1954 The River Flows (8)
"Keep charging!"
Someone shouted, the flank attack made the Gangfei cavalry completely stunned by the situation in front of them, and for a time all kinds of command orders echoed on the wide attack line, and the voices from all directions made the Gangfei cavalry charging in a scattered line at a loss,
"If there is an ambush, evacuate immediately!"
"Rush over and kill them all!"
There were also people shouting, and everywhere was the miserable neighing of the arrows falling to the ground from the horses of the non-cavalry horses,
The cavalry was thrown out by the galloping and overturned horses, and the forward troops had suffered heavy casualties before they could reach the bridge, and some of the Gangfei cavalry who rushed too fast and led the team to be cut off, suddenly frightened to find that they had crashed directly into the front of the battle line,
Not far ahead, a gun array like a cold star in the rain was revealed,
The dense queue of the other party appeared in a terrified array in the rain curtain, and the spears that were neatly raised at the front end were like flowers forming a white mist, and there was no time to think. These rigid and inhuman cavalry lines that were too far in front were like waves slapping on the embankment on the infantry line of the Falcon Army's formation, slamming into the densely erected spears in front, and the two armies almost instantly, the red human blood was squeezed and sputtered from the front of the impact of the war horse, like a pouring rain in the sky, and the sound of dense spears breaking sounded in pieces, and countless shield colleagues who were hit and concave flew into the air, "The whole army is stable!"
The loud voice of the Falcon's infantry captain echoed in the rain, and the Falcon Army's spear array was washed by the vast rain, revealing an immobile momentum like a mountain,
The soldiers' cold, blood-red eyes were like a pack of lone wolves in the cold rain. They skillfully hid behind heavy shields, their sharp spears in their hands erected in a row of spear formations, looking at the Gangfei cavalry who crashed into the array, and the expression was not fear, but contempt for the ferocity of Yiqiē, revealing bloodthirsty madness. Ignoring the shaking of the ground and the roar of the war horse, the spear in his hand stabbed forward fiercely, and countless spears brought a cold light of killing,
Blood spilled in the torrential rain, and the horses erupted in a terrible scream. Rows of spears were drawn, bringing out large pieces of minced flesh and blood from the target's body and making a terrible neigh, the Gangfei cavalry fell from their horses one after another, and the Falcon soldiers below stabbed the fallen Gangfei cavalry with their spears in their hands.
"Ahh The sound stopped
The huge military formation began to close, and the thick and tall infantry heavy shields lined up in a neat military formation like a shrinking triangle, constantly squeezing the fewer and fewer enemies on the river beach from three directions, the corpses of the Gangfei cavalry were pushed down the river, splashed by the mud of the heavy water, and the military formation in the rain was like a monster devouring the prey that fell into the trap, and the Gangfei cavalry who broke in mercilessly swallowed it, "Bastard!"
Reske watched the scene with bloodshot eyes and punched the saddle in exasperation. The impact failed, the elite of the opponent was shocking, and the combat power of its Falcon Empire's infantry formation was indeed as unbreakable as rumored. It is said that a complete Falcon formation is enough to confront twice as many enemies, or even stand still under the siege of three times the enemy, and four times the number of troops to have the possibility of being defeated"
Reske's gaze moved upward. It landed in the wooded area, where dense clusters of arrows were constantly fired, and the number of enemies was not known for the time being, but the enemy boldly placed a melee infantry cluster at the mouth of the river. Then the melee force in the woods is very thin, the disadvantage of the distant troops is melee combat, and the distance between the opponent and the cavalry shock cluster is less than 200 meters, for the cavalry, this is only ten seconds, this may be an opportunity to turn the tide of the battle! Reske's eyes flashed a hint of fierceness! "Order all troops to attack the woods on the left with all their might!"
