2024 Life and Death (2)

Just off the northern border, at dusk, a mound of snow, a strong camp with three rows of wood inside and outside, a group of light cavalry holding a long flag bayonet gun is coming from a distance, these light cavalry are wearing light chain mail, covered with thick cotton clothes, carrying a cavalry compound bow on the back and waist, and two full feathers on the back, although it looks a little bloated, in the large falling snow, the people and horses are all white, the speed is extremely fast, rolling up the white smoke and dust in the distance, at first it was just a small black spot, ten minutes later approached the camp gate, at this time can already see the white gas spewed out by the war horse when he ran rapidly, "Open the door, it's our people!" someone shouted in the direction of the sentry tower at the camp gate, the two heavy gates were quickly opened from the inside, and the light cavalry galloped in like an arrow off the string, and rushed into the camp gate for more than 20 meters before violently reining in the war horse, the horse's hooves grinded a deep mark on the stiff and frozen ground, and the camp servants who had been prepared for a long time immediately went up and grabbed the war horse that was still spitting white air and raising its hooves highly, wearing thick torn leather jackets," Note that this is an expensive purebred Antu horse, even a horse's hooves are worth more than your life, you must have the best horse feed and beans! If there is a little bit of adulteration, I want your head! A cavalry captain in light armor whipped a horse on the shoulder of the servant who was pulling his horse, and only then jumped off a sturdy warhorse, and the servant in tattered thick clothes was beaten by this whip and grinned painfully, his body trembled, and he lowered his head and did not dare to disobey! The cavalry captain then turned and ran quickly to the tent in the middle of the camp.

At the intersection of the tent gate, there were two palace knights in heavy armor, obviously knowing him, and their eyes only swept over the cavalry captains who were covered with heavy snow, and they scattered to both sides, so that the cavalry captains went directly into the big tent, and inside the big tent, one was wearing a robe. The arm is exposed to silver-white soft armor, and the sturdy young man is wiping a short spear in his hand, the short spear is only the length of his arm, the front end is made of fine iron, and the edge is terrifying, generally only the extremely fast assault lancer will be equipped, the position of the tent, the cavalry captain with the wind and snow ran in and knelt down on one knee five meters in front of the middle-aged man, and said in a condensed voice, "Your Majesty, Rela is urgent." They've had an encounter with the Falcons!"

The young man's eyes lit up, he put the short spear in his hand heavily on the table, and asked in a condensed voice, "How many troops is the Falcon Empire?"

"About a thousand horsemen, and also launched a main attack on the Rayla army, the guide zhì Rayla army suffered more than a hundred casualties, the Rayla army has stopped advancing and defended on the spot, according to the analysis of Rayla, this should be the forward scout of the Falcon Empire, calculated according to the cavalry horsepower. The main force of the Falcon Empire Army should also have entered the front for a hundred miles! Rela said that the direction in which this thousand-horse forward left was on our side, and I hope that our Eagle Legion can intercept it in time to ensure that the coalition army's battle arrangement will not be exposed to the Falcon Empire in advance!"

"In front of my Angolan descendants, the Ryla have always been cowards! It's not the main battle! There are 50,000 troops and 1,000 people who are so frightened that they stop moving!"

The young man's eyes were cold, the corners of his mouth twitched with disdain, and he waved his hand to the cavalry captain and ordered, "The Rayla people have never been good at cavalry, let alone cavalry tactics. It was only after the appearance of that Fraco that he finally had a little cavalry foundation, talking about real cavalry combat. It's too far worse than our Angolan descendants, this Falcon Army vanguard has been exploring for hundreds of miles, with snow in the wind, even if it is a real elite, people are beaten with iron, and the war horses can't stand it, and the other party should evacuate immediately after a slight contact, and the Rayla people are right in this regard, this time the coalition forces are trying their best to save the situation, and the Rayla people are willing to serve as bait, if they are allowed to go deeper, it is very troublesome for the layout of our coalition army to be completely exposed!"

