The deep night shrouded the earth, and the dense jungle revealed a frightening gloom and depression.

Fortunately, hundreds of bonfires held up a ray of light, blocking the darkness from the army camp.

"Who!" The soldier on guard at night was alerted by the movement above his head. Just as he pulled out the scimitar from his waist, he saw a huge shadow covering him.

The bonfire around me suddenly rose and jumped, as if to welcome and pay tribute.

"Lord Caesar!" The soldier finally saw the white dragon clearly, quickly put away his knife, and leaned down to salute.

Samwell jumped off the dragon's back, nodded to the soldiers, and asked:

"Where is the commander's camp?"

"I'll take you there."

"Okay." It was so dark that it took Samwell a lot of effort to find it.

Cleopatra seemed to be paralyzed from exhaustion, lying on the ground unwilling to move.

Samwell had no choice but to pat its head: "Okay, just stay here and rest. You've worked hard today."

The densely packed Stormlanders crashed into the Shanghewan people's military formation like a tidal wave, splashing bright red blood flowers.

After Earl Landao thought for a moment, he slowly shook his head:

"No. It is true that Luomu City cannot be fought anymore, but our marching direction cannot be changed and we will continue to go east."

Get out of the royal forest as soon as possible.

Seeing that the rain of arrows could not stop the Reachers, the Stormlanders began to change their formation.

Even at this time, Earl Landau still insisted on his first military goal——

In fact, it would be best for Lord Reach to stop and fight at this time, but for some reason, Earl Landau still insisted on asking the army to keep moving forward.

"We must block it even if we can't! We can't let the Riverbend people enter our territory!" Earl Heywood spat wildly at Sir Quinta.

"For the Stormlands!" Lord Heywood roared upon seeing this.

This is about preparing to charge into battle.

When the army leaves the royal forest, you will lead all the river cavalry to the north to harass the king's army and delay their entry into Tongmen City."

As soon as he said it, he realized something and asked:

Earl Randyll was still awake and was looking at the terrain map in a daze. After seeing Samwell come in, he stood up and asked:

"Why did you come back so late?"

Finally, the stormland nobles decided to fight for their lives.

The first people charged in this kind of charge are usually cannon fodder, which is used to consume the arrows of the Hebend people and wear down their swords. At the same time, the lives of these cannon fodder are used to shake the Hebang military formation and find flaws.

However, night operations are inherently risky for cavalry, especially in jungles with complex environments. War horses dare not run at full speed, and they are also extremely easy to be sprained by potholes on the ground. As long as the Stormlanders are not

If you lose your mind, you will just make loud thunders and small raindrops, deliberately creating noise and tension, trying to prevent the people of Hebend from having a good rest as much as possible.

"Yes." Earl Landao nodded, "Going east can leave the Royal Forest as quickly as possible. This is the first goal of our march and cannot be changed because of the emergence of new enemies. But after leaving the Royal Forest, we will not

Instead of attacking Luomu City, we changed our route to the north and went to Tongmen City to intercept the king's army heading south."

Amid bursts of shouts and strange screams, the two armies began a brutal hand-to-hand encounter.

He has always been so melancholy ever since he discovered that this expression is very attractive to girls.

"Don't take any chances." Earl Astaire solemnly reminded, "Once the River Bends capture your castles, they will not return them to you. Therefore, this time you are not fighting for Duke Edric.

We are not fighting for King Tommen, but fighting for your own castle, territory, and title!"

As long as the formation remains stable, the Stormlanders will collapse on their own due to the surge in casualties.

"All the cavalry must gather in the formation. The entire army must slow down, but must not stop advancing!"

Facing such a charge, the first thing to do is to stabilize the formation.

During the march, there will inevitably be gaps in the shield wall. Faced with a large area of ​​arrow fire, even if protected by shields and leather armor, there will still be casualties.

"For the Stormlands!"

As the flags of various colors wavered and the drums rumbled, the archers in the Stormland retreated, and the sword and ax soldiers began to press forward.

"But this is the safest way." Earl Landau emphasized, "Don't forget the troubles you are solving because of the emergence of new troubles. The Royal Forest is still too dangerous for us, and we must pass through with caution.

Earl Landau then arranged the camp in two circles inside and outside the city. The outer circle was responsible for guarding, and the people in the inner circle plugged their ears and slept.

Cruel, but it is the basic law of war in this era.

"For the Stormlands!"

As for the king on the Iron Throne, not many Stormland nobles are willing to recognize him.

But Earl Landau did not intend to let the army stop its advance, even if this was very likely to be the most ferocious attack launched by the enemy.

While the messengers dispersed to deliver military orders, the Stormlanders had already begun to charge.

