Chapter 678: The First Battle in the Plains
He looked at the enemies in front of him who were about to be completely annihilated by them, and gave the order to retreat decisively.
He was only ordered to kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible, and it was not good to put himself on it, and the loss of a column of light cavalry would have a different effect on the battlefield.
"Retreat! All retreat! He shouted, then the rest of the world shouted to retreat, and then he blew the whistle around his neck.
Three hurried whistles in a row were the signal for their retreat, which was set up by William's nobles, who set up whistles for fear that his troops would mistake them for his own retreat orders because the enemy shouted to retreat.
The hussars heard the whistle and quickly gathered the column leader.
And he continued to run, but slowed his horse and waited for his men to catch up.
As soon as the baron's soldiers saw that the enemy had left the area, they stopped fleeing and stopped where they were to see what was going on.
The baron, on the other hand, knew that reinforcements from other nobles had arrived.
It's just that he looked at the situation of his troops and wanted to cry without tears, a sneak attack by the enemy caused him heavy losses, and the remaining three or two kittens were almost unable to participate in the future battles.
At this time, there were only a few dozen people left in his army, and the army of more than 200 people became dozens of people, which can be described as a heavy loss, and it is not too much to lose his old capital.
"These damn, cowardly things, they're just a bunch of shitty bugs!" The man cursed in a low voice at first, and then began to curse loudly, suffocating him to death if he didn't vent his anger.
But even if he shouted out, his troops couldn't come back, and his bleeding heart couldn't heal for a while, and he wanted to cry without tears when he looked at the situation in front of him.
"Quick! The enemy is already running away! The knights of the surrounding nobles had already gathered, and they had temporarily selected a knight of more prestige as their commander, and this knight shouted loudly to the more than a hundred knights behind him.
When the knights heard this, they also urged the horses under their crotches to speed up their horses.
If these damned enemies were allowed to run away today, they would surely face overwhelming ridicule.
They couldn't ignore their own glory, and in this way, they quickly chased after it.
The light cavalry gathered together and galloped forward quickly, and the horses from the two counties of the steppe were far stronger in terms of height, weight, speed and strength than those slightly shorter horses in the western part of the continent.
If it weren't for the fact that this was the outlet to the sea, and the influence of the center of the continent was deeper, the knights would not have such a high status at all, after all, their slightly short war horses could not give the knights in other regions the same combat power as they were.
In fact, hundreds of kilometers away, in the area of the Senmoril Kingdom, there were only a few knights in their country, and the rest were a large army of heavy cavalry.
The knights chased the hussars running in front of them, but they could see that the distance between the two sides was increasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
In other words, the speed of the other party is much faster than your own.
Although some of them were very unwilling, they still faintly thought of giving up the chase.
But soon, they saw that the enemies in front of them had slowed down significantly, and had even reached a slower speed than theirs.
The distance between the two sides has gradually narrowed.
"Quick! Speed up! The enemy's horses are fast but not stamina, they have consumed too much horsepower before, and they are no longer as fast as before! ”
The knight who had been chosen to command shouted loudly.
The knights in the back also saw the situation of the light cavalry, and they were also excited when they heard this, and kicked the war horse in the crotch again, and the spur stabbed the war horse in the abdomen, causing them to speed up again.
As the distance between the two sides shortened, the knights were very excited, and even many people had pulled out the long swords on their waists, as for the riding spears, they had just thrown them on the ground, this kind of pursuit combat with the cavalry spears could not cause too much damage, the long sword was the king.
As the knights shouted and moved forward quickly, Valan, the commander of the light cavalry, had a sneer on his face.
He glanced back at the distance between the knights and himself, and then shouted, "Disperse the whole army!" ”
Of course, he was not willing to retreat like this, and when he saw that the enemy's knights had already come to support, he had already planned to retreat.
But who would have thought that these knights would be so inflated and chased them so far, more than three kilometers away from their troops.
In this case, Varan will not be able to tolerate it, not to mention that he can also see the fighter from this.
He has a lot of trust in the war horse under his crotch, and the war horse has not lived up to his trust, until now, he is only sweating a little, and he doesn't feel out of breath at all.
And after he saw that the number of enemies was not particularly large, another thought also appeared in his heart.
That's where mobility is relied upon to wipe out all of these enemy knights.
If this idea is known to the people in the center of the continent, I am afraid that the jaw of a place will be shocked, you know, in the central and eastern part of the continent, knights are a country's top weapons, usually after the knights are dispatched, they will decide the victory of a war.
But in Valan's eyes, it is a group of enemies that can be annihilated by relying on mobility.
The hussars were also very brutally trained, and they reacted very quickly to orders, and they quickly dispersed into a loose parallel formation.
Valan had been observing the distance between the enemy behind him and himself, and then looking at the surrounding terrain, most of it was flat grass.
Slowing down the horses of the light cavalry can reduce the physical exertion of the horses, but the enemy chasing them will consume a lot of the physical strength of the horses.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, but the distance of more than fifty meters was the best distance to use a bow on horseback.
"Shoot!" Varan gave an order, and the surrounding light cavalry also shot arrows, and the light cavalry farther away saw that their comrades had already shot, and the arrows in their hands also flew out.
More than a hundred arrows flew out, and with a sharp sound in the air, they fell into the enemy.
Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of falling horses and screams, and these hundred arrows caused seven or eight casualties to the enemy, and they fell off their horses after being hit by the arrows, but a few of them were not trampled to death by their comrades, but were only trampled to death, and the remaining few were trampled on by the heavy hooves of the horses and died.
Valan couldn't help but smile as he looked at the situation behind him, and ordered his soldiers to slow down a little again, he wanted to give the enemy the illusion that he was already exhausted.
"Quick! Don't be afraid! The enemy's horses can't run anymore! The commanding knight shouted loudly.