Unknown Knight

Aix, who was already quite shrewd, did not arrest Chief Mondhari immediately. Instead, he sent people to secretly find out the situation of Chief Mondhari and the movements of his more than one hundred defeated soldiers in the city.

This understanding really revealed the clues. The difference could be seen from the appearance of the more than one hundred defeated soldiers brought into the city by Chief Mondhari. They were not panic-stricken and scattered like ordinary defeated soldiers, or even without their armor and covered in dust. Instead, they gathered neatly in a villa of Chief Mondhari in the city.

The location of this villa is also very suspicious. It is near a city gate, less than a hundred meters away from the city gate. At such a close distance, with so many people fully armed and armored, it is enough to raid and seize the city gate.

Now that he knew the enemy's plot, it was impossible for Aix to not take advantage of it, given his temperament. So after some planning, he found Afanti, who was familiar with the area, and whispered to him...

Under Avanti's operation, the gate of Shariz, which was originally guarded by elite troops, was secretly replaced with slave soldiers of poor quality and poor armaments at dusk when the visibility was dim, especially the old and weak slave soldiers with the worst combat effectiveness.

At midnight, these gatekeepers with extremely poor quality became sleepy and dozed off around the fire near the city gate. They were easily killed by several elite soldiers who sneaked in.

The whole process went very smoothly, so smoothly that even Chief Mondhari felt it was too easy. However, he received a secret report in the afternoon that the Nubian prince's army had arrived in the dense forest outside the city, waiting for him to open the gates at night, and then raid and capture the city of Sharez, minimizing the losses in this battle.

At this moment, the army of the Nubian prince was outside the city. Chief Mondhari was so happy thinking about the huge reward he was about to receive that he didn't care about the strangeness in the process. Besides, he was still very confident in his people. He was not afraid even if there were changes. He had already controlled the city gate, and his men were all carefully selected elites. These people were enough to hold out until the arrival of the Nubian prince's army.

Soon the heavy city gate was slowly opened, and one of Chief Mondhari's personal guards, in accordance with the prior agreement, raised the torch in his hand high and shook it vigorously three times.

In a moment, the sound of rumbling horse hooves came from afar, and a large group of Mamluk cavalry wearing chain mail rushed into the city first.

These Mamluk cavalrymen were extremely ferocious. Both the men and the horses were like ferocious beasts that would choose their prey. They rampaged through the city, as if anyone who stood in their way would be bitten by them. Their momentum was extremely arrogant.

However, after chopping off a few door panels and setting fire to a few houses, these Mamluk cavalrymen discovered that the closer they got to the center of Sharez, the more crowded the main road they were on became. There were a lot of miscellaneous items piled up on both sides of the road, such as wooden carts full of goods, neatly stacked bricks, half-sawn logs, oak barrels full of beer, and so on.

These sundries piled up on the roadside give people a generally natural feeling, as if they were supposed to be placed there. Although messy, they are harmonious. However, at this moment, they seem a bit abrupt, eating away at the entire main road into pieces, like a winding and twisting path that can only accommodate two horses running side by side in the middle, and galloping is impossible.

When the Mamluk cavalrymen who were leading the way felt something strange, they came to a T-junction ahead. They had to slow down and stop their horsepower in order to turn left and continue to march towards the royal palace in the city.

But the scene after turning the corner shocked all the Mamluk cavalry. It turned out that there was a low wall half a person's height built on the road in front of them. Behind the low wall were densely packed with fully armed soldiers, who were waiting for the arrival of the Mamluk cavalry with bows and arrows drawn.

This low wall is only more than ten meters away from the T-junction. The horse cannot accelerate at such a distance, and it is impossible to jump over the low wall. The most important thing now is to turn the horse's head and retreat.

But now they could no longer achieve their wish. The inconspicuous debris on the main road finally showed their sinister fangs. The crowded space made it impossible for the Mamluks to even turn half a horse's body. All the Mamluk cavalry immediately panicked.

At this moment, the soldiers on the opposite side who were ready for battle also started to attack. After a series of "bang, bang, bang", dense arrows shot the dozen or so Muruk cavalrymen on horseback into hedgehogs.

Not only that, the houses on both sides of the main road were filled with archers, slingers, and Sarranid light infantry holding javelins. Arrows, stones, and javelins rained down on them all at once. The Mamluk cavalry, who were invincible on the battlefield, were beaten and screamed in agony, looking miserable.

It turned out that after Aix saw through Chief Mondhari's rebellion, he took advantage of the situation and personally planned and formulated this strategy. The main purpose was to lure the enemy into the city and destroy them, especially the Mamluk cavalry that he was very afraid of.

These Mamluk cavalrymen are said to be born from slaves, and have been strictly selected since childhood and trained in combat skills. They are only used as combatants. Some perverted lords even castrate these selected Mamluks from childhood, just so that they can concentrate on practicing combat skills without distraction. Fighting has become the only meaning of their existence. They can be said to be the ancient version of professional soldiers, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

During the previous siege of Sharez by Aix, the two princes Nubia and Azzam who escaped were both protected by dozens of Mamluk guards, which indirectly proved their terrifying fighting power.

The only ones on this continent who can fight against this elite cavalry are the Swadian Knights of the Swadian Kingdom. They are the only two top cavalry on the continent of Calradia.

Aix was well aware of the power of these Mamluk cavalry, so he rushed back from Fort Migach overnight. One of the reasons was that he was afraid of encountering a large group of Mamluk cavalry in the wild. Then, lacking cavalry, the team he led would likely be defeated by the elite Mamluk cavalry.

After discovering Chief Mondhari's betrayal, Aix's plan against the Nubian prince's army was mainly based on how to defeat these core Mamluk cavalry.

Aix, who knew the characteristics of cavalry combat, finally decided to set up an ambush on the main road from the city gate to the palace. He first asked Afan to come forward and contact some local merchants. On the pretext that the purchased goods would be taken away early the next morning, he asked them to pile up the ordered goods on both sides of the main road in advance, and then pile some bricks and tiles at key nodes for reinforcement. Several branch roads connecting to the main road were also blocked after a certain distance from the main road.

In this way, Aix inadvertently designed the entire main road into a stranglehold specifically targeting the Mamluk cavalry in this unnoticed way.