Chapter 601: Early Winter Lightning, War of Annihilation (2)
In late November, when the weather had cooled, the brown and yellow horses had run up to the heights, Remidals looked at the gloomy clouds, the triangular banner below him, the benchmark with the family ornament stretched by, a group of recruited spearmen and foot archers walked across the land, and a little farther in the direction Parthian light horse archers were galloping, and the mighty army seemed to connect the heavens and the earth.
Inside the military formation, there was a group of ironclad cavalry, slowly advancing, and the round family nameplates strung together shook on the horse's hips. They wore helmets with scales on their heads, sleeveless brass armor, and their arms and legs covered with copper lamellates, and occasionally the sun shone through the clouds, reflecting patches of icy metallic lusterβthe Parthian noble hoplites.
In the entire Parthian Empire, except for the emperor, the governor of each province had a guard composed of nobles, serfs, and mercenaries, but the scale was not too large.
As the governor of Nizadu, Remidals was still in a bit of a trance from receiving the battle report and then sending troops to meet the strong enemy that might come to attack, for him, he could understand the invasion of Rome and Kushan, and the Eastern Cylius, who didn't know how far away they didn't know how far, actually fought and slaughtered the city of Margiana, thinking about it, it felt like a strange atmosphere everywhere.
The military situation came too quickly, and the opponent's offensive was also extremely aggressive, after receiving the first batch of refugees who escaped from Margiana, the scouts who went to the front did not need to go to the invader's army, and the other side did not hesitate to rush towards Nisa, and it was only two thousand cavalry.......
"Despise me Parthia?"
Remidals took off his iron helmet and patted the dust, and as the helmet swayed, he turned his gaze to the front, where two horsemen came up from the flanks of the army and stopped under the brown mound. One of the horsemen turned over and dismounted, and ran up quickly: "Governor, I have seen the enemy, and he is still approaching us. β
"Are 2,000 men going straight at my army of 40,000?" Remidals frowned, pressed his iron helmet covered with scales to his head, and urged his horse down the hill, giving orders as he went: "Order the five thousand archers of Harao on the right to destroy the enemy." β
A cavalry of 2,000 men pounced, no matter how fierce it was, it would not be enough for the 40,000 Parthian troops to pull over and wait for it, right? Even if you win, it's a shame to say it.
Soon the horn sounded to relay the order, and a cavalry of five thousand men broke away from the huge ranks and went to the front. On the other side of the decisive victory of a blockade war, the rumbling hooves of horses were galloping across the barren Gobi, and the galloping figures were like thunder, and when they occasionally stopped to rest, they saw a few Parthian refugees who had escaped from Margiana in the distance, and they were already disdainful.
"Get up and get on the horseβ"
"News from the scouts that there is an army of the Sabbaths ahead!"
"In this place, I can't see a little green for a few days, how can these Sabbatarians live......"
In the continuous conversation among the soldiers, they all turned on their horses and gathered in formation. Lu Lingqi held the crescent halberd, and her hand trembled slightly, and she looked at her father who urged the horse to come over: "The scout said that there are 5,000 cavalry......
Glancing at his daughter, Lu Bu tightened the water bag and threw it to the soldiers, the nearby sons and daughters of Bingzhou had already assembled, he glanced at the slightly gloomy sky, pulled out Fang Tian's halberd from the ground, and tilted his head: "..... is only five thousand horsemen?" β
"Daddy...... In the art of war, it is said that the lion fights the rabbit, and it must also be done with all its strength. The girl rode up and followed, her white fingers gently picking at her chin, looking at the sky, trying to find some more sentences in her head, and then ...... With a wave of the crescent halberd, "It doesn't matter how many of them, let's fight first." β
"Hahaha, this is my Lu Bu's daughter!"
The mighty figure laughed loudly, pinched the horse's belly, and in the neighing of the red rabbit, he looked back at the spirited and wolf-smoked Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, and shouted: "Let those barbarians see, what is a cavalry!" β
On the ground, a total of two thousand iron horsemen ran densely, Lu Lingqi and Lu Bu rushed to the forefront, and there were hundreds of personal soldiers around them, all the way to the predetermined direction of progress, in the roar of huge horse hooves, the sporadic scouts nearby to catch and fight were getting more and more intensive.
However, the outcome of the scouts does not determine the outcome of the upcoming battle.
After another half a mile, the armies of both sides had already entered their respective fields of vision, and a line of black pressure had spread, and when the distance was quickly closed, there was no intention of slowing down on either side. Lu Bu's eyesight was excellent, and he saw the equipment worn by the opponent's cavalry at a glance, and his head was tilted towards the girl who was galloping on his horse: "The opponent has a spear, cloth clothes and trousers, and a bow and arrows on his back, how do you deal with it?" β
Lu Lingqi pursed her lips and stared at the enemy in front of her, who was already less than five hundred feet, thought for a moment, and waved her crescent halberd to issue an order.
In the next second, the horn sounded.
The tight formation slowly scattered in the advancement, the galloping and state iron cavalry hung the spear on the side of the horse, and took out the longbow with the backhand, for the cavalry to deal with the cavalry, they have too much experience, in previous years, when there was no chaos in the world, the Huns and Xianbei on the grassland were also one of their enemies, after the world was in chaos, they fought with the wolf riders in the north several times, and the enemy in front of them could only be regarded as a doll who could barely ride a stable horse.
The sound of trumpets sounded from the Parthian light horsemen charging from the opposite side, and bows pointed diagonally at the sky in their hands. Lu Lingqi stared nervously at the movements in their hands, and almost said at the moment when the other party's second horn sounded: "Spread out left and right." β
Arrows flew locusts across the sky.
The Parthian general Harao, who was in the center of the military formation, had his eyelids jumping wildly: "What?!" β
The earth swirled and splashed under the iron hooves, and the originally scattered Bingzhou Iron Cavalry turned left and right in an arc, and the dense arrows fell on the open ground, and only the unlucky Bingzhou cavalry who didn't have time to turn away was shot a few arrows and fell down. Lu Lingqi glanced back at the cavalry that followed her, and raised her hand while galloping, while Lu Bu on the other side was also doing the same action, and after a while, the cold light spread among the two thousand iron horsemen who dodged on both sides, and it was the arrow that reflected the sky and set the bowstring.
A voice shouted with all its might: "Shoot! β
When the first string sounds in the human hand, the sound of the bowstring fluttering is followed by a large area.
Bang ..... bang bang -
Dense black shadows flew into the sky from both sides, and then fellβ
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The army in the field was still marching.
"My eyelids are jumping so hard, I always have an ominous premonition......" Remidals, the governor of Nissa City, whispered to his cronies on horseback, and not far away, the neighing of war horses was heard.
The Law of Sighs β
He looked over, a scout from afar crouched on his horse with injuries and came this way, fell directly from his horse during the run, almost fainted, and then was helped to approach the governor, he raised his head with difficulty, swallowed a mouthful of spit, and his voice was extremely weak: "The scouts on the left flank of the ....... have been attacked, and our soldiers have been cleared...... There was also a front army of the Selius. β
"Let our warriors rest." Remidals waved for the man to be taken down, rubbing his long furry face, "What is the structure of the Celeusian army?" Aren't there two thousand people in front? Immediately send someone to check on the right wing to see if there is any news coming back. β
Watching the herald cavalry leave, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and whispered, "...... There is always a bad premonition, but may God bless Remidhals with the success of driving the enemy away. β
Under the asymmetry of information, he did not know that the Cylius in his mouth actually had two completely different structures: the vanguard and the front army.
More than 100 miles away, the war has been divided.