"His Majesty Saladin has a will, if you can arrive one day early, you will be rewarded with one gold coin per person! Arrive two days early, and each person will be rewarded with hardware! If you can arrive three days early, you will be rewarded with 10 gold per person! Now it's less than two days away from the South Peak Fortress, everyone work hard! ”

The captain of the escort was a little dissatisfied with the slowdown of the motorcade, and shouted encouragement in front of the convoy, trying to arouse the enthusiasm of these conscripts.

His words did have some effect.

Thinking of Saladin's promised reward, many of the coachmen's eyes became eager, and they picked up their whips and struck their mules and horses a few times.

The speed that had slowed down was invisibly faster again.

Unfortunately, there is a slightly raised uphill slope ahead.

The heavy load on the cart dragged down the mules and horses, and the little speed that burst out soon slowed down again.

Some of the Omanis who were conscripted even had to roll up their sleeves and push the cart themselves.

Just as the wing captain was about to say something, the ground suddenly shook slightly.

At first, it was not obvious, probably far from here.

But it didn't take long for the shaking of the ground to become clearer.

If it is placed in Yanyun County in the north of the empire, or the Lena Dynasty, a knowledgeable rider can guess that this is a situation where a large number of cavalry are approaching quickly.

But these Omanis, who had not dealt much with cavalry, did not react at the first time.

They can't be blamed for this, after all, this is still their own territory, and further north is the fortress of the southern peak, which was captured by the Omanis.

Therefore, the Omani soldiers who escorted the grain and grass only slightly increased their vigilance and did not prepare for battle in the first place.

They didn't even let the huge convoy stop to form a defense.

Although the effect of these large carts transporting grain is far inferior to the partial vans used by Chen Wu, if they are really combined, they can still cause a lot of trouble to the cavalry - of course, if many of the cavalry can ride and shoot and bring a large number of rockets, it will be different.

In short, the Omani escort wing reacted more than a beat slowly.

By the time they sent the lead scouts to rush behind the cavalry, the cavalry of the Taiping army was less than three miles away from the grain transport team.

"Enemy attack!"

By this time, even the stupidest soldier realized that something was wrong.

Seeing those cavalry coming straight towards him, the leading Omani soldiers shouted a warning, which immediately caused panic among the entire escort wing and the coachmen.

"Calm down! Stabilization! ”

The wing commander in charge of the escort drew his knife and prepared to meet the battle, while loudly suppressing the order, and at the same time shouted: "This is the land of our Oman Kingdom, even if there are enemies sneaking in, there will not be too many. Prepare for battle! ”

Under his reprimand, the somewhat panicked and wavering Omani soldiers found their backbone and quickly began to assemble in a queue, ready to meet the cavalry charge.

As a precaution, a small group of Omanis made a sneaky circle from the west side, broke away from the group, and headed straight for the South Peak Fortress, ready to ask for help from the defenders there.

If the escort team can hold out for two days, maybe it will be able to hold out until the army comes to help.

Because they were transporting grain and grass, there was no shortage of food or weapons, and the soldiers also carried bamboo tubes filled with water, so it should not be difficult to barely hold on for two to three days, which should be the only good news.

However, this idea of the wing captain was quickly shattered after seeing the cavalry of the Taiping army.

The reason is simple, the number of cavalry of the Taiping army is too large!

If it is a small force of cavalry, only one or two hundred people, relying on the array of the wing and the cart carrying grain, it may be able to resist.

However, the total number of Omani soldiers escorted was only a thousand, and the enemy's cavalry seemed to be nearly a thousand!

After relying on the speed to climb the slope, the cavalry of the Taiping army occupied a certain height advantage and began to accelerate with the help of the terrain.

A full 800 cavalry, under the command of Yan Dongxing, the former deputy commander of the forbidden army of the Hue Dynasty, rushed to the team transporting grain with amazing momentum.

After a long period of training, coupled with the Dengzhou cavalry recruited, this cavalry unit of the Taiping Army already has a little cavalry meaning.

Although it was much worse than the old connoisseurs, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Omani escort wing, who had never seen much cavalry, it was already difficult to resist.

The last few hundred meters of distance rushed by in an instant.

"Defense!"

Seeing that there were only 100 steps left in the distance, Oman's co-captain suppressed his panic and shouted loudly to cheer up.

At the same time, the fifty foot archers in the team also opened their bows nervously and fired the first volley!

Nervous, the first round of shooting by the Omanis was not good.

Almost half of the arrows missed, and the remaining feathered arrows fell into the ranks of the Taiping cavalry, and after being weakened by the standard leather armor, only less than ten cavalrymen were killed and wounded.

Instead of achieving the desired effect, the Taiping cavalry took the opportunity to close twenty paces, making the Omani infantry archers even more nervous.

Many of the foot archers didn't even bother to aim carefully, and after two hurried shots, they panicked and retreated to the rear of the array.

