Chapter 125: Fiasco
The sky has cleared, and the line of sight is clear, Faisal clearly saw that Ruth was running back and forth in front of the horse bandits, he didn't have to guess to know that the other party was ready to rob, he was not afraid of coming hard, although the other party had more than 500 people, but the number of his subordinates was not less than them, and the other party was a nine-strand cottage union, there must be people who were not aligned, his side was fine, although there were only 400 direct subordinates on his side, and the other more than 500 people had always taken him as the leader, and they were much stronger than the other party in terms of obedience.
If you want to fight, let's fight! Faisal turned his horse and looked at his subordinates, these are old men who have followed him for many years, not to mention his loyalty, his combat effectiveness is not comparable to other cottage horse bandits, this battle, he is determined to win!
"Hurricane thieves brothers, our hurricane thieves have always been the boss of the three mountains and thirty-six villages, and the other twenty-six villages are also our brothers, here, our hurricane thieves are the same, but today, the other nine cottages want to challenge the authority of our hurricane thieves, do you agree?"
"Don't promise, don't promise, kill them!" As soon as Faisal's words fell, his horse bandits all screamed and muttered loudly.
These are horse bandits, horse bandits cannot be compared with the army, they are all free and loose, let them make uniform movements, shout neat slogans, this is simply more difficult than killing them, they have to make a difference when they shout loudly, and the tone is strange.
Faisal was pleased with the reaction of his men, who were not complacent because they had been the bosses of the territory, and the bandits had their own sense of honor. It sounds ridiculous to be a horse bandit with a sense of honor, but it's actually normal.
Faisal then exclaimed, "Brethren. Those villains on the opposite side tricked and sent people to infiltrate our territory to block the mountain road of the Soul Stream, and just now poisoned our 300 brothers in the food of the camp, and then when we were carrying goods, they wanted to suddenly attack us from behind, which completely lost the sense of honor of Sanshan Thirty-six Village, they are not worthy of being horse bandits here, they are discrediting our people in Sanshan Thirty-six Village, facing these villains. What are you guys going to do? ”
"Kill them!"
"Kill them all!"
"Peel off their skins and hang their corpses on trees to avenge my brother!"
The horse bandits were shouting in a mess, and Faisal nodded. With his legs between the horse's belly and turning the horse's head to face the opposite side, Holm and the others over there were also ready, and both sides looked at each other.
Faisal and Ruth, Holm and the others on the opposite side all drew their swords and pointed forward, almost simultaneously yelling: "Kill-"
"Kill—"
The two cavalry forces finally began to fight face to face. The number of warring parties is too small. Moreover, these horse bandit leaders didn't know any tactical tactics at all, and they didn't need to arrange tactics, so they directly swung their troops to kill each other.
The same number of cavalry is definitely many times higher than the noise and movement of the infantry in battle, and the combined number of cavalry on both sides exceeds a thousand, and these cavalry gallop and charge as if tens of thousands were engaged in a large-scale battle.
A battle of 1,000 people was no less than a medium-sized war in Europe in this era, and the population of ancient Europe was completely incomparable with the Chinese population of the same period, and it was very rare for both sides to put together tens of thousands of people to fight. Therefore, the scale of this battle is not small in the whole of Europe.
Both groups of cavalry rushed towards each other as fast as they could, and the cavalry on both sides were loosely aligned. This is easy for the opposing cavalry to go deep into their own formation, and in the end it becomes a situation where you have me, I have you, this situation is the most difficult to control, and it is extremely unfavorable to the commander's command. It's a defeat for both, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred!
Faisal has a bad relationship with the leader of the horse bandits in the Nine Great Cottages, and now he is directly fighting each other, so what else is there to say, go straight to death!
