537 Kugit's New Khan King (III)
The wait is long, especially when you know that what you are waiting for is not a good thing,
It's like a kind of obsessive-compulsive hypothesis, there is obviously a calm in front of it, without the slightest change, but there are countless pictures rolling in Varisien's mind,
Having walked through the civil war in Vecchia, Varisian knows the devastation of war very well,
War is not a beautiful term, nor is it a compliment that young aristocrats use to amuse their beloved NV and boast about it.
War is war, it is the collision of iron and blood, life and life,
The essence of war is the nature of war, when the ruined towns are in flames, when the ruins of corpses are piled up in black and stinking walls, when the whole sky is bloodied by the raging flames of the wind, when the whole sky is bloodied by the blood-stained swords and guns
"It's a shame to ruin this place"
After thinking for a long time, Varisian suddenly sighed and stood up, turned his head, looked at the adjutant Kuente next to him, and said, "If war cannot be avoided, I hope to be able to minimize the losses here, although this is not our Vekia, but this place is so beautiful, just like our childhood memories, if we start a war here, it will definitely completely destroy this place, we have no other way?"
"It's not that there is no other way, it's just a little more complicated" Adjutant Kuont stood up and patted the dirt on his body with his hand, and Varisien's words undoubtedly made him feel the same way,
He pointed to the castle on the hill wall behind the town and said, "If we send someone to warn the lord here in advance and ask him to evacuate all the townspeople, we may be able to let the people here escape, but if we do this, the Kugit may find that there is an ambush here, and it will be even more difficult for us to catch them."
"Then what should I do? Just watch the Kugit destroy this place?" Varisian was extremely unwilling to dig the war knife in his hand deep into the soil under his feet, pondered for a while, and suddenly raised his head with a different gaze, and asked the adjutant beside him, "Although this place is not connected to Vekia, it should be regarded as the border area of Kugit, right?"
"Judging from the map, this should belong to the border between Kugit and Ryerdian"
Adjutant Kuont nodded puzzled, he didn't know what Varisien meant, but judging from Varisien's bright eyes, the Commander of Vekia, who was known for his brilliant mind, might be moving something
"And how will the local lords react if there are some traveling Kugit cavalry?" asked Varisien as he continued
"It depends, if there are many enemies, the local lord should abandon the town below and choose to stick to the castle on the top of the hill, if it is just a small group of cavalry, presumably the castle guard should be sent to drive it away," the adjutant Kuente replied with a hesitant expression
"That's easy, since we know that the Kugit are nearby, let's just lure them out" With his fists clenched, Varisian's sullen face smiled,
"How do you get it out?" Adjutant Kuante looked up at the Tiandao who was already west with a suspicious face, "The Kujit people don't have an L-face until now, it seems that they are going to wait until dark to do it"
"Hehe, don't forget, the Kujit are a people who worship wolves, and in their minds, the majesty of the head wolf is the most important" With a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, Varissian said slowly, "If you see your prey being targeted by other wolves, they will definitely not turn a blind eye, we will first send a small group of cavalry, disguised as Kugit rangers to disturb the town in front, I believe that without waiting for the sun to set, the hidden King of Kugit Khan will jump out breathlessly, because if he doesn't come out, he will completely lose people's hearts"
"That's a good idea," Adjutant Kuante nodded, his face worried, "but it's too risky to do so, and if this small force is detected by the Kujits, I'm afraid it will be in a dangerous situation."
"Haha, I naturally have a way not to let the Kugit people recognize it"
Varisian laughed, pulled the war knife out of the dirt in his hand, put it into the scabbard with a cautious face, and said in a condensed voice, "Don't forget, in our cavalry team, there is a cavalry squadron that has just been requisitioned from the western steppe, those riders are all from pure Kugit herdsmen, if it is not the armor on the body, or standing together face to face, you can't tell who is the enemy and who is your own people",
"You mean the Refit squadron" Adjutant Kuante nodded with a relieved look on his face and said, "This is a good solution, although their squadron is small in number, but their combat effectiveness is extremely good, and they are also the best at roundabout maneuvers, I heard that before joining the Vikia Cavalry, he used to be the commander of a thousand people in the Kugit Rangers, if they carry out this plan, maybe it can really work, as long as we can seduce the King of Kugit Khan in advance, we don't need to sacrifice the town as bait"
"Toze, go and get Captain Fettley of the 3rd Squadron here"
Varisian shouted to the young guard behind him, "Just say that I have an important combat mission for him, and let him bring the old Kugit Ranger with me, I know he still has it."
"Kugit Rangers?"
The guard Toze was stunned for a moment, wondering if he had heard it wrong, and Varisian waved his hand to him impatiently, and said sternly, "Go quickly, delay the fighter, be careful that I use the whip to you, so that you can't get off the ground for ten days."
