Chapter 78
Fortunately, this is just a temporary group of rabble...
The detailed information that Rizaldilan reported down to the smallest detail really made a difference.
From the fact that they chased Lisa Dilan for nearly a hundred miles, it can be seen that the dead face is their real leader. These knights and their people gathered in Trubrun, and they must have been waiting for the dead face to appear.
According to Rissadilan's experience, these gangsters were just newly recruited gangsters from various villages.
They come from various villages in the kingdom and are the manpower added by the knights within a month.
Judging from their behavior by the river, these people just gathered in a hurry and had no time to conduct any training. They just listened to the command of the few knights, and they didn't seem to be very obedient in their control.
Otherwise, they would not have rushed into the woods when they were first harassed - the knight and his infantry would not have entered the woods.
Moreover, they were not very familiar with these knights - they were not even together during breaks. Obviously, these knights did not look down on these bandits.
In other words, these gangsters are cannon fodder used to compete for quantity, and there is a high probability that there will be no lower-level management.
Reliable junior officers are an important factor in maintaining the stability and reliability of an army.
A unit without junior officers will be reduced to disarray once it loses its leader.
Those knights seemed to be unable to get rid of the constraints of their thinking - if they dispersed the elite infantry among the bandits as grassroots officers, the reliability of this thousand-man army would be multiplied several times.
I guess I can't bear it...
This is a common problem among most people - they always feel that elites should be used alone to avoid being dragged down by cannon fodder...
In fact, the elites mixed among the cannon fodder are often more useful.
But now, these mobs easily "retreat" just because of Li Ang's instigation...
The infantrymen probably weren't affected too much, but they obviously couldn't command the army, and the bandits wouldn't listen to them.
The enemies behind him were no longer of concern, and Li Ang began to fly toward Mai Xiangling.
The distance was only six to seven miles, and it only took him a few minutes to catch up with Klose and the others again.
Maixiangling can already be seen from a distance here, and it is considered an open area. There are no woods nearby - the trees near the village have been cut down and houses in Maixiangling have been built.
Klose is leading the archers to confront the enemy.
In fact, the enemy's leading knight was a little frustrated.
The half of the team he took away from the front consisted of about 400 people. The military strength was still huge, but the tail behind him could not be shaken off...
Mai Xiangling arranged a car formation, and the military appearance looked very neat - the more than sixty recruits could even be considered elite infantry based on their equipment.
He knew that it would be unlikely to be captured for a while, so he wanted to turn around and deal with Klose and the group of people who had been following him.
But as soon as he turned around in a big move, the tailmen would run back - his men had run a hundred miles without a good rest, and they really couldn't catch up.
When he wanted to attack Mai Xiangling directly, those tails came and fired arrows again.
Divide the troops? He did.
He assigned more than eighty men to deal with the tail group - exactly double the number, including twenty elite infantry.
As a result, the heavily armed archers first shot down a small half of the gangsters, and the elite infantrymen were still killed by those big guys in a two-on-one fight. Then, the remaining thirty or so people collapsed, turned around and ran away, and more than half of them were shot to death. Those who fled back
There are only a few people.
However, those tails only lost seven or eight men, with a battle loss ratio of 1:10.
Klose is not Li Ang. As long as he thinks he can fight, he will definitely fight. He will not pursue zero battle losses...
So he was caught in a dilemma, or three dilemmas - because he saw two Noldor arrows, he didn't dare to take the lead, and he didn't dare to let the few elite infantry leave his side.
He didn't dare to attack directly. Maixiangling's defense was well arranged - this knight didn't know that Maixiangling was just a bunch of noobs. He thought Maixiangling's defenders were as strong as these tails...
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And he can't retreat or escape. The dead man's face has been captured, and he may be exposed. If he can't take down Mai Xiangling, as a traitor to the Lion Kingdom, he will definitely be hunted down by the whole country...
Now he can only wait for the rear army to come over quickly.
So he was on guard at both ends a few hundred meters away from the village entrance.
A team of more than 300 people was strangely on the defensive when faced with two small groups of about 100 people led by Mai Xiang.
However, before the rear army could wait, Li Ang came first...
After Li Ang arrived here, he looked at the situation on the battlefield and felt relieved.
"Oooh!"
When Klose and the others saw Li Ang coming back, they also raised their weapons and cheered in cooperation - they trusted the Lord, and since Li Ang came back with a normal expression, it naturally meant that Li Ang's goal was achieved.
The enemy soldiers cheered when they saw Klose and the others, and they all looked at each other. Naturally, they recognized this kind of cheering movement that they would only have after winning a battle, and the scene became quiet for a while.
Seeing that the enemy infantry were defending with shields and no crossbows, the lord calmly rode his horse to a position about a hundred meters away from the leading knight.
The knight wore a giant helmet and couldn't see his face, but he stood out among the crowd - he was the only enemy wearing plate armor and was protected by a group of infantry.
"Which hero is attacking my wheat collar? Sign up!"
Li Ang's voice was still very loud. The noise was not loud at the moment, and he should be able to hear it from a hundred meters away.
A few gangsters raised their bows, but Li Ang didn't care - at a distance of about a hundred meters, if they could be shot to death by inferior wooden bows, it would only be a bad fate.
Of course, if the quality of the bow on the other side was better, the lord would not be so close.
In fact, if those infantrymen had not raised their shields, Li Ang might have shot them with one arrow, and he would certainly not have bothered to talk...
No one spoke on the other side.
That's fine, Li Ang stopped asking and directly started to disturb the opponent's military morale.
"Are you waiting for the people behind? They have been defeated! They are all scattered!"
"Do you understand? They are doomed! You are doomed too!"
After speaking, Li Ang waved to Summer.
Summer understood and took Li Ang's equipment over.
Then the lord began to change back into his own equipment carelessly, throwing the knight's plate armor on the ground piece by piece, and replaced it with his own lightweight half-armor.
I even changed it while wiping it, which was very slow.
Sammer and Klose were helping on both sides. Of course, they were also ready to block the Lord's arrows.
However, no one on the other side fired arrows. Everyone just looked at Li Ang slowly changing equipment in a strange way, and no one said anything.
It wasn't until several minutes passed and the equipment was completely replaced that Li Ang spoke again.
"Now you understand? The people behind you are finished!"
"And my reinforcements are coming soon!"
Li Ang is using this method to increase his persuasion - your rear army is really gone, and the lord is eager for you to waste your time.
Mai Xiangling must have reinforcements, no one would doubt this.
It's hard to say anything else. Sooner or later, the Rangers will come when the horn is summoned - Mai Xiangling has been blowing the horn, and sooner or later, someone will hear the Rangers.
As soon as a ranger hears it, a large group of rangers will be brought.
It will take time for reinforcements to arrive.
But what about the reality?
Chapter completed!