"Call and supervise the team to kill the deserters. We can't let them attack our formation. Stop them quickly!"
Berry, whose memory of leading troops in battle was still very clear, immediately gave his orders to the orderlies as soon as he saw the many fleeing vanguard soldiers.
But when his order was conveyed from the central army to the supervising team, and when the supervising team came to the front army, they could no longer stop the rout of tens of thousands of people.
Peasant uprisings from ancient times to the present have been like this. When the wind is blowing and plundering, everyone is brave and brave, but as soon as the situation is not good, the first thing is to run away.
Soros and Magiro, who were beside Berry, watched their troops flee, with anxious expressions on their faces but nothing they could do.
Unless these soldiers are all fanatical believers of the Lord of Light, faith alone cannot prevent their defeat.
Moreover, they really can't understand that this huge army of their own has been marching forward with great success. It should have easily captured the entire Riverlands, but now that the main force has not even started fighting, such a huge rout has occurred inexplicably.
"Thoros, let the Hands of the Holy Fire attack, and don't let the deserters affect our direct troops. Then, tell the cavalry troops on both wings to wander around, and wait for us to entangle the enemy cavalry troops before attacking.
Let’s continue fighting this battle!”
Looking at the large number of enemy cavalry behind the deserters in front, Berry quickly weighed the pros and cons in his mind, tilted his head and said to Soros.
The current direct troops of the Brotherhood Without Banners have rapidly expanded to about 15,000 people. However, due to the difficulty of finding war horses, there are only 4,000 cavalry troops, and the remaining 11,000 troops are infantry troops.
In addition to the original members of the Brotherhood, these fifteen thousand people are also selected devout believers of the Lord of Light. The cohesion can be said to be very high.
If they choose to retreat at this time, Berry is confident that he can lead them to retreat in an orderly manner while maintaining a complete formation.
Then why did he refuse to retreat in the face of such a huge defeat and chose to continue to fight hard?
This is because of the astonishing number of cavalry units in the United Army!
From the tactics of these cavalry units not to pursue and attack their own deserters, but to slowly drive the deserters into the main formation, Berry could see that the enemy commander was anything but simple.
Then, the enemy must also understand that this army of 200,000 to 300,000 refugees does not pose a substantial threat to the nobles of the Riverlands.
The only ones who can really pose a threat are the direct troops who led their uprising!
Therefore, once Berry's direct troops began to retreat in an orderly manner, the enemy cavalry troops would be able to distinguish them immediately and would definitely kill them.
It is definitely not an easy task to lead an infantry unit to escape the pursuit of a cavalry unit.
Moreover, there will be a large number of other deserters to disturb the morale of the army. Even if the direct troops are devout in their faith, it is possible that the lover's orderly retreat will turn into a real rout.
"Hands of Holy Fire? Berry, are we going to use them from the beginning?"
Soros, who did not have a keen battlefield vision, heard this and confirmed to Berry in surprise.
"Yes! Their purpose is to play a role at critical moments! Now only they can ensure that our Chinese army is not overwhelmed!
Let them attack quickly!"
After hearing this, Berry nodded heavily, and then answered Soros quickly.
After seeing Berry's determined expression, Soros did not hesitate anymore, immediately dismounted and walked quickly toward the rear of the Chinese army.
Afterwards, about two hundred members of the Holy Fire Hand wearing refined armor and holding long swords hurried to the front of the central army.
"Remember, your mission is to kill all enemies standing in front of you! The light of our Lord will shine on you.
The long night is dark and dangerous everywhere!
Take action!”
After the two hundred members of the Hand of the Holy Fire lined up in front of the central army, Soros looked at the completely collapsed front army and gave orders loudly.
"The night is dark and dangerous everywhere!"
After the members of the Hands of Holy Fire prayed in unison, they solemnly took out a medicinal wooden tube from their arms, then pulled out the cork and drank it in one gulp.
Winter, winter, winter!
As the potion took effect, a dull heartbeat sounded, and the bodies of all Hands of Holy Fire members suddenly swelled, causing the armor on their bodies to become somewhat deformed.
At the same time, their eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, their exposed skin became as pale as a dead person, and their thick blood vessels twisted and bulged, which looked a bit scary.
Hoo, ho!
Snap, snap!
After drinking the potion, most of the members of the Hand of Holy Fire stayed there quietly and panted heavily, while a few members shook their heads and clapped their hands from time to time.
