"Goal: Withdraw the !! of Marhan"

Holding aloft the golden arrow, Genghis Khan rode on horseback, looked at his tribe, looked at the million army that had surrendered to him, and let out such an angry roar, like a drop of water on the calm water, the ripples expanded rapidly, and the soldiers raised their blades in their hands, wave after wave like a sea of steel, repeating the orders of the Great Khan loudly.

"Withdraw Marhan!"

"Withdraw Marham!!"

"Evacuation of the !! of Marham"

"Wait, you mean an army of millions?"

In Smolensk, two or three hundred kilometers away, in the military camp on the outskirts of the city that had been unceremoniously recruited temporarily, Randy jumped up and looked at Nemulis, who had brought this information, and his expression became very ugly.

"Although it is very shocking, this is the truth, the number of opposing troops is quite large. However, Your Majesty, you don't need to panic too much, after all, their army is still a temporary conscription and nomadic in the traditional sense, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the professional troops of the Empire. ”

"You don't need to teach me this!"

"Your Majesty, I don't think we need to worry too much about this kind of thing, they are indeed strong in combat, and they are numerous, and they have a very reliable leader, but he is nearly sixty years old, coupled with his simple and crude ruling strategy, and his heirs are full of contradictions, it is conceivable that after his death, his empire will be torn apart due to various internal strife and uprisings."

"I said you don't need to teach me this! Retire! ”

"Yes!"

On February 20, 1105 CE, Randy spends the night in a frenzied whining.

The whole stretch was nearly five kilometers, and all around it was surrounded by large wagons of the central troops, which served as a temporary city defense system, and at the same time, the baggage soldiers and the residents of the vicinity of Smolensk who were forcibly driven here to do day labor, also dug a lot of horse traps and trenches around it, in addition, some cleverly arranged with sharp stake traps were also scattered in a few of the most important places, if they had enough time, of course, but Randy did not intend to stay in Smolensk for too long.

As a strategically located city very close to Moscow and also very close to the Norman Empire, Randy did not want to abandon the city.

He had already ordered Ivan, the general of the garrison of Neo-Scandinavia in the north, to lead his army to take over the city, and if the situation allowed, Randy also hoped that the Grand Duchy of Moscow would give the city to the Norman Empire for free, and even the reason had already been thought of.

"It's so close to Moscow that it's the best place to be used as a base for advancing and garrisoning, to come to support the people of Moscow in time they are in danger."

In the middle of the night, just as Randy yawned and hugged Sonia to get ready to sleep, the alarm suddenly sounded, and at this moment, you can imagine the dissatisfaction in Emperor Randy's heart.

"If any idiot is bored and blows the trumpet without permission, I must shave his beard and punish him for stripping naked and dancing around the whole camp."

Randy said this terrifying remark as he patted Sonia on the shoulder, and with the latter's help, she quickly dressed and protected herself from the cold, and tied the flintlock hand and command knife around her waist, and at about the same time, Sonia shoved several throwing knives into all corners of her clothes at a faster speed, while holding an unusually sharp short sword that Randy had given him.

The Norman army, which had already gone through many emergency drills, was methodical, and under the guidance of the centurions directly under them, quickly walked to the predetermined posts, and the soldiers climbed onto the shelves of the carriages of large baggage wagons, blowing the cool breeze in the middle of the night, and looked at the shadowy enemy in the distance by the light of the torches.

"Robin Hood, come over here and take a closer look at what it is?"

Randy squinted his eyes and looked closely, but he still couldn't see what was on the other side, it looked like a large herd of wild horses, but if it was a wild horse, it would definitely not make human-like sounds, and if you looked closely, you could tell that they were using some kind of dialect similar to Slavonic.

Known as the human with the best eyesight in the entire Norman Empire, Viscount Robin Hood, the commander of the longbowmen, heard this, quickly ran to Randy's side and squinted his eyes, and said: "It's a centaur, your lordship, the other party is a large number of centaur clusters, they will want to sneak attack our camp, but some broke their legs in the trap on the edge of the camp, and some fell into the trap and died, but the other party pulled the body out with a lasso." ”

"I see, I have long heard that the range of movement of the centaurs and the range of movement of the Cumans overlaps a large part of each other, and now it seems that this is indeed the case."

