Chapter 43: Encirclement and Annihilation

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This 300 cavalry mercenary cavalry team is not heavy cavalry, not even light cavalry, the equipment is too simple, even if Qin Dong does not use Parthian tactics to deal with them, they can't do the general Hun cavalry, this era is generally divided into only two kinds of cavalry, one is light cavalry, the other is heavy cavalry, the focus of light cavalry is to fight in close quarters, but Qin Dong now has to train a cavalry class that is different from light cavalry and heavy cavalry, that is, archers, in addition to carrying bows and arrows, they also carry hand-to-hand combat weapons, Long knife or scimitar, the focus is on long-distance strikes, the archer cavalry troops can not only restrain light infantry, heavy infantry, light cavalry, but also can restrain heavy cavalry, as long as they do not fight with the heavy cavalry in close combat, the use of guerrilla warfare can drag the heavy cavalry to death, the heavy cavalry because of the poor innate mobility and flexibility of the archers can not take the archers at all, the only thing that the archers can not provoke is the archer troops, the range of the archers' bows and arrows is much farther than the riding bow, once the archers fall into the range of the archers is looking for death, The overwhelming number of arrows fell, and the archers had nowhere to hide.

However, in Europe in this era, there is no bow and arrow with good armor-piercing performance, powerful power and long range, which is also the reason why Europe can focus on the development of heavy cavalry, and in the East and Central Asia, because the power of bows and crossbows is too strong, the armor-piercing performance is good, and the development of heavy cavalry is simply not worth the loss, and can only send food to archers and crossbowmen.

Turning his head to look at the corpses of horses and soldiers all over the ground behind him, there are still many people who are not dead, but they have been seriously injured, and they can't survive, the leader of the mercenary cavalry is dripping blood in his heart, this transaction is really a big loss for him, he only took half of the commission, and now the battle is like this, it is estimated that the remaining half of the commission will not be obtained, and the loss is far greater than the income, it took him more than ten years to finally have the belongings of five hundred mercenary cavalry, and now it is less than a meal to reimburse a quarter, One hundred and fifty high-quality war horses, one hundred and fifty cavalry with rich combat experience, just gone, this is definitely a huge loss-making deal.

The mercenary cavalry all stopped to watch, and kept holding the shield on their left arm to fend off the arrows, and in the process some people were shot and fell off their horses one after another.

"Chief, retreat quickly, miserable, too miserable, this battle is too embarrassing, we can't bear such a big loss anymore, if our army loses too much, it is likely to be swallowed up by other mercenary forces after we go back!" A knight was almost crying behind him.

Before the mercenary leader could speak, Qin Dong's cavalry troops in front had already stopped, and they turned their horses around and rushed over after Qin Dong's loud shouts.

The mercenary knights were already frightened, at this time they did not have the courage to fight again, and before the leader gave the order to retreat, some people began to turn their horses and run, and after some people started, people quickly followed suit, although money is important, but small lives are more important, very tomorrow they know that this time they have encountered an iron plate, and it is a nightmare to fight with such Hun cavalry.

One person fled, which soon led to a rout, and the mercenary leader couldn't control the situation at all, and in desperation, he could also order to run back under the protection of several knights.

At this time, after the original pursuit and a series of blows, the formation of the mercenary cavalry had been dragged for a long time, and the previous horizontal queue was gone, replaced by a long and scattered formation of loose dragging, which just gave Qin Dong the opportunity to launch flying tactics.

One hundred cavalry lined up in two horizontal columns after the horse speed ran, immediately under the command of Qin Dong launched a flying shot, in the high-speed sprint suddenly stood upright and opened the bow to shoot arrows, in this case, the range of the bow and arrow was greatly improved, and the continuous arrows fell on the heads of the mercenary cavalry, causing these people to fall off their horses one after another.

Qin Dong and the others changed horses between the battles, so the horsepower was very sufficient, but the mercenary cavalry did not change horses, which in turn after the pursuit, the horses of the mercenary cavalry obviously could not outrun the horses of Qin Dong and others, and they were gradually caught up.

