Game of Thrones: Holy Flame King

Seeing that he was about to enter the Royal Forest, Earl Landau became vigilant. He stopped the army to rest, and then issued an order to summon the noble knights to prepare for a military meeting.

While waiting for the meeting to be held, an unexpected guest came to the Chinese military tent.

"Dickon?" Samwell looked at his younger brother who walked in wearing steel armor, with a look of surprise on his face, "Why did you come here?"

"Brother!" Dickon shouted excitedly, "Finally caught up with you! Please allow me to fight with you again!"

Before Samwell could answer, Earl Randall said with a grim expression:

"Why don't you recuperate at home? This war was not intended for you to participate in."

"Father, my wounds are all healed!" Dickon replied, but when he spoke, he kept his eyes on his brother. "I can go to the battlefield! Please don't let me waste time on the hospital bed."

"Is your injury really healed?" Samwell asked with a smile.

"That's great!" Dickon slapped his chest loudly.

"I'll let the bachelor accompanying the army examine you." Earl Landau obviously didn't intend to trust his son so easily.

Moreover, he always felt that his youngest son was not as close to him as before, but instead had an enthusiastic attitude towards Samwell.

This made Earl Randall a little bit apprehensive.

"Okay, father." Dickon nodded in agreement, and it seemed that he was indeed all right.

Not long after, the officers of the North Route Army came to the tent one after another.

Earl Landau no longer cared about his youngest son, sat on the main seat, and became the cold and majestic general again, and began to preside over the meeting and arrange the marching formation.

Standing in the tent, Samwell watched Earl Landau divide the army into small teams, feeling a little puzzled in his heart.

But of course he would not question it at the military meeting, he would not do such a stupid thing that offended the authority of the commander.

Moreover, Lando Tarly, as one of the few famous generals in the Seven Kingdoms, must have his reasons for doing so. Samwell decided to observe and study first.

He noticed that Earl Randall's division of troops was based on the types of arms. He divided the infantry into three categories: pikemen, archers, and sword and shield soldiers. It varies from five hundred to five hundred.

As for the cavalry, they were not divided into small groups, and they were still divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry according to the conventional method, with unified command.

When he started to march towards the royal forest, Earl Landau placed the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen on the outermost side, and the archers were slightly displaced on the inner side, forming a phalanx of infantry. The whole army is well-proportioned, but it looks a little "scattered".

The light cavalry and heavy cavalry were all scattered among the phalanxes, moving forward under the cover of infantry.

This is the opposite of the normal deployment of troops, as generally cavalry should be placed on the two wings of infantry.

In the end, there were more than 10,000 civilian men who accompanied the army. They were protected in the center of the phalanx with their baggage, and marched together with the cavalry.

In fact, not only Samwell, but most of the nobles in the Riverbend didn't quite understand Earl Landau's intention of forming such a strange phalanx.

But frightened by the great reputation of this famous river bend general, at least no one dared to question it.

After entering the imperial forest, the sky suddenly became overcast, but it was not the dark clouds that blocked the sun, but the dense leaves.

The terrain here also began to become complicated. Forests, shrubs, and streams became natural barriers, making it difficult for the army to line up as neatly as on the plain, and there were many obstacles between the marches.

Seeing this, Samwell could somewhat understand why his father had divided the army into small phalanxes.

Those flexible small phalanxes are obviously more suitable for the complex terrain here.

The cavalry is difficult to play here, and there is actually no mobility on the outside of the army, and it cannot play the role of protection and investigation.

In this environment, his falcons and white dragons are not very good. They fly high, and the tree canopy blocks the situation in the forest. When they fly low, their vision is limited.

So when the army encountered the first wave of attacks, he simply failed to detect the enemy in advance.

Only the sound of horns and the faint sound of fighting could be heard from a distance from the left rear.

"Leave them alone, maintain the formation, keep moving forward, never stop, and never leave the phalanx to pursue!" Earl Randall immediately issued an order.

Orders spread out one after another, delivering the commander's orders to every square formation.

Seeing that Samwell was puzzled, Earl Randall explained to his son:

"Those must be the jungle light cavalry of the Stormman. They come and go like the wind, and they are familiar with the terrain in the imperial forest. They cannot catch up or get rid of them. We cannot be dragged by them here. We must leave this area as quickly as possible. jungle."

Samwell nodded thoughtfully.

He had heard before that the Stormlanders had specially trained jungle light cavalry that could gallop like the wind in the forest, and today he really saw it.

Cleopatra didn't know if she was stimulated by the smell of blood, and fluttered her wings excitedly, as if she wanted to fly to the place where the battle took place.

