A mountainous area on the outskirts of the Ditru Heights

Salon's horse came to rest at the edge of the hill, and behind him was a cluster of cavalry that roamed the mountains

Under the cold gaze, a black land met his eyes, what a good land! Ssalon licked his lips, there was no sense of guilt on his face, he just felt sorry for the loss of grain due to the imminent harvest,

This year's western Obaro is a rare good weather, a bumper harvest everywhere, especially in the northwest, in the land where the war has spread, there are golden wheat waves everywhere, if he has a choice, of course he would not want to do such a thing,

The effect of burning the wheat fields that have not yet been harvested is not as simple as causing a shortage of food, and anyone who sees the wheat they have worked so hard for a year being burned to ashes by a fire when the harvest is about to be harvested, the most deterrent to the locals is the most deterrent to the locals.

With the complete retreat of the Eighth Legion of Gaul, the Falcon Army began to accept some cities in the Rasti region, it was because of the previous burning of grain, these cities almost without exception chose to give up resistance, the brutality of the Falcon Army seems to have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the Gauls have no doubt that once they resist, it will attract the cruel revenge of the Northwest rebels, these black devils who can burn wheat fields without hesitation, will also not hesitate to wave the butcher's knife at the disobedient.

The Gauls called these rebels from the northwest the demon army, especially when these troops wore black armor and neatly passed through the city streets, it seemed that even the air was filled with a smell of blood, the Gauls hid behind the windows and looked at these aliens who drove into the city, in just ten days, these burned fertile land, there have been a few wild flowers, and white colors can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road.

If it weren't for the fact that such a calm sight was known in advance, absolutely no one would have taken this qiē. Associated with the bloody killing battlefield that is about to unfold. "Order all armies to rest on the spot! The Fifth Infantry Banner Regiment of the Central Army will go to the opposite side to set up an ambush!"

Salon retracted his gaze from a distance, looked up at the sky, the time seemed to be early, he turned his head and ordered the chief of the guard behind him, and tens of thousands of cavalry behind him came down from the war horses with the order, followed by the infantry team that came later, and the black pressed a piece of people, this time, Salon was ordered to lead 10,000 cavalry of the Central Army to cooperate with the Fifth Infantry Banner Regiment to ambush the Gallic army that attacked the Dytru Heights from Fort Keyan. According to the intelligence, this army that came out of Fort Keyan was originally aimed at the empty heights of Ditru, and strategically speaking, it had considerable foresight and deterrence, proving that the Hebriel of the Eighth Army of Gaul was not a fool, but unfortunately, His Majesty Falcon did it more ruthlessly and broke through Fort Keyan first. Beheaded the Eighth Army of Gaul,

The sound of water murmuring in the mountain stream makes the forest appear more tranquil, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the tips of the trees, dragging a long tail.

Whether it's a homing bird or a foraging beast, they are far away from this once-peaceful highland. The cavalry of the Central Army untied the heavy stirrups from the back of the war horses, so that the war horses could occasionally bow their heads and graze leisurely, and took out all kinds of weapons and equipment from the weapon slots in the crotch of the war horses one by one, and carefully placed them on the ground.

The soldiers sat on the ground, gently wiping their bright blades with a damp cotton cloth, and looked as if admiring their most beloved woman. The sun is thin, and the eerie early autumn chill envelops the black woods below.

The wind blew the dark clouds, and the sky was dark and black. The wind hung over the meadow and rattled through the trees. "My lord, is it true that the enemy will pass through here?" the captain of the guard next to him asked with some uncertainty "To be honest, I'm not sure" Sharon sat on the ground, examining the terrain map in his hand, and said with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Let everyone be patient, the front captured Keyan Fort in one fell swoop, the entire Gallic army was shaken, the original Eighth Army was greatly reduced, His Majesty personally laid out, and the 40,000 Gallic troops who attacked from Keyan Fort were cut off to retreat, if the other party did not want to completely become an outcast, the only way was to find a way to make a detour to avoid the blockade of our army! If the other party chooses a detour, this is the only way to go, and His Majesty has deliberately only arranged a thousand soldiers in the pass ahead, and the scouts of the other side should soon find out that this is their best breakthrough!"

