After lunch, Marin discovered that the soldiers around him looked at him with respect and gratitude. Moreover, everyone's morale was high, as if they were blessed with the halo of war.
"Well, the morale of the army is available!" Marin nodded with satisfaction.
No matter which era of war, as long as the equipment level of the two sides is not particularly different, morale is a very important part of it. Even if the side with high morale is at a disadvantage, it is very likely to defeat the side with stronger strength. On the contrary, if a strong army is weak, it may be defeated by a weak enemy.
Seeing that he made his morale high with a small trick, Marin was very happy. Moreover, this also made him more sure of winning.
By four o'clock in the afternoon, the army had already arrived at a wooded 5 kilometers north of Newcastle. After arriving here, Marin ordered the army to stop and rest on the spot north of the woods.
This place is very close to the Scottish army. If you walk forward, you will be discovered. Before it gets dark, Marin took everyone to sit down and rest.
Because it was going to attack at night, it was best to have a sleep in advance. After eating dry bread, Marin asked everyone to rest on the spot for a few hours. However, the tents were not brought here and everyone had no place to sleep. In desperation, Marin had to let the soldiers sit back to back and rest on the ground. Wait until midnight, they would rise up and launch an attack.
However, without the cover of the tent, the mosquitoes in summer seem to be particularly annoying...
It was early August, which was the hottest time in summer. Although Scotland has a high latitude, there were also many mosquitoes in summer. Therefore, everyone was suffering.
Marin was a little ashamed at this time because he did not allow everyone to bring a tent, which led to the current bad situation. So, despite his subordinates' dissuasion, he came to the middle of the soldiers and sat back to back with Kahn, who had been following him, and rested on the ground. Of course, he was also attacked by mosquitoes...
In the middle of the night, Malin was sleeping in a daze when suddenly a sharp pain came from his face. So he waved without thinking...
With a "bang", it was particularly loud in the quiet night. Kahn, who was originally back to back with Marin, woke up immediately. He stood up suddenly and scanned the four sides with bright eyes:
"Are there any assassins?"
This made Marin suffer. He and Kahn were resting back to back. As a result, Kahn suddenly stood up, and Marin was decisively tragic - his back was empty, and he fell to the ground, and there was an intimate contact with the back of his head and the ground...
"Ouch--" Marin touched the back of his head, which was a little painful. Fortunately, this was the muddy ground, not the cement or brick and stone floor. Otherwise, if such a bump, blood would be seen.
"Ah, Master, I'm sorry, I forgot that you are behind me!" Karn was immediately embarrassed - he forgot to rest back to back with Marin...
Marin was too lazy to blame him. He took advantage of the moonlight and looked at the "pocket watch" that was about the same size as the alarm clock - it happened to be 12 o'clock in the middle of the night...
So he simply stopped sleeping. Anyway, when the Scottish army was taken down, everyone could enter Newcastle City to have enough sleep.
Marin simply asked Kahn to find the scout cavalry and asked them to contact the 3,000 thieves brought by Marich and inform them to prepare for joint operations.
However, Marin made adjustments to Marichi and the others' actions. Originally, Marichi's mission was to sneak attack the Scottish Minzhu camp separated from the war barracks when the main force attacked the enemy's combat barracks. However, Marin later felt that those civilians did not need to attack them. Anyway, they had no combat power. Therefore, it would be better to surround them instead. As long as the exit of the civilians combat barracks was blocked, those civilians did not have the courage to rush out.
In this way, there is no need to use 3,000 people. For this reason, Marin planned to let Marichi send 2,000 people to encircle the civil camp. The other 1,000 people would set up ambush on the avenue north of Newcastle at night, set up some tripping horses, and other things to intercept the Scottish army's escape net fish.
After all, when Marin attacked this time, there would inevitably be fish that escaped in the chaos. Those who could escape must be riding horses. But in the night, they would definitely not dare to take a small road when they escaped, and would choose to run wildly from the main road. As far as Marin knew, there was only one Roman Avenue north of Newcastle. Therefore, Marin asked Maric to arrange a thousand people to set up a few tripping horses on this northward avenue to intercept the Scottish soldiers who escaped.
You know, those who are qualified to ride horses are all nobles and big fish. And infantrymen who don’t even have horses are too lazy to intercept them. Moreover, those who escape on foot will sooner or later be recovered by scout cavalry, which is irrelevant...
The three thousand thieves in Marich were actually in a wood 4 kilometers west of Marin's location. The scout cavalry under Marin had contacted them before. So, the communication was very fast this time.
After the reconnaissance cavalry returned, Marin simply asked his subordinates to wake up all the soldiers and began preparing for the night attack...
At about two o'clock in the morning, the 20,000 troops under Malin were all ready, and they were teamed up and ready to set off at any time...
After Marin led the army forward for another two kilometers, he ordered everyone to stop. Then, Marin asked the blasting team to step forward and bury the powder barrels by the fence of the Scottish military camp...
At around 3:30 in the morning, news came from the blasting team ahead - 3 of 5 powder barrels were in place...
"What's going on? Why are there only three buried?" Marin frowned and asked the explosion captain Doni Cry, who came back to report.
Doni Zerry said with a depressed face:
"Duke, it's not that we don't do our best, but that the defense of the Scottish military camp seems to be very strict tonight. We tried our best to find three hidden places to bury the powder barrels. We wanted to find the fourth point, but we really couldn't find it..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Is the other party prepared?" Marin frowned, but soon suddenly realized that his reconnaissance cavalry and Cost's 900 horse bandits ate more than 300 Scottish reconnaissance cavalry. It would be strange if the other party was indifferent.
In fact, as Marin expected, James IV was filled with uneasiness when he saw that more than 300 reconnaissance cavalry sent out during the day did not come back at night.
Although sometimes the reconnaissance cavalry went out for several days and didn't return, there was no reason not to send someone back to report it...
For this reason, the uneasy James IV ordered to be vigilant at night. This also caused great trouble to Doni Zerry's blasting team. After a lot of effort, the blasting team found three visual blind spots in the camp and began to bury the powder barrels...
Marin began to hesitate whether to give up the night attack. However, Marin quickly realized that I had 20,000 people, and even if I played formally, I could win, let alone night attack? So, the original plan continued to be implemented...
In fact, although James IV was prepared for the defense, the level of defense was not high. Because James IV would not have thought that there would be a large army in the north to attack them.
Therefore, the Scottish army's midnight alert was more directed at the direction of Newcastle City and the south bank of the Tyne River. Because, in James IV's perception, there were only enemy troops in these two directions. As for the accident of the messenger in the north, James IV believed that it was the enemy's squad sent to harass the enemy, and it would not have much impact on the camp... Then, this judgment harmed the entire Scotland...
Of course, he can't blame him. Who would have thought that someone would lead a large army to maneuver at sea and go around behind the Scottish army? In the eyes of James IV, Marin's army should have gone south to London long ago...
At around 4 o'clock, Marin's army finally approached the Scottish camp. At this time, the east was already a little white. After all, it was summer and it was early.
Seeing that the time was almost over, Malin no longer hesitated. He asked someone to light a torch and shook it. The blasting hand in front of the camp immediately took out the ignited fuse that was valuable and blocked by cloth, and ignited the fuse. Then, the three blasting hand ignited with life and ran back...
Not long after, three loud "boom-boom-boom-boom-" broke out in the camp on the north side of the Scottish Camp, and the wooden fence of the Scottish Camp was directly bombed into the sky...
500 meters away, Marin pulled out the knight's sword and ordered loudly:
"attack!"
Chapter completed!