I was a knight in the Middle Ages

"Lord Alpha, Captain Will is summoning you to discuss an important matter." Suddenly, Lina broke into Alpha's tent.

"What's the matter?" Alpha was dozing off and was awakened by the sudden interruption.

"The messenger didn't reveal any more information and said he would report to you in person." Lina led the signalman over.

"Captain Alpha, Captain Will has ordered you to lead all the cavalry to the central army immediately." The messenger's order caught Alpha off guard.

Although Alpha's cavalry is not very effective on the plains now, once the opponent knows that their cavalry is missing, they may use bandit cavalry to launch a surprise attack. In this case, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Did Captain Will ever tell us why we were gathering?" This order obviously went against the original action plan, and Alpha had to doubt whether the order was wrong.

"The lord only ordered you to lead the troops to gather immediately and arrive tonight, but he did not specify what the matter is." The messenger was only responsible for conveying orders. After explaining the task, the messenger left immediately.

"Lina, call all the captains to a meeting." Will's order obviously caught Alpha off guard.

“Bach, Fattam, and Quinn’s troops will stay behind, while Lina, Rowling, Lilia and I will go to join the central army of Will.

Remember, our mission is still to hold the line and not let any bandits break through our defense. If you encounter a suspicious target, chase them for a maximum of five kilometers." Alpha was full of doubts about Will's order, but he had to lead the cavalry to gather.

"Yes, I obey your command." Bach knew, of course, that this was aimed at him. Fattam's troops were heavily armored infantry, unable to fight for a long time and suitable for defense and short-range combat. Quinn's troops were a reconnaissance special forces team and basically would not engage in head-on combat with the enemy. Bach himself was the only combat unit left.

"All teammates, gather and set off in twenty minutes." Alpha gave the order and everyone executed it immediately.

Alpha's troops now have six combat squadrons, plus Alpha's personal guards, a total of seventy cavalrymen, with ten more being trained. As the saying goes, a strong man makes a strong horse.

But this is already Alpha's limit. The war horses and armor were all captured, but there were not many intact ones. The rest were semi-finished protective gear with greatly reduced defensive effects.

With three teams of regular cavalry, one team of informal cavalry, and one hundred infantry, Alpha had more than enough defense but not enough offense, so he didn't have too much to worry about.

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After several hours of arduous march, Alpha led his troops to finally arrive at Will's camp. Will warmly greeted Alpha and immediately explained the reason for the emergency call.

It turned out that a senior official discovered a group of bandits stationed in the western mountains and asked them to help eliminate the threat.

Hearing this news, Alpha could not help but feel worried. After all, all of Will's cavalry were gathering here. If they were transferred away, this large-scale anti-bandit operation would most likely fail.

"Is this the order from the Grand Duke, Captain Will?" Alpha still found it incredible.

"This is a call for the border guards, and it has also been conveyed to the Grand Duke." Will looked embarrassed, after all, the other party was too powerful.

"An order from the border guards? They need to target a bandit force and need our assistance?" Alpha was very surprised. There were tens of thousands of troops on the western front and the border with Fatalia. How could they care about his small force?

"No, this is not the Western Frontier Guard, but the legion of Grand Duke Guruus in the north. I don't know the specific reason. However, it seems that a special team has entered our bandit suppression area. The purpose of Grand Duke Guruus sending people in is not to suppress bandits but to rescue or rob people." Will thought to himself, the actual situation may not be the case, who knows.

"But we haven't received any orders from Grand Duke Houston. That's not good!" Alpha was still unwilling to leave the front line.

"There's no way. Their orders are issued through the Holy See. They can bypass the Grand Duke and give us orders directly." Will was also reluctant to leave the front line, but he had no choice.

"Captain Will, are all your people here? We need to set off immediately." Unexpectedly, the messenger turned out to be a Discipline Knight of a high rank.

"Knight Guma, our cavalry is almost here." Will didn't understand how the other party knew that he led a group of 500 knights, otherwise they would not have dispatched the troops led by Alpha and Alice.

Speak of the devil, the devil appears. The cavalry led by Alice has arrived.

"Okay, get ready to go."

