Day 3 of the Battle of the Toronto River

The commander of the Eighth Legion, Good, stood calmly on a hidden slope behind the river, looking at the camp of the Falcon Army opposite, the distant sunset was shining from the top of the dense forest on the horizon, the wind blew, the woods by the river made a roaring sound, through the ditch in front of the trees, you could see a patrol cavalry of the Falcon Army passing on the opposite river, these light cavalry wearing black light armor, energetic light cavalry, wearing domed fur hats, carrying curved bows, eagle-like eyes looked shining, this group of cavalry only glanced at the tidal flats on the other side of the river a few times, but did not look farther, as if not at all concerned about whether there is an enemy ambush on the other side of the river, "what the hell is going on?"

Goode withdrew his gaze from this group of absent-minded patrol cavalry, and the reaction of the Falcon army on the other side really made him unable to see through!

Since the fierceness that broke out in the first battle, in the next two days, the Falcon army on the opposite side has been doing things that make Goode feel ridiculous, they are actually camping on the river that has broken through, and the commander of the Falcon Army has taken a defensive posture in a cocoon, so that Goode can not understand more and more "Is the other party attacking, or defending!" Goode felt a trace of confusion in his heart, "My lord, Lord Remsciat is here!" At this moment, a scout came quietly from behind, and said with a strange expression, "Remchat, what is he doing here?"

Goode's eyebrows furrowed slightly, at this moment, shouldn't this guy Remshat strengthen his defenses in the back? He turned around and walked towards the war horse led by the squire, and said to a scout captain behind him, "Ann Huiler, you stay and continue to closely monitor the movement on the other side!"

"I understand, sir!" the scout captain nodded, and in the barracks at the rear, Goode saw Remchat walking up and down the tent, a letter in his hand, and it looked as if something had happened. Seeing Gude walk in, Remsit hurriedly greeted him, "Lord Good, has the enemy moved in the past few days?" Remsit hesitated for a moment before he suddenly asked, "What's the matter, Lord Remshat wants the Falcon Army to launch a fierce attack on my Eighth Legion?" Goode glanced at Remchat, who was unscrupulous, and the corners of his mouth with a displeased expression twitched slightly, "If that's the case, then Your Excellency may be disappointed" Gude said confidently, "Since being severely injured by our army in the river. The Falcon Army has already suffered a great loss of vitality, and it seems that it has lost its intention to advance north in the past few days! To put it bluntly, after the courageous fighting of all the soldiers of our Eighth Army, the enemy's ambition to harass the main force of His Majesty the Emperor has been smashed, and the initiative on the Putao battlefield has been firmly in the hands of the Empire......" "Lord Good, if this is the case, then I can only say that things are starting to get worse!" Remchatt's face changed, interrupting Goode's conjecture of continuing to be arrogant. "What do you mean, Remchat, I know you're not happy with my Eighth Legion's glorious exploits, but you can't say that," Goode snorted with a gloomy face, his tone revealing a stern dissatisfaction, "Is it for you." Our Eighth Army is bleeding and suffering countless casualties, and the success of the Falcon Army's northward march is the happiest thing for you?" Don't get me wrong, Lord Good!"

Remchat's face turned slightly pale, and he raised his hand, and there was a report on behalf of the expedited red. Slightly flustered, he said, "There was some accident, I just received a report from Kyoto, just three days ago, the Falcon Army in the direction of Lisbonto divided into two routes, all the way straight to the north of Putao, that is, the one we are fighting against, and the other cavalry force of about 7,000 people, just after you and I two legions moved to the north of Putao, quickly crossed your and my defense area, and headed in the direction of Imperial Kyoto!"

"What! from our defense zone!"

Goode's face was shocked, and he read the report in disbelief, the content of it made him stay there for a while, and fell into a trance, this time he was really embarrassed and thrown home, just when he was alone in the Toronto River to block the Falcon Army, another Falcon Cavalry had crossed the border line between the Empire and the Putao from his original defense area, and pounced on Gangfei Kyoto with rapid momentum

"I think so!"

