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Chapter 1626 The First Battle (2)

As long as these knights are unable to ride horses, no matter how powerful a knight is, they are nothing more than good infantry. As long as they encounter well-trained shield wall tactics, they will definitely be cornered.

"My lord, the wind is too strong tonight. It is very difficult to kill the sentry from such a long distance. I can at least get within 40 meters before I can kill the sentry."

Meng Da looked at Zhao Hu and shook his head regretfully, and shot an arrow to death the moving sentinel 50 meters away. Arrowheads are very accurate at moving targets.

"It's easy to shoot down the sentinel, Starn, I'll sneak in and kill the horses first, and when the camp is in chaos, you can organize a shield formation assault." Zhao Hu ignored Starn's hesitation, turned around and disappeared. In the blackness of the night, only a black figure could be seen quickly touching the camp.

Zhao Hu slid forward quickly against the turf, and then flicked his feet, like a flying fish jumping out of the water, easily crossed the small river with a width of about 2 meters outside the camp, and after a few small jumps, he had already stuck to the fence outside the camp In addition, in the end, he even supported his fat body with his hands, like a gecko lying in the corner, and easily climbed over the three-meter-high wooden fence.

The agility shown by the idiot lord stunned everyone, even the hunter leader Mengda, who always thought he was as light as a swallow, and the mountains and valleys as flat ground, was completely convinced, "Is this guy still human!"

Zhao Hu climbed over the three-meter-high wooden fence and jumped down. There was a soft feeling of landing on the ground under his feet. Because Zhao Hu's movements were too fast, he did not attract the attention of the sentry. With the memory of the observation on the mountain just now, Zhao Hu easily He finally found the stable where the war horses were kept, but only then realized that he had missed an important question.

"How do we deal with these horses?" Horses have strong vitality. Unless the horse's head is chopped off with one knife, it may be difficult to kill it with one knife. The fallen horse will definitely cause other horses to scream. Zhao Hu looked at the stable. The war horses in the stable were in a state of distress for a while, and the several war horses in the stable also looked at Zhao Hu, an unexpected visitor, with bulging eyes. The sensitivity of animals is always much stronger than that of humans.

"Yes, set fire to the horses. These war horses will definitely run around when they are frightened." Zhao Hu's eyes suddenly fixed on the torch on the stable post, and then took the torch burning pine oil from the stable post. Then open the wooden fence door of the stable and start a fire along the thatch on the roof of the stable.

The night wind by the lake was very strong, and the fire quickly spread to the entire stable. The scorching flames immediately frightened the horses and rushed out of the fence. The sound of wind, fire, and the screaming of the horses were all mixed together.

Seeing such a big situation on the side of the stable, the Cato family soldiers surrounded by the bonfire, led by several knights in mail armor, ran to the stable in a panic, but they did not find the guards on the watchtower. Soldiers had been shot down by several cold arrows fired from the bushes outside the camp.

"What are you doing in a daze, waiting for the enemy to shoot you, hurry up, pass a few people over the wooden fence, and open the gate of the camp." Starn hurriedly directed the new recruits who had just entered the battlefield.

The sentinels had been dealt with by the hunters, but the newcomers were still dazed under the fence, not knowing what to do after rushing under the fence, so Starn, who claimed to be the commander, cursed angrily.

Hearing Starn's words, the peasant soldiers who were equally flustered and excited reacted, and a few more robust ones began to climb up the wooden fence. At this moment, the camp gate opened from the inside with a "squeak" Ah, Zhao Hu's obese figure appeared from the door.

"Why are you still standing there? A group of six people, according to the training, set up an assault formation! Remember, the enemy is not finished killing, you are not allowed to turn back, and those who turn back will be killed!" Zhao Hu saw the soldiers who were in a mess outside, The same angry curse.

At this time, the soldiers of the Cato family had already discovered the abnormality here, and a knight led a dozen soldiers to rush to the gate of the camp first.The peasant soldiers who were forming into formation could even feel the bellows-like panting of the soldiers from the Cato family on the opposite side.

"assault!"

Following Starn's shout, the front-shaped shield wall composed of thirty teams moved forward quickly, pressing towards the stunned enemy like a moving mountain in the dark night.

"Enemy attack! There are enemies rushing in"

The knight on the opposite side saw the shadows of people moving around in the dark night, and immediately panicked. Although he had discovered from the fire in the stable just now that someone was making trouble deliberately, he didn't expect that he would encounter the enemy's night attack, and someone would dare to attack the card Trust the family!

