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The news of the rout of the Ryaru battle soon reached the ears of Sarah Ammon, the commander of the Northland Army, who was gathering his forces and preparing to go to the battle site.
"How is this possible!" Looking at the shocking emergency battle report in his hand, Saraemon even had some distractions, and the imposing army of 30,000 Riaris was crushed by a thousand heavy cavalry?
The invincible lord of the north, Riago, who was once in front of him, was almost wiped out with an army of 30,000, and he was also swept away by the scattered chaotic army, and 80,000 people were wiped out by the pursuing Dongting cavalry, and only less than 3,000 people ran out, and now the army of the Dongting people has stepped through the defense line of the Riyarus at the front, and is coming in the direction of the border of the northland
"Lord Rilang Bogu, it seems that the prediction of the ruling lord is a little wrong" Sara Amon handed the battle report in his hand to a white-haired old man wearing a bear head hat behind him with a solemn expression, and said worriedly, "Judging from the situation of the battle, after the battle between the court people and the Falcon Dynasty, the combat power has not been weakened, but has been strengthened!" According to the intelligence, there are 43 flags of the Dongting tribe that appeared on the battlefield this time, and the troop dispatch is unified and neat, and in the whole process of the battle, there is no sign of internal division in the Dongting as expected, it seems that the tribes of the central steppe are still loyal to the new Khan, and in the face of such a united enemy, we are now in a dilemma!
"That guy Riago has always been an incompetent and arrogant fellow, and there are so many people on the entire northern border who are smarter and more talented than him, and if it weren't for the fact that he really has some strength, the name of this lord of the north would not have fallen on his head,"
The old man, known as Rilang Bogu, looked at the information with a gloomy face, and then said in an old tone, "I was defeated by the Dongting people at the beginning, and this time I still failed like this! Even if he dies, it's nothing, it's just a pity that the 30,000 cavalry! That's the hard work of a generation, if the Riaru people want to return to the original climate, unless a miracle happens!"
"Do we need to send someone to find him?" asked Sarah Ammon, somewhat uncertain
"What are you looking for this waste" The old man pursed the corners of his mouth with some disdain, and then said, "The Riyalu clan is over, compared to the life and death of the waste Riago, I am more concerned about who the boss of the Dongting people is this time..."
To be able to gather a kingdom that has just collapsed from the ground up, it must not be an ordinary person, who would have thought that there would be such a tactic, using a thousand of the strongest Ryerdian heavy cavalry to carry out an unexpected intermediate breakthrough tactic, and finally caused the turmoil and reversal of the entire battle situation, fortunately it was the unlucky guy from Riago who ran into it"
The old man's voice paused, and then he sighed, looked at the horizon in the distance, and said with a somewhat appreciative tone, "If it were us, I was afraid that the whole army would collapse if we couldn't resist even one round!"
"No, isn't it, can't our most famous Great Antler cavalry in the Northland resist this Ruierdian heavy cavalry?" Hearing that even the experienced Rilang Bogu spoke highly of the powerful 1,000 Ruierdian heavy cavalry, Sara Ammon, who was born in the Northland, was naturally a little unconvinced
"You haven't been to the interior, so you don't know how powerful these Ryrdian heavy cavalry are!"
When Rilang Bogu heard that the young Sara Amon actually used the Great Antler Cavalry of the Northland, compared with the Ryerdian Heavy Cavalry, which had dominated the continent for a hundred years, he couldn't help but smile at the corners of his wrinkled mouth.
"Hehe, you're still young, and there's a lot you don't know," he said in an old and deep tone as he looked into the distance, flashing with a hint of memory
"Twenty-five years ago, when there was no unified kingdom here, and we were just loose tribes, I, Riago, Sidirandi Kouyar, and Tiza were known as the Five Eagles of the Steppe, and the King of the Eastern Court was just a general in the distant kingdom of the Western Steppe,...,
In the absence of any strong opponents, the leaders of our five major clans ambitiously united and advanced inland with an army of 50,000 men.
Just as you yearn for this beautiful grassland, we also yearn for the prosperity and wealth of the interior, we passed through the northern Dorok Mountains, easily defeated the enemy who stood in our way, and then entered a vast plain area, and the legendary city full of wealth appeared in our sight, it was a majestic city, I can assure us, we never thought that there would be such a densely populated city, and then
Rilang Bogu seemed to remember some painful memory, and his voice suddenly stopped, and Sara Ammon, who had never been to the interior, asked nervously when her eyes lit up when she heard it
"And then? And did you rush in?"
