Chapter 244.
Chapter 244 The Rendezvous
After circling around the square formation of Arda’s army, Derek led the family knights to stop not far away.
They planned to take a short rest before returning near their ally’s square to help in the battle. Although the Arda army’s flagged military honors were neat and looked well-trained, they were after all clear infantry and were still too passive against the high-speed moving cavalry.
To just leave the friendly army and run away by himself, Derek asked himself that he couldn’t do such a thing yet.
Before they could catch their breath, a heartbreaking scene happened, the Kent family’s two cavalry units, one on the left and one on the right, rushed viciously towards the Arda army.
Many people began to pray for the friendly army when something that blew people’s minds happened.
A sound like popping beans rang out, and with it rose a dense cloud of smoke, and the Kent Family cavalrymen who had stormed the square instantly fell in a large number.
It was amazing, the cavalrymen were generally falling off their horses when something hit them before they even threw their throwing spears, and it was obvious that something unseen of that sort could cause them fatal injuries, as most of those who fell to the ground didn’t manage to get up.
Only a few lucky ones threw their catapults, causing a few casualties to Arda’s army, but the whole square didn’t loosen up at all.
Derek and the knights under his command watched in stunned silence as another group of House Kent cavalrymen’s attack was also easily neutralized by friendly forces, and then there was a standoff between the two sides.
It wasn’t until the artillery roared like angry thunder that they were jolted out of their stupor.
“Quickly! Rendezvous with the Arda!”
Derek clipped his horse’s belly and led the knights towards the square.
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“My friends from Arda, I am Viscount Derek Heller, son of Count Winifred Heller, may I ask who is your supreme leader here.”
Hearing Derek give his name, Bryce straightened his collar, puffed out his chest and raised his head and responded loudly, “I am Lieutenant Colonel Bryce Alder, Commander of the 1st Battalion of Alda’s Infantry, and I am in charge of this army in the name of Earl Gleiman.”
Derek jumped off his horse and galloped toward Bryce as the soldiers made a path for him.
The two men’s hands clasped together.
“Lieutenant Colonel Alder ……, thank you for rescuing us from the Kents, and on behalf of the Heller family, I salute the Gladman family as well as you and your men.”
“Friendly help is well deserved, and on behalf of Count Gleiman I likewise salute House Heller.”
The two of them were polite, Bryce was the military governor of Arda in the old Gleiman’s time, Derek had heard of his name a few times, and also knew that the other party was only a “wild knight”. With the usual Derek as the son of the earl’s nature of mind, to such a civilian is always not false, but today he was saved by the other side of the life, mouth also unconsciously polite up.
“The weapons you used to defeat the cavalry are the legendary ‘Fire Crossbow’ and ‘Thunder Hammer’?”
Despite holding back again and again, Derek couldn’t help but ask out loud. Such powerful weapons would surely be regarded as important military secrets by the other party, and just now he had been torn between asking or not asking for fear of causing the other party’s displeasure.
“Fire crossbow? Thunder Hammer? The name is quite an image. Indeed, Viscount Heller, we officially relied on them to defeat the Kent family’s cavalry.”
Derek further asked, “Can I touch this ……?”
Bryce understood Derek’s thoughts at this point, but still wore a difficult expression. Firearms were the biggest reliance of Arda’s army.
“Sorry, I shouldn’t be so abrupt. Gentlemen, let me lead the way to to head to the quarters!”
Derek hastily changed the subject.
“Then, thank you!”
Blaise ordered to gather the troops and get back on the road, and once again, the assembly speed of Arda’s army surprised Derek and the knights under his command – they blew the bugle, and everyone quickly found their positions as if they had been rehearsed many times in advance, and it didn’t take 20 minutes for a neat marching formation to be standing in place. ……
When Bryce and the others followed Derek as he approached the garrison, the armies of the other lords in the coalition army had just finished fighting with the Kent family’s army, and the two sides had a melee, with no one taking advantage of the situation.
“What a confusing battle today!”
The officers complained to each other, and the team was even more demoralized.
The two teams met halfway down the road.
“Derek! You’re still alive! I thought .”
Exclaimed Count Malcolm who saw Derek.
“Heavenly Father bless you, or what shall we tell your father.”
The words were celebratory, but the tone was full of mockery.
“I broke out and retreated to the north!”
Derek looked mortified, “Sorry for the trouble!”
Earl Parker spurred his horse over and said, “We’ll summarize today’s events properly when we get back. Who is this?”
He had recognized the flag of the Gladman family and turned to the leader, Bryce, and asked.
Bryce bowed forward.
“Bryce Alder, by order of Earl Gleiman, has led the army to join you all. I believe you are Earl Price Kent? Greetings on behalf of my lord.”
“Yes, I am none other than Price Parker. You have come at the right time, our great battle with the Kent family is just around the corner, and we are in need of a raw force like you.”
Earl Parker saw that this team from Arda was in good military order and did not look like stragglers at all, and was secretly happy that pulling Gleeman into the group was not wrong.
So the two armies cooperated and returned to the village that served as their residence.
Upon arrival, Bryce found that this was originally a village, but there were no villagers in it anymore, they all hid in the lord’s castle before the arrival of the allied forces.
Looking in the direction of the west of the village, a castle came into view, this is Bidor Castle, the castle is not large, but is located on a high cliff, there is only a road that is not wide to its east, so treacherous, no wonder the allied forces could not attack for a long time. But the way out of the castle was also blocked by the allied forces.
Although the size of the village is not small, but the coalition army has six or seven thousand people, the house has long been divided up by the troops who arrived first, Alda’s army can only camp in the village north of an open space.
Bryce ordered the two aide-de-camp commanders to direct the soldiers to set up camp and bury pots and pans for cooking. Today’s lunch has not yet had time to eat before a vicious battle with the Kent family, during the battle everyone’s spirit is highly tense, temporarily forget about hunger, but once the battle is over the stomach is even more hungry than before.
Instead, he and Joyce were invited to a military meeting to discuss future battle plans, and the two hurriedly nibbled on a few cookies before heading to the largest house in the center of the village, which had originally been the mayor’s house, but was now being used as a meeting room by the Union Army.
“Welcome! Gentlemen from Arda!”
As soon as he entered, he heard Derek’s voice.
Sorry for the two-day break, I’ve been busy, and lately I’ve even had to work on two projects, and today I was called to work overtime again. I pat myself on the back one more time to all my fellow readers: this book will never be eunuchized!
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