On March 27, the 3rd year of the Falcon Empire calendar, the cavalry of the Central Army in Kyoto, which set the combat goal, began to arrive, and in the green of early spring, the falcon battle flag of the Central Army of the Empire appeared in the faint morning light with a strong fighting spirit, and the huge falcon battle flag with teeth and claws made the Salad expeditionary force who was still tidying up the trenches outside the city stunned. As if a divine soldier descended from the sky, a rumbling sound of horses' hooves swept up in the distance,

"Attention, the front line!"

In order to resist the advance of the Imperial Army, the commander stationed in Kyoto, Normandy, divided the 20,000 troops into two parts, one part was stationed inside the city of Kyoto, and the other part was stationed outside the city of Kyoto, relying on the continuous trenches outside the city to form the first line of defense.

"Hurry, if you don't want to die, hurry!"

Under the loud urging of the officers, the Salander soldiers appeared in the trench position, as the distance got closer and closer, the Salander expeditionary force in charge of the outer trench began to stir, only to see the long black line of the cavalry of the Central Army in the distance, like a fierce tide across the edge of the earth, the heavy horses' hooves hit like a landslide, the soldiers of the expeditionary force were as white as paper with fright, and before they even gave the order to retreat, there were some sections that could not be suppressed.

In terms of numbers, they were no less than the Central Army, but the will to fight and combat effectiveness of the soldiers of these expeditionary forces were completely destroyed by wealth and desire,

At the beginning of the battle of Salander in the southern part of the country, the Salander army that was defeated and captured by the Normans was about 110,000 people, because there were too many of them, and the Normans were only between 40,000 people. It was also sold cheaply to slave traders as waste,

Otherwise, the rebellion of these captives, who numbered twice as many as them, would have been enough to keep the Normans busy, and the Normans used all kinds of means to kill more than 20,000 people, and on the way to Normandy, more than 5,000 people died, of which about 30,000 were killed because of the capsizing and resistance. Sold to other countries upon arrival, less than 60,000 people ended up stranded in Normandy proper.

"Damn, the cavalry is here!

Some of the Salander expeditionary force, looking at the cavalry of the Central Army who was still 300 meters away, threw away their weapons in fright, ran back, and saw someone fleeing, and more expeditionary soldiers were like ants that had been trampled on their nests. Running out of the trench in a mess, ignoring the stern scolding of the officers behind, they rushed towards the position of Kyoto in the rear.

"Rush!"

Hukochili, who grabbed the fighter, shouted. Behind them, the cavalry of the Central Army burst into the trenches like a bolt of lightning, and the distance between the trenches in front of them was not wide, and the horses only needed to leap lightly to cross it. Countless snow-bright swords flashed with sharp white light, which cracked the hearts of the expeditionary force, and thousands of cavalry attacked like a tornado, shouting "Kill!"

I was intimidated by this power. The soldiers of the expeditionary force in the rout suddenly bombed the camp, and the entire defense line was under the impact of the cavalry of the Central Army, as if it was swept over the earth by a storm

"It's really like what His Majesty said, Kyoto seems to be stubborn, but it's actually vulnerable!"

The scene in front of him made the corners of Hukochili's mouth pinch with disdain, after Said's defeat of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force, Hukochili once built a march to Truburg, but was vetoed by the fat man,

The fat man gave him the task of directly crossing Fort Tru to attack Normandy Kyoto, which Hu Keqili once disagreed, saying that the terrain of Kyoto is dangerous, the city walls are high and strong, and there are trenches about ten miles long on the periphery, which is really not suitable for cavalry raids

Regarding Hu Keqili's statement, the fat man smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth, "Kyoto seems to be strong, but in fact, it is vulnerable, and any strong fortress, if it is handed over to a group of defenders who have no fighting spirit to speak of, is just a decoration,

Kyoto is strong, but the soldiers on the defense are difficult to say, although these people were once soldiers, but they were slaves in Normandy for several years, and they survived under the whipping of slave owners, and they have long lost the blood of soldiers in their blood, and then they recklessly burned and looted in central Normandy for several months, in essence, these people have changed from soldiers to thugs who are not even as good as ordinary bandits,

The expeditionary force has made a fortune in the plunder, and now all of them are delicate and expensive, who still has the willpower to fight to the death with the fierce cavalry cluster like a landslide here, an army that has long forgotten its fighting instinct, if it is suddenly attacked by the cavalry cluster at this moment, but does not know how to fight for a while, this is your chance! Tear a gap in the defense line, follow the rout, and you will definitely be able to go straight to Kyoto!"