The cavalry of the Taiping Army followed closely behind, galloping in!

Eight hundred cavalry, storming a thousand light infantry, in the vast majority of cases, is a breeze.

In particular, the cavalry of the Taiping army had a certain height advantage, and the Omani escort wing had little experience in dealing with cavalry, so the effect of this impact was even better.

A wave of whistling passed, and the Omani procession shook solemnly.

If you go down the slope, the cavalry of the Huiping army is divided into eight columns, and it is as easy as a sharp knife to insert into the otherwise neat queue of the Omanis.

As the momentum of the entire shock quickly waned, the Omani queue was also chiseled in a short period of time.

The experienced Dengzhou cavalry, skillfully using their skills, used their sabers to cut through the crowd with a wave of blood symbolizing death.

The Taipings' own cavalry, though not so good on the surface, imitated their skills as much as possible, harvesting as many lives as possible on their way through the ranks of the Omanis.

After a wave of charges, the entire Omani escort was close to collapse.

"Damn it!"

The co-captain, who was slashed in the ribs and was almost unable to lift the knife, couldn't help but curse in despair.

His mind was full of doubts, and he didn't know how this group of imperial cavalry had appeared in Oman.

Isn't the South Peak Fortress still in the hands of the Omanis?

His Majesty, the emperor who attacked Tianlong City, placed tens of thousands of left-behind troops and wounded soldiers on the side of Nanfeng Fortress!

What the captain didn't know was that it was none other than the Omanis themselves who had harmed them!

In order to prevent future troubles, Saladin forcibly requisitioned tens of thousands of imperial people to completely dismantle the South Peak Fortress.

The cavalry of the Taiping Army broke through a section of the defense line that had been demolished overnight.

Due to negligence, not many Omani soldiers were stationed in that section at night.

After being shot, the Omanis did not have a single eyewitness, only that a group of imperial cavalry went south during the night, and no one could even tell how many.

After that, Yan Dongxing went south, and very cunningly left a group of cavalry nearby.

The Omani scouts who set out from the Nanfeng Fortress to warn were directly intercepted and killed by the Taiping cavalry.

This unlucky escort wing is the victim of the intelligence blockade!

Restraint in the arms is not something that the Omanis can resist with courage.

As the Taiping cavalry gradually accelerated, passed through the Omani convoy, and re-turned to the clearing, ready to launch a second charge, the short but brutal battle quickly drew to a close.

The Omani coachmen who accompanied the army had already wavered when the cavalry rushed to a distance of 100 meters from the escort wing.

When the Taiping cavalry broke up the line, swept past them, and regrouped, the frightened coachmen either hid under the grain carts or scattered.

Yan Dongxing didn't pay attention to these inconsequential people at all.

After the second wave of the charge was completed by the turnaround, the entire Omani escort wing was close to collapse.

Seeing that the Taiping cavalry was about to launch a third round of charges and complete the turn and assembly again, these untrained infantry couldn't help it and began to flee.

The light infantry is attacked by cavalry in the wilderness, and if they hold the array to resist, they may be able to hold out for a while longer and make the cavalry pay a little more sacrifice, but once they scatter and flee, the outcome will only be faster.

The cavalry can take advantage of their mobility and drive the infantry to exterminate at will.

Soon, the cavalry of this escort company suffered heavy casualties, and only two or three hundred of them fled into the wilderness.

Under the command of Yan Dongxing, the cavalry did not disperse and chased too far, and soon turned back.

After inspecting the carts and picking and taking away a batch of valuable things, the remaining grain and grass were all burned by a fire.

By the time the terrified Omanis returned half a day later, hundreds of carts had been burned.

Only a handful of weapons remained, but none of the most urgently needed food on the front line remained.

This result made the requisitioned coachmen and the remaining soldiers of the escort wing angry and desperate.

Realizing their fate, many people chose to flee in desperation.

At this time, the cavalry of Yan Dongxing's commander had already left from the attack point and continued to move south along the way.

It can be expected that this batch of grain and grass will never be the last.

Attacking this wave alone will only aggravate the predicament of the Omanis on the front line, but it will not be enough to completely crush them.

Led by Nguyen Sai Minh's personal bodyguard, the deputy commander of the former Praetorian Army, the cavalry quickly approached the Omani stronghold of the Red River Valley, the Koi Castle.

After all, this is a battle outside the borders of the empire, and if there is no person who is familiar with the terrain to guide the way, it will be difficult for the cavalry of Yan Dongxing to intercept and move so smoothly.

But now, after attacking the grain convoy, they appeared outside the Koi Citadel just a day later and did not arouse the alarm of any Omanis.

At this moment, the Kou Castle was still immersed in the joy of Saladin's personal expedition into the territory of the empire, and he did not have the slightest vigilance at all, let alone that a cavalry unit had broken through the South Peak Fortress overnight, ready to make a big fuss here.