2025 Life and Death (3)

"Attacking and killing the opponent's main general, although it sounds tempting, but in fact, this plan is not feasible!" Stanreth took off his helmet, suppressed the strong desire in his heart for this idea, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his eyes swept over the stunned guards under his command, and said with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, "Why?" The little excitement on the faces of the guards suddenly disappeared, "Captain, are you too pessimistic!" Immediately some people expressed their opposition, those who can become the imperial guards are the elite, and finally stand out from the guards to become the forward scouts known as the eyes of the army, but also the elite of the elite, in the face of the 50,000 Ryla legion and dare to take the initiative to attack the fierce cavalry, once with the Gauls and the northern steppe cavalry scouts to catch and kill each other, naturally did not put most of the following just lightly armed Hungarian cavalry in their eyes, although the number of the other side is ten times that of their side, but everyone is confident that as long as they seize the fighter, fight a flesh and blood, kill a bloody road in the other party, attack and kill the opponent's main general in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the chaos to break through, it is not impossible!“

"If the other side is infantry, it is naturally possible, but the other side is light archers!" Stanreth shook his head, and explained with a wry smile on his lips, "The number of enemies is ten times that of our army, and there may be more cavalry to join behind." If we want to attack and kill the opponent's main general, it is impossible during the day, then it is only at night, and the best time is naturally late at night, but judging from the situation last night, the Hun cavalry below is not inferior to our caution, even in the rest also maintains a considerable number of ranger patrols, which is quite unfavorable for us with only two hundred cavalry"

"We are light cavalry, the melee heavy armor is left behind, the opponent is also a very fast light bow horse, in terms of speed, we have no advantage, once we are surprised, do not need to spend time on armor, these Hun cavalry can give us strong damage with the bow and arrow in their hands alone. Even if we fight to the death. I was lucky enough to find the location of this enemy general, at that time, I was already surrounded by layers of the opponent, and I wanted to kill the opponent's most heavily defended general in one fell swoop......, do you think it is possible!"

After listening to Stanres's words, the guards' faces changed, and Qi Qi gasped, and his heart suddenly became half cold, as if he had transferred the power of an ice cave from the fire, and everyone was silent for a while, the situation was indeed very bad. Everyone is an experienced elite, how can this time be so unlucky, but it was blocked here,

As Stanreth said, the light archers on the other side are not vegetarians, and if they really encounter a cavalry attack on the camp, they don't even need to wear armor, they can shoot a lot of themselves directly with bows and arrows, and even if two hundred imperial guards are good at fighting, even if they are good at fighting. It is impossible to attack and kill the opponent's main general under the encirclement of 2,000 archers, let alone be able to easily shake off afterwards, and it is too light not to be chased and killed for hundreds of miles by these light archers whose speed is not worse than itself! But it is not possible to hide here all the time, and you can't make a fire. You can also eat some food for a day or two to get through, and for four or five days, there is no fire, and you can freeze people into popsicles in cold nights. Without fire, even if you kill a horse, you can't eat raw horse meat. Within four days, without the enemy discovering us, everyone will freeze to death and starve to death! "No, everyone can't just wait for death!" or rush out directly at night while the Huns haven't discovered us!" someone shouted in a low voice: "Yes, rush out, it's all dead anyway, kill a few people!" The guards whispered, "Enough!, it's not until that time, don't mess up the direction yourself!"

Stanreth snorted coldly, felt a depressed condensation in his chest and said, "It would be nice if the other detachments were here, and we wouldn't have to hide from these Hungarian cavalry, even if we don't want to confront them head-on, but at least there is no problem in evacuating, now we are blocked inside, and the detachments outside don't know yet, once we get closer to this side when the time comes......" Stanress's voice suddenly stopped, what did he just say, he was inside, and the other detachments were outside, isn't this the most favorable sneak attack arrangement? If you have a calculating or not, you only need to order the detachment wandering outside to drain away the troops around the young general, and the other party would never have thought that there are still two hundred guards cavalry lurking under their noses, and with all their strength, the possibility of killing the opponent's commander is very high!

