Rise In Calradia

"Where is the front?"

Byron's battle group was cooking on the spot at this time. The soldiers were taking a break. The soldiers were busy taking radish soup from the pot and eating it with dry bread and half-boiled eggs. On the other hand, Byron looked at the map on the barrel used as a table with Resalit, Eleon, and Rolf, while Polza came back with the news ahead.

"The Khergits are now in Aldegar. There are about 500 cavalry from the grassland and about 200 mercenaries recruited by the Khergits from Salander. Take all the weapons away." Bolza reported.

"Where is Count Rochebas of Rendiburg? Did he not do anything?" Byron looked at the map, and he couldn't believe that Count Rochebas, as the master of Rendiburg, governed the towns under his control. He couldn’t do nothing when he was attacked. After all, he was the son of the Earl of Sweden. He had thousands of well-trained fighters. Even though he and his father supported Madame Esona’s claim to the throne, he still relied on him. Its strong fortifications and its relationship with the lords of the surrounding area ingeniously escaped the blockade requested by the king, and it has persisted until now.

"Or..." Byron suddenly thought of another possibility: "Damn, he and his dad are united with Coogitt!? Do they want to continue the rebellion like this?"

"It's not like it, my lord. But they must have reached some kind of agreement. The Khergits did not plunder the town, but they did take the local materials. Perhaps the Count of Rochebas exchanged local products for Khergit. Human truce." Elaine guessed the possible thoughts of Count Rochebas.

"But no matter what, he is not on our side." Resalite frowned and pushed the small stone representing the army forward. "We should take advantage of them before they find us, and solve them as quickly as possible."

"Yes, then the Kurgits will doubt the Earl of Rochebas, at least they won't unite and pinch us. But..." Byron squeezed his chin, then turned his head and asked: " Polza, how long do you expect the warband to arrive there?"

"Um... I think one hour is enough, but I can't carry the sundial on my back, so it may be a little off."

"Are those Kurgits adequately guarded?"

"It's not very good. They are busy collecting supplies, searching for valuables everywhere, and there are conflicts from time to time. Some people are drunk, some people get together with women, they do have sentries, but they are either too far away from the town. Nearly, or the parts are too scattered, we can clean up one by one."

"Very good." Byron nodded, then tapped a few stones on the map with his sword hilt.

"I'm going to change the armor. Before I can change the armor, the team must finish eating and drinking and prepare to set off. Let the drummers go to the front and sides of the team. The flag is high. We must move fast and beat them by surprise!"

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In Aldegar town, most of the Kujit cavalry had tied their horses to one side at this time, each looking for a place to have lunch, putting the dried meat and the looted food together, and pairing it with the horse milk wine from the grassland. And levy local beer to eat. A small number of people still search for food in the town. They are vulgar and rude. They either push them away or kick them directly when they meet the townspeople who get in the way. The local soldiers are still armed, and as far as possible the children and women in the town are surrounded in the middle of the town to prevent them from being insulted by the prairie people. But beyond this, they really can't help much. After all, their number is less than one-tenth of each other's, and there is no chance of winning in the fight.

Lord Earl ordered to give up this year’s harvest to the Kujites. Although they were dissatisfied, they could only accept it. But even so, the cavalry who came to collect supplies were still not satisfied. Entering the townspeople’s homes, ignoring their masters to search for valuables everywhere, if not, it would be a fat beating. There was even an old woman who swallowed gold coins in front of them, and the angered Kujit would be stabbed with a knife. Into the stomach of this poor old man. This conflict almost turned into a massacre. Fortunately, the soldiers in the town refused to give in, and the leader of the thousands of Kujit also gave in. After all, there was an agreement between their lords that they did not continue to kill or **** women. , And went to search for money.

What can the townspeople do? How can they stop those robber-like foreigners? It's as if you suddenly broke into your house with a white-haired burly man in armor, two swords on his back, and scars on his face. After entering the door, he would be turned over and over again, besides pretending to be invisible. what to do? This is true for a stranger, not to mention a large group of prairie cavalry.

"Will the earl compensate us? All my belongings are gone."

"Compensation? Which lord will compensate us? The best is to give you a bowl of oatmeal to hang your life when you are about to starve to death."

"But he should protect us! Since he drove the soldiers of Count Stamar away, didn't he say that he is the lord of this? He should protect his people!"

