lombard cavalry just met The cavalry team leader who "missed it perfectly" was in a cold sweat. Moments ago, when the cavalry team leader led the patrol through the intersection of the mountain trail, he accidentally glanced at the corner at the end of the trail. A dozen black figures had appeared in his field of vision, so that he almost screamed out in fright.
But his strong psychological quality allowed him to quickly calm down and continue to move forward along the business road as if nothing had happened.
"Squad captain, should we go back immediately and report to Lord Kazak?" The soldier next to the infantry and cavalry squad leader asked uneasily.
“Why are you panicking! Cheer up!” the squad leader shouted, and continued: “Lord Kazak had already expected that the Lombards would attack the camp and had made his own arrangements. Our task is to cooperate with the guys from the cavalry company to block the gap after the enemy enters the camp to prevent The Lombards ran away."
The cavalry captain looked back at the other side of the trade road and said, "Let's go back to the camp!"
After that, the squad leader led his brothers and ran along the trade road from the other direction towards the camp.