In the darkness of the night, the troops were quickly organized, all of them were elite men in leather armor and armed with iron weapons, most of whom were also slaves from the Silverplate Kingdom who were born captives and had a deep hatred for the Lion Principality.

This battle is about their future, if they do not want to die in the fertile fields of the Southern Commandery, it will require their unity, almost a desperate will to defeat the enemy, and the civilians who have been brought in cannot do this, only the slaves and serfs, who are already humble enough to have nothing to add, can make it possible.

They have nothing, even if they fight hard, it is only a dead end, compared to the unbearable amount of labor in the field, fighting to the death, and dying on the battlefield with glory is not necessarily a shortcut.

The Duchy of Lion worships force.

Although the Kingdom of the Silver Plate does not have a tradition of the supremacy of force, it also encourages the practice of fighting techniques.

Although they had not been connected for ten years, the endless labor had only increased their anger, and the once familiar fighting techniques were now familiar, but they were even more deadly, because they wanted to ask for an explanation for their humiliating slave life, and were even willing to exchange their lives for their lives, and torture their enemies with the most brutal means.

You must know that those who can survive this kind of serf life can be counted as the most elite, plus some serfs sold here from various countries, they are also former war losers, and they are also elite soldiers.

That's why they were so strong in the early days.

It's really terrifying!

Initially.

The manor lord and village chief of the Lion Principality didn't care.

Serf rebellions did not happen without incident, and even several villages were occupied along with them.

But so what?

In the end, they gathered the militia and easily suppressed it!

Summing up the experience, the pure reason for the rebellion was not inhumane acts such as oppression, beating and scolding, but purely despising this group of serfs, allowing them to be temporarily freed, so that they got some weapons in the early stage, and took the manor guards or the village militia by surprise, so that it had a collapse effect.

But once the militias in other places were organized, plus many private armies belonging to the nobility, it was easy to suppress these militia rebellions, and even the longest of them did not last more than three days.

Although the number of troops in the Duchy of Lion is smaller than that of other kingdoms, they are indeed elite!

Even the militia is like that.

The well-known southern county leader, even the militia had their own horses.

In other words, their militia is actually equivalent to the light cavalry that can only be armed by wealthy freemen, and can be used as a grassroots commander or cavalry in other human principalities.

Compared with the troops of the northern commanders, most of them are mainly infantry, and the southern commanders are mainly cavalry.

It's because of the money!

Dressed in iron-clad armor, armed with spears and swords, and a good mounted horse, the militia of the Southern Commanders.

The combat power is extremely strong, the mobility is also very strong, the organization is completely a light cavalry group, the combat effectiveness can almost be compared with the desert bandits, and after hard training in cluster operations, the large army charges and fights a decisive battle, I am afraid that the desert bandits who are good at scattered guerrilla warfare are not as strong as these militias.

But it is precisely because of the wealth of the Nanjun Commander that most people are more reluctant to die, even the militia that was originally responsible for protecting the family and defending the country has lost the initiative in the wave of impact, and even fled.

If there is no backbone to call on, their morale is completely low!

As a result, none of these equestrian militias are now engaged in combat.

The aristocracy was also well aware.

The combat effectiveness of these militias can only be used to hinder the enemy's offensive speed.

As for the real main force of battle, it still depends on the knights, those real knights, the knight squires and servants led by them, launched an almost tsunami-like charge, and completely defeated the enemy in one wave!

And there are deeper metaphors.

The commoners should not be allowed to have too many powers, which would affect the control of the power of the nobles.

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It was in this way of thinking that the five knights came to the valley of the Southern Commandery.

They were resting, but they didn't know that in the distant village, nearly 20,000 infantry were gathered, spears in hand, and they were running quickly, ready to attack them with the most direct night attack.

For this night attack, the soldiers of the rebel army did not even use any cavalry.

All for success!

Late at night.

The light of the stars and the moon shone on the land of the Southern Commandery.

Bands of infantry appeared in the dense forest outside the valley.

And in the valley, most of the members of the knights were still resting, and only a few dozen people stood at the critical checkpoint as sentinels, but looking at the appearance of leaning against the tree with weak energy and very tired, I also knew that they were absent-minded.

With such a long march, even on horseback was quite tired.

Now they want to get some sleep more than anything else.

But.

This is clearly not the case now.

The enemy was in a village not far away, and although in their experience, it was easy to extinguish this serf rebellion, but after all, it was a large rebellion that had swept so many villages, which had never happened before, and because of the war for the throne going on, they certainly did not dare to let their guard down easily.

But it doesn't mean that they will act as sentinels with absolute vigilance, after all, the small group of rebels they encountered before were easily killed by them, which led them to be very optimistic, and even put forward the slogan of fighting for one day and resting for three days.

Taking advantage of the reason for counterinsurgency, it is undoubtedly the best enjoyment to retreat to the second line to rest.

At least.

The front line is still under pressure on the troops of the North County Commander.

After all, although the northern county leader is poor, but the people are fierce, even if the organized troops have fewer cavalry, they can also bring them casualties, if they waste their lives there, it is better to temporarily hide in the second line and wait for the follow-up decisive battle!

It's just that in the middle of the night, in the darkness not far from these sentinels, there are bent figures one after another.

The elite bandits from the Salander Desert touched it.

Not a scimitar in the hand.

It's a spearhead like a dagger!

The boots on both feet were wrapped in layers of linen, and he walked without making a sound.

One by one, when these sentries were bored and still dozing off, they suddenly pounced on them, and pierced the throats of these sentries with their spearheads, and within ten minutes, dozens of sentries were all killed, and at this time, hundreds of tents were neatly installed in the valley under the moonlight.

These tents represent the number of 5 knights, nearly 5,000 people, but on both sides of the valley and at the front and back entrances and exits of the valley, there are 20,000+ rebel troops blocked there.

And still step by step, quietly touching forward, gradually reaching the distance of the infantry charge.

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