Black Iron Crown

Chapter 488: Backstab

"All the knights gather around me to prepare for battle!" Rainer yelled, and then all the knights began to put on armors, gathered their equipment and gathered beside Rainer.

The Scarlet Gryphon Knights still had twenty-five people left. Five of them were killed on the previous battlefield. Although the knights suffered some losses, they were not heavy.

More than four hundred knights gathered next to Rainer, with their lances in their hands pointing straight to the sky, ready to charge with Rainer at any time.

Rainer took a heraldic flag from the flag-holder beside him, held it in his hand and shook it, and looked at the knights and said: "It's time to make meritorious deeds and I will not be stingy with the award of knighthood. I hope you will fight hard!"

"Follow the Grand Duke's order!" The knights said without hesitation.

Then, Rainer took the knights under his command and the infantry behind him at full speed and moved forward quietly.

Although the distance of two kilometers is enough for Rainer and others to discover the enemy's trail, this distance is still too long. If the horse runs at this distance, it will consume a lot of physical strength.

One thousand meters or eight hundred meters, this is the best charging distance, but also allows infantry to quickly enter the field to attack the enemy.

At this time, on the city wall, Frante still carried a long sword to fight with the surrounding knights, but she was exhausted too much physically, and seven or eight people had fallen under her long sword.

These were all knights who came up from Jing Lan, they were all wearing iron armor, which made Frank had to attack them vigorously.

"Huh..." Frantet gasped heavily, and her two guards followed her closely to ensure safety.

She is still a woman after all, and her physiology determines that her body is not suitable for combat, and it is not an empty talk for war to make women go away.

Killing seven or eight knights covered in iron armor also brought her huge consumption.

At the same time, the militia began to organize a counterattack, and they began to attack the enemy knights in groups.

Although this group of knights are not as good as the northern knights, they have learned a lot about the stinky problems of the northern knights.

Not only are they very capable, they are also unwilling to cooperate with others, and only willing to pursue glory by themselves.

This also gave the militiamen a chance to keep attacking the enemy knights with spears in their hands. Although they failed again and again, and even beheaded by the enemy, there were still knights besieged to death by them.

So far, more than 700 knights have lost more than a hundred people, while the northern militia has lost even more, with more than 300 people.

Although the casualties were large, the two sides were still fighting fiercely. The knights pursued glory and did not allow themselves to retreat, which was a shame.

On the other hand, the militiamen are to protect their homeland and live a happy life. Those with permanent property have perseverance, and their fighting will is even stronger than that of enemy knights.

Except for this section of the city wall, the battle conditions of the remaining lords are also very tight. Although the number of defenders in the castle is not large, the enemy's attack on all sides still brings tremendous pressure.

Although the soldiers under their command are all regular troops, in the final analysis, the number is still too small.

Even the more powerful Earl of Pushtown and Earl of Chollar, even if they count the vassals' armies, they are only seven or eight hundred regular troops.

There are a total of four earls on the royal lord's side, and there are more than twenty barons. The total amount is only more than 4,000 regular troops, and they are facing an attack by an enemy that is twice their own.

What's more, under the enemy's two-month offensive, they have suffered a lot of losses. Except for the northern militia, the number of soldiers under their command has been less than three thousand, and the loss is more than one-third.

The fighting on the battlefield was fierce, and Count Redmara looked at the city wall where the battle was getting better and better, with a brighter expression on his face.

Hearing the nasty compliments of the upstarts beside him, he seemed to see the day when his son named Redmara and became the emperor of the empire.

I didn't notice at all, one kilometer behind him, there was already a huge army quietly approaching.

"Yu Yu..." A long hiss of war horses sounded. Even though Reiner tried hard to appease the war horses, he still couldn't change the fact that they were a group of beasts, and he made a huge neigh as he wanted.

It doesn't matter if a beast makes a sound, the other nearby horses also screamed together. In an instant, the sounds of war horses neighed one after another, as if converging into a vast ocean.

"What sound?" Count Redmara and the upstarts hurriedly turned their heads and followed the prestige.

When everything came into the eyes of everyone, Count Redmara's heart instantly stopped beating.

Everyone's pupils suddenly shrank into needles, and the panic instantly filled everyone's heart.

They could see clearly that the flag that this team was holding was the golden lion flag on the red background that represented Grand Duke Rainer of the North!

Reiner couldn't help but feel a little discouraged when he saw that the other party had found himself. Then he pointed the banner in his hand forward and shouted, "Everyone charge with me!"

When his words fell, the title of Despicable Sneak Attacker came into play instantly. The knights who followed him in the charge received a 30% bonus to their combat effectiveness, and even their horse speed was greatly improved.

The knights followed Renner and rushed out like a windstorm. The speed of the horse was almost increased to the extreme. The distance of one kilometer was just over a minute of footwork for their speed at this time.

Several goshawks hovered in the sky, looking at the horse-riding two-legged beasts on the ground quickly moving on the white snow. The instinct of the creatures told them that they were about to have a big meal waiting for them.

As a result, more and more goshawks were attracted and hovered above the sky.

In their eyes, a torrent of steel rushed towards the small unit under the city wall at an extremely fast speed.

Count Redmara and others were already sluggish. Just as they reacted, the knight team led by Rainer was less than five hundred meters away from them.

"Quick! The heavy cavalry will go up! You must not let them rush up!"

Count Redmara reacted fastest~lightnovelpub.net~ He immediately gave orders to the four hundred heavy cavalry beside him.

These heavy cavalry were formed two years ago, and each of them is a good player.

Coupled with more than two years of training, Count Redmara thinks that even if he can't defeat the knights of Grand Duke Lena, he will be able to catch them by delaying them, right?

On the city wall, the defenders here also heard the sound of spring thunder rolling horseshoes, and they immediately recognized that this was their own army.

Because every lord here, their heraldic flags are similar, basically all have the pattern of a golden crown lion, maybe the background color is different, but everyone has the crown lion.

"It's Grand Duke Rainer! It's Grand Duke Rainer here! He's here to support us!" the defenders on the city wall shouted loudly.

The royal lords also recognized the owner of this flag and screamed with joy.

All of a sudden, the morale of the defenders on the city wall immediately rose, and the movements on their hands became faster and faster, becoming more and more fierce, and for a while they actually crushed and beat the enemy siege.