Remchart nodded with a gloomy expression. You also know that the border guards on the border have been emptied of the Putao battlefield, and now there are only a few less than three squadrons left, plus I didn't expect the Falcon Army to kill from the defense area of my own troops, the border guards didn't even have the most basic reaction, they were crushed by the onrushing cavalry group, more than half of the casualties were killed, and even the most important fortress on the border, the Kerlens Fortress, was raided by the other side, and in a way, the capital of the empire has been exposed to the blade of the Falcon Cavalry!"

"What about the Ninth Legion, isn't there still 50,000 elites in the Ninth Legion near Kyoto? What are they doing?" Goode shook his head before he recovered from his shock, angrily twisted the report in his hand, and asked with bloodshot eyes

"It's useless, the enemy's blow is too fast!" Remchatt smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth and shook his head helplessly

"The Ninth Legion is a triangular arrangement with us, fifty miles apart from each other, and at the speed of the Falcon Cavalry, even if the Ninth Legion can react, it will not be able to quickly counterattack in a short time. In order to block the enemy's cavalry from approaching Kyoto, the Ninth Army has ordered the line to shrink"

Lemchatt's voice stopped, and his eyes flickered and said, "What makes the Ministry of War most dissatisfied now is that the Falcon army that has spent two legions to block it is just a decoy to lure us" "The other party's target has always been Kyoto of the empire, the Falcon Army has broken into the territory, Kyoto has fallen into a huge panic, everyone thinks that behind the seven thousand Falcon cavalry, there should be more Falcon Army, and only relying on the Ninth Army will not be able to resist the full attack of the Falcon Army!"

"The wealthy families in Kyoto besieged the Ministry of Military Affairs, collectively accused the Military Department of dereliction of duty, and disregarded the safety of the empire's century-old glory, and under pressure, the Ministry of Military Affairs strictly ordered us to defeat this Falcon Army advancing north in the shortest possible time!

"Defeat the Falcon Army advancing north, and return to Kyoto! Do those old men in the Ministry of Military Affairs think this is a game of playing at home?" Goode looked indignant, thinking of head-on attack on the Falcon Army like a rain of locust-like arrows, this strong and fierce general was also hairy in his heart

"The enemy has passed through our defense zone! As for responsibility, you and I cannot escape the blame!" Remchatt smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth

"Well, I agree to return to the army and fight the Falcon with you. But can you guarantee that what we're dealing with is really just the Lure Force's Decoy Force?" asked Goode with an ugly face

"I can't guarantee it" Remshat shook his head and took a deep breath, "I can only say that even if the other party is not a decoy force, at least we can reduce the pressure on the Imperial Kyoto side, otherwise this northward advancing force will turn to the direction of Kyoto and attack back and forth, and the Ninth Army may really be finished, and you and I will only be afraid that we will also bear the charge of greed for life and fear of death!

The Toronto River flows for a long time. The river rolled up the waves, and the sky became a little gloomy on the fourth day, and the thick black clouds were like cotton balls, piled higher and higher, between the heavens and the earth, like a huge eye, looking at the earth below

"Patrol, is there a situation?" Ahri, the commander of the Thousand Cavalry of the West Garden, reached out to stop a passing patrol and looked up at the terrible sky overhead. The cold air of early spring was filled with the smell of dampness, which, according to his experience on the grassland, was a sign before heavy rains.

"Nothing. To tell you the truth, I don't even know what the hell you're looking for!" the patrol leader shrugged his shoulders and replied listlessly, patting his stocky horse with his hand. There is no need to patrol at all, and with a width of fifty meters, it will be very difficult for the enemy to launch a surprise attack. Why the hell are we camping here, it's just a river, just ride across it, I don't believe that the tin can troops like that a few days ago can really stop the scimitars of our steppe people!"

"That's right, but it's just some heavy infantry, and it's not like it hasn't been encountered before!" said a patrol rider next to him

"Shut up, patrolling is the order of the Khan! Just carry out the order, whoever speaks more, immediately cut out his tongue according to the tribal decree"

Ahri raised his horsewhip and gave a stern order so that the patrol cavalry did not dare to say any more, silently, in the steppe troops, the majesty of the superior is unquestionable, according to the steppe people, "the more sharp scimitars, the better, but only one tongue to give orders is enough!"

"Woo" At this moment, the horn horn of the discovery of the situation came from the front, "Attention, enemy!"

There was a loud sound from the sentry post along the river, and the commander of the thousand cavalry, Ahri, and the other patrol cavalry hurriedly turned their heads, and the dazzling cold light made their eyes unconsciously narrow into a line, and sure enough, on the opposite side where there was nothing just now, the crusade flags that appeared a few days ago flashed one by one, like a forest of iron slowly rising from the horizon, a queue of infantry wearing blue heavy armor, countless towering spears, and dozens of queues composed of tens of thousands of shields, which looked particularly dignified under the inky sky, "Ready to fight!" “

The Falcon Army troops in the entire riverside camp quickly moved into action, and the temporary wooden fence was erected in a whole row on the riverbank, and on the inside of the fence, 5,000 skilled crossbowmen of the Imperial Central Army lined up in four half-arc strike queues, half-crouching behind these wooden fences, the crossbows in their hands were held flat, and the sharp crossbow arrows threw a chilling light in the cold air.

"All of you line up!"

Ahri quickly ran back to his thousand-man team, brandished his horsewhip, and rudely drove his subordinates who were still resting out of the tents, Ahri's troops were on the left side of the camp of the Imperial Central Army, with the Imperial Central Army as the center, and the 15,000-strong Xiting troops spread along the riverbank, and there was no trace of slackness on his high-spirited faces,

If there had been a hint of dissatisfaction with the Khan's arrangement, he had now forgotten it, for he saw the huge and hideous banner of the Falcon King fluttering in the cold wind in the camp of the Imperial Central Army, 200 meters to his left

It was the battle banner of the Falcon Khan King, and it would be the most glorious thing for Ahri to be able to fight under such a great god of war, and Ahri felt that his blood was boiling, and he rode his war horse and galloped in front of his men like a cluster of arrows, shouting "Bow up!" in his mouth.

The whole row of curved bows was facing the inky sky, the bowstring was quickly taut, and there was a gurgling sound, and the silent momentum of the tens of thousands of armies of the two fathers, under the gloomy sky, was like a shiny sword that had been washed, all thinking about tearing the target in front of them apart. Boom'" A muffled thunder rolled through the sky. Shrouded the heavens and the earth in a desolation. The falcon battle flag and the inhuman crusade flag on the opposite side were all blown by the wind at the same time, like a war drum about to be beaten, and a killing aura rushed straight to Xiao Han

"Attack!"

A heavy squadron was the first to jump into the river, the river was not deep, the shield was washed by the river, and the cold light flashed like layers of fish scales on the rushing river, and the infantry shield stood in front. Covering the infantry behind the squirm forward,

"Shoot!" The entire row of Xiting archers on the other side of the river raised the powerful compound bow in their hands towards the sky, and with a loud shout of shooting, thousands of arrows pounced on the iron turtle on the river like a dense dark cloud, and the Gangfei soldiers on the side of the shield were shot and planted into the water before they could stand firmly, blood splashed, and patches of scarlet appeared on the surface of the river, but no one cared about this, and more Gangfei heavy infantry jumped into the river. In the shallowest section of the river, the water simply flooded the chest of the heavy infantry,

The first wave of troops sent up were all the real elites specially selected by Goode, the commander of the Eighth Army

Elite infantry of three thousand people. Using the river water to protect his body, holding his shield high to block his head, the opposite arrow cluster shot weakly into the river water, unable to resist in the water at all. Shoot through the thick armor of the heavy infantry in the water layer

The hoplites struggled forward in the river, and the arrows rained down on their shields, making a clanging sound. As the river gradually became shallow, the Gangfei heavy infantry began to fall down one by one, but no matter how fierce the arrows were, they just held their shields and bows to dodge, but no one stopped, no one flinched, no one made a sound, they just persistently and silently approached, and then they approached, even if they were shot by arrows, they still moved forward little by little in the river, as if their belief in moving forward had not been extinguished until death! There was a loud bang and slammed on the erected wooden platoon, which was Remchatt's troops, which suppressed the archers on the riverside with a large number of catapults behind the Eighth Army, and the queue of the shooters in the West Court was smashed, and a piece of flesh and blood flew sideways,

"Forward!" Remchatt personally instigated his war horses, took the lead in facing the rain of arrows shot from the opposite side, and led three thousand cavalry to leap into the river in front, stirring up countless splashes, and the infantry captains behind shouted with all their strength, "Kill those who retreat!"

"Forward, forward!"

The whole army of Gangfei exuded a kind of determination of a strong man to break his wrist, and constantly jumped into the river with a decisive will, and the motley troops of Remshat pushed the swaying boats with the most rudimentary planks, launched a charge to the opposite side, and quickly built a pontoon bridge floating on the river, paving a way for more hoplites behind.

"Well done!"

Goode looked excited to see the first group of hoplites rushing onto the opposite river beach, and was crossing several deep ditches on the river beach, the counterattack of the opponent's shooters was so weak, and he couldn't see the terrible scene like locusts gnawing last time, sure enough, this was a decoy force, and the real strength was afraid that it would have already fallen away! As long as there is a force attacking the opposite side, it means that there will be more troops to attack, and the opponent's large number of shooters has become a burden at the moment, losing the cover of the river, and these shooters with weak melee ability are the biggest weakness of the opponent

No one noticed that in the position of the Falcon Army's main formation, the wind blew a golden Falcon battle flag,

The fat man's eyes narrowed slightly into a line, like a cold light spreading into the distance and opening a blue tide-like military formation!

"It seems that Gangfei has been fully pressed!"

Philanton Ya let out a low cry beside him, this time the Gangfei people can be said to be out of the nest, in addition to the number of hoplites of about 30,000 people, there are also about 3,000 Gangfei cavalry, about 10,000 mixed infantry queues, some of the built catapults are slowly moving with the troops, she doesn't know what method the Vekia Falcon used, in just a few days, it forced the two legions of Gangfei in the Putao area to turn from defense to offense, and it was so desperate to press it with all their might, it was like a design,

"The Toronto River in front of me is about to be dyed red by killing" Knowing the truth, Philanton felt powerless to resist in his heart, the previous dense rain of arrows made the other party forget an important matter, they were facing not only archers, but also cavalry clusters that were far more offensive than infantry,

"Your Majesty, the enemy's vanguard has reached the river beach!"

A warlike Thousand Banners of the West Court galloped over, and the equestrian skillful restrained the war horse in front of the Falcon Khan King, and reported loudly, behind the Falcon Khan King, a full 10,000 cavalry of the West Court had been arrayed, and the neatly arranged cavalry armor could not see the end at a glance,

No one made a sound, only the iron pieces of the war horse occasionally made a few grinding sounds,

Under the black leather helmet, there were tens of thousands of Xiting cavalry flashing eyes with a strong desire to kill,

The patrols along the dense river, just to cut off the eyes of the non-scouts, may find the eyes of the abnormal force,

"Ready!" the fat man snorted, his slightly narrowed eyes widened suddenly, his right hand was slowly raised, raised into the air, the air seemed to be still at this moment, all of them were waiting, countless eyes fell on the right hand raised by the Falcon Khan King, the war horses in the front row were kicking the ground uneasily, whispering softly, and even they were suppressed by the murderous aura bred in the silence. (To be continued......)