When Byron received a new task, he always felt like a crow mouth.

　　 He complained to himself before, saying that it is better to attack the fence and sentry group built by Rodok on the border than to take over the task of investigation.

After 　　, Earl Greyward handed this task to the mercenary unit employed by the Kingdom Army, as well as a unit under his command.

　　 This is mainly because the kingdom's army is not ready yet, and a rash attack can easily attract the attention of the opponent, so some troops are sent to raid the military post on the Rhodok border.

　　 A thousand mercenaries, plus two or three hundred soldiers of Earl Greyward, sounds like a lot. But their opponents ranged from five to six hundred, or more than two thousand, well-trained Rhodok soldiers.

　　 But Byron is just a mercenary captain, and he is not qualified to question the nobles' resolutions, let alone resist orders. If he does not act, then the noble lord is likely to punish them. This is Swadia’s barracks, and Byron has no ability to resist them.

　　 And Byron and Earl Kleese are a little friendly, and Earl Greyward is a well-known good man, strategically conservative. Byron believes that they will not give this order arbitrarily, in that case it is still very likely to win.

　　 Byron took the orders of several earls, and immediately summoned the soldiers he had brought after returning.

　　The archers brought enough arrows, and the infantrymen checked the armor and shields and polished their swords. The cavalry put on a horse armor, took the lance and javelin, and put a long sword and warhammer on his waist.

　　 Every heavy cavalry must spend at least ten minutes with the help of others. They all wear thick chain armor or breastplates, with arm guards on their arms and greaves on their legs, which are very protective. Even if he charged with the arrow rain, it was not a big problem. There is also a horse armor made of the same chain armor structure, which can greatly improve the protection level of the horse and improve its collision ability.

　　 Among the infantry under Byron, some of them are also equipped with breastplates. A breastplate of average quality usually only needs one or two hundred dinars. If it is to repair the captured breastplate, the cost will be lower, only half of the normal.

　　Compared with those armor parts that require fine processing, a whole piece of directly processed plate breastplate is the cheapest plate armor equipment.

　　 Even the crossbowmen are equipped with chain mail, they carry crossbows on their backs, and carry twenty or thirty crossbow arrows. Even the camp women who wore linen coats to work had a soft armor under their coats, which could provide some protection.

　　Although the other mercenary teams were very curious why Byron brought a bunch of women to the battlefield with chores, they didn't care too much.

　　 A total of 1,500 troops, led by a baron and more than ten knights under Lord Greyward, formed a loose formation and rushed to the forest as quickly as possible.

　　 Byron took a rough look at the rest of the mercenary units. The quality was generally lower than that of Byron's Peony mercenaries, and they were divided into seven different mercenary teams. However, the proportion of cavalry among the mercenaries is not small. Among the 1,000 mercenaries, there are almost 300 light cavalry and 40 heavy cavalry.

And the army sent by the earl is considered elite, with more than 100 Swadia light infantry, fifty or sixty Swadia infantry, about thirty crossbowmen, and more than thirty heavy cavalry and a dozen. knight.

　　 In addition to the soldiers, there are also several carriages carrying parts of the torsion ballista and the hammer to attack the wall that is about to be completed.

　　 The overall lineup is pretty good.

　　 At least it was much better than the original Baron Civil War.

　　 Byron they crossed the border for two days and rushed to the location of the forest. At this time, the Rodok patrol had reached the outside of the forest and just knocked down the attacking force in Swadia.

　　 More than a hundred heavy cavalry launched a charge, and the Rhodoks scattered and fled. But Byron knew that they did not take advantage, because the other party also discovered their whereabouts, and the suddenness of the attack was reduced.

　　 Under the order of the baron, the mercenaries pulled out the roadblocks and set several wooden guard towers outside the forest on fire. About thirty Rhodok soldiers were killed by them, and a dozen mercenaries died under the crossbow arrows and military hoes during the attack.

However, Byron also discovered the power of the crossbow made by Rodok. Heavy crossbows can easily penetrate the chain mail, and a siege crossbow of Rodok sniper killed by a knight even shot it. Two foot cavalry in cuirass. Those ordinary infantry breastplates, which are cheaper, are like paper mush under this kind of heavy siege crossbow that takes more than half a minute to wind up.

　　Byron believes that if the shaft is long enough, this kind of steel crossbow can even shoot soldiers wearing ordinary breastplates in opposite directions.

　　 Swadia’s raid team is not small, and it is impossible to act in secret. The Rhodok soldiers in the forest immediately assembled. After Swadia’s assault troops cleared the outposts outside the forest, about six hundred Rhodok soldiers had formed a solid phalanx. Relying on the forest, spears lined up, blocking the assault troops.

　　 The Rodok senior lancers turned sideways, the Rodok crossbowmen stepped forward, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com fired crossbow arrows at the cavalry who were still charging.

　　 The Swadia heavy cavalry, who had charged forward unscrupulously, immediately turned the horse's head and changed its direction. But even so, the dozen heavy cavalry in the front also fell from their horses one after another, and half of them were unable to stand up again because they were shot to the point or stepped on by horses' hoofs.

The other heavy cavalry who fell from their horses also started to run back with their injuries, and the second row of Rodok crossbowmen also passed the first row of crossbowmen, raising their crossbows and heavy crossbows and shooting out crossbow arrows. The cavalry who fled backwards were completely knocked down.

　　The mercenaries also stopped, the cavalry tried their best to hold the reins, and the infantry stopped within the range of the Rodok crossbowmen.

　　 This is both fear and command. Whether it is the baron who is in charge of the command, the knights and the captains of various mercenary teams including Byron, they all know that their team formation has been messed up in the previous battles. In this case, these formations are chaotic. When the soldiers attacked the stable Rodok reloading phalanx, they were just giving away heads to the opponent.

　　The heavy cavalry ran a lap and then ran back, and the mercenaries began to organize their formations outside the range of the Rodoks.

The Rodok skilled crossbowmen and senior crossbowmen retreated into the two wings of the square, and those Rodok skilled spearmen also raised shields as tall as the door, holding sharp spears more than three meters long, The middle part of the phalanx formed a phalanx of spears.

　　 There was also a small group of Rhodok sergeants and senior spearmen, who also stood in front of the crossbowmen with spears with huge machete heads and strong broad shields. Although there were a good number of them, they were as difficult to break through as an iron wall.

　　 This is a standard Rhodok infantry phalanx. It is a "blade tortoise shell" that even Swadia's heavy cavalry must be afraid of.