Unknown Knight

Chapter 366

At dawn, Aix, who lived in the main castle, hurried to the first checkpoint.

When the war broke out at night, he was about to come here, but was desperately stopped by Bandak, Resarit and others, who said that the situation was unclear and as a lord it was not easy to take risks.

At this time, the battle situation had been counted. More than 30 of our sentinels on the city wall were almost wiped out, and more than 20 people died directly. Fortunately, nine seriously injured were rescued in time by James and Nana. Together with the casualties of the array infantry, a total of 28 people died, 22 were seriously injured, and 17 were slightly injured.

If the casualties were just an ordinary night raid, they would have been heavy. Fortunately, a captured senior Kugit cavalry archer told him that the attackers were the elite among the Kugit elites - the Blue Wolf Guard. It was this elite force directly under the command of Saiga Khan that led the night raid and broke through the city defenses so easily, causing such serious losses. Aix had heard of the Blue Wolf Guard's name, and he felt better when he heard that it was them who came out.

The enemy also suffered heavy losses in this battle. Among them, the Canglang Guards suffered 24 casualties, two of whom were seriously injured and unconscious. If nothing unexpected happened, they would probably be beyond help. Thirty-five veteran horse archers died, most of them were burned to death by flaming oil. Three were seriously injured and captured, not counting the wounded who escaped.

If the enemy's night attack had not been adequately prepared in advance, it might have been out of control. After understanding the entire war process, Aix couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back. He didn't expect the enemy's attack to be so sharp.

Considering that the soldiers on duty had just experienced an intense battle, Axe ordered them to go down and rest, and the second batch of soldiers rotating from the third shift should take over as soon as possible to be ready to respond to new attacks by the enemy at any time.

However, the enemy seemed frustrated by the failure of the night raid and did not take any military action for the whole day. This made Aix nervous and he kept sending scouts to gather information.

At night, intelligence sent back by the scouts showed that the enemy camp was very quiet, and apart from the constant dispatch of messengers to the rear, there was almost no other movement.

This made Aix feel even more uncertain, so he had to order the entire army to be on high alert to prevent the enemy from taking any new actions.

However, a night passed without any incidents until noon the next day, when a dusty messenger came to the castle and brought the latest news from Castle Lerag.

It turned out that the enemy had launched a surprise attack on Fort Lerag last night. They tried to capture the castle under the cover of darkness, but failed. As a result, they sent out a large group of cavalry to rush through the avenue in front of the castle.

Fort Lelag is not as important as Fort Sajiche. There is only a checkpoint with a city wall crossing the road on the trade road outside the fort. The enemy cavalry used three draft horses to drag battering rams to attack the wall of the village, and almost broke through the gate of the village with the battering rams.

Now the territory's military forces are almost all on the front line. Even Kudan City and Tangquan Fortress have only a small number of soldiers and auxiliary militia guarding the city, which is no different from an empty shell. If such a large group of cavalry really rushes into the territory, it will be a complete mess and will definitely cause immeasurable losses.

Fortunately, Aix sent a messenger to notify the place to be defensive overnight. The garrison commander, Sir Ran Hu, was born in Khergit, and was more familiar with the Khergit tactics. He immediately ordered the village gate to be completely sealed from the inside with stones. Anyway, the weather was getting colder, and it would not be long before the mountains were closed by heavy snow, and not much commercial tax could be collected. For safety reasons, it would be better to completely seal the village gate.

Unexpectedly, this move played a big role at the critical moment. One of the purposes of the enemy coming here was to break through the checkpoints so as to go deep into the territory and wreak havoc. However, after they broke through the wooden gate with great effort, they despairingly discovered that the back was filled with large stones. Knowing that the plan could not be realized, the Kugit people left behind dozens of corpses and retreated in a very embarrassed manner.

After listening to the messenger's report, and then opening the sealed envelope to read Ran Hu's handwritten letter, Aix finally felt relieved and at ease.

It's just that the expected attack from the enemy has been broken, but he doesn't know what measures the Kugit people will take next. Everything has returned to an unpredictable state, and the cloud of worry has unknowingly climbed onto his brows again.

This made him doubt himself for a moment. He wondered if his decision to attack the Kugits was too hasty. He should have done more detailed intelligence reconnaissance in advance and waited for the best time to send troops.

But on second thought, there is no such thing as the best timing. There will definitely be new loopholes and new problems emerging at that time. Current affairs are always unpredictable. The opportunity you wait for may not be the right opportunity, but may also be a trap prepared by the enemy.

Throughout history, if you think about it carefully, all the people who have emerged as a rising star are a group of people who break the rules and face challenges head-on. They have the courage to face challenges and take the initiative, which ultimately allows them to take the initiative, change the course of the situation, and ultimately achieve great things.

If you want to achieve something, you must do this. Fantasizing about the leisurely and smooth process of things falling into place naturally is something that only the second and third generations are qualified to have. As an entrepreneur, you must not be afraid of hardships and difficulties and must boldly move forward.

Thinking of this, Aix felt relieved. He thought that Sega Khan was just a Hu chieftain who had fled here. How could he be so talented? Otherwise, with the chaos in the continent of Calradia, he would have unified the world long ago. He should not worry too much about him. He just needed to be well defended and respond to changes with the same attitude.

The fact was just as Aix had thought. At this time, Saiga Khan was at a loss. He was under much more pressure than Aix. The failures in the first two battles of Vigeria had already made him lose the support of the people. Afterwards, he did not handle the matter of Aichmor well, which offended Tojunayan badly. As a result, Tojunayan's family became estranged from him and disobeyed his orders in public, which directly reduced the strength of the entire Khanate by at least 30%.

Now that Sachiche Fort has been lost again, if he cannot recapture it, his position as Khan will be really unstable.

To this end, he did not hesitate to mobilize the entire country and treated this war as a national war. After finally gathering so many troops, he even dispatched his most precious Canglang Guards, but they could not even take the two checkpoints outside the castle, and the surprise troops on the side failed to break through the defense line of Lelag Castle.

He really has no other options now. A frontal attack is not impossible, but regardless of whether he can capture the castle or not, he will definitely suffer heavy losses.

Ask his subordinates to send troops to take over? Not to mention that many powerful Na Yans would not agree to do so. Even if they did, once the casualties were too heavy, these Na Yans would simply not give him face and might even turn around and withdraw. In this day and age, having soldiers in hand is the kingly way.

Send his own soldiers? He didn't dare to do that now. The Canglang Guard's night attack was already the most powerful attack he could make, and he had failed in this way, and he had lost nearly a hundred of his elite soldiers in one fell swoop.

Especially the twenty-six Canglang Guards. You have to know that over the years, he had only gathered more than a hundred Canglang Guards, and in this battle he lost a quarter of them. It would be strange if he didn't feel pain. Once his own military losses were too heavy, he would be a real threat.

"How can we break the impasse?"

In the big tent, Saiga Khan talked to himself, staring at the map of Sageche Fort and studying it repeatedly, but his eyes moved unconsciously to the top of Sageche Fort, and the name of Aichemol City came into view.