"In the name of the Lord of Light, charge!"
Following Thoros's roar, these members of the Hand of Holy Fire who still had a clear mind in their eyes rushed forward.
Tear!
In the blink of an eye, they collided with the completely collapsed former army deserters. The swords in the hands of these Hands of Holy Fire members suddenly burst out, and with the blessing of huge power, they cut a large number of deserters into two pieces.
Poof, poof!
A few members of the Hand of the Holy Fire simply abandoned their swords and directly used their burly and swollen bodies to strike forward. As long as the deserters blocking their front were hit, they were immediately sprayed with blood and knocked away.
After the deserters at the rear saw the tragic death of the deserters at the front, they immediately avoided the members of the Hand of Holy Fire and ran away to both sides. However, there was always someone who could not escape and directly collided with the member of the Hand of Holy Fire in the middle.
Viewed from the sky, tens of thousands of deserters gradually formed a "human"-shaped escape route.
The members of the Hand of the Holy Fire carved a path among countless deserters and walked in the opposite direction, while the Chinese soldiers behind them, with pale faces, stepped forward on this road full of blood and corpses.
"They are so powerful. They are truly worthy of the title of Hands of Holy Fire. Brother Berry, can you give me part of the potion and let me bring it back to Volantis?"
Of course, the Temple of Volantis will give you sufficient reward!"
Looking at the members of the Holy Fire Hand who were killing people in front of them as easily as killing chickens, Magiro sighed and then turned to Berry and asked.
"Brother Magiro, you know that these potions are not easy to prepare, otherwise there would be more than just these two hundred members of the Hand of Holy Fire. Let's talk about these things later!"
Looking at the stern face in front of him, Berry heard this and brushed off Magiro with a casual word.
These newly formed members of the Hand of the Holy Fire were the new breakthrough that Cobain told him at the time.
During this period, Qyburn devoted himself to developing this new potion based on the same potion that had caused Berry to be violently violent to death.
Although the potion is not as effective as before, the consciousness of these Hands of Holy Fire members can remain awake, and after the effect of the potion fades, they will only fall into a weak state, and they will be fine after a period of cultivation.
Well, at least that's what Cobain said at the time!
Berry looked at the deserters who were killed by members of the Hand of the Holy Fire, and his face became increasingly ugly. Although he had to give this order for the sake of the overall situation, his heart was still full of guilt.
Without the nobles, these common people would not have suffered such a disaster!
After losing important memories, the somewhat paranoid Berry became more determined to overthrow the aristocratic rule.
Finally, after more and more deserters escaped from the brutal Hands of Fire members in advance, the end of this flesh-and-blood road suddenly became clear.
Boom!
However, as soon as the members of the Hand of Holy Fire showed up, Brynden, who had already noticed their group of retrograde troops, directly led the 3,000 heavy cavalry who had completed the charge in advance to attack quickly.
Poof, poof!
Oops!~~
The moment the two sides came into contact, the two hundred members of the Hand of Holy Fire sprayed blood, and all of them were knocked away.
However, the horses in the first row that collided with them were no better. Strong shocks penetrated the vests and hit the chests and abdomen of the horses, causing them to neigh.
These excellent war horses, which were already extremely burdened, suffered such injuries. After rushing forward for a short distance, they fell to the ground with the northern cavalry on them.
"Spread left and right!"
Seeing that both the front row of heavy cavalry and the enemy were injured, some of our own heavy cavalry had no time to change direction and were tripped to the ground.
Brynden immediately let out a roar and ordered the northern heavy cavalry in the rear to divide into two teams to bypass them and continue to charge towards the enemy's central army in front.
Ho, ho!
Oops!~~
Just as the main forces of both sides were about to collide, the weapons in the hands of the enemy's Chinese infantry suddenly burst into flames.
The large area of swaying orange-red fire directly frightened the horses of the Northern Heavy Cavalry, who had never seen such a scene before.
Puff, pff, pff!
Under the unstoppable charging momentum, the heavy cavalry troops divided into two teams still slammed into the infantry formation of the rebel army, causing a large number of casualties.
However, after rushing into the enemy's formation, the horses of the Northern Heavy Cavalry were completely out of control. Some were so frightened that they began to run away in panic, while others were so frightened that they directly lifted up and fell back, causing the Northern Cavalry on their backs to lose their balance and fall.
