Power and Empire Chapter 709: Cut off the tail (3)
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709 cut off the tail (3)
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"Stop", the prince of the East Court, Higlu raised his right hand high on the horse, and looked deeply at the distant city. The dense silhouette behind him also stopped the horse's hoof with the gesture,
This is the 5,000 East Court cavalry who broke through with him. Because Khan King Hatalu lost too much blood and was weak and unable to command the battle with the team, the East Court Prince Haiglu has become the commander of this force.
This time the east court broke through the south, with more than half of the casualties,
More than 30,000 people were able to surpass the heavy ambush and finally rushed out of the mountain pass. Less than 12,000 people were able to remove the injured and guarded forces. The ability to dispatch 5,000 people is already the limit of the East Court.
The Dongting people who lack food and supplies urgently need a place where they can obtain these things. Otherwise, not to mention returning to the northern grasslands, just wanting to escape the chasing of the Vijay Falcon Cavalry is a luxury. ,
Don’t believe the people in Dongting, the Vikings will watch as they return to the grassland safely. The Vikings must have already planted many murderous opportunities on the way back to the north.
Since you can’t go north, you can only go south. After some sums, King Khatalu of Dongting Khan agreed to his son’s strategy to bypass the heavily assembled northern area from the east side of Palavin Enter the mountainous Dorok region, then turn to the north, risking over the rugged Bolawes Mountains,
If the plan goes well, you will be able to return to the base camp of the East Court on the prairie within 2 months at most. When the time comes, you will be gathering forces, and you must report the shame of this defeat.
Relying on a map obtained during the looting in the north, Prince Haiglu, who was responsible for the hopes of the Eastern Court people, quietly advanced from the flank to a place called Balanil on the southeast line. From the map, this should be It is a small town in the south of Swadian. Because it is on a grassy **** and the road is difficult to connect, it is located in a remote area. Whether it is a Vikya or a Swadian, they would never think that their goal would be here. "
This is Balanil? "
But the sight in front of him made the hopeful Heglu feel a cold and confused muttering to himself. The meadow floating in the distance is like a green carpet, extending from the end of the earth, past the undulating ones. In the hills, the outline of a small town is gradually revealed, but a large army camp that shouldn't appear fills the grass outside the small town.
All kinds of tents are densely distributed on a grassy slope, like a half-moon arc fan that opens outwards. At the center of the arc fan is a simple town. This place is a little small. Far-fetched.
Outside the town is a very simple fence. At first glance, it was arranged by an inexperienced person, because the entire row of fences did not fit the outline of the town, but crookedly divided into countless small squares from the middle. The twisting earthworm-like camp fence is at a key protruding position. There is neither a reinforcement to resist horses nor an arrow tower to guard the distance. It is completely a decoration project.
In each grid, there are dozens of large and small tents. Some are made of expensive leather, while most of them are ordinary cloth, densely packed like patches.
The small town is artificially divided into dozens of areas. Such fences are not so much to defend against the enemy as to defend themselves. Once a battle occurs, these fences alone are enough to prevent the soldiers inside from gathering. Get up
The most distinctive feature is that there are flags of various colors floating above each small grid, embroidered with exquisite patterns representing aristocratic identity, as well as signature flags representing merchants, clowns playing with fire, and wearing wind sāo dresses. The female, the colorful tent representing the courtyard is full of one street, all kinds of vendors gather here, making it look like a big market,
You can vaguely see some bragging soldiers wandering between the squares. Some are wearing nondescript knight armor, some are not holding weapons, and their shoulders are put on their backs in these tents, or sāo. Disturbing the nearby women for fun, people who don’t know thought it was the safari ground where His Majesty the King held the Cavaliers Tournament
Hagru had to carefully check the leather map of his opponent again. This map was his spoils of plundering in the north of Swadian. From the location of the map, this is indeed Balanil on the map.
The bearing is correct, and the distance is correct. What's wrong? Heglu is a bit forgiving. He is here to rob, not to fight, so the cavalry is mainly equipped with light maneuvering, and the barracks in front of us are obviously tens of thousands of people. If you are not careful, you will Fall into the trap of the enemy again
Uncertainty, Heglu decided to send a team of elite scouts to investigate near the camp. Soon, the east court scouts lying in ambush outside the barracks caught a single nobleman wandering outside the camp. ,
"Say, who are you from Vikya or Swadian"
Hagru looked up and down at the captive with a fierce face. The other party’s dress made a slight shock to the heart that Hagru mentioned.