Although the black light is blind, it is not clear to see, but in Randy's opinion, there are at least two thousand centaurs who are put into the attack, so if there is this number in other directions, it is really a big deal, when fighting with the combined forces of Moscow, Novgorod, and Sweden, the other side only invested a few hundred centaur soldiers to cause great casualties to the Norman army, and now the number of centaurs on the other side is far more than a battle, and it is not certain that this is all the centaur troops of the enemy.

Thinking of this, Randy snorted coldly and quickly ordered: "Crossbowmen, longbowmen shoot freely, and give these four-legged hybrid creatures a little color." ”

The knights of the guards who had gathered around immediately blew their horns, and the sound of three short and one long horns quickly spread throughout the army.

Four thousand crossbowmen and six thousand longbowmen reacted quickly, because in wartime, according to the military reform regulations, all soldiers must have their weapons within reach of them wherever they are, and against centaurs, long-range projectile troops are the best choice.

In fact, similar things were taken into account in the early days of the construction of this camp, and the outermost traps were just within the range of the longbow and pulley, but outside the range of the nomadic archers.

"Shoot! Shoot! Kill these brutes! ”

Following Randy's orders, a large number of Norman infantry complained, climbed out of their wagons, and some grabbed two pieces of brown bread and jerky, deciding to go back for a late night snack to make up for their wounded hearts.

After a few minutes of commotion like this, seeing that the other party had no intention of retreating, Randy secretly sneered: "I can't help you later!" ”

Immediately afterwards, I heard a creaking crossbowman winding sound around me, followed by a sound of a bowstring concussion, and in an instant the longbowman had completed two rounds of salvos, and the heavy crossbowmen also fired the first round of crossbows, and then I heard a wail of the centaur on the opposite side, and a man could be seen on his back and turned over, it seemed that although the centaur was in very good physical condition, but after all, it was also flesh and blood, after a round of rockets, the situation on the opposite side was clearer.

"Keep shooting!"

Under such a shot, the centaur archers also wanted to fight back, but those archers with large bodies and strong arm strength did not have bows and arrows that matched their strength, in fact, their bows and arrows were just common in the steppe, shoddy compound bows, and the range was not even comparable to longbows, nor comparable to powerful compound bows specially made in the civilized world, and even less than semi-mechanized pulley crossbows, so their bows and arrows could only fall weakly in front of the Norman soldiers, and could not do effective damage at all.

"County Lord, if this continues, our warriors can only die in vain, retreat!"

Under the arch of many centaurs, a group of pure white centaur women frowned, and their long pale blonde hair and turquoise eyes showed that this centaur had a royal bloodline that was different from the others.

"You're right, but it's a little too cheap for them to retreat like this." After speaking, she opened the small and delicate recurve bow in her hand, although it seemed to be one size smaller than the compound bow, but the special structure made the tension of this bow very large, and the left and right sides of this bow had two more hooks than ordinary bows, which means that there were three bowstrings hanging on this bow.

After adjusting the bowstring a little, the girl pulled out a specially made arrow with a red ribbon tied around it, and the arrow was hollowed out with delicate patterns, which looked more like a work of art than a weapon, and then aimed her bow at Randy.

"At least leave some gifts for them!"

With a buzz, the arrow flew towards Randy at a breakneck speed.

"Danger, Your Majesty!"

Randy didn't notice it at all, but several people with better skills and eyesight around him suddenly turned pale, Robin Hood was the closest, and hurriedly pushed Randy, and the other two throwing knives, one large and one small, flew towards the arrow, but collided in the air. Sonia and Nemulis both turned their heads at the same time, their eyes colliding with each other like lightning and thunder, both believing that the other was deliberately obstructing them.

In the end, it was Robin Hood's push that worked best, although it didn't allow Randy to completely dodge the arrow, but it also avoided the vital point, and the arrow swished through Randy's shoulder, leaving a cold hole in Randy's body, and the arrow then sank into a bag of black bread, and even the tail of the arrow was not exposed.