"Wait a minute, Alice and Tony are the daughters of the Grand Duke, so the recruitment should not be limited to them!" Alpha felt that this operation was not simple and did not want the two to participate.

"They can stay with their personal guards, but the others must respond to the call. I give you ten minutes." Gu Ma gave the order in a firm tone.

"Alice, Tony, you must send someone back immediately to report the situation here to the Grand Duke. At the same time, send someone to my northern line to transfer Bach and the new cavalry to the central army. Your troops must immediately return to the southern army. All bandit suppression operations must be immediately stopped and await support." Alpha gave the order briefly.

"Brother-in-law, how come you still have cavalry, and quite a few of them?" Looking at Alpha's back, Tony couldn't believe it.

"Tony, you take the troops back to the southern line to command, and send someone to ask for support from the Grand Duke. I will stay in the center." Alice had to take the lead. More than 400 cavalrymen left at once, and whether they could hold the defense line depended on fate.

After a night of rapid march, Will and his companions arrived at the meeting place at dawn - the western Bilis Mountain, which was also one of the two bandit lairs inferred by Alpha.

The gathering point was already overcrowded, with wailing and injuries everywhere, as if it had just been through a war, and the smell of blood was everywhere.

Everyone was randomly arranged in an open area, and even supplies were not distributed.

Fortunately, Alpha's cavalry always carried several days' worth of dry food every time they went out on an expedition, otherwise everyone would starve to death and no one would take care of them.

Just when everyone was at a loss, a tall and strong man came forward. He was wearing a gray cloak and looked like a leader.

"I am Knight Muller, the person in charge of this operation. Welcome. Now, come with us to support the front line and rush to the battlefield of honor!"

Everyone looked at each other, their hearts full of doubts and worries. The difficulty of this mission was far beyond their imagination. Is it necessary to continue moving forward?

"Knight Muller, we have been running all night and just arrived here. We haven't even had time for a hot meal. Could you please arrange meals for us and explain the mission in detail?" Looking at everyone's tired faces, Alpha had to stand up and fight for everyone's rights.

"Who is in charge? Why didn't you even arrange a meal for us?" Knight Muller seemed very angry, but it was more because Alpha had disobeyed his orders. Muller looked around, and everyone felt uneasy because of the powerful aura he exuded.

Hearing Alpha's rebuttal to Mueller's words, even though it was just a simple and reasonable request, some people around who knew Mueller suddenly changed their expressions, as if Mueller was a crazy, irritable and unreasonable person.

Mueller snorted coldly, his eyes becoming even colder. "These food supplies should be distributed to the wounded first, how can it be your turn? In my opinion, you are just a group of cowards who want to escape. In this case, why waste food again?"

After saying that, Mueller drew out the sword from his waist and walked towards Alpha and the others.

Seeing this, Alpha's face darkened.

At this moment, a man in golden armor walked out from behind Muller. He was the commander-in-chief of this operation, the leader of the Fourth Discipline Knights of the Holy See of Light - Arthur, the Golden Knight Arthur.

Arthur walked slowly to the front of the Alpha group and said loudly: "I am Arthur, the leader of the Fourth Knights. What do you want? Can I help you solve your doubts?"

Arthur, the leader of the Golden Knights, seemed to be at odds with Mueller, and did not ignore everyone because of Mueller's hostility.

Alpha knew that his previous behavior had offended Mueller, so Arthur in front of him was their last straw, so Alpha hurriedly said: "We just need a hot meal, we need to know who to fight and why to fight?"

Hearing Alpha's words, Arthur looked at Muller angrily. Arthur said in a deep voice: "Don't you think we, the Holy See, will not even give you enough food to eat when we go to war for the sake of holiness?"

Muller explained: "It's not just them. Once we get to the front line, only the wounded who survive will get food." In fact, Muller was not targeting Alpha and his men, but every ordinary knight who came to report for support.

"You actually suspect that I'm a spy sent by the enemy? The Fourth Knights don't need fools like you. Go back to your Third Knights!" Arthur couldn't believe that this Knight of Light who usually talked about light and justice would say such stupid words. He couldn't help but sigh that the glory of the Church of Light was gone, perhaps because of these self-righteous high-level idiots.

