Chapter 239.
Chapter 239 – Survival in a Fateful Place
It’s here, it’s almost here!
Looking at the pillar of smoke rising up ahead, Derek Heller’s heart flooded with pang after pang of excitement.
The enemy camp was in chaos because of the fire, and the people inside were looking around for water to put out the fire like headless flies.
As long as you take advantage of this time to rush in and make a killing, it will be like a lion pouncing into a flock of sheep, and you will become famous in one battle today.
Not long ago, in the camp patrol Derek found the enemy direction of the strange situation, responsible for close monitoring scouts quickly returned to the Kent family’s barracks on fire.
Derek eager to take credit for the first time thought of taking advantage of the chaos of the raid, although this practice is very not “chivalrous”, but to the Kent family such a despicable and shameless people to talk about what morality.
Subordinates reminded him to first discuss with the other lords in the meeting, but just said out loud was Derek vetoed.
“Those curmudgeons will surely discuss it for half a day first, and by the time they decide to attack, the enemy army has also put out the fire! Of course, the greater likelihood is that they’ll still be sticking around waiting for Gleeman and Garnard, who are dawdling in who knows where.”
So Derek quickly returned to his camp and gathered all the troops he had brought with him from Portree, including 100 knights, 300 knight-errantes, and a militia of over 1,000 men.
“Cavalry charge into the enemy camp to expand the chaos! The infantry will then be escorted!”
Derek quickly gave orders to his troops, having grown up with a noble education and familiarizing himself with military history, he knew many examples of battles in which less was more. Today was truly a godsend, and he was confident that he could replicate those miracles in history today.
He didn’t forget to send scouts to scout around the opponent’s camp, especially the small forest in the south, which seemed to be easy to lurk in.
But the eagerness to fight he didn’t wait for the scouts to return to lead his knights to launch an attack, war is not a gamble!
Kent family’s camp does not have complicated defense measures, looks like it is only as a temporary residence, in the camp’s periphery simply placed a few rows of according to the horse.
A few knights led the way, using their lances to push away the horses on the road one by one, creating a gap. The large troop following behind at a trot immediately urged their horses and began a real charge.
Unsurprisingly for Derek, their attack was simply adding insult to injury for the enemy troops who were busy putting out the fire, and the camp became even more chaotic.
“Kill!”
The knights and squires of the Heller family fought to wield their respective weapons, harvesting the lives of the enemy soldiers.
After they charged left and right in the camp for nearly 20 minutes, the Kent Family’s army gradually reacted, and the knights and officers put on their armor and led their men to start counterattacking.
The cavalry following Derek had less than two hundred men with knights and squires, and there were casualties under the enemy’s counterattack.
“Why haven’t the infantry followed?”
As the enemy’s counterattack grew stronger and stronger, Derek, who was killing his blood, gradually calmed down, and he suddenly remembered the infantry following the cavalry.
“Viscount Heller! Surrender!”
Suddenly a shout came from the direction he came from in the west!
Derek looked that way, and it turned out to be Jaaius, the son of the Earl of Kent.
“It is you who should surrender! The Kent’s fool!”
Seeing Derek’s refusal, Jaaius sneered, “Hmph! You really don’t see the coffin! See what this is?”
He raised his arm and tossed an object this way, rolling bone-crunchingly under Derek’s horse.
As soon as Derek saw it, he knew something was wrong! It was a helmet, the helmet of one of the knights under his command, who had also been entrusted by him with the command of an infantry unit earlier.
Had he already been killed? Or had he been captured?
Where had the army of House Kent behind him come from, pre-emptively ambushed in those woods? Or had reinforcements just arrived?
It didn’t matter now, what mattered was that they were about to fall deep into the siege! The enemy troops around them were gathering more and more.
“Break out!”
Derek gave the order loudly, and the teams that were fighting on their own regrouped and formed a tight formation.
“The north side is less crowded, break through from there! You guys protect Lord Viscount!”
The Family Knight Commander took the lead and charged into the crowd of enemy troops, swinging a yoke, with Derek and the other knights following close behind.
The Kent family army located in the northern part of the camp was basically conscripted infantry, and could not withstand the combined force of the many knights, many of them were trampled into mush, and more of them simply scattered and fled.
This bunch of conscripts were too useless, Jia Ace hatefully threw his horse whip in the air. He ordered one of the knights next to him, “Derek is trapped here, his allies won’t just sit back and do nothing, you organize the infantry and bring another group of cavalry to block them.”
Then he led the cavalry behind him to urge their crotch horses to chase after them.
……
“See! I told you it was a trap!”
The lords on the allied side had just gathered their troops when a scout reported that a large group of heavy cavalry coming from the southern trail had killed the Heller family’s infantry and scattered them.
“That’s not necessarily true, since it came from the southern path, it’s more likely that the Kent family’s subsequent reinforcements came and ran right into the Heller family’s infantry.”
“Whether it’s a trap or not, if we don’t go over, the Heller family’s boy will be finished!”
“This latter mustn’t be so stubborn as to take his own life into it, if he should surrender, he should surrender, we can at least redeem him.”
“Let’s hope so, otherwise how can we explain to Count Heller.”
“Hmph! He has himself to blame and can’t blame us.”
……
The lords were so anxious that they left 1,000 men to keep an eye on the Bido Fort behind them, and commanded the remaining 5,000 men to march towards the enemy’s quarters.
Halfway there, they encountered a large group of routed Heller Clan infantry, followed by the enemy cavalry chasing them, and after seeing the Lords’ reinforcements, each saw hope and quickly drew closer this way.
Viscount Johnston, who was in charge of commanding the vanguard troops, shouted, “Listen to the Heller family soldiers! Do not storm the military formation! Otherwise, they will be killed on sight!”
But there were still some of the routed soldiers who continued to run this way, shouting for help as they ran.
The situation was urgent, Viscount Johnston decisively ordered, “Archers, release arrows!”
A shower of arrows was thrown over, many of the routed soldiers who ran close were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, the rest of them cried out and scattered to both sides.
The pursuers also retreated to the rear when they saw that the allied forces were outnumbered.
The allied forces continued to advance, and then they encountered the enemy’s main infantry who had already set up their formation, and who had been set up by Jaaius to prevent the allied forces from rescuing Derek.
There was no nonsense on either side, it was straight to the fight ……
Derek’s situation at this point can be described as urgent, he and his knights rushed out of the encirclement and went all the way north, wanting to choose an opportunity to turn to return to the western side of the coalition army station.
But the pursuers seem to stick to their ass as if, and the left rear and right rear have pursuers, no matter which direction to turn may be intercepted, helpless Derek can only all the way to the north.
“Damn it! Can I only surrender in humiliation and wait to be ransomed?”
“No! Never! Wait for me, Kent family, I’ll show you sooner or later!”
He swore in his heart.
But after experiencing the previous battle and running wildly for a long period of time, the horse under his seat was already exhausted, and he could obviously feel the speed slowing down.
“Damn! Damn it…… hmm? That?”
Just as a sense of despair welled up in Derek, smoke surged up from the road ahead.
“A flying dragon banner? Is that the army of the …… Gladman family?”
An army appeared directly in front of them.
(End of chapter)