Black Pine Territory (14)

Looking at the routed rebel army before him, Arman laughed triumphantly, "Haha, these remnants of the Markut who plotted Rebellion are indeed no match for us."

The surrounding soldiers looked at their former Battalion Commander with bewilderment. He had been shouting about retreating the whole time, and if their Squad Leader hadn't been stopping him, he would have run away long ago.

Now, thanks to the castle guards' reinforcements who launched an attack on the rebels, disrupting their formation, the Squad Leader seized the opportunity and, together with the castle guards, decisively defeated the rebels in front of them.

Seeing that the rebels were about to escape, Arman shouted to his soldiers, "Don't stand there! Chase after them! Kill all those bastards who followed the traitor Markut!"

The soldiers present did not want to obey his orders. After all, they had just fought fiercely and the enemy had been defeated. They could have rested. However, the Squad Leader had already set off first, so they had no choice but to follow.

Just then, everyone heard a series of "clattering" sounds, followed by a deafening roar from behind their ranks, as fast as lightning, echoing across the sky from afar.

Arman heard it too, and he was also puzzled. "What's going on? Could it be that Raman has returned with his Cavalry battalion?"

Arman turned to look behind him and saw a Cavalry suddenly appear at the end of the road. It was at least a Cavalry battalion, and the road and the open spaces on both sides of the road were filled with Cavalry, stretching as far as the eye could see.

When Arman saw the Golden Sunflower Crest on the battle flag held aloft by the leading cavalryman, all the color drained from his face, his pale lips trembled, and his whole body froze.

Immediately afterward, Arman shouted, "The enemy! It's the Cavalry of Two Rivers Territory!"

Although the voice was sharp and high-pitched, all the Black Pine Territory soldiers present heard it clearly, but it was already too late.

The Cavalry surged forward like a flood, accompanied by the mournful sound Arman horns. The Cavalry the distance suddenly accelerated, and within a dozen breaths, they had overwhelmed Cavalry and his troops.

At this point, due to the pursuit order given by Arman, the formation of the less than two hundred troops had completely scattered. Only the soldiers led by the original Squad Leader and the castle guards could still form a simple square formation. When the two square formations tried to close in.

The Cavalry suddenly inserted themselves between the two square formations, completely separating them. This Cavalry unit was the Light Cavalry detachment led by Mars and Markut.

Because of the superior strength of the Cavalry detachment, Mars did not intend to directly attack the two small square formations with Light Cavalry. Instead, he divided his troops into three parts: two Cavalry directly divided and surrounded the two square formations, while the remaining Cavalry pursued and killed the fleeing stragglers.

Mars made full use of the circling firing tactic. The Light Cavalry of the Two Rivers Territory circled around the two square formations and fired arrows. These infantry square formations, which did not even have bows and arrows, were unable to launch a counterattack and were quickly disrupted by the rain of arrows. They could only face the Light Cavalry's charge as skirmishers.

Minutes later, the Black Pine Territory infantry on the scene were completely wiped out, and Markut and his men witnessed the entire battle, once again shocked by the power of the Two Rivers Territory army.

After the war, Arman, who had been captured, saw Markut and shouted for Markut to beg for his life.

However, Markut had already learned of his actions from his subordinates, Markut directly ordered Cohen to kill him.

The scattered troops were reassembled by Markut was still shaken. If he had returned any later, many of them might have fallen to Arman's blade and never been seen again.

By this time, the battlefield had been cleared. Markut also learned from the prisoners of war that the castle was undefended. He immediately found Mars: "Captain Mars, we have wiped out most of the guards of Black Pine Territory Castle. Let's hurry over and take it down."

"Yes, Viscount Markut."

Under Markut's leadership, they captured the castle without any setbacks.

The storehouses and barracks next to the castle were handed over to Mars by Markut, who also borrowed 300 Light Cavalry from Mars.

Markut sent his men with these Cavalry to begin taking over the territory, and a large number of his father's loyal followers, along with their families, were arrested, including Arman's entire family.

The turmoil in Black Pine Territory lasted for a day and a night. The open space in front of the castle was stained red with blood. Many of Markut's former officials, whom he considered unreliable, were killed here. Some of their families and property were taken into Markut's possession, while others were given as rewards to the young people who followed him.

Meanwhile, Markut began recruiting soldiers within his territory, planning to gather a new force loyal to him in Black Pine Territory.

During this time, the Night Owl leader led more than a hundred wounded and remnant soldiers back to the heart of Black Pine Territory, where they were discovered by Mars and all of them were taken prisoner.

After imprisoning the Night Owl leader in the castle dungeon, Markut learned from him that Viscount Perez had suffered heavy losses in the first day of battle against Santos.

Viscount Perez sent Night Owls back with the wounded and defeated soldiers partly to reduce food consumption within the pass, and partly to have Night Owls' leader inform Arman to conscript serfs to reinforce Green Shade Pass. He was unaware that Black Pine Territory Castle and the heart of the territory had completely fallen.

Upon learning of this, Markut immediately armed his newly recruited troops with the weapons in the warehouse.

He has recruited 700 men and decided to model the Two Rivers Territory system, forming one detachment and two companies. Cohen has been appointed as the Detachment Commander, and Pudas and Lorak have been appointed as Company Commander.

After leaving Pudas and Lorak's troops to guard the territory, he personally led the Cohen Detachment and Mars' troops to Green Shade Pass.

He planned to use this opportunity to attack Green Shade Pass from behind, while also controlling the Night Owl leader's family and forcing the Night Owl leader to obey his orders, hoping to trick them into opening the gate.

On the afternoon of September 21, the battle of Green Shade Pass had been going on for three days. Viscount Perez was taking a short break during a lull in the fighting, while Raman and his troops continued to hold the pass walls.

For the past three days, the troops of Two Rivers Territory have been launching a fierce attack on Green Shade Pass, and the various siege weapons have broadened the horizons of the soldiers of Black Pine Territory.

However, Viscount Perez also noticed something strange: Santos's troops had been using these siege weapons to attack the interior, but rarely sent men to directly scale the walls.

Even so, it kept the defending troops inside the pass busy.

Just as Viscount Perez was pondering this, Raman came down from the wall and found him. "Your Excellency, our arrow stockpile is almost empty. We need supplies from the territory."

Viscount Perez checked the time. "Soon. Night Owl went back yesterday and should be able to return with the first batch of reinforcements and supplies before this evening."

Suddenly, the alarm bell rang again from the wall, interrupting their conversation. The two climbed the wall once more to prepare for battle.