The tactics instructed by the fat man were very simple, he asked Hukochi to concentrate all his cavalry, specifically to storm the side of the trench defense, and with absolute superiority, to crush the organized and organized resistance in a short time, and trample them apart with the hooves of his horses.

At 10 o'clock at 8:10, the four infantry squadrons on the left flank of the expeditionary force in charge of the trench were killed and defeated, three squadron leaders were killed, their soldiers were killed in all parts, and more than 3,000 men were scattered, shaking the left flank of the entire defensive line "Advance, advance with all your might!"

Hukochili paid no attention to the scattered soldiers, but unwaveringly forward, forward, the cavalry marched as fast as arrows, and the war horses galloped like thunder, speeding over the unremoved baffles on the trenches, which were like bridges over two trenches, and under normal circumstances, were given to the soldiers to lead, because the cavalry of the Central Army appeared too suddenly, and the front also broke and fled too quickly.

These baffles were taken as their own life and death by the rout, and they were crowded with people, and they were rushed by the war horses, and suddenly fell into a large area of the trench, and the scene was tragic, and the cavalry cluster of the Central Army tightly bit the tails of the soldiers in front of them, and they were broken down one by one, one by one, and one by one. "The main force of the Falcon Imperial Army has been killed! Hurry up, if you catch up, you will die!" panic began to spread from the left flank to the whole line like a plague. The tired and sleepless soldiers of the expeditionary force all lost their minds, shouting frantically, collapsing like water, and the situation in front of them was indeed as the fat man expected, more than ten miles of trenches, so that the expeditionary platoon distributed outside the city lined up in a long formation, in the face of a sudden flank attack, they could not mobilize troops in time to respond.

If the commander of the expeditionary force had been sufficiently conscious at this time, he immediately ordered to abandon the excess trench line in front. Withdraw all your forces into the last two trenches against the tall city walls, and with the support of the city walls, you only need to complete a strong counterattack to repel the attacking cavalry of the Central Army. But the commander of the expeditionary force stationed outside the city was visibly stunned by the whistling heavy hooves of his horses.

The entire flank was in turmoil, the sound of killing shook the sky, the scattered soldiers continued to flee from the trench in front to the trench behind, and the cold light of the swords made all the soldiers of the expeditionary force who saw this qiē feel a chill in their hearts, "Retreat immediately!"

If the commander is another general of the expeditionary force this time, or if it will not have such an effect, the commander of the remote expeditionary force in Kyoto. It was the traitor of Salander's Northern Army, Enright, who saw the Falcon banner looming in the morning mist, and the ignorant fear made the commander exaggerate the strength of the enemy on his own. He believes that he has been bitten by the main forces of the Imperial Army,

Because the battle flag of the Central Army is also marked by a falcon, it is easy for Enright, who does not know much about the imperial military system, to take it for granted that the people who led the cavalry to kill them. It was the ferocious and tyrannical Vekia Falcon, who mistook the battle flag of the Central Army for the battle flag of Vekia Falcon, which directly made him think of abandoning the entire trench defense line without hesitation, the name of the mainland god of war. It was enough to shock everyone, and his wrong decision led to the rout of countless Salander armies, like a river of water. A large number of people gathered outside the closed gate of Kyoto, "Open the door, let's go in!" The location of the city gate was already noisy. The crowded rout army below scolded at the people above, and the city guards above erected a whole row of bows and arrows, and pointed murderously at the bottom, the two sides could not hold each other, and the cavalry in the distance was rolling up a bloody storm and coming to this side, "No one can open the city gate without an order!" An officer leaned out half of his body from above and shouted at the black head below

"Orders? Whose orders do you want?" "I am the Supreme Commander of Kyoto, Enlight, and I order you to open the gates!"

