Power and Empire Chapter 2366: The Emperor’s Knife (5)
Istan Empire, Luwuxing Province, the gray sky is raining.
The eight thousand highlander infantrymen of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Eastern Province of the Empire are marching toward the provincial center thirty miles away. The commander of the infantry regiment Lemoore looked at the marching queue with satisfaction. Every soldier was on him. They were all put on iron armor, the weapons in their hands flickered with cold light, the sound of neatly lined footsteps, the shaking ground and the splashing water, the majestic army in front of him made Lemoore dare not even think about it before
On weapons and equipment, Lemur is confident that he has reached the level of the regular army of the Istanian Empire. If the Highlanders had such equipment 80 years ago, they would not have been ruled by the Istanian Empire. The empire expanded to the east. Province, and specially accepted the wilderness tribes on the highlands, and also allocated a large number of weapons and armors. Now the highland warriors of the Eastern Province have exceeded 40,000. With the support of the empire, the highlanders devour the borders of the Istan Empire. It has accelerated greatly. In a winter, nearly a province has been swallowed up. The Highland tribe has won a great victory over the Istanians for the first time. In April, the army of the Eastern Province has attacked the road located on the second line of the Istanian Empire. In Wuxing Province, the rapid progress made all the highlanders feel happy. Decades of enslavement and massacre, and the highlanders’ hatred of the Istanbul people, all broke out at this moment, blood for blood, tooth for tooth, one by one. Istanbul’s cities were destroyed, and large numbers of Istanbul were massacred by highlanders.
"My lord, fifteen miles ahead, it is Onnard, the capital of Luwuxing Province"
The guide on the road ahead said with a flattering look, this is an Istanbul with a bald head and a big belly. At first glance, he is afraid of death. The high-landers' high-pressure policy of violence Next, there are always some Istanbul aristocrats who choose to succumb. The guide in front of him is to sacrifice all his property to the highlanders, and also take the highlanders to break through towns,
There is a bay in front of the lake, and the surface of the lake is rippled by rain. Lemur rides on the horse and looks across the lake. It is foggy and not very clear, but it doesn’t matter. The Istanian Empire has been defeated since Feishan. Later, the strength dropped sharply, and the central government’s decree could not be communicated to the local area for a long time, so that even the military power of the region was lost. Faced with the offensive of the highlanders, they were beaten up.
"Go ahead, I will take down Honard tonight!"
Lemur raised his hand, frowning in disgust at the guide’s flattery. I don’t know why, Governor Khayala would agree to the surrender of these maggot-like Istanbulites. According to the guide, Luwuxing Province is only a remote second-tier province of the Istan Empire. Most of the land is a salty-alkali wilderness that cannot be planted. Therefore, it has never been the center of the defense of the Istan Empire. The army of 8,000 people is already in this area. It can be said that it was crushed. The weak resistance in front of it proved this point. The regional garrison with dozens of people and the town garrison with hundreds of people encountered the most once, and there were only 300 Istanbul soldiers, some of them gritted their teeth. The Istanis who were screaming to charge their own army had their limbs cut off and nailed to the stakes, so what else could stand in front of them? It is the mission of the Fourth Infantry Regiment to pass through the Province of Armed Forces, and to enclose the most important Fortress of Cholenato in the second line with the main force of the Governor, and to open the gate to the hinterland of Istanbul.
"Go forward!" The cavalry was ordered to gallop past the infantry marching queue. The infantry queue began to speed up. At this moment, the front queue seemed to feel something. An officer raised his head and glanced across the front horizon. The eyebrows frowned slightly, and a large shadow appeared on the horizon in front of the white rain.
"Attention!" The former marching officer cautiously raised his hand,
"What's the situation? The highland soldiers stopped hesitatingly." Isn't it the Istanbul army? "
"What are you afraid of, the Istanbul people are just a mob." The officer rode on the horse and shouted to the commotion around the soldiers. A thunderous voice came from the opposite side. The shadow was expanding rapidly, and the ground was shaking slightly. The black clouds covered the front, and a dazzling weapon cold light began to flash in the distance, and the coldness directly penetrated the hearts of the people
"Oh my God!"
The highland officer looked at the front and shuddered. He was still yelling for the formation. He couldn't see it anymore. I saw a giant steel cavalry formation, which broke open like this. The mist, coming out of the white rain, lined with majestic horses. The knights above wear hòu heavy armor. In their hands are a cavalry spear like a barbed wall. The black is pressed quickly. As the distance approaches, the knights above The image of is getting clearer and clearer, the dignified and cold metal photosensitive, the neatly raised lance, and the mud splashed by thousands of horses hoofs, flying all over the sky, and the giant and tidy steel punches. Suddenly, sharp and hideous blood-eating teeth appeared,
"Attention, heavy cavalry!"