"Okay, shut up, at least you are still alive, not like the dead old woman and the villages to the east. I have a relative who has escaped from there. It is said that some villages have no living people, men. They were all killed, women and children were robbed by them and sold as slaves, which is better than before."

"Damn it..."

The townspeople discussed in a low voice, looking at the Kujites who were active outside the wall of soldiers. These invaders carried their food, led their animals, and took their belongings. Put it on the backs of those prairie horses. Although they were annoyed and angry, they couldn't do anything. They could only put their arms around their wives and daughters, lest they would be captured again.

But just as the Kujites began to pack the looted property, some shouts suddenly came from the outskirts of the town. Those were the language of the prairie people and they did not understand, but the panic would not be due to the language barrier. It can't be identified.

One man plucked up the courage to stand up and look in that direction, and then the soldiers one by one, all stood up, and looked at the distant horizon. Eldago did not have a large wall, only a simple wooden fence enclosing this ever-growing town. When they looked over, they encountered no obstacles in their sight.

Under the noon sun, people tried their best to open their eyes. They saw a red flag fluttering in the wind on the grass in the distance. A flower they didn’t know very well appeared to bloom with the shaking of the flag. Today's situation is so dazzling.

Soon, the melted snow and mud mixed with soil flew everywhere, and the gun head of the lance was erected like a forest. The tall horses and burly riders were moving fast in this direction, and they moved forward in a cone-shaped formation. , The heavy cavalry appeared one after another, and finally formed a torrent of steel and flesh and blood, rushing to the temporary camp of the Kujites outside the town.

The shouts in Kugit language kept increasing, and the panicked prairie riders threw down their bags full of supplies, rushed towards their respective horses, and then rushed towards the cavalry trend with their sabers.

But their original preparations were too inadequate. When that cavalry unit was only a few hundred steps away from them, more than half of the Khergit cavalry did not ride on their horses, and only about one-fifth of them. Cavalry can form a formation to launch a counterattack. The horse archers wanted to harass from the enemy's flank, but before they could get close, a light cavalry of the same race but uniformly wearing a peony burqa came over from the flank, and also drew bows and arrows, and began to fight. They shoot each other. For a time, the horse fell, the rider fell, and the horse archers on both sides entangled with each other, allowing the heavy cavalry units on the front to hedge.

Yanyue sword swung at the lance, the saber confronted the long sword, the bone and the mace hit each other, the cavalry of the two sides collided directly, and the horses turned on their backs for a while, and the blood splashed, but the charge still did not stop. Byron’s cavalry lined up closely like a wall. Layer after layer is like a fast-moving siege hammer, directly dispersing the team of Khergit cavalry who are far fewer than them and scattered in formation. The heavy cavalry is unstoppable, stepping on those Khergit riders who have fallen under the horse. The body continued to move forward until the zhajia shattered, and the flesh and blood were blurred and there was no mercy.

Salander’s mercenaries hurriedly mounted their horses to fight, UU reading www.uukahnshu.com, they drew their bows and shot at the dense enemy cavalry. They thought it would be effective, but the heavy cavalry in the front columns were all Byron’s. Elite, their sturdy plate armor, chunky breastplate, and thick robe and chain armor easily blocked these arrows. After a burst of bow and arrow shooting, Byron's cavalry unit was almost undamaged.

After this, this Kujit and Salander mixed unit was forced to face the impact of the opponent head-on. They wanted to enter the town to escape. The buildings and fences could stop the charge of the cavalry units and give them a chance to counterattack. But the townspeople who had just let them looted and the remaining garrison who only dared to watch suddenly came to the edge of the town with their weapons, blocked the entrance with horse-drawn carts, and blocked the advance of their horses with spears.

Under the enemy, they can only return to meet the heavy cavalry charge. They have no choice but to recoil back in the same cavalry formation, but the effect is not much better than before. The distance is not enough, and they can’t even charge when they are crowded together. They face the heavy cavalry battalion without any slowness. They are easier to hit than the straw man target used by the knights when they practice riding. In a terrible charge that can crush the rock wall After that, those Khergits and Salander mercenaries fell one by one, and the remaining people fled one after another and became the targets of the horse archers.

In this way, Byron only paid more than a dozen people's losses, and defeated the army of hundreds of people and liberated Aldegar, both in the sense of the enemy and their lord.