Randy sighed, and was thrown off the baggage cart with a huge force, the Norman army was in an uproar, and the faces of the soldiers who saw this scene suddenly became more ugly and ugly, Randy felt a burst of heartache, almost fainted, and was shot with an arrow in the shoulder, fortunately, half of his left arm was unconscious, but the blood was gushing, at this time Randy couldn't care much, struggled to get up, and shouted:

"I'm fine, keep firing the arrows, I'm going to let those bastards all die!"

"What about the doctor? Hurry up and call the doctor. Sonia just saw Randy fall, and her head suddenly exploded, and at this moment, when she saw Randy get up as if she was fine, she suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and hurriedly shouted like this, so immediately a few soldiers rushed to the direction of the field hospital, and the longbowmen and crossbowmen on the baggage cart were shooting wildly.

Sonia immediately jumped out of the baggage cart, looked at Randy's injuries, and pressed her hands on several places on her shoulders, and the speed of blood flow suddenly slowed down a lot.

"He's in luck!"

The centaur girl knew that her arrow had missed, and now that her target was missing, there was no point in staying.

"Let's go!" With that, she withdrew her bow and arrows, and turned to run into the night, the other centaurs retreating after her.

"I didn't expect the other party to design the camp like this, just to restrain our high-level mobility, plus the other party has strong archers and crossbowmen, the Normans are indeed a strong enemy, the alliance between the father Khan and the Cumans wants to control the entire steppe, maybe it needs to be adjusted."

"The enemy has retreated!"

Seeing the other side flee in a hurry, the soldiers let out bursts of cheers, and at the same time, Hippocrates and Nightingale, who hurried over, breathed a sigh of relief after examining Randy's injuries.

"Although the injury looks serious, it is actually not dangerous, apply a little wound medicine to bandage it, rest for a while and it will be fine, remember not to drink alcohol during the injury."

Hippocrates said this, Nightingale cleaned Randy's wound with spirits, and then sprinkled the powder and bandaged it skillfully, adhering to the theory that I am the emperor and I want to use the best things, this Miss Nurse has almost become Randy's exclusive nurse, of course, Nightingale doesn't seem to be dissatisfied with this, nor does she feel excited, when Randy is not sick or sick, this Miss Nurse will be busy in other places, so she will often not be seen.

"For me, a patient is a patient, nothing special or unspecial."

Nightingale said so, and did it at the same time, this kind of girl with a very touching behavior is very rare in the 21st century, in fact, Randy didn't listen to Hippocrates, and didn't notice that his arm was fiddling with another girl, and the spill of the liquor did hurt a lot, but now it's numb, so it doesn't matter, Randy is thinking about another thing now.

"Dispatch all the hussars! I'm going to kill them all! ”

"Your Majesty, now that the enemy's situation is unknown, and it is dark again, it is difficult to ensure that the other party is ambushed."

"The lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, the lord is humiliated by the death of the ministers, I am seriously injured now, it is the time for you to sell your lives, do I usually raise you all to eat dry food?"

Randy forcibly ordered all the hussars to go out, and the hussars rushed out of the reserved passages on both sides of the pre-arranged trap and quickly disappeared into the night.

But things didn't go as smoothly as Randy imagined, the speed of the centaurs was faster than the average light cavalry, after all, the light cavalry was a horseman, and the hussars wasted a lot of time when they passed through the trap area, so the final result of this chase was close to zero, and the hussars all returned in vain.

"Damn it!"

Early in the morning, Randy, who couldn't sleep because he was upset, heard such a report and secretly cursed and announced that the army would move on.

"Your Majesty, your current injury will not allow you to ride a horse for a long time in the future, is it a little inappropriate to go on the expedition now? If the injury continues like this, it will not be relieved, and it may fall to the root of the disease. ”

"It doesn't matter if it's a little thing, I'm going to kill those bastards anyway."

Randy's anger doesn't actually mean much, after dawn in the morning, the Norman army inspected the battlefield and found that the other centaur left at least a thousand corpses, while the Normans were the only one who was injured.