Chapter 683: Breakout
“Hehe, it’s late, you guys are already late!”
“The great General Callum and the warriors under his command have already wiped out your feeble army!”
“Hahaha!”
The orc in front of him was incomparably weak and his eyes were gradually losing their glamor, but the words that came out of his mouth still had a strong sense of sarcasm.
Lester pulled his sword from him and kicked the other to the ground again.
The tall body lay helplessly on the ground, completely cut off from breath.
Austenkline frowned.
“Even though this guy is mouthing off, it gives me some bad vibes.”
“Get on your horse and go to support His Highness immediately.”
Klein and Lester led an army and quietly left the barracks before dawn.
They traveled over winding and rugged mountain paths, through forests strewn with thorns, and finally meandered behind the orc army after making a large circle.
The orc scouts had a large scouting range, and the journey could be described as both arduous and dangerous.
They were very fortunate not to draw attention to the fact that the main force of the enemy went off in a brainstorm to attack the main force of the Orc army deployed in the valley.
According to the plan, this army would attack straight to the back of the orcs.
At the entrance of the Sunset Valley, they came across an enemy ranger used to guard the rear.
The Orcs immediately attacked and annihilated each other, with only a few escaping.
The jeers of the dying enemy made them speed up.
Klein’s bad premonition was soon fulfilled, and when they arrived at the battlefield panting with their horses, they saw a hellish sight.
The cavalry left flank and infantry squares made up of local troops supported by Blackstone had collapsed.
The flat ground in the center of the valley was littered with festering and running Ordo soldiers, and embarrassingly there were still quite a few knights in it, while the orcish light and heavy cavalry hunted them down like vicious wolves chasing after sheep.
This is an apt metaphor, those who have lost the organization of the Aldo soldiers are like lambs who are unable to make a decent resistance.
The orc cavalry that were chasing them were in fact not many in number, but they were killing the prey that didn’t seem to be a threat to them as if they were playing, and judging from their posture, they were indeed very relaxed.
“Father in heaven!”
Klein was stunned by the sight before him, praying over and over in his mind to the Lord of Light that this was just a dream.
Before this, the worst sight he could have anticipated was the Austrian army being pinned down by the orc cavalry, but with the basic formation still in place, and then combining upon his own arrival.
Now, the combined attack could only be a joke.
“Your Highness is there!”
Lester’s at his side pointed towards the distance!
Yes, there was Her Highness Catherine.
Klein remembered the most important thing, if the princess of the hallowed Kingdom of Aldo was sacrificed or …… captured in the war with the orcs …… this is simply unimaginable.
Following the direction of Lester’s finger, Klein saw a group of Austrian troops surrounded by orc cavalry.
The flag of the Knights of the Royal Capital was still flying high in the formation.
His Highness should still be fine!
“All troops listen to the order! Immediately relieve our comrades!”
This army of 1,500 horsemen raised their hooves and charged with all their might towards the besieged Knights of the Royal Capital.
Calum immediately discovered this group of uninvited guests and also waved his banner to mobilize his troops to block them.
But when the general situation of victory had been stabilized, everyone was busy grabbing the spoils of war, or going to seize the belongings, or going to catch the enemy routed soldiers who could be used as slaves.
Although Calum’s army had won the battle, it had not gotten rid of all the habits that befit an army of this age. Or rather it was precisely because of the victories that they felt comfortable and bold to do so.
This led to the fact that the only ones who really came to surround and block Klein’s detachment were scattered small-scale rangers, which didn’t pose much of an obstacle to their advance.
Upon approaching his besieged comrades, Klein got a vague glimpse of what was going on.
In addition to the Knights of the Royal Capital, there were quite a few sergeants from the Plains of Blackstone, who should have gathered here after being routed elsewhere.
Klein yelled, “Prepare to charge!”
Almost his entire body’s strength was used.
This Aldo cavalry braked their horses’ hooves and formed a neat and tight formation in a very short time.
There were three platoons, each with five hundred riders.
The orc cavalry besieging the Knights of the King’s Capital still maintained a strong organization, and when they saw a human cavalry killing from their side, they immediately separated a part of them to come and block the attack.
Klein forced himself to be calm and gave orders methodically:
“Run at a slow pace!”
The cavalrymen urged their horses to march up at a small slow pace, like three stone walls that were moving, even the smoke and dust that rolled up appeared to be organized.
“Fast trot!”
The warhorses began to pick up speed, and their hooves clattered into a frenzy.
“Gallop!”
The knights stretched their weapons forward and controlled their mounts to start impacting at full speed, and the three “walls” in front and behind began to deform and disorganize, but the three rows could still be seen in general.
They had just started charging and immediately met the orc cavalry that came to block their attack.
The two teams soon met each other, that kind of high-speed collision scene between horses and horses did not appear too much, the fact is that in the moment before the collision is about to take place, the two riders who are traveling in the opposite direction will often have a person immediately turn their horses to avoid the frontal impact with the other side.
Most of the killing moments occurred when the two sides crossed paths, the human cavalry and orc cavalry inflicted quite a bit of damage on each other, and many people unfortunately crashed down before being trampled into meat cakes by the hooves of the horses.
The besieged Knights of the royal capital still maintained a high level of fighting spirit, these knights full of honor mostly came from noble families, since childhood to receive high-intensity martial arts training, riding, fighting, archery, plus good armor and equipment, only on the basis of the single combat strength is still above the enemy army.
Since being besieged, they had already repelled many waves of attacks.
For the time being, the orcs had no choice but to throw waves of arrows, and the Knights of the King’s Capital naturally wouldn’t sit back and wait for them to die, so they also used their bows and arrows to return fire.
“Klein, Lester!”
Catherine, who had already made preparations to break out and was preparing to personally lead the troops in the vanguard, spotted the detouring detachment that had finally arrived and gained insight into the other party’s intentions of trying to break the siege for themselves.
A surge of joy rose in her heart, and she immediately revised the direction of her assault, turning towards the troops that had come to relieve the siege.
Everyone got ready and gripped the blades in their hands.
“Kill!”
With a command, the horn sounded.
A large number of warhorses charged together, and although they didn’t form much of a formation, they were still impactful.
And Klein’s side also intensified its assault.
The orcs were attacked from both directions, and a gap was opened in the encirclement when they were caught off guard.
After a bout of killing, the two kingdom armies finally connected and converged into one.
“It seems that the northwest direction has the least enemies, go there!”
Catherine immediately agreed with Klein’s suggestion.
Taking advantage of the fact that most of the enemy troops were looting and chasing down the routed soldiers, the Knights of the Royal Capital fought and retreated, finally getting out of this hell.