"Yes, I see" Tozer shrank his head in fright, and hurriedly rode away
"You're not afraid of frightening your nephew, don't forget, her mother is your own sister" Seeing the guard Tuoze's look like an amnesty, Adjutant Kuant smiled wryly and shook his head,
In the Northern Stian Campaign, when Varisien returned to his hometown on the northern border with cavalry, he found that his relatives had died in the two years of war and natural disasters, leaving only such a lonely nephew, who barely survived because he was a slave to a local rich man.
"Don't be afraid, that's how we Saxon men came out"
Varisian smiled on his face, made a gesture of waving a horsewhip, and said proudly with his head held high, "We Saxon men believe in only two things, the horse whip and the hunting bow, the horse whip is used to punish our own people, and the hunting bow is used to punish the enemy, as long as we have these two things, we Saxons can become a real warrior"
After a while, the third squadron leader Fittre trotted over from a distance, he had a typical Kugit face, a high forehead with oil, a boxy figure, and a wide mouth, although he had joined the Vecchian army, the ear buns on both sides still had the unique Kugit hair, but the armor on his body was the chain mail of the Vecchian cavalry, it seemed that he did not do what Valicia ordered, and the Kugit scimitar at his waist looked a little nondescript
This is a feature of the Vykia army,
The fat man did not prohibit the national customs of the soldiers in the army, these soldiers from various nationalities, often with their own national characteristics, such as the longbowman from the Thorn Wa tribe, always like to pull the bowstring on the right shoulder, the southern mountain peoples like to use their own hunting knives, fishing nets, and even bō foreign sea forks,
The Kugit cavalry still maintained their scimitars and compound bows, but the armor was replaced by chain mail with better protection from the previous leather armor, and in order not to destroy the Vikia military formation, these troops with different national styles were often arranged on the flanks of the main formation, used to serve as the horns of the skirmishers-
"My lord, what do you have to do with me?" Fitley stopped in front of Valicia,
"Where's your thousand-man armor? the same one you got rewarded in Tulgar, didn't I tell the guards to tell you to wear that?" Varisien frowned, his gaze swept over Fitley's armor, looking a little dissatisfied
"I threw it," Fitreǐng straightened up and said with a cautious expression, "I haven't worn that armor since I changed my armor, and I'm now a Vecchian cavalryman, not a Tuga cavalry."
"You know what, when you're lying, your eyes look into the upper right corner," Valicia rolled her eyes at him and shrugged her shoulders
"I really threw it away, and now who still carries that outdated thing, and the chain mail that was issued to us is much better than that......" Ferret explained with a blushing face, a blushing face
"Stop, your eyes are looking up again"
Varisian interrupted his defense with a wave of his hand, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "The last time I was sorting out supplies, I saw with my own eyes, you put that armor into your horse package, I know that it is the habit of the Kugit people to carry glory with me, so I don't mind this, in the eyes of the warriors, the armor represents glory and not the enemy,
Valicia's voice paused, raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed to the town on the plain in the distance, "Now I have an important task for you, put on your armor of a thousand horsemen, and take 10 people to run to the fastest subordinate to disturb that town, remember that it is a disturbance, not a battle, as long as someone chases you out, you will run immediately"
"Escape?" Fittre gave Varisian a strange look, and said hesitantly, "Why should we run away, even if there are only 10 people, I can be sure to take that town"
"Have you ever seen a hunt?" said Varissien, "if you want to catch a beast, you have to lure it out of its nest and then surround it, it's the same as when you attack your opponents like wolves on the grassland, tie your horse's tail with a wooden strip, and make your 10 people look like a hundred."
Watching Firet, dressed as a Kugit cavalryman, disappear at the intersection in the distance,
Adjutant Kuont slowly approached Varisian and asked in a suspicious voice, "I've been with you for so long, how come I don't know that when people lie, their eyes look to the upper right corner?"
"How can I know? Maybe you're too stupid, you know, whatever is in people's hearts will be revealed in your eyes......"
Varisian responded to the adjutant's curiosity with a blank expression, his face as pure as a newborn baby, and spread out his hands
"Is it yours?"
Adjutant Kuante and his speechless glance at Varisian, who heard the guard Tozer, who had just gone to give the order, muttered in a low voice
"Isn't that the first thing my aunt says every time she interrogates my uncle and goes there?"
