1608 Southwest to Northwest (2)
The fat man drove lightly, took Salonon and one hundred and twenty horses to Valpale Fortress, the sea scenery along the way was charming, the cool spring breeze blew green to the earth, the fat man's eyebrows were a little twisted, and he did not let go of the scenery in front of him, the beautiful scenery could not hide the depression of the trade road, there were not many caravans along the way, and most of the caravans that could be seen occasionally were not large, the fat man remembered that the last time he read the report, he also recorded that more than 30 chambers of commerce had set up offices in the southwest, and in the customs records, the Valpale corridor, the most one day was 186 caravans, more than 3,000 wagons
But in front of him, there were very few caravans encountered along the way, either loaded with goods and shipped back, or it was like an eggplant that had been beaten by frost, listless, not at all angry, counting the team that had just surpassed, the fat man only saw 3 caravans,
This is somewhat unexpected, even if the trade routes in the southwest are closed, there are still many smugglers on the border, and they should not wither here, you know, the wool and goat horns and hand-woven burlap in the northwest are very popular in the southwest
For these general daily necessities, the Southwest Army is not completely ruthless, but only increases taxes, and smuggling is rampant on the border.
"It seems that the impact of the blockade in the southwest on the trade in the northwest is very severe"
The fat man's eyebrows frowned slightly, the southwest is a shortcut to the hinterland of the Gallic Empire, so most of the goods shipped to the interior of Gaul will enter Gaul from here, the other party has the confidence to be fearless, it should come from here, when passing through a commercial freight station, the fat man saw that the goods inside were piled up, there were more than 200 freight carriages parked in front of the freight station town in Guangping, many merchants were stranded here, the town developed with the cargo station as the center, at the moment it was already overcrowded, the merchants were waiting for the southwest side to switch, but no one knew when it would be able to pass guò。 For a time, a rare surge of crowds was formed, and this situation was very troublesome, once the southwest blockade was not loosened, no one dared not guarantee that there were no bankrupt and supreme merchants here, or they collapsed, which was an extremely cruel impact to the merchants of the entire northwest coast
Tightening the whip in his hand, the fat man turned his head from a stall where a middle-aged man was leaning with a sad face. There were a lot of goods on the stall, but no one bought them, a little boy who was only 2 years old, rolling back and forth in the pile of goods, giggling from his mouth, or only children, who could only laugh now
Speeding through the town, the Guards cavalry leading the way in front of the rush of horses' hooves. Suddenly, he pointed to the front and shouted, "Your Majesty, there is the Legildo Mountains in front of you."
The fat man raised his head, and saw that the vast land in front of him was suddenly blocked by a huge mountain range in front of him. The huge mountain gap is like a large black mouth, which is known as the Valpale Corridor, where 10,000 central troops are stationed.
Received news from the scout that His Majesty the Falcon was about to arrive. Two generals of the Falcon Central Army, fully armored and waiting at the entrance of the corridor, watched as the horse team rode from the opposite side rolled up smoke and dust. The two generals of the Falcon Central Army hurriedly tidied up their collars, and now there is still a horse team coming, and only the Falcon Majesty is "Reposti, Yagrin See Your Majesty!" The two generals of the Central Army hurriedly straightened up and saluted the oncoming fat man, and behind them, the greeting array composed of five thousand soldiers of the Central Army knelt down at the same time
"Long live the falcon" shook the four fields, resounding through the sky, and the sharp spear was like Xiao Han rolling up the sky, bringing a wave of Xiao killing like a boundless black hole in the corridor behind him.
