1466 Showdown (VII)
On the northern border of Normandy, where the fighting was raging, the barbaric wilderness was littered with the corpses of Slavs,
"Kill!" the hooves of the cavalry group slumped through the mire of the rain, the tumbling heads of the people, gurgling in the muddy pool, the broken corpses were stacked together, and the hooves of the cavalry in the center of the falcon galloped up the blood-soaked soil, threw the red and black soil backwards into the air and then slammed down, like a bird of prey, swooping down from the rain curtain, first the earth shook, and then a shocking muffled thunder,
"Rush with all your might!" Hukochili's goal was very clear, that is, in this distance, it was possible to break down the ranks of the Slavs, and in the white rain curtain, countless cavalry discharged a huge assault array, like an efficient and huge killing machine, directly crushing over the heads of the Slavs, and the horses neighed. In this way, the two sides collided heavily in the rain curtain, making a tragic metal collision sound, and countless figures were trampled by the light of knives and horses' hooves
The red rain gathered into small and large streams, flowing down the cracked soil, mixed with scattered sediment into the cracks of the earth, fierce battles, from the beginning into a climax, the fierce slashing of the Falcon Central Cavalry, driving the Slavs to the rout of the troops behind,
A very small number of cavalry came from the center of the Slavs to reinforce them, but while they were still on the way, they were dismounted by the scattered soldiers, and they rushed into each other, trampling on the dead and wounded
"Spears, don't mess up" Some powerful Slavic troops, facing the flanks of the Falcon cavalry, facing the scattered and fleeing compatriots, these armored shield pikemen, quickly erected spears dedicated to blocking the cavalry charge, but for a large-scale rout, this struggle can have a very limited effect,
"Kill" the war horse neighed. The two armies staggered together, the two sides collided together, the cavalry rolled on the ground from their horses, the shield wall of the Slavs was torn apart, and in front of the roaring cavalry cluster, the thin formation of the Slavs, like a log squeezed by a heavy hammer, broke under the strong multi-level attack, and the cavalry trampled on the heads of the entire Slavs without hindrance, like a huge earth dragon that kept tumbling.
Among them, 4 lightly armed thousand-man teams were like a dam hit by a flood, and they didn't even have time to resist basically, and the other 2 thousand-man teams had just reached the flank line, and they encountered the oncoming cavalry impact, although they were barely able to support it for a while, but they were quickly defeated by the cavalry's multi-layer squeezing tactics.
"Report, Lord Han Du died in battle!"
One report after another from the dispersal area made the Slavic chieftains in the middle army zone look extremely ugly.
They expected to lose the first attack, but defeat did not mean such a crushing defeat, and in fact, the Slavs were not straw bales, although the weapons were inferior. But most of the Slavic soldiers were tall Handers, and their heavy weapons were capable of smashing an armored Imperial soldier to death.
It's just that no one thought that the other party would have enough to face an army of 100,000. They also dare to take the initiative to attack, and according to their previous practice of fighting with the Imperial Army, they face an enemy with superiority in numbers. The Imperial Army will not attack,
And this time, the commander of the other side is obviously bold, with 5,000 cavalry as the blade, directly attacking the 100,000 troops of his own side, this approach can no longer be called bravery, this is madness, it is gambling, and the commander of the other party is obviously a crazy gambler, such an opponent, no one is willing to be right, no one can know what the madman wants to do, anyway, at present, the consequence of this crazy desperate gamble is to be caught off guard, and directly hit the flank of the army to the extreme,
In less than two hours, the battle report from the front showed that more than seventy percent of the more than 30,000 troops arranged on the flanks had been defeated, and the chaos was still expanding like a whirlpool, and the mountains were full of soldiers who had fled back.
The leaders had no choice but to raise their battle flags in the middle of the battle in order to guide the rout to gather and avoid causing further confusion, and there were inevitably some high-ranking officers in these routs, and after their oral accounts, the situation in the area of engagement was quickly clarified.
It can be described as miserable, in the mouths of these officers who have escaped by chance, these enemies hiding behind strong long walls are really too shameless, rain of arrows, throwing stones, and then the powerful crushing of cavalry raids! It's not at all like the opponents you've faced in the past, so why don't you come out and line up and fight a dozen of them, and you don't say a word, and you just engage in a wave of cavalry, and I'll wipe it! Isn't this bullying?
