Rise In Calradia

Rhodok's scouts and scouts would arrive not far from their camp to conduct investigations every day. Of course, these scouts could not escape the eyes of Polza and his scout cavalry. Polza took the initiative to ask Ying to destroy these Rhodok scouts, but Byron did not agree, and only asked Polza to drive them away, but tried not to wipe them out. That is to let these Rhodok scouts return the speed and direction of their troops' advancement every day, but try to make them unable to figure out the reality of their troops.

Byron must give Kulmar’s fortress, Earl Leyland, an impression that he has enough troops to occupy the castle, but can be defeated by their coalition forces. Byron is constantly putting pressure on them, forcing them to change their previous plan and turn the direction of the army toward them. This kind of psychology-linked tactic is actually very effective. Earl Leyland is getting older. He doesn't want to be sent to his son or other people's territory in his old age like Earl Matt Ass. What's more, the loss of territory and property will also make the count personally lose his position within the family and lose face. So as long as the pressure is enough, Earl Leyland dare not take risks.

The scouts sent by Byron brought back news in favor of Byron. As he expected, Earl Leyland’s troops stopped advancing, and the mercenary troops of Earl Matt Ass began to move closer to them. There was even a cavalry unit that was very rare to Rodok quickly rushed to Fort Kurmar, apparently as reinforcements sent to avoid the fall of the castle.

Of course Byron would not let the Earl do as he wished. He immediately sent Rolf and his light cavalry unit to intercept the supporting army unit, and the army's speed towards Fort Kurmar also accelerated a lot. Earl Leyland will soon receive news that the cavalry reinforcements he sent had already suffered heavy casualties when they arrived at the castle, and von Byron’s troops were only one day away from his territory.

In desperation, Earl Leyland had to send an envoy to make an appointment with Byron in an attempt to control the battlefield in a position favorable to him. For Byron, the chosen battlefield also saved them the time to take the initiative to find the Rodok army and force them to fight with themselves.

In order to avoid leaking military information, Byron met with the messenger far away from the troops, and agreed to fight in a marsh on the edge of the Earl of Leyland. Rhodok is also a rare large swamp in the country, and it is also an important bitumen producing area.

For Earl Leyland, Swadia’s heavy cavalry has always been the most feared by the Rhodoks. Even if the Rhodoks have trained the best anti-cavalry phalanx in the mainland, they will be Break through the formation. Therefore, for Earl Leyland, choosing a swamp that is not conducive to the cavalry charge is very beneficial to him.

But in Byron's view, the marsh terrain is not entirely a disadvantage. In this low-lying swamp, although the horses are not easy to plan, it is not easy for the soldiers to stand in groups. In addition to transporting Zizhong, he carried a large number of horses. Another important function was to act as a cover, making the opponent think that his main force was still heavy cavalry. But in fact, Byron’s reliance in this battle was actually a large number of infantry and archers brought back from the north.

The Rhodok spear phalanx has strict requirements on the formation and the level of training of the soldiers, but in the muddy swamp, the inflexible spear phalanx will become more passive. Nord's troops have adapted to a similar environment in the north, and their performance will naturally be much better.

It is precisely because both sides hold the idea that they are dominant, so the two sides quickly decided on the battlefield and began to prepare for war in this area. After sending out several scout cavalry, Earl Leyland became more and more convinced that Byron wanted to use heavy cavalry to carry out roundabout operations to break down their array, so before the battle they prepared a large number of refusal horses and crossbow arrows, and also placed Count Matt Asth under his men. The cavalry unit of the mercenaries of the United States formed a separate team as a mobile force. Byron, on the other hand, directed against Rodok’s phalanx and ordered Yatiman and his engineers to quickly use the woodland outside the swamp to build four small catapults, and sent cavalry to **** the packhorse from dozens of miles away. Shipped a batch of stones back. Before the battle, a lot of drills were done on Rodok’s phalanx, so that the Nord soldiers could be more familiar with this phalanx, and the archers were prepared to shoot against Rodok’s crossbowmen. .

Both sides made a lot of preparations in the days before the war, after which the troops of both sides arrived in the swamp to prepare for the war. On Rhodok’s side, Earl Leyland and Earl Matthias have joined forces. The number of people who can participate in the war is close to two thousand, which is one-third more than that of Byron, but because before the Earl of Leyland sent troops. The elites who went out were picked up by Byron when they attacked Serendil~www.wuxiaspot.com~ So there are about 500 people in this army are Rodok spearmen and crossbowmen called by the earl before departure. According to Byron's words, it is a militia unit with a certain degree of training. The level 2 soldiers among the cavalry and tree-cutting troops are cost-effective but the strength is really average. On Byron's side, the quality of the troops is obviously higher. Byron’s troops have soldiers from all over the country, and their composition is very complex, but their combat effectiveness is very good. The infantry is generally equipped with chain armor, and the cavalry is a mix of mercenary cavalry and Swadia heavy cavalry.

The two forces deployed their formations and arranged their own equipment. The Rhodoks set up to reject the horse, Byron asked the engineer to set up the catapult, and distributed the black powder tauren to the main attacking soldiers. As they had predicted before, the Rodok troops put up their most classic phalanx of spears. The lancers in the outer circle set up long contradictory cards to resist the charge, and a dozen carriages were placed inside the phalanx. The crossbowmen stand on the carriage and shoot, and once the enemy forces break through the outer spear phalanx, they will be blocked by the carriage.

Byron also made some adjustments to his troop formation, because the composition of his soldiers was too complicated, so he was divided into more than a dozen war regiments according to arms and ethnic groups, and each regiment issued a banner. After that, he merged these battle groups into six parts according to the cooperation of arms, and was responsible for different responsibilities in the battle. After the battle, the troops follow the battle flag and listen to the sound of the horn to advance and retreat, while the flag bearer and the regimental leader must always pay attention to the semaphore behind the troops in order to change the order to the troops. These optimizations are very important for a mixed unit, which can greatly make up for their lack of cooperation.

The sun rose to the highest point in the sky, and the agreed time had come. The troops on both sides lined up under the leadership of their respective commanders, preparing to fight against their enemies.