Chapter 256: Arabian War Horses and Camels
"There's an elephant soldier on the other side!"
"Retreat!"
Lianpo's legion, which was guarding Huma in Jiuyuan County, was attacked by a hundred war elephants, and a large number of soldiers were killed, and Lianpo barely supported it with heavy infantry.
War elephants are raging! Huge war elephants trampled through the chaos, poisonous blades were tied to their tusks, and infantry fell one by one. The war elephants were equipped with wooden towers on their backs, and archers and spearmen condescendingly stabbed the Eastern Han soldiers with spears and spears, and the archers shot the enemies they saw.
The vast majority of the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty had no experience in fighting elephant soldiers, and suffered a great loss under the premise of lack of experience.
If it weren't for Lian Po as the main general, I'm afraid the entire legion would collapse!
"This army of the Eastern Han Dynasty is really tenacious, and it has not collapsed despite being flanked by 30,000 people of our Mughal Empire."
Kshatriya, the great lord of the Mughal Empire in India, united with two other great lords to flank the Lianpo army.
A great lord cannot be denied: "The lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty have powerful generals and troops, and I suspect that our Mughal great lords who died in battle were killed by the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty." ”
"No matter what, the lord who was attacked by us must have a huge influence in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and if he can be killed and his hero captured, it can cause huge losses to the Eastern Han Dynasty. My hero, Shivaji, can tighten his grip on the war elephants, and it will be almost impossible for them to defeat my elephants. ”
The Kshatriya hero Shivaji rode on a war elephant and commanded the light cavalry to lay siege to the Limppo legion. Thirty thousand Mughal soldiers clung to the Lianpo legion.
"Hold on!"
The army of Lianpo was extremely tenacious and was not completely defeated, and he protected the lord Huma all the way to the city. The archers of the city covered Lian Po and the others to retreat into the city.
Huma returned to the city alive, and with the towering walls of the city, he finally held back the ferocious war elephants.
When he came to the city wall, he had an arrow stuck in his armor, and he was bleeding, and the doctor hurried to heal his wounds.
"If I had been prepared, would I have lost to the elephants? And his war elephants are very different, his war elephants are calm! ”
Huma gritted his teeth when he saw the war elephants demonstrating under the city.
Fortunately, he captured a city in advance, otherwise the Lianpo army might have been wiped out by the three Mughal lords.
The Mughal Empire's war elephant troops, unlike ordinary war elephant troops, made it difficult to panic the war elephants, even with a phalanx of spears.
Lian Po was hit by several arrows, but his fish scale armor reduced the damage caused by the crossbow arrows: "My lord, we must contact other lords in order to contend with the enemy. ”
"Where is our lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty?"
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"Where are the other lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty?"
Chutian sent cavalry to reconnoiter everywhere, and found five or six lords of civilization one after another, but never found the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Before joining up with the other Eastern Han lords, Chu Tian was looking for fighters to capture as many servant troops as possible while gaining points.
"General Zhao Yun is injured!"
Zhao Yun, who went out of the city to patrol, returned to the city and returned injured.
Zhao Yun was followed by more than a dozen white horse servants, their white robes were stained red with blood, many people were hit by arrows, and Zhao Yun's Mingguang armor even had seven or eight arrows hanging on it.
A white horse fell from his horse, hugged his injured shoulder, and endured the pain.
Zhao Yun frowned, he was shot by so many arrows and still did not die, Zhao Yun's vitality was extremely tenacious.
"Please come to Mr. Hua Tuo!"
The divine doctor Hua Tuo and a group of doctors treated the injuries of Zhao Yun and others, and among the doctors was Li Lan, who had been serving in the army since Xia Village. Li Lan has already reached the threshold of senior doctors.
Hua Tuo saw that Zhao Yun was not killed by the eight arrows in his body, and he couldn't help frowning while being amazed.
Zhao Yun's injury is really not optimistic.
Hua Tuo cut off the shaft of the arrow, causing Zhao Yun to take off his armor and reveal his sturdy body: "The process of taking out the arrow cluster will be very painful, and I have hemp boiling here to relieve the pain." ”
Chu Tian learned about Zhao Yun's injury and came to understand the situation.
With the strength of Zhao Yun's five tiger generals, he would be seriously injured, and his strength would drop significantly.
Zhao Yun said: "The last general encountered a light cavalry, their horses were very fast, and our group of more than 30 people was surrounded by six or seven hundred enemy cavalry, killing hundreds of enemies, and then we successfully broke through." In their rear there could be several thousand cavalry, as well as camel cavalry. ”
No wonder Zhao Yun was seriously injured, it turned out that he was surrounded by enemies twenty times the number of people.
It was not easy for Zhao Yun to bring half of the cavalry out of the heavy encirclement.
"Where is the enemy?"