Reske decisively changed the goal of the battle, but his temporary order was obviously a little late for the Congo-African cavalry, which had completely dispersed and launched an avalanche-like attack, and by the time the order of the representative turned to inform the front in the form of a military horn, the Gang-African cavalry unit had already paid the price of more than 5,000 people, most of the casualties appeared on the flanks of the ambush, hearing the trumpet from the main formation, a squadron leader of the Gangfei Janissaries violently pulled the crazy war horse, his eyes were full of misery, in front of him, the whole row of war horses and corpses were piled up in a range of less than 500 meters in length, and the entire flank near the direction of the woods was hit a huge gapIf it hadn't been for the timely turn, the entire cavalry attacking on the right flank would have been wiped out on this line of death, becoming part of these corpses full of arrows,
Similar to his situation, the scattered charging line launched by tens of thousands of cavalry was like a horizontal earth dragon rolling, which could not be easily reversed by a single command, and the arrows fired from the flanks were very fast. So that there was no time to defend at all, the Gang Fei cavalry with the arrow rolled to the ground one by one, and the Gang Fei cavalry was still like an arrow from the string, pressing towards the direction of the predetermined target bridge without hesitation, and then like a mud embankment that was broken in the mountain torrent, the arrow cluster from the dense shot hit the side without hindrance, the red of blood mixed with the brown collapsed soil, and the horse with the arrow rolled heavily on the ground. There was a rumbling sound on the ground. "My lord, the enemy is starting to turn!" a Falcon squadron leader reported to the grim-faced Reposti from not far away, "Well, I can see it! To be honest, if the other party hasn't reacted, I'm really disappointed!" Reposti took a deep breath, his fingers clenched together, the real battle has only begun now, compared to the bridge mouth with military formation, the melee strength in the direction of the woodland is indeed insufficient, only three thousand heavy infantry of the Central Army, he has been prepared for this, he asked the soldiers to artificially build a two-meter-high earthen platform in the woodland to block the impact of the cavalry, "Let's start!" Reposti said behind him, and the herald who heard the order raised the flag in his left hand and waved it in the air three times in a row, and as the flag danced, a long and blinding red line emerged from behind the bushes on the left side of the woods, "It's a signal!" At the other end of the woodland, a voice was heard, it was a group of archers with huge longbows in a linear array, they stood behind the bushes, if not standing up, almost invisible, wearing red feathers on metal helmets. The leather armor on his body was cut off at the shoulders, revealing his shirtless upper body full of muscles, and a huge longbow began to be raised in the direction of the woodland, "opening the strings"
These archers easily pulled out the upside-down arrow cluster from under their feet, and with the command, steadily placed the special arrow cluster on the bowstring, "creak"
The sound of fifteen hundred longbow strings being pulled apart neatly, accompanied by the roaring raindrops, brought people a sense of pins and needles tearing, and suddenly there was silence. Xiao Killing, among all living beings, only heard the rain in this heaven and earth washing the moisturizing things that the leaves fell on the ground,
The captain of the longbow was the first to let go of the bowstring, and the sound of the bowstring tearing the air was so pleasant, and the powerful arrow cluster had pierced the rain curtain in front of him like an arc, carrying a whistling white line across a distance of 150 meters, towards a Gang Fei cavalry captain, and just like that, when the Gang Fei cavalry quickly pressed to the side to counterattack. The more powerful point kill, like a pair of suddenly open fangs, bit down fiercely at the waist of the Gang Fei cavalry, "Ah!"
Just before the non-cavalry could hear a scream, they saw a cavalry captain in bright armor charging under his command. The body seemed to have been smashed in the chest by a heavy hammer, and the whole person ejected from the horse's back, so well made that the armor that could resist the spear thrust was reduced to pieces. A white light pierced the captain's body, and the bright red blood and flesh exploded like mist, and the white light pierced the captain's body. It still pierced into the body of another cavalryman, and then came out again, like a string of gourds, making a creepy pop, and the white light was firmly nailed to a tree trunk not far away.
