Chapter 460: Charging at the Royal Command
Watching the smoke and dust in the distance gradually dissipate, Eric on the city wall with a tired face only felt that the strength of his whole body was drained at this moment, he was too tired, he was fighting from noon to evening yesterday, and he never stopped for a moment, and at night, since he arranged personnel to care for the wounded, he had to take people to inspect the city defense, and he didn't sleep all night, and he didn't get a drop of water.
Eric fell on the wall, frightening the surviving soldiers, who carried him off the wall with all hands and feet, and by the time he woke up, an hour had passed.
"What time is it, have the reinforcements arrived?" Eric woke up and asked the guards who were taking care of him.
The guard replied, "Not yet, General!" It's not yet 9 a.m."
Eric's originally relaxed heart was lifted again, and the guard who had gone to ask for help last night came back and said that the reinforcements would arrive at about eight o'clock in the morning, but now it was almost nine o'clock, and the reinforcements were not in sight. Although he doesn't know Diodemir, but a person who can live the position of a tribal leader will definitely not be a straw bag, he knows that the wolf flag of the Great Qin Empire hanging on the city gate building can only bluff Diodemir for a while, and when that guy reacts, Diodemir will definitely kill again, and the siege will be unprecedented, now he can only expect Diodemir to be more straw, but is Diodemir really like that?
It is said that Diordemir led the army to evacuate quickly, on the way of this evacuation, he was very unwilling, as long as he attacked Shamats again, he would be breached, but unfortunately he had no chance, and he was also worried about the future of his tribe, and the Shamatz Pass had fallen into the hands of the Great Qin Empire. The Qin army can move south at any time, and his current maximum strength is less than 50,000 horses, with a population of hundreds of thousands. And the territory of the Great Qin Empire is huge, unprecedented! With a population of tens of millions, millions of soldiers, and thousands of good generals, in front of the huge Great Qin Empire, his Ostrogothic tribe is like a small ant, as long as the behemoth of the Great Qin Empire rolls. Ostrogoth, this little ant, will be crushed.
After running for more than an hour, Dior Demir suddenly felt that something was wrong, "It's not right." Wrong! With a muttering and a reins in his hand, the horses suddenly stopped troving, and the whole army soon stopped. The disorganized infantry in the rear quickly stopped advancing.
The Great Qin Empire wolf flag on the city wall of Shamat suddenly flashed in his mind. It seems to be newly sewn, and it is very rough, you must know that the workmanship of the wolf flag of the Great Qin Empire army is extremely exquisite, and the wolf totem on the banner is lifelike, only the leading generals with the rank of major general, division commander level and above have their own wolf flag, and in the army of the Great Qin Empire, the rank of major general, the general with the rank of division commander or above the division commander level has a fixed number. It's impossible for anyone to impersonate. But the wolf flag on the gate tower of Shamatz only has a wolf totem, but there is no Chinese character representing the surname of a specific general.
That wolf flag is a fake! Diodmir understood. If the army of the Great Qin Empire was stationed in the Shamatz Pass, then there would inevitably be a noise of military horses in the pass, but I heard it very quiet inside under the city tower before, and there was no sign of the army entering at all!
Hit the trick! Dior Demir immediately realized that he had fallen for Eric's scheme, and Eric made a fake wolf flag of the Great Qin Empire to hang on the city gate tower overnight, but he was so frightened by the fake wolf flag that he fled for more than an hour with the army of wolves.
This is a big loss of face! Diodmir's face was a little unbearable, his face was ugly, he held a bad breath in his heart, it was really uncomfortable, and he shouted angrily: "Order the army to return, and send Shamatz!" ”
One of the generals behind him was surprised: "Great King, didn't the Qin army capture Shamat?" Wouldn't we be sent to death if we go back now? ”
Diodmir said angrily: "That's fake, the wolf flag hanging on the city gate tower is fake, there is no Qin army in the city at all, we have all been deceived by Eric's bastard, why don't you quickly order the army to return the same way?" ”
"Yes, King!"
The general agreed, and soon many heralds on both sides of the army were running back and forth on horseback, loudly conveying Diordemir's orders as they ran.
When more than an hour passed when the Ostrogoths were so tired that they ran back to the city of Shamac like dead dogs, the general of his command advised: "My lord, the people are so tired, how can they have any strength to attack the city?" Why don't you let the kids rest for an hour before attacking? ”
Diodemir turned his head to look, and sure enough, he found that the sons were very tired, and really did not have the strength to attack the city, and saw that the camp that had been established before was still intact, so he had to order the army to return to the camp to rest for an hour, and wait for the soldiers to recover before attacking the city.
An hour later, the Ostrogoths formed a dense phalanx in a chaotic formation and gradually approached the southern wall of the Shamatz Pass, and when they were a mile away, the army stopped, and the cavalry at the front of the army split to the sides, vacating the middle of the military formation, and the infantry phalanx in the rear immediately advanced, and in a short time, the infantry phalanx filled the middle vacancy.
