255 Free Knights
After all, no team rushed up to the battle with horses wrapped in felt blankets, blindfolded, and deaf-eared. Such a lack of care for war horses, for the Soviet Russian cavalry, is completely out of normal thinking logic. Of course, if this were all there was to it, Egorov would not miss the Crippled Knights so much.
Since the Free Knights were the church knights established in the Far East and Siberia by the Church promoted by the Tsarist Empire in those years, the combat effectiveness of the hastily formed knights needless to say, but the heart of going into battle to kill the enemy was fiery.
This "heat" is even more reflected in the tactics, wrapping the horse in a felt blanket, on the one hand, to stop the bleeding of the injured horse so that it can run farther, and on the other hand, there seems to be a lead at the tail of the horse, sparkling all the way to the bottom of the felt.
"It's ...... explosives pack"
After having avoided this group of charging horses, some sharp-eyed Soviet and Russian cavalry keenly discovered that these charging horses were fed, and they were immediately frightened and wanted to scream, just to remind their comrades behind them.
It was at this moment that a mutation suddenly occurred. I saw that those White Russian cavalry had already rushed over, and when they got closer, they lifted their coats, and pulled out of their waists, all of them were "unicorns", and then they pulled the plate machine at the surrounding Soviet Russian cavalry.
Pistols were the most commonly used weapon in cavalry, but even the elite of Soviet Russia, such as Yegorov brought from Moscow, were not rich enough to have one.
"Bang bang" a dull sound, accompanied by thick fire and white smoke spewed out, in the continuous sound, the Soviet Russian cavalry screamed again and again, although the "unicorn" belongs to the pistol, but there are so many pistol bullets in the White Russian army, so most of the rifle bullets used, some are even round-headed rifle bullets before World War I.
In the face of such a powerful bullet, those Soviet and Russian cavalry were caught off guard, and a cloud of blood burst out from their bodies, they screamed and fell backwards from their horses, and some people were even shot at the same time, and their internal organs were shattered by the bullets, and their mouths and noses were bleeding nonstop, even if they did not die for a while, they were not saved until after the war.
The rabbit rose and fell, and the panic changed so quickly that the Russians did not have time to react, that is, someone drew a pistol. Their speed and density were no match for the bullets of the White Russian army, and in the blink of an eye, the Russian cavalry that rushed forward was knocked down in a pool of blood.
And with the avoidance of the Soviet Russian forward, the crazy group of horses has also rushed into the cavalry group of the Soviet Russian army. In the face of the crazy horses, there is no need for knights to control them, the war horses are in the instinct of animals, and they will avoid it, and in just a few seconds, the rushing horses have already penetrated into the Soviet Russian forward troops, and even rushed away from the awl formation of the Soviet Russian army. There was a loud bang, the fuse was finally burned, and the entire horse herd exploded into a blood mist in an instant, and the Soviet Russian cavalry on both sides of the horse herd was thrown all over the sky like debris. The cavalry in the rear of the Soviet Union was startled, and the noise of the battlefield made it impossible for them to know what was happening in front of them. But what made the Soviet Russian cavalry even more upset was still to come, although the war horses were not easy to be frightened after training, but the huge roar still made some horses run in terror, regardless of the knights on their bodies, in the Soviet Russian army's own military formation, scurrying around.
"A bunch of maniacs!" Seeing the fighters on both sides in front of him fighting, Yegorov, who was supervising the battle in the rear, silently recited, "Crippled, justice, dark clouds, freedom, oh! "Freedom" appeared, then the "crippled" knights, where were the Cossacks? ”
"Chirp!" "Chirp!" A Hai Dongqing hovered down from the sky and accurately grabbed a leather case that stretched out. An old Mongolian man, after feeding Hai Dongqing a piece of jerky, quickly took a small bamboo tube from its paws.
"Report to the General, the Forward Free Knights, there is an update on the military situation!" The bamboo tube was presented by several people and finally reached Rokossovsky's hands.
Open the bamboo tube, and there is only a small note inside. There were only six words on the note, "Cavalry, three thousand, two horses".
