Power and Empire Chapter 2025: The National Destiny of Life and Death (3)
"Although it sounds very tempting and confusing to kill the opponent's general, this plan is not feasible!" Stanley took off his helmet, suppressed his deep desire for this idea, swallowed dryly, and stared. Sweeping the guards who looked astonished, said with a wry smile at the corners of their mouths
"Why?" The little jī movement that had just arisen on the faces of the guards disappeared suddenly,
" Captain, are you too pessimistic! "Someone immediately expressed their opposition. Those who can become the Imperial Guards are elites, and eventually stand out from the Guards and become the forward scouts known as the eyes of the army, even more elites. The elites in China, faced with the sturdy cavalry who dared to take the initiative to attack the 50,000 Swiss regiments. They used to fight against the Gauls and the northern steppe cavalry scouts. Naturally, they did not take most of the lightly armed Hungarian cavalry. In my eyes, although the number of opponents is ten times that of our own, everyone is confident that as long as they seize the opportunity, fight a flesh and blood body, make a **** path in the opponent, attack and kill the opponent's main general, and then break through the chaos. may! "
"If the opponent is an infantry, it is naturally possible, but the opponent is a light archer!" Stan Leith shook his head and explained with a wry smile, "The number of enemies is ten times our army, and there may be more cavalry behind. If we want to attack the opponent’s general, it’s impossible during the day, and only at night. The best time is naturally late at night, but from the situation last night, the Hungarian cavalry below is not inferior to our cautiousness, that is A considerable number of cavalry patrols are maintained during the rest, which is quite unfavorable for us who only have two hundred cavalry"
"We are light cavalry fast, and the heavy melee armor stays behind, and the opponent is also a fast light archer. In terms of speed, we have no advantage. Once we are shocked, we don’t need to spend time wearing armor. These Hungarian cavalry can The bow and arrow in our hands alone can give us powerful damage. Even if we desperately kill the blood. Luckily to find the position of the enemy general, at that time, he was surrounded by layers of the opponent, and wanted to kill the opponent's most heavily defended general in one fell swoop. , Do you think it's possible!
"This..."
After listening to Stanley's words, the guards' expressions changed, and they all took a breath of air-conditioning, and their heart suddenly became colder, as if they were transferred from a fire into an ice cave, and everyone was silent for a while. Down, the situation was really bad. Everyone is an elite who has experienced a lot of battles. Why is the luck so bad this time, it happened to be blocked here,
As Stanleys said, the opposing light archers are not vegetarians. They really have to encounter a rushing battalion. They don’t even need to wear a battle armor. They can shoot many of them directly with their bows and arrows. Even if the two hundred imperial guards are good at fighting. It is impossible to attack and kill the opponent's main commander in a group of two thousand archers, not to mention that he can easily shake off his hands afterwards. It is too light to not be chased by these light archers who are not inferior to their own speed for hundreds of miles. ! But it’s not okay to stay here all the time, you can’t make a fire. One or two days, you can still eat some self-contained food. After four or five days, there is no fire, and people can be frozen into popsicles in the cold night. If there is no fire, even if the horse is reluctantly killed, one cannot eat raw horse meat. Within four days, everyone would freeze to death and starve to death without the enemy's discovery!
" No, you can’t just wait for death like this! Or else just rush out at night before the Hungarians find us, "Someone whispered.
" Right, rushing out, anyway, it's all dead, killing a few is enough! "The guards whispered.
"Enough!, before that time, don't mess up your own direction!"
Stanley snorted coldly, feeling depressed and condensed in his chest and said, "If the other squads are all around, we don’t have to hide from these Hungarian cavalry, even if we don’t want to confront each other, but At least there is no problem with the evacuation. Now we are blocked inside, and the team outside doesn't know yet. Once the time comes, we will move closer to this side..." Stanley's voice suddenly stopped, what he said just now. Now, you are inside and the other teams are outside. Isn't this the most advantageous arrangement for a sneak attack? With mental arithmetic and unintentional, I only need to order the wandering detachment to take away the troops around the young general. The other side would never have thought that there are two hundred cavalry guards lurking under their noses, making a full blow. Next, the possibility of killing the opposing commander is very high!
Thinking of this, Stanleys turned around, his expression moved and ordered to a guard "I immediately sent a message to the fifth and seventh teams, telling them our current situation," and asked them to do their best to provoke Hungary. Cavalry, be sure to attract their troops in the canyon! "
A few minutes later, two gray homing pigeons fluttered out from the heights of the canyon. The Hungarian cavalry in the canyon was igniting and cooking at this time. There was a hundred white smoke and dust. Where would you notice these two different little pigeons? The black dots fly higher and higher, and finally merge with the sky
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More than a hundred black light riders are racing along the woodland on the edge of the wilderness. The armor of his body was reflected in the woodland with a little bit of light, under the gloomy sky." The seventh team leader Uluka took the lead, and his eyes fell on the row of torches, which seemed to be far away from the other side of the river. There were obviously soldiers next to them. They seemed to be tired from walking. They were camping and resting. As the first squad to receive the order of Stanleys, the Uluka squad turned around fifty miles from the canyon and ran for most of the night. , Everyone is cold and wet,
at a distance of about two miles from the gorge, finally suddenly met with the edge of the Hungarian cavalry,
The lights in the camp in the distance are shining on people. Flashing and shaking, the aroma of wine and meat also passed along with the night breeze. At this moment, these Hungarian light cavalry did not know that the danger in the darkness was rapidly approaching. A whistling sound flew overhead, and the fire column rolled in the camp, dark The sky was red, and the Hungarian cavalry suddenly fell by the fire. They were caught off guard. There were countless deaths and injuries in the camp. The wailing of the arrows spread in the camp, and the shouts of the mad enemy suddenly exploded in the camp. The few sentries on duty on the guard tower did their responsibilities, drew their bows and let go of arrows, and at the same time turned around and shouted "enemy attack!"
In the camp, the Hungarians run chaotically. Some grabbed a compound bow in the tent and jumped out. This Hungarian camp is located on the outskirts of the gorge, with a population of about 500 people. At this time, the horses neighed and the soldiers mingled with loud shouts, but it was even more difficult to hear. Soldiers can be seen falling to the ground with arrows, and any big camp will be attacked when they are unprepared, the level of chaos. I'm afraid it's all the same, even if you're elite, it's normal. Not to mention that these Hungarian cavalry dreamed that they would encounter such a sharp blow. The night arrow, the cluster of arrows that fell in the night sky, was a tactic that even the ancestors on the grassland had heard.
The night is heavy, and tonight is particularly dark, this camp outside the canyon is more of a slavery used as a servant, and it has been completely controversial under the sudden blow. Uluka looked at him coldly from a distance, and when he was sure that the opponent was completely messed up, he ordered the cavalry behind him to shoot at a distance, and rows of arrows rained across the gate. The few soldiers on duty suddenly fell to the sky and fell straight down from the Zhaizha
"Quickly, open the camp gate!" Uluka raised his hand, and the first guard cavalry carried a circle of long ropes, which had been thrown out from a distance and set on the fence. The guard's horsemanship level was revealed at this time. Rushing in front, such a heavy horse, also controlled the horse to make a forcibly turn in front of the Zhaizha, and ran a few steps along the Zhaizha. Then turn around. These standing logs are not thick in nature, and they are not deep into the ground. Just like that, a piece of it has been poured crashingly. A row of imperial guards crossed the robes that pulled down the Zhaizha. Rushed into the camp first!
