The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

In Thor's view, this time he went to battle without the big nobles who were malicious to him behind him. As long as he acted carefully, even if he couldn't gain much advantage in the end, the loss would not be too great. big. By the way, he can also train his troops. After all, there are many new recruits in his army!

After hearing what Saul said, Ye Tianlong couldn't help but want to go out together. After all, he did have a lot of new recruits in the army! And this actual combat is indeed the best way to train soldiers. As long as they can survive a few battles, a new soldier can quickly transform into a veteran.

After convening his cronies for discussion, everyone agreed to go to war with Viscount Saul.

So Ye Tianlong completely made up his mind, and at the same time told the other party that he was also preparing to send troops, and asked the other party to give him two days to prepare, so that he could prepare enough grain, grass, various ammunition and other logistical supplies. It will all be transported by his carriage, and there is no need for Viscount Saul to waste manpower on escorting it.

Viscount Saul could still afford to wait for only two days, so he agreed to Ye Tianlong, and then quickly returned to his territory and began to gather troops and make final preparations before the army.

In the past two days, Ye Tianlong, in addition to preparing various logistical supplies, also asked Murong Jie and Tang Long to step up their efforts to build weapons and armor for Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu.

In terms of armor, it's okay, but in terms of weapons, they must be made according to the hobbies of these heroes. After all, only with convenient weapons can these heroes exert their full combat power. The most obvious representative here is Li Kui. When holding two axes, this guy is extremely fierce. He can kill people when he blocks them, and kill Buddha when he blocks them. Unless he is a first-rate general with extraordinary martial arts, he will not be able to stop him at all. Live it and rush to kill.

But once the two axes are missing from his hands, his combat effectiveness will seriously decline. Even the prodigal Yan Qing and the faceless Jiao Ting can easily beat him.

The heroes who came before have already made weapons according to their own preferences. For example, Lin Chong's main weapon is a Zhangba Snake Spear, Shi Wengong's main weapon is a Fangtian Painted Halberd, and Luan Tingyu's main weapon is a Fangtian Painted Halberd. A long-handled iron bone flower. Among the heroes who came later, Shi Qian's main weapon was a pair of short knives, Zhang Heng's weapon was a simple sword and a bag of heavy javelins, and Zhang Shun's weapon was a single sword with a steel shield. Also equipped with a bag of heavy javelins, Tiger General Li Zhong's weapon is a long spear, and his secondary weapons are a single sword and a pair of bows and arrows.

As for Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu, Ye Tianlong made a Yanyue Sword for Yang Zhi after asking them about it, because Yang Zhi was also very good at this Yang family's ancestral sword technique, and this sword technique was still that good. A wide range of martial arts suitable for use on the battlefield. In addition, Ye Tianlong also equipped him with a pair of bows and arrows and a single sword as secondary weapons.

According to Shi Xiu, Ye Tianlong made two long knives more than one meter long for him as his main weapons, and also equipped him with a bag of heavy javelins as his secondary weapons.

With the help of Tang Long, Murong Jie finally made the weapons and armors of Yang Zhi and Shi Xiu in two days, including the horse armor for Yang Zhi's horse.

After everything was ready, Ye Tianlong was ready to join Viscount Saul's troops and go out together.

This time he took away most of his troops, leaving only a hundred people to stay in the camp. There were also [-] naval recruits in training, plus Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun and Tang Long. As long as the good guys stay behind, ordinary thieves and criminals are still fully capable of dealing with them.

As for Viscount Saul, only a few dozen new soldiers were left behind, and he took [-] people out in one go. In addition to the [-] people brought out by Ye Tianlong, the combined strength of the two sides was already There are more than two thousand, which is a relatively large army on the continent of Calradia.

Ye Tianlong was a little surprised that this time Viscount Saul also organized dozens of cavalry, but those cavalry were only riding low-level horses such as traveling horses and pack horses. Look at what these cavalry were carrying. The weapon is not a lance, but a two-handed axe.

Ye Tianlong observed for a while and felt that these might not be cavalry, but mounted infantry, a highly mobile heavy infantry unit.

In fact, Ye Tianlong's guess was correct. Viscount Saul formed a mounted infantry unit. Those horses were specially prepared by him for his heavy infantry who were equipped with low-end versions of iron pagoda armor. With these With horses instead of walking, this kind of heavy infantry no longer has to worry about wasting energy when rushing on the battlefield. They can quickly reach their destination on horseback, and then dismount collectively to fight.

Viscount Saul was even more envious of Ye Tianlong's troops who were better equipped, especially the hundreds of heavy cavalry under his command, which made him envious. What shocked him the most was the large combat airship more than eighty meters long floating above Ye Tianlong's army.

