Chapter 379: One hundred thousand grass barbarian cavalry

Looking at the wolf smoke rising into the sky on the mountain in the distance, Grand Duke Fisabrun waved his horsewhip: "Send someone to search for it, and put an end to the scouts from the Northland from peeping around us." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Yes, Your Highness. One of the guards bowed his head in response, turned around and gave a few orders, and several guards rode away.

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun reined in his horse, and the barbarian cavalry behind him, who had rushed like a tidal wave of black crows, stopped the pace of his mount. This is a field that covers the horizon and covers the boundless grassland of the grass barbarian cavalry, countless miscellaneous flags fluttering in the wind......

Archduke Fisabrun held up a monocular, the spoils of his battle after his victory over the Norton House Chasers in the Northlands, and looked out at the city of Pydro, where the trumpets and alarm bells echoed in the distance.

On both sides are cliffs that are more than ten feet high, like two gates, and in the middle is a large slope that is three miles wide from each other, and on the slope is a majestic megalithic castle. This is the Pitsber Pass, and this is the fortress city of Pedro City.

The Pitsbur Mountains between the Northeast Prairie and Winston Province are a natural dividing line, but the Pitsbur Pass is like a gateway connecting the two, and if you climb this long slope, you will see a mountain plain with a different scenery from the steppe.

It was the danger of this place that the Earl of Pedro would choose to build a fortress on this Misbur Pass hundreds of years ago, hoping to stop the barbarian cavalry from plundering and invading Winston Province. Now, the city of Pietro, which appears in the telescope of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, has been transformed into a well-fortified fortress.

"It's only been six months! The Norton family is really wealthy, and they have completed the fortress of Pedro City in such a short time, that kid is really thoughtful, and every step is arranged so steadily, that people have no time to drill. Grand Duke Fisabrun muttered to himself a little bitterly, put down the monoculars, and felt a little remorseful: "You should ignore the unreasonable entanglement of the patriarchs of those barbarian tribes, and after the defeat of the huntsman legion three days ago, you should directly force those barbarian tribes to wave their troops south and attack the city of Pydro immediately, and then you can take advantage of a surprise." It's been three days now, and the city of Pietro is clearly prepared, and now there is no other way but to storm it......"

However, Grand Duke Fisabrun thought about it and was relieved: "Anyway, it doesn't matter if my family is not armed to send them to death, just let those uninformed grass barbarians touch the nails, all of them don't know the height of the sky, and they are not ashamed, I really think that these 100,000 grass barbarian cavalry can sweep the world, the more these fools die, the better......"

Since the Grand Duke of Fisabrun quietly left the Pobiriqi Mountain in the Southern Province more than two months ago and returned to the family territory of Donghuang Province, he immediately issued a war mobilization order to various grass barbarian tribes in the northeast steppe, which is not to force the grass barbarian tribes to fight for the Fishabrun family, but a form of cooperation, and it can be regarded as a kind of leading party, that is, the Fishabrun family is willing to assist the grass barbarian tribe to invade the human settlement area, everyone to rob together, make a fortune together, and take what they need.

So the Grand Duke of Fisabrun soon gathered more than 150,000 barbarian cavalry, it took more than a month for the Grand Duke to make these barbarian cavalry a little more organized, and after reorganizing and replenishing the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment, he put the target on the Norton family's hunting regiment in the northland of the Makinohara Province, after some reconnaissance and arrangement, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun successfully ambushed the hunting cavalry, inflicted heavy losses, annihilated most of it, and only a part of them fled to the northland in embarrassment......

It's just that in the process of ambush, there were many situations that the Grand Duke could not grasp, so that the Grand Duke's original plan to annihilate the entire Chaseur Legion finally came to naught. Annihilation became a defeat, and the most important reason was that these barbarian cavalry did not obey the order, and the patriarchs of those barbarian tribes were all afraid of heavy casualties, and they all wanted to hide behind and be a fisherman to preserve the strength of their own tribes......

Grand Duke Fisabrun can only cry out in vain, because he is also preserving the strength of the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment, so everyone is half a pound and eight taels, and no one can laugh at anyone. The casualty count after the war made all the leaders of the arrogant barbarian tribes like a blow to the head, and the casualties of the cavalry regiment were nearly 30,000, but the losses of the barbarian cavalry reached more than 60,000, of which more than 30,000 had become corpses, and the tragic cries of more than 20,000 wounded resounded one after another, resounding throughout the battlefield.

