Black Iron Crown

The sharp sound of arrows piercing the air resounded throughout the battlefield. Every lord had at least five archers serving in their army. After all, forests can be seen everywhere in the northern border, and the number of hunters is definitely not small.

And the lords will definitely not waste the effective combat power on these battlefields, so it is absolutely normal for there to be many archers in the army.

Of course, each lord's army did not form a massive volley, and the arrows shot were sparse, which probably caused some morale damage and minor casualties to the enemy.

The lords on Earl Zhebo's side led the army towards the hill guarded by the enemy. With the lessons learned from the past, the knights did not dismount, but climbed up the hill with difficulty on their own horses.

Fortunately for them, these small hills are all small heights no more than twenty meters high, and the slopes are not very steep, so they can still climb on horses, otherwise the horses would not be able to climb up at all.

The blow of the arrow didn't have a good effect. After all, what these archers used was just hunting bows, and the arrows were just ordinary arrows.

It is obviously not an easy task to penetrate most of the armored soldiers of the northern lords.

Almost all the soldiers under their command can wear 40% to 50% armor. This is because a large amount of steel is sold every year. Otherwise, it is not impossible for all soldiers to wear iron armor.

Earl Zhebo did not stay still, he brought his own army and the army of the vassals, and some lords who had defected to him also followed him.

They walked towards the direction where Leiner was, and there was only Leiner's army here. The other lords' armies were all separated to deal with other enemies. This is what Earl Zhebo wanted. Siege Rainer.

He felt that as long as Reiner's army was defeated, the war would be won.

Standing on the small platform, Leiner looked at the enemies who were approaching him, and saw that there were about two thousand of them, in a scattered formation, advancing chaotically. The formation that they barely maintained when they were standing still was completely Messed up.

Seeing the other party's chaos, the tension in Leiner's heart eased slightly, but he was still full of worry. After all, there were more than two thousand people, not two thousand pigs, even if two thousand pigs rushed over together, that would be extremely scary.

Licking his lips, Leiner gave an order: "The sergeants line up in a phalanx and prepare to fight!"

"Armed soldiers guard against sneak attacks on both sides of the sergeant!!

"Militiamen and armed soldiers strengthen the flank forces together!"

"Winter crossbowmen and archers are in the rear ready to shoot!"

"The knights are ready to charge on the left side of the formation!"

Orders came out of Leiner's mouth one by one, and the commanders of each team ran back to their own teams to follow Leiner's orders in an orderly manner to dispatch troops.

"What about me? Brother?" Little Wende jumped up beside Reiner and asked Reiner on the small platform.

Although he was a little afraid of the terrifying number of enemies at the beginning, he was quickly overwhelmed by the blood in his heart, and he really hoped to be able to charge and kill on the battlefield with the army.

"Shut your mouth!" Reiner yelled at Little Wend impatiently, frightening him into silence.

Reiner felt his heart beating extremely fast, and the thumping sound seemed to rush into his mind, and even the blood poured into his mind wave after wave.

Little Wende was aggrieved and quieted down beside him. He thought he really had a chance to go to the battlefield, but now...

He lowered his head with a sad face, and then secretly glanced at Reiner, and found that his brother's eyes were not on him at all.

There was a different expression on his face.

He tiptoed away from the small high platform, and he secretly rode on his war horse and sneaked into the last position of the knights without anyone noticing.

Reiner had no idea what little Wende had done, he was staring at the enemy in front of him intently.

Earl Zhebo walked in the middle of the team, and the knights of his vassals gathered together to accompany him. It seemed that there were about eighty people, each of them was fully armed, and their lances were pointed at the sky slowly. advance.

Obviously, Earl Zhebo did not intend to put the knights into the battle immediately, perhaps he hoped to use the knights as a killer.

The warm wind gently blew across the ground, blowing the pennants on the knights' lances slightly. The distance between the armies of the two sides had been reduced to more than 300 meters. Command, they will immediately fire crossbow bolts.

Seeing the enemy army getting closer and gradually changing from the size of a bean to the size of a human head, Leiner issued his first order.

"Senior cavalry archer! Send out 20 people to launch the first wave of harassment against the enemy!" Leiner said: "Remember your fighting style! Disturb the enemy! Slow down their pace, and you will inevitably suffer casualties!"

A senior cavalry archer wearing better armor nodded. He is the sergeant of the thirty senior cavalry archers. Under his leadership, the soldiers will complete Leiner's order.

Reiner took a deep breath, his own war...has officially begun...

The cavalry and archers moved very quickly, and they left the formation without hindrance, and the good grassland horse under the crotch, which was slightly shorter than ordinary war horses, let out its hooves and galloped wildly.

A puff of smoke and dust rolled up on the dry land, and the cavalry and archers galloped towards the enemy in front of them like a sharp arrow off the string.

"Ha! This Earl Rainer is not stupid!"

A vassal next to Earl Zhebo was overjoyed. In his opinion, it was crazy to send twenty "squires" dressed in strange clothes to attack the thousands of people on his side.

Maybe... there is really something wrong with this Baron Reiner's mind...

But in the next second, his smile stopped.

I saw that the experienced cavalry and archers, whose horse speed had been raised to the extreme like a torrent about to knock over a boulder, stagnated for a moment, turned a corner extremely nimbly, and even went back.

At this time, the senior cavalry archer in the front was only a dozen meters away from their soldiers, and it only took a second or two to rush into the camp. The soldiers who had already stopped and tensed their muscles were stunned.

But in the next second, the cavalry archers took off their excellent short cavalry bows from the saddle with extremely quick movements, took out an arrow from the quiver and put it on the bowstring, and there were twenty arrows in an instant. Arrows flew towards the crowd.

The arrow disappeared into the crowd, only to hear a burst of screams, several soldiers screamed suddenly, and several even lay on the ground rolling non-stop.

A round of shooting caused more than a dozen people to be injured and three or four people to die, which is not bad.