But what Earl Astaire said was right. No matter what their political stance was, they had to go all out when facing the River Bend people this time, otherwise the castle and title they would lose would be theirs.

"Okay!" Samwell nodded heavily, with fire dancing in his eyes.

In the next few days, the Hebang army was indeed subjected to increasingly fierce attacks.

Just after noon, this jungle blocking battle reached its climax.

Three days passed like this. Seeing that the River Bend army was about to walk out of the royal forest, the people of the Stormlands were really anxious.

"Would it be too late?"

The Earl of Harvest Hall is the nephew of Barristan Selmy, the famous captain of the Kingsguard. This time he was ordered by the Duke of Storm's End to lead the northern princes of the Stormlands to resist the Northern Army of the Reach. This man

Although he is not as famous as his uncle, he still has rich experience in leading troops in combat.

"This makes sense." Earl Randyll stood up from his position, paced back and forth in the camp, and said, "It seems that Kevan is planning to use this new army to defend the city, and at the same time reduce the population pressure on King's Landing.

After losing the support of the two major granaries in the Riverlands and the River Bend, the Lannister family's current supply of food and grass must be very tight."

Samwell said in confusion: "But the king's army is in the northeast of us..."

"We must stop the Reachers!" Lord Heywood Fell shouted.

Samwell could clearly see that few of the Stormlanders who rushed up in the first wave were wearing armor. It was estimated that most of them were civilians who had been recruited urgently. After simple training, they were given weapons.

They entered the battlefield, but their number was indeed quite large. At a rough glance, there were two to three thousand people.

"Lord Heywood is right," Lord Astan Selmy said.

After giving some precautions to the night watch soldiers, Samwell headed towards the Chinese army camp.

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This lord of Luomu City has a horse face, his beard and long hair are gray-brown, messy and dense, like weeds growing wildly.

"Yes, father. I think we should decisively abandon Luomu City and intercept this new army heading south. In the wild, they are vulnerable, but if we let them hide behind the city wall, I am afraid it will cause us great trouble.

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Seeing this situation, Earl Landau issued a new military order:

"Fifty or sixty thousand?" Earl Randyll was also startled by this number, but then he frowned, "Where did the Lannister family get so many soldiers? Did they ignore the threat from the north?"

Samwell didn't waste any time and directly told the latest information he had discovered: "I found Lannister reinforcements! They are heading south from the King's Road and have just arrived at the Wende River. There are fifty or sixty thousand people by visual estimation."

The number of Stormland light cavalry dispatches and the number of attacks have obviously increased, and sometimes they even try to steal the camp at night.

These rather explicit remarks made all the Stormland nobles feel awe-inspiring.

"I'm afraid it can't be stopped." Sir Quinta Bukele from Copper Gate City looked melancholy.

"Is it just delaying? And then waiting for you to lead the army to launch a joint attack?" Samwell asked, "I'm worried that the king's army has already entered the city before you arrive."

"You can decide whether to launch an attack. Although the king's army is large in number, if your previous intelligence is accurate, its combat effectiveness should be very poor. You can test it to see if you can find a fighter plane."

The Hebang army had long been prepared. The sword and shield soldiers in the outer circle raised their shields in front of them, while still maintaining a slow but determined forward speed. The archers followed closely behind, and they did not forget to move forward while fighting back.

They had indeed hesitated before. After all, the Duke of Storm's End now had little prestige and a questionable background. Not many nobles of the Stormlands were willing to serve him.

For a charge to be of this scale, it shows that the Stormlanders really spent a lot of money.

The Stormlanders no longer just sent out light cavalry to harass, but a large army pressed forward. For a time, arrows were dense like rain, pouring towards the river bend army.

"Father, do you plan to go east first and then north?"

"I captured two prisoners. They said that most of them were recruits that Kevan had urgently recruited from King's Landing. I also went to see it myself. It is true that the military discipline was very bad and the weapons and equipment were not fully equipped. It should be a makeshift army.

The new army that comes out will not have much combat effectiveness."

Even if the speed is a little slower, we must move forward.

Moreover, now that the enemy knows that we are aware of their existence, the subsequent harassment by the Stormlanders will only become more intense.

The scattered array of river bends caused the Stormlanders to pay a heavy price for their charge, but their tenacity also exceeded expectations, and they managed to continue to crash into the crossbow array with a large number of casualties.

Fortunately, the River Crossbow Soldiers also wear leather armor, and the soldiers who can bend a bow and shoot arrows are very strong. They can fight even if they put down their bows and arrows and draw their sabers.

However, as a result, the long-distance killing efficiency of the Hebang Army was affected.

More and more Stormland soldiers took this opportunity to break into the formation, and the fighting became more bloody and brutal.
Chapter completed!