Rokossovsky pouted, "Hmm! In the morning, we just got the news that the "sand" sent by the Tsarist side in Soviet Russia was returned, and our opponent Yegorov set out from Tyumen yesterday morning with 3,000 elites from Moscow. It seems that the Free Knights have encountered them, and it is not easy to equip a team of 3,000 men and two horses on the West Siberian Plain! Sue the Free Knights, at any cost, be sure to entangle the other party, as long as you watch this big fish, I will give them the first credit for this western expedition. After a pause, he continued to the left and right generals, "We should be two or three hundred miles away from the Free Knights now, just in case the other party retreats back to Tyumen, pass on my order to inform the three adults Timur, Shubutai, and Kelu, and ask them to help, and be sure to leave the other party east of Tyumen." ”
"Ulla!" It is true that the number of the White Russian army is much higher than that of the Soviet Russian army, but the Free Knights suffered a lot of damage in the Battle of Tengda half a year ago, and the backbone of the Knights in the early days of their establishment was broken a lot. Although, after the Battle of Tengda, a group of "volunteers" were sent by the churches in various places, so that the number of the Knights not only recovered in a short time, but also increased than before. But the quality of individual soldiers cannot be improved in a short period of time. Although, due to the success of the rush of the horses, the Soviet Russian army suffered certain losses.
However, after the Russian cavalry began to adapt to the fighting style of the Free Knights, the White Russian army was like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind, swept away by the Soviet Russian army, and a large number of them kept falling from the saddle.
At first, the dense White Russian cavalry still came like a torrent, but after a while, the three thousand Soviet Russian cavalry centered on Yegorov formed a huge spike, and instead rushed through the White Russian army formation, tearing the White Russian army formation of six or seven thousand people and nearly 20,000 war horses in half. There was no need for Yegorov's guards to shoot at all, and the White Russian cavalry could not reach the core area of Soviet Russia at all, and they were swept off their horses. And while the Russian cavalry strafed the other side, it also collected thousands of ownerless war horses.
"Stand out, order all the troops not to fight, and immediately rush to the aid of Ishim!" As soon as Yegorov saw that there was no longer a White Russian cavalry in front of him, and regardless of the White Russian cavalry in chaos behind him, he did not hesitate to continue his march towards Ishim.
"Chirp!" "Chirp!" By the time Hai Dongqing brought Rokossovsky's order to the Free Knights, half an hour had passed since the battle between the two sides. After the White Russian army hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield, it was found that in this encounter, the White Russian army lost 487 people and wounded 629 people, while the Soviet Russian army only fell 169 people, and the wounded were already less than 200 people, and this also relied on the "standard" weapon of the Free Knights "Unicorn" and the "center flowering" of the charging horses.
However, regardless of the casualties at home, after receiving Rokossovsky's order, he learned that there was a big fish such as Yegorov in the opposing team. Immediately, the Free Knights set off again, relying on the many sycophants, and pursued in the direction of the withdrawal of the Soviet Russian troops.
"Those are?" Yegorov and his party had only walked for less than an hour, and the sound of thousands of horses galloping was heard in the distance. Egorov turned around and looked back, and there was no black line on the horizon in the distance, indicating that the Free Knights behind him had not caught up, but in addition to this direction, at this moment, some yellow dots and some dark red dots appeared in the far sky in the north. And there was a rumbling sound from the ground in the distance, as if the number of cavalry on the other side was even more amazing than the Free Knights just now.
"There are other cavalrymen?"
"Comrades, something seems to be wrong."
Before Yegorov could convey any orders, the suspicious voices of his left and right subordinates rang out one after another, and many knights looked at the sky in the distance stupidly.
"Prepare for evacuation, Scout Cavalry go and see what is going on." Yegorov's eyes were also full of surprise, and the scene at this moment was obviously extraordinary. "Could it be that among the five major orders of the White Russian Knights, the other three have gathered here?" Yegorov thought to himself.
"It's the Polish hussars and the Mongols!" Egorov and the other officers waited only for a moment, and they were rewarded.
"Polish hussars?!" Many of the Russian officers shouted in surprise, and if they met the Mongol cavalry here, the Russian cavalry officers would not be too surprised, because they had already shown their faces in several previous engagements. And this is Western Siberia, how did these Polish cavalry get here? And it's a Polish hussar, this retro class. As to whether it was the scouts who mistook the Polish hussars, no one questioned at all, because they were so easy to recognize, and the high wings behind them were their most conspicuous symbol.
As they approached, it became clear to everyone that the yellow dots were strange horsemen with thin yellow wings, and these thin wings were glittering like gold, which was indeed the most distinctive sign of the Polish hussars.
The Polish hussars originated in Hungary, but they grew up on Polish soil and were reborn: they were no longer just lightly armed skirmishers, but a brilliant blend of Eastern and Western cavalry, they were both heavy and light cavalry, strong and swift, and could choose different tactics according to the changing needs of the battlefield. Hussars were often formed into squadrons of 150 to 200 men, arranged in two knee-to-knee columns, and their superior equestrian skills allowed them to charge in dense formations, and the long cavalry spears guaranteed to pierce the opponent first, so that the huge impact of the enemy brought a devastating blow to the enemy. After the charge, they use swords or firearms to enter the melee.