In the battle when the wooden bridge was halfway crossed, Jafar and Red led more than a hundred cavalry, one man and two horses, and rushed from five miles away to kill the Lombard baggage guard and a small amount of baggage that were blocked on the south bank by the broken bridge.

Jafar and the two killed all the Lombard soldiers, even those who were seriously injured with only half a breath left.

After killing the enemy soldiers, the two men left eight lightly wounded cavalrymen to take care of the four seriously wounded cavalrymen and clean up the battlefield.

They led the remaining 70 to 80 horsemen and ran downstream. Four miles downstream there was a ford where they could wade across the river. The horses they had just replaced were nearby and were guarded by several cavalrymen. After meeting, they crossed the river and headed north.

, participate in the next battle.

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Today's Wells Legion cavalry team has two hundred cavalry, but only a hundred people appeared on the Fuqiao battlefield just now, and the remaining more than a hundred people are being led by the deputy commander of the cavalry company Reyek Harold.

An ambush position was prepared on the northern section of the baggage lane that passed through low hills.

Reyek Harold, also known as the Golden Barrel, was a wandering knight who was rescued by Art when he went south to Provence with his army to fight against the Lombards.

Over the years, he has followed the Wells Army in many battles, but apart from his personal bravery, he has no outstanding commanding skills. Therefore, although he has been a wandering knight for a long time, he has become an ordinary knight after all these years, but in the Wells Valley

With a mansion and thirty acres of land, not even the top military officials were counted.

But after all, this man is still brave, and he is very brave in riding on horseback, so he has always served as the deputy commander of the cavalry. However, Reyek has a straightforward character and does not have many thoughts about commanding operations. As long as he can drink and fight, he has no interest in fame and fortune.

Pursue.

This time the ambush in the north was planned and implemented mainly by the weapons workshop and Lord Angus's adjutant. Reyek's order was to cover and assist those people in completing the ambush mission, and to follow the adjutant's arrangements and attack at the appropriate time.

Fight on foot.

Less than six miles from the wooden bridge, a stretch of hills lower than the gentle slope lies on the baggage lane leading to Santia City. This gentle hill is neither high nor large, and the hills that span it are

The road is less than a mile long.

Just this morning, one hundred cavalrymen led by Reyek, under the guidance of people from five weapon workshops, dug holes and piled up earth and rocks on the half-mile road through the hill from the entrance to the middle of the hill.

Trying to turn this place into a cul-de-sac to block the passage of the enemy's baggage trains. This kind of digging pits and setting up ambushes was familiar to the Wells Army, and it just took some time and energy.

However, these visible potholes and earth and rock obstacles are just disguises on this section of the road, and even the dismounted infantry cavalry under Reyek are just disguises.

The real fatal part of this section of road is the short distance of two hundred steps out of the gentle hill area. After this distance, the rest is a flat plain.

After a busy morning, more than a hundred dismounted cavalry have used hoes and shovels to dig out the roads in the gentle hills. There are "small graves" half a man high made of earth and rocks everywhere, and even the gentle slopes extending on both sides of the driveway.

There are similar potholes and mounds on the ground.

This kind of road can be passed by a single person and a horse, but carriages carrying a large amount of grain and baggage cannot pass easily.

A fast horse galloped from the south road, raising dust all over the sky.

Arriving at the entrance of the gentle hill, the man on horseback jumped off his horse and carefully led the horse around the potholes and mounds. After walking for a long time, he finished the bumpy road and handed the horse over to a soldier on guard.

Climbing up the gentle hill to the top of the slope.

Reyek and Angus's adjutants were waiting on the top of a gentle hill. The man looked around and saw that on the top of the gentle hill on both sides of the road there were people holding spears, swords, axes, hammers and flails, lowering their bodies to rest.

Soldier resting.

The man saluted Reyek and the two men and said, "Two sirs, the ambush in the south was successful. Most of the enemy's infantry was cut off on the south bank of the river and all were wiped out. The rest were mainly sixty or seventy cavalry and baggage.

The convoy is marching in a hurry, it’s less than half an hour away from here.”

Reyek looked to the south and found no whereabouts of the enemy troops. He said to the adjutant beside him, "Brother, act as planned?"

The adjutant nodded.

Reyek shouted loudly to the dismounted infantry beside him and on the gentle hill opposite, "The enemy will arrive in half an hour. Remember the battle plan communicated in advance."

"We are not infantry. Don't rush down stupidly for a while and retreat while fighting. We are not the main force today. Don't steal the limelight from others."

Reyek shouted at the top of his lungs, "Did you hear everything?"

Sparse responses came from the side and opposite side.

Reyek was also unwilling, "What kind of fight is this? It's like playing with a child."

"Lord Reyek, I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the rear to make preparations." Angus's adjutant ignored Reyek's nonsense and led a soldier towards the back of the hill.

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To the south of Xuqiu, the Lombard baggage train with its tail cut off was marching rapidly.

There were enemy cavalry chasing behind, so it was impossible for the red-haired Baron to conduct careful reconnaissance and march cautiously as he did in the first half of the journey.

