17. A feast for crows
The Huns besieged the Gepid in the village like a hunter, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, while the Gepid were intoxicated by the moans of women and the shouts of men. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info didn't notice the threat at all, they probably never dreamed that their allies would attack them.
After the encirclement was formed, the Huns did not even leave a gap, which is a strong self-confidence, confident that even if these Gepid people resist with all their might, but under the huge strength gap, the Gepid people will be wiped out.
The Gepids, no different from the other barbarians of Eastern Europe, were mainly light infantry, and most of the light infantry were dressed in various colors of linen, red, red, green, and blue. But red is the main color, and their weapons are also very messy, not standard equipment, and the Gepid people have a variety of weapons according to their own preferences, some people hold round shields and short axes, some people hold small round shields and spears, and some use short swords and animal skin square shields, and there are all kinds of weapons. A few wore leather armor and carried bows and arrows.
The hoplites wore heavy chain mail, held thick shields made of oak cowhide, and held precious swords in their hands.
The axes are often carved with their favorite patterns, and the shields are painted with various patterns, such as whirlwinds, triangles, beasts, battles, and so on.
They wore tin helmets that protected their heads and noses. But now, they have completely lost their vigilance, they are venting their desires on women, Ye Feng saw a lot of Visigothic women who were scattered, their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and their faces were covered with blood.
Their faces were muddy and bloody, their hair was disheveled, and their expressions were bitterly insulted by the Gepids. Ye Feng saw the cruel scene that was too cruel, except for where he could relax with Melissa, a young girl, his heart was now as hard as iron. He had seen a more brutal scene than this, and Ye Feng's white horse's horse eyelashes blinked, as if he was laughing at these cannibalistic humans.
The operation was commanded by Ye Feng, because only Ye Feng had the prestige to dominate these nomadic Huns, even if it was Kahaba, it was not enough to command these Huns. Because Ye Feng didn't know much about the tactics of the Huns now, and he didn't know much about the tactics of the Gepids, he decisively let those Hun chieftains become his combat staff.
The Hun chieftains were worthy of a hundred warriors, after they surrounded the village, they ordered the trumpeters to blow the horn of attack, the tactics of the Huns were not complicated, their servant army infantry was hard in front, and the cavalry attacked flanks or exploded chrysanthemums in the back, simple and rude.
The sound of the trumpets aroused the violent factor in the hearts of these Huns, and they stretched their bows and drew the strings, throwing a rain of arrows on the looting Gepids, who were instantly unsuspecting Gepids suffered heavy casualties under the rain of arrows, and the Huns' composite rebound bows were incredibly powerful and had a long range.
The effect of the Hun bow is very good, and the lethality is amazing. Unlike the hunting bow, which has a slow initial velocity, the Hun bow has amazing strength and a good armor-piercing effect. Under the blow of a rain of arrows, the Gepid people reacted, they did not understand why the Allies were attacking them, and they got up from the woman's body in panic, and picked up the shields and weapons at hand.
The Gepid people in the house, who didn't even have time to put on their pants, hurried out of the hut, but they were greeted by more dense and precise arrows. Cahaba and Mama let the trumpeters blow the trumpet, and they no longer even wanted to waste ammunition on these Gepids.
Ye Feng pulled up the Hun bow, this kind of bow tip is long, but the bow arm is correspondingly shorter, the bow arm section is generally not recurved, the bow body is longer, and the whole bow body can be C-shaped recurve. He aimed at the nearest Gepid, who was **** down, revealing a man's unique object, and staggered out, looking around in horror.
Sou!
An arrow struck his lower body, exploding in a cloud of blood!
Ye Feng shook his head secretly, he originally wanted to shoot this Gepid in the neck, but this was too far away. Far from dying, the Gerpid covered his lower body and rolled around on the ground with an extremely uncomfortable expression.
Ye Feng made three more arrows in succession, one of which missed the target, and finally killed the Gepid man. The Gerpid man seemed to have been pierced into a hedgehog, and his expression was contorted on the yellow dirt, his lower body was covered with blood, and his upper body was spilled with blood, staining his pale skin red, like wine with white bread.
A thousand heavy armored cavalry crashed into the frightened and small Visigoths like ants, like stones to eggs, and the Visigoths were trampled to minced meat by the horses' hooves and knocked away by the momentum of the one-ton men's charge. In the face of the ultimate charge of the Hun heavy cavalry, even the mountains had to be pierced, let alone these flesh-and-blood Visigoths.
The whole village was stained with blood, and the mountains of corpses were nothing more than that, piling up the corpses of the Gepids, and of course, all their valuable things were robbed, valuable clothes, sophisticated weapons, and relatively good equipment. and the cattle, sheep, and slaves that they robbed. Most importantly, their gold coins.
The mutilated corpses were piled up in the middle of the village, and then the Huns set them on fire. And the fleeing Gepides spread the news of the arrival of the Romans to the Huns. They thought they were Roman mercenaries, either out of fear or insanity, but in short, a false message reached the Huns. But when Attila prepared for a decisive battle with the Romans, it was never to be found.
And this news has become a historical mystery.
Ye Feng and the Huns left the hellish village, and the Gepid and Visigoths who plundered the village will sleep here forever. There's no reason for it, it's because they're too weak. No one will come to sanction the Huns or the Visigoths, everything is based on strength, naked and the weak.
Burning villages, broken swords, and everything else disappeared into the dust of history.
Oak trees, various kinds of oak trees, white oak trees, their leaves have smooth edges, and the solid wood of white oak is durable and strong, making it a good material for shipbuilding and, of course, can also be made into shields. Ye Feng and the Huns, on the other hand, were passing through a forest mostly made up of oak trees, which could not have been more common in Gaul.
The forest was so vast that if you went around it, you would have to get to Augsburg much longer, which the Huns did not want to see. But the forest is inhabited by the Gallic natives and there is a possibility of an ambush.