Chapter 123: Battle
When the leader of the "Gray Sword" Bill Cassadine set out, the fog in the air was gradually evaporating by the rising sun, and the grass left over from the war horse was covered with dew.
The knights of the Cassadine family followed him closely and marched rapidly, and the front row of the Cassadine archers lined up in three columns, on either side of the road, calmly adjusting the bowstring as they rode their horses, their arrows dangling at their waists.
Lancers in phalanx formed formations stood in the middle of the archers, and in the rear were rows of cavalrymen armed with spears, swords and axes.
Four or five hundred knights were hurrying into the junction of the Cassadines and the Turners.
The Sword of Dawn "Shokasadin" led another team of knights, about 1,000 men in total, heavily armored, and more than three-quarters of the knights gathered here like a huge steel fist.
Their goal is to flank the Turner family back and forth, although the knights do not like to do this kind of unjust thing, but war is war after all, when the Cassadine family announced an alliance with the Randall family, the Cassadine family has stood on the opposite side of the Turner family, everyone understands that war is no better than the knights' duel, only victory is the only truth.
After Lord Randall led his army to attack, he rode on a hill surrounded by reserves, half cavalry and half infantry, as many as 3,000 men.
He has always liked to command the whole situation, being on high ground with a panoramic view of the situation, and putting his troops where they are most needed.
Even from a distance, Lord Randall was still brilliant, his armor paled in comparison to the gilded suits of others, his large cloak woven from countless silks, and his red steel armor that had been polished again and again to shine like fire in the light of the rising sun.
At this time, the white knight Setner could already hear the rumbling war drums of the enemy army and felt the severity of the situation, and the Turner family had also received the news of the alliance between the Cassadine family and the Randall family, but at this time the arrow had to be sent, the Randall family's army was too close to them, if they could defeat the Randall lord from the front first, and then negotiate peace with them, they would have confidence, and at the same time, the Randall lord actually did not wait for the arrival of the Cassadine family's army, and actually took the lead in attacking them.
Is this underestimating us? After a long march all night, the knights of the Cassadine family must be exhausted at this moment, moving slowly, and far from reaching the first battlefield, Lord Turner and the White Knight Setner stood together, they didn't know what Lord Randall's idea was, did they want to attack the other party while they were asleep?
But their noisy frontal provocation was nothing like a sneak attack, and the chances of such a surprise were really small, and considering that Lord Randall was extremely shrewd in warfare, they then made a decision to fight to the death.
Lord Randall's vanguard army was assembled on the left, some knights were under the banner, they rode the biggest horses, they were the best targets, and they were also the death squads carefully selected by Lord Randall, their role was to attract the attention of the archers on the opposite battlefield, disrupt the defense on the opposite side, and tear a hole for the army behind them.
The equipment of these daredevils knights was not magnificent at all: the armor was a dark gray heavy steel plate, on which there were only traces of long-term and vigorous use, without any coats of arms or decorations. "Whoever dares to escape, I will kill him with my own hands!" The captain of the death squad roared, turning his head to look at one of the team. "You! Later, you will rush to the left and see if you have the strength to cross the river. ”
It was the leftmost flank of the Left Army, and as long as they rushed through it, the Turner armies could not be outflanked unless their horses could run on the water.
Several death squad knights led the way towards the riverbank. "Look!" He pointed to the river with his axe and cried. "It's the river." A layer of white mist still covered the water like a blanket, and the dark gray river rushed underneath, and the shallows were covered with mud and reeds.
"We rush through this place, and no matter what happens, keep close to the river, never let it out of sight, and never allow any enemy to enter between the river and us. They want to defile our river, so we chop off their heads and throw them into the river to feed the fish! ”
Lord Randall watched the death squad lead the vanguard army to launch the first round of assault, he also rode around the horse, checking the movements of the Turner family on the surrounding battlefield, the surrounding land was rugged, the shore was slippery and muddy, low uphill, and further east, it was a rocky and broken terrain, and the hills were a little wooded, but most of the trees here had been cut down and turned into farmland, he listened to the war drums, his heart was pounding with the rhythm in his chest, and he commanded loudly while riding his horse, and under the layers of leather armor, a drop of sweat soaked his leather clothes.
The white knight Setner did not have time to think carefully at this time, the drums were getting closer and closer, and the thump of the drums was getting closer and thump, and his hands were tense, and he drew his sword, and in an instant, the enemy had appeared in front of him, and from the top of the hill all over the hills, the front knight rushed first, and the army behind them, hiding behind the barrier of shields and spears, marched forward in unison.
The bugle sounded, woo-woo, low and long, and the horn of the Randall family immediately responded, toot-toot, toot-toot-toot, toot-toot, toot-toot, loud and untamed.
When the sound of the trumpet died down and the hissing filled the void, to the right of the white knight Essertena, the archers who had already been in ambush on both sides of the road rained arrows, and the forward infantry of the Turner family ran fast, shouting as they ran.
The bows and arrows of the Turner family hailed like hail towards Randall's forward knights, hundreds, thousands, and in an instant, many of them fell to the ground with arrows, and their shouts turned to wailing, when the second wave of attacks had fallen from the sky, and the archers put the third arrow on the bowstring.
The horn sounded again, beet-toot, toot-toot, toot-toot, toot-toot. Lord Randall swung his greatsword and shouted a command, and the voices of thousands of people immediately responded.
Directly ahead, the spearmen of the Turner family formed a half-moon formation, like a steel hedgehog with thorns on both sides, waiting for the battle, the army behind the Randall family death squad, formed a wedge-shaped formation, and soon engaged it, facing a large row of spears, half of the horses stopped sprinting at the last moment, dodged away, and some were rampaged, the tip of the spear pierced through the chest, and died on the spot, those mounts were scraped through the neck by the tip of a spear with a thorn, it stood up, stretched out its feet inlaid with hooves and kicked out, and the frantic war horse jumped into the enemy formation, Spears stabbed at it from all sides, but the shield wall crumbled under its weight, and the knights staggered to dodge the animal's dying struggle, and their horses fell with a bang, vomiting blood to death.
The white knight Setner also led his army to join the battlefield here after cutting off a few death squad cavalry, he raised his sword and launched a crazy attack, at this time he himself rushed into the enemy formation, the battlefield instantly shrank to a few feet around the mount, an infantryman with a spear poked at his chest, he swung his sword and opened the spear, the man jumped backwards, intending to try again, but Setner turned his horse's head and trampled him under the horse, and then he was surrounded by three enemy regiments, but he cut off the first spearhead that stabbed him, A backhand sword hit another person in the face.
A flying arrow suddenly shot in the direction of Lord Randall from the left, and with a "bang" it was inserted into the steel shield, and Lord Randall ordered several cavalry to turn around and pursue the knight arrow team of the Turner family, and the battle between the Turner family and the Randall family soon entered a white-hot level.