"I see, if there are only a thousand defenders, even if the other party knows that they may encounter danger, they will try desperately!"

At one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was a little clearer, a herald ran in and whispered, "My lord, the smoke of the alarm has risen at the pass!"

"It seems to be coming, let everyone prepare!" Salon got up from the ground with a nervous expression, raised his head, and sure enough, he saw a black pillar of smoke in the direction of the pass and straight up to the sky, and the other cavalry were also nervous, and ran to the war horses at the edge of the woods,

"All on horseback" The cavalry captains shouted loudly, and the falcon cavalry stepped on their horses, taking the time to check the various equipment on their bodies, and half an hour later, under the hill where the woods were located, the falcon army as bait came along the path in a row,

The team was a little denser, and in a panic they crossed a red clay ditch and continued on their way. No officers came out to maintain the queue, and the ranks were guò, and the soldiers were terrified, and their weapons and flags had long since been discarded as ordered.

"Lasco, isn't this guy a little too much!"

Ssalon frowned slightly when he saw it, Lascaux was the officer who served as the decoy this time, but he carried out the bait order to the letter, and even did better than the request, so scattered and scattered, if he was the commander of the Gallic side, he would also believe that this was a force that had been completely defeated.

It's just a little worried, is it too much to pretend to be defeated, but it is also a thousand troops Under his worried gaze, after the defeated army as a bait was passed, there was silence on the plain below. The wild grass in the distance was swaying in the wind, and the wind was whistling through.

"My lord, will the enemy come?" the captain of the guard was a little worried,

"Yes!" Salon pretended to be calm and nodded, in fact, he was also a little bottomless in his heart, the road to bypass the Falcon Arms Zhì area was not the only one, if the other party found that something was wrong, he might choose to withdraw at any time,

Twenty minutes later, Salon's ears suddenly pricked up, and he came. Everyone's faces were immediately filled with strong battle intent

A faint clamor of soldiers and horses came from the mountain road below, and in the direction of the pass, soon a group of Gallic infantry appeared, then more and more Gallic infantry, more and more. In the midst of the sea of people, you can clearly see the fluttering flags of the Gallic army and the colorful team emblems, which are the emblems of their legions.

"Eighth Gallic Army!" Salon stared at the legion emblem that appeared below with blazing eyes, he had been ordered to lead the cavalry to carry out harassment tactics within the Eighth Army for the past half a month, and he was too familiar with the legion emblem of the Eighth Army. That's right, that's the goal!

The corners of Salon's mouth grinned slightly, the Gallic army below was the fourth and fifth infantry regiments of the Gallic Eighth Army that he had been waiting for, these two infantry regiments had suffered their own attacks, and they were too familiar with each other's military flags.

"Keep a safe distance!"

On the side of the Gauls, Rothgeine of the Fifth Army was directing the advance of the army, and the large army marched rapidly. It looked a little disheveled, and the cavalry and infantry were mixed and advanced. The piercing noise was like a flock of sparrows coming suddenly,

From Fort Koyan was ordered to attack two infantry regiments, the 4th and 5th Infantry Regiments of the Gallic Eighth Army on the Dietru Heights. An army of 40,000 men poured out of the pass, and soon filled the plain below, and the queue gradually slowed down.

Roy Gain, who was in charge of leading the front army, suddenly stopped his horse, and the terrain in front of him made his heart rarely touch, and he felt that this terrain was really dangerous. The two high ground looked down on the middle condescendingly, and the light breakthrough of the previous pass had already made him feel a little abnormal, but this time, the premonition in his heart was even stronger

"All troops stop advancing!" Roy Gain raised his hand and ordered loudly, "Scout, go and take a look on the opposite side!" Hearing the order, a dozen cavalry were separated from the ranks, and they rode their horses to the high ground on both sides, and they were sent to reconnoiter the high ground on both sides.

