The Lord Legend Of The Raicarnated Lord
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Chapter 71: Success

The city of Geldos was located not far from Burdock Bastide and the spear cavalry unit would be able to travel from one place to another in one day and one night. However, when it came to the garrison infantry troops, they needed at least three days and two nights of travel. The presence of unorganized peasant militias from other vassal noble families only helped slow the whole process down even further. Right now, the Count regretted his decision of taking them and ordered the two cavalry companies to go to the bastide faster.

Just as the army set up camp after one day of travel, Count Cobry received the news that his two illegitimate sons had perished again, one of which was Gold rank and the other was Silver rank. The soldier who made the report stuttered in fear when facing the count as he had drawn the losing draw to be the one to make the report.

Just that afternoon, the two companies of pike cavalry noticed the enemy fortress at Motz Hill which happened to be on the road to Burdock Bastide. The leader of the spear cavalry who was transferred from Williamiles Castle was also the Gold-ranked son of the count. As he observed the enemy fortress, he noticed that while they had the advantage of being on higher terrain, being ordinary bandits, their fortress was filled with holes. It was rough and far from perfect.

As a result, the Gold-ranked commander believed that he only needed a spear cavalry company to break through the fortress to slaughter the bandits inside. And he did just that to notice that the defensive fort in front was just a facade and the actual defensive line was deeper. Not only that, the bandits had also set up traps and ambushed the company of pike cavalry from all sides with concentrated shots of arrows, crossbow bolts and large ballad arrows.

The envoy then handed over a count of long arrow arrows like a javelin taken from the corpse of the bastard commander's son. Although he was at the Gold rank, there was no way he would be able to fend off all 12 ballad arrows aimed directly at him, which resulted in his death as well as another silver-ranked half-brother of him who also stood nearby.

The pike cavalry company that rushed straight to the fortress had suffered heavy losses and only the army of two squads returned, among which more than ten were even injured. Fortunately, the bandits simply stayed silent and defended their fortress without making any pursuit, either, causing the other illegitimate ranked golden child to regroup the soldiers and set up camp outside the fortress without taking any hasty action and waiting for reinforcements.

"This is the ballista arrow ..." Given Count Cobry's vast experience on the battlefield, he quickly recognized what a spear-like object was. However, what frustrated him was how the bandits managed to obtain a weapon of such caliber.

While ballistas are really strong, they are also heavy and immobile and require a lot of gold to maintain. For example, even if the ballista is not in use, every two years, the arm must be replaced so that the durability of the wood will not degrade its performance. When it came to the rope, it had to be replaced after firing ten arrows, and was also quite expensive to make an order. Regardless of the royal army or the proper garrison defending the major cities, no armed forces, especially the land nobles, would choose to use a balista because its maintenance was too high and difficult to defend.

As if one unsettling incident happened one after another, several other reports caused the baron to lose sleep throughout the night. Before the sky began to shine from the first rays of the sun, count left the peasant militia behind and mobilized his garrison regiment to rush forward to meet the spear cavalry in the camp they had created and managed to arrive there by noon .

After resting for two hours, the count ordered the sword and shield warriors of the garrison regiment as well as those who worked hard to cooperate with the spear cavalry company to test the strength of the bandit stronghold. He later discovered that although breaking the first line of defense of the fort was relatively easy, it was not, they ended up on a wide flat field that allowed them to easily become targets of bandits using projectile weapons from the far side, raining volleyball after volley of projectiles towards their troops. Count Cobry's troops hurriedly retreated, leaving a hundred more corpses as they left the fort.

However, this time, the count did not notice any signs of balistas being used. It seemed that the conclusion that the bandits were unable to maintain the ballistas was correct and that the ballista used yesterday must have been out of commission. It was music in Count's ear. Although he had lost hundreds of people during the trial battle that afternoon, it had made him understand how the fortress was defended. So they only had terrain and projectile weapons to their advantage. When the peasant militia from the subordinate noble families arrived in the afternoon, I was able to use it as enemy bait to take out projectiles for my troops and easily destroy the fortress.

On that night, the peasants helped him build near a hundred carts with simple wooden shields. On the next day, the count made them push the wooden cart to block the arrow while his unit quickly walked to the back of the fortress. Seeing the situation turn against them, the bandits quickly shot another volley towards the cavalry troops before fleeing the place quickly.

This time, the operation to capture the fort went well with minimal casualties. However, the count saw that about 100 meters along the road, there was another fortress waiting for them.

Motz Hills is the collective name for a group of more than ten small hills around the area. No one knew why it was named that way, so people just called it according to the map that was handed down since ancient times. The footpath connecting Geldos City and Burdock Bastide passed through the middle of these unspoiled hills was cleverly utilized by the bandits to build many simple fortresses that managed to effectively block the course of the troops troop.

To his surprise, he discovered that there were more than ten forts that easily blocked his path in Burdock Bastide, causing his face to turn furious. Can't directly stop the front row count, though, the bandits had cleverly built various forts that allowed them to shoot the counties from afar and retreat to the next when their defenses would soon be penetrated. Not only would it lose a considerable amount of its troops along the way, it would also consume a lot of time.

Although he desperately wanted to flatten the fortress with his troops, the speed of the protective wood carts travel was so slow that it took several hours to move even a few hundred meters. Since the peasants had not slept at all the day before, the previous attack completely drained their energy. On the other hand, the count was unwilling to let his own soldiers defend the casualties to attack the fortress and was forced to rest that night.