The tribal leaders were dumbfounded and speechless when they heard this, the surprise and intention of the other party was certainly a reason, but the biggest mistake appeared in themselves, the overstretched force was like a piece of soft meat directly to the tip of the enemy's knife
It turned out that in order to test the weakness of the defense of this long wall, the Slavic leaders deliberately used a total of 100,000 troops to discharge a long line of more than 4,000 meters, clumsy and long formation, or able to attack the city, but it is definitely not suitable for dealing with sudden changes, an order is passed from one end to another, even it takes a while to ride a fast horse, not to mention a large number of cavalry like a landslide to raid and scatter the soldiers, almost completely making the order impossible to reach,
Although there was still some distance from the battle area, the deafening shouts and screams made the tribal leaders already feel chills all over their bodies,
It can be imagined that under the fierce assault of the enemy's cavalry, the hundreds of linear arrays on the flank of this side in the long wilderness were like long lines that were stretched and broken by the storm.
The soldiers screamed under the horse's hooves, the battle was rotten, the opponent's offensive was out of control like a fire in the prairie fire, five thousand people, even launched a frontal attack on tens of thousands of troops in such a grand manner, this seemingly crazy wind and fire-like fighting, if there is anything similar, it is a fight with the devil of the East Court at the other end of the wilderness,
The hesitation of the clan leaders caused the flank battle situation to collapse completely, and when they found that the situation was not right, many Slavs hurriedly changed the direction of the battle, but they were greeted by the slings that roared from the walls of the opposing party, and the clusters of arrows poured down like a storm,
Soldiers can be seen flying up by stones, or directly turned into minced flesh under a puddle of stones.
Holding a shield in his hand, the suppressed soldier who didn't even dare to move was directly bulldozed by the cavalry, which was miserable.
Some tribal leaders retreated in their hearts and began to order a retreat, and some tribal leaders raised yì to rescue the flanks, but what they got was nothing more than a kind of silence, the rout was like a mountain, or in the face of a large number of swarming cavalry, in this case, who would dare to save!,
"The flank rout is like this, is there any point in rescuing now?" an old man with gray hair and a face full of deep marks like stone carvings looked at the city wall in the distance, and said with a flickering eye, "This attack was a mistake from the beginning," I dare to guarantee that the fifth army behind the city wall must not be the fifth army of Fort Julilsford, and even the enemy's is not clear, so it is better to withdraw first and think about it in the long run!"
"Old patriarch Tobias is right, he hasn't even figured out the enemy, what are we fighting here?" some timid patriarchs chimed in
The rain is hazy and picturesque. The sound of the battle has calmed down,
On the city walls, the fat man looked at the Slavic army slowly retreating in front, and the sound of soldiers cheering for victory sounded on the city wall, and five thousand Falcon Guards cavalry entered through the open gate of the city wall, with horses' hooves rumbling and blood all over the ground,
"Your Majesty! Fortunately, I have not failed in my mission!" Hu Keqili, who was covered in blood, turned over and jumped down from his war horse, and reported loudly to the fat man who was walking not far away
"You've done a very good job! Sure enough, you're worthy of the Empire's Blade!" the fat man shook his shoulders with joy, and quipped, "Defeating 100,000 enemies with 5,000 cavalry is enough to make you famous in history!"
"Don't dare, it's really arranged properly!"
Hu Keqili hurriedly lowered his head and said respectfully, although he had just created a near-miracle record,
But Hu Keqili knew very well that the queue of tens of thousands of people, scattered by five thousand cavalry from the front, is rare in regular warfare, and the reason for the miracle of Zào comes from the unexpected accurate calculation of His Majesty of the Falcon, in the eyes of the other party, the initiative to attack is undoubtedly crazy, but if you count 300 trebuchets and 20,000 skilled crossbowmen, it is another matter!
The Slavs came from afar, starvation and poverty, coupled with the lack of coordination between the various departments, and the battle line was too long, which gave the Falcon Army the convenience of obtaining local superiority in troops.
The secret of victory lies in this,
Maybe even the Slavs themselves didn't expect that in order to ensure the first appearance of the central cavalry, it would leave a huge deterrent effect on the Slavs, and the Slavs would be completely scared, so that the Slavs could give up the idea of continuing to the south.
The fat man decided to put one-third of his troops on this attack line about 500 meters long.
The neat rumbling sound of the three hundred trebuchets ejected, even the earth trembled under their feet,
And the dense coverage of 20,000 skilled crossbow shooters transferred from the Southern Army is enough for the 500-meter area to be under a saturation attack for a long time,
As soon as the Slavs were found to be massing, they were immediately dispersed with a rain of stones and arrows, and the Slavs had less than 20,000 troops to gather in this area.
Absolute superiority, so that although the Slavs have a total of 100,000 troops, they are completely powerless, and the disadvantage is that in the case of a sudden saturation test crush, they can respond with only one "escape" (to be continued......