That's right, this time the air force under Ye Tianlong finally joined the battle sequence for the first time. This large combat airship can not only be used to detect the enemy's situation, but can also drop bombs at the enemy from the air, or use Some small-caliber continuous artillery pieces equipped above attack enemy troops.

The route Ye Tianlong and Viscount Thor sent out this time was basically the same as the last time King Ragnar sent out troops. The army rushed all the way towards Fort Rud.

When Ye Tianlong and the others arrived at Rudburg, they found that this castle, which had been severely damaged in the last war, was almost repaired. Count Olaf, who was responsible for guarding here, saw Ye Tianlong and Viscount Saul. The two saviors arrived, entertained them warmly, and then asked them about their purpose of coming during the banquet.

Viscount Saul was a straightforward person and told Count Olaf truthfully that this time they were planning to take the opportunity to attack the Kingdom of Swadia. If possible, they would capture the next few towns. At worst, they would have to start from Swadia. The kingdom looted back some money and people.

After Count Olaf learned the purpose of the two men, he kindly reminded them that although the main army of the Kingdom of Swadia was indeed attracted by the coalition of nobles who launched the attack earlier, other border areas had also Entering a state of combat readiness, the defense is very tight. If you launch an attack at this time, you will have to chew off all the hard bones. The fight will definitely not be easy.

However, Ye Tianlong and Viscount Sol had already been mentally prepared for this, and did not give up because of Olaf's reminder.

After letting the troops repair at Ludburg for half a day, Ye Tianlong and Saul continued to lead the troops, and then that afternoon, they officially entered the Kingdom of Swadia.

Because the Kingdom of Swadia has many cavalry, as soon as Ye Tianlong and others entered its territory, several small groups of light cavalry discovered them. After these light cavalry discovered their large enemy army, they did not move forward. They came here with the intention of committing suicide, but they just took one look and ran away, probably rushing back to their respective towns to report the news.

Ye Tianlong and the others did not care about the enemy reconnaissance cavalry that was sneaking away quickly, but continued to move forward according to the goals set in advance.

Ye Tianlong and Viscount Sol had previously discussed which town to attack first after entering the Kingdom of Swadia.

Judging from the map, after entering the Kingdom of Swadia from Rudburg, there are two towns closest to each other, one of which is the town of Tosdel and the other is the town of Talboria.

Among the two towns, Tosdel Town is closer, but not far next to it is Dechiosburg, an important military town in the Kingdom of Swadia, so if you choose to attack Tosdel Town If so, they might soon be flanked by the enemy forces in Fort Dechio.

Therefore, in order to get a good start, Ye Tianlong and the others decided to be more cautious and decided to attack the small town of Talboria, which had few enemy strongholds nearby.

While Ye Tianlong and his army troops were still on the way, Zhou Jiale was already driving the large combat airship to the small town of Talboria to investigate the enemy's situation.

When this huge large airship arrived over the small town of Talboria, it immediately caused a big commotion. It could be seen from the air that many townspeople were disturbed by this thing that they had never seen before. The huge aircraft was frightened and wanted to escape from the town, but was intercepted by the defenders in the town.

This Talboria town is obviously much more prosperous than Viscount Saul's Odasan town. The townspeople there seem to be at least six to seven thousand people, and there are also a lot of defenders in the town. From aerial observation, there should be more than [-] people, and the equipment is also very good. Nearly half of them are equipped with iron armor such as chainmail, and the remaining ones who are only equipped with leather armor and cloth armor appear to be crossbows. Hands are long-range arms and generally do not need to participate in melee combat.

In addition, the earthen walls in Talboria Town are taller and thicker than those in Odasan Town. You can see a lot of large crossbows on them as defense equipment, plus more than [-] people in the city. The defenders, even if a thousand enemy troops come to attack, it is estimated that it will be difficult to capture this town of the Kingdom of Swadia.

Zhou Jiale and the others did not stay long after investigating the enemy's situation. They quickly returned to the main force and reported the intelligence they detected.

After Ye Tianlong obtained this information, he couldn't help but feel lucky that his side had specially brought three heavy artillery pieces with a diameter of [-] mm. Otherwise, it would indeed be difficult to capture an enemy town with such a thick wall.

The troops, all mules and horses, marched very fast. At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Tianlong led his troops to the town of Talboria. Then he did not waste time and immediately asked the artillery to attack the three gates one by one. The [-]-millimeter-caliber heavy artillery was set up and prepared to bombard the wall of the opposite town.

Someone in Talboria Town obviously knew the power of firearms. Seeing Ye Tianlong and others starting to set up artillery, the city gate suddenly opened, and about a hundred cavalry, mixed in weight and light, rushed out and headed towards Ye Tianlong. The artillery position rushed towards them, obviously hoping to take advantage of Ye Tianlong and the others' unsteady footing to rush into the artillery position and then destroy those artillery pieces.