The smoke-billowing grassland, the smoke of thousands of tents, the red flames licked through the felt roof of the tent like a greedy cat, a section of burning tent supports, crackling and exploding in the flames, and the sparks were blown apart by the wind,

In the flaming camp, thousands of headless corpses dressed as Kugit herdsmen lay in the mud and blood, surrounded by scattered supplies, broken scimitars, and the corpses of war horses lying in clusters, and the sound of the sheep in the sheepfold, but their owners have become cold corpses on the ground

The searching Dongting cavalry galloped by, and every time the horse's hooves stepped on the bright red human blood on the ground, it was so thick that it made people feel sick, and it splashed on the curly hair of the sheep, which looked so shocking

For such a tragic scene of corpses all over the ground, the surrounding Dongting cavalry seemed to be very accustomed to it, they talked and laughed with each other without fear, or in a running attitude, threw the human head in their hands out of an arc, and finally landed on the pile of human heads in the center of the camp area, they even took pleasure in this, to see who threw it accurately, who threw it far, the rolling human heads, the bloody ground, full of frightened and miserable faces of the dead, this place is like a hellish world

In the concept of Dongting people, there is never mercy at all in war, just like the massacre just completed, only to kill or be killed, if you can't cut the enemy to the roots, then the ensuing revenge will also affect your relatives, the so-called brutality is not the best means to protect yourself!

"Have you found the body of the traitor Riago?" Rui Tangtina rode a war horse, escorted by a hundred cavalrymen into the camp full of corpses, the scene in front of her made the princess Rui Tangtingna, who was riding on a horse, frown slightly, compared with the pungent smell of blood, Rui Tangtina was more concerned about the results of this raid, and the place where the main camp was generally located was the strongest force,

But judging from the results in front of him, it is obviously a deviation from expectations, the enemy corpses in front of him are full of calculations, and they are only about seven or eight thousand people, and the main battalion of a large tribe of 80,000 people cannot have only such a small number of people, not to mention that there are also a large number of old and weak women and children, which is obviously just a secondary battalion to guard the main camp,

According to the grazing habits of the Kujit people, in order to ensure the safety of the main camp, small camps with different numbers of people are often arranged around the main camp, so that the scope of grazing can be expanded, a mobile sphere of influence can be formed, and the danger of being completely annihilated by the enemy can be avoided.

Wu Mu, the general of the Eastern Court who was in charge of cleaning up the battlefield, shook his head and said, "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the camp has been cleared, but the body of the traitor Yarigo has not been found.

"Is there a deviation in the information? Or is someone tipping the message?"

Rui Tang Tingna's delicate and beautiful eyebrows were frowned together, her eyes stared coldly at the distant horizon, and finally decided that this time it should be just an accidental miss, this place was very likely to be the location of the main camp a few days ago, and it was completely for some reason that the other party's main camp accidentally avoided this fatal attack,

Otherwise, the Ryalu who got the information would not have had to let so many people die here

"How about the results?" Rui Tang Tingna continued to ask with a gloomy face, since she couldn't defeat the main force, she could only hope that she could make some gains, if she couldn't hit the key point in one fell swoop, when this tribe came to its senses, even if the number of troops dispatched this time reached 40,000 troops, but in the northern border where the terrain is complex and changeable, it is inevitable that it will fall into a bitter battle, not to mention that behind the other party, there are still squatting northerners who may be reinforced at any time!

To hunt wolves, you must kill the first wolf, this is the strategy that the fat man told Rui Tangting Na in the letter to pay special attention to, because the grassland is extremely vast, and it is almost impossible to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, and the main camp of the Riyalu tribe is chosen as the goal, which is in line with the intention of defeating the strength of the Riyalu tribe in one fell swoop, and then freeing up his hands to have a good competition with the northters...,

The person in charge of the forward is the original Dongting general Wu Mu, after the East Court was attached to the Falcon Dynasty, his identity also changed to the leader of the escort army of Princess Rui Tang Tingna, he is also an experienced person, seeing Rui Tang Tingna's displeased maid color, he knew that something must be wrong, but he didn't dare to hide it, hesitated for a while, and responded

"In this battle, our army captured a total of 7,231 enemy heads, of which 4,246 belonged to adult warriors, but judging from the number of soldiers in the camp, the subordinates thought that even if this place was not the base camp of the Riyalu people, it should not be far from the base camp.

The Ugmu's voice stopped, and then he continued, "With their ability to track the grassland, they should be able to trace the traces of that group of deserters and help us find the real camp! It's just that at that time, that traitor in Riago should have already known the news of the arrival of my army! If you want to launch such an attack, it won't work! So please be prepared to meet it head-on,

"You mean that instead of withdrawing, they will take the initiative to launch a counterattack?"

Although she is the eldest princess of the East Court, she has lived in the palace for many years, and she does not fully understand the inside story of the various ethnic groups in the East Court, but the Umu is different, as the only remaining general of the East Court Khan, she can support the situation of the East Court alone in the case of the death of the Khan King, and she is an extremely rare handsome talent, and she has been fighting with the King of the East Court for decades, and she has a good understanding of the situation of the various tribes in the grassland.

