Just when Bettoni was about to lead his army and turn around with his allies, a horse on a fast horse from directly in front suddenly came towards us, seeming very embarrassed and anxious.

As soon as the visitor saw Benito, he said breathlessly, "Sir Benito, it's not good, it's not good..." Before he could finish his words, he rolled his eyes, fainted and fell to the ground.

"Hurry up and wake him up!" Bettoni looked at the fainted rider and his face changed slightly. He knew this soldier. He was the messenger following his ally Lafcadio. Although he was a messenger, according to rumors, this soldier

The young man has always had an ambiguous relationship with Lafcadio, and it stands to reason that he would never leave his side unless something important happened.

At this moment, his appearance made Bertoni's heart skip a beat subconsciously, and an inexplicable uneasy feeling instantly lingered in his heart.

The people on the left and right were ordered to dismount quickly and check the condition of the unconscious messenger. Except for being injured by an arrow in the leg and being too frightened, there was nothing serious. After a while, he fed the fainted young man some water.

Finally, Youyou woke up and turned around.

When he saw the great nobleman Bertoni in front of him who was checking his situation, he immediately grabbed the opponent's shirt and sobbed with difficulty:

"Something is going wrong, Lord Bertoni!"

Seeing this, Bettoni frowned slightly, pulled away his shirt, and asked in a deep voice: "What happened to make you so panicked? Speak slowly and tell me everything." Bettoni had a premonition that something was wrong.

He didn't get confused but calmed down immediately and asked about the situation.

The young man replied weakly: "We were suddenly ambushed on the way to attack Mystras. We couldn't resist it at all. We suffered heavy casualties. Master Lafcadio sent a large army to cover me, so I fought my way out.

Please hurry up and save Lord Lafcadio!"

Begging Betoni to send troops to rescue him, but the almost pleading words of the messenger fell into Betoni's ears like a bolt from the blue. He originally thought that even if something bad happened, it was just an accident that happened during the siege, or maybe something bad happened during the siege.

worst outcome

That was Salius who had fled and returned. But things were not what he thought. The other party seemed to have known that they were going to take action, so whether it was him plundering the village or Lafcadio attacking Mystra

Si, the other party is already prepared.

Suddenly thinking of something, Bertoni, whose color suddenly changed, could not sit still at all. He grabbed the messenger by the collar and asked: "Who ambushed you? Is it Sarius and his heavy armored cavalry?"

Waiting anxiously for the other party's answer, Bertoni only hoped that it would not be the result he least expected to see.

But what the young man said next instantly made his heart freeze.

"Well, it's not Salius. We were attacked by a sneak attack when we passed a steep cliff. There was no place for the cavalry to spread out. And the enemy had already ambushed us on the mountain and took advantage of the terrain to catch us by surprise. They had

A lot of crossbowmen, yes, those soldiers were holding crossbows."

The messenger who calmed down recalled the previous scene. Although it was chaotic, the overwhelming rain of arrows was still fresh in his memory.

Before he could finish his words, Bertoni, who suddenly turned pale, suddenly pulled out the crossbow bolt from the leg of the orderer.

The orderly soldier, who was completely unprepared, screamed. The severe pain from the second tear of the wound made him unable to straighten his waist, let alone speak.

"Ah~~~~" A painful roar came from between his teeth, but in response to this, Bettoni did not pay attention to people bandaging him, but was completely attracted by the crossbow arrow in his hand.

"It's them...it's really them! How could it be them?" The man muttered three times in a row, and his body couldn't help but trembled at this moment.

"Sir..." The subordinates around him looked at their lord in complete confusion for a moment but did not dare to speak to him.

Turning around suddenly, Bertoni ordered in a voice that was almost a roar: "Everyone, return to the city immediately! Abandon all irrelevant baggage on the spot and retreat immediately!"

Retreat immediately? Everyone looked at their lord in confusion. Why should they retreat immediately? They also had to abandon their baggage. Their losses this time were not small. No one could accept such a futile return, not to mention that the friendly forces were currently in trouble.

