Chapter 418 Colen suddenly smiled with relief
The sounds of swords breaking through the air and screams floated under the dark clouds.

The beaver flag representing Xiaochi City broke on the ground, black smoke filled the sky, and the warhorse fell to the ground sideways, wailing in pain.

Broken shields, exploded lances, hundreds of corpses and wailing wounded soldiers lying on the ground, and the bright blood gathered on the ground to form a river, flowing into the Laixi River.

Perhaps because of the effect of Mizam's previous order, the smoke on the battlefield dissipated a lot.

This allowed the militiamen and Savior infantrymen present to see the terrifying beasts with even greater despair.

Dozens of extraordinary knights wearing heavy armor formed cavalry teams, wielding long swords in their hands, galloping back and forth on the battlefield, chasing the fleeing militiamen from Xiaochi City.

Not far away, a hundred knights of imperial decree and their squires were forming a formation, with black smoke blowing over their bodies and their horses snorting angrily.

Leaning against a tree, Baron Colen's face turned pale, his bloodshot eyes staring desperately at the bloody-looking Knight Arman.

People know that Arman's nickname is Lingya because he is good at coaxing women.

But he never thought that the title would only be given to the most powerful knight, not because he could coax women.

Under the leadership of the Knight Lingya, the army of Xiaochi City collapsed at the first blow and fled in all directions amid Colen's desperate roar.

Feeling the ground shaking, Colen, who had lost too much blood, barely turned his head, only to see a group of knights from Hotam County rushing through a group of militiamen who still had the morale to barely form a formation.

The iron wave instantly knocked the militiamen to the ground, and the following knights swung their swords and slashed at the militiamen.

The standing militiamen were chopped down one after another, falling heavily to the ground with their pale eyes open.

"Damn you, a bunch of freshmen!"

Colen managed to hold up his body with difficulty, but the wound on his thigh was almost torn. He gritted his teeth, grabbed stones and threw them at the knights who flew past him.

The stones bounced past the horses' hooves, and the knights' laughter hit Colen, almost knocking him to the ground.

But Colen couldn't even chase after him and curse at him.

His thigh was pierced by a lance, and his whole body was nailed to the roots of a beech tree beside the road.
The knight of the imperial order who stabbed him with his lance seemed to have noticed the feathers and tassels that Colen was wearing, and did not kill him for the sake of his captive.

But Colen would rather he kill him. If he fell into the hands of the church, who knows how terrible the punishment would be.

But as a devout believer, he could not commit suicide against his teachings, and he did not have the courage to do so.

Colen could only place his last hope on the last remaining Black Hat Army.

Only this legion still retained its organization, and with the help of the mercenary knights from Xiaochi City, it withstood the attacks of two groups of knights from Hotam County.

This forced the knights to chase the militia instead of continuing to attack the phalanx.

On the battlefield filled with deserters, the two legions of the Black Hat Army did not rigidly form a horizontal formation, but instead stacked together to form the large square formation that they were more familiar with.

Unlike the large 50X50 square formations, the two legions of the Black Hat Army are only 10x10 square formations.

The phalanx in the black smoke was lined with halberds, axes and spears, like a hedgehog. No matter which direction the extraordinary knights of Hotam County attacked from, they could instantly adjust their stance and the direction of their spears.

Compared with the guards led by Mizam, they were more like a regular version of the Dunjar Phalanx.

It's normal to be able to do this.

Although these Black Hats were new recruits, they were different from Horn's original batch of pure new recruits. They were heavily trained soldiers and had previously been armored sergeants or elite night guards.

These "new recruits" were selected from the best of the best, equivalent to the top guards in all of Langsander County gathered together. Although the armor rate was low, more than half of them were extraordinary, and more or less had several breathing techniques and extraordinary martial arts.

Because of this, this group of Black Hat Army recruits were actually equipped with a large number of axes, spears and halberds that the Saviors had no use for.

Together with the elite officers and veterans of the Salvation Army, as well as Horn's generous full pay and land pensions, the skeleton of this corps of black hat recruits was supported.

But even these elite guards were still fighting and retreating. As long as they could retreat into the camp's chariot array and form a chariot fort, they could hold out until the Savior Army returned.

Although many people were saying that the Saviors had given up on them, Colen was relatively calm, perhaps because of the excessive blood loss.

Thinking of Horn's strange orders and the obviously slowed marching speed of the Black Hat Army, he began to understand that it was clear that this Saint Sun was using them as bait.

After you eat the bait, there will always be a time to pull the line. Just hold on a little longer, a little longer...

"Let go, let go!"

"Okay, everyone, divide the luggage. You go back to Fort Jeanne, and we go back to Little Pond City. Is that okay?"

"We can also use the car fort."

"I don't know where your holy grandsons have escaped to, what with the car fort and that! Get out!"

Colen turned his head to look behind him, but his vision went dark and he almost fainted.

Groups of Xiaochi City militia gathered their strength, turned around and rushed into the Salvation Army's baggage camp, picked up the property, and tried to use a counter-intuitive method to charge from behind and attack the Imperial Order Company.

Several crusaders guarding the camp were still trying to persuade them, but a militiaman from Xiaochi City stabbed them in the heart from behind.

Groups of militiamen rushed into the camp, searching among the boxes and sacks, and would chop down any Crusaders who dared to stop them.

On the contrary, those mercenary knights of Kochi City who were regarded as having disloyal tendencies adhered to their professional ethics and helped the Black Hat Army to slowly retreat.

Before, Colen was still resenting Horn for using them as bait, but he watched this scene for five full seconds, then suddenly smiled with relief.

In the future, it is better to recruit soldiers from the countryside instead of the city. Colen's consciousness gradually became blurred. If he could survive, he must write this lesson into the military book passed down in his family.

Wait, Colen, who was about to fall asleep, suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground disappear?

Is it the Savior Army? The Savior Army is coming? Kelun struggled to open his eyes and raised his head to look in the direction of the footsteps.

On the battlefield, all the cavalrymen suddenly stopped chasing the scattered militiamen and gathered together.

With the help of the hired knights from Kochi Castle, the Black Hats retreated at a faster speed.

First, a flag emerged from the black smoke and slapped against the flagpole. The red ostrich feathers rose and fell along with the war horse.

One after another, withered and hideous faces gradually became clear from the misty black smoke, chain mail slid on the linen robe, and straw sandals were stained with the mud of the Laixi River.

His vision gradually blurred, and Colen grinned miserably. He leaned his back against the beech tree and leaned his head against it in despair.

The breeze blew away the black smoke, and tens of thousands of infantrymen of the church army formed twelve interlocking infantry squares and walked out of the smoke with chaotic steps.

Except for the orderly footsteps of the Black Hat Army, the battlefield was as silent as death.

(End of this chapter)