After sending more than 10,000 wounded barbarian cavalry into the arms of the god of war, Sigwa, Grand Duke Fisabrun fulfilled his promise and took in all the lightly wounded barbarian cavalry. At this time, the patriarchs of the barbarian tribes broke out into a fierce quarrel over the spoils of war. The delay of three days on this matter made the Grand Duke of Fisabrun's attempt to immediately march south to seize the city of Pydro, and he had to find a way to mediate the matter first, so that these barbarian tribes would not fall out and fight for the spoils of war.

The so-called trophies are the standard armor, weapons and equipment on the horses of the sacrificed Chasseur soldiers, as well as the steel crossbows left by the two chariot steel crossbow battalions, and more than 1,000 soldiers and four or five thousand lightly wounded who were captured alive, and the seriously wounded have all been cut off by the barbarian cavalry. More than 16,000 sets of undamaged armor and weapons stripped from the sacrificed and captured Chasseur soldiers, as well as two chariot steel crossbow battalions, and nearly 400 chariot steel crossbows that were not damaged, all of which became the center of contention for all the grass barbarian patriarchs. Even those damaged standard armor, weapons and steel crossbows are not willing to give up, because the most lacking thing in the grassland is steel......

Grand Duke Fisabrun made a great sacrifice and voluntarily renounced all the right to distribute weapons and armor, and only took prisoners and lightly wounded men and two hundred intact steel crossbow chariots, and this spirit of willingness to suffer won the admiration of all the barbarian tribes. Then Grand Duke Fisabulun came up with another idea, and distributed half of all the spoils according to the proportion of the price paid by the various barbarian tribes in this battle, of course, a few grass barbarian tribes that rushed too quickly and lost too much or almost wiped out or the tribe's armed losses were ignored by everyone, anyway, they would soon be swallowed up by other grass barbarian tribes. The remaining half of the spoils were distributed to all the barbarian tribes, and the distribution principle was that the strong ones ate meat, and the small ones could also drink soup.

After three days of noisy fighting, all the barbarian tribes were finally appeased, and the victory of the ambush cavalry and the rich booty obtained attracted more barbarian tribes, and soon these barbarian cavalry recovered to more than 100,000 numbers, and even those barbarian chiefs forgot the heavy casualties, when the Grand Duke of Fisabulun knew through the confession of the captives that there was only one guard battalion of 3,000 men and horses stationed in the city of Pietro, those barbarian chiefs began to urge him to go south as soon as possible.

In the simple minds of these grass barbarian patriarchs, the cavalry hunting army is the most powerful enemy, since they have paid such heavy casualties to defeat such a powerful enemy, then the rest of the people in front of them are small shrimps, not worth mentioning, 100,000 grass barbarian cavalry army is enough to sweep through Winston Province, maybe they can relive the glory of their ancestors, and drink horses and egrets on the shores of Lake.

"My dear Grand Duke Lion, why did you stop here?" a strange voice rang out, and several tall and majestic horses sneered towards the place where the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was.

The guards around Grand Duke Fisabrun all had angry expressions on their faces, some of them had already put their hands on the handle of their swords, and some of them were holding their horses and spears tightly...... In the Northeast Steppe, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is revered by all the subordinate barbarian tribes as the Grand Duke of the Lion King, or His Royal Highness the Lion King. And now the people who came called me His Royal Highness the Lion Archduke, and still used the tone of the kind of pet he kept, which was simply an insult to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and the young guards all stared at the horsemen who came with angry eyes......

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun raised his whip without changing his face, stopping the impulse of his guards, and at the same time greeting the approaching horsemen: "My brother, dear Patriarch Krinubi, we have arrived, don't you see the castle on the slope ahead? We'll have to set up camp here, settle down and then discuss how to attack. ”

Krinubby, this is a very powerful barbarian tribe, with a population of nearly 100,000, and there are 30,000 barbarian cavalry that can be gathered, and it is not those grassbarian tribes that are subject to the Fisabrun family, but maintains certain business contacts with the Fisabulun family. This time, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun promised them a great deal of benefits and countless gifts, which persuaded them to send all their cavalry south, mainly for the purpose of going to Winston and plundering them......

The patriarch is a middle-aged and fifty-year-old barbarian who is not tall and thin, and his strength looks very low, but he is very cunning, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun feels very tired to deal with him, and the Grand Duke really does not understand how such an anomaly can appear in the prairie that advocates force, giving people the feeling of slippery hands. The name of all the Krinubi chiefs is Krinubby, the name of this barbarian tribe, which is their tradition, and after taking over as the chief, their previous names will be discarded and they will continue to be called by the Krinubi tribe.

In the process of ambushing the hunting cavalry, the Krinubi patriarch commanded his 30,000 grass barbarian cavalry to complete the task assigned to him well, only attacking with long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows on the periphery, never rushing to the front, the least loss, but the distribution of loot was the most he received. Even in the process of going south, he annexed four small grass barbarian tribes in one go, expanding the number of men and horses under his command to about 40,000.

