Chapter 118 Pursuit (Part 2)

Although Roland had the First Army train twice a week, he had never tried marching at night. A small≧say ≤﹤≤≤＜≤﹤﹤﹤≤

It is dangerous to dispatch troops at night. They cannot see the road clearly, are easily attacked by wild animals and poisonous snakes, and easily lose their way. Holding up torches is simply a natural target. Therefore, he had no choice but to wait until dawn the next day before leaving the team to follow the Duke's coalition army.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of this operation, the prince decided to follow the first army to conquer. Of course, he chose to take the small town to accompany him instead of riding a bumpy and ass-grinding horse.

After half a month of training, Hummingbird has been able to control the lightening time of the twelve-pound cannon within a fixed range. Considering the long enchanting process, Roland arranged for her to transform the cannon at dawn, making the first cannon last The longest, and the remaining doors are reduced in order to ensure that the failure time of the four lightweight doors is as equal as possible.

Thanks to the capabilities of the Hummingbird, the Township can now carry four guns and gun crews at a time. The huge concrete boat was full of people - in addition to the artillery team and Roland, there were also Anna, Nightingale, Nana, Leaf, Echo, Hummingbird and Tigu Pine on the Small Town, Wendy was responsible for providing the power, At the helm is Brian.

It can be said that apart from Scroll, Soraya, Lily and Mystery Moon who are not good at fighting, almost all the witches in Border Town came out. Originally, Anna didn't need to go to the battlefield, but her firm eyes made Roland unable to calm down in the end.

The 6th troop was the Musketeer Army of the First Army, led by the chief knights Carter and Iron Axe, and Lightning undertook the entire positioning and tracking task. A group of people followed the enemy quietly, the distance was just outside the patrol range of the reconnaissance cavalry. Once Lightning has scouting activities, the army will stop advancing. Along the way, they also captured many scattered mercenaries and free people, but at the moment they couldn't deal with these surrendered enemies, so they had to disarm them, put them under the watchful eye of the team members who were not assigned muskets, and take them on the road together.

This was also the first time that Roland led the "big army" to conquer the enemy. Standing on the bow of the Small Town, feeling the morning wind blowing in front of him, he felt a little smug in his heart.

"What are you laughing at?" Anna suddenly appeared next to him, looking up and asking.

"Uh..." Roland put away his smile instantly, "It's nothing."

"Really?" She handed over a handkerchief, "Wipe the drool."

"..." Roland suddenly felt an urge to jump into the water, "Thank you."

When Lightning reported that the other party had set up camp, it was already sunset. Compared with the uninterrupted reconnaissance at that time, it was obvious that after a major defeat, the morale of the coalition forces had dropped to freezing point. As soon as dusk came, the reconnaissance knights couldn't wait to rush back to the camp, for fear of missing the night's horse meat.

Roland's troops were stationed on the shore two kilometers away from the Duke's army.

Without being discovered along the way, the annihilation plan is already half successful.

Next, just wait until the dawn and complete the siege before the enemy comes out.

This was also the first time Roland spent the night in the wild, and he preferred to sleep on a boat compared to a camp where all kinds of reptiles were rampant. The wooden shed where the gun carriages were parked was emptied out, the gun crew unloaded their twelve-pound guns and moved into the camp, and the Township became the prince's temporary residence. Besides Roland, other witches also stayed on board overnight. Everyone spread quilts all over the shed and lay down shoulder to shoulder with their clothes.

Roland wanted to be reserved, but found that the witches didn't care much more than he did. Except for Anna, they were all people who had suffered a lot. In the days of wandering, sleeping in the wild was commonplace. After a while, everyone fell asleep one after another, only Roland and Anna couldn't fall asleep. The former was used to the soft bed, and found it difficult to adapt to the hard deck bed for a while, while the latter didn't know what he was thinking, and kept looking sideways at Roland. When the prince turned his head, Anna always quickly closed her eyes, pretending to be asleep, but under the moonlight, she could still see her eyelashes trembling slightly. If it wasn't for the fear of disturbing other people, Roland really wanted to pinch the tip of the other's small nose and force her to open her eyes before hugging her.

