Qin Dong has always attached great importance to the mobile combat strength of the cavalry, light cavalry and archers are generally equipped with two horses, and basically three horses when encountering special combat missions, and the heavy cavalry in addition to the cavalry in combat riding with a war horse, but also with an additional marching horse plus a pack horse to transport equipment, so in the cavalry army of Qin Dong, the heavy cavalry is equipped with three horses in the standing state, and the crossbow cavalry is generally only equipped with one horse because the equipment is relatively light, and there is no need for close combat, so it is generally only equipped with one horse, When there is a combat mission, in order to maintain its mobility, it is also equipped with an additional horse.

The cavalry division led by Hans immediately did not continue to advance to Lyon in the southeast, but went straight south after receiving Liu San's order to fly the eagle, because this time it was all cavalry, and one person had many horses, so the march was very fast, and it took only one day to reach the town of Zhivol, find a guide in the local area, continue the march at night, and arrive at the city of Vienna in two days.

The city of Vienna is on the side of the Rhône, and it is here that the Rhône turns almost ninety degrees to the northwest towards Zhvor, Hans took advantage of the opportunity to open the city at dawn and sent people to seize the city gate, the Burgundians in the city of Vienna did not expect that the army of the Hu Empire would cross Lyon to come here, so they were defenseless, Hans captured the city without much effort, and no one in the city ran away.

If more than 30,000 people from the Franks, Saxons and Sarmatians of the Sali tribe went to Lyon to borrow the way back, Vienna City would be the only way to go, and controlling it would be equivalent to blocking the passage of Cheldrick and others north to Lyon. Cildrik either forced a breakthrough, crossed the Rhône to the west into the mountains, or went east. But to the east, you can't go back, and to the west you enter the mountains that you have never entered.

After capturing the city of Vienna, Hans left 1,000 men to defend the city, and took the other 8,000 horsemen to hide near the road to Vienna and wait for Cheldrick and the others.

If it was in a forest or in a hilly, swampy, or mountainous area, Hans was really a little less confident, after all, he only had 8,000 men, and the other side had 30,000 horses. What's more important is that there are 10,000 heavy cavalry among the opponent's 30,000 horses, although the equipment of those 10,000 heavy cavalry is very inferior, but it is also a heavy cavalry, isn't it?

But now it's in the plains. With 8,000 well-equipped cavalry against 10,000 poorly equipped heavy cavalry and 20,000 infantry, Hans was still full of confidence.

30,000 horses walked on a road more than ten miles long, in fact, there was no obvious road at all, and there were relatively few people in this era. There are also fewer pedestrians. Everywhere there was wasteland, barren grass, and only after the army did a road emerge.

Hans led the army in ambush in a wood, about three miles from the road where the army of Cyldrik and the others walked, and had already explained before he came, if Cyldrik's scout cavalry went to Vienna to reconnoitre, let the soldiers defending the city find the captured city lord and send those scout cavalry.

"General, there are already several groups of scout cavalry heading to Vienna, and Hildryk's army is about five miles behind. Heading towards Vieira! ”

The wild grass that grew wildly in the spring provided good conditions for Hans's ambush this time, and he ordered the heavy cavalry of 3,000 men to hide in the wild grass at a height of a thousand meters from the road. If you don't send scout cavalry to patrol and reconnoiter around, you won't be able to find people and horses hiding in the weeds, although Cheldrick and other leaders are in a hurry to go home, they won't be stupid enough not to send scout cavalry to scout along the way, but all the scout cavalry who detected the ambush site were all killed by the marksman who was ambushed in the weeds, and none of them ran away.

Hans gathered several regimental commanders together and ordered: "When the Franks, Saxons and Sarmatians of the Sarri tribe have arrived, the task of the heavy cavalry regiment is to wait for my order to launch a fierce charge against the 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Franks, remember one thing, I will only give you one chance, you must rush the 10,000 Frankish heavy cavalry with the fastest and most violent attack, and stop by the Rhône after completing a charge, and see how the effect is, if the 10,000 heavy cavalry of the other side are defeated, Then you turn around and charge again, this time don't care about the scattered heavy cavalry, but go straight to the 10,000 infantry of the Salmatians and Saxons, no matter what the result, your task is accomplished, and there is nothing left for you, just retreat to the side and rest and wait for new orders! ”

In fact, the heavy cavalry can do two charges in a row is already very remarkable, the heavy equipment of the heavy cavalry, to the war horse has brought a huge burden, so the general war horse can only complete one charge is already out of breath, a well-bred war horse can complete two charges, this is already the limit, and then reluctantly can only run the war horse to scrap, although only one or two charges can be completed, but the attack power of the heavy cavalry is really strong, in the era of cold weapons, basically no class can withstand its impact.

