Warlord: King of All Clans

Angus, a fierce general wearing heavy armor, tried hard to grab the support of the siege ladder in mid-air, but failed repeatedly.

After losing balance, he broke several wooden planks on the siege ladder before falling heavily to the ground.

After jumping down from the twelve-meter-high city wall, he did not die. Instead, he staggered to his feet and fled towards the legion camp.

This incident made the armored soldiers who were still trying to climb the siege ladder stunned in place. For a moment, traffic was blocked and they could not move forward or backward.

The soldiers gathered below looked at each other in bewilderment. After a few seconds, they shouted and all fled.

On the city wall, the ogre Krog shrank his body and quietly approached a corner flag knight who was trying hard to fight against the defenders. He grabbed the opponent's ankle and lifted him up, shaking him violently.

The enormous force was transmitted to the whole body of the Corner Flag Knight, and immediately a series of intensive joint cracking was heard.

The fierce and vigorous Knight of the Corner Flag suddenly became like a snake with its spine pulled out, and was held limply in Kroger's hand.

This is a skill Kroger has acquired from catching crocodiles over the past few months. As long as he is skillful and strong enough, he can shake a crocodile to pieces.

He happily carried the paralyzed corner flag knight to Vic's side and asked, "Is dinner ready?"

With a sullen face, Vichy raised his hands and shouted, "Orgei! Charge! After the fight, we'll have dinner!"

The two-headed ogres who were still rolling on the ground keenly caught Vicchi's voice in the noisy battlefield.

They picked up the iron-hooped wooden sticks beside them and rushed towards the enemy armored soldiers who occupied a corner on the city wall.

Seeing their companions on the city wall howling in agony and falling like rain, the deserters under the city wall ran even faster.

This battle ended faster than yesterday.

The most important thing is that commanders such as Leo and Vicci value the lives of the militiamen and are unwilling to waste too many of them to lure the enemy.

If we ignore the militia's casualties and just watch the enemy infantry rush up to the top of the city, when they have two or three hundred people, the elite troops at Hewan will still be able to defeat them.

It was not easy for the attacking soldiers to climb up the twelve-meter-high wall and then run down.

Unfortunately, this time there were twice as many corner flag knights and knight squires as yesterday. The militia was already on the verge of collapse due to the intensity of yesterday's battle, and today their human wall was quickly broken through.

If Vecchi did not give orders, the militia, having lost its numerical and geographical advantages, would soon be defeated by the enemy's regular infantry, resulting in heavy casualties.

Of course, the fierce General Angus was also the main reason for the failure of this fishing operation. He fled too fast and took away most of the soldiers under the city.

Leo sighed with regret and raised the flag in his hand.

Fifteen catapults fired at the same time.

Incendiary bombs, barrels of explosives, and even greater amounts of rubble rained down on the fleeing legionnaires.

Flames burst, thunder roared, and gravel flew.

The area outside Gravel Castle suddenly turned into a land of death.

Leo observed the results and was not too pleased.

The trebuchets made by the craftsmen of the Reach lack the accuracy of the war machines of the Legion's regular army.

All projectiles fired have large errors from their expected landing locations.

The explosive barrels after the gunpowder was granulated were more powerful, but the exact time of the explosion was still impossible to control. Some exploded in the air, and some fell to the ground and shattered.

After the incendiary bomb hits the ground, it quickly forms a sea of ​​fire, but as long as it does not explode in the crowd, the casualties caused are very limited.

On the contrary, the most primitive stone fragmentation bomb has the most significant killing effect.

Each piece of gravel fired by the catapult was as big as a fist. A large spoonful of gravel was thrown into the sky, and when it landed on the ground, it was a rain of death.

No matter if you have armor or not, if you are hit by a bullet, you will suffer fractures and become disabled. If it hits a vital part, you will die instantly.