Silence, deathly silence
Varisian, who was still smug just now, is like a duck pinched by the throat at the moment, with his mouth wide open and his face flushed with grievance
"It turns out that it's my own experience, no wonder I'm so confident"
After a while, the adjutant Kuhnt shook his head with pity, but the smile on the corner of his mouth that could not be concealed undoubtedly betrayed his true thoughts in his heart, and the mouth that forced himself to laugh and moved slightly seemed to say, "I didn't expect the brave and fearless Varisian to be a fearful person"
"Assault, let your horses run"
In the distance, the ordered Fitley was brandishing the scimitar in his hand, and quickly rushed to the town in the distance with ten of his most trusted men, dragging a long series of branches on the tail of their horses, and raising a cloud of smoke and dust on the dry road, and those who did not know thought that there were at least a thousand cavalry rushing here
The crisp and loud bell of the "bell" representing the alarm rang out on the central spire of the calm town,
The peasants working in the fields outside, the merchants shouting and selling in the trade bazaar, and the crowd coming and going in the center of the town were like ants in a frying pan in an instant, completely frightened by the thick smoke in the distance.
They didn't expect to be attacked by the Kugit at all, people always have a fluke mentality, several times the Kugit just walked around from a distance and left, never really attacked, some people say that the local lord is a big hero, so that the brave Kugit people do not dare to come, and some people say that the Kugit people do not fight here, because it is unlucky here,
There are also people who say that this place has long been assigned to the Kujiits, anyway, there are different opinions, but one thing is certain, that is, the Kujits, but there is no record of attacking here, the sudden fear of coming, so that the originally peaceful town completely set up a mess of fleeing crowds, crying dad and shouting mother's noise, constantly coming from the direction of the town, it is completely a apocalyptic mō, the castle on the top of the hill also slowly pulled up the suspension bridge, it seems that it was also frightened, and even chose to abandon the town directly
"All Turn"
Seeing that the goal had been achieved, Fitley shouted, and the war horse under his crotch galloped past a fleeing carriage, the scimitar in his hand crossed an arc, and "snapped" a horse lamp on the carriage was cut in two, and the frightened carriage crashed into the trunk of the tree on the side of the road in a panic, with a loud bang, and the whole turned over,
"You say, 'Will this work?'
On the hill in the distance, Kutern looked at the mess below, and suddenly said a little worried, "What if we really misjudge, we can't be that the enemy didn't come, and we ruined the town."
"Regardless of him, try a few more times to know that at most it will be the last battle, which is better than being killed all"
Varisien paced back and forth on the top of the hill unhurriedly, occasionally raising his head to look at the situation below, in fact, he was also a little worried, no one could say anything about this conjecture, and now he could only pray in his heart,
"My lord, what do you think it is?"
Suddenly, the guard next to Toze, pointed to a dense forest on the east side of the town and shouted, following the direction of Toze's finger, Varisien saw a black line composed of 2,000 Kugit cavalry, which was rapidly emerging from the depths of the dense forest, and this black line was like a large net, undoubtedly trying to drive away Fitley, who had ruined their plan,
As this black line gradually unfolded, a group of Kugit cavalry holding three-star battle flags loomed behind this black line
"Haha, it's really the Khan King's Bright Moon Three-Star Glow Battle Banner"
Looking at the star emblem battle banner in the distance, which had been pursued for more than half a month, Varisian's blood-red eyes swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the long-awaited prey finally took the bait, he suppressed the roar of ecstasy in his heart, and ran to the war horse where he was gnawing grass, while shouting to the cavalry resting behind him, "Brothers, all get on the horse, our prey has appeared"
The king of Kugit Khan, Sisaiari, was now looking at the fleeing Fitley in the distance with an angry gaze, and the smoke and dust in the sky could not hide the style of the armor on Fitley's body, which was the costume of the Thousand Horsemen of Kujit
Being beaten by a straggler to plunder his plan to plunder the town undoubtedly made the Khan king Ssaiari feel very angry,
But there is no way to do it, since the defeat of the Green Corridor, the prestige of the Khan King Si Sai Ali has lived a miserable and unbearable life, Vecchia's brigade of cavalry is like a pack of wolves that smell blood, following behind their buttocks, biting from time to time, although the pursuers were temporarily thrown off, but no one knows when they will be caught up,
Now he feels like a leper dog who has taken off, and he has to fight a few shivers when he sees anyone, and the once ambitious Khan King has now lost his pride in despising the heroes of the world that day, and even such a small town has to slowly approach with his heart and mind, for fear that it will provoke a counterattack from the hilltop castle, even if it is just some insignificant counterattack, the current Khan King can no longer withstand a little loss
"You go and stop them from pursuing immediately, it's important to enter the town to replenish supplies, as long as you enter the central Ruierdian, we still have a chance to make a comeback"
He made an impatient but powerful gesture to his royal court guard captain Tansuga, asking him to summon back the royal cavalry that was still chasing, and suddenly, an ominous premonition passed through his heart,
"How can there be Rangers of the Western Prairie here?"
"Your Majesty, let's go, we are in ambush" The voice of Tan Suga, the captain of the royal guard, came from the front of the queue, and behind him, in the direction of the smoke and dust just now, countless black-armored cavalry were sweeping across the mountains
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