The knight's shrill shout attracted dozens of soldiers who were putting out the fire in the distance. Seeing the approaching shield wall, these veterans drew out their weapons one after another and calmly laid out two straight lines. This is the current field battle. Infantry is a traditional formation, which is conducive to putting the attack power of each soldier on the front.

"Touch! Touch!"

The moving shield wall finally bumped into the Kaitoka soldiers who were waiting in full battle. The sound of the weapon hitting the shield was as continuous as the beating of a drum. A dozen Toka soldiers fell down quickly. This inexplicable way of death shocked the Toka soldiers who rushed up from behind.

"Be careful, their daggers! These despicable bastards!" A knight stepped back in grief and shouted in pain. A dagger that had not been drawn was stuck in his blood-stained waist. It seemed to be worn on his body. The exquisite mail armor jammed the peasant soldier's dagger, and the knight who was "assaulted" survived.

This shout caused many soldiers who had already been held back by the shield wall to retreat, but more than half of them had already fallen. According to the previous training, the shield wall had already broken through the defense line of the Cato family and was surrounding them from both sides to the middle, as if The stuffed dumplings, the soldiers of the Cato family were surrounded in the middle.

"This is a massacre, a unilateral massacre." Starn felt that he was going crazy. Judging from the few soldiers he fought with just now, these were all veterans who had been on the battlefield. Although they were attacked by the superior enemy , still calmly formed a defensive formation to resist, but all of these were vulnerable to this weird shield wall.

Starn even saw one of the most cowardly peasant soldiers close his eyes and put a soldier on the shield and stabbed him to death with a dagger.

"Surrender! Or die!"

Zhao Hu waved his hand to make the soldiers stop attacking. In the middle of the circular formation surrounded by the shield wall, there were only a dozen soldiers still resisting, and only three of them were knights wearing scale armor. Zhao Hu, who was wary of the knights' attack, let out a sigh of relief, "It seems that most of the knights are not in the camp."

"We surrender, we demand fair treatment, and our family will pay the ransom for us!" The three knights first threw down their weapons, and there was no point in resisting any further, and the loyalty of knights was limited.

"Where's your Marquis Cato? Where is he?" Zhao Hu was very worried about the lord who didn't find the enemy in the camp. The lord is the big fish, and these small fish and shrimps are not worth much.

"He and Captain Stewart went to Lord Liu Ming's castle to negotiate." The answers of the captives made Zhao Hu who was wondering what was going on. But the father-in-law started negotiating with the enemy, and the feeling of being cheated made Zhao Hu furious, "This old fox, let's see how I deal with you."

"Go, detain these people, pack up everything, and let's go to Lord Liu Ming's castle." Zhao Hu shouted at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield.

"My lord, look what I found. There must be at least [-] gold coins!" Starn secretly dragged Zhao Hu into a black tent on the upper left in the middle of the camp with a full face of excitement.

Starn, who has lived in the barracks for a long time, knows that the place where the army used to store supplies is usually in the upper left corner of the middle tent, because this place is close to the middle, well-defended and unobtrusive.

Especially on the mountain just now, Starn has carefully observed that among the few tents in the middle, this one has no lights and is guarded by sentries. All of these are in line with the characteristics of material tents, so he ran into This is a weird tent.

By the light of the torch, Zhao Hu saw a few opened red brown wooden boxes full of all kinds of shiny things. Zhao Hu felt that these boxes should be filled by the Marquis of Cato when he took over the village. I didn't expect the Marquis Cato to work so hard for such a long time, that he, an "outsider" himself, would be taken advantage of for nothing.

"Go out and call some people, and carry these boxes to the center of the camp." Zhao Hu covered the boxes, and the excited Starn was stunned by what Zhao Hu said, completely unaware of this monster with a head full of heads. What kind of madness did the lord of the idea go? According to the usual practice, the spoils of these discoveries belong to the lord.

The hunters were busy catching a dozen or so horses that fled in fright, and the peasant soldiers were taking off the leather armor and picking up the enemy's weapons from the enemy's corpse. Although these were not worth much, they were still their own trophies.

Although the raid easily defeated the enemy, three peasant soldiers were killed and eight were injured to varying degrees, four of whom were stabbed by their own people in the crowded queue.

Seeing the dead comrades and wounded and howling soldiers, the whole team was filled with an unspeakable silence. Suddenly, everyone saw their lord commanding a few peasant soldiers striding to the center of the camp carrying a few big wooden boxes, and they stopped immediately. After finishing the work in hand, they gathered around one after another.

(End of this chapter)