Although the Imperial Guard did not wear heavy armor, the impact was extremely fast. The guard cavalry almost flew over the fallen fence with four hooves in the air. He landed heavily in the camp and crashed into the tent unabated. . With long sharp spears in their hands, the cavalry scattered on both sides simply used heavy maces to sweep across the chaotic Hungarian crowd. The Hungarians who rushed to the side suddenly fell down. One slice,
The cold war horse equipped by the guard cavalry is tall and majestic. The huge impulse suddenly let the Hungarian army slaves who were at a loss in front of him in front of him, smashed away, and fell on the ground with broken tendons and fractured bones! There are not many real Hungarians in the camp, but there are hundreds of servants. At this time, no matter how large the number is, few generals spend their minds on preventing the enemy from breaking the camp. The combat power of these servants is extremely poor. Several tenacious Hungarian officers and servants fought against them. These attackers lost their weapons and escaped and fled back. At this time, Uluka's team has completely entered the camp. Under the impact of the war horse, the leader was invincible. Some guards who dismounted and fought on foot had already climbed to the height of the guard tower, and shot an arrow towards the camp. Several gatherings of the Hungarians failed because of harassment,
A fire in the camp is like a pillar of fire rising in the night
"What's going on outside the camp?" The Hungarian King Baijieluos stood in front of his tent in the valley, his eyes piercingly at the place illuminated by the fire,
" Your Majesty, the outer camp encounters the Falcon Empire cavalry rushing to the camp! "An attendant rushed over in a panic expression,
"How many people are there?" Hearing that the Falcon Emperor** finally couldn't help showing his whereabouts, Baijieluosi's mouth showed a sneer. Centered on the main road of the canyon, it spread tens of thousands of Hungarian cavalry. , Like a huge net shrouded in a range of 20 miles, as long as the Falcon Empire cavalry appeared, they would be entangled by this net,
"Currently there are only about a hundred people" sweat beaded on the head of the attendant,
"There are only a hundred people? Are there any others?" Baijieluos's face was taken aback. The number of Falcon Empire cavalry is at most one squad, which is a thousand people away from what the Rila people said. The difference is big. The opponent seems to be scattered. One of the squadrons couldn’t help showing their whereabouts. It seems that the Rila people’s report is true. These Falcon Empire cavalry are not so courageous, and thousands of people dare to attack thousands of people. In the army of people, a hundred people dare to attack the camp! It looks like the savage style of the Falcon Empire, but the opponent chose the wrong target. He is not the cautious King of Rila, and Hungary is not Rila.
"Order the former battalion to contain them first, and order the other troops to respond!" Baijieluosi said decisively with a slightly frowning eyebrow, looking at the red sky that burns red, such a sight, even if it is within twenty miles Can you see, since the Falcon Cavalry is so arrogant and bold, I will use this squad as a bait to call out all the Falcon Empire Cavalry!
this time. On a forest mound ten miles east of the canyon, a captain of an imperial guard was gazing at the light in the distance. The fire was getting bigger and bigger, as if half of the sky was already burning. Looking from this direction Go, you can even see sparks flying in the sky. Just as Baijieluosi thought, this fire did attract the attention of all the Falcon Empire squads. After receiving Stanley's orders, the dispersed squadrons began to turn around. This time, Stanleys personally divided the troops. Lead a team to detect the Hungarians in the east, and Uluka's seventh team is in charge of the south flank. The remaining four teams are led by the deputy squadron Gabriel, as the main peripheral force, who can go into battle immediately upon receiving orders at any time, and can also be used as a force to retreat.
The seventh squad, which received the order of Stelles, adopted a direct and simple way to attract the Hungarian troops, and at the same time, it also informed Stelles who was trapped in the canyon of the situation.
Deputy Squadron Captain Gabriel fixed his gaze on the outskirts of the Hungarian cavalry. As a light cavalry scout who was good at attacking, he was often the main force wandering outside. In addition to some of the Hungarian cavalry camps, there are also about 3,000 main field forces outside the camp. The fire is so big, the Hungarians will inevitably summon their main field forces. After all, the attack on the camp is only a temporary attraction. The seventh team has no more than a hundred cavalry forces, and the losses that can be caused are not large. After slight harassment, they will withdraw, in order to attract the attention of the Hungarians. It is still necessary to make decisions on the main swimming force outside the field. If this main field force is hurt, the Hungarians will inevitably bring out the strength of feeding!