Thinking of this, Stanreth turned around and gave an excited expression to one of the guards, "Immediately send a message to the Fifth and Seventh Detachments to inform them of our current situation" Asking them to do everything possible to provoke the Hun cavalry and be sure to attract their forces in the gorge!"

A few minutes later, two gray carrier pigeons fluttered out from the height of the canyon, and the Hun cavalry in the canyon was lighting a fire to cook at this time, a hundred white smoke and dust, where would you notice that these two different little black dots flew higher and higher, and finally merged with the sky......

More than 100 black light riders were hurrying along the woodland at the edge of the wilderness. The armor on his body reflected a little light in the woodland, and under the gloomy sky, Uluka, the captain of the seventh detachment, took the lead, his eyes fell on a row of torches in the distance across the river, next to those torches, there were obvious figures of soldiers, who seemed to be tired of walking, and were camping to rest, as the first detachment to receive Stanley's order, the Uluka detachment turned around fifty miles from the canyon position, and ran for most of the night, everyone was cold and wet,

At a distance of about two miles from the gorge, there was a sudden encounter with the edge of the Hun cavalry,

The lights in the camp in the distance shone on the people. Flashing and shaking, the aroma of wine and meat, also with the night wind came, these Hun cavalry did not know at this moment that the danger in the darkness was approaching rapidly, a whistling sound flew from overhead, the pillar of fire rolled in the camp, dark red sky, suddenly the Hun cavalry next to the fire fell down a large piece, caught off guard, countless dead and wounded in the camp, the wail of the arrow spread in the camp, the shouts of the mad enemy suddenly burst in the middle, the few sentries on duty on the guard tower still did their duty, drew their bows and released arrows, and at the same time turned back and shouted wildly into the camp"Enemy attack!"

In the camp, the Huns ran in chaos. Some jumped out of the tent with a casual compound bow. This Hun Ya camp was located on the outskirts of the canyon, numbering about 500 people, and the neighing of war horses and the shouting of soldiers were mixed together, but it was even more difficult to hear. Soldiers can be seen constantly falling to the ground with arrows, and any large battalion, as long as it is unprepared, is attacked by a sneak attack, and chaos is chaotic. I'm afraid it's all the same, even if you're too elite, it's average. Not to mention that these Hun cavalry never dreamed that they would encounter such a sharp blow, night arrows, clusters of arrows falling in the night sky, even the ancestors on the grassland were tactics that changed color,

The night was dark, and tonight was particularly dark, and this camp outside the canyon was more of a slave used as a servant, and it was completely overwhelmed by the sudden blow. Uluka watched coldly from a distance, and when he was sure that the other party had been completely disorganized, he ordered the cavalry behind him to shoot crossbows in the distance, and rows of arrows rained over the fence. The few soldiers on duty also immediately fell to the sky and fell straight down from the top of the fence

"Quick, open the camp gate!" Uluka raised his hand, and one of the guards cavalry in front of him carried a long rope on his back, which had already been thrown from a distance and put on top of the fence. The guard's ability to control the horse was evident at this time. Rushing ahead, such a tall and heavy horse also controlled the mount to make a hard turn in front of the walled gate, and ran a few steps sideways along the walled wall. Then he turned around. These grating wood are not thick in the first place, and the depth into the ground is not deep. Just like that, it has fallen into a piece. A platoon of Imperial Guards crossed the robe that had pulled down the fence. Rush into the camp first!

Although the Imperial Guard did not wear heavy armor, the impact was extremely fast. The Guards flew over the fallen fence almost on all fours. Falling heavily in the camp, he crashed into the tent with unabated momentum...... The hands were full of long snow bright spears, and the cavalry scattered on both sides simply used heavy maces to sweep sideways in the chaotic Hungarian crowd, and the Hungarians who hurriedly rushed to the side immediately fell.