In this way, the two of them almost stayed up all night.

Before dawn, Roland launched his plan to divide and encircle: 270 infantry armed with muskets were to be divided into two groups, one of which was equipped with two cannons and sent to the rear of the Duke's army by the Small Town , complete arming at a distance of one kilometer. Lightning is in charge of monitoring the Duke's movements. When the artillery is set up around the back, the little girl will give an instruction signal. At this moment, the remaining troops led by Carter will start a frontal attack.

The unified transportation of the cement boats avoided the possibility of the marching dispersal. Nightingale's black-and-white vision after entering the fog can be used as a night vision device, and her role as the navigator can make the town have the ability to sail during the day.

This set of procedures has been practiced repeatedly, and everyone knows what to do with their eyes closed. Wendy expanded the output of wind power, and the Township almost rode the wind and waves, and transported the troops to the rear in batches. About an hour later, the interception team led by Iron Ax was in place, and lightning flew over Carter's camp, showing an orange flag .

It was just dawn at this time.

The encirclement and annihilation plan officially began.

Since Echo was assigned to fight in the rear, the musketeers in charge of the frontal attack did not need to move to fight. They only needed to line up in a battle line and protect the two artillery pieces. The twelve-pound guns were quickly pushed into position and fired at the enemy camp—at this time most of the Duke's army was still asleep.

With the sound of rumbling artillery fire, solid shells roared and flew towards the camp. The knights and mercenaries who had just awakened from a dream rushed out of the tent, only to find that the First Army had already lined up and waited quietly in place. With the experience of the disastrous defeat the day before, no one dared to challenge this seemingly thin line of defense, so they could only swarm and flee to the east.

Iron Ax has been waiting behind him for a long time.

When the enemy appeared in sight, it was finally time to draw up the noose in this encirclement and annihilation plan.

With the marching music played by the echo, one hundred and fifty members of the First Army stepped on drums, lined up in two neat rows, and marched towards the enemy—in order to put pressure on the Duke's army, the iron ax in charge of the interception had to take the initiative to attack. If you stick to your spot, the recovered enemy is likely to give up their mounts and take a detour to escape from the woods.

The Duke of Ryan has fallen into despair, he can't figure out how the other party appeared behind them.

Admit defeat and surrender? He didn't know how Roland Wimbledon would treat a duke who dared to show his blade to the royal family. It might be imprisoned, exiled, or even sent to the guillotine. No matter what it is, Longsong Fortress will definitely have nothing to do with him in the future.

Seeing the troops approaching step by step, and the terrifying weapons that roared and blazed from behind the opponent from time to time, he knew that if he didn't charge at this moment, there would be no possibility of rushing over. There are only thirty people left by his side, this is his last chance.

"They can't stop us at all," the Duke roared. "As long as they cross this horizontal line, they can't catch up with just two legs. We are only half a day away from Longsong Stronghold! Knights, charge with me !"

Then the Duke began to urge the mounts to step up. Unfortunately, not everyone had the spirit of fighting to the death. There were only ten people including the guards who followed him to charge, but he couldn't care about so much now.

The music stopped abruptly.

The other party stopped in unison and stood in front of him like a wall.

Then he saw the men raise the short sticks in their hands.

When Duke Lane was only a hundred steps away from the human wall, there was a series of ping-pong-pong sounds, and he felt a shock in his chest and abdomen, as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer. Numbness and powerlessness followed, and he fell backwards, falling from his horse to the ground.

The Duke opened his mouth to say something, but there was no sound. He coughed twice, only smelling a strong sweet smell, and the viscous liquid blocked his throat. Soon, darkness enveloped him. (To be continued.)