Game of Thrones: Holy Flame King

The destruction of the king's front army was only the bloody beginning of this encounter.

Ser Kevan Lannister, king of the central army, had no luck in his mind after hearing the news.

The Stormlanders couldn't hold back the Riverbend army at all in the royal forest.

While cursing the stormy nobles in his heart for being unreliable, he was also making his last effort.

Although he already knew that this temporarily recruited "big army" was doomed to perish under the iron heels of the people of Hewan, but Kefeng felt that at least it would cause some trouble and casualties to the people of Hewan.

In this way, he and the rest of the royal nobles could take advantage of the chaos and escape back to King's Landing.

Therefore, Kaifeng immediately ordered the entire army to gather, and arranged the mules and horses hauling the luggage around the army to form a simple line of defense for solid defense.

It's a pity that the people from Hewan came too fast.

In other words, Wang Ling's front army was defeated too quickly, and it was defeated almost in a blink of an eye, without any time for the main force in the rear.

And Samwell's tactics are based on speed as the top priority, and they don't intend to give the enemy a chance to react and prepare.

When the black cavalry spread like a tide, the ground began to tremble.

This horrific scene plunged these cruel recruits who had just been recruited, had little training, and had never seen a real battlefield into panic and confusion.

Some people simply just ran away and started running backwards.

This kind of chaos spread quickly, the soldiers pushed and trampled each other, the chariots and horses rolled and fell to the ground, screaming one after another, and the sky was full of screams. Even if Kaifeng asked the military judges to strictly enforce the law and cut off several heads, they still couldn't stop it This confusion spreads.

This situation is actually no different from a rout.

When the untrained new army encountered elite iron cavalry on the wide wild plain, it was basically declared destroyed.

Even if this new army has an absolute advantage in numbers.

No matter how many sheep there are, they are no match for a lion.

At this time, Samwell encountered some small troubles.

In order to strive for speed, he did not take any rest after defeating the enemy's front army, so he ordered to move on.

Under such circumstances, the formation of the Hewan cavalry army has changed, and even some small confusions have appeared.

But Samwell didn't panic. He knew that there would inevitably be some situations in large-scale cavalry group operations.

At this time, it may not be a wise choice to make too many adjustments to the army, but it will easily lead to greater chaos.

Therefore, he simply followed the current formation and ordered the heavy cavalry to sit in the center of the town and move forward slowly, while the light cavalry rushed in from the two wings.

These adjustments were made while maintaining the advance. Samwell's strategy remained unchanged, which was to use the advantage of the speed of the cavalry to rush over and defeat the enemy when they were too flustered to line up.

A few miles away, the right flank of the Reach Cavalry was the first to make contact with the enemy.

Commanding the light cavalry was Ser Garth Hightower the Gray Iron, second son of Lord Hightower, lord of Oldtown.

Sir Garth inherited the calm personality of the Hightower family. Even though he saw the large-scale riots in the enemy army, he did not rush to charge. Instead, he took the bow and arrow first, held it high above his head, and ordered: :

"Riding and shooting harassment! Riding and shooting harassment!"

At the same time, Sir Garth turned his horse's head and led the army to make a turn, thus avoiding the front of the king's army, roaring through the fields beside the king's road, and circled to the right side of the enemy army.

During the gallop, the sound of bowstrings rang out, and arrows shot up from the right-wing formation of the Hewan cavalry like a rainstorm, and fell towards the formation of Wang's army, forming a large shadow on the ground.

The royal army immediately suffered heavy casualties.

These temporarily recruited recruits lacked weapons and equipment, not to mention leather armor, and did not even have uniform military uniforms. In addition, under the panic and chaos, the array was also uneven, and they suddenly encountered the most classic cavalry attack. Casualties can be imagined.

Countless arrows kept falling into the dense infantry camp with frightening howling sounds, leaving them nowhere to hide.

The puffing sound of arrows piercing into flesh and blood was so dense that it stimulated the psychological defense of the already extremely fragile recruits.

Pieces of royal soldiers fell to the ground like ears of wheat in a strong wind. Pieces of bright red blanks appeared in the army formation, and a large number of lives disappeared without a trace in an instant.

At the same time, Sir Oman of the Peake family was in command of the left-wing cavalry of the River Bend. He also led the army to launch the same cavalry and shooting attack to test the situation of the king's army.

As a result, it was naturally discovered that this army was really just like Samwell said, almost all of them were newly recruited recruits, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low.

So, after confirming this, Sir Oman drew out his long sword decisively, raised it above his head, and shouted:

"Rush! Rush up!"