When the enemies saw each other, their eyes were red, Faisal brandished a Damascus scimitar, and saw that it was Holm who rushed over from the opposite side, and immediately patted his horse to meet him, and Holm saw that it was Faisal, and did not show weakness, holding a big sword in his hand and slashing at Faisal, the two horses staggered, and saw that the weapons of the two collided, but Holm's big sword was cut into two pieces by Faisal's Damascus scimitar, but Holm did not find it in the battle, and after the two staggered, Le Ma turned around and rushed towards each other again, holding a blade and slashing at each other again.
At this time, Holm noticed that his big sword was a big shorter, and when he was stunned, Faisal had already rushed over on horseback, how could he hit the half of the big sword in his hand? Immediately threw it at Faisal, Faisal reacted quickly, dodged it with his body, and slashed it with a knife in his right hand, Holm saw that Faisal's sharp Damascus scimitar looked like he had no time to dodge, and his body was immediately slashed by Faisal, only to feel a chill in his chest and abdomen, and a sharp pain instantly overwhelmed his mind.
When Faisal looked back, he saw that Holm had fallen off his horse, his upper body was almost cut in two, and a large stream of blood flowed out of his chest and abdomen.
"Brothers, Faisal killed the leader of Hom, kill him with me!" Faisal's killing of Holm was seen by Holm's bandits, and a small leader immediately shouted for his brothers to kill Holm, but Faisal was not alone, he also had his guards to follow, and these guards stopped them.
On the battlefield in front of the camp, the shouts and kills of the horse bandits on both sides are endless, each side has five or six hundred horsemen, the more they fight, the smaller the number of people, the original cavalry's combat ability is mainly reflected in the charging formation and maneuver flexibility, at this time the two sides are in a state of anxiety, both sides can no longer be called cavalry, but should be called infantry on horseback, both sides stay in place and ride on horses to cut each other.
This is not called fighting at all, this is called suicide against each other, you cut me, I cut you, there is no tactic at all, Qin Dong, who was hiding on the hill, kept observing and shook his head secretly. It seems that the outcome of his prediction is basically achievable.
Faisal slashed at the bandits and shouted, "Brothers, do your best, they don't have to stop." I killed the four bandit leaders, including Holm, and they were about to lose their strength, so kill them all! ”
"Kill them all!"
Faisal suddenly shouted loudly on the battlefield, which greatly boosted the morale of the horse bandits of the hurricane thieves, and the horse bandits on the side of the Nine Great Cottages were indeed a little unbearable, and after the four horse bandit leaders led by Holm were killed by Faisal, the morale of the horse bandits under these leaders began to decline. Many of the bandits had no intention of fighting, and just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, but the battlefield was in chaos. It is not possible to run immediately if you want to, but it is easy to be killed by people if you are not careful, so many horse bandits were killed by Faisal's men in the process of escaping.
Six bandit leaders, now only Ruth and Mars remain. These two men are more forceful. Faisal is indeed a fierce general, and he easily killed four horse bandit leaders, and then happened to face Ruth, Ruth's force is not very strong, but at least it is stronger than the other four horse bandit leaders, Faisal did not kill it at the first time, and waited for Mars's help, Mars and Ruth teamed up to pay Sal. The three of them were on horseback and killed equally, and no one could help anyone.
The battle lasted for more than an hour. The battlefield was already full of corpses, the horse bandits were killed and the corpses fell off their horses, and the horses ran away, the scene was too chaotic, no one knew how many people were left on their side, and how many people were left on the other side, the result of this situation was that both sides were red-eyed, as long as they saw each other's people, they slashed over, and forgot to let the other side surrender.
Hiding on the hill, Qin Dong and the others quietly observed the situation on the battlefield, at this time, it depends on which side can't hold it first, and the side that can't hold it first will definitely fail, Su He squatted beside Qin Dong and said: "My lord, now that both of them are almost fighting, they have almost lost half of their men, if we rush down now, we should be able to take them all!" ”
Qin Dong didn't think that Su He was a little self-conscious, although there were only more than two hundred and thirty people under his command now, in addition to the more than fifty guards of Gebuus, the other one hundred and seventy or eighty people were the elite under him, just with these one hundred and seventy or eighty people, he had the courage to dare to fight with a thousand cavalry, but it was not in his interests to rush down now.
