. Maybe Raul's strategy worked, or maybe the headstrong king didn't care about such things at all. Anyway, when the army really arrived at Senedin, the royal capital, Raul finally felt relieved.
The city gates of the royal capital were wide open, and the king's army faced the direction of the enemy's coming, setting up camp with their backs against the city wall. The golden chariot flag of the cornflower royal family was also fluttering in the wind in the camp.
Raoul ordered the team to stop and set up camp about four miles away from the imperial camp. The conscripted farmers and farmhands provided by the lords began to get busy, and half of the paladins got on their horses and stood ready to guard against the harassment of the emperor.
But the king did not give such an order - he probably knew that Raul's army had not marched very long in the past two days and the soldiers were not considered tired, so he gave up such a plan.
The two armies looked at each other like this from afternoon to evening. The emperor took advantage of the occasional panic among Raoer's troops and took the opportunity to attack the position.
However, no obvious results were achieved. The harassing cavalry was forced back by Gongshu before they could rush to the camp.
After that, everything was peaceful again. At midnight, the emperor had no idea of ??a night attack. He just sent some conscripted peasants and drove them to the battlefield between the two armies, where they beat and blew the war drums in their hands. , trombone.
Of course, untrained farmers can't make any music, but it is noisy enough, and it makes people feel even louder in this silent night.
"Obviously, the king wanted to use this method to interfere with the rest of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
But such small means could not stop Raul. He called in some priests and wizards and asked them to work together to create a "silence barrier" to cover most of the tent.
So even though the drums were beating loudly outside, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition still had a peaceful sleep - at least, that was the case for most of the paladins.
Then. It was early morning the next day. The Northern Expedition finally kicked off. It¡¯s officially on!
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The weather here is very good. Under God's care. The sky was clear and cloudless. The soldiers of the Northern Expedition had eaten a lot early. But breakfast is quite high in calories. Started detachment under the command of the officer. They walked out of the camp one after another. Formed a formation outside.
Then two hundred spearmen from four brigades walked out of the team at the command of the commander. They spread out their formation. Fan-shaped. Trembling, he walked forward. He kept stabbing the surrounding ground with the simple spear in his hand. Look under this loess. Is there a fatal trap hidden?
Because the battlefield is not small. And because he was very scared. These spears took a lot of time. When they were exploring. The emperor made several more feint attacks. They were driven back a long distance.
Until Raul sent Simon and led more than eighty paladins to slowly walk onto the battlefield. Only in this way did the situation improve. They took courage. He walked hastily to the reserved position, which was still far away from the ultimate shooting range of the imperial archer. Finally heard the long-awaited command. He hurried before the opponent's spearmen came out. One by one, they dragged their spears and ran back.
After being frightened by the spears and swords of friendly forces, they reorganized their formation.
What happened next was a ritual that was carried out in almost every battle in the Western Continent.
A knight ran out of the emperor's camp. Holding a bright flag, he came to a position a hundred meters in front of the Northern Expeditionary Army. He dug the flag deeply into the soil, took a breath, and shouted loudly.
What the knight said was, of course, a boast about his monarch's righteousness. He accused Raul and other paladins of being poor people and degenerates who were tempted by "devils", while his monarch was the one who believed in the teachings of God the Father and was inspired by the Father. messenger!
In the end, he tried his best to persuade, "Put down your weapons and surrender to us! As long as you do this, our Majesty may be lenient and take you to pray to God the Father. Only then can you To be able to return to the arms of Father God!¡±
The knight shouted at the top of his lungs, but the effect was not very good - compared to this unknown stranger, most of the recruited farmers and soldiers from various countries obviously believed in their own eyes. You know, they had witnessed it with their own eyes. That trial! Before being recruited by their kings and lords, they were very willing to discuss the trial with their neighbors!
"That holy angel is more beautiful and holy" or "that holy angel has stronger power" are topics that can keep them talking for a long time!
So at this time, this group of pious people did not wait for the commander-in-chief of their own army to send a special envoy to refute the knight's words. They spontaneously held their ears and shouted in unison, "You guy, youIf you dare to do this, aren't you afraid that the prince like you before will be thrown into hell by the gods and suffer forever? "
Raul was also very satisfied with this scene. He was riding on horseback, proudly touching the mustache on his upper lip, and quietly winking at a bishop beside him.
The bishop understood and began to pray. After a while, he used the amplification technique.
At this time, the shouts of the soldiers could not help but make the knight turn pale. The emperor's camp in the distance could also be heard clearly, and there were signs of chaos.
Raul saw this image in his eyes and judged that the enemy's hearts on the opposite side were not uniform. Most of them must have been forced onto the battlefield by the bastard blasphemer, so he started to make a calculation.
He gestured again and asked the bishop to use the amplification technique on himself.
Raul stopped the guards from following him and rode his horse alone to the front of his army's formation. He cleared his throat, and a light cough sounded over the land.
Raul began to introduce himself to the enemy on the opposite side, "Fellow believers of my god, I am Raul Antonio, a warrior of my god, the first leader of the Paladin Knights, as promised by my Lord personally!"
"I am coming to your country this time, and the purpose of my visit must be very clear to you Yes, we are following God's will and are here to punish the blasphemers who disrespect God!" Raul said loudly, shouting loudly. It was deafening. He then recounted the many crimes of the blasphemer and the king, and at the last moment of his statement, he told people a shocking fact.
"As far as we know, your king is no longer a believer in God! He was tempted by the barbarian woman and abandoned his love and belief in God long ago, and turned to the embrace of demons and evil gods! Don't you know? Is that so? This blasphemer has long since begun to believe in that huge and evil wolf, just like those barbarians!"
Raul said this because he has not received a reply from Katniss until now. His understanding of the demon and the wolf is limited to his conversations with Carman and other Cornflower Lords. The understanding is not very deep, and I don't even know the name, so I have no way to make better use of it. I can only take it out now to disrupt the emperor's military morale.
And this did indeed work. Before he finished speaking, the Emperor's side was already commotion. His Majesty obviously couldn't ask Raul to continue talking, so he issued an order for the knights to move forward. Several large groups of spearmen rushed to the battlefield.
At the same time, when most of the attention was attracted by the movement of the opposite army, the knight standing in front of the Northern Expedition army could no longer resist the temptation. Come up to Commander Raul!