Power and Empire Chapter 2024: The National Destiny of Life and Death (2)
just off the northern border, at dusk, on a snowy mound, outside of a solid camp with three rows of wooden sticks inside and out, a group of light cavalry with long flag stabbing guns are coming from a distance These hussars are wearing light mail armor, thick cloth cotton-padded clothes inside, and a compound cavalry bow slung on their backs. On their backs are two barrels full of feathers. Although they look a little bloated, the horses and horses are all white in the falling snow. Very fast, it rolled up the white smoke and dust in the distance. At the beginning, it was just a small black spot. After ten minutes, it approached the camp gate. At this time, you can already see the white gas ejected by the horse running quickly.
" Open the door, it’s our people! "Someone shouted towards the gate tower of the camp. The two heavy doors were quickly opened from the inside. The light cavalry galloped in like a falling arrow and rushed into the back of the camp gate. It took more than ten meters to squeeze the horse, and the horse's hoof heavily grinds a deep mark on the stiff and frozen ground. The camp servants who had been prepared for a long time wore a thick torn leather jacket and immediately went up to stubbornly hold back and still exhale. , A high-spirited war horse,
" Be careful, this is an expensive purebred Antu horse. A horseshoe is worth more than your life. You must get the best horse materials and beans! If something goes wrong, I want your head! A cavalry captain in light armor hits the shoulder of the servant who is pulling his horse with a whip, and then jumps off a vigorous horse. The servant in ruined thick clothes is caught by the whip. He grinned painfully, his body trembled, and he lowered his head and dared not defy! The captain of the cavalry then turned and ran to the big tent in the middle of the camp quickly.
At the entrance of the tent, there are two heavy armored knights of the royal palace. They obviously know him. Their eyes only scan the cavalry captain who is covered with snow flakes, and they spread out to the sides, so that the cavalry can be such a cavalry. The captain went directly into the big tent, and inside the big tent, one was wearing a robe. The silver-white soft armor is exposed on the arm. The young man with a healthy body is wiping a short spear in his hand. The short spear is only the length of his arm. The front end is made of fine iron. The sharpness is frightening. Generally, there are only extremely fast assault lancers. At the door of the tent, the captain of the cavalry who faced the wind and snow ran in and knelt down on one knee five meters in front of the middle-aged man, and said, “Your Majesty, Rila’s urgent report. Their encounter with the Falcon Army. Up!"
The sturdy-looking young man's eyes lit up, he placed his short spear on the table, and asked, "How powerful is the Falcon Empire?"
"About a thousand horses, and also launched a main attack on the Ruira Army, resulting in more than 100 casualties of the Ruira Army. The Ruira Army has stopped advancing and deployed defenses on the spot. According to the analysis of the Ruira, this It should be the forward scout of the Falcon Empire, calculated based on the horsepower of the cavalry. The main force of the Falcon Emperor should have entered a hundred miles ahead! Rila said that the forward direction of this Qianqi forward is our side, I hope I am the eagle. The Legion can intercept in time to ensure that the coalition forces will not be exposed to the Falcon Empire in advance!"
"In front of my descendants of Angolan descent, the Rila people have always been cowards! But they encountered the Falcon Empire forward cavalry. They were not the main battle! The 50,000 army was scared to a halt! "
The young man's eyes were cold, and the corners of his mouth curled up disdainfully, and waved to the cavalry captain, saying, "Rila people are not good at cavalry, let alone cavalry tactics. It was only after that Frau appeared that he finally got a little bit. The foundation of the cavalry is when it comes to real cavalry operations. It’s far worse than our Angolan descendants. This Falcon forward has explored hundreds of miles all the way, with the wind and snow, even if it is a real elite, the man is strong, and the horse is also If you can’t bear it, the other party will immediately evacuated as soon as they touched slightly. This is the case. The Rila people are right in this regard. This time the coalition forces are doing their best to save the situation. The Rila people are voluntarily acting as bait. If you let it go further, I The layout of the coalition army is completely exposed, but it is very troublesome!"