Wu Mu's eyes flashed, and he said calmly, "Your Royal Highness the princess can not know, this Riago is a very famous fierce general in the northern part of the grassland, and often claims to be the lord of the north in front of everyone.

The 80,000-strong Ryalu tribe, almost all of them are soldiers, only the archery cavalry has reached an extremely considerable 10,000 people, and the melee cavalry has reached 20,000 people.

But later, as the Khan's court grew stronger, Tongguò conquered this riago in two wars, and forced him to send his second son as a hostage to Motu, his heart has always hated the royal court like bone marrow, but because of the Khan's suppression, so a snail dwelling on the northern border did not dare to make a move,

This time, I heard that the Riyalu tribe was secretly colluding with the Northlanders, and the subordinates were not surprised, with Riago's empty character, the subordinates could be sure that they would not choose to retreat after suffering such a big loss!"

Hearing Wu Mu's assertion, Rui Tang Tingna's heart was relieved, as long as she didn't run, the rest would be easier to do, she ordered the troops to set up camp and send scouts to guard,

In the evening, the archers who had followed the deserters brought back information about the Riaru camp.

The Umu's judgment was confirmed, and after receiving reports of deserters, the camp of the Ryarus, instead of retreating, began to order the small camps around it to assemble towards the central camp, and according to the reports of the archers, the number of cavalry assembled from other directions reached more than 10,000 during the day, and the whole camp was filled with the fire of the clan's blacksmiths forging weapons.

"The enemy should choose to attack in the early hours of tomorrow morning!"

"Because they need time to forge enough weapons and rest for their soldiers, marching at night on the vast grasslands cannot hide the sound of horses' hooves, and so do we—"

At the military meeting in the evening, in front of the tribal leaders, Rui Tangtingna spread out the map of the east court in her hand, pointed to a point on the map, and then moved like the north, and said in her mouth

"This is where we are now, according to the reports of the archers, the camp of the Riarus is about 50 miles away from us, and in the middle of us is the hills of Podal, on the other side is a flat meadow, and we are a hill of bumps,...,

"We clearly don't have an advantage in terms of terrain, they're going to stop us here!" said Ritatina, her finger resting on the location of Bodale Hill on the map

"The other party should also have the same intention," Rui Tangtina's voice stopped, and continued, "Their cavalry group only needs to adjust slightly, they can easily occupy the commanding heights of the Podel Hill, and then wait for us to rush up, while we need to climb the uneven grass before we can slowly climb the Podel Hill, which is not good for us!"

"So what should we do?"

Some of the leaders were worried and puzzled: "If they occupy the Podel hills, they can rest and work, and when we climb the mountain, the cavalry rushes down the mountain, and our cavalry can't stop it at all!"

"So I've decided that this is the place where the battle will be!" said Ritatina as she slid her finger down to the other end of the map

"Here?" The clan leaders of the Eastern Court were stunned for a moment at the same time, and almost at the same time stood up from their seats in surprise, stretched their necks to look at the place where Rui Tang Tingna pointed out, the only thing that was calm was probably only Wu Mu sitting on the right side, but there was still a trace of surprise appreciation in his eyes,

In the early morning of May 22, the sky was overcast, and the wind blew through the meadow, rolling the broken grass into the sky.

Three huge queues of 10,000 cavalry slowly appeared from the distant horizon, and the well-equipped Riaru cavalry, as expected, did not wait for the Dongting cavalry to march on the Podel Mountain, and began to advance in the direction of the Dongting people with some impatience.

They cautiously passed through the uneven area, but did not find any troops of the Dongting people, and the cavalry marched forward in a neat group, until the wreckage of the camp that had been attacked the day before stopped

"Whew"

The neat queue, quiet enough to hear the whistling of the steppe wind, all the eyes of the Yariru cavalry were looking at one place, in the middle of the ruined camp, the mountain of human heads piled up with Yariru heads,

"Damn Dongting people!"

Standing in front of the queue, Riago also saw the head mountain, he rode on a tall and thick black war horse, his eyes were instantly covered with blood-colored red silk, his hands full of green tendons tightly grasped the reins of the war horse, and his fingertips were deeply immersed in the flesh, because of regional and historical reasons, Riago never admitted that he was also from Dongting, he preferred to call himself the master of the Northern Grassland,

If it weren't for the fact that the Eastern Court Khan King was too strong, he would not have chosen to surrender, but now that the Eastern Court Khan King is no longer there, the Falcon Dynasty that appeared inexplicably is another existence that seems to have no deterrent power.

Riago's ambition, which had been silent for 20 years, also germinated again, this is a golden opportunity, the main force of the East Court moved south, and the entire north was almost dominated by his own family, although there were still some small tribes, but none of them could pose a threat, although he was 54 years old, but in the face of such an excellent opportunity, Riago's ambitions were also irrepressibly expanding rapidly,

He first united with the Northlanders to destroy the two tribes that seemed to be the most obnoxious, and then under the banner of the Northlanders, he plundered the pastures of the nearby tribes, driving the tribes that roamed in the middle into the direction of the interior.