The Ostrogoths sounded their horns of attack, and the siege infantry in the rear carried siege ladders through the gaps between the infantry phalanxes in front, and the soldiers shouted and shouted for killing.
However, at this moment, the false wolf flag on the gate tower of Shamatz was removed and replaced with a golden five-clawed golden dragon flag, which fluttered in the wind under the breeze, and then, the suspension bridge of the southern gate of Shamac was lowered and the city gate was opened.
What's going on? Is Eric, the defender of the Western Roman army in Kannai, crazy? At this time, the city gate was opened, could it be that he wanted to die? The soldiers of the entire Ostrogoths were dumbfounded, and even the siege soldiers who were running at high speed towards the city walls with siege ladders stopped.
"Rumble-" The rumbling sound came, the earthquake trembled, and suddenly a horse came out of the dark inner city gate cave, the horse was tall and strong, the knight was wearing golden ground armor, wearing a blood-red tasseled helmet, holding a three-pointed two-edged knife with a cold light, behind the golden armor knight, a group of fierce iron horsemen in black armor rushed out of the city gate hole.
"Qin Jun?" The eyes of Diordemir in front of the military formation froze, and his heart and liver almost jumped out of his throat.
When the Ostrogoths saw that a large number of Great Qin Iron Horsemen rushed out of the cave at the city gate, they immediately panicked, the war horses kept retreating, the soldiers began to be timid, and even some timid soldiers began to retreat slowly.
Diodmir soon noticed this phenomenon, and he immediately turned around and turned back and shouted: "Don't panic, those who retreat without an order will die-".
Although Dior Demir was flustered, he knew that he must not be chaotic at this time, and he must not retreat, once he shows timidity, the 30,000 troops here must be a dead end, he only has 10,000 cavalry, and the remaining 20,000 are foot soldiers, as long as he turns around and retreats, the Great Qin Iron Cavalry will definitely chase and kill with all his might, and only God knows how many of these 30,000 people can go back.
Diodemir's shouts played a role, and the officers found the soldiers who were about to flee and killed a group of men, stabilizing the formation and not throwing it into disarray.
And after such a period of purge, after the Ostrogoths' phalanx stabilized and no one fled, the 12,000 iron horsemen on the Qin army's side had all formed a phalanx under the city wall.
Qin Dong, who was wearing a blood-red tasseled helmet, wearing golden armor, and holding a three-pointed two-edged knife with a glittering cold light, ran back and forth in front of the cavalry formation on a horse, he opened his throat and roared loudly: "The warriors of the Great Qin Empire, in front of you are the Ostrogoths who betrayed the Xiongnu Empire in the past, these shameless villains, villains, and subordinates were driven out of the Pannonian steppe by us, and they kept migrating south, trying to make a comeback and make a comeback, can we give them this opportunity?" ”
"Can't!" All the Great Qin cavalry roared at the same time.
"Our Great Qin Empire advocates loyalty, bravery, and fearlessness! We hate betrayal, our former brothers and allies the Ostrogoths betrayed us, and the Hun Empire was torn apart and collapsed, they killed Xiandan Erak, they massacred our parents, brothers, sisters, and relatives, they drove our relatives like cattle and horses, made them do the heaviest work, ate the worst food, left them without clothes to cover their bodies in the cold winter, they made us almost wipe out, this is our shame, what is the shame to wash away? ”
A loud roar erupted from the military formation: "Blood, the blood of the enemy!" ”
Qin Dong raised his three-pointed two-edged sword and shouted, "Warriors, draw your swords and cut at the enemy's head!" ”
"Kill-kill-kill!"
Qin Dong pulled a three-pointed two-edged knife, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and shouted: "Kill!" ”
The war horse rushed out in an instant, and the Great Qin Iron Cavalry behind him launched a charge at this moment, and more than 12,000 cavalry of a cavalry division launched a charge at the same time, this kind of momentum is extremely rare, and only the Great Qin Empire, a huge empire dominated by cavalry, has such capital.
In the charge, Qin Dong hung the three-pointed two-edged knife on the victory hook, took out the riding bow and shot arrows with the archers behind him, and the overwhelming arrows fell on the heads of the Ostrogoths who had also launched a charge, and the Ostrogothic cavalry fell one by one, and the infantry behind them erected small round shields to resist the arrows falling from the sky.
In just three hundred meters, the archers had fired six rounds of arrows in a row, but in fact the entire team had only run one hundred and fifty meters, firing an arrow in an average of two seconds.
When there were only two hundred meters left on both sides, the front archers phalanx suddenly separated from the middle, bypassing the two flanks of the Ostrogoths at a very fast speed, and in the process they did not stop shooting arrows, and the non-stop arrows maintained continuous firepower, which made the Ostrogoths suffer heavy losses, and when the Ostrogoths thought that they were going to fight with the Great Qin Iron Cavalry in close quarters, they found that the enemy in front of them had run away from both wings, and the gap left was opposite the swarthy, pieces of heavy armored iron cavalry, more than four meters long spears, The men and horses were all heavily armoured, and the appearance of this army made Diordemir, who was in a high-speed sprint, feel overwhelming pressure. (To be continued......)