In short, the charging momentum of the northern heavy cavalry troops was interrupted in this way.
As I said before, on the battlefield, the moment the heavy cavalry troops stop is the moment they die!
A large number of rebel soldiers surrounded the two heavy cavalry troops. Whenever they had the chance, they would pull the northern cavalry off their horses and hack them to death with the flaming swords in their hands.
If this continues, Brynden's heavy cavalry force of less than three thousand will be wiped out. Fortunately, they are not fighting alone!
From the beginning, Little Jon's troops, which had been wandering on the left wing waiting for their heavy cavalry to break the enemy, were tightly entangled by the four thousand rebel cavalry dispatched by Berry.
But on the right wing, Ed's troops, who had assisted Count Tytos in clearing out the remaining enemy troops, had already caught up. Behind them, Count Tytos's infantry troops, whose number had been reduced to more than 6,000, were also slowly pressing forward.
"Brothers, charge!"
His eyes quickly searched the battlefield, and when he saw Brynden's troops surrounded by a large number of enemy infantry, Ed pointed his long sword in Brynden's direction and led four thousand light cavalry to accelerate the charge.
Puff, pff, pff!
The two groups of northern heavy cavalry were surrounded before they could penetrate far into the enemy's position. Therefore, after Ed's troops broke into the enemy's position, it was relatively easy for the heavy cavalry troops led by Brynden to join forces.
This time there was no sudden scene of large fires rising, so the long-trained war horses of Aide's troops were not shocked.
However, due to animals' instinct to fear fire, their horses were always afraid of these enemy infantry wielding flaming swords.
"Lord Brynden, the war horses are afraid of the flaming swords in their hands. This battle is completely unwinnable. Let's retreat to Harrenhal first!"
Ed led his light cavalry to overwhelm a large number of surrounding enemy infantry, and after helping Brynden's heavy cavalry troops stabilize their horses, he loudly suggested to Brynden.
"Well, blow the retreat horn. Then you take two thousand cavalry to help Little Jon escape. I will take the rest of the people to rescue that group of heavy cavalry!"
Brynden was naturally not a person who did not accept opinions and acted on his own will. He nodded his answer very readily, and then he and Ed split up.
Woo!
As soon as the retreat horn sounded, Count Tytos' troops were the first to react.
They were already far away, and the infantry phalanx, which was physically demanding, moved slowly, so as soon as they heard the order to retreat, they decisively began to turn around and head towards Harrenhal.
Ed led two thousand light cavalry from the front battlefield to the left wing, and after attacking the enemy cavalry from the rear, Little Jon also cooperated to kill the rebel cavalry troops.
On the frontal battlefield, after getting rid of the surrounding local infantry, Brynden took a thousand cavalrymen and two thousand light cavalry to rescue another thousand cavalrymen who were tightly surrounded by a large number of infantry.
Rest, rest, rest!
But before they could get close, nearly a hundred flaming arrows suddenly appeared and were shot towards them.
ah!
!
The dozen or so heavy cavalrymen who rushed at the front were directly hit by the flaming arrows. Their proud heavy armors did not block this fatal attack for them this time.
The flaming arrow directly burned a deep hole in their heavy armor, and at the same time, flames like living creatures began to spread around their bodies.
stop!
A flaming arrow missed Brynden's left forearm, and severe pain immediately entered his mind. Before he could scream, the flames on his left forearm began to spread.
Bah!
As soon as he saw the tragic situation of the heavy cavalry in front, Brynden did not hesitate at all. He endured the pain and directly cut off his left forearm from the elbow joint with the long sword in his right hand.
"ah!"
After Brynden let out a brief scream, he dropped the sword in his hand, then used his right hand to tear off a piece of clothing lining with his mouth, and bandaged his left arm to stop the bleeding.
He glanced at the heavy cavalry who were still surrounded, and gave the order helplessly: "The entire army retreats!"
The cavalry has an inherent advantage over the infantry. As long as they are not surrounded like the remaining more than a thousand cavalry, they can come and leave when they want.
Magiro, who had somehow gotten mixed up with the infantry, looked at the fleeing enemy generals and could only shake his head helplessly.
As the northern cavalry and infantry troops retreated, the rebel soldiers directly overwhelmed the more than a thousand northern heavy cavalry.
This was how the war, which was barely considered a victory for the Bannerless Rebel Army, ended.
