In just a few days, the logistics supply line of the Knights suffered a devastating blow.
A large number of transport convoys from Lion Fort and Lion Heart City were all targeted by the light cavalry headed by Rolf, and then when everyone was relaxing at night, they launched a surprise attack without too much entanglement and threw fire oil on them. just run.
With the raging flames, although the personnel of the transport team did not suffer too many injuries, the supplies suffered a lot.
Sometimes even people are slaughtered.
Outright robbery!
wrong.
Although the Lion Principality said that the various nobles were constantly dirty, there were actually not many real robbers.
They are all wolfhounds raised by the nobles. Only at certain times, they will wantonly attack the caravan, but as long as the news from the master arrives, it will be completely silent as if they were chained again.
Therefore, all the forces in the Principality of Lions are dogs raised by the nobles.
Need to pull out and bite.
unnecessary.
Then just stay at home quietly.
As for the current Rolf, who started to roam around the plains and various farms in the South County without any scruples, committing crimes, burning, killing, looting, doing everything, that is simply unthinkable!
But because of this, the management at all levels of the Nanjun Territory, the nobles, didn't react at all!
three days.
More than 50 farms in South County were burned by Rolf.
Even more than a dozen villages were burned, resulting in nearly 10,000 refugees who began to gather towards Lionheart City.
The entire South County Territory was in chaos, and they would attack at any time, plunder and rob the convoy of food, and even distribute the food to the refugees. Rolf made the situation even more chaotic.
They were all light cavalry, and the Knights of Nanjun, who were used to group assaults, were all at a loss.
This is the role of irregular cavalry.
Harassment!
In addition to causing mobility attacks on infantry on the battlefield, it can also cause various troubles to the enemy in non-battlefield areas, and even non-combat attrition, such as famine caused by lack of food!
Of course there will be famine in the army.
What's more, an army composed of more than 20,000 heavy cavalry needs an astronomical figure of food!
The food consumed every day, people eat horse chews, can match the consumption of 50,000 infantry soldiers. Before the war, the food demand will increase sharply. After all, the physical strength of the troops must be guaranteed in the short term to ensure continuous combat on the battlefield time!
Rolf's attack on the Knights of the Southern County was carried out in this way.
Attack the grain road.
Harassment of traditional growing areas.
Drive peasants into refugees Destroy agricultural structures.
Even blockade areas, attack transportation lines, harass cities and troops who came to sweep.
The purpose is to harass and harass the enemy uninterruptedly to exhaust the enemy in this battle that is about to continue. In this high-pressure state, they will collapse on their own, or go to destruction!
The noble infantry who had already formed a defensive formation didn't care about the charge of the knights at all.
Infantry armed with spears and spears that can be arranged in a square formation are hedgehogs.
Want to attack and charge
joke!
Those members of the Knights will definitely leave corpses on the sharp spears and spears!
Even if the weight and inertia of the horses were used to break through a part of the spear phalanx, how could the price-to-performance ratio of the two sides be directly proportional? A group of inferior North County leaders conscripted militiamen and hired farmers, only received a few months of military training every year, and could exchange their lives with this group of knights who had been trained all year round.
It's worth it just by looking at it, not to mention that in order to break through the layered, almost dense defensive spear phalanx, it can only be done if at least 5,000 knights or knight attendants are killed in battle!
The most important thing is the word "death in action".
5,000 members of the Knights were killed. Doesn't that mean that everyone else is injured
This is still a conservative estimate, because among the more than 20,000 infantry, there is also a heavy cavalry of more than 3,000 people. They are all armored, including men and horses.
If the two sides really broke out in battle, unless one side fell down!
The fighting situation will be extremely tragic!
But.
Just look at the current situation.
If the troops of the North County Territory really wanted to stand by and defend the edge of the South County Territory in a defensive posture, then they would really be like hedgehogs, making it impossible for the noble knights of the South County Territory to talk.
Even if the troops of the North County Territory moved slightly, it would be able to form a part of the gap and form a flaw.
That was the portal through which the Knights rushed.
But the infantry of the North County Territory just didn't make any moves, and still stood firm.
Even the transportation team didn't care, even though those transportation teams brought in all kinds of supplies sparsely, even the Nanjun leader sent light cavalry to investigate or harass, and they were completely indifferent.
The biggest reason is that, as the commander of the North County Army, Fatis doesn't care at all.
The advantage of the Nanjun collar lies in the knights composed of heavy cavalry.
rather than light cavalry.
Those light cavalry who wore simple leather armor, or did not wear armor at all, only had the function of scouting.
It's ridiculous to want to attack a transport team protected by pikemen. As long as the convoys are connected into a car formation and connected into a low wall, those light cavalry with spears or long swords will be useless at all. .
After a few days, the knights of the South County Territory recalled their light cavalry.
Not because it doesn't work well.
But because more unexpected troubles came!
In the various farms in the depths of the South County Territory, the slaves who were originally prisoners of the Yinpan Kingdom set off a massive uprising, killed many farm managers, occupied the farms and began to rebel against the rule of the South County Territory .
This was an extremely unexpected event that almost destroyed the rest of the South County Territory farms in a short period of time.
The rebellion broke out!
Except for the surrounding areas of Lion Castle and Lion Heart City, the rest of the places are messy rebels.
That's right, the captives of the Yinpan Kingdom rebelled, calling themselves rebels, and instead of gathering in place, they spread in all directions, destroying the farms of the South County of the Lion Principality everywhere, freeing more slaves, and at the same time plundering more farmers , so that the civilians who originally lived in the village became rebels.
In just a few days, it has become an army of more than 20,000 people. Compared with Rolf's light cavalry, it is even more ferocious. It almost swept through everything like locusts, eating, drinking, killing, and burning. It is mainly to destroy the Nanjun Lord!
The whole north bank of the Reese Niston River was in complete chaos.
Even the private armies of the nobles began to quell the chaos with difficulty, but the effect was limited.
Everyone's eyesight was drawn to the rebels in the North County Territory. They never expected that the excellent slaves who were guarded by their side would also set off a rebellion.
And because it was the rebellion started by the captives of the Yinpan Kingdom, they didn't pay attention to national sentiment at all, and burned everything they encountered, including the originally lush fields and forests, and even those villages, all destroyed and razed to the ground. He looked like he knew about his own demise, and he definitely didn't want to make things easier for the Lion Principality!
PS: I recommend "Infinite Hundred Thousand Years" to my friends. When the reincarnation space comes to reality, human history enters a new era. One hundred thousand years later, what schools teach is no longer mathematics, physics and chemistry, but various survival and combat knowledge. The college entrance examination will determine your future in life. Ye Qing travels from the eve of the samsara space to one hundred thousand years later, facing the unfamiliar time and space, he can only strive forward, explore the secrets of the samsara space, and stand on the top of the samsara. This gentleman is very diligent, 12,000 a day, um... Maybe I should be serious too!
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