Unknown Knight

Sarande is dry and rainy, especially on moonlit nights when the visibility is very high under the deep blue sky.

Such natural conditions are very suitable for night battles. In fact, the local Sarand people often choose to travel at night because of the high visibility at night and the lack of scorching sun and high temperatures during the day. Therefore, the locals are very good at fighting at night and do not feel any discomfort.

Throughout history, every empire that rose on the continent of Calradia had come to attack the Sarranid region, and several times they were ultimately defeated because they were unable to cope with the Sarranid people's night raids.

This time, the three princes in Dukuba City were afraid of Niza's growing power, and finally decided to launch a night attack on Niza's camp outside the city.

However, the three families were suspicious of each other and were afraid that something might go wrong during the night attack, which would cause them to suffer heavy losses, so no one was willing to send more soldiers out of the city.

After some bargaining, the eldest prince Nubia sent 300 elite soldiers, the third prince Azzam and the fifth prince Sharif each sent 150 elite soldiers to form a night attack commando team of 600 people.

In addition, the three families gathered a total of more than 2,000 people at the city gate. Once the night attack team succeeded, they would immediately rush out of the city to expand the results of the battle.

In case the night attack by these 600 elite soldiers fails, they will be able to provide support at any time.

At midnight, six hundred elite Sarande soldiers, wearing earth-gray robes, quietly left the city from a relatively remote gate under the cover of darkness, and circled around to Niza's camp.

There is a lake outside the city of Dukuba. The water is slightly salty and a bit bitter, but it does not affect drinking. Especially for the poor families nearby, they all use this lake as a free water source.

The nearby high-quality water sources are all within the city of Dukuba, and the only source of water outside the city that can supply a large amount of drinking water to the army of thousands of people is this lake. Niza's camp was built facing the lake.

Next to the main camp, there is a camp that is only one-fifth the size of the main camp.

This was a camp that was just built in the afternoon. Since the reinforcements that came to support today did not arrive until the afternoon, the construction of this camp was not started until dark. As a result, the camp was not completed until dark, and even the most basic trenches and walls were not built in time.

In order to facilitate the transportation of construction materials to the new camp, the general in charge of construction opened an opening in the wall shared by the two camps to facilitate the transportation of construction materials.

In order to continue construction tomorrow, the opening was not sealed. Only a few barricades were set up at the opening. More than a dozen soldiers were stationed here, guarding it like a temporary camp gate.

In the unfinished new camp outside the temporary camp gate, the reinforcements who had just arrived in the afternoon set up tents and camped there.

Maybe they were too tired from traveling, the tents in the new camp were set up in a disorderly manner, and the construction materials piled up everywhere made the unfinished camp look very disorderly and congested.

All these situations were seen clearly by the three princes who were observing in the watchtower on the top of the city, which eventually made them decide to launch this night attack.

In the eyes of the three princes, it was obvious that the army in Dukuba City had been defeated in recent times and had been hiding in the city for defense, not daring to go out of the city to fight. This made Niza think that they did not dare to leave the city at all, so the defense was relatively relaxed.

Especially for these reinforcements who had just arrived from afar, their military discipline seemed even more lax, as could be seen from the disorganized tents.

After observation, the three princes unanimously agreed that this was a good opportunity. The reinforcements that had just arrived were the biggest weakness of the Niza army and could be used as a breakthrough point for counterattack.

If this battle is fought well, we may be able to turn the tide. Even if we cannot completely defeat Niza's army, it will at least inflict heavy damage on him, and maybe Niza will give up and choose to withdraw his troops.

When the six hundred elite soldiers from Dukuba City arrived near the new camp, it was already late at night.

Seeing that there was snoring everywhere in the messy camp and there was not even a sentry post, I guess it was because the reinforcements stationed here were too tired from traveling and building the camp.

The leading general thought of the three princes' instructions and waved his hand. Six hundred elite soldiers, as fierce as wolves and tigers, quietly drew their weapons and moved towards the temporary camp gate.

Once they seized the temporary camp gate guarded by a sentry, they could rush directly into Niza's camp, and then do whatever they wanted like a robber in a boudoir.

As long as they complete this step, their night attack will be basically half successful. When the army ambushing at the city gate sees the fire in Niza's camp and rushes over to kill everyone, then this night attack will be completely successful.

However, they had good intentions, but they did not realize that although the unfinished camp was messy, the road leading to the temporary camp gate was blocked by tents and piles of various building materials, making it very difficult to move forward, which seemed to be intentional.

If the leading general had been more careful, he would have discovered that the snoring in the tent was also unusual and too loud. Snoring while sleeping is normal, but if everyone is snoring so loudly, it would be a bit abnormal.

But at this moment they had quietly arrived at the camp, like wild beasts ready to hunt, with their eyes only on the sentry post at the temporary camp gate. They were so excited to see the prey that they had no time to care about the potential dangers around them.

Seeing that the gap in the temporary camp gate was about to be reached, the leading general even saw two sentries dozing off against the wooden wall. He couldn't help but feel happy. Just as he was about to lead his men forward to touch the sentries and seize the gate, he suddenly heard a thunderous roar:

"Kill, kill these traitors, long live Sultan Niza!"

Immediately afterwards, countless shouts and cries of killing were heard, and countless soldiers rushed out from the tents in the camp, from the gaps in the temporary camp gate, and from behind these night attackers.

These soldiers who rushed out were armed with sharp weapons and in high spirits. They quickly formed small shield formations and divided the enemies distributed on the winding roads of the camp into several small groups.

Immediately afterwards, before these frightened night attackers could react, the shield formation formed by the Niza army began to shout slogans and raise shields, advancing forward little by little, squeezing out the sneak attacking coalition forces of the three princes.

This made the coalition forces of the three princes who attacked at night even more frightened. They pushed and trampled on each other, and some of the brave ones turned around and attacked the pressing shield formation, hitting the shields with a continuous "bang bang bang" sound.

However, the shield formation of the Niza Army was inherited from Aix, and was composed of elite heavy armored infantry. Not only were they well-trained and well-coordinated, but the defense of their equipment was also of the top standard in the continent.

Not to mention the large iron shield in front, which is simply not something that ordinary weapons can penetrate. Even if a weapon occasionally penetrates the gap in the shield and attacks the soldier behind the shield, it will only cause sparks on the stamped plate armor and cannot cause much substantial damage.

After several attempts, those night raiders who dared to counterattack found that their attacks had no effect at all, so they had to give up resistance and began to retreat in fear.

The coalition forces of the three princes, who were divided and surrounded, immediately fell into an even more desperate situation.