After the war, the Bannerless Rebel Army gathered less than 30,000 fleeing soldiers in addition to the remaining 13,000 direct troops.
The remaining nearly 200,000 fleeing soldiers were unwilling to return at all. They were either afraid of being punished for deserting before the battle, or they believed that they could not defeat the noble lord's cavalry force, or they had other motives.
These 200,000 refugees-turned-soldiers fled in all directions at the crossroads. Some went to the north, some to the valley, some returned to Maiden Spring, and some went south to return to the king's territory.
…
The Reach, Highgarden, where refugees gather.
The refugees in the gathering place were all hiding in their tents. Although they were initially stabilized in the name of catching spies, since the outbreak of gray plague, even the most obtuse people have noticed that something is wrong.
Because as long as a person is found with gray and black scales on his body, he will never come back after being taken away.
It's not easy for the refugees, and it's not easy for Robb and all the soldiers either.
The early stages of gray plague infection were relatively easy to control, because the outbreaks at this stage were basically the original infected people, people that Rick came into contact with.
But then, the gray plague infected people broke out in a doubling rate. These infected people were spread by the many infected people infected by Rick.
Nearly 2,000 infected people and more close contacts every day make the quarantine soldiers feel overwhelmed.
Fortunately, with the preparation of disinfection materials in advance, setting up isolation locations and other epidemic prevention measures, the gray blight epidemic was barely controlled.
On the north wall of Highgarden, Robb sat on a solid wood rocking chair and basked in the warm sun. And the radiant Margaery peeled off the grape skins with her white hands and fed the moist pulp into his mouth.
middle.
Since the outbreak of the gray plague, Robb has simply lived near the northern city wall, fearing that there would be loopholes in epidemic prevention due to delays in message delivery.
Naturally, Margaery, who was tied to him wholeheartedly, followed him and moved in together. During this period, Robb's life was basically taken care of by Margaery, and their little life was considered enjoyable.
In the past few days, he has harvested 9,000 infections... 9,000 blood bond points. However, Xue Feng's magic attribute is still as stable as an old dog at 99 points.
According to this momentum, he should be heading towards tens of thousands of blood points.
Ta-ta-ta!
While Robb was eating grapes and thinking about the situation, Margaery's second brother, Ser Garlan, climbed up the city wall and walked quickly towards them.
"Your Majesty, here is your raven letter!"
As soon as he stepped forward, Garland bowed respectfully and handed a raven letter with both hands.
"Thank you Ser Garlan. Is this from the Riverlands?"
Although Robb transferred the northern cavalry troops from Lannisport to Riverrun after learning about the refugee rebellion in the Riverlands, he was always worried about this unprecedented event in his heart.
"No, it's Winterfell!"
"Winterfell?"
Hearing Garland's answer, Robb was a little surprised and sat upright in the solid wood rocking chair and reached out to take the letter.
Her mother, Caitlin, knew that it was not easy for her to lead soldiers in the war, so she would not write to him unless it was an important matter.
As for why they knew they were in Highgarden, it was of course because Sam was there. He, the leader of the Northern Intelligence Organization with huge funds, was not a freeloader.
Opening the letter, it briefly stated the general situation of Winterfell.
The situation of all the Stark family members in Winterfell is basically good, and the new city wall surrounding the winter market has been built.
With the support of a large amount of food and money from the previous plunder, Catelyn once again recruited three thousand new soldiers for training. If Robb needs it, he can go south at any time.
Finally, the most critical issue in this letter is that Jon sent a raven letter from Castle Black to Winterfell to ask for help. According to him, at least a hundred thousand wildlings are about to attack the Great Wall.
At the end of the letter, Catelyn expressed her skepticism about Jon's news and reminded Robb that he was distracted by this matter!
If it hadn't been for Robb's special instruction before heading south for the second time to report any news about the Wall to him, Catelyn might not have sent this raven letter at all.
King Beyond the Wall, Mance Rayder attacks the Wall!
Seeing that it was not an accident involving his family, Robb's heart immediately relaxed. He touched his chin with his hand and thought about how to deal with this matter.
It is definitely impossible for Robb to help Jon in person now, so Captain Jory and Owen, who are staying at Winterfell, can only go to Castle Black with the three thousand recruits to support him.
If nothing unexpected happens, with this amount of reinforcements, Castle Black will definitely be safe. After all, in the previous life, Jon and the others successfully defended the castle with about a hundred night watchmen.
