Five-three-six, the tiger and the leopard are mighty
(I hope the brothers will continue to support me, this book will be more and more exciting)
The other 3,000 people are much worse, they are dressed in different colors and styles, and they hold a variety of weapons in their hands, which makes people feel that the military discipline is not in order at a glance, compared with those elite Cossacks, they are like a ragtag army in the countryside!
These cavalry were native soldiers recruited by Zakhrev in Siberia.
And there are more than a thousand people in the team, and they are completely like slaves.
They had the facial features of the Jurchens, and they were dressed in tatters, and it was already very cold in late autumn at this time, but most of them were wearing tattered single clothes. The clothes were ragged, and many of the people's naked bodies were marked with red and blue whip marks, which were obviously beaten.
There were hundreds of carts in the ranks, only a few of them were horse-drawn, and most of them were pushed by these slaves. Pulling forward and pushing back, tired and they were snorting and panting, those Siberian native soldiers were acting as overseers, riding on horses, the whips in their hands dripping and turning in the wind, seeing which slave moved a little slower, and immediately hit the horse, a burst of whips and curses in their mouths, watching those slaves moan and cry in pain under the leather whip, they let out rampant and happy laughter.
Since the Southern Expedition, the tragic experience of being repeatedly beaten by the Jurchen elite led by Wanyan Yeping seems to have been catharsis in the process of abusing these captured Jurchen slave soldiers.
Through the loose trees, Wan Yan Lie, Nalan Ruojiang and the others clearly saw this scene, and their hands were clenched. There was a surge of anger in my heart!
No matter who sees their own people being abused like this, it is impossible to remain calm!
Nalan Ruojiang could already clearly hear the heavy breathing of Wan Yan Lie beside her, and she said softly: "It's not the time yet, the overall situation is important!" β
Wan Yan Lie snorted coldly in reply.
The Russian army continued to march slowly, and soon, pulled the front of the long procession. It was in front of this dense wood, and the Cossack cavalry who escorted them remained unaware.
I don't blame them for being careless. In fact, except for the hills and dense forests here, the rest of the place is open, and it is not suitable for ambushes at all. And now all Russians know that the enemy has been forced to have no way out of the enemy, with only a few men and horses, and absolutely cannot be freed up to attack.
When the middle of the team came to the front of the dense forest, Nalan Ruojiang's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "It's time!" Wanyan-sama, act according to what was previously discussed! β
Wan Yan Lie ignored her, and then suddenly let out a burst roar from his throat: "Tiger and leopard ride, kill with me!" β
After that, his legs clamped the horse's belly fiercely. The horse neighed, and then scurried out, and in a moment it was slain out of the Black Forest, and followed him. Hundreds of tigers and leopards riding like fierce beasts also roared loudly to kill!
Following these tiger and leopard cavalry, about 1,500 light cavalry also followed.
And in the woods, there are quite a few left.
Nalan Ruojiang waved his hand and ordered loudly: "Nazay, you take a thousand men to bypass from the right flank. Outflank their back! β
A crisp girl said loudly: "Obey!" β
Having said that, under the leadership of a female general, 1,500 light cavalry rushed out of the woods from the other side to surround the right flank of the grain transport team.
And Nalan Ruojiang waved her hand, and the remaining more than 1,000 people went in the opposite direction under her leadership.
At this time, if you can look down from the sky, you will find that the Russian grain transport team has become a long snake, and in the Black Forest next to the long snake, three powerful cavalry, like three sharp knives, stomped down fiercely towards the head, tail and middle of the long snake! β¦,
Fierce!
When Wan Yan Lie led the tiger and leopard rider to rush out of the woods, he was discovered by the Russians at the first time, and in the background of the Black Forest, the tiger and leopard rider with blue armor and red edges was so eye-catching, not to mention, the mounts under their crotch were like giant beasts.
Just discovering it, but it doesn't mean that you can make a timely response.
It stands to reason that the Russian army has been stuck to its body and beaten to the death for so many days, repeated sneak attacks, and endlessly, it should always have a longer memory. In fact, it is precisely like this, just after he set up camp in the north of the hating ancient river, Zakhrev was anxious about the middle and senior generals above the regiment commander in the team, and told them how to deal with them in the event of a sneak attack or a night attack! And the army constantly suffers from this situation, and these generals also have some experience of their own.
