Unknown Knight

Seeing her own army trapped in a jar, Katia revealed her feminine attitude. She was so frightened that she could not speak, her whole body stiffened, and her legs unconsciously clamped tightly against the horse's belly, causing the horse under her to snort restlessly and spin back and forth in place, but she could not take any action and could only watch as the defenders surrounded her.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, there was someone who was unwilling to give in. It was Rolf, the leader of the Xibe Hammer of Justice Mercenary Group. It was said that this guy was an illegitimate child born after a noble exercised his right of first night. No one knew whether he was the child of the noble who took the first place from his mother. Anyway, he thought so himself.

Rolf was born with great strength. As he grew older, he used his strength to overpower others and acted violently. He became a bully who caused trouble among his neighbors. Later, he angered his farmer father to death and also killed his mother. However, before her death, his mother told him about his bizarre life experience. From then on, he seemed like a different person and soon left his hometown to venture out into the world.

During this period he suffered a lot and even became a bandit to make a living. Later he was bewitched by Airen, who said that if he followed him he would have a chance to become a noble in the future. So he joined Airen's bounty hunter team and became a bounty hunter.

Later, the Nords invaded and Ailen returned to the service of his father, Lord Iden. However, Rolf was used to freedom and was unwilling to join the Nord army as cannon fodder, so he led several bounty hunters who had the same idea as him to set up their own business and resume their old business.

He was a rough but meticulous man with high fighting skills. He quickly made a name for himself among bounty hunters. As his reputation grew, his bounty hunter team became larger and larger, with nearly a hundred people and as many as a hundred and fifty horses.

The larger the team, the greater the expenses and pressure, but Rolf's ambition also grew. His background made him always dream of being an aristocrat, and he always called himself a nobleman to the outside world in order to make others recognize his aristocratic identity.

However, it is not so easy to get recognition as a noble. For this reason, he worked hard to accept bounty missions issued by the nobles, and even did things for them for free, just to please the nobles and gain a good reputation in this class. He hoped that one day he would be able to obtain a fiefdom like Aix and become a real noble.

In the end, his efforts were not recognized by the nobles, and his flattery often earned him contempt or even disdain from the nobles. Unless they had no choice, the nobles would never allow new members into their circle, which was a tacit understanding they had reached in their hearts long ago.

Fortunately, when he led his team through Tismo County a year ago, he met Katia who was recruiting soldiers. At that time, Lady Katia, who had just obtained Tismo County with the support of King Yarogelk and was in urgent need of improving her strength, took a fancy to the hundreds of bounty hunters under Rolf and would never question his noble status. The two hit it off immediately, and Rolf became a dependent noble under Katia, and was also granted a small manor in Tismo County, fulfilling his dream of becoming a noble for many years.

After this, Rolf followed Katia's lead and, at Katia's request, formed the Xibe Hammer of Justice mercenary group with his own men. Under the name of Hammer of Justice, they robbed and plundered everywhere, doing all kinds of bad things. He used the proceeds from the looting to quickly expand his strength, expanding the size of the mercenary group to more than 300 people, becoming Katia's most trusted and capable general.

He had contributed the most to the power seizure in Kudan City today and had put all his men on the line, hoping to see if he could make further progress through this achievement. However, he did not expect to fall into an ambush set by Aix.

Rolf was unwilling to give up. After so many years of life and death, he finally got to where he is today. He knew very well that if he failed today, all his previous efforts would be wasted. How could he accept this? So he stood up and shouted loudly:

"Don't panic. There are only 500 people in Kudan City, and we have more than twice as many people as them. They don't have as many as us. If we charge forward and break up their formation, we will win. Kill them!"

As he spoke, he took the lead and rushed forward. His words were very effective. After all, everyone came with the mentality of winning. They were all looking forward to the reward after capturing the city. No one would give up easily. Seeing someone taking the lead, many followers followed, especially the confidants of Rolf's mercenary group. They followed closely behind and put up shields to protect his flanks.

Rolf was confident of his bravery and the weapon he used was a two-handed sword. He raised the sword and chopped down at the shield formation in front of him with all his might. After a loud "bang", although he failed to split the iron-covered shield, he left a deep sword mark on it.

The key point was that the blow was so powerful that the shield-bearing man saw stars and broke his arm. He could not stand and collapsed on the spot.

Seeing this, Rolf stepped on the tilted shield and stepped on both himself and the shield. He was about to swing left and right to tear the formation apart, when suddenly three or four spears came towards him and forced him back. The soldiers in the formation took the opportunity to drag the injured shield-bearer back into the formation, and new shield-bearers immediately stepped forward to fill the vacancy.

The first attack failed, so Rolf had to chop the shield formation with his sword again. The people following him also rushed to the front of the formation. Sparks flew immediately at the junction of the two armies, and the sound of weapons hitting shields continued.

Although the territory's trained array infantry cooperated very well and their combat power was definitely among the best on this continent, they were facing a group of people who were trapped in a desperate situation, and their martial arts were not bad either.

Especially the 150 Vigria guards supported by King Yarogerk. Each of them held a heavy moon-blade axe. This axe was powerful and could cause severe damage to shields. Often, after two or three blows, the iron-covered shield would be cracked.

There are also mercenaries under Rolf, who have previously pretended to be the Hammer of Justice mercenaries. Some of them use specially made oak hammers, which can cause considerable damage to shields. One hammer will leave a dent in the iron-covered shield, and after seven or eight hammer strikes, the shield-bearing man's iron-covered shield will be severely deformed.

In order to reduce the damage, Aix made this plan to surround the enemy. He thought that if these people were tightly surrounded, they would lose their will to resist, and they could be easily forced to land. Therefore, he did not launch an attack at the first time, but surrounded them. However, he ignored the willpower of people, especially the will to survive in desperate situations.

Inspired by this will, and with Rolf taking the lead, the two sides started fighting before the infantry in the formation could arrive so that he could persuade the enemy to surrender.

Moreover, the enemy's fighting spirit was high, and after a fierce charge and attack, they seemed to be breaking through the formation. Under the enemy's fierce attack, our side began to suffer casualties. If the situation continued to develop, the situation would most likely be reversed.

At this time, Aix no longer thought about persuading the enemy to surrender, and could only order the archers on the city walls and roofs to launch indiscriminate attacks. With the support of arrows from top to bottom, the troops brought by Katia were overwhelmed and exhausted, and the formation that was about to be broken through was barely able to stabilize the situation.