Strictly speaking, the Kutila encounter is a misnomer, it is just a continuation of the statement in the official history of Palci, and the actual battle should be called the Kutila ambush. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The battle was caused by the fact that Shurya and Abrahe of Arubania had sent troops to contain Parci's forces on the front line in order to cooperate with the expeditionary force's offensive, so Kutila, who was strategically most prominent, was naturally one of the focal points.

Arubania sent 40,000 troops to surround Kutila, and if it weren't for the fact that Palci strengthened the defenses after the capture of Kutila and Shurya was not too attentive to the feint, the battle could have turned into a fierce battle between the two sides. Unfortunately, Shurya is currently working on restoring the combat effectiveness of the Arubanian army, and this strategic move of Dikar II is only perfunctory, he only wants to crucify Palci's forces according to the plan, and more work is not interesting to him at all.

But not everyone is as negative as Shurya, including Adlerham's son Arufa.

After Adlem's departure, the two generals, Shurya and Abrahe, had considerable expectations for the rising star, and Arufa also lived up to expectations, defeating the invading Palchi army several times, gaining the trust of more soldiers while gaining combat experience. The actual command of the siege of Kutila this time was also commanded by Arufa, but Arufa's goal was slightly different from Shurya's, and in his opinion, it would be better if he had a chance to recapture Kutila from the Palchi, as long as the casualties paid were within Shurya's acceptable range. For this reason, Arufa besieged the city while secretly observing, waiting for an opportunity to take the city.

Unfortunately, the defense of the city of Kutila was very complete, and Arufa was never able to find a flaw, but he waited for reinforcements from Parci.

As the counteroffensive against the Arubanian Expeditionary Force was about to begin, the Palchi front had the opportunity to organize forces to support the cities that were being attacked by the Arubanias. Ordered to come to relieve the siege were the military general Wodd, who came from the Nubian Sanda tribe, and 5,000 Nubian mercenaries.

The name Nubian mercenaries is actually very different from the mercenary group of Senas. The mercenary regiments of Senas are excellent warriors selected from mercenaries from all over the country, and they can call them the elite of mercenaries; Nubian mercenaries, on the other hand, were Nubia's regular army, except that they were employed by the suzerain, Parci. The Nubian warriors were brave warriors, and after rigorous training, their combat skills were the best in the Palci infantry group, and they were a solid force for the Palci army in ground combat.

This time, Wod came with 5,000 men and horses as an outpost, mainly to cheer up the friendly troops in the city of Kutila, with these 5,000 people to defeat the 40,000 Arubanian army is still impossible, but if these 5,000 people take a defensive posture, the Arubanian army will be very difficult to eat them, so as to reduce the pressure on the friendly troops in the city and wait for the reinforcements from the rear to arrive.

This time, however, the Palci army made a mistake by ignoring the existence of Arufa.

While besieging the city, Arufa naturally sent a large number of detectives to keep an eye on the movements of the Palchi army, so even if Word's light troops rushed in, they could not hide from Arufa's eyes.

Arufa's first reaction when he heard of the arrival of enemy reinforcements was to ambush the enemy army. This was a bold move, as 5,000 Nubian mercenaries were not easy to match, and it would not be possible to accomplish such a thing without sufficient troops and proper terrain. However, Arufa decided to take a risk, and instead of sending a large number of troops to ambush him, he chose the location of the ambush in a desert hilly area that was not dangerous.

Such a move was risky, as the enemy in the hilly terrain was likely to organize a fierce counterattack and turn it into a victory, but Arufa did so, as he had a thousand crossbowmen newly handed over to him by Luke. Arufa had seen the power of this new weapon, but the crossbowmen did not have much room to play in this siege, so the existence of this new weapon was a prerequisite for Arufa's decision to ambush the enemy. The crossbow was a weapon that was secretly learned from the Palchi army, and it can be regarded as a way to govern others. The Palci army attacked by this weapon must have fallen into a state of extreme panic. Secondly, the reason why Arufa chose the hilly area of the ambush was that he calculated that it was nightfall when Word's army passed through the area, and that the hilly area was already very close to the city of Kutila. Arufa judged that Wod would not choose to camp, because the camp was likely to be discovered, so the correct choice should be to take advantage of the darkness to rush to the vicinity of Kutila City and quickly set up camp, so that the Arubanian army would suddenly find out that the enemy army had arrived early the next morning, so as to achieve the purpose of shocking the enemy army. Taking advantage of the darkness of night to ambush this is exactly the effect that Arufa hopes to achieve, and can maximize his own advantages.

As a result, Word's 5,000 men almost crashed headlong into Arufa's ambush circle, and when a thousand arrows suddenly shot into his own soldiers from the night, Word's first reaction was not to encounter the enemy but to be misunderstood by friendly troops, because he could hear from the sound of the breaking wind that this was an arrow fired by a crossbow machine, and the Arubanian army did not have a crossbow machine!

"Wait a minute! We are the Palci Army! Wod shouted loudly, and at this time he also wanted to explain his identity to the "friendly forces".

It's a pity that it wasn't Palci who answered him, but the next wave of a thousand arrows. The Nubian mercenaries were not well armoured to defend against crossbow bolts, and even their shields were not enough to defend against such attacks, so even if these well-trained warriors quickly formed a dense defensive formation, they could not avoid heavy losses.

At this time, Word realized that he had encountered an ambush by the enemy, although he did not understand why the enemy army had crossbow machines, but as a general's duty was not to consider such a problem at such a time, but how to bring the troops out of this unfavorable situation - in the dark of night, Word heard that the crossbow arrows came from the hills to the west, but if the other party had been prepared, then the troops must have been deployed in the east and north, and only the road he came to was the key to breaking through, although there would also be enemy ambushes there, But there must not be many of them.

Ward immediately commanded the troops to retreat towards the coming south. Sure enough, as soon as he began to retreat, the bows and arrows from the east and north immediately beckoned. Wode withstood the attack and retreated southward, where they were held back by a small force of the Arubaneian army. However, in the face of the Nubian mercenaries' attack, this weak resistance only delayed their pace for a moment, and soon Word's troops broke through the enemy's resistance and retreated all the way.

The Kutila ambush lasted for a short time, but it left more than 800 dead and more than 2,000 wounded among the 5,000 men of Wode, while Arufa's men suffered only about 100 casualties. (To be continued.) )