The tail feathers trembled, and the red arrows were like blood, "Hiss!" Everyone gasped for air, and only then did they see clearly that what was firmly nailed into the trunk of the tree was an arrow cluster that was obviously thicker than an ordinary arrow cluster, and the thumb-thick arrow shaft could not tell what wood was used, and the tail feathers behind the arrow cluster were a kind of colored red feathers, although they were stained with the bright red and minced flesh of human blood, they could still see that it was the tail pheasant of some kind of animal "This is?" The boss of the Janissary Guard's eyes widened, the tragic situation of the cavalry captain just now made the entire scalp of most of the Gang Fei cavalry be blown open with fear, it was terrible, what was this, it could actually penetrate the captain-level heavy cavalry armor from a long distance! If such an arrow cluster was shot at himself...... The face of the Gangfei cavalry was as pale as paper, and the look on the face of the Gangfei Janissaries, who were proud of their bravery, could simply be described as wonderful, angry, hesitant, surprised or sad,
The Thorn Tile Longbow of the Central Army of the Falcon Empire has never been heard of by most Gangfei soldiers, in fact, in order not to cause panic among lower-level officers and soldiers, Gangfei generals have never mentioned this kind of violent troops in front of their subordinate good soldiers! The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there were constantly clusters of arrows coming from the wind and rain in the face, and with an unstoppable momentum, they specifically met the Gang Fei officers on horseback, but the weakness of the Thorn Tile Longbow was also obvious, and the strong shot was too draining, and soon, the shot of the Thorn Tile Longbow was sparse, and the impact of the Gang Fei cavalry became fierce again
The battlefield is fierce, starting from the ambush into a brutal attrition of troops,
Under the rain of arrows shot in the wind and rain, the whole of the Gangfei cavalry army was full of the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, and constantly put new troops into it with the will to die. The Gangfei cavalry was scattered in small squads, densely packed, like ants turning in a long line, and the corpses of war horses and fallen cavalry were stacked together.
In the first hour and thirty-five minutes of the battle, Reposti had to press out the last hole card.
The trebuchet lying behind the woods began to roar, the huge trebuchet arm turned into a phantom, and suddenly shot the catapult out, dozens of catapults with a violent whistling sound smashed towards the charging Gangfei cavalry like raindrops, the place where it was hit was like a shock wave splashed in the rain, the cavalry dodged in a panic, the imperial crossbowmen in the woods quickly attacked and killed the cavalry scattered in the queue, in the cold rain, the trebuchets were steaming hot, they were shirtless, and used all their strength to push the hundred-pound rolling stone onto the trebuchet again,
At two hours and fourteen minutes, the cavalry of the Gangfei Army finally rushed into the woods, and what appeared in front of them was a two-meter-high earthen platform made of earth, on which were melee infantry in black armor.
"Kill!" Gang non-cavalry drove the war horse to hit the earth platform, and took the human ladder to attack the earth platform
The two sides strangled together, it was a super chaotic chaotic battle, the ranks of both sides were completely disorganized, the blue armor of the Gangfei cavalry and the black armor of the Imperial Central Army were mixed, the crossbowmen drew their short swords for melee combat, and the defensive line formed by the three thousand heavy infantry of the Central Army on the earthen platform resisted the breakthrough of the Gangfei cavalry.
Up and down the earth platform, it is no longer possible to distinguish who is who, swords and swords. The screams of killing were deafening, the Imperial crossbowmen jumped onto the earthen platform and shot at the Gangfei cavalry at close range, blood flew between the soldiers on both sides, and the corpses were covered in the woodland like umbrellas
"Report! The Fourth Squadron is completely annihilated!"
"Report! The 1st Squadron has been routed!"
Standing in his command position, Reposti's face was silent, the cavalry was the king of the field. Ambushing the cavalry with infantry is an adventure in itself, and the other party is still the Praetorian Guard, which is the most powerful in the Gang Fei Empire, and sure enough, the will to fight is strong, far exceeding the Gang Fei troops that have been encountered before, and it is indeed suffering heavy casualties. Still entangled in the opponent who will not retreat, after all, he is not an invincible Falcon Majesty, in just 2 hours of fighting, the battle in the woodland has cost the Falcon Army 6,000 casualties, but it is not easy for Gangfei to be human. It is conservatively estimated that from the time of the ambush to the present, at least fifteen thousand Gangfei cavalry should have died in battle.
