Chapter 457: Heavy Cavalry is also equal to Heavy Infantry
And then, Sun Lin successively received more than 100 copies of the same news about the poisoning of his horse, but fortunately, one of the bold and careful scouts who never set the sun actually tried the grass that could quickly poison a horse (he happened to have a comrade next to him, otherwise this guy would not have done this), and woke up after being in a coma for a period of time and told the poison of these grasses: although this grass that had been poisoned by the Ottomans could quickly poison a livestock, However, it seems that its toxicity has little effect on the human body, at most it can only put people into a coma for a period of time and produce a sense of weakness for a certain period of time after eating, and most importantly, these poisons cannot be dissolved in water, which means that even if the Ottomans were mad enough to pour this mysterious poison into the water source, it would not have any effect on the soldiers who never set the sun.
But in any case, it is impossible for the army to march to the inland territory of the Ottoman Empire next, according to Sun Lin's own judgment of the dead Hill, the reason why Hill wants to gather all the only cavalry in the Ottoman army to fight with him in the Nirya Plain this time is estimated to be to cover them to poison the grass, and from the current point of view, it is estimated that the grassland that will pass through from the Nirya Plain to the Ottoman Empire has been poisoned by this mysterious poison.
In the end, Sun Lin had no choice but to congratulate himself on his foresight, and at the same time as fighting with the Ottoman cavalry army, he sent a reconnaissance force to reconnoiter the surroundings, so that the sun never sets on the heavy cavalry army and the Cuman people and livestock army guarded by the heavy cavalry army were spared from being poisoned by those poisonous weeds, and at the same time ordered the heavy cavalry army and the livestock army they were guarding to stop advancing, and take root in the Nilya Plain, which has not yet been eroded by the mysterious poison from the scouts. In order to supply the light cavalry and Cuman cavalry who were besieging the Ottoman towns around Sunset.
However, although he already knew that he was finally overshadowed by the Ottomans, and his heavy cavalry troops and generals would not be able to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the Ottoman Empire to destroy, at least until the Sunset infantry drove the Half-Dragons in the Iliba Basin out of the city, the Sunset army would not be able to take the next step towards the Ottoman interior, but Sun Lin quickly came out of his anger and had a strategic discussion with the three supreme commanders who commanded the Sunset cavalry army of more than 200,000 cavalry.
"So, your majesty, you want to do everything you want, and solve the problems left over from our rapid assault before our infantry army arrives?" Bobby frowned and looked at the leather-made map of the Ottoman Empire and said, "The Cumans are good marksmen on horse and on foot, and the heavy cavalry units are not without the energy to dismount and fight, but are you sure you won't waste it too much?" You must know that cultivating one heavy cavalry is equivalent to training 4 heavy infantry. ”
That's why I said that the main cavalry regiments participating in the battle this time were the 9th, 10th, and 11th regiments. First of all, the black iron archers of the 10th Heavy Cavalry Regiment were paired with the Cuman hussars, and even if there was no territorial suppression of our longbowmen who never set the sun, and no scorpion crossbows with a large number, I believe that our Cuman warriors would be able to suppress the defenders on the city walls. As he spoke, Sun Lin nodded to Prince Wuda: "Then, we can make the members of the Battlefield Order who dismount and fight become commandos, and lead the Dick Tomahawk heavy cavalry fighting below to storm the city wall, although there are few Dirk people who believe in the state religion of our great empire - Christianity, but the tenacious spirit of the Battlefield Order will definitely be a model for those Dick Tomahawk heavy cavalry who dismount and fight, and as a Dick who can engage in head-to-head hand-to-hand combat with snow troll warriors, I believe that their combat strength will definitely take out the Ottoman soldiers guarding the walls, even if the guards are Ottoman professional heavy infantry. Besides, Bobby, have you forgotten that because of the rapid attack of our army, when our Cuman light cavalry surrounded the fortresses of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman soldiers guarding the city, in addition to the militia troops, the Ottoman professional troops stationed in the city would definitely not exceed the number of our legions, and we, as the attacking side, had at least twice as many professional soldiers. ”
In fact, just as Sun Lin said, when Sun Lin left Bobby and more than 10,000 English heavy knights, as well as the attendants of the knights of the sun who had been disabled and less than 10,000 people, most of whom were wounded, to stay at the garrison of the Cuman livestock army to prevent the Ottoman Empire's inner leader Nuhar from doing anything unfavorable to the Cuman livestock army, Sun Lin and Uda led about 25,000 soldiers of the 9th, 10th, and 11th heavy cavalry regiments of the Sunset, which had low personnel losses after the Battle of Nilya. Rushing to the nearest Ottoman town, surrounded by 4,000 Cuman hussars, the Ottoman side guarding this strategically important Ottoman town at the moment consisted of only more than 2,000 improvised guards and about 1 squadron of regular Ottoman infantry - Nikaman spearmen equipped with spears and large round shields, the main force of the Ottoman Empire's 2nd line.
Since Sun Lin had already used the war eagle to contact the commander who commanded the 4,000 Cuman hussars, when the 25,000 hoplite knights only took more than one day to arrive at the battlefield, the 4,000 Cuman hussars stationed in Cheng had already made all the wood collected around them into simple wooden siege ladders, and these crude siege weapons were enough for the town in front of him with a wooden wall height of only 6 meters.
In the end, with the rushing heavy cavalry, it took 1 day to restore the battle state to the best state, the black iron archers and 4,000 Cuman hussars began to suppress more than 2,000 Ottoman guards on the city wall with a rain of arrows, and then the Dick warriors equipped with double-edged axes and steel shields, and the members of the Field Order armed with two-handed maces carried rough siege ladders to attack this fragile wooden city wall in an all-out way, and the war lasted less than 4 hours before the main force of the Ottoman 2nd line - A squadron of Nikamans' spearmen were all killed, the remaining guards laid down their arms and surrendered in the rout, and the Ottoman nobles in the town ended the battle.
The more than 20,000 Sunset hoplite cavalry warriors, who had suffered negligible losses, were led away by Sun Lin and Uda after leaving the 4,000 Cuman hussars who had besieged the town to guard the place, and rushed to a goal.