The Lord Of Blood Hill

Chapter 561: Knowing It Is a Trap

Why does Grand Duke Kolen not warn Prince Kullen?Because at this point, someone has to take the blame.

At the start, Prince Kullen had handed command to Duke Kolen. Now that the situation has deteriorated so sharply, Kolen, as the acting commander on the field, will have to bear heavy responsibility afterward.

Then Prince Kullen suddenly takes command back and wants to play a high-stakes base-trading tactic with Henwell. For Grand Duke Kolen, that is naturally a good thing.

Kolen has dealt with Henwell for many years, so he naturally knows Henwell is not easy to handle. He already has a feeling that Prince Kullen will suffer at Henwell's hands. What he needs to do is stabilize the situation here.

He has his attendant notify the rear camp and bring his own elite private legion up to support them. Together with the Second Guard Legion, they will prevent the battle from deteriorating any further.

In Kolen's view, Kullen will suffer, but not too badly.

After all, Kullen is mobilizing the Night Falcon Knights, a force that is also extremely skilled at night combat.

More importantly, Kolen understands that Peace Haven has nothing capable of threatening the Night Falcon Knights.

If he understood Henwell's true objective, or rather what the Night Falcon Knights are about to face, he would never let Prince Kullen fall into Henwell's trap.

After receiving the order, the Night Falcon Knights quickly adjust direction and head toward Peace Haven's main camp.

Inside the fortress, Henwell suddenly stands. "They are moving! Send the signal. They will arrive in fifteen minutes. I am going to buy some time!"

With that, Henwell leaves the castle, mounts his horse, and leads the Lord Iron Guards out.

Henwell's personal guard does not consist only of the five hundred-plus Lord Iron Guards. A thousand Iron Guards who are about to graduate have also been pulled out of the training camp.

The most obvious external difference between the Iron Guards and the Lord Iron Guards is their cloak.

The Lord Iron Guards now wear blood-red cloaks just like Henwell's blood-soaked cloak. The Iron Guards wear dark blue cloaks marked with several blood-red streaks.

Once Henwell reaches the predetermined position, the fortresses begin passing signals to one another with fluorescent boards.

The Night Falcon Knights are already near Peace Haven's defense line. After they cross the actual line of control between the two sides, horns sound.

The knights who receive the order immediately urge their warhorses to greater speed.

Their target is the Peace Haven camp behind the fortress group. They intend to destroy the logistics base there.

In addition, they will wipe out every remaining Peace Haven unit in the area.

At that moment, Marquess Wallace, the knight order's commander, suddenly notices Henwell and the others ahead.

Alarmed, he immediately wants to order the charge to stop.

But it is already too late. Henwell lets out an angry roar. "You've got some nerve! You dare use the cover of night to assassinate me, a lord? You have no noble bearing at all. Shameless!"

"Wait, you..." Marquess Wallace begins.

Henwell does not care. He pats the Night Charger beneath him, lowers his visor, raises his war lance, and charges forward.

More than a thousand knights follow close behind him, charging at the far more numerous knight order.

What matters most in a cavalry charge?

The spearhead, of course.

And the spearhead of this elite Peace Haven cavalry is extremely hard.

Henwell originally intends to kill Wallace, the overall commander, but the man seems to sense his intent and craftily hides among the crowd.

The Night Falcon Knights activate the battle formation's linked fighting spirit. Pale golden light covers the entire cavalry formation.

Henwell opens his Will Lock. The Chains of Civilization connect to every warrior behind him, and the Blood Will of the Gene Lock spreads with them.

Blood-colored flames rise from the bodies of more than a thousand knights, making them look like a legion of hellfire as they slam into the Night Falcon Knights' formation.

Henwell rides at the very front. His war lance sweeps sideways and sends every enemy before him flying.

The personal guards behind him tear the gap he opens even wider.

Charges between cavalry are always brutal, and among cavalry battles, a direct clash between knight orders is the bloodiest of all.

Even with Henwell holding the line, after that single charge, nearly three hundred members of his personal guard are killed.

In a charge of this intensity, anyone who falls from their horse has almost no hope of surviving.

Henwell's heart aches at the loss of nearly one-fifth of his elite personal guards.

But if he could, he would charge again.

After all, that single charge has already reduced the Night Falcon Knights by nearly a thousand men.

The reason he is doing everything possible to kill as many Night Falcon knights as he can now is to make sure fewer Peace Haven soldiers die in the battle that is about to begin.

But Henwell knows that he basically cannot take part in the next phase of the battle.

He deliberately blocks the Night Falcon Knights' charge route and uses a shameless excuse to strike first and kill one round of enemies.

He can barely explain that away by saying the night was too dark, that he could not see clearly, and that he thought they had come to kill him.

He was only fighting back.

But if he turns around and attacks again after this charge, that will truly mean he does not take the Western Federation's words seriously.

Afterward, the Western Federation will certainly find even more trouble for him.

Right now, he is not ready to fall out with the Western Federation, so he still has to respect the rules on the surface.

Therefore, after one charge, Henwell does not wait for Marquess Wallace to curse him. He leads his personal guard into a nearby medium fortress.

Henwell has already done everything he can. Next, it will depend on the soldiers under his command.

From the very beginning, Henwell's plan has been to swallow the Night Falcon Knights. Their existence is a massive hidden danger to the entire war.

Marquess Wallace also seems to realize that he may have fallen into a trap.

When the cavalry in the rear report that a legion has appeared on their original path and cut off their retreat, he becomes even more certain that Henwell has laid a trap specifically for the Night Falcon Knights.

However, he still does not realize how serious the situation is.

He believes that with the Night Falcon Knights' combat strength, they can easily break through the encirclement.

Before withdrawing, what he needs to do is destroy Peace Haven's western defense camp.

Then he hears a strange sound. It is like crossbow bolts tearing through the air, but much louder.

The next moment, a continuous chain of explosions erupts among the Night Falcon Knights.

Violent blasts rip apart the knights' bodies. In confusion, they look around for the source of the attack.

Only after a while does Wallace notice that the attacks are coming from the surrounding fortresses.

That shocks him deeply. The nearest fortress is more than a thousand meters away. How can it possibly hit them from there?

What kind of weapon is firing at them? Why is it so destructive?