"At the request of the Rila people, we immediately mobilized all our cavalry to search for this Falcon forward in a range of fifty miles! If you find it, you must drive away or annihilate it!" The young man's eyes were terrifying, the cavalry. The captain led the way. This young man was the king of Hungary. With the order given, the huge Hungarian camp immediately neighed, and teams of fierce light cavalry galloped out of the camp regardless of the heavy snow.
In a flat canyon less than twenty miles away from the Hungarian camp, the snow was so full that it was hard to tell from the opposite side dozens of steps away. Although it was a little smaller in the afternoon, it still couldn’t settle down. The cold plains and valleys were frozen, and the horses were in danger of slipping when galloping on them. The Falcon Empire’s second squadron commander of the Guards took the two. More than a hundred cavalry guards just walked in the canyon with their horses step by step. Everyone was covered in white snow, with their helmets on their backs, just struggling to move forward. As the most elite forward scout among the main forces of the Imperial Cavalry, Stanley was placed in front of the Rila people.
At that time, he received a report from the squad that he found a main army of Rila people. After a long time in secret, he decided to gather ten teams under his command to take the initiative to attack. In fact, Rila made a mistake, Stan The reason why Leis took the initiative to launch the attack was not too sturdy, but because the main force of the Falcon Empire cavalry was still two hundred miles away.
Although the main force of the imperial cavalry force broke the coalition by more than 100,000, it also suffered a lot of casualties. In addition, the army was exhausted from the front and rear, so the march was not as fast as the coalition expected. After all, the fat man did not want to A long-weary army faced the forces gathered by the coalition on the border, and the army was resting and moving forward. At this time, its role as a forward scout was manifested. In order to cut off the sight of the coalition and not reveal the true situation of the main force of the empire, Stan The elite scouts led by Leis have released a distance of two hundred miles. If they find a large coalition army, they will assemble and disperse the team and start the attack. This really stops the Rilla army.
At this time, the gorge where the cavalry guards he led was in the area called Mesa Cross Road in the north of Congo. Since this is called a fork, it is because this area is an important road connecting several areas. , Stan Leis led two hundred guards wandering around here, and when he got down in the middle of the night, he and the guards behind him were already exhausted. The war horse shook his head uneasyly. Although the temporarily found vegetation was in his mouth, he still exhaled a heavy nose. Both the centaur's mouth and nose spit out a long white gas. The weather is too cold, no matter whether the horse or man is blown by the night breeze, they will be sifted by the cold.
In the dark night, the cavalry guards had unbuckled their iron armor and leaned against a cave in the canyon to rest, which was located high in the canyon. You can have a sweeping view of the entire canyon road, Stanley's height is average, and his appearance is simple and unsurprising. There was also an arrow wound on his eyes, which looked slightly hideous. At this time, his gaze was staring at several fires on the canyon road below. It was an artificially lit bonfire. Although it was far away, he could see the figures of people and horses clearly. The number of people was equal to that of himself, and he couldn't see the details. But the arrow tube around everyone's waist, filled with white arrow tail feathers, flashed with the cold air that penetrated into the bottom of people's hearts in this cold night.
"Captain, it seems to be a cavalry of the coalition army?" A guard walked over and whispered, "The number is about the same as us, but from the appearance of the dress, it seems to be the archer, or we can solve it tonight!"