But Samwell stopped the white dragon.

The complex terrain of the jungle is really not suitable for dragons to play, and Cleopater is still too young, Samwell is worried about letting him participate in the battle so early.

However, he released the falcon to observe the battle situation.

When his falcon followed the sound and flew near the attacked phalanx, he saw hundreds of stormtroopers rushing out of the forest.

Their war horses are obviously small, only about half the size of the river bay war horses, and they have indeed undergone special training. They can deftly avoid obstacles such as trees and gallop quickly in the jungle with complex terrain.

Seeing the mixed formation of swords, shields and long spears neatly arranged by the Hewan people, they wisely did not choose to charge directly into the formation, but ran towards the gap in the formation, preparing to harass the most vulnerable civilians with bows and arrows.

The archers of the Hewan people also immediately started to fight back, and arrows rained down like rain for a while.

Many storm cavalry fell to the ground with arrows, turning their backs on their backs.

The adjacent Riverbend infantry phalanx began to move closer, and at the same time the Riverbend light cavalry also dispatched cautiously, trying to encircle the Stormlanders.

Two teams of cavalry passed by each other, and another rain of arrows attacked, blood flying everywhere.

At this time, the biggest advantage of the Hewan army can be reflected-well-equipped.

As the most affluent region in the Seven Kingdoms, the armies of the Riverbend are only comparable to the armies of the Western Region in terms of equipment, and the Stormlands are obviously one level behind.

So in this confrontation, it was obvious that Hewan had the upper hand.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the Stormman's light cavalry team scattered backwards.

But the cavalry of another phalanx of the Hewan people also rushed over at this time, chasing the storm cavalry who was out of formation, and another round of fighting and shooting.

The storm cavalry was caught off guard, and was shot down a lot by the Hewan people in the process of closing the formation, so they had to flee in embarrassment.

But the Riverbend Cavalry did not pursue them. They were not used to this complex jungle environment, and they did not dare to charge at full speed.

The soldiers of Hewan quickly cleaned the battlefield, gathered available horses, slaughtered the wounded stormmen, and then returned to the phalanx, and continued to move forward with the large army.

Not long after, the Stormlanders attacked again, this time with even more people, thousands of riders, rushing towards the Hewan people's position in three directions.

At this time, the ingenuity of Earl Landau's formation can be reflected. No matter how the cavalry in the Stormlands attack, they will either be blocked by the river bay infantry phalanx, or chased by the river bay light cavalry cruising between the square formations. Moreover, the various phalanxes are in an orderly manner, echoing back and forth, and taking care of each other, so that no matter which direction the Stormlanders come from, they can't take advantage of it at all.

Only dozens of bloody corpses were left behind, and they returned without success.

This time, a group of river bay light cavalry couldn't help but chased them out, wanting to kill more enemies to earn military merit.

Earl Landau was really furious when he saw this, and immediately sent his messengers to chase him.

After the team of Qingqi was recovered, it was discovered that it was the army of the Peak family.

"Sir Marlin Peake disobeyed the military order and beheaded." Earl Randyll issued a cruel order without mercy.

"Lord Randyll." Earl Titus Peake tried to intercede for his knights. "Sir Marlin was indeed impulsive, but fortunately he did not suffer any losses. There is no need to behead him. It is better to whip instead."

Earl Landau was unmoved, and said coldly:

"Lord Titus, disobedience to military orders should be beheaded instead of whipped. Don't you know?"

Earl Titus had a gloomy face, but said nothing more.

Earl Landau waved his hand, and the law enforcement officers dragged the yelling Sir Marlin Peake to execute him.

Soon, a bloody human head was sent to the nobles.

You know, the Peak family was one of the first big families in the Reach to express their support for Samwell at the Highgarden hunting meeting.

After that incident, rumors of deer and horse parties began to spread in Riverbend.

Samwell Caesar, Landau Tarly, and Matus Rowan are the core of the Horse Party, and the Peake family is the backbone of the Horse Party. At this time, the members of the Peake family committed crimes, and Earl Landau He was still merciless even when he started.

Now the rest of the people didn't dare to pretend to be smart anymore and disobeyed the military orders.

Earl Randall watched this scene quietly, and said to his son beside him:

"When Giles Gardener VII was on his way to conquer the Stormlands, he was constantly harassed by the Stormman's light cavalry in the imperial forest. After walking for two months, he couldn't get out of the forest. In the end, the soldiers' hearts were broken, their logistics was cut off, and they were defeated. return."

Samwell nodded thoughtfully:

"That's why we can't get entangled with the people of the storm, and we must get out of this jungle as soon as possible?"

"right."