"Send a message to the infantry team! It's time to go"

Salon quietly watched with bated breath, for such a situation, he had already prepared, this time the ambush was arranged by His Majesty the Falcon himself, there were ambush points on the left and right sides, his side was the cavalry, and the other side was the infantry, with the infantry as bait, and the cavalry was the final word, this was the arrangement of the Falcon Majesty,

Ssalon raised his hand slightly, and a cavalry guard behind him quickly took off the assault crossbow behind him as ordered.

Facing the other side of the hill, a cluster of arrows with a blue smoke tail was fired, and the blue light tail flashed in the sky, because it was the bulge of the hill that blocked the view, so the Gallic scout cavalry who was approaching this side did not see it,

"It's a signal!"

Reposti, the commander of the Fifth Infantry Banner of the Central Army, who was half-squatting in the grass opposite, narrowed his pupils,

"Woo, woo" The long trumpet suddenly remembered, and in an instant, from the grassy high ground to the south opposite the cavalry ambush, a whole team of falcon crossbowmen suddenly appeared, and three thousand crossbowmen raised their crossbows to the sky,

"Pay attention to the arrow attack" The Gallic scout who found the situation shouted in a panic, as soon as the words fell, the sound of countless sharp arrows tearing the sky had already come, and countless black dots rose, that terrible feeling made the scout cavalry feel that the scalp exploded from the inside out, his shout was late, countless arrow clusters were already like a galloping shadow, from the top of the mound in the distance from the top of his head whistling, "pop papa" arrow rain pierced into the Gallic army below, bringing a large number of people on their backs to the roar of the horses,

The sharp Mitsubishi arrows, from all angles, pierced deep into the armor of thousands of Gallic soldiers, bringing a puff of bright red and dazzling red in their bodies, and countless Gallic soldiers were pierced through the heads by the arrows, and the entire head was blasted open by strong force

"On the left highland, there is an ambush"

The Gauls reacted from the tragic situation in front of them, and the dense rain of arrows fell again like pouring raindrops, "Formation, formation!" The Gallic infantry and cavalry were mixed, and the various units were staggered and hindered by each other. The soldiers ran around dizzily, the officers shouted hoarsely, the horses kicked and beat their hooves impatiently, ran feverishly, throwing down the cavalry above, and a squad of archers who remained intact was hastily moved to the front, and before they could get into the firing range, they were knocked over by the crossbowmen: "My lord, our army is in ambush!"

Roy Gain, the commander of the Gallic Fifth Infantry Regiment who had just come up from behind, happened to see this scene, and a trace of panic flashed on his face,

The news of the loss of Fort Keyan had arrived, and the commander of the legion, Hebri, had been killed. The entire Eighth Army Corps was already leaderless, and all armies were retreating, which meant that the tactics previously set by the Fourth and Fifth Infantry Regiments were completely invalid, and Roy Gaine and Mark Yesu immediately chose to return to the army, and the original road was impassable, as the fat man expected, the two chose to detour the mountain road that was relatively far from the central area, "At any cost, take the high ground on the left!"

Roy Gain soon discovered that the number of rebels ambushing him in the northwest was not large, that is, around 5,000. Immediately the Gallic army was ordered to attack in waves, forming a skirmish line to attack from the bottom of the hill to disperse the rebel archers who were blocking them, and the black crowd spread out like a wave with the order, surging to the left. "Long live the Falcon Empire!" On the opposite side of the high ground on the left, the mountains suddenly shook! The soldiers and horses galloped forward, like a storm! Salon led 10,000 central cavalry to pounce on the back of the Gallic army like a tide,

"Turn around, the enemy is behind!" cried out the Gallic officer in a mournful voice. The huge queue began to shake, and the soldiers hesitated to turn back, hastily turning their spears. The dense layers of waves stretched out forward hurriedly turned, and the Falcon Central Cavalry had already plunged into it like a cluster of arrows. Tens of thousands of shiny sabers swept in like a tide of metal, and the heavy horses tore through the ranks of the Gauls and crashed into the flanks of the Gallic army. Horses' hooves rumble. "Ahh

The Gauls shouted a cry of terror, and seeing the rainbow-like momentum of the northwestern rebel cavalry, no one dared to resist on the route of the attack.

