Chapter 151

Whether the situation before him is a rare major defeat depends on how long it will take for reinforcements to arrive.

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The Wolf Girl merely led two hundred cavalry deep into the stream lands, while he, on the other hand, led several times that number of cavalry……

The older brother is Luo Jie Laisiweier, the younger brother is Lu Si, and the brothers Jieke Situoke and Tuolun Situoke.

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His father is Luodelike, the count.

No, Earl Luodelike is a generous and cautious person; he would never encounter such a situation.

Mark Cuinitesi and Robin Heiland.

The older brother, Luo Jie.

Ruikade differs from his father and older brother. As the family's second son, he has no castle to inherit, he has started a family, and still lives in his father's castle, where he is mocked and despised by Filinte's whores, giving him reason to be anxious.

The cost of being anxious is the present passivity.

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Now they still control only a few dozen warhorses, and the soldiers who have abandoned their mounts number no more than three hundred, scattered and divided into dozens of tight infantry formations slowly advancing toward the direction of landing on the island.

There are over thirty mixed-blood cavalry, and the apple orchard is called Pingguolin.

He was surrounded by soldiers in a circular formation, well protected, just as he had been protected by the earl for many years.

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He should have marched south to fight alongside Luo Bo Shitake, winning his own victories under the young wolf lord, instead of staying in Changxicheng watching his uncles and cousins die one by one in the south.

He has never truly fought in a battle his whole life.

Balong Dawang, the Iron Islands, and Count Luodelike.

Luo Jie took part in that battle.

Sometimes he secretly wondered whether, if Luo Jie died in the south, he would become the heir of Changxicheng.

If he were the heir of Changxicheng, would he still urge his father, Count Luodelike, to switch allegiance to Lu Si Budun?

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Not changing his object of loyalty means he will have to meet his sister on the battlefield.

She hates the Starks.

He knows the story of his sister and Bulandeng Shitake, as well as the Laisiweier family.

At that time he was a six- or seven-year-old child; neither his beautiful young sister Babalei nor the chief wolf Bulandeng guarded against him.

When Bulandeng told Babalei he wanted to ride a horse, she always responded happily; after that, she was never that happy again, and each day she moved further from happiness.

He knows what horse Bulandeng rides, and how the rumor that Bulandeng loves to ride horses by the streams came about.

His father, Count Luodelike, just let it be; even as a child he thought they would become husband and wife.

Perhaps, if he were the heir of Changxicheng, he could persuade Babalei to change her attitude.

How could he abandon his oath over a woman's emotions and a trivial southern matter?

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He urged Count Luodelike to pledge allegiance to the Buduns due to their close ties, but more importantly, if the Starks are not completely defeated, when will he, as the second son of Changxicheng, ever own a castle fitting his ambition?

Since Aide Shitake took charge, the Stark family has become stubborn, conservative, and miserly.

Look at the fruits of Laobu's uprising and the two victories over Balong Dawang: piles of dead, heaps of horse bones strewn by the road, and granaries overflowing with grain.

"As high as honor," that is what his clan's language should be.

Joining the Budun camp changes everything.

Except for making the family break its oath, almost everyone was delighted. He could remain in harmony with his sister and remain close to Bodun — the castle and lands would be easily obtained in their harmonious and tacit camaraderie.

Easily, he thought he would lose over that word.

He had been too well protected by Earl Luodelike; although he had received years of military training, he never had the chance to participate in a real war.

He missed the war to suppress the rebellion of Great King Balong, and using his older brother Luo Jie's words to describe his military record, "nothing more than driving rabbits and wolves in the pasture," while the closest thing to real military action was merely "following his father and the warriors in a hunt in the forest." When he said this, he was completely unaware that he was already a twenty-six-year-old youth.

When Luo Bo went south, his uncles and cousins were more eager than he was, and Count Luodelike thought the opportunity should go to those seeking manors and gold; he has always suspected other motives. When Xien Geleichiaoyi swept the Panshihaian coast, he was lightly taken by the wolf woman; when the sea monster woman held Shenlinbao, he had not yet gathered enough soldiers before hearing that the wolf woman had slaughtered all the invading iron people; when he prepared to join the army to besiege Kalwan, news of the bloody wedding had already arrived.

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He thought leading seven hundred cavalry to crush the exhausted Wolf Girl cavalry was also an easy military operation……

With the mindset of easy victory, he encountered defeat.

He saw Mark fall from his warhorse and never rise again, and saw Robin desperately resisting the heavy cavalry charge, only to die from a hidden arrow.

"My lord, the herdsmen refuse to lower the drawbridge!" This remark interrupted his reverie.

He regretted not heeding Ma Ke's advice to station troops at the grasslands, which led to his current peril; he could only rely on dense infantry formations to defend against the Wolf Girl's cavalry.

Tell the herdsmen: if they do not lower the drawbridge, I will send ravens to Changxicheng to inform Count Laisiweier and Viscount Heiland of their refusal to help; tell them that if they do not lower the drawbridge, they will all be hanged.

Oh, some of those ravens were also carrying what he had written in advance.

Thinking of this, his face flushed.

Damn deserters! Ruikade thinks they all deserve to die. Facing a sudden attack, they should strike back decisively; they only have two hundred men, and if they wipe out the wolf woman's two hundred, what could she have left?

