Chapter 118 Drill

Noise and sweat, flags flying.

Three thousand soldiers formed a huge square formation that was constantly changing.

The center army was infantry holding spears and swords, and in front of the center army were javelin throwers and archers.

The cavalry scattered on both wings, each with 500 people.

As Cole waved his flag, five trumpeters on each side began to blow the first horn, and the sound was short and rapid.

Countless arrows and javelins shot out, and the archers, as auxiliary troops, frantically vented the arrows on their waists, one after another, until another horn sounded.

The horn sounded twice in a row, and the archers quickly threw their weapons and retreated to the rear.

The shield soldiers gathered the retreating archers, and the huge square shields formed a shield wall, with twelve-foot-long iron spears in the gaps.

One person held a shield and the other held a spear, and behind them were light and heavy infantry walking forward, waiting to charge at any time.

The horn sounded three times, and the cavalry set out, with smoke and dust rolling. Looking from a high place, the two cavalry were like sharp arrows shot from a bow, and in an instant they broke away from the square formation by a large distance, and the two sides crossed and pierced the enemy's side.

A long horn sounded, which was the order to charge.

The shield wall fell instantly, the central army shouted and killed, and the infantry attacked and killed.

The scarecrows and wooden stakes fell one by one.

After a period of chaos, the horn sounded for the formation.

Cole looked at the soldiers who formed a formation. After training, they could complete their tasks well in the simulated battle, but the enemy was just a haystack and a wooden stake.

They still need to go through the baptism of war, and those who can stay at that time can be regarded as qualified warriors.

"My lord, there are no mistakes in all the formations this time." Camilo reported to him.

They trained the most basic battle formation, with infantry as the main force, archers as the auxiliary, and cavalry as the odd one. Cole led the reserve team to support.

This is the best time to conquer the Stormlands. You should know that not everyone has surrendered to King's Landing. Cole was able to gather such a large army so quickly because there were many families in the Stormlands helping him.

After Cole defeated Highgarden, some people rekindled their hope. Their families suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Blackwater, and the castle was also given to others by Joffrey. How could they accept this?

Cole ordered them to gather at Summerhall. Now they have assembled a team of more than 2,000 people. He directly told the nobles of the Stormlands with his actions that I am going to use troops against you, so you must be prepared.

Storm's End and Dragonstone are not enough to supply the logistics of the war. Now only 3,000 soldiers have put Storm's End under heavy pressure.

The war exercise took a total of five days from preparation to holding. In the nearly half a month since the fleet of the Arbor was destroyed, he has been actively recruiting and training new soldiers.

Five thousand people are completely enough to stabilize the situation in the Stormlands, if there are no accidents and reinforcements.

In the Battle of Blackwater, the Stormlands suffered the most.

Even the remaining forces were transferred to the riverlands to fight the northerners because they might return to Storm's End.

At this time, the defense of the Stormlands was weak, and even if the army was gathered, it would be a mob.

Korfei was a man who was proficient in military tactics and military training.

These military formation training methods were the product of his combination of what he learned from the castle books and the training of the laws of the previous century.

He also experienced the military formation of Westeros on the battlefield, which could only be said to be extremely chaotic.

Although they barely formed a formation when they formed a formation, once the battle started, they had no idea who was who.

They could only barely identify people by armor.

Sometimes when the battle started, they charged on horseback, and they didn't even know whether the person who died in their hands was an enemy or a friend.

Heavy cavalry attacks often require a large number of people and horses to pave the way, and infantry and light cavalry can cover the front to allow the armored cavalry to charge.

The armored heavy cavalry can only be a real killer when they charge.

Cavalry in this era has no means of restraint, and the conventional practice is to defeat cavalry with cavalry.

Unfortunately, Cole's men were less than a hundred heavy cavalrymen, to be exact, there were only eighty-six of them.

The light cavalrymen were equipped with a thousand men, and the horses were all sent by Highgarden.

It was already dark when the drill ended, and Cole led a group of knights back to the castle.

Sir Jafar Dondarrion of Black Harbor, their family emblem was a forked purple lightning and several flashing four-pointed stars on a black background. Earl Dondarrion was a handsome man, but his cousin Jafarion did not seem to have inherited the good genes of the family. He was not tall, had a pointed face, but his eyes were bright.

Earl Heywood Fell of Fallenwood.

Earl Shoof Granderson of Allseeing City, people called him "Graybeard".

All these people gathered under him at the moment.

Of course, there was also Sir Roland Storm of Nightsong City, he was the illegitimate son of the Cullen family and the only remaining brother of Earl Bryce Cullen of Nightsong City. The emblem of the Cullen family was a black nightingale on a yellow background. This Sir Storm believed in "warriors" very much, and was as warlike as a warrior. He challenged Cole as soon as he arrived at Storm's End.

He led the rear army in the Battle of Blackwater and covered Stannis's retreat. Now Cole arranged him to lead the two thousand new troops in Midsummer Hall.

"My lord, this army is definitely an elite one." Lord Hugh Granderson rode beside him. He was an old man, and it was really difficult for him to lead the troops in person.

"It's just a vain act. Only a real battlefield can test the strength of an army." Cole said.

Gilbert led the servants and stable boys to greet him at the parade ground. Cole dismounted and handed the tether to his stable boy. This stable boy was called Watson, a simple and honest boy.

"Lord Cole." Gilbert walked straight through the crowd and came to his side.

The servants were helping him take off his armor, and Cole raised his arm to let them help him untie the knot. "What's wrong?"

"There's a bird from King's Landing." He handed over a letter.

The buckles of the iron cape and the armor were all untied and passed out from the head. Before that, they untied the cloak first.

"King's Landing?" Cole asked. What is Lord Tywin going to do?

He has been outside the city for the past five days, and usually the messengers are responsible for delivering messages for him, but Cole has left most of the things to Gilbert.

"What does the letter say?" Cole asked him, while taking off the hand guard and wrist guard.

"This is an invitation letter, my lord. Tyrion Lannister invites you to King's Landing to attend his wedding as a friend."

Cole couldn't help laughing, "Does Lannister think we are fools?" Suddenly his expression froze, and he asked quickly, "Who did Tyrion Lannister marry?"

"Sansa Stark. It seems that she is the eldest daughter of Eddard Stark, the Duke of Winterfell."

He frowned, "This is not good news."

Looking north, he didn't know how Duke Eddard would react to the news.