"No hurry, the other party is just like we thought. Knowing that this is the only way to go, so we came to block us, everyone has been tired for several days, and the other party is full of energy. At this time, the game is not good for us. Let’s take a good rest first! As long as the other party doesn’t know that we’re here, everything else is easy to do"
Stanley shook his head calmly, there were only more than two hundred people. The number of the opponents is still unclear, and other teams are scattered according to the arrangement to attract the attention of the coalition forces and deter the coalition forces from advancing. The day after tomorrow, we will move closer to this pre-determined assembly point and expose the assembly point in advance. Once the coalition forces react, it will be a disaster as a forward scout for this battle! Can be transferred to the scouts of the Imperial Guards, they are all elites among the top elites. They have experienced many battles, have more experience, have experienced wind, frost, rain and snow, have strong survivability in the wild, and they must also be good at cooperating with each other. Personal combat strength is strong, and even must be prepared to sacrifice at any time. Such a scout, even if you look at the entire empire with more than 100,000 cavalry, apart from the prairie people who are accustomed to the bitterness and bitterness, you can definitely take no more than two thousand. One thousand of is here,
Stanleys’ judgment was correct. At that time, the number of Hungarian cavalry in the gorge was not two hundred, but two thousand, but more than one thousand of them were not stationed in the gorge, but were ambushing in the gorge. In addition, the Hungarian cavalry is worthy of the descendants of steppe nomads. Instinctively believes that if the Falcon Empire cavalry is really nearby, they will definitely pass through this must pass. The horseshoe print in the canyon also proves this point. Falcon Empire Cavalry It was nearby, but after waiting all night, the Hungarian cavalry did not wait for the expected dark night raid. When the sky was clear, the Hungarian cavalry outside the canyon finally couldn't help showing up.
Across a **** in the gorge, Stanleys stretched out half of his neck. From a distance, you can see a large group of cavalry, holding towering spears, with a swallowtail flag flying on the top of the spears, and the flag is embroidered with gold. The waves and the damp morning mist, the flag flying in front of this cavalry seemed to be full of moisture in the air, but it was heavily attached to the flagpole. The sky is also gloomy, it seems that this heavy snow has not yet paid enough, and a bigger snow is brewing. , Thousands of horses riding, wind rolling across the canyon, heavy snowfall, hard ice on the road,
The horseshoe stepped on, but the white pulp splashed all over. The horses of the Hungarian cavalry were quite majestic. They were a hybrid of the prairie horses and the giant Istanbul horses. However, they did not require violent maneuvering on the battlefield and outflank their attacks. The cavalry did not advance much faster than the infantry. Warhorse breeding requires delicate horse materials to have strength. In this way, more than two thousand cavalrymen crowded in the canyon. All of a sudden, warhorses were released in search of grass. The cavalrymen boiled water and cooked food and froze outside for a night. The cavalrymen were thinking about it. There is a bite of hot food,
"Damn, it's dangerous!"
The faces of the guards who were hiding in hiding were all like the weather, gloomy, thinking that they almost killed out last night, and immediately broke out in cold sweat, no one thought that there were such cunning cavalry in the coalition army, and they knew Put the bait. Fortunately, everyone is too tired. There is no extra energy to bite. Otherwise, they will not be caught by a pole. Although the opponent is an archer, the victory is absolutely suppressed in number. As the forward scout, this guard cavalry, and Without wearing heavy melee armor, even the heavier standing armor is not prepared, if besieged by such a large number of archers, it will immediately end up with a blood gourd
" Captain, what should I do now? Someone asked in a low voice
"What can I do, wait and see!"
Stanleys can’t help it. Fortunately, the high part of the canyon’s cave is big and deep enough, and there is a straight skylight above it. Hundreds of horses are placed inside and there is a big gap, as long as the people below If you don't deliberately search upwards, you won't notice that Stanley is an extremely experienced old scout who has participated in many battles, but at this time he found that he was temporarily unable to. Instead, it calmed down. For two days, what if the enemy cavalry below does not withdraw? He looked to the far north, and there were still dark clouds piled up. On the far mountain range, lightning flashed occasionally through the dark clouds. No one knew what the fate awaited everyone under the dark clouds.
