Qin Dong had already sent someone to secretly gather 4,000 elite cavalry, asking them to give up their horses and ride oxen, in order to make the soldiers sit more comfortably on the back of the ox, he also specially ordered the craftsman battalion to urgently build 4,000 sets of saddles and stirrups that could be placed on the back of the ox.

In order to make this ox cavalry exert its combat effectiveness, Qin Dong asked the soldiers to tie a riding spear to the left and right sides of each ox and fix it with ropes, and also fixed a sharp knife on the two horns of the ox, with the tip of the knife forward.

The knight rode on the back of the bull with a weapon in one hand and a long pole with a piece of cloth hanging from the other, and shook the pole so that the piece of cloth kept shaking in front of the bull, so as to provoke the bull and make the bull rush forward.

But after a series of experiments, the situation made Qin Dong a little disappointed, because it is not very stable to provoke the bull with a piece of cloth, sometimes the bull will rush forward to attack, and sometimes the bull will not, if it is just a cow, it is okay, there can be thousands of cattle to use this method on a large scale but it does not work, some bulls will rush forward to attack when provoked, and some will not, once the bull in front stops, the bull in the back will rush up to attack the bullrider in front, so that not only can not attack the enemy, Instead, it plunged itself into chaos and suffered heavy casualties.

Tried many times in a row but couldn't do it, the cow is not better than the horse, the cow will not take the initiative to attack humans, unless someone provokes the cow to think that its safety is threatened, it will attack the humans, and it is extremely difficult to control the cow to attack the humans, so Qin Dong can only give up and give up the method of shaking the cloth to provoke the bull to form a lethal force.

This method didn't work, and Qin Dong thought of other ways. If you want to make a large herd charge in front like crazy, the only way to do it is to start from the rear, so that the herd feels that there is a great danger in the rear.

Mid-October 463 A.D. Qin Dong felt that he could no longer continue to fight with the Western Roman and Gepid armies, and the cold weather would have a great impact on the marching and fighting, especially for the army of the Labor Division. If you have found a way to destroy the enemy, why waste time? So he ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and march in the direction of the coalition army.

The commander of the coalition forces, Egidious, could not hold on, and although the coalition forces were fighting in Dalmatia, the logistical supply of such a large army was a real problem. In order to prevent the Qin cavalry from raiding the grain and grass supply line, Egidious did not even dare to build the camp far from the coastline, also because of the climate. Ships transporting logistical supplies by sea began to have frequent accidents of ship destruction and death, so the problem of strict logistics supply for the coalition forces began to appear, and if it continued to be consumed, the war may not have started. The army collapsed because of the lack of food. So Egidious couldn't hold on, he had to ask for a decisive battle with the main force of the Qin army, and at this time, the main force of the Qin army came to the door, of course he couldn't ask for it.

On October 17, the Qin reconnaissance cavalry took the lead in finding the main force of the coalition army, and Qin Dong, who received the news, immediately led a large army to move closer to the main force of the coalition army. Because it had been a day since we had received news about the Qin army, perhaps the Qin army was quietly approaching from a certain direction. So he ordered the army to halt its advance and send another group of scout cavalry to search within a radius of thirty miles.

Egidious' hunch was correct, the cavalry he sent to reconnoiter was killed by the Qin army's reconnaissance cavalry, and he did not get the news that Qin Dong was approaching in time, and the situation was completely different within thirty miles, and the reconnaissance cavalry only needed a short time after discovering the enemy situation to rush back to report the news.

When Egidious learned that the Qin army was less than twenty miles away from his own army, his face became extremely stern, and he ordered the army to immediately set up a formation and prepare to meet the enemy.

Under the command of Egidious, he led ten regiments of heavy infantry in the middle of the formation, forming a dense array of hundreds of large and small infantry phalanxes, while the main cavalry of the Gerpides was divided into two and arranged on the left and right flanks of the formation, and the infantry of the Gerpides served as the rear guard to protect the rear of the army formation from attack.

Soon, the main force of the Qin army appeared, and a large area of dense land was almost impossible to see, and what was even more terrifying was that the momentum created by the simultaneous action of the large-scale cavalry was too great, as if it felt like the whole earth was trembling.

The coalition formation, which had just been set up to meet the battle, was almost in chaos, because the enemy was too strong and too intimidating.

Seeing this, Egidious' face changed, and he rode on horseback and shouted to the herald: "Order all the soldiers to hold steady, give me stability, and don't mess up!" ”

By the time Aegidius finally calmed the frightened soldiers, the Qin army was already close at hand, but the Qin army did not attack immediately, all the Qin troops lined up in a huge phalanx, moving forward slowly as a whole, looking like all of them were cavalry, and the banner was much wider than that of the coalition army, which also showed that the depth of the Qin army was shorter than that of the coalition army in the case of equal strength.

