Chapter 50
"Be careful with the top of your head. Watch defensive!"
The captain of the Overseer of the Essos rushed to the torn flanks to help, and his soldiers roared forward to stop the oncoming cavalry, the squad leader drew his sword and raised his head to join the resistance of the cavalry, but when he looked up, he suddenly noticed an anomaly in the sky.
The moonlight, which was not bright in the first place, was covered by a dark shadow the moment he looked up.
The captain of the Overseer of Essos turned pale.
"Raise your shield, raise your shield!"
Those in the front rushed forward to entangle the cavalry, and those in the back stopped Lao Tzu and raised their shields. ”
Flat-fired crossbow bolts tore through the enemy's flank positions, cavalry fortified the breach, infantry pressed in slowly, and longbowmen in the rear pulled strings to cover.
The standard Gripen Legion's raiding tactics were actually drawn by the front army of the Xinmin Legion.
Although the articulation of each step is still a bit slow, if it is the main force of the Gripen, it will not give the enemy Overseers a chance to advance and try to fill the gap, and when the cavalry charges, the longbowmen will launch a rain of arrows at the same time.
However, it is not easy for these recruits of the New People's Legion to operate like this under the supervision of the captain, battalion commander, and battlefield commanders at all levels.
Moreover, at night the enemy's vision is obstructed, and this flaw does not affect the overall situation at all.
"Whoosh!"
A dense stream of crossbow arrows covered the moonlight, forming a dense mass of death traps from the overseers' heads, and groups of Essos soldiers who were not in a hurry to defend or simply did not carry oak shields with them fell, and after the arrows disappeared in a wave, the Essosians, who had no time to breathe, found that another wave of arrows had appeared.
The eastern position of the Essos was completely panicked, and some of the guys who had just escaped the rain of deadly arrows put down their shields that were already full of arrows, and before they had time to rejoice, they saw a group of unusually tall and burly cavalry, screaming and charging.
The gap they had just filled was once again torn out a gap, and Tormund rode the big green horse into the hinterland of the battlefield on the eastern flank of the Essos, and in front of him were countless enemies who had trembled, no, not enemies, but the best glorious military exploits, which could be easily obtained by stretching out their spears.
Hundreds of cavalry took advantage of the confusion of the army formation, clamped their spears under their ribs, and easily tore apart the eastern army formation of Essos like sharp blades.
Combed by arrows and cavalry.
There are only three out of ten Essos who can survive the eastern position.
The cavalry led by Tormund did not stop the charge, and those who survived would be dealt with, and the infantry in his rear had lit torches to illuminate the east, and under the firelight, columns of infantry with armor lay down rushed forward.
The flames drowned out the last long flag of the Essos in the eastern position.
As the banner fell, the morale of the Essos army, which continued to stalemate in the east, plummeted, and the knights and soldiers stopped desperately attacking the central fortifications of the New Militia Legion, and on the other side, Kanter and William, who were watching the battlefield from afar, realized that the tide of battle was tilting in their favor.
The Essos soldiers seemed to have received orders to retreat, and the Ssennes squad, which had just been besieged and almost lifeless, broke away from the arms of death at the urging of the enemy's horns to retreat.
Take the Kante head south in the direction of the hills. The Essos forces slowly retreated, extinguishing their torches as they retreated, preventing the pursuing Xinmin Legion from illuminating their targets.
"Commander, it seems that the army of Essos is converging on the central army, they are retreating, do we order the whole army to pursue. Kante saw that William was still looking at the battlefield expressionlessly, and asked in a low voice about the doubts in his heart.
"Let the soldiers retreat, clean up the battlefield, and don't chase too deep. William turned and walked towards the command tent.
"No...... Not chasing?" Kante didn't understand.
William's faint heavy voice came from behind him. "The enemy is smarter than I thought, the enemy's decline has just appeared, and they began to retreat decisively, their commander does not panic in battle, extinguishes the fire, and will definitely set traps on the retreat road, it is inconvenient to pursue at night, and it is impossible to achieve greater victory by forcibly chasing down, there is no need. ”
In the barren mound of the ancestors in the north, the majestic Gripen flapped its wings and appeared above the Gripen Guards soldiers on the mountain and forest avenues, leading the team to fly westward.
Lynn joined up with her guards and slipped into the unused carriage escorted by Margaery in the center of the procession.
Stepping into the wide and luxurious carriage, Lynn immediately closed the wooden doors and windows of the carriage.
The sight in the car suddenly dimmed, and a smokeless stove with a faint red light was placed in the center of the car, freezing Little Rose's cheeks to a little red, rendering them even more bright red.
Lynn glanced at her woman, sneered, and tapped twice next door to the carriage, and the carriage creaked around.
Little Rose hung the car in the car, and the wine bag that had been warmed long ago was stuffed into Lynn's hand and said, "Just now you signaled me not to ask more, because there is something wrong with the sheep herding baby and the old man, right......?"
Listening to the sound of the wheels turning, and the sound of the hooves of the horses riding by the thin monkeys riding with the cars outside the carriage, Lynn covered the wine bag in the palm of his hand, and the blood that was a little stiff all over his body slowly recovered, "What kind of sheep herding baby, whether it is a living thing or not." ”
"Not living creatures?" Little Rose Margaery Tyrelll's eyes widened, "You mean they might not be human?"
Lynn took a sip of wine and frowned, and said, "Didn't I tell you where there are sheep herders in this barren mountain and wilderness?
But you don't have to be afraid, I've heard a saying since I was a child, people are afraid of ghosts for three points, but this ghost is afraid of people for seven points, let's not provoke them, they can't do anything about us, besides, our team still has such subordinates, there are gippers and small gold bars, and there is a priestess Melisandre, the Lord of Light, who is in charge, we people can come to the ancestral mound, there are really ghosts, and the ghosts are terrified. ”
Little Rose recalled that the old man was holding the hand of the sheep herding baby, and finally showed a mysterious smile with big yellow teeth to herself and Lynn, and whispered: "Why don't you talk about this matter with that priest's yard of yours, don't you say that she is the one who specializes in dealing with these strange things?"
Lynn smiled, put down the wine bag, took Little Rose's hand, covered it under her hand and patted it: "Don't worry, if Melisandre is really capable, she will find herself in the place and take the initiative to mention the situation here, if she can't notice the abnormality, it's useless to tell her, I'm not afraid of those blue-eyed ghosts outside the plug who can't be killed, and I can still be scared by these nothing?" Besides, if there is nothing wrong with this ancestral mound, I wonder if those pesky crows have something to do with it, if Melisandre has misjudged, but now, I have some faith in the judgment of the priests of the Lord of Light. ”