019: Conquest
The wide, empty plain stretched out beneath the heavenly dome, flat and vast to the end of the pole. There are no hills, no mountains, no forests, no cities, no streets, only endless grasslands, where the wind and clouds surge, and the long blades of grass swing like waves.
"This grass wave is indeed very much like the sea, a green sea." Liu Jian straddled the body of the conquering king, and looked at the continuous turquoise of the Dothraki Great Grass Sea with his head held high. Now is the time of green, and I heard that when it blooms, the mountains are full of dark red flowers, like a sea of blood. By the time of the dry season in Dothrak, the steppes were no longer as green as they are now, but full of colors.
Liu Jian has been watching this scene for more than ten days, and he still doesn't feel bored.
"Hum ~~~!"
The king of conquest under his crotch snorted dissatisfiedly and shook his head, as if to remind his master not to be poetic at this critical moment, and to see if the actual situation allows you to enjoy the beauty of nature.
Touching the neck of the King of Conquest, Liu Jian raised his head again and looked at the army on the other side of the river.
It was a typical Dothraki army, loud and chaotic.
The typical robber is the military.
Across a small river, which was not too wide and only five meters, a stone's throw away from each other, the two armies faced each other.
Compared with the two, the number of people on Liu Jian's side is obviously less than half. But this is only the surface, and the reality is that the disparity in numbers is even greater. He deliberately let a group of children who were not yet adults also ride their horses and hide at the back of the line. to hide the fact that another thousand of his own cavalry was missing.
The 1,000 cavalry were now under the leadership of Cheng Caiwei, avoiding the sentry of Zokakao from the lower reaches of the nameless river and winding around the back of Zorka's Karatha. When Liu Jian and Zoka are in a fierce battle, it depends. Cheng Caiwei will lead the 1,000 cavalry to raid from behind Karatha.
Of course, the premise of all this is that Liu Jian must stop Zoka's Karasa attack on this side of the river. Drag the war into the quagmire of entanglement. If Liu Jian used inferior forces to resist Zokka's attack, then Cheng Caiwei's surprise soldiers would be meaningless.
This is also the key to why Liu Jian chose to set up a formation across the river.
The speed of the river is far from rapid. But it has nothing to do with flatness. The depth of the water is not dangerous, averaging only one and a half meters, and an adult Dothraki can show his nose even if he stands in the deepest part of the river. If you ride on a horse, there is no danger at all.
But despite this, once in the river, the impact of the cavalry turned into a joke.
Zokakao obviously knew this, so he didn't make a reckless attack, but let his Calatha move up and down the river, on the one hand, to see if he could get rid of Liu Jian and force the river to cross, and on the other hand, he was also looking for a smooth current. The river is crossed in a narrow position.
Liu Jian was waiting for Zoka to divide his troops, as long as Zoka chose to divide his troops, he dragged Liu Jian's troops in the middle, and then the divided soldiers and horses forcibly crossed the river from both sides at the same time. Liu Jian's meager troops must not be able to allocate enough energy to take care of the division of troops on the upper and lower sides, so he can only choose to fight a fierce battle with Zokakao in the middle.
On the opposite side, Karaza began to cross the river.
Zoka clearly did not have the idea of dividing his forces and attacking together, he tried to take advantage of his absolute superiority in strength, and after surveying the depth of the water, nearly 8,000 Dothraki roaring warriors rode their horses into the rushing river.
"It's a pity." Liu Jian sighed slightly
If Zoka chooses to divide his troops up and down to bypass Liu Jian's garrison and forcibly cross the river, it is equivalent to giving Liu Jian a chance. A chance to go straight to the enemy line and capture the flag. Rushing 8,000 people, even if these 8,000 people are all strong in force, they are a group of robbers who don't understand the cooperation and order, Liu Jian is not completely sure, but it is very likely that he will fall into the formation and not be able to rush out. But if there are only three or four thousand people. Liu Jian felt that he could give it a try.
Using your strongest force advantage to kill Kao is the fastest way to end this war.
But it is clear that Zoka did not do it 'right'.
I guess I didn't think of this method of dividing troops to cross the river. It is more likely that Zoka has absolute confidence in his absolute strength, so as long as he gives full play to his absolute superiority in strength.
Truly. Eight thousand against three thousand...... In fact, when a thousand of the elites were still taken away by Cheng Caiwei, there was a huge gap of 4:1 in the number of troops. In the absence of much difference in the quality of the armies of the two sides, it is simply overwhelming.
"Ready!" Liu Jian raised his arm, and in his hand he held a long weapon with a strange shape, with a crescent hook on one side and a battle axe on the other, which was closer to the combination of European medieval axes and traditional Chinese crescent halberds. The entire weapon was made of steel, and on the blade, Liu Jian used dark iron. This kind of structure also made this entire weapon extremely heavy, with a weight of more than four hundred catties. With such a heavy weapon, ordinary people can't even lift it, and even if they barely lift it, they will definitely not be able to wield it. But when it fell into Liu Jian's hands, it was just right and very suitable.
And the king of conquest can also carry this terrifying weight. Ordinary horses, I am afraid that Liu Jian will sit on the back of the horse with this thing that can be directly used as a prop for the jerk competition, and he will not be able to bear it and be crushed to the ground after three or five hours, but Liu Jian, who is holding the axe, sits on the body of the king of conquest, but it does not feel the slightest discomfort, and even the speed does not slow down much.
This axe was named by Liu Jian for conquest.
"Shoot the arrows!"
At the sound of an order, a rain of arrows descended towards the Dothraki cavalry who had leapt into the river. The shortcomings of the Dothraki habit of disliking armor are exposed in this situation, and under normal circumstances, in the face of a rain of arrows, the Dothraki can ride their horses to dodge, and they can wield the Arak scimitar in their hands to dispel the flying arrows. But once they fell into the current situation, where the horses were drowned in stagnant water and could not dodge, they could only put the Arak scimitar on top of their heads and wave it wildly, hoping for the blessing of the horse god.
This round of arrow rain is conservatively estimated to have killed and wounded no less than 500 Dothraki.
After a round of arrow rain, Liu Jian did not wait for the second round of orders to be fired, leading Karasa to charge.
Half-crossed, great opportunity.
The moment he rushed to the bank of the river, Liu Jian fiercely waved the expedition in his hand, and the heavy mountain-like expedition waved out a mighty wind and smashed directly into a Dothraki cavalry who had just crawled out of the cold river like the top of Mount Tai.
That's right, either cut or smash!
The weight of more than 400 catties, together with Liu Jian's strength, has gathered into an irresistible power potential energy, because it is an axe blade made of dark iron, so it can be sharpened to the extreme but can still maintain absolute toughness and non-urging. Generally speaking, for a knife edge to be sharp, it needs to be sharpened very thinly, but a very thin blade causes the blade itself to be more prone to wear and break. Therefore, unless it is a special need, the general weapon will not be sharpened too sharply, which is to avoid the compromise of the weapon from quickly becoming dull or even breaking on the battlefield.
But this kind of problem does not appear in the dark iron, just a thin iron bar has a weight of seventy or eighty catties, and the indestructible dark iron, even if it is polished to the extreme, still retains its own characteristics of the dark iron. All of this has magnified the power of the Darkiron Axe Blade to the extreme.
The expedition cut off the Arak scimitar of the Dothraki cavalry, and then split his head in the frightened eyes of the Rak, Liu Jian pressed his wrist, and the expedition went all the way down with a huge potential energy. (To be continued.) )