In the middle of the huge phalanx of the Qin army is a high platform as high as thirty meters high, which is wooden, there are dozens of wheels at the foot of this wooden high platform, there are sixteen horses pulling forward in front, and there are stairs to go up and down in the back, on the high platform, Qin Dong is wearing golden armor, wearing a bloody tasseled helmet, standing in the forefront, holding the wooden railing with both hands, and on his side stand Feltun, his wooden grid, the herald and some important non-combat officials accompanying him, one side of the drum is supported by a wooden frame and placed on the left side, two naked and shirtless, The sturdy men stood on both sides with drumsticks in hand, and a huge gong hung from the wooden frame on the right side of the platform, and the same two strong men stood on both sides.

Standing on this high platform, coupled with the assistance of the telescope, Qin Dong could see almost any movement of the coalition army clearly, and after observing for a while, Qin Dong turned around and flicked his cloak and walked to the throne and sat down facing the front, and the other officials immediately stood on both sides in two parts.

After a certain distance, the formations of the armies of both sides stopped, and it was necessary to reserve the distance for the charge to wait for the attack.

In the corner of the left front of the high platform, the battlefield enemy situation observer reported loudly: "Now the breeze is blowing, the wind is southeast!" The two armies are five hundred meters apart! The two sides stopped advancing, the left and right flanks of the enemy army formation each had 10,000 Gepid elite cavalry, and the Chinese army was a phalanx of 60,000 heavy infantry legions of Western Rome, arranged in a rectangular shape, one mile wide and two miles long! The rear army was the Gepid infantry, with 20,000 men! ”

Qin Dong sat on the throne and observed it with a telescope, and ordered: "Arrange the formation of the army formation and attack the main force as a preparation."

The herald immediately conveyed the order, and one of the drummers went to the drum and waved two large clubsticks, only the rumbling of the drums could be heard in all directions, and the officers who heard the order immediately began to organize the formation of their own military formation, keeping the same distance from the people on the left and right, and after a minute, the formation was completed, and the formation became extremely neat.

"Order all divisions to move slowly and maintain formation!" Qin Dong gave the order again.

At this time, the coalition army also began to move, and hundreds of phalanxes of the entire army began to move to the Qin army's side, this kind of battle with a scale of 200,000 people is rare in history, and the soldiers felt frightened, because the battle would kill people, but the high-level people were excited about the scale of the battle to reach 200,000 troops.

The infantry phalanx is very strong because each soldier maintains a unified pace, and the cavalry phalanx on Qin Dong's side is also because of this consistent action, and the sound of weapons and armor friction is also huge, and no one has been compared to anyone in terms of momentum, and now it depends on who has stronger combat effectiveness.

The battlefield observer reported: "The two armies are a hundred meters apart!" ”

There are only a hundred meters, and the officials are a little afraid that Qin Dong has not ordered the charge, because the combat effectiveness of the cavalry comes from speed, and the cavalry without speed has no combat effectiveness at all, can a distance of a hundred meters make a large-scale cavalry run at speed?

Not only Qin Dong's officials had already felt the fear, but the commander of the coalition forces, Egidious, was also very puzzled, could it be that Qin Dong's head was kicked by a donkey? Actually giving up the advantage of cavalry, do you want to let the cavalry fight the infantry in a stationary state? Although he thought so, he didn't think so, Qin Dong couldn't make such a stupid move, he must have another purpose, but the current situation did not allow him to order the army to stop, so he could only wait and see.

After the report of the battlefield enemy situation observer, Qin Dong stood up and said loudly: "Order the 9th and 10th cavalry divisions of Zheli at the front to divide into two, quickly go around to the front flanks to contain the Gepid cavalry on the left and right flanks of the enemy, and after revealing the gap in the front, immediately order the main force in the middle to attack, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks of our army will keep the formation moving forward!" ”

The order was quickly conveyed, and I saw two cavalry divisions in front of the Qin army, and 24,000 cavalry divided into two groups and circled around the two wings at a very fast speed, revealing a huge gap in the middle in less than half a minute, and what was behind this huge gap? It was thousands of bulls, driven in neat rows by experienced soldiers, with sharp knives on their horns, two long spears tied to their bodies, strips of cloth soaked in fire oil tied to their tails, and even more strange because the eyes of the bulls were covered with cloth, so that the cattle could not see.

Under the order of the officer, the soldiers who were waiting for the bull in the front row took out the fire and lit the oil cloth strip on the cow's tail, and the oil cloth instantly burned, and the bull felt that the tail was burned in severe pain, and immediately rushed forward collectively.

After the bulls in the front row rushed forward because their tails were burned in severe pain, the soldiers in this row immediately ran away to the left and right to make way for the bulls in the second row, and the soldiers in the second row of bulls also began to light the oil cloth strips on the tails of the bulls in the second row, and so on, and the bulls rushed out one after another because their tails were burned. (To be continued......)