The commander of the heavy cavalry nodded: "I understand!" ”

Hans looked at the commander of the archers and said: "The task of your archers' regiment is to deal with the 10,000 axe-throwing infantry, this task is not light, the Frankish axe-throwing infantry is not so easy to deal with, you should shoot the arrows in your hands as quickly as possible on the basis of keeping a distance, and inflict the maximum casualties on them." Do you understand? ”

The commander of the archers nodded and said, "Don't worry, deputy division commander, I know how to do it, I promise not to let those 10,000 axe-throwers have the time and energy to do anything else!" ”

In this era, the Frankish heavy cavalry was just beginning to rise, not only backward in equipment, but also the horsemans of the warriors could not be compared with other national cavalry, let alone the combat effectiveness of the horses, the heavy cavalry of the Franks only began to flourish in the medieval era, and the combat effectiveness was not the same.

Axe-throwers, as the name suggests, are axe-throwing soldiers, axe-throwers are also the infantry of the Franks in this era, mainly using axes as combat weapons, they only have simple equipment, and in this era, the infantry of Germanic tribes are generally relatively simple in equipment, such as helmets and shields, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat after being close enough when charging, relying on physical strength and ferocity to achieve victory.

The Franks had a different style, they would throw axes to break up the enemy when they approached, the axes were heavy, and the lethality and impact of the throws were amazing, even with shields, they could not necessarily stop them, let alone infantry without shields, and the infantry phalanx without shields would basically collapse when they encountered the axes thrown by the Frankish axethrowers. This axe, which was thrown in battle, was named the Fransca and was first used by the Franciscans, one of the Frankish tribes, hence the name. Units that only use long-range weapons are mostly in danger when the enemy's hand-to-hand troops get close, so on the battlefield, the Franks usually carry several combat weapons to ensure that they do not lose ground in close combat. Just as the Franks in the Middle Ages were known for their fast and powerful hoplite cavalry, the axe-throwing has always represented the way the Frankish infantry fought in this era.

Hans looked at the crossbow cavalry commander and said, "Your task is to take your two thousand crossbow cavalry to resist the 10,000 infantry when they attack the heavy cavalry and axe-throwers respectively, and when the heavy cavalry has charged once, you will retreat to the periphery of the battlefield and shoot the enemy who tries to flee!" ”

The crossbow of the crossbow cavalry can be fired in a single shot or in a row, and the single shot is full of strength, and the arrows shot are accurate and ruthless, and the continuous shot can form a projectile to shoot the enemy in a large area, and it is a real killing weapon.

In the long procession, which dragged more than ten miles, the Frankish axe-throwers were at the forefront, their armament was relatively light, they were all equipped with an axe and a short sword, there was no helmet, each man had only a small wooden shield, the short sword hung from his waist, and the axe was stuck in his back.

In the middle are the 10,000 heavy cavalry of the Franks with poor equipment, although they are heavy cavalry, but in fact they only have one horse each, and it is already very difficult for the war horse to carry the equipment on their bodies, and they are already tired after carrying one person and walking for such a long time, and their combat effectiveness is almost completely empty.

Behind the heavy cavalry were the five thousand infantry, three thousand men, and two thousand women of the Sarmatians, all of whom were strong and strong, as were the women, whose fighting strength was no worse than that of the men.

Walking at the back were the Saxons' 5,000 centaurs, whose equipment was even more unbearable than that of the Franks and Sarmatians, who had basically no equipment other than weapons, and many of them were estimated to be unable to kill people.

Because of its small equipment, the cavalry regiment was much less mobile than the heavy cavalry, so the cavalry archery regiment was the first to attack, and under the command and leadership of the regiment commander, the entire cavalry regiment of 3,000 cavalry regiments lined up in three rows and launched a charge against the Frankish axe-throwers, which were dragged for several miles.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves caught the attention of the Franks, who were too far away to see the archers hurrying through the weeds, but the officers and generals on horseback saw the dense crowd of cavalry rushing towards them.

"There's an enemy, there's an enemy, cavalry, it's cavalry, it's a cavalry—" A terrible cry rang out, and the axe-throwers at the front were in a panic.

At this time, Cyldrik happened to be at the front of the team on horseback, and when he saw that it was a large force of cavalry, his face changed instantly, but although he was simple-minded, his sense of war was not weak, and he immediately shouted loudly and began to organize the army to assemble: "Everyone quickly assemble, find your own hundred people and line up in a phalanx!" ”

Hilldrick knew very well that in the face of the fullness of the cavalry, the best way for the infantry was to line up in a phalanx to defend, if it was scattered, it would definitely be rushed to pieces, but unfortunately this time he was wrong, what he saw was indeed cavalry, but it was the archers, not heavy cavalry and light cavalry, the denser the phalanx, in the case of not being able to form a turtle formation, it was the food of the archer troops. (To be continued......)