He clamped the horse's belly tightly, and at the same time completely let go of the rein, allowing the horse to rush to the forefront of the army.

The sound of shouting and killing went straight into the sky, almost overshadowing the sound of rumbling horseshoes.

Under the brave leadership of Sir Oman, the sturdy river bay cavalry drew out their sharp steel knives one after another.

As the general flag was suddenly inserted into the formation of the king's army, the follow-up river bay cavalry also rolled up.

At this time, the king's left-wing army formation was already in chaos, and they were completely unable to cope with the sudden attack of the Hewan cavalry, even if it was only the light cavalry.

In a series of collisions, a large number of royal soldiers were knocked down, and the raised scimitars fell like waves, blood spattered, heads rolled around, and stumps and broken arms flew around.

The shrill screams merged into one piece, but they were drowned out by all kinds of noisy voices on the battlefield.

At this time, Samwell finally led the heavy cavalry to kill.

Seeing that the two wings of the king's army had collapsed, he didn't hesitate any longer, and without making any temptations, he directly led the army to rush in from the front of the enemy's position.

Rows of heavy armored cavalry, like steel monsters, tore through the frontal defense of the king's army with an incomparably domineering posture, crushing all obstacles in front of them.

In an instant, the entire royal army completely collapsed.

It took less than half an hour from the time the two armies met to when the king's soldiers abandoned their formation and fled in groups in opposite directions.

It was almost two rounds of charging, and the king's army was declared defeated.

And once it starts to collapse, it will trigger a chain avalanche reaction, and no one can save it.

In fact, in such a short period of time, the casualties caused by the Hewan cavalry are at most a few thousand people, which is not too much damage to an army of more than 50,000 people. If they can really stabilize their formation and resist desperately, maybe they will die Can force the river bay cavalry back.

But this is obviously impossible.

The recruits who gathered hastily did not have this kind of courage and quality. They had no idea that at such a time, the fate of escaping would actually be even worse.

After the Hewan cavalry defeated the king's army, they chased and killed the deserters like driving a flock of sheep.

And these driven deserters took advantage of the situation to break through the rear army's formation, and finally formed an unorganized rout. Like headless flies, they left pieces of corpses and all kinds of messy weapons and fled in all directions.

As far as the eye can see, the entire King's Road has been dyed a dazzling blood red.

Samwell slowed down the speed of the horse, and ordered the cavalry under his command to form a small team of a hundred people to disperse and chase the defeated army, demanding that the king's army must be wiped out within the territory of the storm.

And he himself pitched camp in the nearby fields.

Teams of king-led soldiers were sent here one after another.

By the time the sun set, the number of surrendered soldiers had exceeded 20,000, and nearly a hundred knights from royal families such as Lake, Stokeworth, Harvard, and Staunton were captured at the same time, and this number is still increasing among.

Obviously, Wang Lingjun has already begun to surrender systematically.

After waiting in place for two days, Earl Landau also led the main force of the Hewan North Army to join them. At this time, the number of prisoners had reached more than 30,000.

"It's a pity that Kevan Lannister couldn't be caught." Samwell said with some regret.

This person is the younger brother of Duke Tywin, the number two figure in the Lion family, although his reputation is not good, but his ability is actually quite outstanding.

If Kefeng could be caught, the old lion would probably give an extremely generous ransom.

Earl Landau didn't care, and said: "These kings and nobles have taken enough captives. Send someone to negotiate, and they should be able to get you a lot of ransom."

Because this annihilation battle was commanded by Samwell, strictly speaking, those captives also belonged to him, and he could take the bulk of the ransom in exchange.

"Well. What about the other soldiers? Especially those recruits recruited from King's Landing, it is estimated that the Lannister family will not give them a copper coin."

"Then release them back." Earl Randall said, "However, we must first negotiate with the Lannister family and let the other party expressly refuse to redeem these people. Then tell the prisoners the news before releasing them."

Samwell nodded thoughtfully: "You are trying to make the people of King's Landing hate the Lannister family."

"Yes." Earl Randall admitted frankly, "In fact, Lannister's reputation in King's Landing is already very bad. When Tywin captured King's Landing and allowed his subordinates to burn, kill and loot, the people of King's Landing have not forgotten it."

"Okay. I'll arrange someone to do it now." Samwell responded with a smile.

He suddenly felt that using this method to incite the people of King's Landing to be hostile to the Lannister family was quite a good method. He remembered that in the original book, there was a public riot in King's Landing, and the lords in the Red Castle were almost beaten to death on the street by the rioters.

I hope that this time, the people of King's Landing will not disappoint him.