Chapter Forty-Nine: Entering and Breaking Out
The terrain of the northern tundra is extremely complex, and although the empty land seems flat and endless, there are countless ravines and hills. When Caius made a surprise attack on the human Caplin Empire, he sent many scouts to explore the path in advance, and finally chose a route that avoided most of the rugged and impassable rifts, hills, and other places.
But this route will inevitably pass through some dangerous places, such as the deep river canyon that is more than ten miles long.
This canyon is supposed to have once been a huge river, but then somehow dried up, leaving the valley behind. The deep river canyon was flanked by thorny hills, which could not be passed by cavalry at all, but the canyon valley was washed by the river in the past, and it appeared much flatter, and it was open enough for marching.
Caius was not careless, even within his clan's sphere of influence, he did not recklessly lead his army in, but first sent scouts through the canyon, and then let the army enter after there was no danger.
After waiting patiently for more than half an hour, the more than ten cavalrymen who had explored the road all returned safely and reported to him: "Grand Chief Caius, we have successfully passed through the valley, and searched the area around the valley for several miles, and found nothing unusual. ”
Caius hesitated, but for some reason, he always felt a little uneasy. But his brothers urged behind: "Great Chief, let's go quickly, our women and children are waiting for us, and we will rush back to slaughter those frostwolf mongrels earlier." ”
Caius nodded solemnly and ordered the army to enter the canyon, but cautioned the generals who led the army not to mess up the ranks. Pass through here as soon as possible. And in the end, he was still not at ease, and deliberately sent dozens of beast battle qi guards around him to climb the high ground on both sides of the canyon. Patrol again.
Perhaps Caius's worries were unnecessary, and the valley was so wide that when the 100,000 orcs had passed halfway through, there was still no anomaly, and the beast warriors patrolling the high ground on both sides retreated and returned to the queue.
The army passed two-thirds of the way, and Caius was finally reassured. He even laughed in his heart: those idiots of the Frostwolf Clan had never thought of setting up an ambush here. Do they really think that occupying the White Deer Clan's settlement and capturing a group of old and weak women and children will be regarded as the destruction of the White Deer Clan? Do they think that the 150,000 elite White Deer warriors will not come back to take revenge?
In his heart, he despised the mighty warriors of the Frostwolf Clan. Perhaps since the death of the Baroque, the so-called excellent commander Muru, and other outstanding generals have exposed their true nature, their previous so-called achievements. I'm afraid it's just the light of the Baroque, right?
The idea had just sprung up in my mind. I heard the noise coming from the rear of the army. Caius was startled and jerked his head back. Since he was in the middle of the army, he had already followed the team into the belly of the deep river canyon, so he could not see what was happening in the rear.
"Go back and see what's going on. Whoever caused the riots, the commander of the team they led was whipped fifty whips. Caius shouted with displeasure on his face, and immediately a samurai beside him led the order to leave. After marching for so long, there is only a third left. There was no accident in the front, but the people in the back were in chaos. Caius thought he was going to punish the commander of their team.
But the unrest in the rear did not subside. Even the samurai who had been ordered to leave was forced to return without going far. And he brought back two orcs covered in blood, and if he wiped the blood from the faces of these two orcs, they would all recognize them............ These two orcs are exactly the back team, and they are two beast battle qi warriors.
Caius ...... Great Chief Caius, no, our rear team has suddenly been attacked by the enemy and has collapsed!"
Rao Caius was composed, and he almost jumped off the back of the Giant Horn Stag. Tie blushed and shouted angrily: "What's the matter, where is the enemy?"
"It's the army of the Frostwolf Clan, they're chasing us from behind us! We were already preparing to enter the deep river canyon, and when we suddenly discovered the enemy's situation, it was too late to turn our horses around to meet the enemy, and we even messed up our own formation. Finally, we barely managed to meet the whole team, those ...... Those frost wolves' big boar cavalry rushed directly over, there were too many, at least a thousand people of the big boar cavalry, even the mounts and cavalry, they were wrapped in iron armor, like an iron wall crushed over, we couldn't stop it at all, and it collapsed at that time. ”
Great boar cavalry, Caius had heard of the Frostwolf Clan, a heavy cavalry army. Although they were indeed fierce, Caius learned that the heavy cavalry was only three hundreds, and it was definitely not easy to get the heavy armor that covered even the mounts and cavalry. At least a human blacksmith or a dwarven craftsman simply could not have been built specifically for orcs.
Although Caius was envious at the beginning, he was not afraid. Because he knew the weakness of the heavy cavalry, in the plains of a flat river, although the heavy cavalry was strong and unmatched, but in the rugged and complex terrain in the eastern part of the northern tundra, this kind of heavy cavalry had no place to exert itself. And the heavy cavalry that couldn't run could only be reduced to a target and killed.
