Chapter 7: The First Battle (I)
The robbers followed Pamir down the hill in a swarm of bees, and after passing a slightly rugged mountain path, Pamir stopped.
"Boys, we're waiting for them here, but be quiet, and if anyone makes a noise that causes us to fail, I'll pull out his intestines and stuff them in his mouth!" Pamir said.
The robbers nodded one after another, and no one dared to express their objections, seeing this, Pamir nodded with satisfaction.
The robbers hid their bodies, some of them lay on the ground, hiding behind trees, and William followed Norwen to find a large tree that was thick and thin and surrounded by one person.
"Get ready, stay with me and don't get lost." William was hiding behind a tree when he suddenly heard Norwen say to himself in a low voice.
"Hmmm! I know. William nodded, and replied in a low voice.
He didn't speak, and the many robbers around him also kept quiet, and the deep forest was suddenly quiet, and there was no sound except for the chirping of birds and insects.
At this time, two figures appeared on the path, and two cavalrymen appeared in the sight of the robbers, "I heard that there are three Kriza riders in the caravan, this should be the caravan coming." "There was a slight commotion in the bandit camp.
"Be quiet, keep quiet, this is their temptation, hide it all and don't be discovered!" The bandit leader Pamir lowered his voice and said this to the people around him, and these words were passed on to the entire group of bandits.
Only then did it calm down, fortunately, the slight commotion just now was not discovered by these two cavalrymen, otherwise they were on guard, I am afraid it would not be so easy to take this caravan today.
I saw one of the two cavalrymen turn his horse's head and run back, thinking that he was going to deliver a message of safety.
The remaining cavalry slowed down, and leisurely urged the horse to slow down, gradually passing the place where the robbers were ambushing.
In the expectant eyes of everyone, the caravan finally appeared in front of them slowly.
"Damn it, it's hot."
"This damn leather armor is going to suffocate me!"
"Hurry, hurry, be vigilant! You goddamn pigs! ”
The caravan's master kept urging the complaining guards and armed infantry.
The caravan moved slowly, and the robbers were already impatient, but they waited for Pamir's orders according to the desire in their hearts.
"Free lads! Kill them all, and we're going to get rich, charge! Pamir stood up suddenly, drew his long sword, which glittered in the sunlight, and said demagogic words in his mouth, and rushed out first.
The tradition of the West is different from that of the East, the emperor of the West is different from the Son of Heaven in the East, and the emperor of the West is more like the supreme military commander, unlike the emperor of the East who is ordered by heaven and is a semi-divine existence, so under the influence of this, many military leaders also have the habit of personally going into battle to kill the enemy.
Seeing that the leader had already given the order, the robbers, who had long been ready to make a fortune, also brandished the rudimentary weapons in their hands and rushed out with a strange scream.
Although Norwen also rushed out, he did not rush to the front, but followed the last of the team, which made William very curious, and said: "Isn't the knight the most interested in honor?" Why did you follow behind? ”
Thinking in his heart, but he didn't say it, he followed closely behind Nowen, he didn't have much combat power now.
"Get in line! Infantry hold on! Get ready, cavalry charge me! The leader of the caravan roared hoarsely on a towed horse.
He had been frightened by the bandit charge that spread all over the mountains, and he could only hide the horror in his heart with a loud roar, but he was commanding indiscriminately.
But he was the employer, and the soldiers below had to obey, and the long swords and spears in the hands of the infantrymen were pressed tightly together, and now they did not complain about the heavy leather armor on their bodies, which could save his life at this time.
The cavalry was a bit of a tragedy, the other cavalry had not yet returned, and only two people were going to storm more than a hundred robbers, and it was obvious that the chances of death were very high.
However, these two Kriza cavalrymen seem to be very courageous, and they did not leak their cowardice in the face of more than a hundred robbers, and they are really worthy of the murderous and bloodthirsty Kriza people on the steppe.
William looked ahead, and saw that the two horsemen were wearing leather armor with patches, and they were holding a kind of hunting horn bow, and the arrows were not yet contained in quivers, as in the East, but two hemp ropes or two pieces of cloth, which tied the arrows into a bundle.
I saw them take out an arrow from the cluster of arrows at their waists, put it on their bows and arrows and pull a full moon, and with a whoosh, sharp arrows broke through the air.
It is really worthy of the blue wolf Kriza people on the Bulko steppe, they can shoot two arrows at a distance of thirty meters, and I don't know if it is shit luck or their archery skills are too good, two of the four arrows actually hit the enemy.
