Chapter 214: Rain of Arrows (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription)
So the kingdom cooperated very well to let the heavy cavalry meet it, but in the eyes of the Bei Dai barbarians, the kingdom's response was also reasonable, so they didn't think much about it, and the two barbarian cavalry and the heavy cavalry on both wings immediately turned their heads and took the heavy cavalry away from the battlefield after a short contact.
At the same time, the leaders of those barbarian cavalry also understood Samaqi's intentions a little, these heavy cavalry were really not given for nothing, just a short contact, the barbarian side lost hundreds of sand camel cavalry. These heavy cavalry were not inferior in frontal shock to their own sand camel cavalry, and were much stronger in terms of defense.
The strength of the sand camel cavalry is mainly strong in the strength of the mounts, those sand camels are more than one head taller than the war horses, and the strength is much greater, so the cavalry of the Bei Dai barbarians is condescending to the heavy cavalry, which can be said to be a great advantage. However, the sturdy armor and sophisticated cavalry spears of those heavy cavalry still made the sand camel cavalry suffer some losses.
If it's really hard-hitting, the cavalry of the Beidai barbarian clan and the elite heavy cavalry of the Silver Moon Kingdom really don't know who will kill the deer. The best way is to take these heavy cavalry away from the battlefield, first clean up those infantry, and then go back and pack up these heavy cavalry, which is much simpler.
Seeing that his small group of cavalry attracted all the enemy's heavy cavalry, Samaki was happy, but he was still a little uneasy, this was too easy, was the commander on the opposite side really a fool? At least Samagi didn't dare to think so. Although as the great children of the desert, the Bedai barbarians looked down on the farming people of the Silvermoon Kingdom.
In the concept of the Bedai barbarians, always staying in one place and settling is simply a living target, a target for plundering. The Bedai barbarians have always had no fixed residence, and they will follow the ancient tradition of nomadic raiding everywhere in the desert, which is why the orcs are obviously much stronger than the Bedai barbarians, but they are still robbed by the Bedai barbarians from time to time.
These bandits don't have a fixed camp at all, they run away after they are done, and there is nowhere to catch them. The orcs live a semi-nomadic, semi-settled life in the desert relying on the oasis, after all, the orcs do not have the natural talent of the Bedai barbarians to live in the desert.
Samaqi can become a respected massacre, relying on his own prudence, in the Bedai barbarians have never admired that brute style, the most important thing to be a robber is to be cautious enough, otherwise he will not live long at all. So although Samaki saw that his intention was perfectly executed, he was still a little uneasy in his heart, because it was too smooth, as a veteran of bandits, he knew that if something went too well, there would be a conspiracy later.
When he saw that the formation of those human soldiers on the opposite side was still in order, he understood that the commander of the Silvermoon Kingdom on the opposite side actually wanted to annihilate himself, and this discovery surprised Samaki very much. These people from the Silver Moon Kingdom are too arrogant, right? Just like that, people want to drag their main force?
Especially seeing that the formation of human soldiers is actually not thick at all, Samaqi even thinks that those human commanders grew up eating, infantry vs. cavalry, and they actually dare to put on such a thin formation, not to die.
If the infantry wants to deal with the cavalry, it must be laid out, the density is high enough, and the depth is long enough, so as to curb the speed of the cavalry, so that the infantry entangles the cavalry. As soon as the cavalry loses speed, it loses the impact power.
Cavalry without impact is a dish in front of the infantry, but this tactic will inevitably lead to heavy losses for the infantry, which requires a high number and quality of the infantry.
Samaki looked at the infantry front in front of him, what is the quality of these soldiers, Samaki doesn't care about it first, just this number of people is a fatal flaw, seeing this weak and delicious front, Samaki is a little ashamed of his caution just now.
With such a weak front, even if Samaqi only had a thousand sand camel cavalry in his hands, he was sure to rush this front to pieces, not to mention that he now had more than 3,500 cavalry in his hands. So he put his mind at ease, this is simply a godsend, if he doesn't rush now, he will despise himself, after all, not every commander will put an infantry line like this.
So Samaki abandoned his worries, and after seeing that Silver Moon's heavy cavalry had left the battlefield, he ordered the main force to rush towards the left flank of the enemy's central army! He was going to crush the kingdom soldiers in one fell swoop, so that this section of the line of defense would be at their disposal.
As long as this section of the defense line collapses, in a short period of time, it will be impossible for the Silver Moon Kingdom to organize a stronger defense line than this, and at that time, this will become a passage for the Bei Dai cavalry, they can advance if they want to, and retreat if they want to. They had come to rob, and they had no interest in occupying the land, and by the time the Silvermoon Kingdom could close the gap, they would have long since left.
