I was a knight in the Middle Ages

"Surrender! Submit to us, and I will never treat you unfairly." The bandit leader tried to persuade the knights in front of him to surrender in order to make up for the loss of his subordinates.

"We are knights. The battlefield is our honor. Surrendering is a lifelong shame." Frith's eyes were firm. Surrendering to a bandit was tantamount to a betrayal of his knighthood and honor, which would accompany him throughout his life.

The two teams had fought several times, and both suffered losses, but neither was seriously injured. This was because the bandit leader intended to conserve his strength.

"You have no way to retreat. One of your three cavalry units is being held back by our infantry, and another cavalry unit is surrounded by twice our strength. You have no reinforcements." The bandit leader did not expect that his infantry could hold back one-third of the enemy's cavalry, which gave them a chance to destroy the enemy's knights.

"Kill." There was a narrow mountain road ahead and there was no way to escape. Freese could only choose to fight head-on.

I just regret that Bach did not obey the military order and led the cavalry to fight with the infantry. Now there is no choice but to fight. Moreover, the number of troops in the two armies is similar. As long as the enemy does not have reinforcements, it is uncertain who will win.

Freese led his men to launch an all-out attack on the enemy, and the killing began again. The bandit leader suddenly felt the pressure increase, but his bandits were not frightened by the cavalry's charge. Instead, they quickly gathered and organized a counterattack.

However, the leader soon discovered that the situation on the battlefield was not what he had expected. The fighting power and fighting spirit of Freese and others were far beyond their expectations. Even with the advantage in numbers, they could not easily win.

The bandit leader began to worry, knowing that the longer the battle dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for them, so he immediately ordered to intensify the attack.

At this moment, the bandit leader saw movement on the side and was delighted to think that his reinforcements had arrived. He couldn't help but get carried away: "Hahaha, my reinforcements are here, you are dead."

He was full of confidence in the upcoming victory. In his opinion, with twice the number of troops as the enemy and with the advantage of being well rested, his cavalry would never fail.

"Chief, there's something unusual! Those people don't seem to be our reinforcements, and their equipment is different." A sharp-eyed bandit noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the cavalry troops coming from the rear.

"Did I see it wrong?" The leader looked at the rolling snow behind him and couldn't see the faces of those people at all. However, judging from the momentum, this cavalry unit seemed to be very domineering.

"No, they are definitely not our people." Seeing the cavalry getting closer and closer, the bandits could confirm it accurately.

"How is it possible?" The leader couldn't believe it, because he also saw clearly that the reinforcements were not his own.

"The rear team becomes the front team, stop them!" The leader's eyes showed a look of fear. If the enemy penetrated the rear of his troops, he would be defeated.

However, what the bandit leader did not expect was that Alpha alone bypassed the heavy cavalry and accelerated his charge.

"Your cavalry, I'll give it back to you." Alpha, charging at high speed, threw the head into the enemy's formation. Seeing the familiar faces, the bandit cavalry was thrown into disarray, and everyone realized that the people behind them were not reinforcements, but enemies.

"Kill him!" The leader was unable to stop the spread of fear and could only take the initiative to attack, trying to prevent his men from thinking too much.

"Then let's see how strong you are." Alpha's charge was intended to break the enemy's formation. After all, Fatam and his men were already very tired and could not bring into play the advantage of heavy cavalry.

"Kill!" Alpha turned into a tyrant, one man guarding the pass, ten thousand men unable to break through. The Mo Dao with the power of shock was extremely powerful. After several charges, Alpha had torn a gap in the enemy's battle formation.

"Kill!" The heavy cavalry had already entered the enemy's rear through the gap, and the light cavalry followed closely behind to expand the victory. At this moment, only the bandits were left on the battlefield, fleeing in all directions. The once invincible bandits had completely failed.

"Chief, we've been defeated. Let's leave quickly." A bandit begged their leader, his eyes filled with despair and fear.

Seeing his subordinates fleeing the battlefield, the leader was filled with anger and despair. At this moment, the leader also realized that it was meaningless to stay and could only join the escape team.

During the escape, the bandits were constantly chased and fell. The leader was disheartened, knowing that this failure not only meant they lost the battle, but also the chance to survive.

"Team One, follow me and chase. The rest of you stay and clean up the battlefield." For military merit, Freese took the First Team away, but also handed over the remaining forces to Captain Alpha.