The chest of each soldier here is engraved with a white thorn flower belonging to the Fat Man's direct legion, from the general behind the squadron leader, then the soldier, like a huge triangle, the red cloak behind the officer at the far left of each queue is embroidered with a pair of silver military insignia with separate wings, because the Central Army was originally expanded on the basis of the Falcon Guard, and as the Central Army broke away from the Guards Regiment, in order to show the difference between the two, the military insignia of the officer mantle of the Central Army is silver, and the winged cloak of the Guards Regiment is gold, of course, they all have a common name"Falcon Wings"
"Get Up"
The fat man stopped his horse, his expression was majestic, his eyes flashed like a sharp cold, and the shouts of five thousand soldiers made the blood in his body boil, the army, the weapon of the country, and Yagrin and Reposti were remarkable in the battle of the expedition, and the fat man had transferred the two to the Central Army, which could be regarded as compensation for the two fierce generals
"Thank you!" A magnificent response came out of the mouths of the five thousand soldiers, and the empty sky that shook rumbled,
Everyone stood up neatly, a Central Army general stepped forward to lead the fat man's war horse, the fat man got off the war horse, and another Central Army general took the horse whip in the fat man's hand very skillfully, and the five thousand soldiers in the formation were separated to both sides like a split flood, revealing a road as wide as five meters into the corridor,
The army is like a cloud, angry and angry, and the corners of the fat man's mouth are slightly grinning, doesn't the Murphy family want to hunt? I don't know if it's the prey or the hunter! No matter what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the Murphy family, if you let go of the southwest, it's fine, if you use this to blackmail yourself, you don't mind waving the southwest and crushing the barrier of the Gallic Empire in the west from behind.
Although the southwest is the land of the four wars, it is also the land of the hub, and the occupation of the southwest is equivalent to opening a passage to the hinterland of Gaul! This temptation, too, is for the fat man, through the corridor, into the Valpale fortress, surrounded by the crowd to walk up to the fortress,
The fat man saw the Murphy dragon cavalry who had recently shocked the southwest, and the banner of the Murphy family was flying at a distance of about 500 meters in front of the city gate, more than a dozen tents, and there was a fence outside, which seemed to be like a real hunt, but the fat man knew that the other party had been waiting for him, and the so-called "hunting" was only afraid that the two fortresses in front of him were known as the gateway to the southwest
On the ground that had just grown green, a group of purple cavalry captains were galloping by, like a purple line piercing into the eyes, neat and lofty cavalry, "I used to underestimate Gaul!" The fat man stared at the purple figure on the flat ground in the distance, his eyes narrowed slightly,
According to his gaze, he could naturally see that the other party was also an elite team that had been in battle for a long time, with a murderous aura bursting out of his fierceness, and he had already heard of the Murphy dragon armor heavy cavalry that suddenly appeared in the southwest.
Fort Julilsford, who had already returned to Kyoto from the southwest, talked about the "Murphy Dragon Armor Heavy Cavalry" when he left.
Although the name is heavy cavalry, it is very different from other heavy cavalry, equipped with not bulky full-body plate armor, but relatively light but extremely tough scale armor, two layers of scales superimposed on the inside and outside, enough to resist the flat slash of most swords, and the weapon is not an ordinary cavalry lance, but a cavalry assault lance with an arc hook, which is dedicated to destroying infantry defenses
Logically speaking. This kind of armor with scales is unable to resist the piercing of the bayonet, and the most important feature of the Murphy dragon armor is here, the reason why the Murphy dragon armor cavalry is called "dragon armor", and its reputation is extremely high, it is precisely because of the destruction of the opponent's spear array and the shock of Gaul's ""heavy cavalry specializing in the spear array!"
The fat man also took a deep breath for this title, and the light flashed in his eyes,
It's not that he doesn't believe Castle Julil's warning, but he's not a fledgling who hasn't been on the battlefield. As the recognized undefeated god of war on the Ikadivar continent, the first person to defeat the cavalry cluster tactics with infantry formations, when he fought against Ryordian, the total number of heavy cavalry encountered before and after was close to 100,000.