When Enright arrived, he was also frightened by the rout in front of him, from beginning to end, he was not a real soldier, in this case, his first thought was to return to the city immediately, and run away immediately with all the treasures, the entire Ikadiva continent knows that there is no strong city or fortress that can withstand the hooves of the Vecchia Falcon, "Lord Enright?" The officer on the city wall was stunned for a moment, and in the crowd, he saw that the Supreme Commander Enright was also inside, "Ahiborne, don't open the door yet!" If you don't open it again, I'll order your head to be cut off!"

Enright looked annoyed and raised his head and shouted the name of the city guard officer, this time he put his descendants in the city, and put those so-called expeditionary forces outside the city, which itself has the meaning of letting these expeditionary forces be cannon fodder, but he didn't expect his luck to be so bad, he came out to inspect in the morning, and he actually encountered a large-scale attack by the imperial army, and he was very unhappy with the same as other expeditionary forces, and enjoyed the treatment of being turned away, "My lord, what if the city gate is opened now, and the enemy takes advantage of the situation to kill in?" The officer was quite dedicated, but it was clearly not the right time, "Bastard, you don't open the city gates, do you want me to die outside?"

"But ......," the officer still wanted to say

Enright turned his head to look at the black cavalry who were getting closer and closer behind him, he couldn't care so much anymore, he directly raised the horsewhip in his hand, and shouted at the archers on the city wall, "All the archers, listen, this person is rebellious, I suspect that he is a spy of the imperial army, I order you to execute ...... immediately" "Don't, I will order the door to open immediately, open the door!" The officer's face was frightened and pale, and he hurriedly waved his hand and shouted, letting the winch hand of the nearby city gate pull the winch, even in the cold early spring, he was sweating loudly and shouted, now I can't manage so much, and it is the first thing to be able to save my life, these archers are all Enright's people, and when he gives an order, he is definitely the end of ten thousand arrows piercing his heart

The tightly closed city gate of Kyoto was finally pulled by the winch, slowly opened, and the rout army swarmed up, suddenly squeezed into a pile, difficult to control, and the cavalry of the Central Army, which had already been prepared in the distance, was like a pack of wolves that smelled the fishy smell, galloping towards the position of the city gate, the war horse was like thunder, the war knife was like frost, and the slow runner was directly trampled to death by the war horse, "Quick, close the door!" The defenders on the city wall. Seeing this situation, it was also a mess, and below were countless routs. The gate was stretched out of a gap several meters wide, and the winch hand pulled hard, and it was only closed less than ten centimeters "Everyone, hold on, those bastards are going to close the city gate!" "It's too despicable, are you going to abandon us?" "Yes, if you want to live, rush in!"

There were all sorts of scolding from below, and it was clear that the gate winch was being pulled violently, even though several of the routs in front of it were violently holding the gate. But in front of the tremendous power of the machine, the two huge gates that were stretched open were still slowly closing towards the middle, "Let me pass, I'm Enright!"

In the crowd, Enright shouted loudly, and under the desperate push of several guards, he miraculously squeezed to the location of the blocked city gate, in front of which was the city gate that could survive, and behind him there were more than a dozen pairs of big hands struggling to pull his clothes, making it difficult for him to walk forward. Looking at the smaller and smaller city gates, "Bastard, let go!" At the critical moment, Enright did not hesitate to draw his saber and slash at the hand behind him. Blood splattered, and a terrible scream came from behind him, "My hand!"