In the constant passive beating, the Russians are also constantly growing.
In fact, the Cossacks are brave and good cavalry, and the combat experience is also very rich, after discovering the tiger and leopard cavalry on the hills shouting and charging downward, the commander of this Cossack cavalry regiment immediately realized that he was lucky to be ambushed by these cunning Jurchens, and then the next moment, he reacted in time!
With a clatter, he pulled out his sharp and slender saber and commanded in a loud voice: "Logssovsky, take your men and guard the grain!" β
Logssovsky, the commander of a 3,000-strong infantry regiment composed of Siberian natives, commanded the Siberian natives to form a defensive ring and concentrate the carts carrying grain in the middle.
These Siberian natives, with small noses and eyes, white skin and brown hair, who were typical of the descendants of the Oriental Hu people, hurriedly covered their heads with the high hats they were wearing, trotted for a while, and when they reached the designated position, they drew their scimitars and stood on guard.
And the commander of the Cossack cavalry regiment had already raised the scimitar in his hand and shouted with impudence and loudness: "Cossack warriors, these Jurchen mongrels are here to die, let us use the knife in our hands to tell them who is the best warrior on horseback!" Kill! β
The Cossack cavalry shouted wildly: "Kill." Kill them all! β
Of course, the commander of the Cossack cavalry could not see the Jurchen army that was covering from both flanks, and if he did, he would definitely not have made such a decision - the other party was obviously putting on a posture of eating everyone on his side!
He only saw these hundreds of tigers and leopards rushing over, but he didn't know that the actual people of the other party were dozens of times this, and for a long time, the Jurchens had carried out sneak attacks and harassments, and the number was quite small. At most, there are only more than a thousand, and this kind of thinking inertia also made this Cossack cavalry commander make a wrong judgment!
He thought that the sneak attack was just such a little person!
He slammed his legs into the horse's belly. wanted to kill the other party on the horse, but found that there was something wrong with his war horse.
The horses did not obey their masters' orders. Instead, they were spinning in place, hesitating, constantly snorting, and their emotions seemed very anxious, and their big eyes revealed a humanized and unconcealed fear.
The commander of the Cossack cavalry found that his horse was constantly retreating as the screaming enemy kept approaching!
The enemy is constantly approaching, and the companion warhorse, who he regards as a brother, is at this time going wrong. The cavalry commander was in a hurry, and slammed the horse's ass with the sharp spurs behind the riding boots, and the sharp spurs suddenly pierced the fur and stabbed two bloody wounds on the horse's buttocks, and immediately drenched in blood!
Even so. The horse did not move forward, but jumped wildly on the ground because of the severe pain in the buttocks, and let out a terrible neighing in its mouth, as if it had gone mad! β¦,
The commander of the Cossack cavalry regiment was caught off guard and almost threw off his horse!
And he wasn't the only one, all the horses under the crotch of the Cossack cavalry were out of order!
It's like it's a giant dressage stage. These horses are jumping wildly, and they don't listen to the command at all!
All the war horses are crazy!
The enemy is coming at high speed, and his partner is going wrong, which makes all the Cossacks look desperate!
Wan Yanlie, who was coming over, saw this scene and laughed heartily.
Because when he first led his troops to the Wanyan Yeping camp in the ancient Henan Province, he also encountered this scene!
At that time, the war horses under his command were also extremely manic, like crazy, and it took a long time to recover.
The problem lies in the fur of these beasts!
As we all know, wild horses are not very high-end in the food chain of wild nature, and basically belong to the kind of existence that is hunted by fierce beasts. It is because of the genetic factors of war horses, there is a natural fear of large beasts, which is not their specialty, but the common trait of most herbivorous or omnivorous animals, just like a little antelope that has never seen a lion will instinctively flee in embarrassment after hearing the roar of a lion.
Although it has been domesticated and raised by humans for thousands of years, this kind of thing that is deeply rooted in the bones and flows in the blood is far from being able to be changed in a thousand years.
Of course, humans can easily tell whether it is a tiger and a bear on the other side or a war horse in the fur of a fierce beast - the four big hooves that show under the tiger's skin can't be faked. Humans can, but war horses can't!
These war horses really thought that hundreds of lions, tigers, leopards and bears rushed over on the opposite side, and they were immediately panicked, and they did not turn around and flee on the spot, they were already very well-trained.
