Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 184

When historians of later generations brought up the classic case of "the offensive and defensive battle of the Land of East Cracked Soul", which was a classic battle on the road to the fortune of Frost Maple Ridge, in addition to praising Sean Mountbatten, they often had no regrets:
It's a pity that in this era, there is no magic airship of the empire running in the sky of the land of the cracked soul——

——Otherwise, we can overlook the entire plain of the Land of Cracking Soul from a high altitude, and have a panoramic view of Mountbatten's cavalry dispatch and the bandit coalition's hasty response:
The dusty mountains standing thousands of feet high and the rolling Frost Maple Ridges form a girl-like narrow and long plain in the easternmost part of the Land of Cracking Soul. The meandering stream is her crony, and the lush Frost Maple The woodland is her beautiful hair, and a cavalry raid where you come and go is grandly opened on the girl's flat and white belly.

The Shuangfengling Mengxin cavalry, whose total number is no more than sixty, relying on the branches behind the horse's buttocks and their indomitable momentum, created a far greater power on the plain than it actually did:
When we look down at the wilderness, we can't even see any clear shape of a war horse, only a few clouds of dust galloping on the ground, putting the idea in Sean Mountbatten's mind into practice.

The Frost Maple Ridge cavalry, who had already convinced the young officer, divided into three teams according to Mountbatten's instructions. With the bandit camp sticking on the ground like a ringworm as the center, they went around in circles for a moment, like the three rails of the camp. satellite.

But they are the kind of "satellites" that occasionally "fall".

Every ten to three ten minutes, there will be one or two cavalry squads, suddenly stop the circular motion, and then rush towards the bandit camp in the center of the circle——

——But none of them directly ran into the fortifications of the Bandit Alliance Army.

Or 2000 meters, or 500 meters, or 1000 meters, these sprinting cavalry squads will always stop after reaching a certain distance, and then either continue to circle, or rush back to the foot of the Phoenix Terrace, Let the horses that continue to fight rest for a while in turn.

At the very beginning, the bandit alliance still maintained a strong desire to wipe out this group of annoying cavalry.

More than once, when the cavalry of the bandit coalition army approached quickly, they rushed out of the camp like predatory sharks, trying to defeat the cavalry of Frost Maple Ridge head-on—but every time, Frost Maple Ridge The Ridge cavalry would retreat in circles at the critical moment, leaving the bandits in despair;

Of course, there were a few dangerous situations in the beginning, the most dangerous one, the bandit cavalry almost bit the tail of the Frost Maple Ridge cavalry, but in the end it was a bad move, and a large cloud of smoke swaggered away ;

After the danger appeared, Mountbatten quickly adjusted his strategy. First, he used a simultaneous sprint in three directions to completely frighten the bandit coalition forces, and then passed several unpredictable short-distance sprints with a length of 500 meters, allowing them to These bandits are completely clueless;
Then, the bandit cavalry never managed to catch the tails of these three squads.

However, one thing will never change: Shuangfengling's symbolic cavalry sprint has never approached within 500 meters of the bandit camp, and it will always be sloppy in the outer area.

The bandit leaders, headed by "Blood Lion" Black, soon realized something interesting——

"Damn, they ran away again?" Black stood on the semi-finished siege tower, holding a telescope, watching the cloud of smoke go far away.

In just a few hours, the bandits in the coalition army have seen similar scenes no less than twenty times.

"In my opinion, they don't dare to really launch an attack at all!" A scout next to Black told the truth, "Isn't it just going around in circles and feigning attacks, trying to make us nervous and exhausted? I do not know!"

Blake put down the lens tube and smacked his lips.

Now that the "Blood Lion" thought about it, he also felt that he had overreacted a bit before?
To put it bluntly, the bandit alliance has already built a temporary camp. Although the fortifications are too simple and slightly inferior to the Shuangfengling camp that has been in operation for a while, it can defend a small area with only horses and fences. It should not be difficult to attack large-scale cavalry;
On the other hand, the Shuangfengling cavalry outside, this group of bastards who have been going around in circles and have never launched a serious attack, can they really have the courage to attack the bandit camp?
In the final analysis, this group of cavalry in circles is nothing more than an old-fashioned tactic to disturb the troops!
"I think these bastards will definitely not launch an attack..." Blake slapped the lens tube on the scout's chest viciously, and shouted, "Take it easy! Don't everyone hang around outside Just give me a shift to keep an eye on the movements of these bastards!"

The bandits responded with a bang.

In any case, the minions also feel that their boss's strategy is correct:
The opponent's group of slippery cavalry obviously didn't want to launch an attack, but they just wanted to use continuous feints to drain the energy of the coalition forces and seize the initiative on the battlefield.