The cold horses equipped by the Guards cavalry are tall and majestic. The huge momentum suddenly made the slaves of the Hun army who were blocking the front and frightened and overwhelmed to crash away, and fell to the ground with broken tendons! There are not many real Hun soldiers in the camp, but there are hundreds of servants, even if there are many at this time, there are few generals who spend their minds on blocking the enemy from breaking the camp, and the combat strength of these servants is extremely poor, and occasionally there are a few tenacious Hun officer promoters and servant troops to meet the battle, and these soldiers lose their blades and flee back. By this time, Uluka's detachment had completely entered the camp. Under the impact of the war horse, the one who is invincible. Some of the guards who had dismounted and fought on foot had already climbed to the top of the watchtower, and a single arrow was fired into the camp. Several assemblies of the Huns failed due to harassment,

The camp was on fire, as if a pillar of fire had risen in the night, "What's the matter with the outer camp?"

"How many people are on the other side?" Hearing that the Falcon Imperial Army finally couldn't help revealing its whereabouts, the corners of Bai Geluos's mouth showed a sneer centered on the main road of the canyon, spreading tens of thousands of Hun cavalry outward, like a huge net shrouded in a range of 20 miles, as long as the Falcon Imperial cavalry appeared, they would be entangled in this big net,

"At present, the number of people is only about 100," beads of sweat broke out on the head of the attendant officer,

"Only a hundred? Nothing else?" Bai Geros was stunned for a moment, such a number of Falcon Imperial cavalry, at most a detachment, from what the Rayla people said that there are thousands of people is really a big mistake, the other party seems to be scattered, one of the detachments couldn't help but show their whereabouts, it seems that the report of the Rayla people is true, these Falcon Imperial cavalry are not ordinary, thousands of people dare to attack the 10,000 legions, 100 people dare to take the initiative to attack the camp! It's very similar to the style of the savage and fierce Falcon Empire, but the other party chose the wrong object, he is not the cautious King Rayla, and the Hun is not Rayla

"Order the front battalion to contain them first, and order the other troops to go to meet them!" Bai Geros said decisively with a slight frown, his eyes looked at the red of the burning sky, such a scene, even if it is within twenty miles, it can be seen within twenty miles, since the Falcon Cavalry is so arrogant and bold, I will use this squad as bait to transfer all the Falcon Imperial cavalry out!

At this time. Ten miles east of the canyon, in a wooded mound, a captain of the Imperial Guard was staring at the distant fire, which grew larger and larger, as if half of the sky had already burned, and from this direction, one could even see sparks flying in the sky. As Whites thought, the fire did attract the attention of all the Falcon Empire detachments, and the scattered detachments began to turn around after receiving Stanres's orders, this time with Stanreth personally leading a team to scout the Huns in the east, and Uluka's seven detachments in charge of the southern flank. The rest were led by Deputy Squadron Leader Gabriel with four detachments, which were hovering as the main force on the periphery, which could be immediately thrown into battle at any time at the request of an order, or as a force to respond to the retreat,

The 7th detachment, which received Stanres's order, took a direct and straightforward approach to attract the forces of the Huns, and at the same time informed Stanreth who was trapped in the canyon about the situation.

The deputy squadron leader Gabriel set his sights on the field periphery of the Hun cavalry, as a light cavalry scout who was good at running, he often habitually roamed the main force outside. In addition to a part of the Hun cavalry camped to guard the main road, there were about 3,000 people in the outer field main force did not be in the camp, such a fire, the Hun people will inevitably summon their own field main force, after all, the attack camp is only a temporary attraction, the seventh detachment is no more than a hundred horses, the loss that can be caused is not large, and they will withdraw after a slight harassment, in order to attract the attention of the Hun people. Or must make up your mind on the main swimming force on the periphery of its field, and if this main field force hurts, the Huns will inevitably bring out all the strength to eat!