This is a young man with chestnut hair. He is wearing worn-out chain armor, which is the kind of simple chain armor with a few pieces of iron inlaid on the chest. Such a thing is not worn by the regular army, let alone this broken one. There are also a few unstitched holes in his chain leather armor. It looks like second-hand goods from somewhere.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me"
The young man was terrified a long time ago. He is a rundown nobleman from the south. He just had to run out to hide his debts because he lost money in gambling, but he didn't expect to be stunned when he passed a section of bushes. When I woke up, I saw myself surrounded by dozens of people dressed up as nomadic cavalry
The "Dongting people" shuddered, the face completely lost the blood color, and it was over. This time the young man was dead and said to himself, he had never seen the Dongting people, but these heads were in front of him. The cavalry wearing a leather cap, a longbow and a scimitar slung at the waist is undoubtedly in line with the image of Dongting people talked about by his companions,
The people of Dongting are cruel and fierce. They like to hunt and kill enemies. Their fierce reputation has spread throughout the country. This is the result of the publicity of the Swadian Military Affairs Department in order to increase local expropriation. To suppress the dissatisfaction of the lord of the south, the Swadian Military Affairs Department always exaggerated the tragedy in the north several times, and then used the military newspaper to inform the local area.
The city of XX was slaughtered 30,000, and the city of XX was slaughtered 60,000. This kind of information is like a barometer of the day, accounting for almost 60% of the reports sent to the local lord’s army. ,
The Swadian people in the south are also worried all day long. Since only paying for food can avoid being ravaged by the people of Dongting, they still meet the requirements of the Ministry of Military Affairs to increase the population base of the north by several times. People go desperately with such demons, otherwise, the horseshoes of the East Court cavalry go south, and they are not enough to fill the teeth of these demons.
"I am a Swadian," the young man yelled, and found himself in the hands of the Dongting man. The young man’s scared soul fell away. He buried his head in his hands, although he couldn’t see clearly. Face, but body trembling on the ground,
"Swadian people"
As soon as the young man uttered his proficient Swahidian language, the dignity on Prince Heglu's face was soothed. It was so dangerous. He thought he would meet the Vekya again, and Prince Heglu was embarrassed to himself. I wiped a cold sweat,
After a series of fiascos, the Dongting people are a little nervous about ambushes. In their eyes, their opponents this time are not humans, but the omnipresent longevity heaven.
The Wikiyas have been blessed by the longevity. Such rumors have long been heard from the tribes in the steppe. Especially the legends about the Wikiyas falcons are even more evil. The Sikugits say that he is The long whip in the hands of Changshengtian is destined to become a great man like the King of Kings. Under his whip, it is not the sheep that drives away the flock, but the kingdoms
Before, the people of Dongting were scornful of this kind of saying. If this world really has the whip of eternal life, it must be our heroic Khan king, but now the people of Dongting believe that the 100,000 army is here. In half a month, if it were not for the blessing of the longevity sky, it would be absolutely impossible
"Let him go"
Hagru waved his hand to let a few scouts release the young man, and asked, "Speak, who are you? Is that Swadian army? As long as you answer truthfully, I won't kill you"
"Nineteenth Army, we are from the 19th Army of Swadian" The young man knelt on the ground and answered almost without hesitation. His eyes turned around and his face was white like a piece of paper. ,
At this time, Heglu slammed on him with a fierce foot, and his grunting cracked tooth was called pain,
The whole body is like a squashed grass, the whole face is squeezed into the smelly mud,
"Cough cough, don't... Don't" the young man made a quick and uncomfortable cough, his face was full of pain
Hagru strengthened his feet and sneered at the corner of his mouth
"Are you kidding me? I still think I don’t know your Swadian military system. Apart from the ten main knights, there are only a few local armies. Where is the Nineteenth Army? I will use a butcher knife to scrape the meat off your body one by one"
"Really, I didn't lie to you. We are the establishment of the Southern Noble Army, and our legion commander is the lord of the Southern Sagosen. We have a total of 46 legions..."
Because of the mud in the mouth, the awkward young man's illegible answer made Haiglu's face a little jīng.
Although I don’t know what the Southern Aristocratic Army is, it is obviously not a regular army. If that is the case, 5,000 cavalry will be enough to flatten this camp, and the supplies of these troops can meet the needs of marching eastward.
"I hope you haven't lied, otherwise you will be miserable..."
Hagru stared at the young man fiercely, and the scimitar in his hand returned to the scabbard. He saw that this guy was different from the Swadians he had encountered before, and he was a ghost of death.
"You don't want to die." Hegrew asked the captive eagerly, "Now tell me, how many people do you have in Balanil? Who is the commander?"
"There used to be 12,000 people. Yesterday, some of them were transferred to Safindi. Now there are only 4,000 people from Asen Lisu."
Looking at the sharp blade dangling by his cheek, the young man’s eyes were full of fear. He was a speculative little nobleman from the south, not a brave warrior, nor was he The northerner who has a deep hatred with the Dongting people, facing the legendary cruel Dongting people, he was shaking like a sifting chaff, and he took so many things in order to save his life.
"Saphandi"
The prince of the East Court, Higru, looked slightly surprised, and felt a sense of fortune in his heart. He happened to pass by Sadiffan on his way. It was a small city with walls and moats. The defenses were not strong, but it was difficult In one fell swoop, due to the limitation of troops, Higlu had to choose Balanlier, who was smaller than Sadiffan,
The combat effectiveness of the Swadian army is not very good in the eyes of the Dongting people. This is all the fat man’s credit. The most elite northern army of Swadian has been maimed in the hands of the fat man, and the elite knights in China are also Only the First Knight Order is left. It is the guard force stationed in Kyoto. It will not leave Palavin as a last resort, so the East Court army encountered Swadian's miscellaneous army from the beginning.
