009: Unprepared

Liu Jian's Karasa began to act, dragging a narrow black line across the vast sea of Dothraki grass.

The entire Karatha operation was fraught with chaos and disorder.

Whether it was the ordinary people of Karatha, or the knights of Karasa, they were full of chaos in their march.

The only consolation for Liu Jian was that at least the Dothraki knew how to send scouts.

As Karasa moved, swift scouts moved from afar, in front of and around him, reporting back all sorts of information from time to time.

Although because of this unique long summer climate, because this world is sometimes almost nonexistent, and sometimes too deadly pressure changes, because of the presence of magical power.

In the nearly 10,000 years since Westeros entered the feudal system, there has been no substantial change in either science and technology or social relations of production, and Essos is even worse, and the social relations of production on this continent are still stuck in a typical slave society. On the contrary, some creations containing magic, such as Valyrian steel, gradually disappeared and even became legends with the passage of time.

But experience is something that can always be passed on.

The Dothraki people have lived and multiplied in the Dothraki Sea for nearly 10,000 years, although they have only entered the patriarchal clan slave society from the primitive society of the matrilineal clan, but they have more or less learned how to fight.

But this level of performance was undoubtedly very disappointing to Liu Jian, and he knew very well at this moment that if he wanted to conquer this world, it would be almost impossible to rely on these brave but chaotic Dothraki people alone.

He needs an army,

In Liu Jian's opinion, there is no better army in this world than the Unsullied of Astapor.

The most famous battle of the Unsullied was the Battle of Kohor, in which only 3,000 Unsullied fended off an attack of more than 50,000 elite soldiers led by a Dothrakkalasa. Although nearly all of the 3,000 Unsullied were killed after the war, they succeeded in forcing the invincible Karasa to cut off his braids and declare defeat.

The elite, establishment, weaponry, and fighting methods of this army are almost a replica of the Spartan warriors.

The only difference is probably that they were slaves, and all of them were castrated.

Liu Jian looked at the Dothraki warriors beside him, their faces were full of plunder and excitement about the coming war, and they were laughing loudly. Obviously, when the time comes to actually go to war, it is absolutely impossible to expect these people to fully obey their orders and retreat when they hear the drums. Once the battle situation shows a tug-of-war trend, or even fall into a disadvantage, it is absolutely delusional to expect these people to always maintain a high momentum.

"If I count on these people, I'm really hopeless." On the surface, he was quiet, but in his heart, Liu Jian was very disappointed in the Dothraki.

However, at this stage, these Dothraki are also the best weapons that Liu Jian can fight.

After all, the others are in the sea of grass in Dothrak.

But once stabilized, the first thing he had to do was train his own army.

Adult Dothraki warriors have lived in the Dothraki Sea of Grass for nearly 10,000 years, and the unchanged life of nearly 10,000 years has imprinted all kinds of vices into their bones. It's not like there's no way to make a change, but it's too much effort.

But children are different, children's world view, outlook on life, and values have not yet been formed and stable, and they are the easiest time to change and shape.

If you gather these children around you from an early age, you will start to educate and train them from the time they are not mature at all, educate them with knowledge, train them tacit understanding, and educate them to fight together, and even Liu Jian is ready to compile a special teaching material to make these children's combat effectiveness far exceed that of ordinary people in this world after training.

He sat on the thousands of martial arts cheats of the Huanshi Water Pavilion, and summarized a simple set of martial arts that was suitable for the battlefield and the cooperation of multiple people, although it was not very easy, but anyway, Liu Jian had plenty of time now.

However, it is better to look at the present for now, because with Liu Jian's Karatha's continuous action. Cass, whom Liu Jian saw as a target for conquest, had already discovered the migration of this Karatha.

Groups of cavalry rushed out of Kas's makeshift settlement, but instead of attacking recklessly, they patrolled the surroundings.

However, a large part of them apparently did not think that war would start at this time, and many of these cavalrymen even carried only an Arak scimitar.

There are four kinds of weapons that are most commonly used and best used by the Dothraki cavalry, the first is the Arak scimitar, which is also the most commonly used weapon of the Dothraki people, this strangely shaped scimitar is very terrifying in the power of slashing on the horse, and even many times there is no need to slash at all.

The kind of wound that grows to the point that almost cuts the whole person, with the medical technology of the Dothraki grass sea, basically does not need to be expected to be saved.

The second is a hyperbolic bow.

Projecting a deadly rain of arrows at the enemy during movement was also a common method of warfare used by the Dothraki.

The third is the leather whip, which is used selectively at medium and long ranges, when the scimitar cannot be attacked and the bow and arrow is too close, and is used to pull enemies on horseback off their horses, usually used to chase fleeing enemies.

As for the last one, it is a spear.

Attaching an iron or bronze spearhead to a straight wooden pole is simple but still lethal. Both in Westeros and in Essos there were large numbers of military units armed with spears, and even the Dothraki were no exception.

However, the Dothraki did not like to use spears, and they would only abandon their scimitars in favor of spears against armoured enemies such as the Unsullied, due to the fact that during the Battle of Kahor long ago, the three thousand Unsullied used their spears to teach the Dothraki the terrifying piercing power of the spears.

As for the wars that took place between the Dothraki and the Dothraks, the spears were basically not visible, and more often the two sides shot each other with bows and arrows, and when they got close, they fought with scimitars.

The Dothraki regarded wearing armor as a coward, and all warriors were unarmoured, and when faced with unarmored troops, sharp scimitars were significantly more lethal and more pronounced than spears.

The vast majority of these Dothraki cavalry who escaped carried only a scimitar, and only a few carried bows and arrows.

This shows that these Dothraki cavalry were not ready for war, otherwise the bow and arrow would be the most important and frequently used weapon in the war of the Dothrakis.

They apparently thought of the force as a small tribe on the move, and the migration of the tribe was normal for the Dothraki people, who lived in search of water and grass. Their houses are all movable tents for ease of movement.

Liu Jian's goal was achieved.

Although the individual combat power of these Dothraki people is strong, the overall combat effectiveness makes Liu Jian worried. After all, before Liu Jian conquered there, it was just a small Kas who surrendered to the leadership of Zokakao, although in the process of Liu Jian's conquest, there were no casualties, but the combat power it could take out was only more than 2,000 cavalry, nearly half of which were young Dothraki warriors who had never been on the battlefield and had just become adults and had not yet tied their braids.

And the goal that Liu Jian wants to conquer is the same size as this cass, and they can also take out about 2,000 cavalry, and they will not fluctuate too much up and down.

To win, it is not difficult.

But Liu Jian wants a complete victory.

At least there shouldn't be too much loss.

Therefore, if the combat power is not enough, it is one of the most important ways to make up for the shortcomings of combat power by strategizing and launching a surprise attack when the opponent is completely unprepared.

So Liu Jian chose to arrive during the day.

On the surface, night raids seemed to be an extremely convenient means of attacking the enemy, but the discipline and secrecy of these Dothraki people made Liu Jian not feel at ease. Whether they could carry out a successful night attack, Liu Jian expressed doubts.

But during the day it's different.

During the day, under the sun's rays, everything is exposed, and the human eye can see everything that is happening clearly.

But because of this, people's defenses are minimized by the arrival of the day, and they will never be nervous at the slightest disturbance, as is the case at night.

"Carrie!"

"Order to attack!"