I'm not a lord

Chapter 141 The Seemingly Silent Battlefield

Lin En’s big move naturally could not be hidden from Green Lake Territory.

The current Baron of Green Lake, Bogdan, is a man of meticulous thinking and rich experience.

He had an agreement with the delegation that when the delegation was waiting for news in Shoal Territory, they must send two people back to Green Lake Territory every day to report safety.

Once communications are cut off, it means that our neighbors to the north are about to take action.

Not only that, Bogdan also built several watchtowers on the roads deep in the forest, and if he encountered the enemy, he would use shrill whistles to convey the enemy situation.

Therefore, on the afternoon of the day when Linn sent out his troops, before the sentry tower detected the enemy situation, Bogdan had already realized that something had changed in the north.

He immediately issued the highest order to prepare for war and ordered his eldest son, Bogdan, to rush to Chixi Territory to convey military intelligence.

In fact, this time Lin En divided more than 900 soldiers into three parts.

Among them, the third brother Yang led his 300 men to take the left route.

Lin En led the fifth brother Andre, one hundred refugee soldiers, two hundred barbarian archers and all the heavy cavalry to the right.

Each unit also had a dozen or so light cavalrymen.

The 300 people in Lao Si's headquarters were a "special force" specially arranged by Lin En.

These three hundred people will delay their departure by two days and arrive at the battlefield at the latest.

Lin En had already discovered the existence of the watchtower in advance, so he wanted to give Bogdan and the White River Alliance an illusion that the White Bear Territory and the Shoal Territory had only a little over 600 soldiers in total.

Among these six hundred soldiers, only the one hundred or so men under the Second Brother and the cavalry unit on Lin En's side were wearing armor.

The other soldiers were only wearing simple leather armor and armor, holding wooden spears or wooden longbows, and generally did not have helmets. They looked like the lowest-level conscripts.

In Lin En's opinion, the strength displayed by this army should be consistent with the White River Alliance's "imagination" of the second son of Baron Hanfeng.

However, the Baihe Alliance was able to provide more than 200 fully armed cavalry soldiers, and the balance of war tilted in favor of the alliance from the very beginning.

After all, from the traditional perspective of the North, any strong armored knight squire can easily defeat five conscripts wielding long-handled weapons.

There's no need to even fight; the sound of horse hooves is all that's needed to scare off the conscripts.

In order to let the enemy see his own strength clearly, Lin En did not even send out the barbarian scouts to strangle the enemy scouts.

He just sent out his knights to give chase symbolically.

In the dense forest, a four-legged warhorse cannot run as fast as a two-legged person.

As Lin En wished, at noon the next day, the general situation of the northern army was delivered to the desk of Baron Bogdan of Green Lake Territory.

"Sir, based on the information from the sentry towers and scouts, the enemy forces are divided into two groups, with a total number of approximately 600."

After hearing the enemy situation, Bogdan pondered for a moment before issuing an order: "All knights, squires, craftsmen, and stewards, bring their families to the castle immediately. Serfs and village heads must remain in their respective villages and are not allowed to flee without permission! Send an envoy south immediately and deliver detailed information about the enemy to Chixi Territory!"

The castle of Green Lake Territory is not very big. Including all the rooms and the central castle grounds, it can only accommodate three or four hundred people.

The number of serfs in the territory exceeded five thousand, and it was obviously impossible to hide them all in the castle.

This is also a major disadvantage of brick and stone castles. Small lords without money cannot build large castles, and when war occurs, they cannot accommodate all their subjects and civilians into the castle.

However, Bogdan was not worried about the enemy massacring the serfs.

Because there is no need.

Land without serfs is worthless. The enemy leader is also a noble and must know this.

There were no valuables in the serfs' houses, and even the loot was of little value; the enemy would at most take some rations. But if the serfs were forced to flee south or into the forest, it would be hard to say whether they would still belong to Green Lake Territory after the enemy was repelled.

Bogdan believed that the allies would win this battle. The count's second son was just desperate. He dared to go south with more than a hundred elite soldiers and hundreds of conscripts. He really underestimated the strength of the allies.

At the same time, news of the attack on Green Lake Territory had also spread to Red Creek Territory in the south.

Baron Chixi immediately summoned a group of envoys and issued an emergency mobilization order.

According to the alliance's plan, it would take five days to concentrate the troops in Chixi Territory.

Green Lake Territory only needs to hold out for five days before reinforcements arrive.

Thanks to Bogdan's proactive reduction of troops, Lin En easily captured all the villages in Green Lake Territory.

His goal was to take over all four territories, including the population and subjects on the land.

Therefore, he quickly sent people to appease the village heads and serfs in each village.

For this battle, Lin En mobilized a total of 300 military servants from the shallows to guard the grain transport vehicles and assist in setting up the military camp.

He had no need to take a single grain of rye from the local serfs. In addition, he always maintained strict military discipline, prohibited looting, and used the title of Duke of the Swamp, so it was naturally effortless for him to appease these serfs.

That's right, the batch of flags and robes of the Duke of the Swamp that were forged to scare the Lords of the Shallows can still be used in the Lords of the Green Lake.

For the local serfs, spring plowing would begin in another month. If they missed the farming season because of fleeing, they would go hungry for the whole year.

In addition, this foreign enemy army was indeed very "polite" and flew under the banner of the Duke, so the serfs quickly settled down and stayed at home quietly waiting for the outcome of the war.

While pacifying the village, Lynn cleared out the scouts in the northern part of the territory, and then led his army to besiege the Green Lake Castle.

Green Lake Castle is surrounded by water on both sides, and to the west is a natural lake called 'Green Lake'.

To the south is a small river called 'Green Water River'.

At the same time, the Green Water River is also a natural waterway connecting Green Lake and White River.

In previous years, when Green Lake Territory sold grain to other countries, it used small flat-bottomed boats to transport the grain along the Green Water River to the pier at the easternmost end of the territory.

This river is less than one meter deep during the flood season, and now it is so shallow that only horse hooves can be covered during the dry season.

In order to improve its defensive capabilities, Green Lake Castle also has only one gate facing east.

Lin En's camp was blocking the city gate two hundred meters to the east, and a large number of chevaux de frise and arrow shields were placed between the camp and the city gate.

He also commanded a squadron of longbowmen to suppress the heavy crossbows on the city wall with several rounds of volleys, ensuring that the infantry could successfully install various facilities to completely block the enemy in the castle.

In terms of range alone, the longbow exceeds the handheld heavy crossbow.

The heavy crossbows of the Diewas continent were originally designed to deal with armored knights, so they chose to abandon the range in pursuit of short-range armor-piercing ability.

Of course, due to the obstruction of the battlements, the sparse rain of arrows failed to cause much casualties to the defenders in the city.

As the attacking side completed the encirclement, both sides began to "sit in silence" in tacit understanding.

The defenders in the city were waiting for reinforcements.

Outside the city, Lin En was also waiting for reinforcements from the defenders.

At this time, according to the predetermined plan, the fourth brother had led 300 soldiers to the dock area at the easternmost end of Green Lake Territory.

(End of this chapter)