For this kind of top-level troops that consume extremely money and equipment, although the fat man is the victorious side, he has always held an attitude of awe, in the era of cold weapons. If the cavalry is a sharp spear that determines victory or defeat on the battlefield, then the heavy cavalry is the most crazy and frightening spear tip of this force, in front of the heavy cavalry. Even if it can be effectively blocked, it is a tragic blood
Only those who have really experienced the battlefield will know the horror of facing the impact of heavy cavalry, the kind of earth trembling under the feet, the heavy armored beast as high as 2 meters, full of hideous and terrifying feeling like a storm head-on, can definitely make people who have never seen that scene, from the heart burst out of the uncontrollable huge panic, as if they are about to enter the torrent of ants, that feeling of helplessness, without experiencing it is absolutely unimaginable, when the gun array and the heavy cavalry meet, it is simply a collision of flesh and steel and steel,
At that moment, blood splattered and the spear broke
The whole platoon of gunners was either pierced by a single shot or knocked away, even the most brave pikemen, they didn't dare to say that they were not scared to pee on their crotch when they faced the heavy cavalry cluster charge for the first time, but it was too chaotic at the time, and no one would say anything afterwards," Believe me, although the Murphy Dragon Armor Army has always only fought in the east, but I also saw the ferocity of its battle when I was young, when it was 30,000 Murphy Dragon Armor against the large heavy dragon spear corps that the Zhongbian people were proud of, most of us thought that the Murphy Dragon Armor Cavalry would be pierced by a heavy spear up to five meters long, but the result was unexpected, except for the initial pause, the Murphy Dragon Armor Heavy Cavalry swept the Central Biya people like tearing a piece of paper, that kind of momentum, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you will never believe it"
Julillsford's look when he mentioned Murphy's dragon armor was extremely serious, and he especially reminded the fat man who has always liked to "use danger" that "people who encounter Murphy's dragon armor cavalry for the first time often don't know this, and are caught off guard by the sudden large-scale cavalry cluster charge, thinking that the stable spear array can be blocked, who knows that it was broken through in an instant, and the dragon armor cavalry entered the formation, and the corpses were all over the field,
Among the Zhongbia generals who died in battle because they despised the Murphy Dragon Armor heavy cavalry, several of them were famous generals who were good at defense! I tell you this, just in the hope that you can have a new consideration when facing the Murphy Dragon Armor! This opponent can not fight, it is better not to fight!"
"Thirty thousand heavily armored cavalry is already a very sharp store, if you are not afraid of the bayonet, then it is not invincible on the battlefield?" the corner of the fat man's mouth twitched slightly. Although he said that he didn't believe it, in fact, he already had a little heart for Murphy Longjia in his heart, and Fort Julillsford should not exaggerate the enemy to deceive himself.
It seems that in order to verify that what Fort Juliets said is true, the battle of the southwest, the first large group confrontation between the Murphy dragon cavalry and the Gang Fei, the rare 30,000 Murphy dragon cavalry as the battle of the Chinese army, the result is to destroy the momentum, in one fell swoop into the most tightly defended array of the Gang Fei army, on the spot Gang Fei people were stunned, tens of thousands of Chinese troops could not stop the pace of its advancement, countless casualties, the array was in chaos, if it was not for the fierce general of the Gang Fei army, the two wings desperately defended the lord, maybe even the emperor flag of the Chinese army would be swept under the horse's hooves by the Murphy dragon armor cavalry, and the shame would be thrown home!
The fat man who received this news analyzed that it should be something special about the Murphy family in terms of forging skills and cavalry, wearing heavy scale armor. Breaking through the opponent's gun formation, running like rolling thunder, unstoppable, 30,000 dragon armored cavalry does have the capital to make their attention,
As the distance got closer and closer, the fat man's eyes suddenly lit up as he looked at the Murphy dragon armor cavalry, and he took a deep breath of cold air, "Obediently, I'll just say, how can there be a cavalry that specializes in spear formations, but it can combine plate armor and scale armor into this kind of Cheng dù." Technology is secondary, and ideas are unexpected!