On the second day, seduced by the promises of wealth, the peasants once again toiled and allowed the count to conquer three fortresses in one day. Although about 200 farmers were killed in the attack, the tally paid little attention to them and only tried to minimize the loss of lives of its own troops.

But on the third day, the peasants began to run around and refused to obey their orders because the calculated promise that each of them would be given one imperial silver for each conquered fortress was left unfulfilled. Count had no choice but to promise to give them money when he returned to his palace because he did not have many coins in hand. However, the peasants only felt that they were deceived and only managed to conquer one fortress on that day because of their low morale. Although the losses on that day were much lower compared to the previous day, the tally was still disappointing as there were still seven to eight fortresses left to be conquered. If they advanced at this rate, it would take at least five to six days before they left Motz Hill.

Thus, the, the count wrote the order and sent the spear cavalry troops back to Geldos City to request more supplies to be sent as he only carried supplies for seven to eight days considering he did not expect such a presence there are many fortresses along the way. Another reason why he did not bring much supplies at first was because he was afraid that he would end up with a laughingstock by preparing it carefully just to deal with a bunch of noisy bandits.

The second order was a request for the coins to be brought in so that the farmers were once again convinced and motivated to become voluntary dart food. Naturally, Count Cobry planned to 'pay back' the peasants by the time he got out of Motz Hill and showed them that his money would not be so easy to take.

In third place, he planned to have a Gold-ranked illegitimate child stationed in Geldos City recruit more soldiers within the region as he had a premonition that a major conflict would break out, he said, it was as if the current situation was just calm before the storm . That was partly due to the fact that the bandits who mainly relied on hit-and-run guerrilla tactics had learned how to fight his army head-on. What happened for them to be able to change their tactics in such a short amount of time?

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It turned out that the cavalry troops that were sent back by calculation with the letter had been surrounded by Lorist forces. The first few vanguards of the company that rushed out were their horses caught by a rope trap that caused them to fall like there was no tomorrow. They were further greeted by the attack of the Terman knight army along with around the three javelins that Lorist had thrown. Some of the cavalry troops who were lucky enough to escape the siege of several hundred people were eventually shot to death by Josk, who surrounded the area from higher ground. About twenty riders only managed to survive after getting off the horse and giving up.

Looking at the letter written by the tally with satisfaction, Lorist laughed and said, “With this letter, Geldos City is already ours. ”

Tim, dressed in armor, congratulated Lorist and said, "Baron Norton, you are really very careful with your plans. You even suspected that the count would send letters for additional supplies and plan us to ambush his troops here. I thought that we would attack Geldos City as soon as it evaded its troops. ”

"Hehe, it's not hard to find out. Given that he didn't bring much supplies when he first departed and the fact that we managed to delay his troops at Motz Hill for a few days, he must have run out of supplies at some point. It was logical for him to send someone out to ask for more. With this letter, we can leisurely walk into the city and let them open the gates without any problems.

"Alright, you guys, change to the count's outfit. We're going to Geldos City. Els, I'll leave the prisoner in your watch. Kill anyone who tries to escape, ”command Lorist.

This time, Lorist formed an ambush unit with only Josk, Els and the two camp guard squads, the Terman knight squad, standing by, Yuriy and his two light cavalry squads as well as Tim and his 800 men were each carrying large sacks.

When Prince Cobry was still being held in the first fort, Lorist spent two days carefully avoiding the prince's forces and hiding himself in the area to prepare for an ambush.

At night, an army of spear cavalry and a company of garrison troops arrived at the gates of Geldos City. The garrison troops in charge of guarding the city had any suspicions over their presence and lowered the dragging bridge and opened the gates to the city without hesitation after receiving the counting letter. 'The 'leader of the troops' of the spear cavalry who had just arrived then asked the Geldos City guards where the prince's son was. As soon as the guard answered, the garrison troops walking in from behind rushed in and tied the rest of the guards and even stuffed their mouths with bloody cloths which caused the guards to feel an irresistible urge to vomit.

Lorist instructed, "Yuriy, Els, quickly go and control the other three city gates and leave an army of people behind to guard each gate. Terman, take the knight army with me to the noble nobles in the middle of the city. Josk, you should come too. Team Master, make sure you hold off your troops and make sure they don't start robbing before we manage to take over the city, understand? Don't let their impatience ruin the whole plan. ”

"My lord, rest assured that I will not let you down" Tim replied.

Perhaps due to the absence of the usually strict count, the illegitimate son of the Golden rank irresponsibly did not carry out his duties and instead was busy throwing a naked feast in the hall of the ducal nobility. After hearing the report of a noble guard about the count letter, the drunken boy stood up completely naked and ordered that the letter be sent to him when he downed his wine.

Lorist and Josk then entered the hall when the person guarding the door of his neck was clamped down by Terman.

The two of them felt a chill down their spine as they watched the naked naked men and women in the hall engage in indecent acts and debauchery with reckless abandon without a care in the world.

The round naked man in front of them raised his wine cup and laughed in a drunken manner before he muttered, "Just look around .. Give me. Give me my father's letter .. You must strip too … and ... Have fun with us ... It's OK ... You can ... have all the women ... that you want .. Or the men, if ... if that's what you want … "

Lorist and Josk glanced at each other before the two of them wordlessly drew their swords ……