"It's only seven or eight miles from the city."
"Send someone to investigate immediately!"
When Chu Tian learned that Zhao Yun was surrounded for a time, the enemy appeared nearby, and immediately mobilized the scout cavalry.
He noticed the horses mentioned by Zhao Yun, so he asked, "How are their war horses compared to Liaodong horses and Liangzhou horses?" ”
"I'm afraid it's still on top of Liaodong horses and Liangzhou horses."
"Could it be an Arabian war horse?"
When Chu Tian thought of the camel cavalry, he couldn't help but think of the civilization of the Arab Empire.
The Arab Empire civilization has an extremely fine war horse, the Arabian horse, both in the West and the East in modern times, the Arabian horse has been introduced to improve the quality of the native horse breed.
In addition to Arabian horses, there are also particularly good war horses such as Dawan horses and Wusun horses. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even asked for war horses from the Western Regions.
The breed of war horse is determined by the geographical environment, and has nothing to do with the advantages or disadvantages of civilization.
The more Chu Tian thought about it, the more likely it became.
If a group of tall Arabian horses (144-152 cm in height) were captured and returned to the Eastern Han Dynasty to improve the local horse breeds in Xuzhou, perhaps the breed of war horses in Xuzhou could be improved.
However, Arabian horses may not be able to breed in Xuzhou, after all, one side of the water and soil raises one person.
"Let's catch it first."
Chu Tian ordered Zhao Yun to recuperate and decided to levy troops to attack the cavalry of the Arab Empire.
Thousands of Arab cavalry occupied a town and ransacked its citizens with scimitars, spears, and javelins, leaving the town in black smoke and wailing.
"I didn't expect to be defeated by the Mughal lords of India, and my city was also taken away by them."
The lord of the Arab Empire lost the battle with the lord of the Mughal Empire, Kshatriya, and was forced to retreat to the west, and on the way he was about to meet Zhao Yun patrolling out of the city, so he pursued Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun did not expect that a cavalry of several thousand people would approach, so he could only rely on superb force to break through at the cost of serious injuries.
"A small group of cavalry encountered during the day, which seems to be the army of other lords. There must be a city nearby, as long as I capture the city and recruit soldiers, I still have a chance to hit the world rankings. ”
Hundreds of camels gathered around the fire to form a camel city.
Camel cavalry is only a special auxiliary army, and the great conquest of the Arab Empire still relies on a combination of light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and the Arab war horse is the resource that the lords of the Arab Empire value.
Thousands of Arab cavalry rested in the town, patrolling in small groups.
The Arab cavalry, after a constant battle, was physically exhausted.
Before dawn, a group of soldiers and horses surreptitiously surrounded the Arab cavalry of several thousand men.
"The Arabs have not yet sensed the danger, the Grim Reaper has stretched out its scythe to them, the rockets will light up the night, and the neighing of the horses will awaken the sleeping soldiers......"
Chu Tian learned from the Western bard to talk to himself.
What is the lord talking about?
Li Xiuning, who temporarily served as a guard, was confused.
Chu Tian ordered the Shooting Battalion to ambush, and he also brought four thousand servant troops.
The terrible thing about the "Heavenly Khan" is that when it comes to crusading against aliens, as long as it can win, the servant army will continue to grow. The use of the servant army as cannon fodder is not distressing at all.
Le Yi, who was good at siege, led a thousand heavy infantry and 4,000 servants to attack the city.
When the Arabs in the town were lax, a siege force of 5,000 men launched a storming attack on the town!
The rain of arrows shot the patrolling Arab cavalry, and Li Guang led the infantry to take the lead again, slashing more than ten enemies and capturing the city gate!
The cavalry of Xue Rengui, Hua Mulan, and Hua Xiong drove straight in!
Knowing that they could not defend it, the Arab Imperial soldiers fled through another gate of the town.
Chu Tian personally led the Shooting Sound Battalion and Li Xiuning's Lady Army to set up an ambush early, and the Arab cavalry was ambushed, covered by the rockets of the Shooting Sound Battalion, and the people turned on their backs!
Rockets and the whitening sky left the Arab soldiers trying to escape with nowhere to hide.
Hundreds of Arab Imperial soldiers were killed by rockets, and there were running horses and camels everywhere.
This can be regarded as revenge for Zhao Yun, and it is also to accumulate points.
The fact that the Arab Empire and the Eastern Han Dynasty have no grievances for the time being does not mean that Chutian cannot take the initiative to attack.
About a thousand Arab soldiers were killed in battle, and three thousand Arab cavalry were captured.
The size of Chutian's servant army rose to 7,000 men.
Chu Tian was not interested in Arab soldiers wrapped in turbans and partial robes, he was interested in Arab war horses, as well as camel cavalry.