"At the request of the Ryla, immediately mobilize all our cavalry and search for the vanguard of this falcon army within a radius of fifty miles! If you find it, you must drive it away or annihilate it!" The young man's eyes were fierce and terrifying, and the cavalry captain took the order, this young man was the king of the Hungarian country, and as the order was given, the huge Hungarian camp suddenly neighed with horses, and a group of fierce light cavalry galloped out of the camp despite the heavy snow,

In a flat canyon less than twenty miles from the Hunja camp, the snow was so heavy that it was difficult to distinguish dozens of paces on the opposite side. Although it was a little smaller in the afternoon, it still couldn't be settled, the plains and valleys in the cold were frozen, and the war horses galloped on it from time to time There was a danger of slipping, and the second squadron leader of the Falcon Empire Guards Stanreth led more than 200 guards cavalry, just leading the horses step by step in the canyon. Everyone was covered in snow, their helmets were lifted on their backs, and they just struggled forward, as the most elite forward scout in the main force of the Imperial Cavalry, it was Stanreth who struck a fierce line in front of the Rayla,

At that time, he received a report from the team that he found a main army of the advancing Ryla, and after secretly accompanying him for half a day, he decided to assemble the ten squads under his command to take the initiative to attack, in fact, Ryla was mistaken, the reason why Stanreth took the initiative to attack was not because it was too strong, but because the main force of the Falcon Empire's cavalry was still two hundred miles away,

Although the main force of the imperial cavalry broke the coalition army of more than 100,000, but it also suffered a lot of casualties, coupled with the continuous rush and tailing, the whole army was tired and waiting, so the march was not as fast as the coalition army expected, after all, the fat man did not want to meet the strength of the coalition army on the border with a long-tired army, and the army advanced while resting, at this time, the role of the forward scout was reflected, in order to cut off the line of sight of the coalition army and not expose the true situation of the main force of the empire, the elite scouts led by Stanreth have released a distance of two hundred miles, and if they found a large army of the coalition army, they would gather scattered troops to attack and harass, which really made the Rayla army stop

At this time, the canyon where the cavalry he led was located was in the area called the Mosa Cross in the north of Gangfei, which was called a fork in the road, because this area was a key road connecting several regions, and Stanreth led two hundred guards to wander and patrol here, and in the middle of the night, he and the guards behind him were already sleepy. The war horse shook his head restlessly, and although he had the improvised grass and trees in his mouth, he still snorted heavily. In the mouths and noses of the centaurs, long white gas spewed out. The weather was so cold that everyone and horses were frozen by the night wind.

In the darkness of the night, the Guards had untied their iron armor and rested against a cave in the canyon, which was located high in the canyon. With an unobstructed view of the entire canyon road, Stanreth is of average height and unpretentious in appearance, which is not surprising. There was also an arrow wound on the eye, which looked a little hideous. At this time, his eyes were staring at several fires on the road of the canyon below, which were artificially lit bonfires, although they were far away, he could also see the figures of people and war horses, the number of people was comparable to his own, and he couldn't see the specifics. But the quiver on everyone's waist, full of white arrow tail feathers, flashed with cold air that penetrated into the bottom of people's hearts in this cold night.

"Captain, it seems to be the cavalry of the coalition forces?" A guard walked over and whispered, "There are about the same number of people as us, but judging by the costume, it seems to be archers, or we will get rid of it tonight!"

"Don't worry, the other party thinks the same as we think. Knowing that this is the only way to go, so everyone who came to block us has been tired for several days, and the other party is full. As long as the other party doesn't know that we've arrived here, everything else is easy to do."