The highland officer’s face was extremely panicked, and he shouted with all his strength, staring at the cold flash of steel, as if a dazzling light belt was slamming in his direction. The rain, the enemy's cavalry helmet The long white streamer is like a cloud moving at high speed. The speed is so fast that every blink of an eye is close to a point. The cavalry lances lined up neatly and the white gas from the horse's nostrils can be seen.
"Asshole, doesn't it mean that there is no army in Luwuhang Province? So what is the heavy cavalry in front of me?" Lemoore's eyes are bulging. The heavy cavalry is not infantry. You can go to the battlefield with a single weapon. The cavalry needs to train for a long time and requires a very tacit coordination. The queues advancing on the opposite side are neat and uniform. It is impossible to be a miscellaneous cavalry that can be hurriedly put together in a short time. He has been ambushed. This is Lemurdi. I thought of it for a while. Although the highland wilderness people are sturdy, they are also frightened by the sight in front of them. In the highland wilderness, at most I see the Istanian assault cavalry in light armor. Where can I see such a hideous battlefield killing? The queue suddenly appeared chaotic, and each one turned pale in fear
"Run, we will be dead!" One by one, the highland soldiers threw down their weapons and ran out of the queue. They were originally soldiers drawn out of temporary training. Being able to gain an advantage by relying on the number of people, now encountering this kind of battlefield crusher, just the momentum, it has already caused them to collapse, and the officers stopped them with shouting: "No running! Whoever runs will kill whoever!" Stop! I order you to stop!" But more and more soldiers are running away!
"Urasdu! There was an incomprehensible shout from the opposite side. The front end of the cavalry team, like a sharp sword, slammed into the chaotic queue of the highlanders, and the huge impact was immediately shattered. The highlanders, like a group of spinning spiked flail, slammed into Shanbó’s armor, and the fragments splashed. The first hundreds of highland fighters who came into contact were directly involved by the galloping horses and turned into one on the ground. Mashed meat,
"Ulasdu!" Thousands of lances rushed in neatly, like a river of light turned up under the weight of a white rain curtain, with horses hoof rumbling and the earth trembling. The highlanders were completely overwhelmed by the cavalry. These heavy cavalry, who did not know where they came from, slashed and killed wildly in the chaotic queue of the highlanders. They struck from the side like a hurricane, bringing up bloodstains to the sky and fighting the big heavy flail. Thousands of flying horseshoes exploded and thundered, trampled on the corpses of the highlanders, a puff of blood exploded like fog, the highland soldiers had completely collapsed, they cried and wailed, look. The corpse of the companion was like the remnant leaves rolled up in the storm, trampled and torn by the galloping horses again and again, and the fighting force disappeared. The queue immediately fell apart. The soldiers no longer paid attention to the order, and threw down their weapons and turned around. Fleeing, it was broken like water that opened the gate, crowds were raging, and there was a clamor everywhere, "Escape! Escape!" "Death!" The highland soldiers fled in all directions, stomping on each other, smashing, and losing their weapons, everywhere. No abandoned infantry squadron flag
"What the **** is going on? What happened to me?" Lemoore's face paled and stopped using useless shouts. At this time, there was no power to save the defeat. Groups of ruined soldiers came from him. Ran in front of him, and the opponent's heavy cavalry rushed to kill, it was almost impossible to stop it, it only took half an hour! Lemur's eyes were dull, and he didn't even have the expected resistance. It was a unilateral massacre.
The distant mountains meander, and the confused drizzle adds a bit of hazy summer. The governor of the East of the Empire, Hayla, surrounded by several generals, walked up the **** and looked at the familiar castle in front of him, the Fortress of Cholenato. This The giant fortress built one hundred and fifty years ago is the largest military node in northern Istanbul. Although it has not experienced the baptism of war for a hundred years, the fortress is still strong and intimidating. It grows five miles long. The unshakable city wall is enough to garrison 30,000 troops. The fortress spreads along the line of the central mountain range, winding and rising with the terrain, like a giant beast on a tiger and a dragon, looking down at the vast plains below, and the Istan Empire is here. A legionary department was once established
"My Lord Governor!" An officer on the **** was looking in the direction of the fortress. He saw Hayela and quickly stood up and saluted.
"How is the situation in the fortress?"
Haye waved his hand, the dark shadow of the castle was faintly visible in the distance, a towering main fort, outside the wall spreading to the mountains on both sides, constitute the most important defensive core, the giant wall It is gray-white and is constructed entirely of sturdy granite from nearby mountains. It is 20 meters high. The outer circle is drawn from nearby spring water. There are many sentries on the city wall. They are dressed in red cross robes. Weapons and shields are neatly placed on the edge of the city wall. Although Istanbul’s control over the place was reduced, the mountain people’s invasion still put several nearby provinces into combat readiness. As a barrier to ensure their own safety, the provinces did not dare to have any more Tibetans. In a private place, an army of 40,000 people was put together to keep the fortress tightly guarded
"The assault troops are already in place!" The officer said respectfully. As the **** of the former Istan Empire, he participated in the revision of the military defense of the Istan Empire many times. Khayala knew that this fortress had a path to go up. , But not during the day, so Hayala set the attack time at night, at night, there is no starlight after the rain,
In a woodland below the fortress, the branches were trampled by iron boots, and a trivial sound of leaf trampling came from behind, breaking the calm on the surface of the woods. A highland warrior wearing a black armor stepped on the ground. The dry muddy wet soil emerged from the bushes beside him. Above him, the moonlight was blocked by the dense leaves above his head, and a little white afterglow fell on the shoulder of the highland soldier.