I saw a group galloping past the Murphy dragon armor cavalry not far away, the war horses were flying, and the scale armor on the purple cavalry above, with the swing up and down, unexpectedly revealed the polished smooth and round barrel plate armor, like a smooth oval set inside the scales, and the top was densely covered with horizontal hooks, which should be used to hang the scales. Because it was not wartime, this group of dragon armor cavalry was obviously not fully armed, and if all the scale armor was covered on the outside, it is estimated that no one would know that it was inside the scale armor. It turned out to be a cylindrical motherboard armor with a smooth curved surface,
But enough for the fat man, a modern man, covered with scales to resist chopping, and smooth barrel plate armor on the inside. Every dragoon must have undergone brutal and skillful training to ensure that at the moment of impact, the sway and high-speed momentum on horseback can be exploited. The flexible use of round plate armor to avoid the thrust of the opponent's spear, this kind of training is not difficult for real soldiers in this era, just like Nord and Rui Erdian, many Rui Erdian knights and traditional martial arts have been trained in unimaginable militarization since childhood,
The Murphy family must be the same, with surprise tactics to break through the opponent's defenses, and then with a highly concentrated heavy cavalry advance to level the enemy, because it is completely impossible to form a block, a large number of heavy cavalry clusters will sweep, like a beast swinging its tail, enough to make any infantry cluster heartbroken and frightened, although it sounds like a fantasy, but who dares to guarantee that this method will not have a surprising magical effect! And in order to reduce the force area on the front of the round plate armor, the body of the wearers of these Murphy dragon armor is very symmetrical, and if a lazy guy like a fat man is absolutely killed, he will not be able to cage it.
After finding out the secret that the Murphy dragon armor gun could not pierce, a trace of worry in the fat man's heart was gone, too much deification, is the most frightening thing, the other party put on such a posture, it is obvious that he is here to negotiate by force, the barrel-shaped plate armor can avoid the piercing of the spear, but it definitely can't block the close-range penetration of the crossbow, thinking of this, the corner of the fat man's mouth showed a sly smile
The sky was high and crisp, the sky was cloudless, the wind swept up the shallow grass, and a bald eagle common in coastal areas flew by from a high place,
On the third day of the hunt, Murphy Boone received a message from the opposite side,
And the king of the barbarians has unabashedly seen through the meaning of "hunting", and the letter said, "Three days later, 150 horsemen on Murphy dragon armor against 150 cavalry guards, southwest against northwest, if the northwest wins, the southwest needs to let go of all the passes, not a penny of taxes from the northwest, if it is a southwest victory, there is nothing to say, the two fortresses will return to their original owners!"
"What an idiot who doesn't know what to call an idiot!"
After reading the letter, Murphylins snorted very unconvinced, although he already looked up to the Falcon Guards, but it was only an imposing recognition,
Combat and momentum are completely different things, even if they are elite in a hundred battles, what can the other party do in the face of the Murphy dragon armor heavy cavalry that can't be pierced by guns and swords?
You know, everywhere, the heavy cavalry is at the pinnacle of the cunzài, is the nemesis of a qiē class, in the heart of Murphylins, only the heavy cavalry is considered a real cavalry, the other light cavalry is just a foil, but now a guy is extremely arrogant to say that under the same number, the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry duel
"It's too joking, and I don't know what the other party thinks, it's a little too arrogant!"
The older Murphy Boone picked up the report and smiled disapprovingly, he did come for these two southwest portals, the gate was watched by others, how is it not a very cool thing, he blocked the southwest trade, he was holding the other party's plan to salute first and then the soldiers, the withdrawal of the army has become a foregone conclusion, the southwest army is now like a rainbow, the soldiers are strong and strong, and there are not a few voices of revenge in the army, if the northwest side is not interested, he will let Murphylins lead 30,000 dragon armor heavy cavalry as the vanguard, and kill the northwest coast
It's just that I didn't expect that the other party would simply win or lose a game, 150 people each, even if it was dead, it would be harmless, but the other party was 150 against 150! This kind of tone full of provocation and arrogance, even Murfeo Boone shook his head secretly in his heart
The cavalry on the northwest coast is good, but the Vekia Falcon on the northwest coast is a little unworthy of the name, his own Murphy dragon armor is a heavy cavalry, according to the previous heavy cavalry is equal to the combat power of three light cavalry, the opponent's 150 is equal to the combat power of his own 50 Murphy dragon armor, does the Vikia Falcon not even know this common sense! A hundred battles elite does not mean that light cavalry can fight heavy cavalry, it is really a challenge that has never been heard of, such a provocation that does not know how to measure, it is simply taking the initiative to take an egg and touch it on its own stone! ( To be continued ......)