Before dawn on November 19, the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, the whole army was like a giant who had woken up, and all kinds of preparations before the battle were carried out in an orderly manner.

Soon the soldiers of the various divisions were assembled under the leadership of the officers and entered the designated ambush area as planned. All of them were silent, and everyone knew the importance and rigor of the campaign, and the war mobilization had been carried out many times long before the departure.

According to the plan, Qin Du, Shangguan Yonglun and Liu Xiaoshan led 30,000 light and heavy cavalry and 150,000 infantry to ambush on a shallow hill about four miles away from the flat land on the bank of the river where the Hungarian army marched, where dense forests grew. Li Daring led 100,000 light infantry to follow behind the cavalry, and after the cavalry had destroyed the enemy's defensive line, he followed closely to eliminate the remnants.

Luo Chen's task was also quite arduous, he led 30,000 hoplites, 20,000 spearmen and a small number of engineers to ambush in the woods at the bend of Jiantou Slope, shouldering the 100,000 ironclad heavy cavalry to intercept the enemy's advance, which was also a battle of life and death. The heavy infantry under his command had to firmly stick to the enemy's forward troops and not let the enemy get out.

Because the enemy did not know whether there were cavalry in ambush behind Luo Chen's troops, they had to break through Luo Chen's defense line and defeat them before they could free up to deal with our main cavalry, otherwise they would venture back to the division, and if there were cavalry in ambush behind the infantry, it would cause the whole line to collapse.

But as soon as the enemy breaks through our hoplite defenses in a short time, he can quickly return to the division. If you form a flanking attack on our main force, then you will be very passive.

And this battle will first start on Luo Chen's infantry defense line, and Luo Cheng also made a military order for Qin Du, ensuring that he can withstand the impact of the enemy's ironclad cavalry. Whether the hoplites composed of the Gaoshan tribe are stronger in this shield, or the Huns' ironclad cavalry is sharper in their spears, who will win and who will lose in this contradictory battle will be verified by the facts.

Luo Chen led more than 50,000 soldiers to quietly ambush in the woods next to the bend behind the mountain mouth. It was almost noon, and the enemy was coming. The enemy scouts had already passed through two groups, but they all briefly inspected both sides of the road for a while, found nothing unusual, and left.

The group of Gaoshan soldiers under his command were all trained by Luo Chen with the backbone of the First Army from Tokugawa County, and Luo Chen had a strong confidence in them, so he dared to make a military order in front of Qin Duan.

This is an excellent ambush place, where the rushing Tari River makes a bend and continues to flow towards the hinterland of the Tengger steppe. If the enemy came from the mouth of the mountain, he would have to pass through here, and Luo Chen would lead the army to block the enemy here, so that the Hun ironclad cavalry could not give full play to the advantages of the field charge, but also put them in a situation where they could not advance and retreat.

When a scout ran over panting, Luo Chen secretly shouted, "It's here!" ”

Under the orderly orders of the officers, the hoplites could not wait to get up and quickly rushed out of the woods. Facing the side of the mountain mouth, they are lined up in a dense square. Immediately block the road leading to the front. The slingers also assembled at great speed behind the hoplite phalanx, divided into several echelons, separated by a certain distance in between, so as to facilitate the run-up and make the shooting range of the slingers longer.

The engineers were busy between hoplites and lancers, installing small detachable trebuchets brought from Tokugawa Castle. Although there are not many of them, they will also give the enemy great lethality. I have given up on arranging this place in view of the fact that the bow and arrow are too little for the heavy ironclad cavalry, and I think that trebuchets and spearmen can make up for this shortcoming.

The Humble and Hungarian forward troops, who had just rushed around the mountain mouth, also discovered the abnormal situation ahead, on the plains along the river, which were originally flat. Now all of a sudden, a large army of Black Pressed had gathered, and the number was at least tens of thousands, and there were neat squares. The information was quickly reported to the ears of the younger brother of the forward commander, General Zhengdong.

Upen was also a well-known warrior among the Huns, but he also had the same arrogant and conceited personality as his brother, and when he learned that there was an enemy army blocking the way, his first reaction was: "Order the first part of the army to attack, and trample these horse thieves who don't know whether they are alive or dead!" ”

Ten thousand Hun cavalry lined up in ten, one for each thousand, and began to charge from five hundred meters away, and the earth trembled, forming a thick cloud of yellow smoke. The five thousand war horses seemed to be stepping on a unified drumbeat, the frequency changed from slow to fast, and the speed also soared rapidly, and no other sound could be heard on the entire battlefield, only the sound of the iron hooves and thunder of the war horses.

