Chapter 506: The Hopeless Situation of South County
On the battlefield, the heavy cavalry legion of the South County n.o.ble alliance army no longer tried to charge at the immovable infantry formation of the North County n.o.ble alliance army. Instead, they were on the vast plain battlefield, they ran in a huge arc and retreated directly towards the south.
When these heavy cavalry legions had completely retreated, the central battlefield on the plains was only left with the tiny figures of ants.
On the high platform at the center of the North County n.o.ble alliance army’s infantry formation, Firentis gave an order:
“Pa.s.s down my orders: the 5th squad of Swadian Sergeants, the seventeenth squad of Swadian Sergeants, and the 6th squad of Swadian Footmen, raise your lances, put away your s.h.i.+elds, and stand sideways to hold your s.h.i.+elds!”
After the ten Royal Swadian Knights had pa.s.sed the order to Firentis throughout the entire infantry formation, on the s.h.i.+eld wall on the southern side of the formation, the Swadian Sergeants and the Swadian Footmen at the center began to move.
The Swadian Sergeants and the Swadian Footmen formed a 50-man squad. On the southern s.h.i.+eld wall, there were three layers of “stacked s.h.i.+elds”. The first two layers were made up of three Swadian Sergeant squads, while the third layer was made up of four Swadian Footmen squads.
The members of the 15th, 17th, and 6th Swadian Footmen squads first drew the five-meter-long lance from the groove of the tower s.h.i.+eld.
This process was a little laborious. After all, each lance was hung with the bodies of one or more knights or knight attendants of the South County n.o.ble alliance army.
The bodies hung on the lance were pulled back by the lance and eventually blocked by the ice-cold first row of tower s.h.i.+elds.
As the Swadian Sergeants and the Swadian Footmen pulled back their lance, they pulled the lance out of the bodies.
The bodies fell onto the bodies of the warhorses with a thud. Dark red blood started to flow out from the fatal wounds that were pierced by the lance.
After pulling the lance out from the groove of the tower s.h.i.+eld, they picked up the lances with both hands and raised it up straight. The tip of the lance was pointed up and stabbed into the ground on the right side of their bodies.
With the weight of the heavy five-meter lance and the huge strength of the Swadian Sergeants or the Swadian Footmen, the bottom of the lance penetrated 50 to 60 centimeters into the ground, even if the Swadian Sergeants and the Swadian Footmen did not support it, there was no danger of it falling down.
Following that, they used their strength to pull out the tower s.h.i.+eld that penetrated 20 to 30 centimeters into the ground. Holding the tower s.h.i.+eld, they turned their bodies sideways.
It was still neat and orderly.
However, a pa.s.sageway that was more than half a meter wide appeared between them.
It was enough to pa.s.s through a soldier.
After that, Firentis gave another order.
“Pa.s.s down the order: Swadian Footmen, 10th, 15th and 20th squads, step out!” From the Swadian Sergeants and the Swadian Footmen that had cleared the pa.s.sageway, they went outside the formation and killed all the knights of the South County n.o.ble alliance army who were not completely dead!
Total of 3,000 Swadian Footmen, as well as the 25,000 infantrymen of North County n.o.ble alliance army and East County n.o.ble alliance army, were split into 25 infantry units by Firentis.
Each unit consisted of 1,000 North County and South County n.o.ble alliance armies. At the same time, each unit was commanded by 120 Swadian Footmen.
That was to say, each infantry unit had 1,120 footmen.
Each unit was split into 20 squads. Each squad had 50 both counties’ infantrymen, plus 6 Swadian Footmen. One of them was the unit leader, while the other five commanded 10 infantrymen of North County and South County.
Although the Swadian Light Footmen were only a minority of the infantry small squads and unit, Firentis still named these squads Swadian Light Footman squads and Swadian Light Footman unit.
The twenty-five squads were neatly arranged. The 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads were at the southernmost end of the formation. They could directly pa.s.s through the path in the s.h.i.+eld wall and exit the formation.
After the 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads stepped out of the formation and killed all of the South County’s cavalries that were not completely dead.
“Order: the 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads, collect weapons, equipment, and other spoils of war! Stack them in a place nearby!”
“Order: the 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads, move all of the corpses of the South County n.o.ble alliance army to a distance. Line them up and wait for the South County n.o.ble alliance army to deal with them!”
“Order: the 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads, drag all the corpses of the warhorse far away and burn them on the spot!”
Firentis’s orders came one after another.
Every time, he would wait for the 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads to carry out the previous order before issuing the next one.
At the same time, they would maintain the main infantry formation and not make too many changes. They could deal with any sudden accidents on the battlefield at any time.
The raging fire started to burn.
At this point, more than 3,000 soldiers had finished dealing with the battlefield.
Beautiful, beautiful!
“Order: the 10th, 15th, and 20th Swadian Light Footman squads will bring weapons, equipment, and other spoils of war back to the formation!”
“Order: all of you, pull out the camp! The legion will retreat two kilometers north!”
After dealing with the battlefield, Firentis ordered the entire infantry formation of the North County n.o.ble alliance army to pull out the camp and retreat two kilometers north.
After that, they set up the tightly guarded camp, just like when they were attacked by the South County n.o.ble alliance army.
The camp was well organized.
After all, the center of the battlefield had just been through a cruel ma.s.sacre. The strong smell of blood filled the air.
There were also burned horses and a pile of corpses of the South County’s soldiers.
It was not that there was no choice, so there was no need to set up camp.
…
The South County’s n.o.ble families in Seria Castle were in despair.
They did not expect that the North County infantry formation would be so st.u.r.dy. The heavy cavalry legion, which consisted of three grand knights and hundreds of official knights as the leads was charging rapidly with their full might, yet they were blocked by the enemy’s infantry formation.
This almost directly crippled their heavy cavalry legion.
Bang!
Viscount Kemil’s expression was extremely gloomy as he slammed his palm fiercely on the conference table made of precious wood.
“d.a.m.n it! It’s impossible for the North County n.o.ble alliance army to have such elite infantrymen!”
Viscount Kemil’s gloomy gaze swept across all those South County’s n.o.bles in the room. His eyes were filled with fury.