He completely abandoned the tail at the southern end of the broken bridge and hurriedly fled north with two-thirds of his baggage. He only hoped to go quickly, even though he would join the Lombard army who came to meet him.

Although he did not dare to be overly cautious and slow down the march, the red-haired baron still sent out four sentries on the left and right to search within half a mile of the army and 200 steps to the left and right. There were also sentries behind him to keep an eye on the army.

The movement of the cavalry team across the river.

By compressing the range of sentinel detection, the speed will naturally be much faster.

In less than an hour and a half, the baggage team arrived at a gentle hilly area.

There is an ambush ahead.

This is the red-haired baron's most intuitive feeling. This is not his first time on the battlefield. In addition to the ambush on the wooden bridge just now, he firmly believes that his opponent will definitely set a trap ahead, and this is something he is mentally prepared for.

That gentle hilly area is not very large, can it be bypassed? Yes, it can indeed be bypassed. In the middle of the flat Po River plain, there is no terrain that can completely block the progress.

It is not difficult for infantry and cavalry to bypass the gentle hilly area.

But for a carriage loaded with a large amount of weapons and baggage, it is not practical to march off the road. A leg-high ridge can stop the carriage, and there are many such ridges.

If the surroundings are safe, you can slowly explore a road without obstacles. However, at this time, there is an enemy army of more than a hundred cavalry chasing behind you, so you may leave time to slowly explore the road.

"The team will rest on the spot for a while."

The red-haired baron ordered the large baggage team to rest on the spot, then recruited two cavalry teams, and asked one of them to proceed cautiously along the road to scout the gentle hilly area; the other team of cavalry rode quickly and circled around.

Pass through the gentle hill area and take a look at the situation around and to the north of the gentle hill.

After about a quarter of an hour, both cavalrymen returned to the main group on the road and reported to the red-haired Baron what the sentry had discovered.

Based on the situation of sentry scouts, there are indeed many traps and pits set up in the gentle hill, and even the enemy ambushing on the top of the gentle hill can be vaguely seen.

At this moment, the sentries who stayed near the river bank quickly reported back. The Burgundian cavalry that defeated the infantry on the south bank had crossed the ford downstream of the river and was slowly chasing the group.

The red-haired baron was in pain. He could simply give up all the baggage and take a detour with his soldiers to leave. There was no danger to his life, but he had lost a small part of the baggage. If the remaining baggage could not successfully reach the legion camp under Santia City

, he will definitely not escape military law.

After weighing the pros and cons, the red-haired baron decided to fight to the death. The Burgundian cavalry behind him had just finished a long-distance attack. At this time, he should not pursue too fast in order to restore his power. He still had some time to organize his soldiers to break through.

Ambush in the gentle hills.

"All cavalry and infantry come forward and line up."

"In the baggage train, half of the young men were selected and distributed weapons and armor from the baggage train to serve as infantry."

"Let me tell you, as long as you cross this gentle hill, it will be safe behind you."

"If anyone dares to escape, the cavalry will immediately chase and kill him."

The red-haired baron thought for a moment and shouted loudly, "As long as you get out of this gentle hill, I will reward each person with two silver coins, and you will have enough food and wine tonight."

Several temporarily selected personal guards around the red-haired baron turned around to deliver orders to the army and organized the soldiers to prepare for the station.

The ordinary infantry and most of the laborers in the baggage team did not actually want to continue fighting. They preferred to abandon the baggage and escape around the gentle hill. However, the cavalry all obeyed the orders of the red-haired baron. In front of the cavalry, they could not escape with their legs alone.

Lost.

Although there were ten thousand reluctances in their hearts, the infantrymen and the young and strong laborers drawn from the baggage train had no choice but to come to the front of the brigade and began to formulate the attack formation with a sad face.

The Lombards began to march towards the gentle hilly area, and the temporarily organized baggage laborers were pushed to the front. It was obvious that they wanted to use these bastards as pathfinders. How could the temporary infantry composed of more than a hundred baggage soldiers be willing to move forward?

, moving slowly.

The red-haired baron personally led the soldiers and supervised the formation from behind with a long sword. He personally rushed up and killed the two baggage workers who were stripped at the back, and then asked the cavalry to use spears to force them to speed up the pace.

More than a hundred temporary infantrymen walked into the entrance of Xuqiu with a desperate mood, crying, followed by more than twenty infantrymen and cavalrymen on horseback who were nervously alert to the surroundings.

The arrows in the sky and the sting traps behind the potholes that the Lombards expected did not appear. The potholes and mounds all over the driveway and the gentle slopes on both sides did hinder their path forward, forcing them to twist and turn.

The ground moved forward slowly, and the speed dropped a lot.

It was not until the infantry and cavalry entered the gentle hills that enemy ambush began to appear on the low hillsides on both sides. However, the intensity of the ambush attack was completely beyond their imagination.

Except for thirty or forty cavalry bows that continuously fired arrows at the carriage path, no enemy soldiers took the initiative to attack.

"...What? The enemy didn't attack us?"

"What are these bastards going to do?" The red-haired baron was even more collapsed at this time. He couldn't even guess the enemy's intentions.
Chapter completed!