Several of the arms that didn't have time to let go fell to the ground in blood, and some of them were still clutching Enright's clothes. Some flew to the people behind, and taking advantage of the chaos behind, Enright made a very successful leap. Rushing in from the city gate, which was already less than 1 meter long, the "pop" city gate closed heavily, and the sight of countless pairs of eyes seemed to be cut off, along with the light, and the city gate suddenly dimmed

"This is the will of God, heaven will not destroy me!" Enright shouted with joy, fell to his knees on the ground, and kissed the ground under his feet fiercely,

Outside the city, the noise ceased, except for the terrible screams of some people, whose arms were severed with sharp swords, revealing their bones, and rolling on the ground in pain, three of whom were Enright's guards, who pushed Enright into their last hope, but their hands were cut off by their own masters, and although they tried their best to hold the bloody wounds, and gritted their teeth in their mouths, it was still difficult to keep a sound at all

"Stomp!"

In the distance, the central cavalry cluster of the empire, which was less than 30 meters away from the city gate, stopped, the black men and horses were lined up, covered in blood, the eyes full of violent factors were full of bloodshots, the sound of the war knife neatly sheathed, and even the smell of blood wafted in the wind, and the momentum made all the thousands of expeditionary troops outside the gate feel a chill rise from their hearts, it is said that in Said, it was the 20,000 Saland expeditionary forces killed by this cavalry that flowed blood, and the entire second army was wiped out

"It seems that the first plan has failed!"

Hu Keqili slowly came out of the cavalry ranks, his eyes swept over the closed gate in front of him, and the corners of his mouth smiled slightly bitterly, the commander of the other party was also cold-blooded, and he actually threw thousands of people to the enemy like this, if he gave the slaughter order, the entire moat would be blocked by piles of corpses, fortunately, His Majesty the Falcon also arranged the second plan, although it was not as exciting as the first plan, but it was enough to decide the entire battle situation;

"Vertical crossbow!"

Hukochili's gaze swept over the city gate, crowded into a ball, like sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and suddenly raised his hand behind him, "Brush! The cavalry of the Central Army pulled out the half-meter length of the cavalry assault crossbow inserted inverted in it from the weapon slot of their war horses, like an open half-moon, and the cavalry were very fluent and quickly placed the triangular armor-piercing arrow cluster on it, this kind of armor-piercing arrow could penetrate the armor of the hoplite at a distance of fifty meters, and at such a distance, if a volley was launched, no one on the opposite side would be spared

"Aim!" With Hu Keqili's order, the crossbow body of the assault crossbow in the hands of the cavalry of the Central Army slowly flattened, and the sharp arrows burst through the cold light, straight towards the thousands of expeditionary forces trembling outside the city gate, and the air stopped at this moment, "Mom, I don't want to die!" "Is this to slaughter us?"

There was a mess below the city gate, crying dad and shouting mother, the crowd formed by thousands of routs was like being squeezed in violently by a pair of invisible huge palms, and the people who directly faced the cavalry crossbow subconsciously retreated, and some people even wanted to jump into the moat, but the river was too urgent, and the people who jumped down were rolled away in a few strokes, and after a while, a roll of blood-colored waves floated up with the river bubbles,

Some people who wanted to learn from it hurriedly extinguished their plans to jump into the river.

In order to resist the Imperial Army crossing the river and attacking the city, the expeditionary force laid countless sharp pieces of iron, stones, and bamboo sticks in the moat of Kyoto in Normandy.

As long as the person falls, he will soon be swept into the waves and die, and the huge pressure makes the soldiers of the Salander Expeditionary Force on the opposite side pale one by one,

Looking at the cold light that flickered like starlight on the opposite side, no one would doubt that the cavalry on the opposite side would not slaughter everyone without hesitation after ten sounds

"For the sake of the soldiers who once belonged to the Imperial, I will give you a choice, lay down your arms and surrender or die!" within ten sounds, make a choice!" Hukochili swept his gaze in front of him, raised his hand again, and slowly said "One, two, three......"

"Smack" didn't count to four, the expeditionary force began to throw down weapons, and by the tenth sound, no one was still holding weapons, in such a situation, even Hu Keqili couldn't help but crook his mouth, "Such an expeditionary force is simply a disgrace to the face of the imperial soldiers!" (To be continued.) )