The aristocratic coalition forces of the Northern County finally reached the vicinity of the Stone Pass.
The original rugged dirt road has completely lost the traces of caravans and pedestrians.
Only in the flat wilderness farther away, occasionally a few figures on horseback could be seen passing by quickly, flashing past in the night, even the cavalry sent by the noble coalition army could not catch up.
These cavalry were all desert bandits, scattered outside, following these noble allied forces from a distance.
The task is to investigate.
If there are noble light cavalry coming to drive them away, they will leave without hesitation.
But when the light cavalry retreated, the desert bandits would follow like flies.
Hanging far away, the distance between the two sides will never exceed 100 meters. This is simply too easy for desert robbers. It is easier than following those caravans in the Sarande desert.
After all, they are all bandits, excellent light cavalry honed in the desert!
Even when those light cavalry were too close.
After staying away from the noble coalition forces.
These desert robbers brazenly exposed their fangs, drew out their short javelins with their backhands, rushed over in twos and threes, and shot all the light cavalry who had no means of long-range attack to death under their horses.
In terms of mobility and flexibility, as well as throwing javelins, desert bandits are extremely confident!
Just look at the light cavalry of the noble coalition.
Originally chasing with anger.
unconsciously.
Go deep into the hinterland of the plain, far away from the noble coalition forces.
Originally, seeing those desert bandits who stopped were still full of excitement, and wanted to rush up to deal with this group of sneaky guys, but unexpectedly, those sneaky guys rushed back instead.
Before they drew their swords to confront, they were nailed to their horses by a round of short javelins thrown by the rain.
Conventional combat
For desert bandits, this is the norm!
Stopping and stopping along the way, taking outsiders to harass the noble coalition forces, these desert bandits are just having fun.
Except for a few unlucky ghosts who were too close to the formation of the noble coalition army and were shot to death by the rain of arrows from the attacking crossbow, no desert robbers were injured, but in the end it was a loss.
And at a slightly sunken ancient river far away from the noble allied forces, thousands of cavalry were staying.
Rolf is here.
The surrounding cavalry are also light cavalry, desert bandits and elite desert bandits.
There are thousands of people, and there are desert bandits who have just been recruited to support them from the sentry oasis. The current number is 600 the most common desert bandits, and 1,000 elite desert bandits for harassing operations.
Those who scattered out to follow the noble coalition before were ordinary desert bandits.
And this caused a lot of losses to the noble light cavalry.
"Lord Rolf!"
There are desert robbers coming at a fast pace.
Dismounting respectfully, he half-kneeled in front of Rolf and reported, "The coalition forces of nobles from the North County Territory have appeared in a village about 30 miles south of Jianshi Pass. They are setting up a temporary camp, and they seem to be preparing to rest."
"Yeah." Rolf sat on a chair and spread out a map in front of him: "Have you notified Fatis?"
"already arranged."
The desert bandit nodded: "It is estimated that we have reached the Stone Pass, Lord Fatis has also received the news." His tone paused, and he still reported: "However, it seems that the coalition of nobles wants to take advantage of the darkness to launch an attack , according to our observation, some impatient mercenaries are still marching towards the stone pass."
"Attack in the dark? How interesting!" Rolf sneered, put down the map in his hand and said, "Did those mercenaries think they could easily defeat the defenders on the city wall?"
"They have siege weapons."
The desert robber reported: "It seems to be a bed crossbow. It is in the accompanying carriage. After buying some mercenaries, they said that there are parts of trebuchets. It is estimated that these trebuchets are the main equipment for attacking the city." .”
"This is difficult." Rolf stroked the short beard on his chin: "Are you sure?" He looked at the desert robber, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "Let my boys All ready, linen all ready, we are ready for a welcome to our friends."
"Yes!" The desert robber retreated, and at the same time spread the news to the entire cavalry unit.
This is preparation before battle.
30 minutes later.
Rolf rode his horse and led the team on the plain.
Spears, cutlasses, and javelins were at the ready, along with the linen in the bundles on horseback.
These light cavalry troops moved forward quickly, rumbling like rolling thunder, but when they were about to reach the vicinity of the village, they quickly stopped running, and all followed the orders of their captains, got off their horses, and began to lead the horses forward .
Moonlight and starlight illuminate the earth, even in the middle of the night, you can still see far away.
But what you see is blurry, not real at all.
It can't be compared with daytime.
Therefore, Rolf and the others can slowly approach the village where the noble coalition army is stationed.
Don't even care about the light cavalry wandering around. Naturally, there are crazy desert robbers who launch a feint attack on the other side of the village. This is part of the plan for them, just like they did at the beginning.
In the Sarande Desert, the feint attack attracts the attention of the caravan guards, and the other side is the main force that actually robs the caravan!
"alright."
Rolf led the horse in front.
They did not encounter any scouting and patrolling light cavalry along the way.
Because just on the other side of the village, 600 desert bandits were cursing the coalition forces like crazy, attracting the attention of the light cavalry, and going back and forth, fighting and running, not fighting close to each other, and not retreating immediately , On the contrary, it was like flies flying back and forth, completely annoyed the light cavalry of the noble coalition forces.
A large number of light cavalry originally used for reconnaissance and patrolling were all dispatched to hunt and kill the 600 desert bandits, and even some light infantry were sent out.
"Ready to fight!"
Rolf's eyes were deep, he slowly pulled out the scimitar from his waist, turned his head and said, "Start to act!"
"start to act!"
The captains gave orders one after another.
They began to trot quickly, leading the horses and trotting on the soft soil, and the soles of their feet and the hooves of the horses were wrapped in linen, so the sound was not roaring, but had a weird muffled sound.
It's like a rock rolling, although there is a sound, it can't travel too far.
In this darkness.
A distance of 300 meters is the deep night sky.
And with this short distance, for the cavalry, they may turn up at any time and transform into a charging state!
Looking at the outline of the village in the starry night in front of him, and the tents scattered around the village after being lit by many torches, Rolf immediately got on his horse, kicked the horse's belly fiercely, and shouted loudly: "Charge!"
"Kill!" 1,000 elite desert bandits rushed over immediately!
(end of this chapter)