Stanreth shook his head calmly, there were only more than two hundred of them. While the number of opposing parties was still unknown, the other squads scattered according to the arrangement to attract the attention of the coalition forces and deter the advance of the large coalition group. The day after tomorrow will move closer to this predetermined meeting point, exposing the assembly point in advance, once the coalition side reacts, for this battle, as a containment of the forward scouts will be a disaster! can be transferred as a scout in the imperial guard, that is the elite of the top elite, experienced in a hundred battles, more experienced, through wind, frost, rain and snow, extremely strong survival ability in the wild, but also good at cooperating with each other, personal combat strength, and even have to be ready to sacrifice at any time, such scouts, even if you look at the entire empire of more than 100,000 cavalry, except for the steppe people who are accustomed to sweet and bitter, the real ability to take out their hands is definitely not more than two thousand, and one of them is here,

Stanres's judgment was correct, the number of Hun cavalry in the canyon at that time was not two hundred, but two thousand, but more than a thousand of them were not stationed in the canyon, but ambushed outside the canyon, the Hun cavalry is worthy of being the descendants of the steppe nomad, instinctively thought that if the Falcon Imperial cavalry was really nearby, it would definitely pass through this canyon, and the horseshoe prints in the canyon also proved this, the Falcon Imperial cavalry was nearby, but after waiting all night, the Hun cavalry did not wait for the expected dark night raid, and when the sky was clear, the Hun cavalry outside the canyon finally couldn't help but appear,

Across a slope of the canyon, Stanreth stretched out half of his neck, and a large group of cavalry could be seen in the distance, holding towering sbaying spears, with a swallowtail flag fluttering at the top of the spear, and a golden wave embroidered on the flag, the morning fog was damp, and the military flag fluttering in front of this cavalry seemed to be full of moisture in the air, but it was heavily attached to the flagpole. The sky was also overcast, and it seemed that the heavy snow had not yet fallen, and a bigger snow was brewing. , thousands of horses, the wind swept through the canyon, the snow was early, and the roads were hard and icy,

The horse's hooves stepped on, but the white pulp was splashed. The war horses of the Hun cavalry are quite majestic, they are a hybrid of the steppe horse and the Istan giant horse, but if they do not need to maneuver violently on the battlefield and outflank the attack, the cavalry is not much faster than the infantry. War horse storage needs exquisite horse material to have strength, so more than 2,000 cavalry crowded in the canyon, suddenly everywhere war horses released to find grass, the cavalry have boiled water to make food, frozen outside overnight, the cavalry is full of thoughts about having a mouthful of hot food, "Damn, it's dangerous!"

The faces of the guards who hid were as good as this weather, gloomy, thinking that they were almost killed last night, and cold sweat came out when they landed, no one thought that there were such cunning cavalry in the coalition army, and they knew how to put bait, but fortunately, everyone was too tired, and there was no extra energy to bite, otherwise they would not be caught by a rod, although the other party was an archer cavalry, but the victory was absolutely suppressed in terms of quantity, as the vanguard scout, this guard cavalry did not wear heavy melee armor, and even a heavier standing armor was not prepared, if it was besieged by such a number of archers, it would immediately be the end of a nest of blood gourds"Captain, what now?" someone asked in a low voice

"What can I do, let's wait and see!"

Stanreth can't help it, fortunately, the cave in the high section of the canyon is big and deep enough, there is a direct skylight on it, hundreds of war horses are placed in it, and there is a lot of space, as long as the people below don't deliberately look up, they won't notice that Stanreth is an extremely experienced old scout, who has participated in many battles, and at this time he finds that he can't do it for the time being. On the contrary, he calmed down suddenly, and in two days, what if the enemy cavalry below did not withdraw? He looked into the distance to the north, there were still dark clouds piling up, and above the distant mountains, lightning occasionally crossed through the dark clouds, and no one knew what the fate of everyone was waiting for everyone under the dark clouds.

"Captain, look!"

