Power and Empire Chapter 2026: The National Destiny of Life and Death (4)
Melee combat is the skill of these imperial guard cavalry. Hundreds of horses are like a galloping metal torrent, like a high-flying eagle, from the middle hills of the two armies with the help of horses, rushing into the main guard of the Hungarian cavalry field battle. Suddenly there was a wave of blood, and the horses neighed terribly, as if they were about to explode all the depressed emotions tonight,
"Kill"
The stabbing spear in Gabriel’s hand slammed into the body of a Hungarian arch cavalry, and then he didn’t even bother to pull out the spear, so he drew the saber with one hand and pointed it down at the other, who was frightened. The head of the Hungarian cavalry was hit hard, the blade was slashed, and the head was sprayed with blood. The headless corpse dragged on the rushing war horse for more than ten meters before falling down, and suddenly heard a piece of horseshoes. The sound of broken bones
The Hungarian cavalry was extremely fast, and the rear team was even faster when attacked.
Because they are light archers who are pursuing high mobility, they are all lightly armored, and some are simply not armored. In addition, they are temporarily assembled and turned to the direction of the fire. The fastest long dragon is adopted. The team of more than 3,000 people dragged out three or four miles in one breath while riding horses. Suddenly it was chased and killed by the back road. The brigade couldn’t turn around. The Hungarian cavalry simply used their mobility to the extreme. Use the speed to smash the distance, and then use the long-range cavalry bow to block the imperial cavalry's pursuit. This tactic has been very effective in the past.
In Central Europe and Pakistan, where infantry group combat is the main method, the Hungarian cavalry is a nightmare in many countries with high mobility. If you encounter Hungarian archers, the best way is to stabilize the array instead of thinking. In pursuit, the Hungarian archers were very fast and could not capture them in the open terrain. The simple and single organization system was a distinctive feature of the Hungarian army.
The standard Hungarian field cavalry consists of 3 cavalry units. Each team has a thousand cavalry. The real Hungarian cavalry usually does not carry any servants. They fight on horseback. Among them, archers engaged in assault operations accounted for 60% of the total number. The archers wore simple helmets and wore leather armor. Some of the horses of the cavalry were often covered with a small amount of leather armor. Each archer also carried a scimitar or a mace at his waist. Some archers generally don't wear armor except for a helmet. Their main weapon is the bow.
The horse compound bow of the Hungarian cavalry is quite large, and the shooting distance can reach 100 to 120 steps, far exceeding the 80 to 100 step shooting range of the Central European infantry shooter.
This is mainly due to the arrow clusters they carry. They carry two kinds of arrows, one is light. The arrow is small and pointed, used for long-range shooting, and the other is heavier, the arrow is large and wide, used for close combat. The Hungarian cavalry from the eastern steppe also has a special habit, that is, they may not wear armor, but they will definitely wear a silk robe before the battle. This robe is made of raw silk and is woven quite finely. The ancestors of the Hungarians had long discovered that clusters of arrows could shoot through armor. But it is difficult to shoot through these raw silk, but it will be inserted into the wound with the arrow belt. Therefore, rescuers only need to pull out the silk to pull the arrow out of the wounded mouth.
The regular Hungarian cavalry was sent to a special school for rigorous shooting training when they were eight years old. They are strong and able to adapt to the needs of combat; they can also turn their heads back and shoot at the enemies following them when they retreat quickly; the "tail hook" tactics that the Hungarian Cavalry made the whole Central European Baro talk about were developed from here. Of,
If it is another opponent, I can only stare at the high mobility of the Hungarian cavalry. It is often the case that the Hungarian cavalry counterattacks and is completely wiped out after being adjusted, but tonight, they also encountered imperial guard cavalry with long-range and powerful firepower. From the very beginning, this encounter fell to the lesser number of Imperial Guards.
The armor on the imperial guards is black, which is not conspicuous in the dark, and the Hungarian archers are carrying a white flag behind them, which are particularly eye-catching in the dark, and they are simply living targets.
realized that the Hungarians wanted to use their high mobility to get rid of themselves, and then use the long-range cavalry bow to counterattack, Gabriel did not hesitate to order some of the cavalry guards to bite the tail of the Hungarian cavalry. At the end, no time was given to the opponent to adjust, and some of the slower guards quickly used cavalry assault crossbows to shoot at the Hungarian cavalry running in front.