No, Caius suddenly thought of something! Wasn't the place just before they entered the deep river canyon a rare flatness, as if it had been designed to charge heavy cavalry. Since such a subtle piece of terrain had been caught by the frostwerewolves, how could they not have set up an ambush halfway?
It's not good, it's a trick!
It can be regarded as an afterthought for Caius, who only realized at this time that he had fallen into the conspiracy, but unfortunately it was already a little late. Their army of 100,000 was like a long snake, its head and tail were exposed, but its entire body was blocked in the deep river canyon. In particular, he, the commander-in-chief, was also trapped in it, temporarily lost his command of the two sides, and became deaf and dumb. Now that the alarm of an attack is coming from the rear, what about the front team?
As soon as he thought of this, he saw a scout herald stumbling in the direction of the front team. Struggling to push away the already crowded army, the orc warrior came in front of him panting, and reported in shock: "Grand Chief Caius, our front team has discovered the army of the Frostwolf Clan. They were coming at us in formation. The Commanders in front of you are asking if you want to rush up and engage them?"
"Let them give me an honest stay in the army. Caius shouted irritably: "Let them move forward and occupy enough open space, stabilize the formation, and buy time for the Chinese army to get out of the canyon." If anyone dares to fight without permission, even if he wins in the end, I will cut off his head. Go back and give orders!"
The herald hurried back to give the order, and Caius calmed down a little, calming his frustration. Fortunately, it is not too bad, although the two 10,000 people in the rear team must have suffered heavy casualties, but the main force is in the front army and the middle army, and the losses are not large. As long as you buy time to get out of the canyon as soon as possible and stabilize your position, then the frost wolf's cubs will be unlucky!
Give commands to speed up your team's progress. As for the 20,000 men in the back, let them hold off the enemy's heavy cavalry there.
But Caius made a small mistake...... It was also the two heralds who did not make it clear what was going on in the rear. He thought that there was only a thousand heavy cavalry copied in the back, but he didn't think that how could Muru just let Hubertus, the stupid big man, take the treasure of the frost wolf clan out and toss? For this reason, Angley commanded a team of 10,000 men and followed closely behind Hubertus, fearing that this stupid big man would go crazy and ignore it. In other words, in the Frostwolf Clan, Angel has the best relationship with the brainless Hubertus and can persuade him.
Since Caius was only in a hurry to rush out of the deep river canyon, and also underestimated the army of the Frostwolf Clan that was copied in the rear, the 20,000 orcs in the rear team were completely abandoned.
When had Hubertus led a thousand heavy horsemen in such a painful fight? They were covered in iron armor to block most of the attacks from the Orcs of the White Deer Clan, and their great axes or war hammers could be wielded with impunity. Not to mention the heavy armor, even the chain armor is still the orcs of the White Deer Clan who have captured humans, how can they resist it? It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a steel wall composed of thousands of people and thousands of wild boars, and it is pushed straight over, leaving only a corpse, and there are not even any wounded.
I have to say that the warriors of the White Deer Clan are also fierce enough, they suffered such heavy casualties, and they still did not flinch, but under the leadership of the leader, they withstood the impact of the heavy cavalry to the death, and it can be said that they blocked them with corpses.
When the big boar heavy cavalry felt that the momentum of the impact had eased, the two orcs of 10,000 people in front of them at that time had been killed or wounded by nearly half, and there were only less than a hundred unlucky eggs under Hubertus who accidentally fell from the back of the wild boar, and finally died tragically in the hands of the orcs of the White Deer Clan.
There is no doubt that the morale of the rear army of the White Deer Clan has been suppressed to the minimum, but the attack of the Frost Wolf Clan's heavy cavalry has also reached its limit. Angela, who had been staring at the battlefield all the time, smiled and waved his hand behind him, and then the 10,000-strong light cavalry team led by him split into two, attacking left and right, and attacking the rear army of the White Deer Clan.
They are light cavalry, with no heavy armor on their bodies, and their speed is instantly increased to the fastest, like two sharp swords plunged into the enemy. The rear soldiers of the White Deer Clan had to give up preparing to kill the big wild boar heavy cavalry that had lost their ability to impact, and instead put on a defensive posture, preparing to meet the impact of this 10,000 light cavalry. Unexpectedly, all the frost wolf warriors did not kill directly, they all grabbed the spears from behind, and when they approached the army of the White Deer Clan, the spears shot out like rain, and then the light cavalry in front ran away around the front of the White Deer Clan's army, leaving a gap for the comrades in the rear, and continued to throw spears ......!
In a hurry, the rear army of the White Deer Clan did not have time to prepare defensive weapons such as tower shields............ Orcs had never had the luxury of throwing spears of steel against their enemies before with the poor jingle of their teeth. Naturally, he didn't guard against anything, and when the overwhelming spears were fired, only a series of screams were left, and the rear army was overwhelmed, and it was worthy of collapse!
From afar, Anglay shook his head............ It seems that Baroque is right, the real enemy is only humans! Only a great battle with humans will be evenly matched! )