Chapter 74: The Power of the First Battle
The Vadaritate cavalry and the Tekopo cavalry flicked their tongues to the brave General Matthew, and the horse's head was pressed down, and they all stood upright on their short pedals, and rushed down the hillside with their light and sharp spears between their arms. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Then Tetisius drew his saber as well: the Cuman cavalrymen on both flanks of the semicircle also let out an earth-shattering howl, and the dense hair of the steppe pony under their crotch began to spread in layers and run rapidly, the reins were loosened and fluttered, and the half-moon saber spun rapidly above their heads, dazzling.
In this way, the six thousand emperor's cavalry rushed to the open ground between the valleys in front of Gawain's eyes with the furious strength of a storm. At the forefront, there was a group of scattered cavalry of the Oghuz Volunteers, who shrewdly bent their bodies sideways, as if hanging from the saddle of the saddle, before the Emperor's cavalry rushed down, turned and quickly detached, the arrows whizzed, and the tail feathers swept over them with a clearly visible trajectory, and then the Oghuz Volunteers quickly moved to the saddle, pulling the string and shooting a wave of arrows.
Gawain, who was supervising the battle on the hill, saw that many of the emperor's cavalry and horses that were rushing ahead were hit by arrows and missed their front hooves, the horses rolled and fell to the ground, and the men fell to the ground, trampled by the followers' horses' hooves.
Then their own brigade of Oghuz volunteer cavalry drove their beloved "Helan" war horses, pulled out longer and sharper sabers and Persian cavalry one-handed hook axes, and strapped round shields with pointed peaks on their arms to rush over, their horses were more majestic and powerful, and their weapons were more bloody - in Gawain's eyes, the two cavalry rushed together bravely and violently, and then like a Khitan fire explosion, a large stream of smoke and dust was raised, blood exploded and splashed, and everywhere there were scimitars slashing each other, and war horses colliding with each other, Cavalrymen of all kinds of clothes and armor slaughtered, and thousands of men and horses roared like a whirlpool throughout the open field.
Soon, Tetisius, with his right flank, began to spread, and he did not care at all about the position being constructed by the Red Hand Brigade on the flank, but went straight to the Oghuz Brave Cavalry, who was inferior in number in their bibs, and the Sharp-Nosed General, who was rushing over, seemed to be looking at Gawain on the hill on horseback.
"We'll have to fight to the end, Tetisius (Gawain)." They both meditated in their hearts at the same time.
"Doot toot!" , "Bang bang!" In the sound of trumpets and firecrackers, the grenadiers and archers of the Red Hand Brigade formed a battle line and half-knelt, and shot a wave of fire at the emperor's right flank cavalry and horses that rushed in front of him, and many of the Cuman cavalry hired by the emperor rolled and fell off their horses, and the smoke of gunpowder rose and filled, Gawain waved his hand, trying to make his vision clearer, and then he saw that Tetisius was still advancing bravely, and he quickly realized that if he did not retreat the right flank of Tetisius who was rushing in, This group of Oghuz volunteers will be cut and isolated, and they will suffer heavy losses.
Gawain turned and raised his hand, and the flag-bearer next to him raised a special sawtooth flag to the sound of a horn.
With this as a sign, a group of camels behind the pyrophers array was dragged by the soldiers, and then everyone wrapped in turbans or wearing hats and helmets, lifted down the eight hoop iron bronze cannon bodies carried on the camels, and then quickly installed them on the pivotal frame, and then closed the tail of the cannon with wooden handles and inserted them firmly, and then two pyrinite sergeants came over, holding a simple wooden rod quadrant in their hands, and reached into the muzzle of the "Persian perfume bottle" to measure, and raised the shooting meter formulated by the small sunfish to measure. Then the dosage and approximate angle are reported aloud (the secret position has not yet been adopted, nonsense).
After hearing this, the firethrowers next to the cannon chamber first put the pre-loaded cartridge into the chamber, no matter what, "shoot one round first!" ”
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
The officers and ordinary firethrowers shouted in turn, and the statue of the Virgin Mary and the little gospel were placed on the cannon again, "Knock knock", the rapid shooting sounded, and the eight perfume bottles opened in a row began to shoot out the fire in unison, and the handle on the barrel shook violently.
In the Khitan Snow Rapid Burning Spray, the rows of lead pellets that were knocked out rubbed and rotated in the air, roaring through the array of half-kneeling firethrowers on the front line, passing through the still permeating smoke clouds, and rushing towards the cavalry column on the right flank of Tytisius, who were rushing.
Tetisius, who was swinging his sword and leaning over to drive his horse, heard only the terrifying sizzling sound in the air, the characteristic sound of lead shots, and he raised his eyes quickly, but saw a black thing, a few feet behind his back, drilling through a space that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, and the drape under his waist was suddenly lifted. A Cuman cavalryman jumped over on the side, and happened to be hit by the thing, and suddenly his body twisted strangely, the bones burst into pieces, the armor and reins exploded, and then the men and horses were entangled, like a fragile wheat cake being flipped sideways to the ground, and the lead pellet spun rapidly on this body in an instant, and then in the form of Brownian motion, in the dense cavalry group, like a ball rolling around in a bordered iron plate, wreaking havoc and cutting off the hands and feet of men and horses.
After the perfume bottle roared, although Tetisius's horse was still running, he looked back in horror to see that the enemy had just shot was by no means as low-level as the fire bolts, they smashed up bursts of tumbling and splattering earth on the ground, like a shower, and the formation of the rear team was already chaotic, some of the Cuman cavalry were killed and wounded on the ground, and some of the horses were frightened and scurrying around with their masters.
In Gawain's vision, Tetisius's right-wing cavalry formation was like a wall smashed by a hammer, and it was "collapsing" crookedly.
But this is not the end, for the "Persian perfume bottle", its biggest advantage is that the barrel can fit with the breech opening, which can not only fire in turns, but also prevent the chamber from overheating and exploding, when the reserve pyropers will quickly match the range of the new cartridge (because of the use of quantitative paper tubes, so the replacement of ammunition work is very convenient), the eight "Persian perfume bottles" quickly fired a round of rapid fire, and it was adjusted the distance, the quasi-head fiercely and fiercely beat dozens of Cuman cavalry to the back of the horse, bloody flesh and blood......
After a puff of smoke, Tetisius' right flank cavalry broke back. The general of Turkic origin was a flexible man who did not like to make unnecessary sacrifices: when the threat to his left was relieved by the rapid artillery bombardment of the grenadiers, the 2,000 Oghuz cavalry exerted their might, drove the cavalry in front of him under the command of Matthew, and safely withdrew from the open field to the position of the Red Hand Brigade with wagons and camels.
One hundred and fifty "Oghuz Volunteers" were killed or wounded in this battle, and Gawain looked down at the corpses of men and horses lying here and there on the open ground, and felt that the emperor's cavalry casualties should have reached three hundred to four hundred. (To be continued.) )