Through the sea, the Duke of Saxony learned that the Duke of Burgundy defeated the Thracian field army one step earlier than Berengal. The Duke of Saxony, who was harassing the Peloponnese region according to Giovanni and Ipolita's plan, immediately dropped the beef in his hand, put on his armor and climbed onto his war horse.

"The situation has changed. You can't rob the villages in such a way. That's no different from the robbers!" The Duke of Saxony shouted to the soldiers who were having lunch, "After eating, go south along the land and capture several cities and play!"

While he went south, he gathered the forces of the scattered lords. When he arrived at Yoanina, the number of Almani coalition troops he commanded had reached 13,000, and new lords were constantly leading troops.

Before being completely surrounded, the city of Ioannina also sent messengers to the south for help. However, these messengers were unfortunately intercepted by Lord Almani who went north. So much so that Epolita, who was in Delphi, learned the news earlier than Berengal, who was closer to Ioannina.

Giovanni looked at Epolita with some gloating pleasure: "None of them seemed to act as you planned."

"This group of barbarians!" Epolita couldn't help but curse, "doing this will attract the headquarters of the Imperial Guards. Send a messenger to remind him that before the plan is successful, be sure to avoid a battle with the Imperial Guards!"

"Is this necessary?" Giovanni beat him up, "Look, the Duke of Burgundy has defeated the Thracian Field Army, and the army of the Seven Hills Empire is not worth mentioning in front of the Almani coalition..."

"Only the Imperial Guards are special! Giovanni, if you don't want the coalition to suffer a crushing defeat, send a messenger to stop the Duke of Saxony!"

"It's better to think about how to conquer Delphi than caring about others. Otherwise, I can't report to the Governor..."

Ipolita glared at Giovanni. As she walked past Giovanni, she suddenly grabbed Giovanni's hand and pinched Giovanni's back with her fingernails.

Giovanni quickly withdrew his hand. When he saw that the back of his hand had been pinched out by Ipolita, he couldn't help but shouted angrily: "What do you want to do?"

"I didn't do anything. If you are dissatisfied, just wait to go back and report to the Governor."

That night, Giovanni was seriously ill and fainted. The command of this army naturally fell into the hands of Ipolita, who was the deputy general.

Ipolita's messenger arrived in time. However, he was driven out by the Duke of Saxony without saying a few words. The Duke of Saxony and the Duke of Burgundy were both important nobles in the Federation of Almany, and there was a lot of competition with each other. If the Duke of Burgundy captured Constantinier and he did not even pull out a small city, he would be lowered to the Duke of Burgundy in the Federation of Almany in the future.

Because of this, the small town of Ioannina was violently besieged by the Allied forces commanded by the Duke of Saxony.

So the Imperial Guards arrived.

The Duke of Saxony learned in advance that the troops of the Seven Hills were approaching. He dispatched 15,000 soldiers to form a formation on a small hillside. He did not set up any fortifications on the hillside, because he believed that he was the one who should take the initiative to attack. The Duke of Burgundy defeated the Thracian Field Army, so the Duke of Saxony would also sit in the corresponding matter.

As a test, Berengal sent light-armed archers who assisted heavy cavalry far away to harass the enemy's wings. As a countermeasure, the Duke of Saxony placed the archers and crossbowmen in front of the formation and shot against the archers.

Beren Calmer waved his hand silently, and immediately a group of soldiers took out cotton armor from the baggage vehicles that accompanied him and handed it to the hands of the Iron Paladin soldiers. This was also the equipment of the Iron Paladin, but because it would be too bulky after being put on, it was mostly transported on the baggage vehicles.

So, on the inner and outer armor, the iron armored paladins put on a piece of cotton armor. The three layers of armor really wrapped them like iron barrels. The eyes of the infantrymen of the Imperial Guard became sharp - Berengal asked the Imperial Guards to put on cotton armor, which was to make the Imperial Guards ready to fight with all their might!

The completed guards began to approach the Duke of Saxony's position. Berengal placed the infantry in front of the formation and the cavalry behind the left flank. Among them, the infantry was divided into three lines, each of which was composed of several square arrays separated by a distance. The first and second rows of soldiers were sword and shield infantry, the first row was the main force, the second row was the reserve team. The third row was a close square array composed of long spears, used to carry out anti-cavalry combat in emergency moments.

Only the most well-trained and highly morale troops can adopt such a formation. There is a gap between the square formation, which will allow soldiers to escape while making it easier to put the reserve team on the battlefield. If morale is insufficient, the front line will soon collapse; and the switching between the reserve team and the main force requires strict military discipline. Perhaps many other generals have also realized the role of the reserve team on the battlefield, but the quality of the army prevents them from implementing this idea!

After entering the range of the crossbow arrows, under the command of Berengal, the infantry of the Imperial Guard quickly used a square shield to protect the five directions of the formation, including the front, back, left, right and upper directions, and curled the square formations into tortoise shell formations. These unified square shields connected to the head and tail, and tightly connected, almost blocking all the crossbow arrows of the Almani Federation!

Even though this tortoise shell formation was maintained, the progress of the Imperial Guards was not disrupted at all. Although they occupied the high and low levels, the soldiers of the Almani Alliance felt a huge sense of oppression falling from the sky!

A harsh sound of trumpets alarmed the soldiers of the Almani coalition again. Amid the sound of trumpets, the fully armed paladins launched an assault on their crossbowmen's position!

The first thing to start was the shooting of crossbows. The armored paladin used his strong bows on his hands to destroy the crossbowmen of the Almani Federation one by one, but the arrows of the Almani Federation were bounced away one after another by the armored paladins. The crossbows of the Almani Federation were secretly learned from the Republic of Liguria, which was less powerful than the crossbows of the Republic of Liguria. The crossbows made with this engineering technology could not penetrate the heavy armor of the Iron-Armed Paladin!

——Even the vest cannot penetrate.

The iron-armored cavalry completely ignored the crossbow arrows of the Almani Federation. After two rounds of shooting, they replaced the spear and the giant hammer, and thrust them into the crossbow gun position of the Almani Federation.

The Duke of Saxony took a breath. It was not until this time that he realized the importance of the warning of Epolita. Faced with such a unit, even if he won, it would be a terrible victory. Regardless of winning or losing, they would lose the ability to continue attacking the Seven Hills Empire!

But at this point, he was no longer allowed to turn back. He gathered all the lords and knights together, and Hu Cong, a knight who was riding a horse, formed a heavy cavalry team that was comparable to the number of Iron Armored Paladins.

"You are all nobles and have received military training since you were young!" The Duke of Saxony mobilized immediately, "Don't be afraid of those civilian cavalry! Go up and defeat them!"
Chapter completed!