The two robbers at the front fell like this, and even if they didn't die, with the medical level of this era, tetanus and inflammation killed them.
Even Pamir was knocked to the ground during the charge of two horsemen, which was why he was holding a large shield, but even then his arm could have been broken.
The two horsemen put their bows back in their saddles and took out their melee weapons, one of them holding a spear of more than two meters, although this length was not particularly practical on a horse, but it was already a great threat, much more powerful than a scimitar and a sword.
"Poof!" The spear pierced the chest of one of the robbers, but the spear broke in two, and the Kriza cavalryman lowered his broken spear, drew his scimitar, and joined forces with his companions to charge through the bandits.
The robbers are all a rabble, how can there be a chance formation, although it is not too sparse, but a tight military formation is definitely not counted, so the impact of the two Kriza cavalry is not particularly reduced.
Everywhere they passed, the robbers were either cut off their heads, or lost their arms, and many were hit by horses, in just a few tens of seconds, the robbers had already died six or seven, and the robbers' stone soft bows hit their bodies but did not cause much damage, all of them were inlaid with leather armor in advance, but except for the leaders, the robbers had no armor protection, and were mostly coarse linen clothes.
"Whew!" Another robber's shoulder blade was cut in half by a sharp scimitar, and the robber was also a ruthless man, who, despite the wound on his shoulder, jumped up and blocked the cavalry.
However, the strength of the horses is not comparable to that of humans, and the robber paid the price with his life, and only slowed down one of the cavalrymen.
But this is enough, this cavalryman who has slowed down has been blocked in front of five or six robbers, and the decrease in speed means that the impact is not as good as before, five or six robbers side by side, with the two robbers in front of him with a sunken chest cavity and blood spitting blood, finally blocked this cavalryman and made him stop completely.
The robbers finally had a chance, he had cut down so many people before, but he had a chance to take revenge, he didn't hurt his horse, the price of one horse was enough to buy ten ploughing oxen, and the two robbers just dragged him by the leg and dragged him off the horse.
Even if he struggled desperately, wielding the scimitar in his hand to no avail, one of the robbers clutched the severed arm, blood flowing, but the rest of the robbers were not idle, and pressed him to the ground.
The Kriza's mouth and chest rose violently, as if he had something to say, but before he could say it, a short sword slit his throat, and the tracheal arteries were cut together, and blood splattered.
The other cavalryman saw that his companion had not followed, and he couldn't help but look back, and when he saw that the cavalryman's throat had been cut, he roared angrily, spun in a big circle, and rushed back.
Just when William wanted to prepare to dodge the cavalry, the cavalry stopped rushing here, and actually walked back, which made William a little happy in fright, and also made him realize the power of the cavalry, the king of cold weapon warfare
"This is just light cavalry, if it is heavy cavalry, what kind of scene will it be for the knights to charge like a sea of mountains!" William exclaimed in his heart, and he decided that he must also form a cavalry unit in the future.
Not to mention William's careful thinking, the robbers in front of him were also shocked when they saw that the cavalryman had killed a horse pistol, and they cursed, but they also gathered together, ready to deal with the impact of the Kriza cavalry.
"Gather! It's closer! Shield Wall! A man suspected of being the leader of the robbers commanded, although the robbers did not have many shields in their hands, but they used their bodies to form a "shield wall"
Just as the cavalry was about to crash into the "shield wall" formed by the robbers, he changed direction, did not mount it directly, and passed by the crowd.
Just as the robbers wanted to turn around and face the cavalry again, but they didn't, the Kriza cavalry cut straight through the crowd and galloped to the other side of the path......
William saw clearly at the back of the line: "Run...... Ran away? He was stunned, he thought that this cavalryman was going to die, but he didn't expect to run away.
Run, run, anyway, it has nothing to do with him, so he just beats the soy sauce behind Norwen's ass.
At a distance of more than 100 meters, the robbers ran in less than a minute, and the leading Pamir held a large shield, blocked the sword and spear that greeted him, stabbed to death an unarmored caravan guard with a sword, and shouted to the robbers behind him: "Young men! Kill them all! ”
The robbers shouted and rushed to the front of the armed infantry formation, and the tight formation did have a lot of benefits, even if this formation was not clever, but even so, it caused a lot of casualties to the robbers.
The robbers often blocked one sword and dodged one spear, but the other stabbed back at the horse, and just one shot at the face, five or six robbers lost their combat effectiveness and fell to the ground unable to live or die.