Rise In Calradia - Chapter 403: : Rhodok Civil War (8)

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“Okay, it’s time for us to play.”

Kenrad bid farewell to Levens’ messenger, and then glanced at the adjutant beside him. The cavalry captain who had followed him for many years immediately raised his horn, took a deep breath and blew it with all his strength.

Hearing the sound of the horn, the five peony flags were raised high and danced in the air against the **** air. The sound of the drums was like a piece of music. Armourers with powder kegs marched towards the wall.

After Byron became the earl, the command of the Peony Regiment has been transferred to Kenrad. The senior mercenary captain has not changed the previous organizational form of the Peony Regiment, and still maintains the previous strict training and discipline requirements. It still maintains the high quality of the troops, and due to the long-term acceptance of mercenaries to participate in battles, as well as the occasional summoning and upgrading of Byron, a large number of mercenary infantry, mercenary crossbowmen and mercenary cavalry have become the main force of the army. Retired veterans and adventurers from all over Asia also form an important part of the Peony Corps, gaining battlefield advantages through diverse cooperation.

On this side of the battlefield, more than 500 members of the Peony Regiment crossed the friendly front line with great publicity, holding a shield with the Peony Regiment high, blowing horns and drums and heading towards the enemy. When the nearby coalition soldiers saw this situation, they even forgot about the battle, and looked over one after another, wondering what those mercenaries were doing with such a big style. And the king on the wall immediately blew his horn, and a large number of soldiers boarded the city wall one after another. Even the catapults and bed crossbows pointed at the scumbags of Feng Byron.

It stands to reason that the task of transporting gunpowder to blow up those walls should be the more careful the less people will attract attention, otherwise the king on the wall will definitely focus on greeting them. But Kenrad knew that the Peony Corps was Byron’s army after all, but they were usually sent out to support themselves to earn extra money. Even if they were as inconspicuous as possible, Wang ** already knew the news of their arrival, and their anger towards Byron would definitely pour out on them, so they would be taken care of no matter what. It is better to go up with a big fanfare, but it may cause the commander of the other side to make a misjudgment.

Kenrad guessed right, King Griffith was so sensible that when the lords under his command asked to concentrate the firepower of the peony regiment and destroy them to give Byron a lesson and boost morale, the king hesitated, and made it. Wrong decision.

“They may be misleading us.” King Griffith frowned and said, “Lord Mattas hates Byron and his mercenaries more than any of us, yet he agrees to hire this army to let all the Rhodoks. The troops who are all uneasy and come to us in such a public way, either he wants us to eliminate these mercenaries as soon as possible to vent his anger, or he has other premeditated plans.” The king nodded affirmatively when he thought of this: “They are fewer than us, Not going to waste more than 500 available troops, he’s definitely grabbing our attention, I just noticed they’re attacking in all directions, probably trying to open gaps from other positions while we’re concentrating. Communicate My order, send 200 crossbowmen and 100 spearmen to the wall to block the Peony regiment, and the other troops stick to their posts, don’t give the rebels any chance!”

The king didn’t notice the armorers and soldiers with the gunpowder keg under the shield wall of the Peony Corps, and he didn’t even know that the Peony Corps was much stronger than the mercenaries he knew before. After his strategy played a role, Kenrad was even more delighted, and made the drummer beat faster, so that he could reach the battlefield faster and complete the task.

This conspicuous move of the Peony Corps didn’t stop until they were close to the opponent’s heavy crossbow range. At this time, they had safely crossed the river and reached those annoying horse-rejecting herds and trap nets. The Peony mercenaries immediately changed their formations, carefully removed the first row of horse-restraining horses, and arrived at the ditch. Facing the continuous shooting of crossbowmen on the fence, they formed a crossbowmen formation next to the horse-resisting formation and set up a crossbowmen. The shield began to shoot at the crossbowmen of the kingdom on the wall, while letting the infantry step forward to the trench to dump the dug soil, with their number and speed, it won’t take long for this not too deep trench to be destroyed. Fill in.

Of course, they have been covering the armorers during this period, and these siegemen will look for the most easily blasted positions under the cover of shields, and prepare enough gunpowder.

In other places on the battlefield, the mercenaries that Levens exchanged with his personal connections and the dinars of Count Mateas also joined the battlefield one after another. The Nord warriors in the north advanced with the shield wall, defiantly overcame the obstacles, and climbed the siege ladder. These tenacious warriors used their shields, armors and their own will to rush to the wall with the shooting of crossbow arrows and cut down the crossbowmen on the wall with axe, so as to gain space for other comrades to climb the wall.

In addition, the crossbowmen of the Wild Boars have also fully demonstrated their ability to use crossbows. The main force of this ancient mercenary group that has existed for hundreds of years is not in Calradia today, but only their one. In a sub-group, it was still not at a disadvantage when shooting against the skilled Rhodok crossbowmen and senior crossbowmen who had an obvious advantage.

The effect of more than 1,000 mercenaries joining the battlefield was very obvious. The originally disadvantaged coalition forces gradually reversed their situation. They gradually moved away from the horses, built bridges in the trenches, and began to step over obstacles in batches, constantly attacking the enemy on the wall. Launching an attack~www.mtlnovel.com~ The kingdom defenders on the wall struggled to stop them, repelling batches of enemies, but faced with endless enemies who launched attacks, but faced countless countless enemies. Siege ladders and endless enemies, they are still a little bit overwhelmed. It’s not that they are understaffed, it’s just that their fronts are stretched too long, and the walls are so narrow that they can’t hold too many soldiers, so that they seem to be on equal footing. This seems to confirm King Greyfus’s thoughts. Wang **’s soldiers can’t be too partial to one place, otherwise the opponent will always seize the opportunity to find a position to break through.

This kind of battle lasted from morning to noon, and both sides had already paid a lot of money. It could be seen that after leaving corpses all over the place, the coalition forces, whether soldiers or officers, did not want to fight like this anymore. Wang ** breathed a sigh of relief. They watched the number of enemies attacking the city gradually decrease. They pushed the corpses of the enemies off the wall, wiped away the sweat generated by the rising temperature and a lot of activities, and waited for the opponent to withdraw their troops.

But at this moment, on the Peony regiment’s side, the troops who were blocked under the wall and were not afraid of death, but the attacking rhythm was slow suddenly dispersed quickly, and their shields like the wall were also withdrawn. Only then did the soldiers on the fence discover that on the land left after the retreat of the mercenaries, in addition to the corpses, there was a large pit that could no longer be covered, with fire and smoke inside.

They seemed to realize something, all of them were running away, some even jumped off the wall to escape the flames that the beast was breathing out as it roared.