Chapter 15: The Battle Before Dawn
Hal looked at the barbarian cavalry that swept over the sky with a pale face, and his face became very ugly. In the dim moonlight, the barbarian cavalry was like a black tsunami, as if it was irresistibly surging over. It was less than an hour before dawn, but Har regretted it very much, it was simply a foolish act to stay here in front of so many barbarian cavalry.
But now it is not suitable to turn around and escape, even if it is only a few dozen miles away, it is not suitable to escape. As the commander-in-chief, he will be the first to flee, which will bring about the rout of the whole army, and the soldiers who are guarding here will not be able to escape the fate of being slaughtered even if they come another 300,000, so he can't escape.
Although Hal has no experience in battle, he seems to have a talent, and he seems to be very calm when he is in danger. Let the soldiers in the battle formation stick to the line, once the barbarian cavalry breaks through the defense line, it will be a catastrophe for everyone.
Hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen attacked, and the shock it brought was like the earth was angry. The legs of the soldier holding the shield trembled and his whole body went limp, as if disaster was coming.
"Take your shields! Stand firm! β
"One on top of the other!"
"Don't try to run away! If you run away, you will only die! β
The commanders and chiefs of each sequence kept shouting, and the voices one after another told the soldiers to hold their own defensive lines, as long as they withstood the first wave of attacks from the barbarian cavalry, the barbarian cavalry that lost their speed was not necessarily terrible.
Both Hal and the barbarian generals on the opposite side were waiting, waiting for a signal of engagement.
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Again, the old saying, night... The darkness is deep
People like to say that the last moment before dawn is the darkest. The brief moment when the moon sets and the sun rises, the heavens and the earth are plunged into complete darkness. As darkness fell, the warriors could only hear each other's breathing, their bows and crossbows tightened.
As happens in many scripts, it's all about detachment.
The sound of a bow and arrow breaking through the air was extremely abrupt on this dark land, and it shot fiercely on the big shield raised by the soldiers of the Central Plains, making a thick muffled sound!
"Kill!" A rain of arrows rose from the camp of the barbarian cavalry and melted into the darkness.
The same words also sounded in the camp of the Central Plains soldiers, and two waves of arrows staggered in the sky, and after colliding, they each attacked their own targets. At that moment, the barbarian cavalry moved!
Countless wails rang out, but they were quickly drowned out by the sound of rumbling horses' hooves. The earth shook, and everyone clenched their weapons, staring at the enemy who was about to emerge from the darkness.
A few open flames suddenly ignited behind the Central Plains cavalry, and a huge fireball pierced the night sky and smashed into the barbarian cavalry! A lot of raging fires were drawn!
The fire burned the nearby grass stalks and spread quickly! But the cavalry couldn't stop, stepping on this flame, stepping on the corpses of their fellow clansmen, and rushing towards the battle formation of the Central Plains soldiers.
War is never a man's romance. Blood and death are the main themes of the battlefield, fighting, screaming and roaring are intertwined, the bow and crossbow never stop, and the fireball in the sky is like the end of the world, smashing into the rear. This battlefield... It's hell!
There is no one who does not desire to stop, but none of them can stop, and those who stop will only be greeted by the bloody butcher's knife of the enemy.
Countless Central Plains soldiers fell, the shields in their hands were torn apart, and the spears were broken in two, but more barbarian cavalry fell before them. The barbarian offensive did not stop, but quickly broke through the first and second lines of defense of the Central Plains soldiers.
"Your Highness! It's time for us to retreat! "The old man in the army did not panic because he saw the barbarian cavalry break through the defense line, he knew from the beginning that his side was very weak, both in terms of strength and combat strength.
Hal shook his head, "It's not time yet!" I can't move yet! β
There was a trace of surprise on Old Man Cheng's face, obviously he didn't expect the third prince Wu to be so kind and not take a step back. He subconsciously clenched the long sword at his waist, obviously prepared for something.
The war continued, and the huge sea of cavalry of the barbarian cavalry finally lost its momentum in the fourth line of defense. But at this time, tens of thousands of soldiers were already trapped in the chaotic battlefield on the front line, unable to extricate. Everywhere you look, the soldiers who fell into the chaos of the battlefield were quickly divided and surrounded, and finally slaughtered.
The battle losses of the soldiers of the Central Plains were very high, but the battle losses of the barbarians were even higher. From the launch of the charge to the present, the fireball of the bow and crossbow on the Central Plains side has not stopped, under the cover of the night, the barbarians do not know how many people have been lost in this charge, but what they know is that the commander of the Central Plains Pig is in the position ahead! His banner is still there!
As if in order to be able to invade the Central Plains in one go, the barbarian cavalry burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm. No one doubts that there will be no reward for capturing the local boss alive, they only worry about one thing, and that is whether they can be the one who catches the enemy manager!
The war fell into anxiety, and the entire frontal battlefield had been completely chaotic, and countless barbarian cavalry wanted to break through the blockade of the Central Plains soldiers, but it was impossible for the Central Plains soldiers to let the barbarian cavalry break through their own blockade. The phalanx of the Central Plains soldiers was very huge, and it was very difficult to attack from the flanks from the side. In addition, Ptolemy, the boss of the barbarians, had not yet arrived at the scene, and the leaders of these tribes could not obey each other.
Even if the leaders of other tribes thought of this, it was difficult for them to penetrate the phalanx of the Central Plains soldiers from the flanks with the strength of their own clan. The situation was completely stalemate when the barbarians were like a plate of scattered sand.
The fighting continued, and the stalemate in the battle did not mean that it was good for Hal or any of the generals in the camp, but on the contrary, it would make them more uneasy.
At present, the number of barbarian armies that appear here to fight with their own side is no more than 110,000, you must know that the barbarians are known as a million army, and any Central Plains general will not be naΓ―ve enough to send these 110,000 people here to fight with him in a decisive battle. One after another, barbarian armies emerged from the horizon and joined the warbands.
If it weren't for the lack of Ptolemy's figure for a long time, and no one came to order this group of big-footed men who only knew how to loot and fight, maybe the Central Plains army would have collapsed long ago. But even so, the defense line of the entire army was still crumbling, and cavalry constantly broke through the line, only to be overwhelmed by the crowd. There were also a steady stream of red-eyed soldiers rushing out of the line and falling to the ground with their backs on the ground.
At this moment, a huge drum beat suddenly came from a distance, and the deafening drum sound even covered all the sounds on the battlefield at this moment, making everyone stop what they were doing and look in the direction where the sound came from.
Under the light of the blazing fire, a golden wolf king banner appeared at the end of the horizon, and a golden wolf head banner and a silver eagle banner were erected on both sides. Under the three-pole banner, countless barbarian cavalry held torches high, slowly approaching this battlefield, like a flaming dragon, as if to burn everything up...
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