Chapter 838: Position, Position, We Love You

The next morning, the weather in the warm late March turned from sunny to cloudy, and the temperature dropped sharply overnight.

The wet and cold morning wind made the tent rustle. While munching on fried eggs and sausages, Jessica heard the footsteps of little Hart, whose head was wrapped in gauze.

“Sir Jeshka, the Leia scouts have entered the sentry alert range.”

Jeshka calmly put a piece of sausage into his mouth and asked as he ate, “How many people are you expecting?”

Little Hart recalled: “Mr. Bernardo is still compiling intelligence and preliminarily estimated the number of people to be 10,000.”

“Call back all the Wolf soldiers.” Jeshka picked up the cold beer and drank it all. “The cavalry should not engage in battle rashly. Just wander around the periphery of the battlefield.”

“Yes.”

“They estimate that they will arrive in two hours. I will take a nap and they will wake me up in three quarters of an hour.”

“clear.”

Accompanied by little Hart’s wolf howl, Jessica lay back on the bed and soon began to snore.

The officers who had been somewhat nervous and panic-stricken and had come to look for Jeshka calmed down when they heard the deafening snoring in front of the tent.

Thierry came to see Jessica, and when he heard the snoring, he couldn’t help but admire the general’s demeanor.

Facing such a powerful enemy, with so many heavy tasks to undertake, and thousands of lives at stake – not everyone can fall asleep in such a situation.

Could it be that Qianhe Valley is really a place chosen by God, where so many talented people can emerge so easily?

Around seven in the morning, after a good nap, Jeshka got up, held a meeting with the officers, made a mobilization speech, sang songs, and organized the team.

The old one-eyed man was almost bored of waiting when the scouts of Leia’s army finally appeared in his sight.

Little Hart couldn’t help but stand up and look towards the boundary between the hills and the sky.

Three scouts jumped out from behind the hill, flying the Blue Bee flag of the Leia royal family.

Standing on the mound and taking a few glances at the Wild Wolf Army’s position, they turned sideways, raised their heads, raised their trumpets, and puffed out their chests.

“Uuuuuu——”

The deep and dull sound of the horn echoed among the hills and slopes.

It was like the sound of a horn shaking the slope, the grass on the hill shook, and gravel fell down.

More soldiers and officers stood up involuntarily, and the dull expressions on their faces gradually turned into serious ones.

The signal apparently stopped, but the vibration did not.

Not only did it not stop, but it became louder and clearer.

As the first Leia Knight crossed the top of the hill, it was like water flooding the mountains, submerging the hills.

For a moment, the ridges of the surrounding hills were filled with the black silhouettes of the running Leia Knights.

Countless colorful swallowtail flags flew over the hills, rustling in the wind, just like countless colorful swallows flying towards us.

However, these colorful swallows are not heralding the arrival of spring, but rather death.

“It’s the Royal Army, the king’s direct army.” Thierry reminded Jessica.

The old one-eyed man remained silent, scanning the position in front of him without saying a word.

Three intermittent breast walls are staggered on this gentle slope, and there are stairs between the breast walls for easy climbing.

The entire breastwork defense line is about 200 meters wide, equivalent to the width of a battlefield where two infantry regiments are deployed.

On the steep sides of the breastwork, there are two horizontal formations to provide cover to prevent the Extraordinary Knights from attacking from the side.

There was also an earthen mound between the front and rear breast walls for placing clockwork cannons.

Twenty-eight triangular earth ramparts in three layers ensure that there are almost no blind spots for shooting.

Twenty-four three-pound falconry cannons and four six-pound sand sculpture cannons were placed on the earthen rampart.

They can hit targets at 300 meters, 200 meters, and 100 meters respectively. These cannons were calibrated and tested yesterday. The small flags on the ground are specially set up as markers.

Of course, that’s just on the surface.

“Play music.” After fastening the collar, Jessica adjusted the angle of the eye mask and said, “Get ready for battle.”

The military drums started beating, followed by the trumpets, which was the “March of the Salvation Army” that the Wild Wolf Army was most familiar with.

Amid the military music, the war monks who were originally resting or meditating returned to their pre-war state.

Through the breastworks and the dim light of the sky beneath the rolling clouds, they could see the Leia infantry slowly entering the arena.

At this time, Knight Leia, who had arrived earlier, had already ended his arrogant run and began to line up in a corner of the battlefield.

At a glance, there are estimated to be nearly three thousand people, among which the black-armored Imperial Order Company and the red-clad Royal Court Knights are the most conspicuous.

Running on the grass, the disorderly infantry of the Leia Kingdom Army walked down the hill.

Leading the group was a group of fat men wearing thin scale armor, and behind them were peasant soldiers driving carts carrying heavy tower shields.

This is the tower shield soldier unique to the Leia royal family, the king of infantry warfare who once used infantry to defeat cavalry.

Who would have thought that a hundred years later, these old tower shield soldiers would be able to shine on the battlefield again.

Behind them were rows of fairly neatly-organized ordinary infantrymen (land mercenaries) of the Kingdom of Leia. To be honest, their armor ratio was not low.

Most of them wore chain mail, which was chain mail with long strips of armor worn over it.

These armor plates are concentrated on the chest and back. They are not as good as pure knight armor but better than ordinary chain mail. They can be considered an economical and practical armor.

Among these land servants, you can also see the classic greatswordsman, whose functions are similar to those of the Wild Wolf Sergeant.

“Two national mercenary groups, three thousand knights, a scale of nearly ten thousand people.” The officers whispered to each other, but the team remained motionless.

“Awoo–” a wolf howl was heard. Everyone turned their heads and saw Little Hart standing on the muzzle of the gun, howling at the sky.

“Ouch——”

The distant wolf howl caused many wild wolf soldiers to respond.

Originally, it was only the Wild Wolf Soldiers who were howling, but as if it was contagious, the war monks all raised their necks and howled.

It was messy at first, but after two times, it became unusually neat.

“Ouch-ouch-“

Waves of wolf howls drowned out the snorting of the war horses, and many horses even kicked in fear.

Before Leia’s infantry could get close, the sound of thousands of wolves howling slowed down their steps a little.

Looking at the Leia army all over the mountains and valleys, Jeshka calmly started to sharpen his saber with a whetstone.

“Little Hart.”

“I am here, sir.”

Everyone’s eyes turned.

Thierry took out his notebook and wrote down every word and every order of Jessica in this war.

Jeshka looked straight into Little Hart’s eyes. “What do you think of the widow?”

Standing there in a daze, Little Hart obviously didn’t expect Jeshka to ask this question at this time.

Bernardo on the side held his forehead helplessly, just like Saint Sun before the battle.

Did Jeshka learn it from Shengsun, or did Shengsun learn it from Jeshka?
“The fight is about to start, hurry up… answer me! Look into my eyes!”

“I don’t reject it, but I don’t particularly like it either.” Little Hart subconsciously spoke the truth.

“That’s good.” Turning to the front battlefield, Jessica put the saber back into the sheath. “My stepdaughter’s husband was exiled to Black Snake Bay on a bloodless winter night. Come on, you better do your best.”

(End of this chapter)