How could they just sit back and watch while they were surrounded?

When the young messenger heard this incredible order from Betoni, he ignored the pain and said anxiously: "Lord Betoni, you are Lord Lafcadio and you are still waiting for us to rescue them!"

The young man once again grabbed the edge of Bettoni's shirt, but this time as soon as his hand touched the shirt, Bettoni kicked him aside severely.

"Idiot, are you blind? Where are these crossbows produced in Moria! Only the Italians will be equipped with such crossbows in large quantities." Bettoni yelled viciously, "So it's not just Mist who ambushed us this time.

People from Las Vegas, and those damn pizza people!”

Bettoni, who had sharp eyes, recognized at a glance that the crossbow that hit the messenger was the type of pedal crossbow unique to the Pisa Navy. Then there was only one possibility. Nafplion, who had always remained neutral, fell to the side again this time.

Justin

He thought that with the Latin people backing him, the Pisa people who only knew how to do business would weigh the stakes. But he never thought that the other party would personally intervene in this civil war and take the initiative to send troops to launch a surprise attack.

But this is not the most fatal thing, but at this moment, there is a Pisa caravan delivering food and supplies in the castle of Bertoni and Lafcadio. But in the current situation, this is simply tantamount to taking the initiative to deliver the knife in the enemy's hand.

In front of his own heart. So he didn't care how many men had time to waste time here. He immediately ordered his troops to return to his territory as quickly as possible.

The nobles under Betoni's command did not dare to say anything after receiving the order. They also realized the seriousness of the problem. Originally, they were going to sneak attack others, but now their home base may have been taken away. Unload the baggage and

spoils of war, noble military establishment

That is to say, he marched quickly towards his base camp, while the messenger soldier on the ground who had come to ask for help fell to the ground in despair and watched helplessly as his friendly forces abandoned him and walked away. Looking at the rising dust, the young man could only see in his eyes

despair……

"Sir, we should take this road!" To temporarily change the marching direction, Bettoni did not choose the flat and relatively safe road, but asked the army to change to a rugged mountain road. Although the distance was reduced by nearly half, the

It would be terrible if enemy troops ambush you in a place like this.

While the generals were confused, Bertoni sneered: "Huh, do you think the enemy is unaware of this? Nevsky deliberately did not pursue the pursuit at that time, simply expecting that I would get the news and return to the city.

.So everything is a trap, I’m just afraid that at this time

On the road, Sarius and his cavalry were already there waiting for us to fall into a trap. As we returned from this mountain road, the heavy cavalry could not fight in the mountains at all. They still had to come over with my Serbian cavalry.

Let them all die here without a burial place."

"Your Excellency is wise!" After hearing what Bertoni said, the other little nobles nodded in approval and congratulated respectfully. At this moment, the rebels who were marching all the way finally entered the mountain pass.

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Looking at the cascading mountains, the destination is clearly in front of us, but the rugged mountain road is full of potholes and bumps, but it is not an easy road. There is no green at all on the bare cliffs, and every cliff is almost 90 degrees.

It’s no wonder that the Moria rebels Ningyuan chose this road. But in the valley, Justinian had already been ambushing here waiting for the arrival of the rebels, and it was just as he expected.

, the enemy obediently chose this path as he had imagined. Behind him, fully armed heavy armored cavalry led by Sarius followed and lurked on the side of the hillside. The strange thing is that although these cavalry

Wearing a set of cavalry armor, they had all their arm armor and iron boots removed, and they had no horses accompanying them. They only had a lance in their hands and short weapons for close combat.

"They are finally here..."

Justinian, who muttered to himself, watched the meandering rebels getting closer and closer to them. The heavy armored cavalry on foot leaned down and lowered their bodies, not daring to take a deep breath for fear of being beaten by the enemies below.