If it were ordinary, the troops would have collapsed long ago. However, the other party is the emperor's Praetorian Guard, which is the main reason for the deviation of the plan, and the other reason is the tactic of using the cruel human head tower as a bait. It completely angered the entire Gangfei army, because there were many corpses in front of the earthen platform that could already walk up on foot, and a Gangfei cavalry officer jumped off his horse. Carrying a weapon and stepping on the corpse to charge, blood splattered on his face, he looked hideous and shouted to his subordinates who were fighting fiercely around him, the cavalry used their bodies to block the attacking arrow clusters with each other, and if one fell, another would make up for it, and a pair of blood-colored eyes showed an undying will.
Such a scene made the battle-hardened Falcon Army feel a little numb,
No, it's a bunch of crazy wolves, and the other side is completely at will. Just to stab themselves fiercely, such opponents are the most terrifying on the battlefield, they have turned into beasts, and completely abandoned the desire for survival.
The rain is like a note, the silver lightning is like a sharp sword to split the vast sky, and it also illuminates the tragic corpses below, in the woodland earth platform a long line of blue and black staggered, the broken spear is still inserted in the body of the gang non-cavalry, the pikeman is already covered in blood by the war horse that jumped on the earth platform with the corpse below as a pedal and flew out, the body of the war horse squeezed the falcon soldiers in front of him to retreat, thousands of knives, swords, The spears collided together, and the two sides staggered and fought, so that they could not even turn around and gasp, and those who were close could see the red eyes of the other party, and even the position of Reposti began to engage
"Bastard, are you all crazy!"
Reposti pulled out his combat knife from the chest of a non-Congo cavalryman, kicked the corpse away with a heavy kick, swept the battlefield with some annoyed eyes, and found that the entire battlefield was like this, the Gangfei Janissaries were like ants clinging to candy, in the same number of cases, the other party could even kill their own side inseparably, such a situation was unimaginable before, "Woo woo" At this moment, the Gangfei army that did not retreat suddenly retreated, "Long live, it is our people!"
Following the direction of the cheerer's finger, Reposti saw a Falcon flag appear on the side of the Gangfei Army,
It's Yagrin's cavalry!" Reposti looked at the military flag that was always wandering not far away, it was almost certain that it was Yagrins, Yagrins's strength was only 1,500 people, and the Gangfei army stopped attacking because of this, and it had already been taken once, and the commander of the Gangfei army was obviously much more cautious,
"Lord Ryske, the enemy will attack our flanks at any time, so let's wait until the infantry cluster to attack!"
The commander of the second cavalry regiment of the Praetorian Guard, Dan Kulun, returned from the front full of wolves, his face was ugly, there was a large blood stain oozing out of the armor on his left shoulder, and his arm drooped weakly, it seemed that the injury was not light, even a general like him was injured, but Cheng Dù, who was fighting fiercely,
In fact, after two hours of fighting, Reske had to accept the cruel fact that the lower-level captain died nine times out of ten, and the people who went up behind were all middle-level officers who led the team, and the offensive of the Janissaries also began to slow down, showing a state of unsustainable strength, and if they continued to fight, Reske did not dare to say that there was no possibility of collapse
"My lord, Jargrin asked me to report that the enemy's infantry group has increased its speed, and it is only ten miles from here! it is better to evacuate to the other side of the river now" At the same time, another piece of information was sent to Reposti,
"It's a pity, if you can give me a little time!" Reposti inserted the war knife in his hand into the soil, and looked at the scout's report with some unwillingness, the infantry of the new army was rushing towards this side like crazy, if he could still give him some time, he was sure to gnaw off a piece of the opponent's flesh again, and cut off two-thirds of the non-cavalry here,
The opponent is also obviously tired, and after launching three attacks in a row, he has begun to slow down the offensive, and if there is one, he may be able to completely defeat these cavalry.
"Order the whole army to retreat to the other side of the river in an orderly manner!" After a moment's hesitation, Reposti gave up on this tempting idea, and he left 10,000 men at the bridge to keep this retreat. (To be continued......)