In fact, this kind of case is not uncommon at all, the Southern Tang Dynasty and Annan of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms fought at the beginning, the Annan people used the elephant army to impact the Southern Tang troops, the Southern Tang Dynasty lost, and later the Southern Tang generals used paper to paste the lions and tigers and other large beasts, and then placed in front of the formation, the elephant on the opposite side had good eyesight, after seeing it, it was a big mess, reflexively ran, trampling to death the Annan army was numerous, the Southern Tang Army took the opportunity to cover up, and a big victory came at your fingertips!
He Yunyan originally built this tiger and leopard horse, purely for the sake of might, but he didn't expect that in the later battles, he relied on this to make many miraculous achievements, which also made He Yunyan realize the benefits, and then was taken over by Wanyan Yeping, and she naturally had no reason not to see the mystery.
This was fully taken into account when this ambush was set up.
Wan Yanlie couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for that hateful womanβeven these tiny details were counted by her. Even plans have been made for the time.
At this time, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was no more than a hundred meters away from the Cossack cavalry, and behind them, the light cavalry was even faster, they had already dispersed to the two flanks of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and had already sheathed the thick-backed machete. Removed the bow and arrow on the back!
The distance was only a few dozen zhang, and by this time, the horses of the Cossack cavalry had already disobeyed the command. Even as these beasts got closer and closer, the war horses were even more frightened, and they were almost jumping and fleeing to the rear!
Wan Yanlie said in a loud voice: "Shoot!" β
The light cavalry on both flanks drew hard arrows. With a humming sound that resounded through the heavens and the earth, thousands of feathered arrows covered these Cossack cavalry like dark clouds.
The Cossack cavalry regiment opened its mouth in astonishment and looked at the rain of arrows that covered it, and its eyes were already full of despair!
At the moment when the rain of arrows came, the commander of the Cossack cavalry was swept away by his loyal guards, and both of them fell to the ground, thus avoiding the dense rain of arrows. β¦,
The Cossacks were caught off guard and were killed and wounded by thousands of arrows, and the Cossack cavalry was famous, but only because of their strong and tenacious will to fight. A razor-sharp blade, a ruthless character, and a maneuverability that comes and goes like the wind. But the Cossacks were not heavy cavalry and did not excel in defense, in fact. Except for the most powerful heavy knights in the European continents, who were wrapped like steel cans, the ordinary heavy cavalry faced the Jurchen elite heavy arrows, and they were shot like this, and they had little resistance.
This volley killed and wounded at least two hundred Cossack cavalrymen. Completely lost its combat effectiveness.
The cries of pain and despair before his death, the painful groans of pain, and the mass death of the surrounding robes also made the Cossack cavalry commander's heart beat violently, and the blood penetrated his pupils, and his eyes turned red, like a wounded beast.
At this moment, the chaotic mood and extremely uncalm brain made him make a very wrong decision, he raised his saber high, and slashed at the neck of his war horse, slashing at the neck of this partner who was once regarded as a brother by himself, but today he is furious!
The sharp saber effortlessly cut through the fur, bones, and countless blood vessels and muscles, and the neck of this war horse was actually cut off by him!
The huge horse's head fell into the dust, and his eyes seemed to be full of crystal incomprehension, and the horse's mouth seemed to let out a terrible neigh. From the broken part of the horse's neck, a huge amount of blood spurted out, like a heavy pillar of blood, splattering far away, drawing an arc in the air, scattered into countless points, stars, and falling to the ground.
The ground was suddenly covered with blood and turned into mud.
The commander of the Cossack cavalry shouted: "These war horses are crazy, dismount, we will fight with these Jurchen dog mongrels on foot!" β
The Cossack cavalry dismounted one after another, some of them were ruthless, and they were also angry, so they followed the example of the regimental commander and stomped their horses with a sword, while more of them couldn't do it, but they just strode back and retreated towards the escort circle formed by the Siberian natives with the support of the carts.
They strode towards the Jurchens who fled with their backs, the Jurchen light cavalry was not vegetarian, and waves of arrows rained down, and hundreds of people were shot and killed in an instant.
The horses were not restrained by their masters, and Herod hissed and fled.
After paying a lot of casualties, the Cossack cavalry finally rushed in and joined the Siberian natives, and thousands of them gathered together, but the momentum increased.
