Chapter 63: An Iron Shoulder Bearing the Blame
While Winters was busy helping the Herders move, the battle of the Sekler tribe was reaching a fever pitch.
The Herder army created a ruckus with a small amount of light cavalry and feigned an attack on the North Wall with fire.
Yet in secret, they dispatched their elite armored soldiers, without lights or sound, dismounted and armed with bows and blades, they charged on foot directly towards the floating bridge behind the encampment.
But the barbarians underestimated the Sekler's keen sense of smell.
The Brigadier saw through the Herders' feint and swiftly adjusted his deployment.
He first sent Robert's battalion to form a defensive line at the bridgehead, then concentrated the camp's musketeers along the southern wall.
Between Robert's square formation and the south wall of the camp, the area was completely covered by musket fire, leaving any enemy that passed through exposed to crossfire from multiple directions.