Perhaps because of the large number of men under his command, the attitude of the Krinubi patriarch towards the Grand Duke of Fisabrun also began to become contemptuous. Grand Duke Fisabrun only brought more than 10,000 people from a border ranger regiment to the south this time, according to his words, the main force of the southward siege was these more than 100,000 barbarian cavalry, he just came to lead the way, so he didn't need many soldiers and horses, so he could also distribute less loot, which was good for everyone.

"Camp?" The Krinubi patriarch looked up at the sky and laughed exaggeratedly: "It's still morning, why don't we rush over and take Pedro City directly......?"

"Dear Patriarch Krinubi, if 100,000 horses rush over and surround the city of Pydro, then I believe that in less than half an hour this Puppet City will fall into our hands. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun pointed his horsewhip at the city of Pietro: "But you see, the mountain of Pisber is only a small mountain pass here, and the slope is like a trumpet, and the higher it goes, the narrower it becomes, and the city of Pietro still occupies most of the place in the middle, and it is very crowded if two or three thousand men can attack at the top." It's impossible for us to rush forward except to send our men and horses to attack in waves, and the city of Pedro is already prepared, so I think it's better to set up camp first and then discuss how to attack. ”

The patriarch of Krinubi looked at the city of Pedro with his hands in the shape of a pergola, of course, he did not have a telescope and could not see the state of the city's guard. After looking at it for a while, he turned around and asked, "Your Highness the Lion Grand Duke, can you be sure that what battalion of soldiers that those captives said about the city of Pydro was only garrisoned by three thousand?"

Grand Duke Fisabrun smiled and shook his head: "I'm not sure, we can't know the city's defenses before we attack. After all, three days have passed, and perhaps a lot of reinforcements have arrived in this Pedro City, and we have been delayed for too long. ”

The patriarch of Krinubi pondered for a while, and then made up his mind: "I will let my men attack and test it, if it is really as those captives said, there are only 3,000 defenders, then I believe that the city of Pydro will be captured soon, what do you think?"

Fisabrun knew very well that it was greed that made the Krinubi patriarch make such a decision. Because before going south, it had been agreed that the town or village captured by the tribe would belong to the tribe, and all the looted materials and seizures in it belonged to that tribe, and no one was allowed to infringe on the profits of the tribe, and for this purpose he made a poisonous oath in the name of the gods.

Hearing that there were only 3,000 guards in Pedro City, this Krinubi patriarch was moved, even if there was a casualty exchange ratio of three to one, it would be a big advantage to capture Pietro City. At that time, you can also take this place to rest, let the rest of the cavalry of the grass barbarian tribe go to Winston Province to test the water first, if the situation is not good, you can directly withdraw to the Northeast Prairie, if there is a big harvest of plunder, then hum, your own tribe occupies Pietro City, a key place to return to the grassland, are you afraid that you will not be filial, maybe you can annex a few more tribes that have become weaker......

"Absolutely. Grand Duke Fisabulun nodded enthusiastically: "I believe that the great Krinubi tribe will be able to win the battle, and the city of Pydro is not worth mentioning before the strength of your tribe." ”

Patriarch Krinubi smiled happily: "Thank you Grand Duke Lion for the compliment, I think so too, I have great confidence in the warriors of our tribe. ”

Saying that, the Krinubi patriarch instructed the barbarian guards around him: "Come on, tell Harikai, Runigigi, and Murray Mud, and they will lead their respective men and horses to attack Pydro City in three batches!

"Grass, no wonder this guy still has the heart to annex those small tribes on the way, and he is looking for cannon fodder for himself. Grand Duke Fisabrun scolded in his heart, the three people who were reported by the Krinubi patriarch just now were all small tribes that had been annexed, and there were less than a thousand people and horses to ride, and they wanted to follow the large army behind to fish in troubled waters and get some soup to drink, but who knew that they were targeted by the brutal Krinubi tribe and forcibly annexed them.

The muffled sound of trumpets echoed across the vast grassland, and the grass barbarian cavalry of the Black Crows erupted in cheers of "Krinubi, Krinubi! Krinubi......". The first lead was brave and glorious in the eyes of the barbarian cavalry, but the thousands of horsemen who were summoned seemed to be a little unhappy, and after a long time of slow confusion under the escort of the cavalry of the nearly kilogram Linubi tribe with them, they were divided into three teams, and galloped towards the city of Pedro on the slope in the distance......

At about 10 a.m. on November 11, 1778, 100,000 barbarian cavalry besieged the city of Pietro, and a bloody offensive and defensive battle broke out.

...... (To be continued.) )