Chapter 460 - Nobles with Different Opinions
Chapter 460: Nobles with Different Opinions
Facing Firentis and the heavy cavalries led by him, the alliance army formed by many nobles of different sizes obviously felt a sense of fear. Even if they had the advantage in numbers, they still did not dare to attack directly.
This was because they knew that it would be too foolish to attack Firentis’s heavy cavalries with their footmen-based troops.
Cavalry was a troop class with high mobility.
Furthermore, it was a heavy cavalry that was better at charging and close combat.
If they were to charge over, just the weight of their warhorses would be enough to make any footmen fall to the ground.
If the armored heavy cavalries were to ride their horses and stomp on them, their intestines would probably spew out from the back end. Even if they did not die, they would be severely injured!
Their main motivation was to protect their families. These noble families cherished their lives very much.
After being in a stalemate for nearly half an hour, they did not make up their minds.
In fact, they already knew.
The source of this war, who their opponents truly were and their own battle teams.
In their minds, they had already analyzed it several times and came to a conclusion.
They could not fight!
That’s right.
They could not fight.
They would never really fight against the heavy cavalries on the other side.
Especially those lords and knights who owned fief villages, they came to this conclusion in their hearts.
As the lowest level noble, they could not even be considered as a real noble, because only the baron could be considered as the lowest level noble system. To accurately describe them, they could only be considered as quasi-noble, the reserve team of the noble.
However, as the lord of the North County, they had a certain degree of autonomy, which was why they led their troops to follow the alliance army.
They wanted to profit from the battle to attack the Stone Pass.
However, once they could not profit from it, they had to reconsider their choice.
If they did this and continued to fight, would it be good or bad for their own interests.
Therefore, they came to the conclusion that they could not fight.
Because their enemy was Baron Kant, the second son of Cameron, the Grand Duke of the Dukedom of Leo, the biological son of Princess Sofia of the Silver Platter Kingdom, and a rising noble who owned the Nahrin Desert and salt mines!
In the past, they had thought that this little Kant was very weak.
After all, how strong could a lord in the desert be?
But it was different now.
Just by looking at the 1,500 + heavy cavalries and their excellent armor, even some people believed that they were the top cavalry troops of the Dukedom of Leo. Other than the knights of the South County, nobody had such high-end equipment!
Just by looking at themselves and the knights around them, they knew that it was already good enough to have mail armor and leather armor as the equipment.
Many poor knights only wore iron-scale armor.
As for warhorses, most of the knights’ warhorses were only covered with a layer of linen that was like a bedsheet. They did not have any defense ability at all!
How could they send these knight attendants that the knights had painstakingly trained to death and be trampled into meat paste by the horses?
Absolutely impossible!
Moreover, the most crucial point.
Kant, who possessed the bloodline of the royal family, in addition to having quite a strong army, was someone they could afford to provoke?
If they could directly defeat Kant’s forces, Baron Kant would be helpless in the midst of the chaotic army and disappear without a trace. Perhaps he had “fled”. If that was the case, it would really be too easy. All they needed to do was celebrate the following distribution of benefits.
However, Baron Kant did not lose the battle. Instead, he had the higher ground just like now.
The situation became extremely awkward now!
Continue to fight?
Looking at the terrifying heavy cavalry troops, they did not know what to do.
Moreover, they were facing a heavy cavalry troop. In their knowledge, there was another troop that was not inferior to this. It was the light cavalry troop that had attacked the mercenaries in the dark beforehand. They were still waiting in the surrounding plain like a pack of wolves.
These were just cavalry units. These noble families would never believe that Baron Kant did not have infantry.
Kant definitely had more than just a huge troop of cavalries.
No one knew his real power.
This added to the mysteriousness.
As a result, the noble alliance army were trapped in the plain and could only rely on the infantry to form a formation to maintain the front line. While the nobles were already quarreling in the center of the camp. They had their own opinions and were on the verge of falling apart!
That’s right, these noble alliance army were also quarreling because they also had their own differences.
Just like those mercenary groups that were not solid to begin with.
The noble also had their own ulterior motives!
They didn’t manage to invade. Instead, they were being counterattacked by the enemy.
And that leader of the enemy was not an outsider. He was a member of the royal family. Logically speaking, if they were connected to their own family, they would still somewhat related. The noble families only needed to trace back, they would many marriages and all kinds of relations over 50 years of families.
But it was precisely because of this reason that they chose to give up this point when it was obvious that they could unite.
If it was the Silver Platter Kingdom that invaded, they might have united to resist the invasion.
But facing Baron Kant, the second son of the Grand Duke, some of the noble families had other ideas.
They even began to unite and contradict the leader of the highest noble family. He was also the leader of this alliance army — the lord of the North County, the honorable Viscount Wayne!
The alliance army was led by three barons, six lords, and more than 20 knights with real power.
They questioned the legitimacy of Viscount Wayne in the camp.
They gathered the noble troops and had attacked the noble who belonged to the Dukedom of Leo. Furthermore, he was a baron and a royal family member!
If they did not have a reasonable explanation, they would have to go to the court of the nobles, and they might even be hanged. However, considering that it was the viscount family that had been around for a hundred years, the best way was for him to maintain his honor was to go to the battlefield and die in battle.
Noble families were all sinister, but when it came to principle and moral, they appeared to be very self-righteous.
Just like now, even Viscount Wayne could not refute them.
Because this battle was indeed called by him, and the reason was not clear.
Only now did this Viscount Wayne discover why Viscount Kevin, who also belonged to the North County, did not participate in this battle. At first, he thought that the royal family was afraid that Viscount Kevin’s strength had grown to a point where it could not be controlled.
But now, it seemed that they were clearly thinking of directly pushing Viscount Wayne out to die after they lost the battle!
“Damn it.” Viscount Wayne sat weakly on the chair.
Facing the few nobles who supported him, as well as the few fellows who seemed to be full of righteousness, he put on a mocking and bitter smile. He already knew that the predicament he was facing was not the fellow in front of him.
It was behind him, the Grand Dike in the king’s city of the South County, as well as those high-ranking nobles who supported the Grand Duke!
If he won, everyone would be rich and happy together.
If he lost, he had to bear the responsibility!