Chapter Ninety-Five: Enemies on Three Sides
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"King, hurry up and retreat, it's too late to retreat!" Odoaser said in a hurry, he could not help but be in a hurry, now the situation was obvious, the Huns had discovered their attempt to sneak up on Pazar, and were rushing from the front. Confronting the Hun cavalry head-on, not only did he not have the courage, but everyone here did not have the courage, and they could only sneak attack the Huns' camp to have a chance of winning.
The Huns had made a name for themselves in Europe for nearly a hundred years, and although the Visigothic kingdom had developed heavy cavalry to restrain the Hun cavalry, the Germanic people still did not dare to confront the Huns in Thrace.
However, someone was very dissatisfied, this person was Hall, and he snorted coldly: "Hmph, only four hundred horsemen scared you like this?" Are the Hun cavalry really invincible in the world? We now have a thousand men, more than twice as many as them, and are our warriors all wine bags and rice bags, and they are not worthy of battle? Yes? Didn't we wipe out a few Xiongnu tribes before? ”
Odoaser said loudly: "Leader Hall, the previous successes were because the Huns were completely defenseless and were successfully attacked by us, do you think that when the Huns are ready, we really have a chance to win?" Even if we destroy these 400 Hun cavalry, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses ourselves, and we must fear that the Huns will retaliate against us at any time! After he finished speaking, he turned to Manlarik: "The king, I humbly ask the king to order the evacuation, the sooner the better, our tribe is too small in number to afford to lose!" ”
Manlarik's tribe was the least outnumbered of the three Germanic tribes, and if he was strong enough, he wouldn't have invited the other two tribes to join him in this raid, but now let him retreat first, how could he lose this face? Still not laughed to death by Hall and Mondy?
Just as Manlaric was hesitating, the situation changed, and there was a sound of horses' hooves behind them, when a reconnaissance cavalry in charge of the broken rear galloped and reported loudly: "Chief, the big thing is not good, our retreat has been cut off, and a large force of cavalry has appeared behind us, it looks like there are four hundred cavalry!" ”
The faces of several leaders changed again, and now it was over, the front and back were blocked, and Manlaric immediately ordered: "Odoric, immediately send your forward three hundred horsemen to occupy the hill on the left, leaving us the last way to retreat!" ”
At this point, Odoaser also understood that now was not the time to be upset, and that the only way to survive was to occupy the hill on the left, and to control the only escape route southwest of the hill, he immediately led the forward three hundred horsemen to the hill two miles to the left.
"Lined up, ready to meet the enemy-" After Odoaser led the vanguard to leave, the main force was lined up in a tight cavalry phalanx under the command of Manlaric and the other three chiefs, ready for battle.
Qin Dong could see clearly on the hill, Tinis and Sankundo had already led their troops to gallop towards the main force of the Germans, and Ramado also appeared behind the Germans with his four hundred cavalry, except for a gap between the left side and the hill, the Germans had been besieged, and at this time, Odoase's three hundred vanguard cavalry were coming in the direction of the hills.
"My lord, they are here, obviously trying to seize this favorable terrain!" Su He said beside him.
Qin Dong observed the galloping speed of Odoase's army, and immediately said: "Order everyone to prepare bows and arrows, and wait for General Ben's order!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
In the afternoon, orders were conveyed layer by layer, and soon all the soldiers and officers received orders, and all their bows and arrows were wound and aimed at the three hundred Germanic cavalry galloping down the hill.
Odoaser was about to take his vanguard up the hill when a loud roar came from the dense forest above: "Ready, archers, shoot-".
"Arrow wound, shoot—"
"Arrow wound, shoot—"
"Ahh
"Ahh
The overwhelming number of arrows shot down from the dense forest on the mountain, like a black cloud falling from the sky, Odoase's heart chilled, and from time to time the sound of his soldiers screaming from arrows was heard in his ears, and corpses fell from their horses, and the screams were endless one after another.
Odoaser kept wielding his mace and smashing arrows, from which he judged that there were at least twice as many people hiding in the mountains as his men, how could he seize the hills? He immediately turned his horse's head and shouted: "Retreat, give me a retreat!" ”
There were screams everywhere, the neighing of horses and the whizzing of arrows through the air, and the retreat was extremely chaotic, there was no discipline at all, and everyone only wanted to be the first to leave the range of the arrows, and then stay here and wait for death.
When the sound of the horses' hooves had gone, many corpses were left under the hills, Germanic and war-horseed, and many wounded soldiers who did not die on the spot and howled on the ground.
At this time, Tinis and Sanquindo had already led their horses to the front of the main Germanic force to stop, Sankundo was young, and immediately shouted to the Germans in front: "Centurion Sanquindo and Tinis are here, why don't the Germans in front of them quickly dismount and surrender?" ”
On the Germanic side, Manlarik, Hall, and Mundy were a little surprised when they heard that it was Sanquindo and Tinis on the other side, and Manlaric wondered: "Isn't the territory of these two people north of Pazar?" How did they end up here? ”
"Many, how could these two lead their troops here?" Not only was Manlarik puzzled, but Hall and Mundy were also puzzled, Pazar was the territory of Centurion Qin Dong, how could Qin Dong allow their soldiers and horses to appear on his territory, unless they had already joined forces under the command of the commander.
At this time, a cavalryman rode over and reported: "Chief, we have reconnoitred the Hun cavalry in the rear, it is Ramado's men and horses!" ”
"What? Ramado? When everyone heard this, their faces changed greatly, not because Rama Duo was powerful, but because the appearance of Ramo Duo confirmed that this Xiongnu collective action must have been planned by the commander Vatur, because only when the commander Vatur issued an order could it be possible to gather these Hun centurions together for military operations.
"Where's Raust, where's Raust? Get this damn villain right now! Manlaric yelled, he couldn't help but be angry, the situation was obvious now, Manlaric and the other two leaders felt deceived by Lauster, and naturally wanted to sacrifice him to the flag.
Raust was soon approached, and Hall grabbed him by the placket and yelled, "Raust, you sue us, what the hell is going on?" Did Vatur send you here to deliberately negotiate terms with us, and to lure us over and prepare to annihilate us in one fell swoop? Isn't it? ”
Lauster was so frightened that he immediately shouted: "King, King, don't be impulsive, the villain thinks that something must have happened to cause the current situation, and Lord Vatur will never do this!" ”
"It's all this time, you're still lying to us, do you think you can survive like this? Someone, kill him! Hall shouted.
Before anyone could answer the order, I heard a voice from the left: "Report, report, Captain, Captain Odoaser asked me to report to the leader, there is an ambush on the hill, our army was attacked when they were preparing to go up the mountain, and suffered heavy losses, and now Captain Odoaser is retreating to this side with the remaining two hundred horsemen!" ”
This news stunned the three leaders, on the right is more than ten miles wide Bakatta Lake, the front and rear passages are blocked, and there are enemy troops in ambush on the hill on the left! Surrounded on three sides, this is the rhythm of the annihilation of the whole army!