He shook his head and said: "Not yet, although they have each lost half of their manpower, but they still have combat effectiveness, if we rush down now, it is likely that they will give up their hatred and prejudice and unite against us, and at that time we will not gain more than we lose?" Wouldn't it be better for us to rush down and kill them or capture them, and we ourselves lose a lot, and let them fight to an exhaustion, and then we will go out and finish it at the end? Don't just think about capturing other people's people, some people can be captured, some people can't, even if some people are captured, they will still be very dishonest, we have to worry about how to make them obedient when we capture them, maybe we will make trouble for ourselves, besides, even if we capture them now, is it possible that we will still take these horse bandits to Constantinople? ”
After hearing this, Su He nodded and said, "My lord is wise!" ”
The battlefield is still fighting, the roars and screams have never stopped, some horse bandits are hoarse in the process of slashing, why shout, shouting can make their explosive power stronger, swing the knife faster.
The duel between Faisal and Ruth and Mars was also coming to an end, and Faisal used his superb equestrian and horse fighting skills to cut Rus's arm, causing Rus to be defeated, leaving Mars alone.
Mars is a black man with infinite manpower, but it is a pity that he does not know combat skills, and there is no place to use the strength of his whole body, but Faisal can use his combat skills to make Mars deflated everywhere, and sometimes he is injured by his own moves.
After Mars's mount was cut off by Faisal, Mars also fell to the ground, Faisal was about to lean over and kill Mars, but he stopped halfway, he saw that Mars had no scheming, but he was infinitely powerful, honest and honest, and it was good to accept him as a younger brother, so he did not kill him, but only let the guards who followed him tie him up.
"Ruth was wounded and fled, Mars was captured, whoever wants to die will continue to resist, and if he doesn't want to die, he will dismount and surrender!" After grabbing Mars, Faisal shouted.
The horse bandits who accepted him also shouted the slogan of dismounting and surrendering to avoid death, this slogan was quickly spread throughout the battlefield, the wounded Ruth ran away with a dozen horse bandits, leaving only two or three hundred horse bandits who did not have a leader to preside over the overall situation to stay in place, some of these people saw that the situation was not right, immediately dropped their weapons and dismounted and squatted on the ground, and the others also lost their weapons and dismounted and surrendered.
In this kind of skirmish, the force of the generals is very important, and their leaders did not count Faisal's personal force, so they suffered a big loss at the beginning, and the four leaders were killed by Faisal in succession, which caused the morale of the horse bandits under them to plummet, so that they formed a rout, and most of them were killed.
Soon, all the horse bandits in the nine cottages dismounted and threw away their weapons, Faisal sent people to count, and found that more than 250 of these surrendered people were still intact and not injured, and there were another 70 or 80 people who were injured, of which more than 50 were slightly injured, and more than 30 were seriously injured, whether the seriously injured people could survive or not depended on their luck, and the lightly injured horse bandits were not too seriously injured, and they should be able to recover after their injuries.
Faisal then sent healers to bandage the wounds of the wounded, sent prisoners to be held together, and at the same time cleaned the battlefield and collected the money from weapons, armor and corpses, since ancient times the wealth of the dead is the fastest way to make money, and on the battlefield is no exception, the living can wait, but the dead cannot wait.
Qin Dong, who was hiding in the southwest hills, noticed that the battle was over, and the remaining half of the men and horses of the Nine Great Cottages had all surrendered, and he knew that it was time for him to send troops. When the time comes, it will be equivalent to the cooperation of the inside and the outside, and it is impossible for Faisal not to lose the battle!
Qin Dong stood up and said, "Alfard, you personally take a dozen people to the mountain road that Faisal led the team to come, and use the natural conditions to block the mountain road, making it difficult for them to return along the original road!" Suhe, gather all of us and prepare at the bottom of the mountain, it's time for us to play! ”
Su He and Alfald said excitedly: "Yes, my lord! (To be continued......)