"Woo" a burst of Kugit trombone, from the distant position of the woods, dozens of slightly spaced smaller cavalry phalanxes of thousands of troops, as the three-star flag representing the royal court began to appear,

Among them, the center is the most elite main force, composed of 10,000 elite melee cavalry, the strongest combat effectiveness, and the 20,000 archers on both wings, like two wings to protect the center, located behind the military formation is the relatively weak light cavalry, and some scattered melee cavalry, temporarily combined into a 10,000 team. Wait behind the array, waiting for orders. ...,

Looking at the Ariru people who stopped on the opposite side, the Umu beside the princess Rui Tangtingna, the chief princess of the Eastern Court, pointed to an old man on the opposite side who was wearing fine armor and had a somewhat old face, but with a dignified and gloomy aura, and said

"That's Riago, the princess should be very careful, the longwind cavalry of the Rialu tribe is a very sharp kind of raid cavalry, their weapons are not bows and arrows but javelins, which are somewhat similar to the hurricane pikemen of the Ryerdians, but they are faster and have more fierce assault capabilities, each of them has five javelins, after years of training, they can accurately hit targets fifty meters away, they can almost ignore any armor, even the heavy cavalry will be pierced by the powerful javelins they throw!"

While the Umu was still pointing out how to deal with the Arriru raid cavalry, the Arriru on the opposite side attacked first, and the three phalanxes began to advance slowly. It's like putting pressure on the cavalry of the East Court on the opposite side. Their queues were close together, and from a distance it looked like a dark cloud had covered the land

"Ready to shoot!" With the shouts of the East Court, the 20,000 archers on both wings began to draw the compound bows in their hands, at a 30-degree angle into the air, and countless cold light clusters of arrows shot out from the bowstring with the sound of the wind, and the shining arrow clusters were like locust swarms that burst from the horizon mountain, fiercely plunging into the ranks of the Yariru cavalry,

Soldiers sprayed blood and rose in the air, screaming and throwing dust from their horses. The body was pierced in an instant, and the arrow shot the second person into the air with blood flowers;

Some people were even shot right away, rolled to the ground, and then were nailed to the ground by falling arrows, and blood bloomed in mid-air. The Riyaru cavalry screamed and dodged, but the panicked horses stepped on the back of their heads, and their brains flew out.

The cavalry in front kept falling, but the cavalry in the rear continued to accelerate unrelentingly,

"Changfeng cavalry, assault!" The counterattack of the Rialu cavalry also followed, only to see a whole group of light cavalry suddenly accelerate, the horse's hooves flying, and the lightly armed cavalry above pulled out a javelin with a fine iron spear head from the crotch of his war horse, and threw it 80 meters away from the Dongting cavalry queue, turning into a waterfall of dead metal light in the air,

The whole platoon of cavalry, twisted into an unnatural posture on the horses under this stormy blow, flipped over and turned into hedgehogs full of arrows.

Screams, groans, blood, death, panicked men and horses trampling each other, horses' hooves, screaming, arrows raining like locusts, and the sharp wind sound of arrows breaking through the air filled the entire space that human ears could hear.

It was only a short period of time, I am afraid that it would not even be half a minute, and the Dongting cavalry in the front row was shot by the javelins that attacked nearly a thousand people, and the entire defense line fell down, and the ground was covered with the corpses of the Dongting cavalry.

At the same time, the melee cavalry on the flanks of the Long Wind Cavalry was finally in place. Holding the scimitar in his hand high, he shouted loudly, and under the cover of the cavalry holding the javelin, he launched a charge against the flank of the Dongting people!

The fierce collision of "popping" short distances is completely a person cutting a person and a horse hitting a horse. Nearly 30,000 cavalry crowded into a woodland of less than 2 kilometers, the two sides that collided with each other spread out like a rolling wave, and then collided again, tearing each other with all the weapons they could use, blood splattering on the faces of the cavalrymen, making them look like hideous red men

The two sides were so close that in the eyes of both sides, it was as if the other horsemen's cavalry was slashing and slaying on the backs of their cavalry! The two sides had no room to turn their horses, and the only thing they could do was to swing their swords, and swing their swords, and swing their swords, until every enemy who was still on their horses in front of them.

In the case of the fierce battle between the left and right flanks at the same time, a strange distortion appeared on the battle line of the Dongting people, and the originally solemn array was completely like a distorted S-shape.

"Stand back!" and hold the line while retreating ......"

Rui Tang Tingna calmly observed the situation on the battlefield, and ordered loudly, although the plan had already been known, it was still very difficult to implement this order.

The twenty thousand columns on the flank, which had been rushed by the shock, were one, and the fierce Riaru cavalry, almost like crazy, pounced on them,

The Dongting army, which had the upper hand in the width of the array, was a little overwhelmed even by virtue of the numerical advantage, and the two sides were frantically strangled together, and any retreat would lead the other party to pursue ruthlessly, and even the reserve 10,000 troops were ruthlessly thrown in

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