In this case, if you still fight against the enemy with 100% spirit, you are cheating yourself.

Therefore, it is enough to be on duty in shifts and maintain a basic defense at the lowest possible cost-if the opponent really dares to risk his life to attack the coalition camp with several times the number of people, then their only ending is to see the god of death .

However, someone still raised a question:

"Then... Boss... what about our siege equipment? There is not enough wood in the camp, we still need to go out to cut wood!"

Blake licked his lips morosely.

This is indeed a real problem: as the quality of the fortifications in Shuangfeng Ridge is unclear, under the suggestion of the leather armor warriors, the bandit coalition forces with a large number of people chose the most stable combat strategy this time - that is, go first After camping and building enough siege weapons, advance to the platform with complete confidence;
But now, with these enemy cavalry constantly circling outside, how should the logging team go out to collect wood is a problem.

The general solution to similar problems is to kill the enemy's harassment troops before logging;

However, the group of cavalry that the coalition army is facing now seems to be very cunning for some reason, so that they can't even catch their shadows. This is going to kill them...

As for sending enough troops to escort the logging team back and forth, it is not impossible, but Black always feels aggrieved:
I clearly have the upper hand, so why should I mobilize the crowd just because of a cavalry from the bastard nobles in Shuangfengling?

What's more, the logging team is basically from Huangshabao, and the owner of the Gorefiend village, who has always been at odds with the opponent, does not have the spirit of internationalism to send someone to escort the opponent-to put it bluntly, this time it was at the Duke of Houston's After a joint operation is arranged, after the end, everyone will still have to fight for victory in the wilderness and use their strength to rely on their skills...

I sent people to be your guards, and if the other party really came over, it would be my manpower that would be lost...

Book that, why!
"Let's gather together the available wood first..." Black hesitated for a long time, and reluctantly replied, "Gather together and build a few siege towers and trebuchets..."

"Boss! Why don't we just go directly!" A minion suggested, "Since we can't get wood, we should keep things simple and get some big siege guys to attack directly!"

This sentence can be regarded as speaking to Blake's heart.

After Shuangfengling shot the women's clothing and added the letter of war, the "Blood Lion" already wanted to quickly attack and kill the bastards on the opposite side, and the harassment of cavalry after that made the head of the Blood Demon Village even more heartbroken. More and more impatient: According to his philosophy, the bandit coalition army with a large number of people should have been pushed over by one brain.

However, after all, the coalition is not something that Black can decide alone.

Not to mention the owners of several other cottages, the leather warrior sent by the Duke of Houston to oversee the army is the real party A and the person in charge here.

"Damn it..." Blake muttered, and ordered sharply, "You guys continue to be vigilant! I'll go discuss it with them!"

"Blood Lion" groaned and scrambled down the siege tower, thought for a while before entering the tent, and exhorted loudly:
"You guys, stay vigilant. If those bastard cavalrymen want to approach again, whether it's a feint attack or not, someone must come and report to me!"

The thieves responded loudly, Blake rubbed his neck and thought for a while, thinking that there should be nothing wrong, so he walked into his tent loudly.

After a while, the leaders of the various cottages and the leather armored warriors rushed over.

An emergency pre-war meeting of the Bandit Allied Forces kicked off in this unassuming felt tent.

It has to be said that the continuous harassment of the light cavalry did have a serious psychological impact on all the coalition leaders present.

Huangshabao, Blade's Edge Mountain and other village owners who originally supported the conservative strategy of the leather armored warriors, after "Blood Lion" Black proposed to quickly advance troops, they all kept silent about not helping each other. Now, in their view, It is also a choice to make a decisive move to complete the battle and avoid continuing to be harassed and deterred by the cavalry.

What's more, the bandit sentinels who kept coming in and out of the tent door, reporting that "the cavalry in the northwest are attacking" and "the cavalry in the southeast are retreating at 2000 meters", made the village owners who attended the meeting feel uneasy. feeling irritable.

However, there was indeed a particularly stubborn guy at the meeting, who insisted on the original conservative strategy and would not let go.

"March now, it's the right time!" Black slapped the table viciously, and the pink dress on the table trembled accordingly, "It's not easy to build more siege equipment anyway, Just call like this, what are you afraid of?!"

The leather armored warrior sat at the table with his legs crossed, squinting at the "Blood Lion" indifferently, until the other party finished speaking, he said slowly:
"Don't worry, wait a little longer."

"Fuck! Why!" Blake was anxious and angry, stomping on his leather boots.