"Forward!" said Salon. The war horse under the crotch stepped on the frightened white Gallic infantry in front of him, the two war knives in his hands slashed down vigorously, and the round human head sprayed into the air with blood, behind him, the whole row of Gallic soldiers was trampled by more war horses, and the cold light of the war knife wielding it shone with a chilling luster under the black clouds

"Damn, cavalry!"

The Gallic soldiers turned their spears, discarded their armor, and hurriedly flashed to both sides,

The chaotic array suddenly dispersed like water, and the attack line formed by thousands of black cavalry, like sharp blades cutting into hot butter, was almost ineffective sniping, and the iron hooves of the central cavalry had already stabbed into the back of the Gallic army,

"Bang Bang" With a crisp and terrible tearing sound, the spikes at the front end of the vest of the falcon cavalry impacted the ranks of the Gallic infantry, and the Gallic soldiers were knocked out and flew out, or they were taken around in circles on the ground, and the corpses were lying all over the road where the cavalry rushed down, in terms of quantity, in just the first blow, at least more than a thousand Gauls were killed, and those who were wounded and fell to the ground were lying all over the ground, and the rocks on the ground that had not dried up were all red blood flowing, and the wounded soldiers were lying on the ground and making a faint or sad cry

A squadron of Gauls holding a team flag, like a dam hit by a flood, was torn apart in an instant, and before even the basic resistance had time, it was trampled by the war horses of countless cavalry, and the two other 2,000 people only just turned around and encountered the oncoming cavalry, although they were barely able to support it for a while, but they were quickly squeezed by the multiple layers of the Falcon cavalry to collapse, and the thousands of soldiers almost did not survive "It's the cavalry of the Northwest rebels!" In the Gallic rear army, which had not yet been affected, Roy Gain's face turned pale as he watched the torrent of steel drown his ranks, and the entire six squadrons of infantry were scattered in one fell swoop.

The first to encounter an ambush was the 5th Infantry Regiment of the front army, and then quickly spread to the 4th Infantry Regiment behind, thousands of defeated soldiers were as unstoppable as a flood gap, the soldiers lost their armor, and once the army collapsed, it was difficult to recover.

Stupidly watching this miserable scene, watching his men being slaughtered by the enemy like lambs, and watching the army he had painstakingly planned was defeated, for a moment, the two Gallic commanders, Roy Gaine and Mark Yesu, had only two words left in their minds: "Despair." ”

On the hill not far away, a group of cavalry stood quietly, and the fat man withdrew his gaze from the battlefield in the distance and looked up at the sky,

The clouds in the sky were still so unpredictable, and the line of the setting sun drew a red line on the distant horizon, as if to indicate something

On July 18, the infantry regiments of the two countries that penetrated deep into the Ditru region of the Gallic Eighth Army were quietly assembled by the Falcon Army and annihilated in one fell swoop, more than 25,000 Gallic soldiers were killed in battle, 13,000 were captured, and the last combat strength of the Gallic Eighth Army was also wiped out.

The strategic balance of the entire Rasti really tilted to the side of the Falcon Empire, from the fat man's decision to take the initiative to the end of this raid battle,

It lasted 12 days, fought 14 times, routed 73,000 men of the 8th Army of Gaul, and killed 4 infantry regiments under the commander of the 8th Army, Hebriel.

Although the number of people annihilated in this battle was not conspicuous in the previous battles of the Falcon Army, it reversed the strategic initiative of the Gauls in the Lasti region in one fell swoop, and the Gallic Emperor's painstakingly arranged plan for the Battle of the Southwest had been aborted in advance, forcing it to switch from strategic offensive to strategic defense. (To be continued......)