"You guys go, I'll stay here to cover your retreat." The leader sighed and said to his subordinates.

The leader knew that the situation was hopeless, so he decided to sacrifice himself to give others a chance to escape. He watched his subordinates gradually disappear into the forest, and he was filled with emotion. He thought of his former glory and ambition, but now all of this has become a bubble. He slowly drew out his sword and rushed towards the pursuing enemy.

The battle did not last long. Soon, the leader fell in a pool of blood. His eyes were filled with reluctance and despair, but he knew that the battle was lost. He slowly closed his eyes and ended his life.

"All the wounded will stay and clean up the battlefield, and the rest of you will follow me back to rescue." Captain Alpha led more than 50 knights back to the rear to rescue. Although Bach did not obey his orders, resulting in a lot of losses in this battle, Alpha still needed to go back to support.

Alpha took away more than fifty knights, most of whom were exhausted. But for the sake of honor and military merit, they resolutely joined the team.

Just when Bach's troops were in despair, a cavalry unit quickly rushed into the battlefield.

As Alpha's exhausted army joined the battle, the remaining dozens of bandit infantrymen fell into despair in an instant, discarded their weapons one by one, and knelt down in surrender.

"Kill." Bach looked at the surrendered enemy and prepared to continue killing.

"Wait!" Alpha was almost exhausted, but still managed to block Bach's attack.

"What does Alpha want to do? They are all enemies! Look, they have killed all my knights!" Bach looked at Alpha angrily.

"It was you who killed them, not these people. You are a cavalryman, not an infantryman, why are you engaging in a melee with your opponents?" Alpha roared angrily.

If Bach had not disobeyed military orders, Alpha would not have fought the enemy head-on. By using the speed of the cavalry and the long-range attack of the bow and crossbow, he could have easily defeated the enemy and there would not have been such heavy casualties.

"But this is the tradition of our knights. We must fight the enemy head-on." Bach is a true traditional knight.

"This is your tradition, not mine. I just want my knights to survive, and survive proudly. Look at your knights, how many of them can still stand up?" Bach's troops were probably finished. Even if the wounded survived in the end, probably no more than half of them.

"We killed the enemy, we did nothing wrong." This was Bach's last pride.

"You killed these three or four hundred enemies. I took care of one hundred and fifty for you in the front, and another eighty in the back. My casualties will not exceed five. How about yours?" The casualty ratio of Alpha's troops should be within this range. There is no need for cavalry to go to such great lengths to deal with infantry.

"Our mission is to fight for a long time. Now you have only a few troops left. What can you use to carry out the next mission?" Looking at Bach who had no remorse, Alpha couldn't help but curse.

"You disobeyed military orders and deserve to be beheaded. Considering your contributions on the battlefield, I will demote you to centurion as a warning to others." Alpha must punish Bach.

Bach wanted to explain further, but looking at the knights who returned one after another, the loss of knights was only a dozen or so. However, when he saw the few remaining knights around him and compared them with each other, he blushed and dared not refute.

Alpha knew very well that this head-on confrontation had produced a huge effect and attracted most of the enemy's attention, but this was not the kind of credit that Alpha needed without caring about casualties.

According to Alpha's plan, this unnecessary sacrifice could have been avoided, but Bach chose this method, which made Alpha extremely angry.

"Set up camp, clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded, and count casualties." Alpha made the arrangements and the next step was to clean up the mess.

As for the calculation of merit, Alpha did not adopt the method of calculating individual rewards based on the number of heads. He distributed it equally according to the number of beheadings and kills participated by the team.

For example, Bach's troops only participated in one battle and killed 150 bandits, and the rewards were distributed according to these.

Alpha's squad participated in four battles. In the first battle, they fought against Bach's infantry, killing 150 people, accounting for half of the credit, while Bach killed 75 people. In the second battle, they fought against 80 cavalry, accounting for all the credit. In the third battle, they fought against Fries's troops, killing 60 people, while the squad accounted for half of the credit, accounting for 30 people. In the fourth battle, the three divisions killed 80 bandits together, while the squad accounted for one-third.

The allocation is relatively fair according to the number of participants, but it is inevitable that some people will take advantage of the situation, and there is no way to achieve absolute fairness now. Of course, killing the leader is considered a personal act, and brave fighters will be promoted to centurions as rewards.

Finally, Monkey and Hawkeye calculated the damage ratio.