In this way, 3,500 sand camel cavalry, under the leadership of the leader, rushed to the left flank of the Silvermoon Arrow, where the phalanx of the remaining heavy infantry of the Silvermoon Shield was located. Samagi was a veteran, and even though he looked down on these infantry phalanxes, he was still used to attacking from the weakest point of the formation. The defense line of the Silver Moon Arrow of the Chinese army is thicker than the two wings, after all, all of them have not moved.
However, Samaqi's actions this time can be regarded as throwing eyebrows to the blind man, what kind of troops is the arrow of the silver moon, it is a unit known for long-range attacks, the support range of their strong crossbowmen is 1500 meters, no matter which side Samaki charges from the side, it must pass through the strike range of the strong crossbowmen, so the weakness of the flank defense line is not the same in the eyes of the three commanders.
When Samaki moved to the left flank with the Bedai cavalry, the Silver Moon Arrow had already adjusted to shoot at Zhu Yuan, just waiting for them to throw themselves into the net. But Samaqi didn't know it yet, he saw that the infantry on the left flank had already prepared a defensive action, so he couldn't sit still, knowing that if the cavalry gave the infantry too long time to prepare, it would be irresponsible for himself, so he immediately urged his subordinates to start attacking immediately, don't wait for those heavy cavalry to come back.
So when the ambitious Bei Dai cavalry rushed into the Silver Moon Arrow with a range of 500 meters, he first heard a neat string sound, which exploded in everyone's ears like thunder, and then those Bei Dai barbarian cavalry suddenly felt as if it was dark, and looked up, good guy, a big arrow "cloud" in the sky smashed down from the sky.
"Huh... Shout.... Shout... Phew"
When the rain of arrows poured down, Samaki was stupid, he was a desert turtle, when had he seen this battle, if they had gone through the Eskaw siege, they might still be a little mentally prepared for this, but they were completely playing soy sauce in the Eskaw siege, and they had never even entered a radius of 30 miles from Esko, and they had been robbing outside.
When a rain of arrows passed, Samaqi's men lost hundreds of cavalry at once, many of them were trampled to death by the people behind after being shot down, and when the cavalry charged, it was not possible to stop if they wanted to, even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, they could only rush forward.
Samagi endured the severe pain, and pulled out an arrow stuck in his shoulder, but the physical pain was no match for the pain in his heart, although he didn't know how much his subordinates had lost, but from the sound of the hooves of the sand camels, he could hear that at least hundreds of sand camels had stopped running, as a general who had fought with the sand camel cavalry all his life, he still had this ability.
What annoyed him the most was that he had lost so many men before he had even touched a single hair of the enemy. When he saw the deformed and strange crossbows of the Chinese army, the whole person was not good. He knew it was a crossbow, but he never thought that the range of this crossbow was so far, and the range of the crossbow he knew was only about 500 meters, so he would advance from the flank.
But now there is no point in thinking about this, what matters is what to do next, by the way, at this time the Bedai cavalry was still advancing, and just as Samaki was thinking about what to do next, the second rain of arrows came.
With the experience of the last time, those Beidai cavalry also had experience, and when they saw the rain of arrows attacking again, they all slowed down and defended, but there were still some stupid people who did not react, and there was a century of crashes, and they crashed headlong into the buttocks of the sand camel cavalry in front, which also led to the inevitable chaos in the Beidai cavalry.
After the deceleration, the losses of the Bedai cavalry were slightly smaller than last time, but there were still hundreds of soldiers who fell off their horses, as it was said before, when the cavalry was marching at high speed, there was no way to make any effective defense or dodge in time, although sitting on a sand camel was stronger than sitting on a horse, but it was also limited, and slowing down was the best choice.
But a sudden slowdown of the cavalry is precisely a big taboo, what does the cavalry rely on for food? It's speed, once the speed drops, the mount plus the knight on the surface is simply a live target on the battlefield.
So when the third round of arrow rain fell, the accuracy of this arrow rain coverage was greatly increased, and the crossbow officers of the Silver Moon Arrow were also very vicious to put the range of arrow rain coverage in the back section of the Bei Dai cavalry, and now the Bei Dai cavalry has entered the firing range of more than 800 meters, just enough that the range of the Silver Moon Arrow can cover the back of the Bei Dai cavalry.
The Arrows of the Silver Moon are here to tell these desert bandits that you are all within our range, and if you dare to retreat, be prepared to be chased and beaten by us.
Samaki also understood the meaning of the Silver Moon Arrow's move, and he didn't have the idea of getting out of the battle, after all, these powerful crossbows shocked him too much. After all, the Bedai barbarians are just a group of robbers, and they have seen too little. They usually don't pay attention to the specific information of the surrounding countries, after all, their range of activities rarely leaves the desert, and they rarely fight with regular armies, and the pragmatic Bedai barbarians don't bother to understand the surrounding information at all.