"You actually doubt my loyalty? I fight for the Fourth Knights and you call me a traitor? If you must drive me away, I have nothing to say, but I must tell you that your wrong decision today may cause the entire Fourth Knights to pay a heavy price for it." Muller was extremely angry, but due to the other party's identity, he had no choice but to bow his head.

Looking at Muller's back as he left, everyone couldn't help but feel heartbroken. Muller didn't treat them as human beings at all. He would do anything to win, regardless of the knights' lives or deaths, and completely treated human lives as worthless.

"You have worked hard. On behalf of the Holy See, I would like to thank you for your efforts and thank you for your contribution to light." Arthur's understanding and affirmation made everyone feel that their efforts were worthwhile.

"Fight for light, fight for honor, fight for victory." The originally lifeless camp was instantly engulfed in flames.

"We want to fight, we want to fight." Although both of them were going to the front line to die, their attitudes were completely different.

"Do you have any other requests?" Arthur looked at Alpha and others.

"Fight for light, fight for honor, fight for victory." Alpha seemed to have been possessed and began to cheer.

"Come to the front line and join me later." After leaving the order, Arthur immediately left the camp.

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"You are a smart man, why do you stand up for them?" Arthur rode on a golden warhorse and led a thousand knights to the battlefield.

"Captain Arthur, you are high above us. In your eyes, we are as small as ants. But even ants try to survive. No matter how small an ant is, it has the right to survive. Even if we are going to die, we should have our dignity." Alpha said humbly. After all, Captain Arthur has decided the life and death of everyone.

"I'm asking you why you want to stand out? Don't you know that the first bird to stick its head out will be shot at?" Arthur didn't care about the life and death of the ants. This was the same attitude as Muller. In their eyes, these ordinary knights were consumables. It was just that Arthur said a few nice words to make them willingly go to the battlefield.

"They are my friends and my comrades. I can't watch them die like this. If I don't say anything, everyone will die. If I say it, it won't make much difference. This is the sadness of us little people." Alpha said helplessly. Neither Muller nor Arthur could let everyone leave directly. Arthur just let everyone eat a hot meal so that they could die a few hours later.

"We fight for honor, we fight for holiness, we fight for light, life and death will be glorious and great." Finally, Alpha still came up with a catchphrase, fearing that he would be criticized by this new leader.

"Don't bother with all this nonsense. We are all smart people." Arthur knew that Alpha would not be hypnotized by any nonsense declarations, because we are all the same. Only smart people have the possibility of becoming upper class.

"How do you think this battle should be fought? I mean without us taking action." Of course, Arthur would not fight. To deal with a bandit camp does not require the leader of the Knights of Light to go out in person. Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken?

"Then can I assume that the Captain is only targeting targets that we cannot deal with?" Alpha began to think. Arthur did not take action, but was sent here. The enemy may have a group of targets that ordinary knights cannot deal with.

"Yes, you can understand it this way. As long as my target doesn't appear, I won't take action, even if you are all dead." Arthur only attacks the target he has identified.

"I'm sorry, I can't give you accurate information for the time being. I know nothing right now. I need to understand the enemy situation and our own situation before I can obtain intelligence." Alpha is not a god, and it is impossible for him to imagine the battle scene out of thin air.

"Okay, then I'll tell you now, you only have 1,200 Holy Knights, and I and my 200 Discipline Knights will not go to the battlefield." Arthur was not a rude and unreasonable person, he knew that Alpha was telling the truth. If Alpha had said directly that the battle could be resolved in a few hours, Arthur would not have even looked at it and would have sent him to the battlefield directly. Who doesn't know how to brag?

"What about the soldiers on the battlefield now?" Alpha would not think that the battlefield was quiet now. He was afraid that the fighting on the front line would never stop.

"You can treat them as dead. I don't want to see them climbing the enemy's walls." There is no logic in the war of power. If you don't occupy the enemy's camp yourself, then everything is meaningless.

"I'll give you one day at most. If the knights in front are all killed, then it's your turn to go up." Arthur also gave Alpha a final deadline. As long as all the cavalry brought by Muller were killed in battle, it would be the turn of the Alpha Knights to go into battle.

"I will complete the task." Looking at Arthur's back, Alpha knew that this was a test that could not be refused, and the weak had no right to refuse.