Eighteen of Bach's troops were killed, twelve were seriously injured, and nine were slightly injured. In other words, there were only twenty people left in Bach's troops who could still carry out the mission, including those who were slightly injured.

Nine of Freese's troops were killed, five were seriously injured, and twelve were slightly injured.

Six of Alpha's troops were killed, three were seriously injured, and five were slightly injured.

The results of the battle were: 352 bandit infantrymen were killed and 88 were captured; 140 cavalrymen were killed and no prisoners were taken.

A total of 33 people were killed in the battle and 20 were seriously injured. It was a serious blow to the team of 150 people.

Alpha looked at the statistical results and felt a little headache. Although such a loss was acceptable compared to the military achievements, it had a great impact on the subsequent missions.

Looking at the results of the statistics just now, Bach looked ashamed. Now there are only twenty people left in his army. The key point is that they suffered the greatest losses and had the least military achievements. So he simply stopped talking.

"We must do our best to treat the wounded and not give up on any of them. I will report the victims to Captain Will and apply for compensation at that time." Alpha knew that the chances of those seriously injured surviving were slim, and he could only impart some basic medical information. There was no other way.

"What about the more than 80 prisoners, Lord Alpha?" After this incident, Freese no longer dared to underestimate Alpha. Facing twice as many enemies, he actually achieved the goal of annihilating all the enemies. This was something Freese could not do at all.

"Try to form an infantry team. We need them to open up the wasteland." Alpha understood that there were only a hundred knights left and it was impossible to conduct a comprehensive search. These captives were Alpha's target.

"They are not trustworthy, Lord Alpha." Bach no longer had much hostility towards the young man in front of him. His opposition was a reminder based on basic combat common sense. After all, without Alpha, his team would have been gone, and there was a high probability that they would be wiped out.

"I know, so we need to disperse them and we will be responsible for supervision." Alpha certainly didn't believe that these bandits would surrender sincerely.

"Lord Alpha, those people have told the truth. What do you think we should do?" The monkey has already extracted the information about the thief and is now waiting for Alpha's decision.

"Is the information reliable?" Alpha looked at the information in his hand and was very confused. Why would these bandits gather together and wait for him to fall into their trap?

"It's basically reliable. I interrogated those knight bandits separately, and the information I got was basically consistent. I also randomly selected ordinary thieves to verify the information, and I can basically determine the accuracy of the information." Monkeys have very flexible brains, and this kind of thing is easy for them.

"I understand. You go down and have a rest first!" Alpha looked through the information carefully, and finally passed the information to Friis and Bach.

It can be confirmed that this group of thieves is the foreign group Truss Thieves Group and the local Bahom Thieves Group. The two have already made contact and are preparing to gather in Gulisf to discuss the overall plan. The overall plan should be aimed at the problem of Grand Duke Houston preparing to clear out the bandit groups within the country.

The knights they faced this time were the contact persons sent by the Truss Thieves Group. They had been killed by Bahom before they even saw him. As for the Thieves Infantry, they were the main force of the Third Guard under Bahom, and they had basically been annihilated.

The Bahom Bandits have a total of four legions, three infantry legions, and one cavalry legion. The number of people in each legion is advertised as 1,000, but the largest legion, the First Legion, has only 500 people. Now Alpha doesn't know how many cavalry members there are in Bahom, and how many cavalry members there are in the Trus Bandits? The cavalry is the main force of the bandits.

"They were going to Gulisf in the west. They probably encountered Will's army and didn't dare to confront them directly, so they chose us." Freese guessed that Alpha and Will's attack from the east and west forced this bandit group to leave. There are mountains in the north, and the knights in the south are more powerful. Will still has 300 to 400 people in the west, including more than 200 cavalry, which is not something this bandit group can shake.

"Forget it, let's not think about it. We will reallocate the search area later. You all go and have a night's rest, and we will continue our journey and cast the net tomorrow." It was already around three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was no need to continue searching.

The areas were redistributed according to the number of people. Bach still took the northern route, but the area was reduced by half, and Alpha took over most of the area left by Bach.

"Remember the method of winning. If this happens again, the infantry prisoners will take over, and the cavalry will be responsible for harassing the enemy. We should make use of our speed advantage and attack with crossbows from a distance. Don't make fearless sacrifices." Alpha once again issued strict military orders. If there are more casualties, I'm afraid there is no need to search for the remaining knights.