"Report~ Lord Knight, the Xia army has arrived outside the town!"

Ian was shocked when he received the news. It was incredible that Xia Guo's actions were so fast.

"It turned out to be the Xia army's knights." Ian climbed the simple city walls of the town. Seeing the Xia army outside the town just together, he breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't believe that cavalry alone could capture the town with the city walls.

If the rest of the Xia army came outside the town, Ian had to fight to the death, but since the Xia army came with cavalry, he would have nothing to worry about.

Ian admitted that the Knights of Xia Kingdom were very powerful, but that was only in the wild. As long as he couldn't stand, the cavalry of Xia Kingdom would be unable to do anything. Could it be that the cavalry of Xia Kingdom could still use war horses to trample the city wall?

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It was already evening when Huo Qubing led the cavalry brigade outside Stark Town. He was originally here to try to see if he could attack, but looking at the town that was guarding strictly, he had no choice but to order: "Retreat ten miles."

It was already so late today, and there was no chance of sneak attack. Even if you wanted to attack the city, you had to wait for dawn tomorrow. So Huo Qubing ordered the cavalry brigade to retreat five kilometers again and prepare for one night to repair.

There was nothing wrong all night, and Stark Town did not come to steal the camp. Although Huo Qubing was not sure about the enemy's actions, he still had to prepare for it.

Early the next morning, when Huo Qubing brought the cavalry brigade to the outside of the town again, the enemy immediately climbed the city wall to prevent the attack of the cavalry brigade.

"Haha~ Do you think that with such a broken city wall, you can block this general?" Huo Qubing laughed and said to Liu Qi: "Staff General Liu, give me the gift I gave them!"

"Yes, general, I think the enemy will be very satisfied with this gift." Liu Qi bowed his fists and continued meaningfully, then waved to the back.

Immediately, three hundred light cavalry rushed out of the array and rushed towards the town.

"Oh, I didn't expect to be afraid of death." Ian looked at the Xia cavalry who came to attack early in the morning. He felt incredible and was very alert. Seeing hundreds of cavalry rushing out from the opposite side, he immediately ordered: "Prepare for defense."

The three hundred light cavalry were about to hit the city wall, but when they were still more than ten meters away from the city wall, they turned together and accelerated and galloped backward.

Ian carefully saw that when these Xia cavalry turned around, they threw a black cloth bag at the city wall. It looked like that, the cloth bag was not light, and it seemed that it was still smoking.

Looking at the cloth bag with blue smoke on the heels of the city wall, Ian instinctively told him that he was at risk and stayed away from this thing.

Ian shouted "Run!" and took two steps at a time, rushing down the city wall quickly, but before he could run a few steps, Ian felt a shaking wave and fell to the ground immediately with a "boom~".

The loud noise in my ear made Ian a little deaf, sitting on the ground with dizziness. After a moment, a voice came quickly from a distance: "Captain Knight...Captain Knight~!"

Ian stood up with the help of the guards and asked to the somewhat anxious knight in front of him, "What's going on?"

"Master Knight, the city wall has collapsed, the Xia army has attacked the city!" The Knight repeated this sentence again and said that he had reported several times.

Ian had already responded to this matter. He listened to the shouts of killing everywhere in his ears and hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up and organize soldiers to fill the collapsed place."

"Master Knight, the city wall has collapsed three times, it's too late!" After the Knight said this, he suddenly saw that Ian's eyes were a little wrong, as if he had seen something that scared him very much.

Immediately afterwards, a clear sound of horse hooves came from the Knight's ears. He knew what Ian saw behind him, and the Knight's face had become extremely desperate.

"Puff~" with a sound, a knife light passed by, and the knight's head separated in an instant. The next second, a pillar of blood spurted out several meters from his upright neck, and the falling blood drips sprinkled all over Ian and his faces.

It turned out that a cavalry in Xia Kingdom rushed over and slashed at the knight from behind. The skillful knife was as fast, ruthless and accurate as it was.

But because the horse was too fast, the cavalry had only time to swing this sword and galloped past Ian, making him lucky to save his life.

Suddenly, the Xia cavalry rushed into the town and killed everyone they saw. Whether it was a knight in armor or a civilian holding farm tools, they quickly cleaned up under the attack of the cavalry brigade.

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"General, this town has been captured, but the enemy's commander has not been found." Just after noon, Liu Qi reported the battle results to Huo Qubing.

Huo Qubing stood in a gap that was blown up by black gunpowder, looked at the thick smoke in the town, and said in confusion: "He escaped? It's really good luck."

After all, there are less than 10,000 soldiers in the Cavalry Brigade, so it is normal for the enemy commander to escape from chaos when attacking with all their might.

Huo Qubing didn't care much about this. It would be better if he caught it, and it didn't matter if he was escaped. Anyway, the attack has come to this point, so the subsequent things will be simple.

Huo Qubing seemed to have thought of something and asked Liu Qi: "Staff General Liu, how many packs of gunpowder do we have left?"

"General, there are not many more people, and it's not enough to attack the city like this." Liu Qi told Huo Qubing's inquiry truthfully.

Before the raid, Huo Qubing made full preparations. He knew that siege by cavalry alone would be a joke, but with the sharp weapon for siege, it would be different.

Before leaving, he specially found Li Jing and applied for 500 packs of black gunpowder. Each pack of black gunpowder weighed about ten kilograms and was carried by one cavalryman in one pack, which could not occupy much place or increase much weight.

But today's attack consumed 300 packs of black gunpowder at one time, leaving only 200 packs, which was less than a brigade's charge.

"That's it...!" Huo Qubing pondered for a moment and ordered: "Collect the food and grass in the town and continue to set out tomorrow morning."

"Yes, General." The commander who followed Huo Qubing immediately received the order and then rode his horse to the town to convey orders to the various battalions of the cavalry brigade.

"Is the general planning..." Liu Qi said with some uncertainty when he heard Huo Qubing's order: "Is this too anxious?"

"Don't you hurry, won't you set out tomorrow?" Huo Qubing didn't want to delay more in this dilapidated town. He was thinking about the capital of the Baxter Kingdom.

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"You, yes, it's you." Ian said to a guard riding wildebeest: "Raise immediately and hurry back and report to the monarch, saying that Stark Town has been captured by the Xia army and request reinforcements."

Ian had just escaped from the town and saw that there were no pursuers from Xia Kingdom behind him, so he immediately asked the guards to go to the capital to report the news.

Since he saw the knight with his own eyes cut off his head by the Xia army's cavalry less than a meter in front of him and was sprayed with blood, he has no courage to sacrifice himself for his revenge. He just wants to survive now!

At this moment, Ian, with blood on his face, rode wildebeest, exhausted towards the opposite direction of Stark Town. After a day of rest, his body and mind that had finally recovered was hit again.

The dejected Ian lost the confident expression of the past. I guess even an ordinary Xia soldier can make him escape in panic.
Chapter completed!