That's when it happened. One of the guards in charge of watching suddenly shouted, and Stanreth hurriedly walked over, and looked in the direction of his finger, only to see a team of well-dressed cavalry slowly entering the canyon from a distance, these cavalry were different from the cavalry below, these cavalry were heavily armoured, not fast, but very intimidating, and walked in the front. is a silent young general. Dressed in a bright red cloak, flanked by a flag-bearer holding a vertical flag, one on which was a golden wolf's head, and the other was a silver spear. And on the saddle of the young general, a bow bag of surprisingly large size hung on the side. The whole set of five silver-like short spears looked particularly dazzling against the snow,

"It should be the other party's general!" Stanreth said with a hesitant look in his eyes, his gaze pausing on the banner of the silver short spear. For some reason, he always felt that this silver spear coat of arms was very significant, if he knew the aristocratic style of Central European Baro. You will find that at the top of the metal of this silver short spear heraldic flag, there is a flag in the shape of a crown jewel, which is the royal flag, even Stanreth would not have thought that he would see the rumored royal flag that is rarely seen in the extreme

As a scout of the army, it is necessary to remember the enemy's military flag, the golden wolf head indicates that the cavalry below is a Hungarian archer, which is no wonder the other party has such a large cavalry cluster, Edgar counterattacked, captured 80,000 prisoners of the coalition army, and asked what the situation is, the Hungarians are a foreign nation in Central Europe and Barrow, originally a steppe strong tribe in the north of Central Beya, with a population of more than 1.5 million at its peak, famous for archers, because of the rise of another tribe on the steppe, coupled with the defeat of the Sino-Beja Empire, more than 170 years ago, the Humn tribe with a population of less than 700,000 people was forced to begin to move westward full of blood and tears,

Although the Huns were at a disadvantage in the battle for the northern steppes, and eventually had to migrate, it was tantamount to self-exile,

However, in Central Europe Baro, the Hungarian Tooth Archers with excellent combat power fought a sea of blood in the Central Europe Baro region, and finally destroyed several countries in Central Europe and Baro, grabbed a large piece of territory and succeeded in establishing a country in the middle section, and even shocked Central Europe Baro for a hundred years, more than a hundred years of time are faint, and the nature of this nomadic people still exists at this moment.

Although there is no longer the horse on the horseback of the ancestors, but the Hungarian archers, in Central Europe Barro is still very famous, immediately like the wind and lightning, arrows out of a row, fifty meters of the target ten shots seven or eight is no problem, for the infantry combat power-based country, the Hungarian archers are a nightmare of survival, but the war horses are expensive and difficult to raise, the Hungarians brought a lot of horses, and later used steppe horses to breed the Istan giant horse, finally solved part of the problem, the archer cavalry training is not easy, generally the nobles raise themselves, a bit similar to the tribal system of the steppe people, and at the same time in order to make up for the lack of cavalry combat power, the Hungarian State adopted a military system of the main cavalry plus servants,

The so-called servant soldiers are slave soldiers, responsible for auxiliary and infantry coordination during combat, this steppe people still continue the extremely harsh slavery system, as the high-level nobles of the tribe have the absolute power of life and death over slaves, this time has always adhered to the expansion of the Hungarian Kingdom, which is also one of the main combat forces of the coalition army,

Led by the Hungarian king Bai Geros himself, with 10,000 archers and 20,000 servants, it constituted the largest high-mobility corps in the rear line of the coalition army! Stanreth didn't expect that he was so lucky, he actually ran into the cavalry cluster of the Hungarians, and the other party also put on a posture to find himself,

"It seems that it will be difficult to wait until the other squads converge, and we must look for opportunities to break through!"

Stanreth's voice paused, and his face was a little ugly, "The number of the other party is ten times that of his own, and most of them are extremely fast archers, breaking through is no different from looking for death!" Unless ,,,,,, Stanley's voice stopped, his face was a little distorted, in fact, even he himself was taken aback by this idea, he thought of the young general, if he could surprise and kill, the Huns should be chaotic, if they were to get the cooperation of other squads, they might not be able to achieve a small victory," Two days later, we'll rush out and kill the general, and then everyone will break through with all our might!" Stanreth said through gritted teeth, and the other guards all heard the meaning of the decisive fight inside, "If you can really kill the other general, it will be enough, but unfortunately I don't know what that silver-white short spear represents!" A veteran guard showed a mouthful of white teeth with a hideous expression, "Whatever, how can a person who can have a military flag and a family emblem also be an extremely high-level figure!" (to be continued......)