Four hundred meters! Three hundred meters! While admiring the skilled horsemanship of the Huns, Luo Chen silently estimated the distance the enemy would run. Just when the Hungarian cavalry were a little surprised that they did not encounter a bow and arrow attack, in the case of no mental preparation, a shower of stone rain fell from the sky, dozens of watermelon-sized boulders fell from the sky, and dozens of Hungarian cavalry who were caught off guard were shot down from their horses on the spot, causing a small panic in the entire cavalry charging phalanx, and some of the comrades who followed them did not have time to adjust, and collided together.

However, the nightmare did not end, after narrowly dodging two rounds of trebuchet attacks, the extremely fast Hun cavalry had rushed to a place less than one hundred and fifty meters away from the enemy, and in a few seconds, these damned enemies would taste the taste of iron hooves trampling, just when all the Hun cavalry was fantasizing, with an earth-shattering roar, overpowering the sound of galloping horses' hooves, a dark cloud surged from the enemy's rear, and the Hun cavalry rushed forward at the speed of an arrow from the string.

"It's a gun-throwing !!"

Many of the Huns-hun cavalry only had time to think of this thought before they were stabbed by the oncoming spear and horseman. At that moment, the screams of the Hungarian soldiers could not be heard at all, only the most of them were repeating the same action, people on their backs, horses flipping, and a burst of red blood was splashed.

After two rounds of baptism of throwing guns, there was not much left of the 10,000 Hun cavalry, and they rushed to the front of the hoplites who were waiting for the battle, without any momentum, and after a few screams, the powerful mountain hoplites even lifted the Hun soldiers who had pierced the corpses high. The battlefield was calm again, and only the corpses of soldiers and a few surviving horses stood alone beside the corpse of their master.

Just as the fierce battle started on the side of the mountain, the battle on the main battlefield on the bank of the river west of the mountain mouth was officially opened. Qin Du led Liu Xiaoshan and Shangguan Yong to quietly observe the Hun Chinese army slowly advancing by the river. The entire Chinese army stretched for nearly five miles, stretching from the side of the mountain to the rear, and because there were a large number of baggage troops in the middle, the marching speed of the troops was quite slow.

After careful observation, the enemy did not have any defense, and the formation appeared very loose, Qin Duan secretly shouted to himself, "God help me", and several people hurriedly returned to the troop assembly place. Under Qin Duan's gesture and the officer's order, everyone quietly slipped out of the forest, there was no need to hide, and ordered the cavalry to throw away the cage on the horse's mouth, and the 30,000 cavalry were like tigers descending from the mountain, rushing towards the unprepared Hun infantry by the river with lightning speed.

With the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves, the Hun soldiers, who were moving forward in the normal way of marching, seemed to be unable to accept this reality at once, and when the recruits had not yet reacted, the veterans shouted in horror: "It's the enemy's cavalry!" ”

"We're in an ambush!"

"Hurry up and get the whole team!"

Panicked shouts rang out one after another, and the officers whipped the soldiers who were scurrying around like headless flies, ordering them to quickly form a front-facing formation for the brutal battle that was coming.

Shangguan Yonglun took the lead, leading the heavy cavalry to rush towards the belly of the enemy's middle army, the enemy was obviously not fully in a combat state, as the war horse galloped, getting closer and closer to the enemy, Shangguan Yonglun could even see the frightened expression on the face of the enemy's infantry.

Waves of arrows did not have much impact on the heavy cavalry who bore the brunt of the attack, but there were still hundreds of people who fell beside Shangguan Yonglun, Shangguan Yonglun gritted his teeth, held his halberd high, and finally rushed through this difficult distance, broke into the enemy ranks, and the real battle officially began.

With every swing of Shangguan Yonglun's halberd gun, there were always a few Hun soldiers in front of him who fell down with their heads covered their necks or holding their chests and abdomen, Shangguan Yonglun couldn't remember that this was the first time he waved the weapon in his hand dozens of times, and the blood had already soaked his whole body. Shangguan Yonglun was like an ordinary soldier to vent his frustration after hiding in the woods for several days and nights, and it was not until the call of the guards beside him that Shangguan Yonglun woke up from his madness.

Qin Dui looked envious, and several times wanted to follow Shangguan Yonglun and ride a war horse to fight with the Huns, but was stopped by a group of officers around him, and Qin Dui was not allowed to go to the battlefield to fight.

In the hearts of these officers, it is a joke that if the commanders all go to the battlefield to fight, if he has three longs and two shorts, it will be meaningless whether this battle is fought or not.

The Huns' defense had begun to crumble, and although their soldiers were far more skilled than the Tokugawa Army, they had never seen such a sudden attack due to the large number of new recruits, and the blood was all over the ground and the corpses were strewn all over the field, and these cruel sights greatly stimulated the soldiers who had never been on the battlefield, and they were the first to flee the battlefield, and because of their considerable numbers, they quickly impulsed the entire infantry line, and with the ensuing onslaught of our light cavalry, the enemy's defensive line finally collapsed. (To be continued......)