The rear squads of Hungarian cavalry who flee through gritted their teeth fell off their horses. Unknowingly, the number of Hungarians who fell off horses exceeded two to three hundred, which was almost one-tenth of this group of Hungarian cavalry. , And as the momentum of the horses of both sides has been exhausted, the speed of the Hungarians finally began to slow down
The open front of Gabriel’s imperial guard cavalry still maintained a forward pressure. They followed all the way and shot, constantly shooting the Hungarian cavalry to death on horseback. The Hungarians finally couldn’t bear it. After chasing and fighting hard, the formation began to split into two wings, one part continued to move forward, and the other part returned and shot. According to the establishment, each side gradually withdrew to the hills in front. If the imperial cavalry continued to chase, the other side would inevitably kill from the hills and block the imperial cavalry’s back path
"Captain, what should I do?"
A guard approached and asked Gabriel. Although the Hungarian cavalry suffered losses, their number still occupies an absolute advantage. Even if the soldiers are divided into two teams, neither of them has the strength of the Imperial Guards. If you continue to chase, the opponent only needs a reflex to form a forward and backward flanking attack on the guard cavalry
"The whole team stops pursuing"
Gabriel raised his hand high and shouted loudly. The Imperial Guards squeezed the horse violently. The battlefield where they fought for a short time was full of horse corpses and human corpses. In a fight, the Hungarians died two or three. There were a hundred people. The guard cavalry also injured more than a dozen people. Along the way, the horses of the lost master were screaming. Gabriel glanced over a part of the Hungarian cavalry who stopped on the hills in front. His eyes were cold and fast. The fast light bow rider, this is the rhythm of preparing to bite back to his own pace. Just now, in a galloping pursuit, he has already followed close to the opponent's base camp without knowing it, and the opponent will soon come back!
"Let's withdraw!" Gabriel decisively called out. This encounter with the opponent's main force in the field has completely exposed himself. With my main force exposed to the eyes of the Hungarians, the direction of the camp is irrelevant and set on fire. The seventh team of squadron has no more than a hundred people. The Hungarians may not watch the show. It should be safe to evacuate. As long as the opponent is not a fool, you will know that the main force of chasing and suppressing yourself is far more useful than spending more than a hundred rides on the seventh team. ,
is on the top of a hill not far away. The captain of a Hungarian cavalry squadron was watching the imperial cavalry who stopped and began to turn to the imperial cavalry who wanted to run. He watched the orderly retreat of the black cavalry who had encountered and chased his **** for more than ten miles tonight. . The head of the Hungarian cavalry squadron couldn’t help but slightly moved his face. Today’s encounter was very frustrated. In terms of combat power, he believed that the Hungarian cavalry was not afraid of these black imperial cavalry, but in order to get there as fast as possible. In the direction of the camp, I can only do my best to rush forward in accordance with the command of the general. The black cavalry chased and picked up a lot of bargains.
Now that the other party is full and he wants to wipe his mouth, it’s not so easy
I bring light bow riders. Fast forward and retreat, I was ordered to watch these black armored cavalry "rush up, don't let the opponent run!" The Hungarian cavalry squadron commander shouted, and the white flag waved. Those Hungarian cavalry who had been maintaining the formation and slowly retreating up the hills returned unanimously. The body, like bursting a bank, will pounce on the imperial guards behind when turning back,
The distance between the two armies is about one hundred and fifty steps apart. The hot red eyes of the Imperial Guard Cavalry flashed with cold and merciless light, and their fingers were solemnly buckled on the trigger of the crossbow. The wind blew on their faces, mixed with damp water vapor. The galloping Hungarian arched cavalry composite strong bow has also been pulled out of the full moon. Both sides are calculating the distance,
Although the range of the short crossbow is slightly better than the compound bow of the Hungarian cavalry, but that little distance is in front of the galloping horse. But it is the difference between shooting one second early and one second late, when the crossbow bow here buckles the crossbow machine. The bowstring on the opposite side has also sounded, and life and death are only in an instant. The brutality here is not inferior to the short-edged attack of the two armies, and the arrows fly horizontally. The arrows on both sides point to each other. Traces of death blazed between the two armies. The Imperial Guard Cavalry had a horse shield, with an assault crossbow in one hand, and a horse shield in the other to protect the body. The Hungarian archers were more sad. The archers were not equipped with shields. In front of the imperial assault crossbow with strong firepower, the light mail was easily pierced like a piece of paper. The position of the arrow in the cavalry was on a horse running at high speed, like a puff of red blood that exploded in the night. The cavalry on his back disappeared instantly,
"Go up!"
