Section 4: Collision (Part I

Only those who are extremely familiar with him will find that the resentment and violence lurking in the eyes of the chief are on the verge of eruption, and those who have taken the wrong medicine and run to attack the March camp, whether it is the remnants of Wahu or the inland mercenaries, will not survive if they die for some reason now, on the contrary, they are lucky......

After the campaign to encircle the Wahu tribe, the Marches had many prisoners of war, and they greatly improved the chieftain's torture methods.

The hunting ground was more than 300 miles away from the March camp, and it took a day and a night to arrive quickly enough for the horses to arrive on a single horse. However, when returning to help, a large force of more than 1,000 people had to act in unison, and it was impossible to calculate it according to this single speed.

Because the various arms and arrays have to be coordinated, the problem of eating and sleeping has to be solved, and there are a lot of hunting bits and pieces, not to mention those idlers who are dragging their feet. It is normal for troops to march 100 miles a day, and they can still hold on to an extra 100 or 20 miles, but if they have to walk an additional 50 miles, the soldiers will become very reluctant both physically and mentally.

However, the smoke rising from the direction of the March camp made people up and down anxious, because it was their home, there were their relatives, and no matter who they were, they wanted to arrive earlier and control the situation earlier, so everyone's pace was getting faster and faster.

Along the way, March's reinforcements continued to encounter tribesmen who had escaped from the camp, and continued to gather two or three thousand people. From these people, they received a lot of information, and also confirmed that the number of enemy troops was really small, at most more than a hundred. The main camp was attacked by surprise, mainly because of the paralysis and carelessness of the own garrison, as well as the stupidity of the three elders.

If you change to a slightly more normal commander, even if a large number of people are poisoned, with the strong defense of the main camp and four small camps, more than a hundred enemies plus two or three thousand slaves who have just rebelled will not be able to make a profit

It is not that no one pays attention to the problem of physical exhaustion of the troops, but because the number of opponents is very small, by the time their large forces arrive, most of this small group of enemies has already fled, and it is only a matter of how long the pursuit will take and how to encircle and suppress it......

The contempt and anger of the enemy had spread throughout the entire March army, so everyone's pace invisibly quickened a little, and it was supposed to be a three-day journey, but it was almost finished in less than two days. However, there were two direct consequences of rushing at this speed: first, the troops on foot were very tired, and second, the distance between the troops was very large, and they dragged more than 30 miles from beginning to end.

But everyone was optimistic that as soon as they returned to the camp, everything would be settled. Because of the removal of the elders, servants and other idle personnel, the total number of March troops returning to support exceeded 1,200 people, which were all genuine combat troops. With such a huge disparity in the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves, it is impossible to make any changes.

Not to mention the rest, there are cavalry on our side of the March tribe, and other troops are very tired, but two hundred cavalry will not be tired.

In fact, it is really this cavalry unit that is acting as the vanguard. But the so-called "cavalry" of the Marches were not really cavalry, they were actually elite hoplites who rode into battle, dismounted and went into battle - they were the most elite force in the Marches' arms, the hardest fists, and the strongest fortresses.

With the financial and material resources of the Marchians, and the support of the Dawn Council, the total number of cavalry could only be maintained at about two hundred, because this cavalry was too expensive - all of them were equipped with sophisticated weapons from the interior, and the metal armor was modified from the apprentice knight's armor, and this full-body armor alone weighed more than forty catties. The samurai who could wear this suit of armor were the best of the best from the tribe, and they were the most experienced in combat, the strongest in physique, and the most loyal to their chiefs.

The March tribe has a total of two Ability, in addition to the Flame Division, who has been with the chief for many years, the other is directly equipped with the cavalry unit. Therefore, in terms of combat effectiveness, this cavalry is deservedly the strongest in the region, and they have not disappointed their own people, and in the past wars, the cavalry has always maintained a high victory rate.

In the recent battle to encircle and suppress the Wahu tribes, the cavalry also had the greatest credit, and in the final battle, the steel array formed by them smashed the Vahu people's breakthrough attempt head-on, which was the onslaught of 600 elite Vahu and thousands of civilians

But no one could have imagined that their enemies had also taken a fancy to this force, or rather to their equipment—in the eyes of the Thorn Rose, where everything was scarce, two hundred sets of apprentice knight heavy armor and matching weapons were a treasure trove. If you don't grab it, I'm afraid God will spit on you.

One of Townsend's creeds was not to fight unprepared battles, so he fully mobilized the human resources at his disposal, gathered all the information about the Marchies' operations, fully understood the formation, equipment and fighting style of each Marche unit, and even dug up their stocks and equipment from the warehouse to inspect - with the help of the Wahu and this camp, the Marches were like ** in his eyes.

From Townsend's point of view, defeating the March cavalry is not a problem at all, the key is how to eat it in one bite - under the existing conditions, two hundred cavalry is terrible, and two hundred elite infantry is also difficult to entangle, but if it is two hundred elite infantry on war horses, then things are very different. Wearing knightly armor and riding majestic horses does not mean that they are invincible, on the contrary, in this war, on the contrary, their superiority is greatly weakened. + Passion

As a matter of fact, whether the main arms of the armed forces are to focus on operations in a certain area, or to take into account various situations, there is no absolute difference between good and bad, right or wrong. From the perspective of the army itself, it is also said that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, and there will be no fixed answer...... This is like a bowl of flour, making a small loaf of bread is tight, making a large loaf of bread is soft, it is impossible to take advantage of both sides.

Fighting a war is not something like wishful thinking, just like a chef who has to consider the preferences of the guests when making bread. If you are bread, you will be torn open and wiped with soup, and if you look like a meat bun, don't complain about being taken and beaten by dogs...... A four-way mounted hoplite, they actually don't have sharp ends, and they are money-losing things that can't be sold.

The reason why they were able to dominate the north of Quelsa in the past was because they had not yet encountered a truly powerful army.

Therefore, in the eyes of Townsend, who knows the enemy's situation, they are unscrupulous fish belly troops, and they belong to the good people who come to deliver equipment. Because their physical strength and will were weakened by the trap set by Townsend, the mobility of the horses had been strategically limited by Townsend - they could only follow the established route within a given time, and no matter how high the mobility was, it was useless.

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