But Leo was not in a hurry. With the improvement of craftsmen's skills and the improvement of ammunition, the power of gunpowder bombs and incendiary bombs would only increase step by step, and finally surpass the gravel bombs.

To a certain extent, the cohesion of the lord's army is even stronger than that of the standing army. The full-time infantry under the knight lords are almost all senior citizens of the territory and are the knight lords' trusted and loyal followers.

Those with the worst morale are the mercenary soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time.

Like the Lord's Army of Hewan Territory, almost every Lord's soldier who has been promoted step by step from a young villager to a regular infantryman has experienced many baptisms of war and knows how to cooperate with his comrades.

Even when they were running away, they subconsciously gathered together and did not throw away their swords, shields and armor. Instead of abandoning their weapons and armor and running away like the untrained young militiamen.

However, the attack from the catapults completely destroyed their formation and morale. After two waves of projectiles were thrown over, the armored infantry could no longer hold on. They dropped their weapons and took off their armor, becoming a complete rout.

Leo got down from the watchtower and mounted his warhorse.

"Riverbend Infantry, mount your horses and give chase!"

Behind him, two hundred infantrymen mounted their horses and, led by Leo, marched out of the city at a leisurely pace.

A large number of wild hunters, kobold scouts, and ogre tribes all followed behind, and under the leadership of their respective leaders, they walked towards the Gladstone Legion camp with high morale.

What followed was constant pursuit, encirclement and suppression, and persuasion to surrender.

The Gladstone Legion not only has a large number of armored infantry, but also many craftsmen trained by the family.

The Fangqi family's foundation is not comparable to that of emerging families like the River Bay Territory. Over the past hundred years, it has not only run the Knight Territory successfully, but also cultivated a large number of artisan families.

A typical Corner Flag Knight Territory is a village of a few hundred people, with only a lumberyard, a mill, and other infrastructure that can provide a meager income. The rest depends on farmland, pastures, and forest land to maintain the family business.

However, square flag knights usually have several knight lords, and can rely on each other to share what they have and reduce the risk of survival.

The territory not only has well-managed knight fiefs, but also small natural villages attracted by the long-term high security level.

The core territory of the Fangqi family usually has its own small market, blacksmith shop, workshop, bakery, and even metal mines and other industries.

The craftsmen, merchants, tailors, horse trainers and other types of handicraftsmen are all talents in the North, and it often takes several generations of training for them to emerge.

Leo's main target was these people. He ordered his troops to capture them alive as much as possible and escort them back to Gravel Castle safely.

While Knight Edward's square flag was commanding the remaining forces of the legion to flee to his own territory, on the ridge behind Knight Gladstone's army, a knight with a corner flag who had escaped early stopped his horse on the newly built mountain road, looked back, and could not help but sigh.

"You old bastard Edward, you didn't use my brilliant plan, which led to this disastrous defeat. You really deserve it!"

"Fortunately, I was very smart and saw the gap between us and the enemy early, so I retreated in advance."

Not only did he withdraw ahead of time, he also took the opportunity to take away half of the legion's horses and cattle. He had more than 30 regular infantrymen and the same number of militiamen, all on horseback.

Just with this batch of animal power, this trip is worth it!

Hearing the shouts and screams coming from the woods behind, the wise Knight of the Corner Flag quickly urged his men to leave.

He had originally planned to stop by Knight Gladstone's Territory to collect some money, but he didn't expect that old man Edward was also an expert at running away and would catch up with him so quickly.

Passing through the Gladstone Knight Territory, the Corner Flag Knight entered the World Tree Avenue and ran into a large group of lords' legions, a total of a thousand people.

The scouts of the Lord's Legion came across the corner flag team and immediately reported to the Legion Commander: "Report! A team of corner flags appeared ahead, and the flags seem to be..."

Rigolav, the square-flag knight who was ordered to form a legion to patrol the north of Isenpol, refuted expressionlessly: "What corner flag? I've never heard of it. It must be a disguised bandit. Kill them!"