1678 Assault on Gangfei (5)
Just non-border, early in the morning
The sound of horses' hooves striking on the hard cold ground was particularly clear in the silence and emptiness, getting closer and closer, and in the shadowy paleness, the black-armored cavalry swept across the earth like a wind, rolling up the broken earth on the ground, like a black tornado that swept the earth,
Siron cautiously and slowly crossed the undulating hills, black cavalry armor lined up in a long, fast-moving black line, glowing with a dark glow in the golden glow of the sun,
"Everybody stop!"
Salong raised his right hand, and the cavalry guards behind him strangled their horses in the hills, and countless cavalry spears with blood stains hung down neatly, shining with terrifying brilliance like red, and the wind of the plains burst through their ranks, and the red tassels on the top of the helmets of the guards cavalry were blown up like flames, as if a bright red suddenly appeared, and the chill of killing spread in the wind, and below the hills, the marching queue composed of the remnants of the Gangnon army was like a long snake completely exposed in front" Something doesn't seem right with the number of people!"
Salon's gaze swept over the inhuman queue, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly,
In his impression, although the remnants of the Gangfei army suffered their own impact, they should still have more than 30,000 troops, but the queue in front of him was at most 15,000 people, but he was just confused for a moment, and he didn't continue to think about it.
After all, this is a rout, there are often scenes of routs all over the mountains, people's hearts are scattered, plus the wounded soldiers are abandoned halfway, it is too normal for tens of thousands of troops to run away half of the people, these routs can be cleaned up later, and the main task is to kill the main force in front of them first
"Assault, defeat them!" Without the slightest hesitation, Saron drew his two sabers from his back and tracked them all night in order to attack in the early hours of the morning, when people were at their most tired. What's more, these Gangfeiren, who had been desperate all night, hungry and thirsty, "Attention, enemy cavalry!" In the distance, Gangfeiren was heading in the direction of the border, and when he saw the cavalry of the Guards appearing on his side, he immediately panicked
"Don't mess around, move closer to the middle" Ramia looked at the black iron cavalry coming from a distance, but his face showed a rare trace of calmness, and after a night of running, he finally attracted the enemy's cavalry. He is divided into two ways, there is always a way to sacrifice, there is always a way to go back safely, there is a chance to choose one of the two, there is nothing to complain about!
"Prepare for battle!" shouted the non-officer, driving the soldiers into formation,
Thick clouds still hung over the sky, isolating the sun from the earth. Where the clouds are combined with the clouds, there are still a few bright pillars of light falling. Cast on the armor of all the cavalry, it exuded a bright and dazzling brilliance, and on one side was the heavy shadow of the Falcon Guards,
On one side is the shining armor of a non-soldier in a flash. Light and dark, cloudy and sunny, the colors of the conflict are like a contrasting oil painting on the battlefield, and the number of Gangfei heavy infantry at the front is only a few hundred. But the combat power is very strong, with the heavy shield in his hand, he is able to resist the head of the horse advancing by the Guards cavalry
"Protecting Adults"
The captain of the guard drew his silver sword. In front of Lamia, the black cavalry like a sea avalanche, with a swift breath, slammed into the crowd, crackling, a tragic collision, like a hurricane swept in, flesh and blood flying,
"Kill!"
The neat thrust of the infantry spears pierced the war horse, and the war horse neighed miserably, but the trend did not decrease, and the heavy war horse, at the same time, smashed down like a huge hammer, splitting the soldiers in front like a wave, at this moment, the black cavalry cluster, drowning what was blocked,
The earth trembled, the soldiers wailed and were knocked away, hacked to death, blood was flew, and they fled all night, the soldiers had already reached their limits, they had long been powerless to resist the slaughter, and the Guards cavalry routed the infantry without difficulty,
"Quick, cover your lordship's departure," Ramia fought and retreated, escorted by a hundred-man guard. The guards clenched their shields and protected Lamia in the middle, fighting and retreating in the midst of the chaotic crowd, and one after another was cut to the ground by the rushing cavalry, but someone immediately filled the gap
"Leave me alone, the target of the opposing cavalry is me, you can run for your life, if you can, flee quickly!" Ramia commanded loudly with the support of a personal guard, he knew that it would be futile to go on like this, and a short period of blocking would not change anything for the overall situation, and the general's armor on his body was also the most conspicuous target, because there was a human shield composed of personal guards around him, whoosh" A cavalryman of the Guards, who was born as a javelin knight in Raldian, threw the bayonet in his hand at him from 20 meters away, and a cold light passed through the human shield formed by the guards.
The tip of the spear expanded rapidly in front of Lamia's eyes, and the cold light appeared, cold and piercing, "Are you finally going to die" Lamia did not choose to dodge, and even forgot to dodge, and between the lightning and flint, he closed his eyes,
"Smack" A sharp pain came from the position of his shoulder, he heard the sound of his bones shattering, and then his whole body flew out heavily, his whole body ached, the bright red blood directly blurred his retina, the spear pierced his right shoulder, Ramia felt that his life was disappearing quickly, and his mind couldn't help but think of the path full of purple chrysanthemums in the garden of his home, and his daughter waiting for him at the end of the path, at this moment, he was full of a kind of nostalgia, nostalgia for the path he walked in his childhood, nostalgia for the big tree that he recorded for his daughter's height every year, and engraved traces, and missed the cool and proud face when he triumphed for the first time"The winner can never know the state of mind of the loser!"