"Captain, look!"
just then. A guard in charge of watching suddenly shouted. Stan Leis hurriedly walked over and looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw a group of well-dressed cavalry slowly entering the canyon from a distance. These cavalry and the cavalry below Different, these cavalry are equipped with heavy armor, not fast, but very deterrent, walking in the forefront. Is a silent young general. Wearing a scarlet cloak, on both sides are flag officers holding upright flags. One side of the flag is a golden wolf head, and the other is a short silver spear. On the saddle of the young general, a bow bag of surprisingly large size hung on the side. The set of five silver-like short spears is particularly dazzling against the white snow,
"It should be the opponent's general!" Stanley said hesitantly, his eyes paused on the banner of the silver short spear. I don't know why, he always feels that this silver short spear coat of arms is very meaningful, if he knows the noble style of Central Europe. You will find that on the metal top of this silver short spear heraldic flag, there is a crown jewel-shaped flag slip. That is the king flag. Even Stanley would not have thought that he would see the king flag that is rarely seen in the rumors.
As a large army scout, you need to remember the enemy’s flag. The golden wolf head indicates that the cavalry below is a Hungarian archer. It’s no wonder that the opponent will have such a large cavalry group. Edgar fought back and captured eight of the coalition’s prisoners. Wan, I have to ask what the situation is. The Hungarians are an alien ethnic group from Central Europe. They were originally a strong grassland in the north of Central Bahia. At the time of the largest population, they reached more than 1.5 million. They are famous for their archers. Because of the rise of another tribe on the grassland and the defeat of the Sino-Byan Empire, more than 170 years ago, the Hungarian tribe, with a population of less than 700,000 people, was forced to begin a **** westward migration. /
Although the Hungarians are at a disadvantage in the competition in the northern grasslands, they eventually had to migrate, which is tantamount to self-exile.
But in Central Europe, the powerful Hungarian archers fought a sea of blood in Central Europe, and eventually wiped out several countries in Central Europe, grabbing a large piece of land in the middle of the country. The success has even shocked Central Europe for a hundred years. The more than one hundred years have been faintly. The nature of this nomadic nation has not yet been completely erased. It still exists at this moment.
Although there is no longer the horseback power of the ancestors, the archers of Hungary are still very famous in Central Europe. They flashed like a wind, arrows shot in succession, and hit the 50-meter target. There is no problem. For a country dominated by infantry combat power, the Hungarian archers are a nightmare existence, but the horses are expensive and difficult to raise. The Hungarians brought a lot of war horses at the beginning, and later used steppe horses to breed Istanian giants. Horses have finally solved part of the problem. The training of archers is not easy. They are generally raised by the nobles. They are similar to the tribal establishment of the steppes. At the same time, in order to make up for the lack of cavalry combat power, Hungary adopts the main force of cavalry and servants. Military system,
The so-called servant soldiers are slave soldiers~ IndoMTL.com~ Responsible for assisting and coordinating the infantry in battle. This grassland nation still continues the extremely harsh slave system. As the high-level nobles of the tribe, the nobles own slaves The absolute power of life and death, this time the Hungarian Kingdom, which has always upheld the expansion of its force, is also one of the main forces of the coalition.
is personally led by the Hungarian King Baijieluos, with 11 thousand bows and 20,000 servants, forming the largest high-mobility army in the back line of the coalition! Stanres did not expect that he was so lucky that he bumped into the Hungarian cavalry group, and the other party also put on a posture to find himself,
"It seems that it will be difficult to wait until the other teams meet. You must find opportunities to break through!"
Stan Leith's voice paused, and his face was a little ugly. "The number of the opponent is ten times as much as his own, and most of them are extremely fast archers. Breaking through the encirclement is no different from looking for death! Unless..." Stan Leith voice Stopped, his face was a bit distorted, in fact, even he himself was taken aback by the thought. He thought of the young general. If he could make a surprise attack, the Hungarians would be confused, right? The team's cooperation may not be able to achieve a small victory. "Two days later, we will rush out and kill the general, and then we will break through with all our strength!" Stanley said with gritted teeth, and the other guards heard what was inside. The meaning of a decisive fight,
" If you can really kill the opponent's general, it would be enough, but unfortunately, I don't know what that silver-white short spear represents! "An older guard with a hideous expression of white teeth" let it go. , How can someone who can own the military flag and clan emblem be a very high-level figure! "(To be continued) []