Unknown Knight

Seeing Aix being escorted back by the Prophet Guard led by James, Lord Humamu knew Aix's position in the enemy camp. If he could behead Aix or even insult his body in public, it would definitely deal a fatal blow to the enemy's morale, so he shouted:

"Charge forward, and whoever gets the false prophet's head will be rewarded with 100 gold coins and 100 acres of good land by the river."

This reward was a huge fortune for the nobles, and no less than heaven-shattering wealth for ordinary people. The Berbera soldiers shouted "Oh!" and rushed desperately towards the Prophet Guards who were protecting Aix.

Seeing this, the four generals, led by Bestur, Niza, Matilde and Zeb, hurriedly led their teams to stop them. Compared to ordinary people, the four generals were not only extremely powerful but also extremely fast, and each of them had top martial arts skills of this era.

Moreover, the four of them had a very good understanding of each other and automatically divided the work. Niza and Matilde each led a few Prophet Guards to hold shields in the front to block the enemy, while Bestur and Zeb held bows and arrows with a few elite archers to support the rear. Any enemies that gathered together and gradually formed a force would be suppressed by them with precision like a storm, and their arrogance would be extinguished directly with continuous rain of arrows.

Soon more and more follow-up troops came into contact with the enemy and effectively blocked the Berbera soldiers' attempt to snatch Aix's body. The two sides' troops collided with each other and a melee broke out.

The morale of the Berbera side was high. With the joy of victory in sight, they fought more and more bravely. Moreover, their total number was about one-third more than that of the Aix camp. They began to infiltrate from both sides and had a tendency to surround this side.

On the Aix camp, although Aix was attacked and his life or death was unknown, everyone was filled with resentment at being deceived and determined to fight to the death. Not only was their momentum not weaker than the enemy, they also steadily suppressed the enemy and fought back and forth with the enemy despite the numerical disadvantage.

In addition, the four generals charged forward and fought bravely, playing a good role in leading and inspiring. As the saying goes, the general is the courage of the soldiers. Although Aix was ambushed by the enemy and his life or death was unknown, the four generals who led the way were very brave in killing the enemies and beheading the generals. The panicked soldiers seemed to have found their backbone and slowly stabilized the formation.

As the battle continued, the benefits of focusing on training became apparent. Soldiers on the Aix side usually conducted formation coordination training, and their fighting style was mainly to kill the enemy in formation. After the initial chaos caused by the charge, the soldiers of the Aix camp began to consciously form formations to fight. Even if some soldiers could not find their original formations due to the chaos, they would cooperate with each other to form formations, or automatically join the nearest formation to fight.

The four generals not only took the lead in fighting to boost the morale of the army, but also tacitly distributed themselves everywhere to be responsible for command and reorganization. Soon the soldiers of the Aix camp recovered from the melee and formed arrays of varying sizes to fight. The four generals also coordinated to make these arrays larger and smaller, and to make the strong help the weak, and gradually form a complete team of one hundred people.

The hundred-man team forming a complete array was like a stubborn rock in the river cutting through the waves. No matter how the Berbera soldiers attacked, it was difficult to be broken. Even if the enemy concentrated its superior forces to attack a certain array, the four generals would promptly command the nearby arrays to approach for support. This allowed the Aix camp, which was not at an advantage in terms of manpower, to slowly stabilize the situation, and the proportion of casualties was far lower than that of the Berbera side.

It was just that the soldiers and nobles in Berbera made a wrong judgment. They all believed that since the prophet Aix was dead, the opponent's camp would collapse sooner or later. Now the Aix camp was fighting in a conservative and defensive manner, which was a manifestation of weakness and would not last long.

In addition, they had a large number of people, and their loose attack method made their numbers seem even larger compared to the dense array of the Aix camp. They had almost completely surrounded the Aix camp, which further increased their belief in victory.

The Lord of Humamu, who believed victory was in sight, even issued an order promising a huge reward: 20 silver coins for anyone who killed one enemy. Once the order spread, the soldiers of Berbera were like chicken blood, and their passion for fighting was even higher.

Both sides relied on their own advantages to fight fiercely, but although the Aix camp had an advanced formation, they had fewer people and their formation attack was relatively conservative, which made them somewhat passive.

Although the Berbera camp's attack was disorganized, they had the advantage in numbers, and their fighting passion was also high. They were also relatively flexible in launching attacks and always took the initiative. This made them mistakenly believe that as long as they tried hard, they might soon win. As a result, this wrong idea caused the two sides to fight from dawn until dark.

Passion always fades. One of the great advantages of the Aix camp forming an array to fight is that after the fighters in the front row of the array are tired after fighting to a certain extent, they can retreat, and the soldiers in the back row can take turns to rest. They can even eat a few bites of marching rations when they are extremely hungry. This makes their ability to continue fighting particularly strong.

Later, after gradually stabilizing the battle line, the various arrays of the Aix camp, under the command of the four generals, began to cooperate with each other to use the advantages of the array to squeeze, besiege, and strangle the enemy, achieving very good results in killing the enemy, and there was a subtle trend of counter-attack.

On the other hand, the Berbera camp began to show signs of decline after their blood and courage were exhausted. Their fierce initial attack did achieve some results, but they failed to break the centurion formations of several Aix camps. Some small groups of soldiers who broke into the formations were later divided and eliminated by the coordinated centurion formations, resulting in a lot of losses in vain.

In the end, the situation became increasingly unfavorable for the Berbera camp. In the transition from offense to defense, the hundred-man formation of the Aix camp, under the command of the four generals, began to cooperate with each other, advancing in an alternating manner and achieved very good results.

Seeing that the Berbera camp was about to suffer a major defeat, the Lord of Humamu became anxious and even sent out the elite warriors who had recently been recruited from the Lord of Ghalib.

Humamu City Lord had heard of these elite warriors before. They were all powerful characters who could fight ten enemies at least. They were trained by Ghalib City Lord at great expense for many years. Each of them had a very strong fighting ability. This time, taking advantage of the war between the two sides, Humamu City Lord coaxed and threatened Ghalib City Lord to hand them over. Finally, he gritted his teeth and paid 1,500 gold coins in exchange for the right to use these elite warriors.

These elite warriors were originally used by the Lord of Humamu to protect himself. Now the situation is urgent and it is time to use them. Although there are less than two hundred of them, they are an extremely brave new force. As soon as they rushed into the battlefield, they quickly stabilized the declining trend of the Berbera camp and broke through two hundred-man formations of the Aix camp.

However, it was already late at night, visibility was poor, and the battle situation became more unpredictable. Neither side dared to risk everything and fight to the end, so they had to blow the horn of withdrawal and stop fighting, while gathering their troops and slowly retreating.