The captain of the Hungarian cavalry was anxious. The sound of ripped arrows was mixed with the shouts of fighting. In a vast open field, two cavalry units collided like two iron walls. The Hungarians were Desperately fighting, the melee capability of the imperial guard cavalry was better than that of the long-range imperial guard cavalry. The imperial guard cavalry was still slowly retreating and suddenly turned to a counterattack posture. Each guard cavalry moved quickly and swiftly, almost instinctively completing the conversion of the formation to meet and attack. Naturally, it formed a powerful situation of Zhong Yuyang's impact and outflanking the two wings! The cavalry fights, because both sides have considerable impact, the deployment of this formation has become a very important factor, the rapid movement of the elite guard cavalry. The cooperation is so good that it is almost natural. Moreover, their strength was better than the overconfident Hungarian cavalry. They immediately launched a counterattack in the formation, and immediately formed a combined attack against the Hungarian light cavalry who was still advancing!
The queue is open like this. It came like a flash of light, and immediately caught the deeply plunged Hungarian cavalry inside. The Hungarian cavalry squeezed into a ball when they were caught off guard, and the sound of people shouting horses became a piece. The various long and short weapons of the guard cavalry slammed into the Hungarian cavalry madly. The horses rolled to the ground in the squeeze, and blood spattered out from the intersecting horses. In a flash, the Hungarian cavalry slammed into it. In the imperial guard cavalry queue, the sound of a huge collision rose into the sky, followed by the intersecting of the blades, and the shouts of the elite warriors of the two countries in their respective languages.
The Hungarians also felt wrong. They obviously had a lot of people. How could they see the enemy's black armor on all sides. Everyone is a light cavalry, but the opponent's hacking is much more fierce and sturdy, and it's a little bit evasive. In time, the unarmored horse hissed and crashed to the ground. In a flash, he seized the battlefield initiative. . Both sides are light cavalry, but the other side is scattered in the queue, and there are too many horses crowded together on this side, it is difficult to even turn around,
The Hungarian captain shouted, "Get out, get out!" The trapped Hungarian cavalry desperately stabilized their positions, and they were also working hard to spread their wings. People were constantly falling off their horses, and they were crushed and complained repeatedly. You can only open it desperately to restore the cavalry's freedom of mobility. However, they were slapped back step by step by the black cavalry on both sides. The two sides fought in a small area. At every moment, there were countless weapons flying together, and some people fell from their horses with heavy weight, and were caught by countless horses. Step into the flesh. It was difficult to even make a scream. Under the hills, the men and horses were all covered in blood, panting heavily, and the confrontation was short but doubly intense. The Hungarian cavalry endured a large number of casualties, and they tried their best to fight back, hoping to make a **** road.
The situation on the battlefield is changing invisibly, even Gabriel does not know it. What he is doing now is to completely arouse the main force of the Hungarians. At this time, the news brought by another group of Hungarian cavalry rushing into the canyon shocked the spirit of the Hungarian King Baijieluos
" Yaosen, since you encountered the main force of the elite empire ranger on the road, why don't you bite them! Do you know how much effort I spent to capture them? "Baijieluo Shi is in a white robe , Stand up from the seat in the tent. His eyes pierced and looked fiercely at the kingdom general Yaosen, who was covered with cold dew and wind, like a sharp sword. This kingdom general was about forty years old, with a generous face and shining eyes. The vicissitudes of life have been engraved on it by the years of wind and frost. He is one of the two main generals of the eagle of the Hungarian Kingdom. This time he led the eagle army to walk twenty miles outside the base camp.
