The wolf guards who heard the blood-wind wolf howl signal immediately took out two explosive fruits from the circular fruit pouches on their waists. After destroying the lines on the fruits, they threw them towards the densely positioned Western Infantry Square.
Boom, boom, boom!
A series of explosions accompanied by orange-red flames continued to sound in the left wing of the Western Infantry Square. The left-wing Western Infantry, who had been demoralized by the terrifying giant pack of wolves, were now even more panicked.
However, Kevan's army behind them had not yet taken action, so even if they had the intention of escaping, they did not dare to actually implement it.
There was no other way, these western infantrymen on the left wing had no choice but to bite the bullet and hold their guns and swords against the attack of the terrifying giant wolves and the three thousand northern heavy cavalry.
The Western infantry on the left and right wings are all soldiers recruited by the noble families of the Western Realm and later at Harrenhal. Only the central army commanded by Kevan are direct soldiers of the Lannister family.
Kevan's face was ashen as he looked at the four to five thousand northern light cavalry charging back and forth on the left (right wing). He then turned to look at the direwolves and the very familiar heavy cavalry on the right (left wing).
Fake, these northern barbarians fight completely against common sense!
Moreover, after fighting for so long, what is Adam in Golden Tooth City doing? Why hasn't he attacked yet?
At this moment, Kevan had all kinds of chaotic thoughts in his mind, including cursing the northern army and blaming Ser Adam.
Kevan, who had never thought that the Golden Teeth would fall, led his army to the plains under Tengshi Mountain. He happened to encounter Robb's army who had organized his troops and was preparing to go to Riverrun.
Before the armies of both sides approached, their reconnaissance cavalry had already competed in advance and had roughly detected the approximate strength and types of the other side's troops.
Although the number of our own cavalry is completely inferior to that of the northern army, our total military strength has a great advantage. In addition, we can also attack from both sides with Adam's cavalry troops in Golden Teeth City.
Therefore, Kevan decisively ordered the entire army to form a classic defensive cavalry formation, and then approached the northern army camp in a mighty manner.
War in Westeros rarely uses the art of war. It has always been cavalry units clashing with cavalry units, or cavalry units directly attacking infantry units.
This war mode is extremely simple and crude. It depends on who has more people, better equipment, and higher morale!
In fact, in the ancient times of China, there was basically no commander who would send cavalry troops directly into battle at the beginning of a war.
Even heavy cavalry units will only launch a group charge when there is a huge disparity in strength or when a decisive decision can be made.
In the past, Robb's cavalry troops were small, so they were only used in surprise attacks or at critical moments. Now, this formal large-scale group battle has just allowed Kevan to learn the correct use of ancient Chinese cavalry.
Robb directly ordered 5,000 northern infantry to engage with the western infantry phalanx first, well, because there were too many prisoners in the battle to capture the Golden Teeth City.
Therefore, the front 4,000 of these 5,000 Northern infantry are a mixed force composed of Western soldiers and Stormland soldiers, and the last 1,000 people who supervise the battle are Northern soldiers.
After the infantry square formations of both sides engaged, the pikemen of both sides at the front drew out their spears to stab each other and hurt each other. The sword and shield bearers and archers in the rear then engaged in battle.
Robb then ordered five thousand Northern light cavalry to charge from the right wing, using scraping tactics to charge back and forth from the right wing to the rear, scraping layer by layer for the Western infantry phalanx.
The three thousand northern heavy cavalry charged from the left wing and used flanking tactics to attack the joints of the enemy formations. Their purpose was to cut off the connection between the front phalanx and the Chinese army, divide the enemy and create chaos.
This set of offensive caught Kevan off guard. As usual, he placed all the pikemen in the front row of the western infantry phalanx, but they were entangled by the northern infantry phalanx.
Facing the cavalry troops charging from weak points on both sides, he had no other option but to order the archers to shoot arrows to stop them.
In fact, even if Kevan's front row of spearmen were not entangled, he would not be able to change such a large-scale formation in a short period of time.
Robb has experienced from a long time ago that the traditional Westeros army, which lacks common sense in formation training, is simply unable to perform detailed operations such as ordering and prohibiting, and quickly changing military formations.
Boom, boom, boom!
Thanks to the two thousand sets of captured heavy cavalry armor, the three thousand northern heavy cavalry formed, following the charge path opened by the large but extremely agile direwolf pack,
Continuously knocking away the Western soldiers who dared to block their horses, they easily penetrated into the Western infantry phalanx.
"Let the Chinese army press up, don't let them penetrate our formation!"
Seeing that the northern heavy cavalry was almost rushing to the center of the infantry square, Kevan did not dare to hesitate any longer and immediately issued orders to the messengers around him.
Woo, woo!