Camel cavalry was far inferior to cavalry, except for its miraculous effects in the desert. In other terrains, all sorts of stats go down.
At least the camel soldiers had no role in Xuzhou, Chutian.
Fang Xuanling continued to work as a statistician: "There are about 5,000 horses, including war horses and pack horses, and 400 camels. ”
"How many heavy cavalry?"
"About 300 heavy cavalry."
"With the heavy cavalry captured earlier, there are 600 heavy cavalry of the servant army alone."
Chu Tian found that he had a force in his hands that was not weak.
Chu Tian specializes in attacking these lords who have war horses, and then captures war horses from them, and can obtain an income of more than 100,000 taels of silver.
Among the 5,000 war horses plundered by the Arabs, there was a king-level war horse.
[Name]: Top Arabian War Horse (King Level)
[Load]: A [Speed]: S
[Endurance]: A [Impact]: SS
[Grain and grass]: 20 units/year
[Description]: A good breed among Arabian war horses, but not cold-tolerant, not suitable for swamps and other terrain.
Chu Tian saw a king-level war horse for the first time.
It's a pity that such a war horse rides for himself.
Chu Tian rarely charged into battle in person, so he planned to reward the war horse to the meritorious hero: "Who of you wants this war horse?" ”
Xue Rengui, Li Guang, and Hua Xiong couldn't help but move when they saw the king-level war horse.
Hua Xiong, as a heavy cavalry general, originally wanted to get off this war horse suitable for heavy cavalry, but the military advisor Fang Xuanling glared at him. He didn't dare to ask for a king-level Arabian war horse.
Xue Rengui comprehended Fang Xuanling's meaning: "The lord can reward General Mulan." ”
"Then this war horse will be handed over to General Mulan to take care of."
Chu Tian looked at the generals' excuses, but he didn't say much.
Mulan, as the first general, is a group pet in Chutian's camp, and everyone lets her, even if it is cool in summer, she has to consider her attitude. So there are good things, Xue Rengui, Li Guang, and Fang Xuanling will keep them for Mulan.
"Thank you, my lord......"
Hua Mulan accepted a king-level war horse, in her opinion, this may be a dowry or something......
"All the camels were brought back to the city, and there was no need to divide the troops to defend the town."
Although he didn't know what the use of camels was, and Chu Tian didn't want to use camel cavalry, Chu Tian still left the camels.
When the war is over, you can also make a lot of money by taking it back and selling it.
Chu Tian returned to the city, and at the same time he began to lay out the matter of occupying the second city.
"When all the 20,000 low-level soldiers have been recruited and there are more troops to defend the city, we will attack the second city north and get more points to produce."
Chutian's strategy is also very simple.
Capture a city, recruit low-ranking soldiers to defend it, and then attack another city with the main army and servants.
In this way, the main army and the servant army can always be left vacant for decisive battles with other lords.
It was now the seventh day of the national war, and Chu Tian had already defeated three lords, two of whom were killed.
The intensity of the national war is not trivial.
Or that Chu Tian's subordinates were too ruthless. Mulan killed the lords of the Mughal Empire in India directly in the array, while the lords of the Arab Empire were killed by the arrows of the Sound Battalion.
"There was a lord of Gyeyang County who died."
Chu Tian was paying attention to the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty and found that some lords of Guiyang County were killed, most of whom were wiped out by the lords of other civilizations.
On the battlefield where the lord of Guiyang County was killed, 10,000 Eastern Han soldiers were attracted to the valley by the Roman legions, and the whole army was annihilated.
The Roman commander Scipio the Great and several other generals led the Roman legions to clean up the battlefield.
Scipio the Great trampled the dragon banner of the Guiyang County Legion under his feet: "If this is the strength of the Eastern Han lords, then the Eastern Han Dynasty is not our Roman opponent." ”
"It is estimated that this is only a medium-sized lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there is nothing to be proud of in defeating him. None of the ten most powerful lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty has been wiped out until now. ”
The Roman lord carried a long sword, which was the first Eastern Han legion he destroyed.
He tried to attack the Eastern Han legions with the Roman legions, and the result was a complete victory, which boosted his confidence.
After clearing the battlefield, the Roman legions marched westward.
And not far from the Roman legion, the Qin legion carried by the old Qin was approaching the Roman legion.
Old Qin had already discovered the traces of the Roman legions.
He was following the Roman legions in an attempt to defeat them.
"Roman legion or Great Qin legion, who can be better? He has Scipio the Great under his command, and I don't have Bai Qi and Wang Qian, which is a bit of a loss for me. My advantage is that I have generals such as Lu Bu and Gao Shun. ”
Old Qin was never able to make up his mind to attack the Roman legions.
Scipio the Great, the "conqueror of Africa", was to the Roman Empire what Bai Qi and Wang Jian were to the Qin Dynasty.