Until this time, the commander of the Cossack cavalry did not realize that the decision he had just made had completely destroyed the last hope of escape for the troops under his command!
At this time, he compared the strength of the two sides, and his heart was still full of confidence, this confidence came from experience, since the battle with the Jurchens, as long as these damn Jurchens were sneak attacked, they would leave with one blow and never delay. Although their number was greatly beyond their imagination, reaching more than a thousand, but with their own people, it was absolutely no problem to delay for a few hours, judging from the behavior of these damn Jurchens, once they could not attack for a long time, they would definitely retreat!
But soon, his self-confidence and pride were shattered by the cruel reality!
Wan Yanlie did not rush to attack, but waved his hand high, and suddenly, the tiger and leopard cavalry behind him stopped abruptly, and even those rangers stopped less than twenty zhang away from the Russian protective circle.
However, due to the protection of hundreds of carts, most of the Russian soldiers can be blocked by carts, so the effect of wandering and archery is not very good, in the final analysis, the most simple way to solve the enemy is to kill them all in close combat! β¦,
The commander of the Cossack cavalry was also stunned, not knowing what these Jurchens were doing
Soon, his doubts were answered.
The sound of popping horses' hooves sounded simultaneously on the east and west sides in the distance, and the commander of the Cossack cavalry regiment was so shocked that he hurriedly looked to both sides and saw two rapidly approaching cavalry teams!
The sky was full of smoke and dust, and it was not clear how many cavalry there were, but it was conceivable that the number of cavalry was definitely not less than the Jurchen army in front of them, and looking at the posture of the two cavalry, it was from the east and west sides that they were outflanking themselves!
With such a situation, it is clear that he is surrounded by the Jurchens in front of him, and it is absolutely impossible to be a friendly army!
Soon, the two Jurchen cavalry were killed, forming a wide encirclement, and the Russian grain transport team was tightly surrounded in it!
The Russians are already pale in the face!
After these Jurchen cavalry surrounded the Russian grain transport team, they were not in a hurry to attack, but kept circling around, and waves of arrows rained down, bringing non-stop death to the Russians, and of course, more panic. Russians are not good at archery, in fact, Europeans are like this, the armies of European countries, the division between the arms is quite clear, infantry is infantry, swordsman is swordsman, archer is bow and arrow, few are dual-duty, but the Jurchens are based on riding and archery, starting with riding and archery, but all the Jurchens, from children to the elderly, are each with a bow, in the army, the popularity of bows and arrows has reached 100 percent!
The Cossack cavalry relied on its strong shock ability and mobility like the wind, and the Siberian native soldiers were only foot soldiers, and they were not equipped with bows and arrows, so that at this time they only had the ability to parry, and did not have the power to fight back.
"When the hell are we going to fight? Is it possible to achieve such a waste? Wan Yan Lie shook the mace in his hand, bringing a burst of golden wind, and he asked Nalan Ruojiang on the side with some irritability.
The ostensible commander of this army is him, but in fact, these generals all listen to this woman, which makes him extremely irritable, but helpless.
Nalan Ruojiang also didn't have any way, but said: "Don't worry, the general ordered before coming, we have few soldiers, and it is too much to exchange one-on-one with them, so we must think of consuming them and retaining our strength." Anyway, they are already trapped beasts at this time, so there is no need to worry. Let me be like a way! β
But before she could come up with an idea, the opportunity came.
Whether it is a Jurchen soldier or a Russian, it is a variable that has been missed!
Those slaves!
None of them expected the reaction of these slaves!
The Russians thought that the Jurchen slaves were like sheep, but they didn't know that the Jurchens at this time were hunting in the forest and grassland, and they still had the fierce nature of wild beasts in their bones. They have brave blood in their bones, and they may succumb to the whip and club for a while, but they will never be willing to become slaves!
In their bones, they are still the descendants of the Black Water Descent, and in terms of physical fitness and growth environment alone, they are the most qualified soldiers in the circle of Greater East Asia.
At the beginning of the battle, a few of these Jurchen slaves shouted excitedly when they saw that their army was coming, trying to escape back in chaos, but they were all cut down to the ground by the Siberian soldiers who were waiting for them, and the rest of them were trembling and did not dare to move, and they lay down under the grain trucks one after another.
And when the Russians were surrounded, the hearts of these slaves began to stir. RQ