" Sudden fire in the camp, plus a sudden encounter. The situation is unknown, our army dare not fight without authorization, but the opponent is also hooked by our military's tactics. It has been chased after the Kari hills seven miles away before letting go! I The fifth team, the fastest in the legion, has been ordered to watch them. If your Majesty wants to annihilate them, you can send the main force to go now." Yaosen replied with a cold expression, and his tone was harsh. If Gabriel hears what it is now, maybe I was about to lose my soul, and all the way to chase was actually hooked and rushed. This Yao Sen was also an excellent commander, and he was able to make the most advantageous decision quickly in that kind of sudden encounter.
Auben is a Hungarian tribe, and Aosen is the patriarch. He is not very afraid of the current Hungarian king. The royal power in Hungary is not the centralized power of other European countries, but It is more like the tribal system of the steppe people. Yaosen himself is very famous in Hungary. He lived on horseback at the age of four and went to study in the remote grasslands of northern Central Bia at the age of eleven. He only returned to China at the age of one year. The official of the Dongting Empire on the grassland to Qianqichang brought back a hundred prairie cavalry. At that time, it caused a sensation in Hungary. Although the Hungarians have left the grassland for hundreds of years, they still maintain the grassland. Human tradition,
Moreover, the Kingdom of Hungary also maintains contact with many tribes on the grassland, and the customs are mostly similar to those of the grassland people.
Even the children of the Hungarian nobles are very different from the children of the nobles of other countries in Central Europe. Most of them grew up on horseback, sturdy and good at fighting, upholding the ancestors' arrogant style, their coming-of-age ceremony still has to travel far away according to tradition. The northern grassland in the northern part of the country was completed, and there was no **** on the road. This was part of the test. Therefore, although the Hungarians have been established for a century and have enough to support their entire nation, the memory of struggling for survival in the past hundreds of years is still at this time It hasn't diminished. Therefore, the blood of the sturdy prairie people still remains in the body,
" Come here, order all the troops in the camp to gather! Let’s intercept and kill the main scouts of the Falcons. "Baijieluo Shi no longer wants to worry about what Yao Sen thinks, he just wants to immediately mobilize the main force to eliminate this The forward scouts of the Falcons, the main scouts have been around for so long, not counting the situation of the various military teams, even the terrain intelligence is also a valuable thing, this time the forces can be drawn by the various countries It is already what countries are doing their best to provide, and it can’t be consumed anymore. If this forward scout is allowed to bring back the intelligence, this complex border will turn from being beneficial to the coalition forces to being disadvantageous~IndoMTL.com~The so-called War advantage is nothing more than military strength, equipment, logistics, geography, and morale. Now the coalition forces have lost four. If they lose the last one, I really don’t know if this border war is necessary.
To this kind of national fortune struggle, it is often in the struggle to seize the opponent's resources, land, and population, causing the opponent's vitality to be severely injured, and finally fleeing in the wind. Once you retreat this time, there will always be only one retreat in the future! The sequelae can often reach decades or even a hundred years, so it is called a national fortune!
" The number of opponents is unknown, and the dark field is unpredictable. It is not suitable for your majesty to be such a noble body. Let the subordinates go! I have contacted the opponent and I also know the opponent's current position! Lead the main force to go. It must be quickly quelled!" Yao Sen said solemnly, although he may not think of the young king very much in his heart, but as a front-line general, if the king is injured in this night, it would be shameful enough,
The Hungarian King Baijieluos also hesitated. At the time he was hesitating, the kingdom guards had already ran in and said loudly, "Your Majesty, the camp has been assembled"
" Yao Sen, there are currently 3,700 troops in the base camp. I will give you three thousand, plus your strength is five thousand! Give you one night, tomorrow, I will see the Falcon Scouts Human head! "Baijieluo Shi looked fiercely at Yao Sen. Although he is also known as the king of both bows and horses, he can shoot a 30-meter wooden rake with a short spear, but he has a real chance to go on the battlefield. Not much. The late-night field battle is different from the day. It is almost a chaotic battle. If one of his own kings has an accident, it would be funny! (To be continued) []