"Okay, get rid of this useless guy"
Now that he got the information he needed, Hegrew impatiently ordered the soldiers to drag the young man down. The young man’s screaming sound soon turned into a popping sound when his throat was cut. An icy corpse in the bush
September is the harvest season. In the southern part of the Paravin Plain, it was already a busy harvest scene in the past. The fields are filled with farmers with joyful smiles. However, in this autumn, the wheat seedlings in the fields are completely covered. Replaced by weeds,
The fleeing of a large number of local residents, as well as the coming and going of the army, the **** clashes between the noble armies from time to time, have made the féi fertile fields here start to be barren, and the fields are full of weeds.
The 5,000 eastern cavalrymen bent over and passed through the weeds that were as high as the horse's belly. The weeds rubbed against their bodies and made a rustle. The cavalry's fiery red eyes stared at the closer and closer. Camp gate,
It is a short slope, about 30 meters long, and it’s Balanlier when it rushes past. If you count the acceleration time, it only takes less than 5 seconds.
"The whole army is preparing." At the front of the queue, Prince Higru of the East Court stopped the horse and whispered to the cavalry behind him,
The sound of "brushing" the scabbard out of the sheath was one after another behind him, and the southern aristocratic army of Balanil in the distance did not find these opponents who rushed like a pack of wolves at all.
Today is the Bossag Festival of the Swadian people. It is the season to celebrate the harvest in September. The garrison general here deliberately opened the door of the entire barracks to let all the caravans who followed the action usher in
The sentinels near the gate of the camp are busy teasing with the merchants passing by,
A group of gorgeous women passing by quickly attracted their attention,
"Look, look." The sentries made a loud whistle, with the most wretched eyes, they didn't want to strip all these women's clothes off, and they wanted to go straight into their long skirts.
"These adults will really enjoy." A captain of the sentry greedily stared at the round tún of a dancer and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. These women were dressed in translucent, thin sand-like skirts, and there seemed to be very mysterious in the swing. The frequency and arc make people feel like a cat's claws are scratching in their hearts
This is a dancer from Salander. It was raised in the homes of many great aristocrats in the south. Especially in the past few years, the Salander war has been frequent, and many dancers from Salander have also moved to various countries on the mainland. The garrisoned Master Asenlisu carried all the dancers with the army, which shows the degree of absurdity.
The fair and pretty face is covered with a white sand towel with metal patches, and the figure is swaying thin waist, walking like willow branches swaying in the wind,
Although they can’t see their faces, such a dress makes men feel an impulsive madness in their hearts. They can’t wait to jump on them immediately and hold these enchanting energies in their arms
"Suddenly, a sharp cluster of arrows shot from a bush in the distance, and a **** arrow shot from the throat of the sentinel captain with bulging eyes" "Ah" the dancer in white sand With a shrill and stern cry, it ran like a frightened bird, countless white lines, with a sharp howling sound, came from a distance like raindrops, and the dozen or so sentinels nearby all shot into hedgehogs,
"The enemy..." A sentry wanted to shout before he died, but a large area of flying arrows once again blocked the sun like a cloud. The dark cloud instantly turned into raindrops, and a metal waterfall fell from the sky.
The Dongting people’s close-range shooting was extremely strong. The Swadian people near the camp gate seemed to be punched frontally by an invisible giant, and the whole person suddenly fell backwards and flew out in mid-air. Distorted into an unnatural posture in the middle, flipped and shot into a hedgehog
The whole camp was in chaos in an instant. Countless Swadian soldiers ran out of the tent in a panic, looking for their weapons everywhere, a burst of arrows covered them, and the soldiers rolled on the ground in patches,
"Rush in," Heglu yelled~IndoMTL.com~slashed the gate of the camp,
The 5,000 Eastern cavalry formations poured into the Swadian camps from the grass on both sides. The horseshoes quickly shook the soil on the ground, and the compound bows in their hands kept shooting swift arrows into the Swadian camp. The body of the soldier, the war horse drove the Swadian who was running in a panic in front of him,
"Swish swish" The horseshoes of the East Court cavalry stomped all the injured Swadians to the horses of Mercedes-Benz. In order to vent the anger suffered by the Vikya people, the unprepared Swadians were like sheep driven by wolves. The camp was overturned by war horses, and the corpses rolled over and knocked down the tent next to it. The whole of Barlilan Chaos,
"Kill, kill, kill"
The cavalry in the East Court wielded their scimitars violently, screamed at their chests, their heads rolled, and the massacre continued until there was no more living Swadian.
The Southern Noble Army, together with the merchants and women in the camp, killed more than 4,000 soldiers in Balanil this time, but the number of civilians reached more than 13,000.
The flowing blood dyed the entire black mud hillside red. Until 30 years later, there were still merchants passing by this meadow saying that they heard violent fighting and sharp weapons at night. Cracking sound of opening **