"That's right, they sent this skirt." The leather armored warrior pulled out his rapier from his waist, and picked up the female skirt on the table with the tip of the sword, with a contemptuous expression, "You bunch of wilderness idiots who eat weeds... ...Can't you see such an obvious aggressive method? I don't know what kind of plan Shuangfengling is planning, but they obviously hope to stimulate us so that we can't hold back and rush forward...What, 'Blood Dog' Black Sir, what a skirt can't do, a few cavalrymen who keep feinting can do it?"

Hearing that the other party changed the majestic "Blood Lion" to "Blood Dog", Black's reddened eyes were obviously filled with anger, but the bright steel rapier in front of him still kept him calm enough.

"Fuck!" With a wave of his hand, Black pulled the girl's skirt off the point of the sword and threw it on the ground, revealing strands of broken lace, "Then what should we do? No wood is harvested, no siege equipment is built , Soldiers and horses don’t move, just spend it with a group of sons of bitches cavalry scammers in this place where the birds don’t shit?”

"Yes, let's go on." The leather armored warrior sheathed his sword, picked up the water glass from the table, and took a sip calmly. I can't stand it... Black, your current strategy is correct, as long as you stay vigilant at all times and don't get attacked by surprise, you can spend it with them like this..."

"Me! Fuck!" Blake yelled, "Sit in here with the bastards in Shuangfengling, I don't even know how to win this battle!"

While there was chaos and noise in the tent, no one noticed that a "bandit soldier" wearing an oversized leather helmet and extraordinarily messy attire had already groped over without anyone noticing.

——Alan Hotelling lightly lifted his helmet, squinted his eyes and looked at the tent in front of him.

Half a day ago, when he heard Sean Mountbatten's plan at the Phoenix Terrace, Allen felt that his recruit of the same age must be crazy to the bone:

Changing into bandit-style clothes and sneaking into the bandit camp alone, this plan can no longer be described as daring and absurd——

Even if Alan has a little bit of ability to disguise himself and fish in troubled waters, how could a bandit camp that is neatly garrisoned and guarded by guards let a foreign counterfeit casually sneak in?

At that time, Mountbatten just blinked mysteriously and said:
"There will definitely be a chance."

Now, Allen can be regarded as knowing what the "opportunity" in Mountbatten's mouth is——

Because of the continuous harassment of the light cavalry, the bandit camp, which seemed to be orderly and well-organized, fell into chaos beyond imagination more than once!
During the first few feint attacks by the cavalry commanded by Mountbatten, the bandit soldiers who hurriedly deployed their defenses and ran around the camp immediately pulled out a big gap in their own patrol route-they were lurking under the cover of bushes. Alan who was nearby made a decisive decision, and walked in directly from the camp gate without anyone noticing!

And after mixing into the camp, things are even easier to handle.

Since the coalition army is composed of several different cottages, the members are not very familiar with each other, which helps Allen's latent work:

While he was circling around the camp looking for his target, he did encounter a few interrogations, but he got away with relying on his knowledge of bandits in the wilderness. is not recognizable in any way;

From time to time, the Mountbatten cavalry who suddenly advanced to attack and startled a pool of gulls added chaos to the inside of the bandit camp.

Whether it is "Blood Lion" Black, or the leather armored warrior from Rock Creek City, after all, they still miscalculated:

Mountbatten's dispatch of cavalry was never to launch a surprise attack, let alone to consume energy, but purely to create chaos, so that Alan Hotelling's sharp knife could be inserted into the center of the bandit camp!
Even, Allen quickly discovered the location of the bandit leaders by virtue of Mountbatten's tricks——

Of course, it is not easy to find out the command center of the bandit leaders in tents of all kinds, large and small, but Mountbatten has already taught Allen face-to-face:

"When my cavalry is attacking, just watch where the sentinel runs to report, and the leaders of the bandits are there!"

So, Allen followed the sentinels who rushed to report the news, and found the place where the "Bandit Meeting" was held without any difficulty...

Alan Hotelling felt his heart beat faster as he listened to the rough and heated discussion mixed with curses through the felt enclosure of the tent.

Alan Hotelling is not Clement in full body armor, just because he is alone, of course, there is no way to kill these bandit leaders and perform a decapitation operation - even for the convenience of sneaking, he can't even carry the baggage, the whole body The upper and lower weapons are only a low-quality dagger.

However, the mission Mountbatten entrusted to this comrade-in-arms has never been "kill so-and-so"——

——This kind of rough work has long been done by no one!

Alan Hotelling carefully took out a bamboo tube from his waist, placed it meticulously at the foot of the tent, then unscrewed the cover of the tube, turned around and ran away.

Ten seconds later, behind the running Alan Hotelling, a dazzling beam of flame shot straight out of the magic bamboo tube carefully crafted by Lena Leslie, breaking through the clouds and reaching the sky.

(End of this chapter)