"Then, no more, our journey ends here!" Rilang Bogu suddenly shook his head bitterly at the corner of his mouth,
"How is it possible, you are an army of 50,000 men!"
Sara Amon looked at Rilang Bogu in surprise, he couldn't see the slightest joke on Rilang Bogu's old but energetic face, which made Sara Ammon's face slightly gloomy, as if he had thought of something, and asked with a hesitant expression, "You met the heavy cavalry of Rui Erdian?"
"No, it's the first time we've encountered a real city wall!" Rilang Bogu said with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth after taking a deep breath
"The first time we encountered the defensive walls of the inland, it was in the Dorok Mountains, where the lords of the Dorok built some small castles, but they were all things that were not to be worried, but they were just three or four meters high stone piles, with veneers on them, and the shooters stood on them, and it was so narrow that it was difficult to turn around side by side, so we simply sent out cavalry, pulled these meaningless obstacles apart with hooks, and then rushed in and killed all the people inside!"
But the walls we encounter in the interior are two different things, and those walls built by the inlandmen are ten meters high, and they are covered with terrible traps.
The precious hot oil, which had to be bought and sold in the steppe with fine silver coins, was burned hot by the insiders, and in this way it poured down from the city walls without hesitation.
The archers above also hid behind the thick walls and shot at us, without any breach of defense, so that our excellent cavalry troops had to abandon their horses and force the attack, and then the heavy infantry of the inland people was like a wall, which made us suffer, and their heavy armor, shields, and spears that were as long as horse poles, made the corpses of our tribal warriors pile up on the city walls up to half a meter high,
After six days of fierce fighting, we opened a breach in the east and took the most crucial gates, and just when we thought we had won a decisive victory, and raised our scimitars and cheered, a golden winged golden lion banner appeared in the distant light of the morning sun
"It's the heavy cavalry of the Ryordians!" Seeing the look on Rilang Bogu's face turn from excitement to gloom, Sarah Amon could already say the answer with certainty
"Yes, we have met the heavy cavalry of the Ryordians!" said in a slow tone, raising his face in sorrow and looking at the distant sky, as if caught in some terrible nightmare
"We never imagined that there would be such a terrible cavalry force in the interior, the whole body, even the men and horses were thick armor, and when they advanced in a neat and leaping manner, even the earth trembled under the hooves of their horses, and the whole row of spears standing in front of them, if swept by the autumn wind, pierced the leather armor of our cavalry almost unhindered,
Rilang Bogu said in a sad tone, "Later, we learned that the kingdom we arrived at was the most powerful kingdom in the interior at that time, and it was not their main force that was fighting against us, their main force was fighting against the Khan's court, and against us, it was just a heavy cavalry force of less than 7,000 people...,
But our 50,000-strong army can't even do the most basic resistance, the warriors of the tribe are bleeding, their corpses continue from the enemy's border to our border, and less than 4,000 people can survive the 50,000-strong army, which is also the main reason why when the later King of the Eastern Courtyard conquered the eastern steppe on behalf of the Western Khan, our Grassland Alliance was completely defeated! If the main force of the five tribes was there at that time, why would they be arrogant by a junior until now!"
After listening to Rilang Bogu's account, Sara Amon said as if he had an understanding: "Lord Rilang Bogu, don't you think that the defeat of the Ryalu is like retreating? First exhausting the enemy, and then using heavy cavalry to deliver a fatal blow, or, this also represents the weakness of the use of this kind of cavalry, such as wearing heavy armor and making it difficult to run quickly, or because of the attrition of the body, it is impossible to fight for a long time! This is very useful information for us, or for us!"
"Yes, this is indeed the weakness of the heavy armored cavalry, but the light cavalry of the retinue of the Dongting people can almost perfectly cover up this shortcoming" Rilang Bogu nodded in agreement, and said with some regret, "Otherwise, as long as you find a way to lead this heavy army into a trap, it is completely possible to use the superior forces to eat it!"
"What do you mean?" said Sarah Ammon, looking at her with some confusion
"After all, this is still our territory, don't worry too much, this is a cavalry unit, the natural advantages are as obvious as the disadvantages, we just need to make use of the terrain!" The veteran Rilang Bogu smiled at the corner of his mouth, raised his head and looked at the vast horizon in the distance, the earth is vast, and it seems that there is no end,
Sarah Amon seemed thoughtful about Rilang Bogu's words, and he waved his hand and ordered the army behind him, "All the army turn north!"
70 miles away from here, is the border of the northern grassland, the Mouriès Mountains, the tall mountain range blocks the cold temperature from the north, there is the boundary between the Dongting grassland and the northern cold land, and it is also an insurmountable natural hazard!