"Be careful!" Behind this highland soldier, more soldiers appeared. Among the rows of black spots, thousands of highland archers lined up in four groups, from the dense woods towards the fortress. Raise the bow in the direction,
"Let's start!" Hayela nodded,
The first captain archer standing on the left side of the team, the first to let go of the bowstring, the special armor-piercing arrow tore the air, and flew out with a white cold light,
"Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!!" With the first sound, the dense bowstrings continued to sound, and countless clusters of arrows resembled a swarm of locusts that suddenly rose from the edge of the forest, tracing hurriedly and gracefully. White line. He quickly leaped to the height of the fortress. At five o'clock in the morning, several sentries crouched by the fire were yawning, and other soldiers were sitting opposite them. The blazing fire light shone on their tired faces, a sentry with an ugly face tightened the linen collar with his hands, and threw a stick of wood into the fire.
"What's the sound?" A sentry vaguely heard something. He stood up curiously, raised his head and looked towards the sky. A white light struck, and the sentry flew backwards like an impact, a thick cluster of arrows. Shot through his chest, the caster flew out with others, firmly nailed to the wooden pillar behind, the sentry was covered with blood, and both hands struggled to hold the tail of the arrow that shot through the throat, and wanted to shoot it. Pulling it out, his painful face flushed with suffocation. The shot pierced his chest, and there was an unpleasant gurgling sound, like a pile of rubble rubbing, and the white arrow tail was trembling in his throat. Let his last effort come to a halt, his hands and feet hang weakly, and his feet hang off the ground
"The enemy...the enemy..."The other sentinels were stunned by the sudden situation. Their voices had not yet been fully heard, like a sharp blade of the void in the cold night, with countless clusters of arrows at the same moment. Falling hurriedly from the sky, the shouting voice of the Istanis came to an abrupt end. Everyone only felt that a dense cloud of cold stars dazzled their eyes, and the frightening star points were like stars bursting out of the darkness suddenly. With a deadly breath, shot through the body with unbelievable swiftness,
"Start, attack!" Hayala's voice resounded across the night sky,
"Enemy attack!" At the same time, there were stern and tragic shouts on the fortress walls. On the frontal attack line, the steel shield gleamed with silver light in the night, like a layer of sparkling river. The dense crowds of people wriggled like a swarm of ants, and the Istanbul army on the wall blew their bugles in a panic, and ran out in a hurry, "Dang! Dang! Dang!" The alarm bell ringing through the early hours of the morning was like a frightened woman. , Uploaded from the watchtower of the city wall.
There is a golden sunset outside the carriage. On the road from the Imperial Capital to the south, Tirnarante retracted his gaze from the caravan carriage that had just passed by, and looked solemnly at someone who had just woke up from sleep. The person who came, asked in a condensed voice, "Isn't the negotiation in the South two months away? Are you going to the South earlier now? If you let the other party know that the Falcon Empire emperor is so uncomfortable, it would not be a good thing for the negotiation! "
"Do you also know about the negotiations in the South?’
Fatty’s mouth grinned slightly~ IndoMTL.com~ I tidyed up the clothes on his body and looked at the scenery outside. It was the moment when the sun was setting. The wheel house was a black double-decker carriage, which was bright It is constructed of ancient oak and metal with gold rim, dragged by four horses. The spacious appearance makes the caravans passing by on the road look at each other frequently, but most of them shrug their shoulders when they see the signs of the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs on the carriage doors. , This should be an imperial administrative officer who was just ordered to go south. Judging from the rank of the carriage, the body is not very high, because there is no cavalry guard, and it will not be very low, because the door must have the Ministry of Interior The coat of arms also needs at least a district-level administrative officer
" I heard a little bit "Tirnaland nodded, and his nose groaned heavily." If I'm not mistaken, transfer me to Lisbon Too, it should be related to the negotiation! I'll explain in advance , Active trade is not something I am good at. When Lisbon asks for a problem, it can’t be regarded as a dereliction of duty. Otherwise, you can order me to be revoked now!
" Negotiations have always been a game for both parties to win chips. Whoever holds more chips is naturally the winner. The other party sets the time two months later because the other party has already selected the chips!"
The fat man looked at the ground illuminated by the golden sunset outside the window, yawned, leaned on the leather sofa, and said in a low voice, "I rushed down quietly because I didn’t know that the other side was pressing Where! But I believe that the other party has already begun to act"╰☆╮╰☆╮ (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation .)