1953 The Great River Flows (7)
In the direction of the Gangfei camp, there are too many tents to count, the camp composed of hundreds, thousands of tents, accompanied by the white and cold Ruhe River next to it, looks like two rivers, in the plain woodland outside the Gangfei military camp, the dense coniferous forest makes a crackling sound in the rain,
"It can't be a problem!"
Yagrin was a little uneasy in his heart, his horsewhip lightly tapped his riding boots, and his anxious gaze swept over the Gangren camp hundreds of meters in front of him from time to time
"Slaughtering the enemy's entire squadron, there should be some reaction!"
Yagrin muttered to himself in the wind, deliberately put in a few baits, entered the camp for almost an hour, Gangfei military camp still has no signs of dispatch, Yagrin doesn't know if the other party saw through the abnormality, or the other party does not care so much about the evacuation of the Falcon Army, if it is the former, the commander of the opposite side is a sharp-eyed person, this will be a very difficult opponent, if it is the latter, it is the most unpredictable, because you don't know what the other party wants to do, such a person, either a rookie who has just entered the battlefield, or a veteran with decades of battlefield experience
It's like gambling, and it's the most anxious moment when the market doesn't open
"Woo" represents the urgent assembly of the trombone in the army at this time in the direction of the Gangfei army camp sounded, like a huge hedgehog feeling the danger, the Gangfei camp suddenly exuded a tense and solemn atmosphere, like a fierce beast awakening, people are running everywhere, you can vaguely see a large group of people assembled in the camp, infantry groups with spears in hand, cavalry troops who turn over and get on horses, "woo" trombone sound, like a dozen gates of the camp with fangs in front of the front, open at the same time in the neat of more than a dozen porridge Hesse,
For a moment, the earth shook. A rumbling sound of horses' hooves shattered the roar of the rain curtain, only to see the cavalry troops like the collapse of a big river, quickly swarming out of the gate of these dozen camps, the cavalry hooves quickly trampled on the muddy ground, forming a strange scene on the ground like a pale mist, in terms of numbers, the number of the opposing cavalry exceeded 25,000 people, and it was well-equipped, and the high-speed march between the plains did not forget to send the scout light cavalry in front, at a glance, it was a commander with rich combat experience. "My lord, the direction of the enemy is the Vato Fortress, and it seems that the enemy has taken the bait!" said a cavalry captain who leaned over to Yagrin with an excited expression
"Let's go, let's go back!" A sneer appeared on the corner of Yaglins' mouth, waving his hand to the cavalry behind him, the goal was achieved, and there was a danger of being exposed to staying here, although he was separated by hundreds of meters, he also burst out of the entire line of the cavalry. These cavalry are definitely elite troops, and the opposing commander is out of the way, and the prey that he has been waiting for with great difficulty slips away. Anyone would be like this, and in the direction of the Wattor Fortress, a qiē has already been arranged,
The corpses of hundreds of Congolese cavalrymen who died in previous battles. And the empty Vato Fortress, no matter how calm the commander, in this disturbing rain. It is inevitable that they will go crazy looking for traces of the Falcon Army's retreat, and what is more powerful than a large and dense horse's hoof print, which can make the other party make a strong conclusion,
As a successful bait, both to be able to provoke the hatred of the pursuers, but also to be able to make the pursuers have traces of work, he left five hundred subordinates in the direction of the fortress, as long as the other party bites the "clue" as long as the pursuit follows the route, it is a dead end, and what awaits them at the end will be the death ambush circle designed by the 30,000-strong army of Rippolins
As soon as Yagrin's cavalry left, at the front of the queue of Gangnon-cavalry, a middle-aged general with a red cloak and dark gold armor suddenly stopped his horse, and subconsciously glanced in the direction of the woods in the distance, and a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, "Lord Reske, what's wrong?"
Another non-cavalry general next to him came up from behind and asked as he listened to the warhorse.
The person who stopped the horse was the commander of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Janissary Army, the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, Marquis Reske, and asked him that the general was the commander of the Second Cavalry Regiment, Marquis Dan Cullen, both cavalry regiments were the ace troops in the Praetorian Guard, and they were also the biggest hole cards that the Gangfei side was confident in ambushing the 30,000 Falcon Army with 50,000 main forces.
In the vast and infinite plains, the room for infantry to defend in formation will be greatly reduced.
The surprise attack of the elite cavalry is the deadly weapon in the field, even if the crossbow of the Falcon Army is rumored to be able to meet the heavy cavalry head-on, but in the face of the deadly charge launched by almost the same number of elite cavalry on the open ground, the 30,000 elite of the Falcon Army who rushed to deal with it can only collapse!"Don't you think that forest is too quiet?"
Reske raised the whip in his hand and pointed to the place where Jargrin was hiding just now, and said in a cold tone, "Our cavalry is so powerful, the other woodlands are startled by a number of birds, only there, there is not even a single bird to see, I suspect that there is a scout eyeliner of the Falcon Army inside!"
Hearing Reske's words, Marquis Danculen said confidently
"Our task now is to rush to the fortress in the shortest possible time, confirm the condition of the fortress, and look for traces of the falcon army's escape, even if there are really scouts of the falcon army, they will not have a chance to return to report now! Because our scout cavalry is faster than them! Now it is still the most important thing to hurry, if you delay too long, in such a rainy day, any trace will disappear!"
"Lord Dancullen is right, I'm too worried!" Reske nodded, no longer hesitating, and raised his whip and shouted to the cavalrymen, "Quick, speed up!"
Two hours later, the sound of the horses' hooves of the Gangfei cavalry cluster tore apart the rain curtain on the ground in front of the Vato Fortress like rolling thunder, a faint black line became bigger and bigger, the Gangfei Scout Cavalry had entered the fortress area, a scout cavalry captain was waiting outside, looking at the black line that appeared on the horizon in the distance, the scout cavalry greeted him with an ugly face, "Stop!"
Reske raised his hand, and the cavalry behind him stopped their horses' hooves neatly,
In front of it is the Wato Fortress, which is more than a kilometer long and wide. The huge city wall is like a bloodthirsty beast lurking in the rain, this fortress is the dividing line between the south and the central part of Gangfei, once sheltered the Gangfei Empire from the wind and rain for a hundred years, and was once an important stronghold of the southern army of the empire, with a garrison of more than 50,000 people at the most.
Looking to the south, the huge fortress that dominates the Middle Realm is now only a kind of cold solitude, full of despair and obsolescence.
Captain Gang Fei stopped his horse twenty meters in front of Reske at this time. Swiftly turning over and jumping off his horse, he walked quickly in front of Reske, gave a military salute, and reported that "General, the fortress of Vato is indeed empty, and we have not found the existence of the Falcon Army, but outside the fortress, we have found ...... The human head tower! They are all our people, at least a human head tower of 300 people! The other party is provoking us" The scout captain's voice trembled with anger, "What are you talking about!
Reske's hand holding the reins of his horse made a gurgling sound. His eyes suddenly became as hideous as blood,
"Take me to see!" he dismounted from his war horse in a rage, and under the leadership of the scout captain, he walked towards the fortress with firm steps, and an object towering several meters gradually appeared in his sight,
It was a tower of human heads piled up with the heads of 500 non-Praetorian Guards, layers of bloody human heads, surrounding a flag of the Janissaries that fluttered miserably in the wind and rain, and the flag was torn into strips of rags. has long been infected with human blood and turned red, revealing a chilling coldness,
In front of the human head tower, the head of a non-officer. was stuck alone with a sword on the ground,
It was the face of a young officer who could not be ignored, and the curly blond hair was drenched in the rain against the young man's pale cheeks, probably due to excessive blood loss. Strong eyebrows, closed lips blue, but those eyes. The eyes full of anger were still swollen and angry, looking straight ahead, that feeling, like an unyielding flame burning inside, glaring at the enemy's falling sword, unwilling to let out a roar of battle!
"Bastards, these bastards of the Falcon Army, they humiliate my warriors so much! Sure enough, it is the custom of the barbarians, and they all say that the Falcon Empire is a barbarian from outside the continent! It seems to be true!"
The strong and powerful right hand held the hilt of the long sword steadily, secretly exerted force, and the arm pulled the family saber out of the skull unusually slowly, the blade rubbed the skull and made an unyielding sound, it was a golden family sword, and the classical sharp blade base was engraved with the imprint of the family,
The silver-white line pattern constitutes an Ain flower vine that blooms incomparably dazzling in the flames, and there is a line of subtle text on both sides of the coat of arms "Peace in the fire, the rest of the dead" There is a majestic feeling in the rain, bright and dazzling, it is the coat of arms of the Sharad family, and it is also the most sincere respect for the warriors who died in battle.
The moment he saw the head of the non-officer, Reske knew who it was.
At the time of departure, he was entrusted by Rashad, hoping that he could find the body of Rashad's son Pokalashad in the fortress of Vato, and I heard that the squadron that desperately brought back the news this time was the cavalry of the Pokalashad squadron, and less than ten of the squadron of five hundred people escaped alive, which shows how fierce the battle was,
"What a wonderful young man, it's a young copy of Sharad! what a pity" Reske heard Dan Cullen sigh from beside him, and it seemed that Sharad had also entrusted him, "What should I do? bury it on the spot, or ......" Dan Cullen looked embarrassed and asked him for advice
"We can't afford to delay here for too long, and I'm sure Sharad doesn't want to see his son separated from his men, leave a hundred men to bury this, and bring this back to General Sharad!" Ryske's eyes were bloody, and he turned his back and handed the Sharad family heraldic sword in his hand to the adjutant behind him,
Everyone could hear the killing intent in his gritted teeth, which was as cold as the rain curtain in front of him, and he took a deep breath, he looked at the scout captain, "Have you found the direction of the Falcon Army's evacuation!" "Not yet!" This time, the Falcon Army evacuated too suddenly, and the treatment of eliminating traces was done, plus the heavy rain cleansed, so ......
"I have asked my subordinates to expand the search area to a range of five miles, and the withdrawal of the army of 30,000 people will leave traces no matter what" "Then do your best, I'll wait here!"
Reske's tone was as grim as ice, and he turned over his horse without fear of wind and rain, "My lord, please enter the fortress first to take shelter from the rain!" said the scout captain, "No. I'm right here, in front of these dead warriors!" Reske waved his hand solemnly, and behind him, the rain fell on the metal armor of the cavalry cluster, like a layer of white mist, a silent slaughter, no one looked for a place to shelter from the rain, although less than a hundred meters in front was the spacious Vato Fortress,
"Woo" to the southeast, there was a sudden rush of horn sound. The sound of the trumpet is quick and powerful,
The scout captain's face suddenly became happy, this is the scout's battle horn, catch the cunning opponent! Soon, a scout cavalry galloped over, jumped down from the war horse without waiting for the war horse to stop, and said loudly, "Report, three miles to the southeast, we have found the enemy's cavalry in the rear. A large number of horseshoe prints were also found."
"To the southeast, it's the road to the Biang Beach! It's not suitable for a large group march!" Reske's eyes lit up, "In such a heavy rain, the other side can't manage so much in a panic! The Biang Beach is notoriously difficult to travel in the rainy season."
"Southeast, the whole army is in pursuit!" Reske raised his hand, and the Gangfei cavalry behind him swarmed out like wolves smelling blood. The sound of horses' hooves is like the beating of war drums,
The Bann Flat, the Beang River, the torrential rain is like a note. "General, the main force of the Falcon Army is crossing the Bion River!" The news brought by the scout made the Gangfei cavalry who were pursuing all the way begin to gather, "The whole army is assembled!"
Reske violently grabbed the horse running under his crotch. Raising his right hand, he stopped neatly at the edge of the cavalry behind him with the order, and the horse's hooves trampled heavily on the ground, splashing a large frost-like mist, because at the same time crowded in front of the white line formed at the edge, tens of thousands of horses' hooves were lifted and put down back and forth, and at the same time brought up the water on the ground, stirring the ground under their feet into a muddy mess, and the long neighing of the war horses came and went,
Through the rain curtain in the distance, Resque saw about 10,000 or so Falcon troops crowded on the bridge of the Byan River, large white raindrops fell from the sky, and slammed into the surface of the Byan River with a width of more than 20 meters, flooding bursts of white dense spots, from a distance, the river surface was completely hazy in a white, "Kill, kill them!"
The falconry's queue was chaotic, and it didn't seem to be aware of the danger coming from behind, which was a thick, dense black line. Gradually, the cold light of the weapon flashed in the rain, and the dense cavalry, like a large black cloud, came on the white rain,
Tens of thousands of non-cavalry slaughtered the bayonet guns in their hands, and the sharp metal spear heads split the raindrops that fell on it, cold and biting, the killing intent mixed with the smell of pine and moss, mixed with the rain with a trace of chill floating in the wind, all the cavalry who saw the human head tower had red eyes, and there was only blood for blood and tooth for tooth in their minds! "Attention, enemy attack"
The falcons who were crossing the river finally felt something, and suddenly they were in chaos, and the infantry gathered together in a panic, like beasts that had suddenly been forced into a desperate situation, "Kill!" The non-Praetorian Guards cavalry came like a tide, and the torrential rain was completely a sea tide, and tens of thousands of horses' hooves fell heavily, and then lifted it, bringing up the water splash on the ground, and the white raindrops fell like brushes, and the cold and biting rain hit the metal armor, and ran out of the rain and fog on the opposite side with an arrogant momentum
"Squeak"
The tense sound of a series of bowstrings pulling down the vertices, with a subtlety that almost blended with the raindrops, like a thin string made the 20,000 falcon crossbowmen in the woodland on the side of the river hold their breath, at this moment, it seems that even the wind and rain in front of them have stagnated for a moment, countless arrows reflected in the cold light, the cold is pressing, and the killing intent is pervasive, in the distance, the huge edge composed of the gang non-cavalry rushes into the river beach like a frenzy, and under the horse's hooves are flying white whirlpools, as if they suddenly exploded on the beach, and the earth trembled under the heavy hooves of the horses wrapped in metal armor,
Reposti slowly raised his hand, the opponent's cavalry was entering the firing range, and his right hand suddenly fell, "Collapse, collapse!" The air trembled violently at a moment, and countless glowing white threads burst from the rain curtain towards the middle of the river beach, and at the same time, mixed with the sound of raindrops falling from the sky, it was like a nebula that suddenly appeared from the flat, and the dazzling metal flashes went straight into the sky, and then drew a series of white light marks from the height and fell rapidly,
"Papapa" Gangnon cavalry suddenly turned on their backs, as if they hit an invisible wall, and arcs came from their sides, hitting the flanks of the cavalry charge like a storm.
The Falcon Army's special Mitsubishi armor-piercing arrows pierced through the chain mail of the non-Praetorian Guards without hindrance, and pierced deep into their bodies, and the flesh and blood of the cavalry exploded like a cloud of blood mist on the high-speed galloping warhorse.
The cavalry above was thrown down from above by the war horse with the arrow, and the heavy body was smashed into the muddy water on the ground, staggering to get up, and was knocked out by the unbalanced war horse, "There is an ambush!"
Reske's face changed drastically, the Falcon Army's attack came from the flank of the river flatland, such a dense Cheng dù, what else could it be besides the main force of the Falcon Army!
And at the mouth of the bridge, which was still in chaos just now, a spear with a handle stretched out from the gap in the queue formed by the shield. Under the backdrop of rain, it is like a cold light surging in front of it, scattering, forming a slope similar to a concave surface.
The simple and clear lines reveal a razor-like slaughter, as if the entire beach has been cut open from the side (to be continued......