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After the hill was quiet, the croaking of frogs began to sound again on the lake two miles away, and the cries of some water birds were also mixed in, and the calls of these water birds were particularly terrifying in this wilderness, and there were no people within a radius of dozens of miles, and the timid people did not dare to walk in the wilderness at night.

A bright moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight sprinkled on the lake in the distance, and the lake was flooded with stars, as if covered with a layer of scale armor.

The sound of horses' hooves tapping and trampling in the distance broke the silence here, Qin Dong suddenly woke up and turned over from the ground, raised his eyes, and under the light of the moon, he rode to the dust.

At this time, the moon is in the sky, and it should be early in the middle of the night, so why is there news so quickly? The knight rode up the hill, and suddenly there was a commotion at the bottom of the hill, and the sleeping soldiers were awakened.

It didn't take long for a panting and sweaty knight to run over and report to Qin Dong: "Your Excellency, the Germanic barbarians have appeared, there is a gap between their strength and the news we have received, there are 1,000 cavalry, there is no infantry, the forward 300 cavalry is led by Odoase, thirty miles away from here, according to their marching speed, it will take about half an hour to get here!" The main force of seven hundred horsemen was ten miles away from the forward".

Qin Dong was shocked in his heart, no wonder there was news so early, it turned out that the Germans were all cavalry, there were no infantry, according to the speed of the cavalry, if they set off in the dark, they could indeed arrive here now, if all the cavalry came, then the thousand Germans must have been put together by three Germanic people, not all of Odoase's men and horses. And the marching arrangement of this mixed army is very in place, the distance between the vanguard and the main force is not far, but it is not close, if the vanguard encounters a small group of enemy sneak attack, the main force behind it has enough time to react, calmly respond to the battle, immediate reinforcements, if the vanguard army encounters a large force of enemy troops, it is difficult to match, the main force can retreat calmly, will not be surrounded.

Now Qin Dong has 600 cavalry in his headquarters, including 200 archers and 400 heavy cavalry, plus 400 light cavalry from Tinis and Sankundo, and 400 light cavalry from Ramado, a total strength of 1,400 cavalry, which is 400 more than the 1,000 cavalry of the three mixed Germanic armies, and has a slight advantage in strength, which is the first advantage.

Second, in terms of people, the Germans are an army cobbled together by three tribes, and the three forces of people on Qindong's side are also incompatible, each with its own calculations, and it is not unified, so it can be said that in terms of people, neither side has an advantage.

Third, the time and location are on the side of Qindong, it is now night, there is moonlight, and the terrain here is very suitable for ambushes.

There is a big gap between the strength of the troops and the information obtained, you must know that there is a big gap between the combat effectiveness of the three hundred cavalry plus the seven hundred infantry and the one thousand cavalry, not only in the combat effectiveness, but also in the mobility of the complete reversal, Qin Dong knows that it is basically impossible to use 1,400 cavalry to surround the 1,000 cavalry to death, the only thing to do is to kill and injure the enemy's living force as much as possible, and to defeat the morale of the enemy army in a battle!

He ordered: "Batu, send an order to Tinis and Sanquindo in the north, tell them that the Germanic barbarians are coming, and that they are ready, but do not tell them that they are coming with a thousand cavalry!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Batu agreed, and immediately sent a cavalry to deliver the order.

Qin Dong said again: "Wake up all the soldiers and start preparing for battle, let them check their weapons and equipment, don't make a sound, don't let the horses make a noise, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

"Yes, General!" The soldiers responded with a bang.

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Under the moonlight, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, and then the figure of a large number of cavalry appeared in the hazy night, the number of cavalry was about three hundred horses, the leader was an extremely burly figure, mouth like a lion's mouth, eyes like copper bells, short beard on the chin like a steel needle, a huge mace on his shoulder, wearing a cowhide armor strong man, this person is Odoase, the first Germanic Italian king in history, it was he who ended the rule of the Western Roman Empire and established the Germanic kingdom in Italy. Now he led three hundred cavalry as the vanguard, and twenty miles behind him was the main force of seven hundred cavalry led by his leader Manlaric and two other Germanic leaders.

At this time, a scout cavalry ran from the front, and when Odoaser saw it, he rode his horse to the side, so that the cavalry behind him could pass through Guò, and the scout cavalry ran over and reported to Odoase: "Captain, two miles ahead is Lake Bataka, and we have reconnoitred around and found nothing unusual!" ”

Odoaser nodded, turned back to the adjutant and said, "Send someone to inform the leader that there is Lake Bataka ahead, and ask the leader if he wants to rest by Lake Bataka?" ”

"Yes, Captain!" The adjutant said yes and sent someone.

Odoaser waved his hand: "Everyone listen, hurry up and rush to the lake to rest, we must continue to move forward before the main force reaches the lake!" ”

Naturally, someone conveyed Odoase's order, three hundred cavalry lined up in five columns, the line was not very long, on the issue of marching, Odoasse was obviously well thought out, this way of marching is not easy to be cut off by the enemy when it is raided, forward can use a wedge formation to impact the enemy, to the left can be turned at any time to turn the direction to form a neat formation to charge, or to line up a wild goose formation to assault the enemy's two wings, as for Odoyase can think of the wild goose formation is unknown, after all, the wild goose formation is an ancient Chinese military formation, At the end of the Roman Empire in Europe, whether it was the Roman Empire or other barbarian countries, whether it was cavalry or infantry, they all used phalanxes against the enemy, and rarely used other formations, and they did not have such military ideas at all.

The two-mile journey was very short, and it was quick for the cavalry to arrive, Odoaser ordered the troops to dismount immediately, lead the horses to the lake to drink, and the soldiers themselves ate some dry food to shock, and the consumption of horseback riding for a long time was very large, and to rush to Pazar to raid it was necessary to ensure the body, and the only way to ensure the body was to eat more.

It was not long before the main force caught up, and Odoaser jogged for miles along Lake Bataka with three hundred cavalry vanguards, stopping at the shore of the lake on the western shore of Lake Bataka near the north.

Odoaser had to order the troops to stop, he noticed that something was not right, and after the army stopped, he dismounted and walked a few steps on the ground, and looked at a horseshoe print, and then he came to a pile of horse manure and sniffed it, and then exclaimed: "Look for how much horse manure there is!" ”

The results were soon reported, and there was a lot of fresh horse manure on the shore of the lake, if it was only one or two piles, it might have been left by the horses of the reconnaissance cavalry, but so much fresh horse manure showed that there had been a large number of cavalry troops here not long ago.

Odoaser looked at the hazy night ahead and the densely wooded hills not far to the northwest and couldn't help but look solemn, he immediately ordered: "Send a team of people to the hills over there to investigate, and send someone to report to the big leader, don't move forward for the time being, and make a decision after the reconnaissance here is completed!" ”

"Yes, Captain!"