The horn of the Western Territory sounded, and thousands of well-equipped elite infantrymen of the Lannister family immediately pressed forward in a relatively complete formation, hoping to stop the charge of the Northern Heavy Cavalry.
Ouch!
Robb, who was on Bloodwind's back, had been observing the overall situation from a height. When he saw the movements of the Western Army, he immediately understood their purpose.
So, he sent a message directly to the blood wind, causing it to make a short howl that was different from the long wolf howl just now.
What the Wolf Guards pulled out this time was the Ice Crystal Fruit. Due to the experience of using it before, this time they controlled the blood-related direwolves to quickly approach the front of the Western Army. After taking up their positions, they all threw the Ice Crystal Fruit.
Bah, bah, bah!
Thirteen ice crystal fruits thrown almost side by side emitted a dazzling white light in the air. Even in the battlefield, this beautiful light attracted everyone's attention.
However, beautiful things are often accompanied by fatal dangers!
Creak, creak!
Just like last time, the fusion effect of multiple ice crystal fruits appeared again, and the elite infantrymen in the front row of the Western Border Army were frozen in ice crystals that were more than ten meters long.
"This is... magic, they can use ice magic!"
"Oh my God, how can we win!"
"Then what happened just now wasn't wildfire, it was their fire magic!"
If the explosive fruit just now could be imagined as wildfire by the Western Infantrymen, then this bright ice crystal with a length of more than ten meters was beyond their imagination, causing massive chaos among the already low morale of the Western Infantry.
Compared with the other infantrymen of the Western Region who were further away, the elite Lannister infantrymen of the Central Army of the Western Region experienced the terror of the bright ice crystals at a closer distance.
The elite infantrymen in the front row who were standing in a military formation a second ago, ready to fight to the death, were instantly frozen. Like small bugs caught in a drop of resin, they turned directly into ice crystal amber.
"ah!!!"
More than a dozen elite infantrymen, who were either lucky or unlucky, escaped the fate of being directly frozen, but their palms or soles were frozen in ice crystals.
The skin in the frozen area gradually turned from pale to blue due to the extremely low temperature. At the same time, edema and blisters began to appear on the frostbitten skin, and it was also accompanied by severe pain and burning and itching that was not felt just now.
Whoosh!
When the other elite infantrymen around them saw this, they immediately drew their swords and chopped off their palms or soles.
Boom, boom, boom!
Taking advantage of the moment when all the enemy soldiers were frightened, the northern heavy cavalry smashed through the western infantry phalanx with overwhelming force, directly cutting through the middle, successfully dividing them into two parts.
clang!
Tear!
A Stormland soldier surrendered to the North. The shield in his left hand blocked the slash of a long sword, and the long sword in his right hand tried to cut down a former comrade.
After they were driven to the battlefield by the Northern Territory Supervision Team behind them, they were attacked by enemies that were multiple times their own. Originally, he was in the center of the Northern Territory Infantry Square, but now he has become the front row.
Alas, it seems there is no chance to return to Luomu City to see her!
The Stormwind soldier felt his right hand that could no longer hold the weapon, and a slender figure appeared in his mind. Knowing that he would die here today, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"What happened to the Chinese army?"
"They have terrifying giant wolves, and they can also use magic. They can't be defeated!"
"Kevan Lannister ran away, brothers, we run away too!"
Suddenly, the seven to eight thousand Western soldiers who were besieging the northern infantry phalanx broke out into huge chaos. At least half of the Western soldiers' morale collapsed and began to scatter, fleeing towards the woods on both sides far away from the plain.
Eh?
A miraculous scene appeared in front of the Northern Infantry, which had only about 2,000 people left. The remaining at least 3,000 to 4,000 Western Infantry actually threw down their weapons and surrendered to the Northern Infantry, which was far outnumbered by them.
Da da da!
As the cavalry troops blocking their vision began to pursue the fleeing enemies, these northern infantrymen saw clearly that the Lannister soldiers of the Western Army were also fleeing.
However, they were tightly pursued by the northern light cavalry, and it was impossible to escape with just two legs.
Farther away were nearly two thousand Western Cavalry. Judging from the distance, it was impossible for the Northern Light Cavalry to keep them behind.
Da da da!
Patrick and Tomad hid behind a large rock on the River Road. After the Lannister cavalry led by Kevan left, they returned to the River Road and went to join the northern army.
Tear! Click!
Robb and Bloodwind are killing the Western soldiers who are fleeing for their lives. Since there is no longer a need to provide a large number of blood bond points to the wolves, and the battlefield points are added in real time during this period.
Xue Feng's physical and magic values are about to reach fifty points. It seems that every time the data of Blood Pact Golden Finger reaches a node-like value, there will be a big change.
Therefore, Robb, who was eager to obtain blood bond points, showed no mercy to these deserters from the Western Region.