Ramia spat out a mouthful of blood, mixed with broken internal organs, a wry smile appeared at the corner of his bloody mouth, his eyes were scattered, his body fell to the sky, the illusion receded, the real situation reflected in his blood-colored eyes, there was no garden, and there was no little daughter he loved the most, this was a tragic battlefield,
There were enemy cavalry everywhere, he saw the head of a personal guard flying into the air, a pillar of blood spurting out of the headless body, the corpse was still running forward, tragic hand-to-hand combat, fighting, the cold light of the weapons on both sides continued to bring blood light, and the heavy war horse with a violent whistling sound, crushed from the front of the entire queue "My lord!" A personal guard rushed over covered in blood, and was immediately stabbed through the chest by a galloping black-armored cavalryman, and the whole person was picked up by a bayonet. A mouth full of blood exploded from the young man's mouth, and a young life was gone.
Unknown, Ramia didn't even know the name of the young guard
"Ringer, please!" Ramia mustered up the last of his strength, and in a faint voice that he could only hear, he called out the name of a man, and as soon as the words fell, countless clusters of arrows came from the opposite side, and the last few guards who insisted were shot and fell, and the corpses were trampled under the horse's hooves and rolled. The red blood turned the dirt under the horse's hooves into plasma, and the last image of "snapping" Lamia was the Gangfei battle flag with a red and white cross on a blue background disconnected from mid-air, like a kite with a severed string, rolling and falling in the air......
It was a quiet afternoon with autumn shadows, and the sentinels were lazily paraded around the entrance to the camp,
The gentle wind wafted the scent of autumn absinthe and unburned wheat stalks, and on the left side of the valley was a flat field with stacks of haystacks. The golden wheat stalks glow lazily in the sun, and wildflowers of various colors bloom in a large field of light and shadow, looking like a garden of the earth from a distance.
In the midst of this light, a queue of soldiers, under the autumn sun, is conducting a drill, which is the station of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Border Guards. This time, the border guards poured out, and only the 7th Infantry Regiment was recruited from the new recruits in May to make up for the defeat in the southwest. So he did not participate in the operation to enter the border
A small dilapidated castle stood tall on a high place, only half of the collapsed wall was left, and several sentinels on the periphery leaned against the wall, "Captain, do you say that you can enter the southwest this time?" A recruit looked at his companions who were training in the distance, and asked curiously, "I heard that at the beginning, the southwest was still our Gangfei vassal country, but it was stolen by the Gauls shamelessly, and the southwestern people don't think they are Gangfei anymore! I don't know if such rumors are true!" If so, the Southwesterners are so different that they don't even recognize their ancestors, and they still have to help the Gauls against us!" "There are indeed rumors like this, but that was many years ago" The voice was made by a middle-aged officer leaning against the wall on the left, he was lazily basking in the sun above his head, his eyes were bright and bright, and the corners of his mouth were crooked with disdain" After such a long time, who will remember that even those of us who are said to have migrated from the southwest region have long forgotten the breath of our homeland, and the empire is just using this as an excuse to send troops to the southwest, but I heard that if the march is very smooth this time, the army will occupy almost the entire border, and if nothing else, it may be possible to attack the southwest again......!
"Is Captain Siya there?" an inquiring voice came from below the watchtower, and an officer looked up with his head held high, his face a little pale and a little weak
"Lord Ringer, ...... are you?" the veteran quickly poked out his face with a smile on his face, he knew this young officer, Ringer, the adjutant of the commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment Okard, did not leave with the army because of an unknown illness before the army set off, but it was also said in private that Adjutant Ringer did not travel only because of physical reasons, but also opposed the decision of the commander of the army in parliament to send troops
"Captain Siya, the news of the Legion Headquarters has been cut off for 2 days, this is a bit abnormal, I want to go to the border to see it myself!, but I am not familiar with the border" Ringer said in a cautious tone, "You are a veteran of the scouts, they said, on this border, you can walk back and forth even with your eyes closed, can you accompany me on a trip?"
"This ...... I can't leave without an order from my superiors!"
"The order can be made up, as long as you come with me, I will give ten gold coins as a reward!" The corners of Ringer's mouth sneered, although he was recuperating from illness, but he also belonged to the people who were restricted from moving, he did not oppose the order of the legion commander to attack, but did another thing that made the legion commander furious, he made the little daughter of the legion commander Ramia bigger, although the customs of men and women in the Gang Non-Imperial Empire are more open, but for Ramia, who has always regarded fame as his life, it is a rather strict thing, he was originally going to marry his old friend, this time, it can be regarded as a slap in the face,
Suddenly, a small voice came, and another sentry came up from under the watchtower and asked, "Do you hear anything?" I see the pot in which I am cooking soup shaking!"