Damn deserters! Rikade thought they all deserved to die. Faced with the sudden attack, they should have decisively struck back; they only had two hundred men, and as long as they wiped out the Wolf Girl's two hundred, what would she have left?

If that is the case, he will solve the North's problems single-handedly, becoming a renowned general and hero of the North, saving the North from prolonged conflict—how many will survive this winter thanks to his wisdom and courage?

"Sir, the whores still won't lower the drawbridge; they must think we're going to lose, fearing the wolf woman's killings—damn it! The wolf woman makes people throw heads in one by one."

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When had he ever received such treatment? Is this still the stream lands he knows?

"Pass the order, move to the riverside, form the small circular units into a square formation!" The riverside area is large enough for him to organize all the remaining soldiers into formations.

He can engage in a stamina contest with the wolf girl.

If he hasn't miscalculated, Langnü's cavalry has gone without sleep for a night; after the great battle, wouldn't they be tired? They aren't gods!

And he, as long as one cavalryman escapes successfully, can send news of the ambush he encountered here to Changxi City; Changxi City to here is at most one night away, can Langnü's cavalry still hold out for another night?

Just one night. He has already waited countless nights.

In an instant, he felt he was a bit like Count Luodelike; in this situation, should he learn the count's patience?

His friend is time, and his enemy is?

Before, he wished the snow would fall heavier, so that Langnü's cavalry's fleeing speed across the plains would slow, and he would have time to slowly play cat-and-mouse with her; but now, snow is his enemy, he does not know how long soldiers can endure on the snowy northern lands, nor how much extra time reinforcements will need to reach this place.

The nearest place is the hay hall of Viscount Blackland, but the hall's steward, Marètè bitch, actually knelt to Langnü and can no longer send reinforcements; next closest is Harvest Village, their main stronghold is in Harvest Hall, yet their relationship with the Blackland family is hostile, it's hard to imagine they would willingly send troops to aid Hay Village.

"Cheer up, hold the line, reinforcements will arrive soon." As commander, he could only shout that.

Langnü appeared again at this moment, the cavalry following behind her dismounted one after another, laying bloody heads before their formation.

"Warriors! The enemy has only a hundred cavalry; they simply cannot defeat us!" Ricard heard Pengpei shouting loudly from a distant circular formation.

Their cavalry suffered considerable losses when charging the spears, but the losses certainly hadn't reached a hundred.

Ricard did not oppose lying to encourage people.

"Hmph, Princess Mei Yi is invincible in battle!" Ricard heard a youth angrily rebuke.

Ricard disliked such words, so he drew a spear and hurled it forcefully at a young cavalryman, instantly piercing him.

Ninety-nine remained.

"Victory!" Ricard heard Pengpei shout loudly.

"Victory! Victory!" the defending soldiers shouted.

"Only defeat awaits. Surrender to me now, and I will spare your lives. Stark's word is bond!" Ricard heard Langnü shout at them.

Damn, look at the Starks' word is bond: Bulandeng said he would marry Barbaralla; Aide said he would surely bring William back to the North; that little Luobositate said they would surely rescue his father, Lord Aide.

Heh, he couldn't even bring his father's corpse back to Lindong City.

"Winter is coming, this is your boring Sitake promise, damn!" Pengpei sneered.

"Ricard! Don't be obstinate, surrender now while you still can!" Ricard heard this voice and gritted his teeth in hatred.

If he hadn't inexplicably lost the fort, below Changxi City they wouldn't have been easily defeated by two hundred cavalry, and he wouldn't have had to bring several hundred cavalry here to suffer a crushing defeat.

"Traitor! Scum!" Ricard shouted angrily.

"Ricard! The traitor should be our family, for we once swore allegiance to the Stark family, and the Princess Mei Yi before us is the Stark family's heir—don't you forget that?" Aidesiweier continued shouting at him.

"When have we ever sworn allegiance to a woman, to a mongrel!" Ricard, furious, drew another spear from the side and hurled it angrily, but he lacked a bit of strength, his speed slightly slow, and someone easily dodged it.

"Pile the heads into a skull mound so they can see what death looks like." Langnü rode her warhorse, closing in on him as if whispering in his ear, "The bloodline of Rodelik ends today."

Having said that, she rode away on her horse; Ricard wanted to hurl another spear at her back, but for some reason he momentarily forgot to act, and when he took a spear from a nearby soldier's hand, Langnü was already far away.

Snowflakes drifted down, melting slightly on his face; the spear shaft was icy, he moistened the shaft, repeatedly testing his grip, and with stiff hands clenched the long spear.

The warhorse neighed loudly, a lone rider thundered forward with the rumble of hooves, he gripped the long spear tightly, facing the approaching enemy.

"Seek death!" He thought Langnü was too reckless.

But even so, he now had to admit that he was indeed experiencing a real battlefield for the first time.

The warhorse beneath her seemed not to see the spears bristling ahead like spikes, and it charged straight at them.

He felt a mighty force strike him, and instantly the spear was wrenched from his grasp.

He tried to draw the sword at his waist, but as he reached out, a soft white light flashed across his neck, and he saw his own blood spattering from his neck.