"Your Majesty, Patrick Mallister has urgent information to report to you!"
While Robb was looking at the blood bond point that was getting closer and closer to the target, Gendry, who was wearing armor and holding a hammer, came to him with Patrick and reported loudly.
"Xue Feng, go and have fun by yourself, remember not to exceed the distance!"
Hearing Gendry's shout, Robb patted Bloodwind's head and gave instructions, then jumped down from it.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, Marco Piper betrayed..."
After meeting Robb, Patrick pulled Tomad, who was stiff and nervous, to kneel on one knee. Then he immediately focused on the key points of the matter, telling the story of Sir Mark's betrayal, Brynden being captured, and the danger of Riverrun falling.
come out.
"Damn it... I had Clay send people to keep an eye on Earl Piper and his son before, but we didn't find any possible way of communicating with the West.
Now it seems that since my uncle’s war exploits were given to me by Tywin, the way they passed the news should be among those prisoners.”
Clay had focused on Earl Piper and his son before, but in the end he eliminated both of them from suspicion of betrayal. Now hearing Patrick's report, Robb immediately thought of the blind spots that they had missed before.
This misjudgment is understandable. After all, Robb and others are not omniscient and omnipotent gods!
Since his previous wrong judgment led to the current consequences, Robb must solve it as soon as possible instead of feeling sorry for himself.
"Gendry, go inform the messenger so that everyone no longer has to pursue the deserters in the West. Then inform Earl Rickard to come down from the Golden Tooth City and take over the garrison at the foot of the mountain. Then clean the battlefield and count today's prisoners.
Then, we will make up for the infantry troops lost today from the previous prisoners of Gold Teeth City. We will set off for Riverrun tomorrow morning."
Robb, who was charging into battle and had no messengers following him, hesitated for a moment before giving Gendry the order.
"As you command, Your Majesty!"
Gendry nodded in agreement, then got on his horse and went to convey Robb's order.
"Patrick, and this little brother, you have been working hard these days from running around. You don't need to participate in the next battle, just stay and guard the Golden Teeth City!"
"No, Your Majesty. I want to follow you to support Riverrun. I want to rescue Lord Edmure."
"Your Majesty Robb, my name is Tomad. Like Lord Patrick, I want to fight with you."
As soon as Robb finished speaking, Patrick immediately expressed his excitement that he would follow him to Riverrun. Young Tomad had watched today's battle and had deified Robb in his heart. He also wanted to fight with Robb.
"Very good, then let's go to Riverrun together!"
…
In Riverrun City, near sunset, the siege force composed of surrendered Riverland recruits and soldiers from the Western Territory, once again abandoned the corpses on the ground and retreated to the Western Territory army camp in embarrassment.
Even though there are only four thousand Riverrun soldiers left who are not elite, under the leadership of Count Tytos, in this day and a half, they have successfully repelled six attacks from the Western Army, killing at least two thousand.
Known as the siege soldiers of the Western Region.
Seeing the mottled bloodstains left on the solid walls of Riverrun, Sir Marko, who had been unable to capture it for a long time, bit his lips in annoyance.
During this day and a half, he used his familiarity with Riverrun to launch several feint attacks from the east to the west.
He thought that the enemy's troops were not strong enough to completely defend the narrow and wide west and south walls. As long as he successfully attracted the opponent's attention, he could secretly deliver a fatal blow.
But who knew that Count Tytos knew his thoughts clearly and remained unmoved in the face of feint attacks. He could accurately defend Sir Marco's real siege target every time.
This situation of being seen through by the enemy at every turn and returning without success gave Sir Marko, who like Edmure, a high self-esteem, a sense of frustration.
On the third day of the siege of Riverrun, Tywin arrived at Riverrun with 15,000 men who had joined Lord Sarriot.
"Lord Tywin!"
Seeing Tywin's arrival, Sir Marko, Earl Swaver, Earl Piper and others stepped forward to greet him.
"Well, I'm very disappointed that you couldn't welcome me in Riverrun today!"
Looking up at Riverrun, which his side had not captured for the second time, Tywin spoke calmly to Sir Marko and the others.
"This is my fault, Lord Tywin! Please give me three more days. I will definitely take Riverrun."
When Lord Swyver and Lord Piper heard Tywin's words, they were so frightened that they lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, for fear of getting into trouble. Sir Marko looked directly at Tywin and replied firmly.
"Haha, Piper. I appreciate your confidence, but I don't have time to waste on this castle anymore."
When Tywin heard Sir Mark's words, he shook his head and rejected his request.
"Two days, Lord Tywin. I beg for two days!"
Seeing Tywin's face showing no emotion at all, Sir Marko gritted his teeth and spoke again.
"No...today! Today I will destroy this strong castle that has been built for thousands of years!"
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