It was discovered that although the enemy had entered the ambush range,

However, Justinian was facing a formidable enemy, and the opponent was not at all careless. On both sides of the road were Serbian cavalry to protect the infantry from being attacked. Weak and injured soldiers were placed behind them so that they could be abandoned at any time. It can be said that such an array was formed.

No problem.

But this played into Justinian's plan. When the rebels entered the ambush circle prepared by Justinian for them, they only heard

There was a loud "boom", and a violent explosion came from the rebels, and more explosions followed, causing the noble rebels who were caught off guard to be in chaos.

And this was the second gift Justinian prepared for them, landmines.

Although it is an imitation of an early landmine, its structure is relatively simple. Justinian did not have the courage to experiment with iron sheets, so he used a shell made of stone with gunpowder inside. This kind of landmine was inserted into a fuse and sealed and buried underground. When the enemy approached,

As long as the people on the mountain ignite the fuse

, you can detonate land mines. I learned how to make this type of land mine from my grandfather who was a soldier in my previous life. If the angle and gunpowder ratio are not adjusted well, it is not very powerful. But it is enough for Westerners who encounter these things for the first time.

It made them completely confused.

Taking advantage of this moment, Justinian also took up the position, holding a spear used by the cavalry in his hand and holding it high, shouting loudly:

"In the name of the empire, long live!" He stretched out his arms and held up his spear and rushed down the hillside first. Behind him, amid the powerful sound of trumpets, formed a horizontal line formation, and all the cavalry followed Cha Shi.

Dinny trotted down the cliff together, and quickly formed a formation for several large horizontal groups to charge again. At the same time, he held the spear in his hand and kept it level.

"kill"

Halfway down the cliff, everyone speeded up their pace under Justinian's order, and it was not until the rebels who were in disarray that they discovered the ambush rushing down the steep cliff.

"What? This is...?"

Immediately, Bertoni was completely speechless in astonishment. This was the first time he saw someone using such a crazy tactic.

The cavalry actually took the initiative to dismount and fight on foot and use the saddle on the horse. This is crazy. No one has ever done this. But when Bettoni and his troops looked at the forest of spears or made a sharp sword,

When the wall hit them, fear overwhelmed them instantly and made them tremble.

Justinian himself felt that such a formation method was extremely crazy, and it could only exist with a small number of elite troops. After all, this kind of training method not only required the execution of tactics, but also required every one to

People have absolute trust in their companions. The moment the heavy armored cavalry spread out their spears, the only time in their eyes was the front, and all the flanks belonged to their teammates.

"Set arrows, shoot arrows, shoot them!" Seeing the army ambushing him getting closer and closer, Bertoni immediately thought of his archers, but then he realized that the cavalry on both sides were completely gone.

The shooter's field of vision was completely blocked. It was too late to stop the opponent, so he could only resist. The Serbian cavalry who was the first to recover from the chaos of the explosion immediately responded and rushed towards them.

dismounted cavalry.

The entire heavy armored cavalry company only has two to three hundred men, and they have this confidence to be able to deal with these guys who don't even have horses.

"Come on, it's your turn to suffer." The Serbian cavalry was still very arrogant. They turned the rear team to the front team and lined up to form a crescent-shaped arc formation, and Bertoni was even more arrogant.

Holding the sword in person, he kept telling himself that these enemies were only two to three hundred people, not even one-third of his own, and it was nothing to worry about.

But he ignored the identities of the heavy armored cavalry behind Justinian. They were experienced cavalry. They had experienced wars that were much more cruel than this. How could they be easily solved?

Under a dark "charge line", Moria's dismounted cavalry charged in in a formation of four squadrons. They spread out row by row. The people in the front held their spears at waist height, and the people in the back row gathered at the shoulders.

high

, and the ones at the back were raised above their heads. They were covered in heavy armor and carried their own weight with astonishing potential energy. Like a huge mace, they hit the rebel array hard, tearing it apart instantly.

Come on.
Chapter completed!