"You're allergic, aren't you! In this kind of weather, even rats won't look at your pot, they have wheat stalks, how can anyone come?" Even the dullest of people can feel the ground tremble slightly,
In the distance came a low muffled thunder, like the cracking of the earth,
This. It seems to be ......" The old soldier's face changed slightly, and he soon bounced up from the ground like a rabbit with his tail stepped on, this familiar fluctuation has already deeply entered the bone marrow and soul of a veteran, every time the Murphy dragon armor cavalry starts, this is the feeling, doesn't it mean that the Murphy dragon armor cavalry has already left the southwest?
Confused, he poked his head out of the watchtower and looked into the distance. The body suddenly stiffened,
I saw that at the end of the earth, a thunderous echo rolled in, and on the gray horizon between heaven and earth, a black blood line jumped out like a red sun, and this black spread at an alarming speed, quickly turning into black spots, and the eye-catching golden battle flag pierced into the sentry's eye like a needle,
"Attack!"
The cavalry swooped down like goshawks from the high slopes outside the camp. The sound of hooves roared, and thousands of steppe cavalry leaped down, and the power of the rolling surge was like a landslide, "Alarm! The enemy is coming!" The terrible screams tore through the calm and tranquility, and the black rushed by like a tide. The alarm sound in the distance made the recruits who were training stunned for a moment, and everyone turned their heads to look curiously at the guard tower that was shouting frantically, and the officer who led the training shouted angrily. Because of the low terrain, they couldn't see a large number of enemies attacking from afar.
Until the slightly trembling ground turned into a violent vibration, and in the roar of the earth, countless black lights and shadows swept from the heights, and in the autumn sun, the steppe cavalry suddenly jumped over a trench, like a scarlet "black cloud of blood" surging across the outer defense line of the camp.
Kill!" The cry burst into the sky, and the overwhelming cavalry group jumped into the low hardness of the terrain like a mad copy, and the sharp scimitar slashed through the fierce cold light, and pierced deep into the group of recruits who only wore thin chain mail, destroying the ashes and decaying, unstoppable, and the torrent of steel rolled up a sea of red blood,
Three days later,
The autumn sun was as always, revealing a ripe warmth, and the sun shone on the river, a sparkling landscape, a mountainous area within the border between Gangnon
The withered yellow elm pine forest is like a huge meadow, and what catches the eye is another beautiful scenery that is different from the too barren atmosphere of the Nordic Barrow, the curve of the mountains and rivers is softer, and a gentle river slowly passes through the plain, the reeds by the river, and the leaves hanging on the water surface swirl under the water like small hands.
The bifurcated tributaries of the river stretch from here to the surrounding land, and the trees beside them are a little yellow, but the trunks are well-defined, and the small villages are reflected in the river, and behind them are the steep rocks, and the endless mountains, forests, castles, and then the plains, and a bluebird cruising in the air makes a chirp in the air
With the Dongting cavalry into the territory of Gangfei, some news also came back, leading the most elite Imperial Guards cavalry to pursue the almost dispersed Gangfei remnants of the army of Salon, unexpectedly went wrong, according to the news that came back, the Gangfei remnants were not all annihilated before crossing the border, and the remnants of the army were divided into two roads halfway, one as a bait, and the other took the opportunity to withdraw to the territory of Gangfei,
This guide was the first to know the news that 100,000 border guards were almost completely wiped out, which was a fatal mistake in strategy!
Because of the news obtained in advance, the Gangfei side decisively abandoned most of the border areas with insufficient troops, and concentrated the limited forces in a few regions, and the steppe cavalry was good at raiding, but not good at attacking cities.
The steppe cavalry finally stopped their advance and waited for the rear infantry corps to follow,
What was supposed to be a surprise large-scale surprise attack, after such a delay, has turned into an open frontal attack, and the Gangfei people, in a painful respite, quickly mobilized two legions located behind the border to block the passage into the hinterland, and the two armies suddenly fell into a confrontation stage
The fat man bent down and picked up a handful of water from the river flowing in front of him, lowered his head and took a sip gently, feeling a cool throat and feeling the pores of his whole body open comfortably.
"Your Majesty, your subordinates are not doing things effectively, and the war is stagnant, so I ask for punishment!"
The Governor of the Southwest, Salon, held his helmet in his right hand, and knelt on one knee ten meters behind the fat man with a face full of shame.
Bloodstained knees kneeling on the smooth and hard river beach rocks, Salon looked remorseful, a hundred black-armored guards were nearby, but none of them dared to come out to speak, everyone's eyes were intentionally or unintentionally deviated,
"The arrogant army will be defeated, I should have thought of it!"
After more than ten minutes, the fat man sighed deeply, took the towel from the guard next to him, wiped his face, and snorted with a muffled nose
"From the northwest coast to Rasti, you follow me and sweep the 300,000 Gallic army, I'm afraid that your heart is also full of arrogance, it's good to have this defeat, otherwise you really think that this world is the first in the world of the Falcon Army! The death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, since it is the tail you left, then you will clean it up yourself, and the suppression of Gangfei will end here, and if you go deeper, then it will really be a full-scale war, and you will run Gangfei as the envoy of the empire!" (To be continued......)