After making the decision, Robb asked the servant standing by to get a pen and paper and write down his thoughts. After giving it to Garland and asking him to copy a few more copies and send the raven letter, he could never recover.
That lazy look before.
Now that the wildlings have begun to attack the city, it means that the Night King outside the wall is not far from the Great Wall. Robb must speed up the pace of unifying the Seven Kingdoms, otherwise he will not be able to concentrate on dealing with the overwhelming army of the dead.
Time passed very quickly under Robb's careful thinking. The sun in the sky gradually set towards the west, and soon it was time to harvest blood bond points every day.
"When I come back, I'll give you a little surprise later!"
When kissing Margaery goodbye, Robb, who was thinking of changing a special position for her at night, winked at her, then turned around and headed to the high-risk area with Bloodwind, who was also protected all over his body.
When he arrived, Clay, who was also fully protected, was already waiting there.
When Robb walked up to him, he immediately reported: "Your Majesty, there are only 1,342 infected people today. The epidemic has begun to decline very obviously."
"Well, Clay, you have worked hard during this time. However, this epidemic management has also successfully proved your ability.
Very good, you have to continue to grow. Maybe there will be no problem in managing the seven countries in the future!"
Listening to Clay's hoarse voice due to talking too much, Robb nodded and gave him a meaningful hint.
After hearing this, Clay trembled all over, and suddenly felt all the fatigue in his body disappear.
He suppressed the excitement in his heart and tried to answer in a calm tone: "Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty. Without your command, I don't know what to do."
"Haha, then I will give you more instructions in the future!"
After answering Clay with a smile, Robb sent the blood wind to let him carry out the daily harvesting work.
As the blood bond points continue to increase, the slanting sun gets closer and closer to the horizon.
The reason why we choose to harvest the blood contract points every evening and burn the corpses of the infected.
This is because the work of containing the infected is almost finished at this time every day, and compared to the sky-high flames of burning corpses at night, it is less conspicuous in the evening with the sunset.
Um?
When Bloodwind's harvesting work in the high-risk area was coming to an end, Robb, who was chatting with Clay and igniting the magical properties of Bloodwind in the wooden fence, suddenly felt a sense of joy in his heart.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Xue Feng in the high-risk area, and suddenly discovered that in Xue Feng's blood contract data, the magic attribute had jumped to 100 points.
Come back, Bloodwind!
After following his instinct and sending a message to Bloodwind, Robb immediately headed towards the wooden fence in the high-risk area.
In fact, there was no need for Robb to teleport. Bloodwind also ran towards him when its magic attribute reached 100 points. During the running process, it automatically released [Control] and restored its huge size of three meters high.
Card, card, card!
Xue Feng easily jumped over the wooden fence and landed directly next to Robb. As soon as the man and the wolf came into contact, ice crystal cracks began to spread around them with them as the center.
"Clay, and others, stay away from us!"
When Robb saw this, he immediately shouted to Clay who didn't know what was going on.
Clay always followed Robb's orders first and then asked why. So when he heard Robb's call, he quickly turned around and ran behind him.
Check, check, check!
I saw ice crystal cracks extending at a relatively fast speed into a circular ice crystal field with a diameter of ten meters. Then, pieces of willow leaf-shaped ice crystal fragments suddenly stabbed out from the ground.
Tear!
The wooden fences, tents, infected corpses, and several unresponsive captive soldiers shrouded in the land of ice crystals were directly torn into pieces by the countless ice crystal fragments, and then assimilated into pieces of ice crystals.
"Ah! What is that?"
Margery, who was sitting on the solid wood rocking chair on the north city wall, immediately stood up and looked down the city wall after hearing the guards' screams.
I saw a huge ice crystal lotus with amazing beauty blooming in a high-risk area.
When it was fully formed, it suddenly began to shrink inward like a mimosa being touched, turning into a huge ice crystal lotus flower.
"Hehe, I didn't realize that His Majesty is still a very romantic person!"
Looking at the ice crystal lotus bones under the city wall that looked like works of art, Margery thought it was a little surprise. A sweet smile appeared on her pretty face, and she murmured to herself.
"His Majesty!……"
Clay, who escaped and was assimilated into ice crystals, fell to the ground in a daze. Looking at the giant ice crystal lotus bone that was ten meters in diameter and almost ten meters in height in front of him, he couldn't help but murmured,