"The whole army retracted and marched toward the fire!"
Gabriel stepped down the steed horse, as if he knew the master’s eagerness. Turning round and round, raising his front hooves, neighing lowly in the night, hundreds of war horses galloping across the earth in the night. Silenced like thunder. The percussion is in everyone's mind, this is the main force of the forward scout, although there is no heavy armor. But everyone still wears close-fitting chain mail, and their bodies lie on their horses, shrinking the windward area, and galloping horses. Tightly nailing the direction of the front fire, approaching forward from the inner wing of the woodland, while releasing some scouts to block the flank. The sound of horseshoe hitting the earth suppressed all the sounds in this night! The fire light illuminates the road ahead of them,
Gabriel internally calculated the direction in which the main force of the Hungarian field might appear. His tall body has shrunk into a very small ball, clinging to the horseback, and shouting loudly to the scouts released on the flanks. "Get up and keep an eye on the northeast direction! There is no exploration by our army, the main force of the opponent's field is likely to be there"
Suddenly, the black shadows on the side of the river attracted his attention. He thought it was riverside shrubs, but these shrubs were moving, and the speed was not low, the direction of movement was the fire. In the direction, the main force of the outer cavalry of the Hungarians he was looking for really came in this direction.
"Attention, northeast!"
The flanking scout yelled frantically, and rushed to the top of the side hill. Before the voice fell, I heard the sound of whoosh breaking through the air loudly, and the fire from a distance shone the top of the hill to twilight. The several outposting figures above were faintly discernible, and I saw them being shot and turned over by a cluster of arrows. Others evaded quickly, turned over and fell from the horse, and there were shaking clusters of arrows on the shields,
" Everyone, rush forward!" Gabriel yelled loudly. At this moment, everyone could see at a glance that the small hill that was touching the division of the two armies was the key to this sudden encounter. Who robbed the hill. Whoever can be condescending, the opponent is a cavalry archer, once occupying a high terrain, it will be a disaster for the Falcon Empire cavalry below. Gabriel rushed up to the hill and saw the densely packed Hungarian cavalry carrying the white flag crazily in the night. before. Seeing the black imperial cavalry appearing here, he seemed to be a little panicked. Since he didn't choose to fight, he flew his bow and arrow on the horseback while galloping. The arrow rain buzzed and trembled with the bowstring, pouring down like a torrential rain!
" Shield!" Gabriel yelled out~ IndoMTL.com~ The cavalry shield in his hand immediately covered his body, and the oncoming feather arrow was nailed to the shield. This small Yau is not very tall. Hundreds of imperial guards were also condescending on horseback, shooting with crossbows, clusters of arrows flew like locusts, and the Hungarian cavalry suddenly turned on their backs.
"Fight back!"
More and more Imperial Guard Qingqi surged up. Shoot desperately down with a crossbow. The crossbow bolts pressed against the hilly ground, whizzing down, and the people below shouted, all kinds of shouts rang into a ball. The shooting accuracy of the Hungarian cavalry compound bow at high speed is extremely poor, and the arrows are flying around like raindrops.
In reality, if the average archer does not cover the area, the target that can shoot 50 meters away on the high-speed horseback is a sharpshooter. Shooting from the side on the horseback is just the airflow driven by the horse running. Enough to make most arrow clusters lose their head,
Those rumored grassland sharpshooters, almost none of them shoot at high speed on horseback, most of them shoot from the ground,
The Hungarians did not expect to encounter the Falcon Empire cavalry here in the field battle. The formation was too late. The dense battlehorse queue was almost a live target for the Imperial guards, and the horses ran too far. It can't be slowed anymore. The person who dropped the horse like a dumpling, rushed out four or five hundred meters in one breath before finally turning around,
At this time, the Imperial Guard Cavalry has drawn out all kinds of weapons for close combat, madly pouring down from the height of the hill, like a raptor, deep into the back end of the Hungarian Arch Cavalry (to be continued) ) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. )