Mount & Blade War Chronicles
Chapter 79

Winning Hearts and Minds

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Fortunately, this is just a makeshift ragtag group...

Risadiran's detailed information report really played a big role.

From the fact that they chased Risadiran for nearly a hundred miles, it can be seen that the dead face is their real leader. These knights and their people gathered at Trublen, and they must have been waiting for the dead face to appear.

According to Risadiran's experience, these gangsters are just newly recruited gangsters from various villages.

They come from various villages in the kingdom and are the manpower added by the knights within a month.

Judging from their behavior by the river, these people just gathered in a hurry and did not have time to conduct any training. They just listened to the command of the few knights, and they did not seem to be very obedient in their control.

Otherwise they wouldn't have rushed into the woods after being harassed in the first place - the knight and his infantry would not have entered the woods.

Moreover, they were not very familiar with these knights - they were not even together during breaks. Obviously, these knights did not like these bandits.

In other words, these gangsters are cannon fodder used to compete for quantity, and there is a high probability that there will be no lower-level management.

Reliable junior officers are an important factor in maintaining the stability and reliability of an army.

A unit without junior officers will be reduced to disarray once it loses its leader.

Those knights seemed to be unable to get rid of the constraints of their thinking - if they dispersed the elite infantry among the bandits as grassroots officers, the reliability of this thousand-man army would be multiplied several times.

I guess I can't bear it...

This is a common problem among most people - they always feel that elites should be used alone to avoid being dragged down by cannon fodder...

In fact, the elites mixed among the cannon fodder are often more useful.

But now, these mobs easily "retreat" just because of the instigation of Li Ang...

The infantrymen probably weren't affected too much, but they obviously couldn't command the army, and the bandits wouldn't listen to them.

The enemies behind were no longer of concern, and Li Ang began to fly towards Wheat Fragrance Territory.

The distance was only six or seven miles, and it only took him a few minutes to catch up with Kloze and the others again.

Wheat Fragrance Territory can be seen from a distance here, and it is considered an open area. There are no woods nearby - all the trees near the village have been cut down and houses of Wheat Fragrance Territory have been built.

Kloze is leading the archers to confront the enemy.

In fact, the enemy's leading knight was a little frustrated.

The half of the team he took away from the front consisted of about 400 people. The military strength was still huge, but the tail behind him could not be shaken off...

Wheat Fragrance Territory has arranged a car formation, and the military appearance looks very neat--the more than sixty recruits can even be considered elite infantry just based on their equipment.

He knew that it would be unlikely to capture it for a while, so he wanted to go back and deal with the Kloze group who had been following him.

But as soon as he turned around in a big move, the tailmen would run back - his men had run a hundred miles without a good rest, and they really couldn't catch up.

When he wanted to attack Wheat Fragrance Territory directly, those tails came to shoot arrows again.

Divide the troops? He did.

He assigned more than eighty men to deal with the tail group - exactly double the number, including twenty elite infantrymen.

As a result, the heavy-armed archers first shot down a small half of the bandits, and the elite infantrymen were still hacked to death by the big guys in a two-on-one fight. Then, the remaining thirty or so people collapsed, turned around and ran away, and more than half of them were shot to death. Only a few people escaped.

However, those tails only lost seven or eight men, with a battle loss ratio of 1:10.

Kloze is not Li Ang. As long as he thinks he can fight, he will definitely fight. He will not pursue zero battle losses...

So he was caught in a dilemma, or three dilemmas - because he saw two Noldor arrows, he didn't dare to take the lead, and he didn't dare to let the few elite infantry leave his side.

He didn't dare to attack directly. Wheat Fragrance Territory's defense was well arranged - this knight didn't know that Wheat Fragrance Territory was just a bunch of noobs. He thought that Wheat Fragrance Territory's defenders were as strong as these tails...

And he can't retreat or escape. If the dead man's face is caught, he may be exposed. If he can't capture Wheat Fragrance Territory, as a traitor to the Lionheart Kingdom, he will definitely be hunted down by the whole country...

Now he can only wait for the rear army to come over quickly.

So he was on guard at both ends a few hundred meters away from the village entrance.

A team of more than 300 people was strangely on the defensive when faced with Wheat Fragrance Territory, two small units of about 100 people who were divided into two groups.

However, before the rear army could wait, Li Ang came first...

Li Ang After arriving here, he looked at the situation on the battlefield and felt relieved.

"Oooh!"

Kloze When they saw Li Ang coming back, they also raised their weapons and cheered in cooperation - they trusted the Lord. Since Li Ang came back with a normal look, it naturally means that Li Ang's goal was achieved.

The enemy soldiers looked at Kloze and cheered. They all looked at each other. Naturally, they recognized this kind of cheering movement only after winning a battle, and the scene became quiet for a while.

Seeing that the enemy infantry were defending with shields and no crossbows, the lord calmly rode his horse to a position about a hundred meters away from the leading knight.

The knight wore a giant helmet so his face couldn't be seen, but he stood out among the crowd - he was the only enemy wearing plate armor and was protected by a group of infantry.

"Which hero is attacking my Wheat Fragrance Territory? Sign up!"

Li Ang's voice is still very loud. The noise is not loud at the moment, and you should be able to hear it from a hundred meters away.

A few gangsters raised their bows, but Li Ang didn't care - at a distance of about a hundred meters, if they could be shot to death by inferior wooden bows, it would be a bad fate.

Of course, if the quality of the bow on the other side was better, the lord would not be so close.

In fact, if those infantrymen had not raised their shields, Li Ang might have shot them with one arrow, and they would certainly not have bothered to talk...

No one spoke on the other side.

Okay, Li Ang won't ask any more questions and will directly start disrupting the opponent's military morale.

"Are you waiting for the people behind? They have been defeated! They are all scattered!"

"Do you understand? They are doomed! You are doomed too!"

After saying that, Li Ang waved to Sammer.

Sammer understood and brought Li Ang's equipment over.

Then the lord began to change back into his own equipment carelessly, throwing the knight's plate armor on his body piece by piece to the ground, and replacing it with his own lightweight half-armor.

I even changed it while wiping it, which was very slow.

Sammer and Kloze were helping on both sides. Of course, they were also ready to help the Lord block the arrows.

However, no one on the other side fired arrows. Everyone just looked at Li Ang slowly changing equipment in a strange way, and no one said anything.

It wasn't until several minutes passed and the equipment was completely replaced that Li Ang spoke again.

"Now you understand? The people behind you are finished!"

"And my reinforcements are coming soon!"

Li Ang is using this method to increase your persuasiveness - your rear army is really gone, and the lord is eager for you to waste your time.

Wheat Fragrance Territory must have reinforcements, no one will doubt this.

It's hard to say otherwise, Horn Summon Ranger Corps will come sooner or later - Wheat Fragrance Territory has been blowing the horn, Ranger Corps will always be heard sooner or later.

As long as one Rangers is heard, a large group of rangers will be brought.

It will take time for reinforcements to arrive.

But what about the reality?

Li Ang Do you really want to waste time?

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