Chapter 573: Another Great Gift
At first, a dozen cavalry companies led their horses to fall into the formation, and people turned on their backs, but no one cared, and it was normal for horses to stumble on their front hooves.
However, in the cavalry phalanx that had been running fast, more and more cavalry fell, and the horses let out painful wails and screams, which were clearly audible in almost the entire phalanx, and in a short time hundreds of cavalrymen lost their horses.
The vanguard general, who sensed that something was wrong, was secretly frightened at this time, and he knew that he had fallen into the trap of the enemy. However, even then, there was no way for him to stop his army from stopping. It is not easy for the cavalry who charge up to stop or turn around immediately, the cavalry will only follow the battle flag forward and forward, and even if the situation can be stopped, it will be trampled by the cavalry behind.
As more and more cavalry fell, the cavalry phalanx of 20,000 men had already lost more than 2,000 cavalry before they could reach Korincha's barracks, and at this time, the cavalry phalanx began to panic, and they finally discovered the countless discolored traps on the ground, and it was the enemy's cheap work that caused their comrades to fall.
The panicked cavalry phalanx was now completely disorganized, and many of them had stopped running, slowed down their horses, and did not dare to move any further.
Suddenly, almost all the tents of the Kolincha military camp were completely opened, and rows of crossbow chariots, rows of catapults, and rows of elven archers and phantom archers were exposed to the cavalry that had been completely disorganized.
The cavalry vanguard general was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "Not good, we have been fooled, retreat!" ”
"Woo woo......" Colin Cha gave an order, and the crossbow chariots and catapults poured a rain of stone bullets and arrows towards the chaotic earthquake, and the enemy immediately wailed all over the field, and many people immediately turned their horses' heads and withdrew in the direction of Yuping Pass.
The best way to deal with the trapped horse pit is to let the war horse walk slowly, so that even if the horse's feet fall into the pit, it will not be hurt too much. But now, slowly moving back, becoming a live target for the enemy's catapult Hel crossbow chariot; Quickly ride your horse and whip back, countless traps are waiting for you to step on; Trying to surprise the enemy's barracks, the cavalry has lost its speed and can only become the trophy of the phantom archers and elven archers who are waiting for the opponent. Whatever choice you make, it's nerve-wracking.
After two rounds of shooting, the enemy finally collapsed, almost all of them got on their horses and turned around and ran back, stepping on the trap is a matter of probability after all, even if they step on the trap, it is also the war horse that is damaged, their own life is now more important than the war horse, and no one can take care of the cavalry criterion that the war horse is more important than the knight.
In less than half an hour, the majestic 20,000 cavalry pioneers all withdrew to the front of Yuping Pass, many of them had no war horses, and many war horses ran back by themselves, which was miserable! Around the Korincha camp, six or seven thousand horses were left struggling and neighing, and the cavalrymen who were shot to death, and the knights who were trampled to death and wounded by their own men, there were also three or four thousand people.
Attacking with full morale, they came back dejected, frightened. At this time, Ma Pote's main army had not yet arrived at Yuping Pass, and the vanguard cavalry, which had suffered heavy losses, no longer dared to risk attacking, and immediately reported the military situation here to Ma Pote.
There were 200,000 troops in Mapote's march to Yuping Pass, and 100,000 were left near Luxwan City to continue to loot supplies for the army and ensure the logistics of the army.
200,000 people arrived at Yuping Pass before evening, Yuping Pass did not have such a large capacity to station so many people, Ma Potter had to pass through Yuping Pass and stationed 100,000 people in the pass to set up camp in the pass, and the other half of the people, staying outside the pass, also camped.
Ma Potter was not too surprised by what happened to the vanguard cavalry, and if the Fifth Legion did not have the slightest means to deal with its own cavalry, it would not dare to blatantly attack Yuping Pass to provoke itself.
It is not difficult to break through the horse pit, with the infantry divided into several columns, covered by shield soldiers, quickly advance, interfere with the griffon legions in the air, just break into the enemy's barracks, disrupt the enemy's military formation, and then the cavalry slowly advances and crosses the horse pit position. In short, advancing the camp step by step is the best way to break the formation, and if the enemy dares to entangle with him, it will become a nightmare for the cavalry who break through the position of the horse pit.
When the army was settled, it was already completely dark, and the enemy situation was unknown, there was no need for Mapote to break through the formation at night and risk the lives of his soldiers, so he ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate, and to line up again until the next morning, so that he would not care about Nyala's urging.
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In the evening, above Kolincha's military camp, a huge thunderbird swooped down from the sky into the military camp, and Lan Xian'er jumped from Ray's back and went straight to Kolincha's military tent.
"Young lady!" Colin Cha was overjoyed, he was already a little worried about tomorrow's battle, his trap formation can only scare the enemy for a while, if the enemy advances step by step, his own 30,000 people, it is really dangerous, and now that Lan Xian'er is in charge, he is finally relieved.