The leader of the mercenary army obviously realized that if this continued, not to mention whether he could escape, he was afraid that the horses would also run to his death, and in the end the whole army would be wiped out, so he immediately called out to some people around him and shouted: "Warriors, brothers, we can't run anymore, so that sooner or later we will be caught up by the Huns in the afternoon, rather than being shot dead by the Huns from behind, it is better to turn around and go back and fight with them!" ”

After the leader shouted several times in succession, some of the knights around him also shouted out his original words, and soon all the remaining mercenary cavalry listened, and when they turned their horses, they found that some of the knights of the leader had already rushed towards the Huns.

The Hun iron cavalry led by Qin Dong had the advantage at this time, of course he knew how to maximize this advantage, and he would definitely not give up the advantage to directly charge face-to-face, although directly with these mercenary cavalry face-to-face charge, you can also eliminate these people, but there will definitely be casualties under his men, this is not what he wants to see.

After seeing those mercenary cavalry turn around and rush over, Qin Dong was a little regretful, he didn't expect that the army that had already been defeated could be organized to launch a countercharge again, this leader's ability was really extraordinary.

However, this is not a big deal for Qin Dong, at most it is only a little troublesome, since they have organized themselves to launch a counter-charge again, then leave this mercenary army completely, he immediately ordered loudly: "Follow me in two columns!" ”

The cavalry in the middle accelerated, while the cavalry on both wings slowed down and moved closer to the middle, almost a few breaths, the hundred people lined up in two columns, at this time more than 100 mercenary cavalry had already rushed over, Qin Dong immediately shouted: "Divide the two wings, shoot!" ”

The two columns suddenly split into two, the one on the right led by Qin Dong galloped towards the outside of the mercenary cavalry's right flank, while the one on the left, led by Deputy Centurion Shanmeng, galloped towards the outside of the mercenary cavalry's left flank.

The leader of the rushing mercenaries and his cavalry were stunned by the sudden change of formation of the Hun cavalry and detoured the two wings, and he had all his strength to prepare for a bloody battle, but found that the enemy was missing, and he punched the cotton, which was too uncomfortable.

The next situation let the mercenary cavalry know what is called terrible, Qin Dong's two columns detoured the two wings of the mercenary cavalry, and kept pulling the bow and shooting arrows while galloping at high speed, and the mercenary cavalry who wanted to rush over was shot to death, and they couldn't get close to the Hun archers at all.

In the blink of an eye, the mercenary cavalry lost dozens of cavalry again, and the whole team was surrounded by the Hun archers from both wings, and the two archers ran at high speed around the mercenaries non-stop, and at the same time shot at the mercenary cavalry who were ready to break through, this is still cavalry, if it is infantry, it is even worse, because the infantry is slow, and can only become a live target after being surrounded by archers.

The mercenary cavalry were surrounded in the middle and some people were killed by arrows, the leader and others wanted to break through from the direction they had just charged, because Qin Dong's soldiers were few, and they could not completely encircle the mercenary cavalry, so it was best to break through in this direction, but how could Qin Dong let them get their way? Soon caught up with them, again surrounded them in the middle, and did not stop firing in the process.

It's simply being slaughtered, the mercenary cavalry originally came to sneak attack Qin Dong and his army, but now the sneak attack failed and was slaughtered, it was really impermanent.

Half an hour later, the battle was over, calm was restored in the field, the dead master's war horse was grazing in the distance, and while grazing and looking back, the three hundred mercenary cavalry were all wiped out under the unpredictable tactics of Qin Dong's archer cavalry, and its leader was captured.

Led by Shanmeng, several cavalrymen escorted the mercenary leader with a few arrows stuck in his body, and with him were captured more than twenty mercenary cavalrymen, whose hands were tied together with a long rope. Qin Dong looked at the mercenary leader with a spear, only to see that this man was disheveled, his pitted face was full of meat, a pair of blue eyes burst out with a vicious light, some black nose hair sticking out from under his nose, and his lips and chin were covered with a thick yellow curly beard.