Mount and Blade

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Day after day passed, training during the day and traveling to another world at night, knowledge and force were growing exponentially.

The boring mechanical course is over. After getting along with each other in the past few days, the relationship between the two has become much closer. At least they don't hang their heads after just talking for a few words like at the beginning.

The old man also noticed this, and began to let Feitnas watch Trunks and Green practice at the training ground, and gradually guided Feitnas to pick up weapons such as swords for training, but obviously Feitas Nass is not suitable for using two-handed weapons.

"Pong" "Pa" The wooden stick was knocked into the air.

"Well, hiss..."

Feitnas covered his right wrist in pain. His white and tender hand, which had not experienced any training, was swollen. It looked like it would be in pain for several days. Tears were about to fall out of his watery eyes. .

"...Phetnas."

Green stepped forward to help him up, but he didn't feel like he was using much force. Well, maybe he should have been gentler, after all, Feitnas was not very skilled in his stance yet.

"...snort."

Feitnas pouted his mouth in annoyance, and his determination suddenly came up. He put his left hand on the ground and climbed up from the ground and walked away. He decided to ignore this rude nephew who was the same age as himself.

"Uh..." Green looked at him walking away in confusion.

Okay, if the kid is angry, just ignore it.

Green shook his head and began to practice swinging his sword in the training ground. Trunks was not here today, and Seranti was fooling around somewhere. However, he accidentally heard from a servant that something big was going to happen recently.

In the evening, I read books about making parts, and occasionally read about Buckley military systems. I heard that the old man Kazarian was researching something similar to muskets, but the place called the Alchemist's Laboratory was very guarded. Strict, usually few people except the alchemists and Kasarian can get permission to enter.

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"Don't sleep, it's time to go to war."

A pair of big hands slapped Green on the face. The confused Green wiped the saliva from sleeping on a straw mat and got up and started to put on his armor. Before dawn, he was ready to go out of the city to meet the enemy. This time the mission was Rush to the aid of Milanwei Fortress, which is located about one hundred miles southwest of Erda Fortress.

The beginning of spring is the time when the two sides compete with each other. The farmland has just been planted, and those who come out to fight are mercenaries and knights. The real large-scale battle will have to wait until the harvest of food in autumn, unless one of the parties is not afraid of the empty treasury in the coming year. It is difficult to sustain a protracted war, but it is commonplace to use looting to fill granaries and the like.

The spies from Midland finally regained their strength and foresaw the path of the Blue Whale Knights in advance. The White Dragon Knights, the Turmel Knights and a group of mercenaries jointly ambush them. The leading general was Alton of the Lewis family of Judagop. .

"Hehe, as expected of me, I found a place that can quickly lead to the battle line."

The middle-aged Alton was very proud of his little cleverness. Yesterday, a scout came to report that the trail here was the shortcut to the battlefield, and it was much faster than normal marching. So Alton immediately ordered the entire army. Head to the small winding road where only five or six rows of cavalry can march side by side.

However, many years of combat experience still allowed Alton to see the unusual terrain here, so he laughed.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Why is the leader laughing?"

The deputy general of the Blue Whale Knights beside Alton didn't understand why his father was laughing, and asked with some confusion.

"Good question, Adam! I don't laugh at others, but at the lack of resourcefulness of Laban and Eric of Midland! If I, the Coplouis family, were to use the troops, it would attract the army of Midland to ambush here. Army, what will happen? Hahahaha!”

"What's going to happen?"

The somewhat dull Adam was still asking stupidly, but as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a powerful order coming from the mountain.

"Fire the arrow!"

Eric suddenly appeared, and the crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time on the mountains on both sides immediately shot dozens of arrows at them.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh” “whoosh whoosh whoosh”

The overwhelming arrows flew towards the Blue Whale Knights below the valley. For a moment, the people and horses neighed, and countless knights and attendants were killed and injured by the arrows. The horses ran around uncontrollably and were thrown under the hooves of the horses. The heavily armored knights were quickly trampled into steel and flesh.

"Kill!! Kill!!"

However, a large number of knights suddenly appeared behind the road where the Blue Whale Knights came. Judging from the appearance of the armor and the flag emblem, it was the knights of the Tumel Knights who were charging towards the Blue Whale Knights.

"Quick, retreat quickly!!"

The mountain road was rugged and there were no extra roads to choose from. Alton could only lead the team in a panic and flee towards the fork in the road ahead.

Tumel's lieutenant only intercepted and killed some of the Blue Whale Heavy Knights who had no time to run away, and then distanced themselves from the chaotic Blue Whale Knights, so as not to fall into the same chaotic stampede situation, but took his time behind. Driven.

"Surrender without killing! Surrender without killing!!"

The knights of Tummel shouted and drove away the Jodah mercenaries who had only two legs to escape.

If you can see the whole situation clearly, you will find that this team of Tumer knights has only a hundred people riding side by side in a column. If they break out from here, even if most of the knights are lost in the rain of arrows, they will not be able to make a comeback.

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"Hey... huh..., how is it, did you get rid of them?"

Alton asked several lieutenants under his command with a gloomy face. They didn't know where they were being chased. They only knew that the vision here was relatively wide. The sound of horse hooves behind them had been left far behind. They have been running since last night. In order to escape from this place quickly, they have already discarded their heavy lances.

"Get rid of them, get rid of them. Oh, this mountain road is too rugged. Finally, I stopped chasing them."

"Oh, I really shouldn't have taken the easy way out."

Alton looked at the empty valley plain with a gloomy face. The road they came from was narrow and could only accommodate three rows of knights.

"All troops, take a rest, count the casualties."

The Blue Whale Knights lost nearly 200 of their 800 heavy knights, which made Alton feel painful. The armor of a heavy knight alone costs 33 gold coins, not to mention the gold coins needed for training. Moreover, the Blue Whale Knights have more than 200 nobles. If their bodies and armor cannot be brought back, it will be a huge loss.

More than 500 of the other 1,000 trainee knights, or servants, were killed. The 2,000 mercenaries were almost all infantry, who fled away on their own and no one knew where they fled to. Usually, they did not have good equipment, and were either shot to death by arrows, or trampled into meat paste by horses' hooves, or were captured or killed by the Midland army before they could escape. Only 200 mercenaries barely caught up with the team, and they were just chainmail light cavalry without lances.

There were only 800 cavalrymen available to make up the number, plus 600 knights from the Blue Whale Knights. The team of 4,000 people was drastically reduced to 1,300 people after this incident. Even if they went back, they would inevitably be reprimanded by Jodah's commander-in-chief, General Bosco.