After greeting Kolincha for a while, Lan Xian'er asked, "General Corincha, Ma Porte's 200,000 troops have arrived at Yuping Pass, and they are about to advance to the Guanzhong Plain tomorrow, can the general withstand Ma Porte's troops?" ”
"I'm about to ask Madame for a good way to break the enemy!" Corincha laughed.
Lan Xian'er said with a smile: "Your task is to relieve the siege of the Right Route Army, now that Mabot has withdrawn the main force besieging Rvence City, Marshal Simak is not in danger for the time being, your task has been completed!" ”
Colin Cha said: "But Yuping Pass is still in the hands of the enemy, if we can't get through Yuping Pass, if our army is in danger in the Guanzhong Plain, we will have to go to Wupara Pass." Yuping Pass is only more than 300 kilometers away from Crodina City, and Wupara Pass is twice as far away, if Yuping Pass is used as a response point, connecting Bobo Huacheng and Guanzhong Plain, not only our logistics supply line will be much closer, but also the army can attack and retreat! In any case, Yuping Pass is a strategic point for us to seize! ”
"Hehe, just with tens of thousands of people, do you dare to knock? The tone is not small! Lan Xian'er said, "Since we have come in the Guanzhong Plain, we have not retreated, and we have no choice but to capture the city of Krodina!" You took Yuping Pass, giving the whole army more options for survival, and they didn't kill the enemy so much! The Guanzhong Plain is too big, our Fifth Army Corps should not divide the troops too scattered, the best way is to encircle the point to send reinforcements, concentrate the troops near the city of Crodina, and set up camp, the 100,000 Janissaries in the city of Crodina do not dare to go out of the city, we can completely wait for work, and wipe out the troops that hurried to King Qin one by one. Presumably General Korincha will not forget that more than ten years ago, Arad used 400,000 people to besiege the city of Crodina with 80,000 defenders, besieged but did not fight, forcing Catherine's Qinwang army to constantly moths to the fire, heavy losses, and finally Catherine had no choice but to abandon the city to break through, and now the situation is reversed, we just use the way of others to govern the body, let Arad experience the pain of Catherine back then, hehe! ”
"Madame is asking me to withdraw my army to the city of Crodina?" Corincha exclaimed, "It is more dangerous to withdraw now than to hold on." If our army makes a move, the enemy's cavalry will definitely follow and pursue, and without the blockage of the horse trap formation, how can we resist it in the plains? ”
"The general has broken the enemy in the horse pit today, the fire is just right, and he has already taught the enemy the best lesson, the enemy's cavalry has become a frightened bird, and they still have the courage to pursue you?" Lan Xian'er said, took out the warrior order of the Fifth Legion from her bosom, and ordered Kolincha, "General Korincha, I want you to immediately organize a large army, withdraw from your position overnight, and march towards the city of Crodina, and your movements must be concealed so that the enemy cannot be detected!" After two hours, the camp must be pulled! ”
"Yes!" Corincha looked at the warrior order in Lan Xian'er's hand in amazement, and didn't dare to disobey, and after agreeing, he wondered, "However, we are unprepared, in two hours, all 30,000 people retreated, how could we do it in a hurry?" ”
Lan Xian'er said: "Distribute all the combat rations to the soldiers, and don't want anything except the equipment they carry with them!" ”
"What?" Corinth was even more surprised, couldn't believe that there was such an order, and asked again, "Madam, don't want anything?" Baggage, military rations, and a large number of materials are all abandoned, and they are all gone, is this to finance the enemy? ”
"Hehe, I'm just going to be the enemy!" Lan Xian'er said, "You go and arrange it immediately, leave your guard camp at the end, and I will press the battle with you at the end and put on a good show for Marbot and Arad, hahaha!" ”
Colin was suspicious and didn't know what Lan Xian'er was going to do, but the warrior order was in front of him, and he didn't dare to disobey it, so he immediately summoned all the generals and began to convey the military order.
The entire camp of 30,000 men in Korincha, lit up all night, seemed to be busy preparing for battle.
30,000 people, including 5,000 baggage soldiers, 300 catapults, 500 crossbow chariots, hundreds of carts of military rations, a large number of arrows, weapons, equipment and other materials, were all discarded, and not a single fire was allowed.
Everyone traveled lightly, and the war rations were only enough for three days, and they could not reach the city of Crodina in any case. Lan Xian'er ordered the army, divided into parts, with thousands of people, divided into left, middle and right three routes, respectively towards the city of Croatia, self-supply, in the event of an enemy must not be entangled, within eight days, must arrive at the city of Croatia to assemble the army.
Korincha's battalion of eight hundred guards was busy all night, until it was almost dawn, and finally completed the task assigned by the blue fairy, and immediately all got on their horses, disappeared into the night, and marched along the middle road towards the city of Krodina.
Kolincha's military camp was busy, all the camp tents were brightly lit all night, and it seemed that it was carrying out operational deployment and digging horse pits in Yuping Pass......