"The whole army retracted and rushed in the direction of the fire!"

Gabriel stepped off the steed and seemed to know his master's heart. Tuan Tuan circled, raised his front hooves, neighed low in the night, and hundreds of war horses galloped across the night land. Silenced like thunder. Knocking in everyone's heart, this is the main force of the forward scouts, although there is no heavy armor. But everyone was still wearing close-fitting chain mail, and their bodies were lying on the horse's back, reducing the windward area, and galloping the horse. Tightly pinned in the direction of the fire in front of him, he approached forward from the inner wing of the woodland, and at the same time released some scouts to block the flanks. The sound of horses' hooves beating against the earth drowned out all the sounds of the night!

Gabriel calculated in his heart the direction in which the main force of the Hun field could appear, his tall body had shrunk into a very small ball, clinging to the back of his horse, and shouted loudly to the scouts released on the flank: "Cheer up, keep an eye on the northeast direction for me! There is no exploration by our army, and the main field force of the other side is likely to be there."

Suddenly, a group of black shadows on the side of the river attracted his attention, he originally thought it was the shrubs by the river, but these shrubs were actually moving, and the speed was not low, the direction of movement was the direction of the fire, and the main force of the outer cavalry of the Hun people he had been looking for was really coming in this direction, "Attention, northeast direction!"

The flanking scouts shouted frantically, and a horse galloped up to the top of the side hills. Before the words fell, he heard a loud sound of swishing through the sky, and the distant firelight illuminated the top of the hill faintly, and it was vaguely discernible that several of the former outposts above were faintly discerning, and they saw that one of them was shot by a cluster of arrows, and the others hurriedly avoided it, and turned over and fell from their horses, and their shields were stuck with dangling clusters of arrows, "All, rush forward!" Gabriel shouted loudly, and at this moment, everyone could see at a glance that the hill that caressed the place where the two armies diverged was the key to this sudden encounter. Who grabbed the knoll. Whoever can be condescending, the other side is the archers, once they occupy the high ground, it will be a disaster for the Falcon Empire cavalry below, Gabriel rushed up the hill, and saw the Hun cavalry carrying white flags densely below frantically advancing in the night. Seeing the black Imperial cavalry appearing here, he also seemed to be a little panicked, since he did not choose to fight, but while galloping, he was panicking on the horseback with a bow and arrows. The rain of arrows buzzed and trembled with the bowstrings, pouring down like a torrential rain!" Gabriel shouted, in a hurry, the cavalry shield in his hand immediately covered his body, and the oncoming feathered arrows were nailed to the shield, and the hill was not very high. Hundreds of imperial guards also condescended on horseback, shooting with crossbows, and the arrows flew like locusts, and the Hun cavalry suddenly turned on their backs, "Shoot back!"

More and more Imperial Guards rode up. Shoot desperately with a crossbow pointing downward. The bolts were pressed against the hilly ground, whistling down, and the people below shouted and neighed, and all kinds of shouts rang out in a ball. The Hung Ya cavalry composite bow was extremely poor in shooting accuracy at high speed, and the arrows were scattered like raindrops.

In reality, if the average archer is not covered by an area, the targets that can shoot at a distance of fifty meters on high-speed horseback are sharpshooters, and the side shot on horseback, just the air flow driven by the running of the war horse is enough to make most of the arrow clusters lose their accuracy.

Of those rumored steppe marksmen, there are almost no who really shoot at high speed on horseback, and most of them shoot while standing on the ground,

The field periphery of the Hun people did not expect to encounter the Falcon Imperial cavalry here, it was too late to change formations, and the dense queue of war horses was almost a live target for the Imperial guards, and the horses ran too much. It couldn't be slowed down, and the person who fell off the war horse was like a dumpling, and he ran out four or five hundred meters in one breath before he finally turned around.

By this time, the Imperial Guards had already drawn all kinds of weapons for melee combat, and frantically poured down from the top of the knoll, piercing deep into the rear end of the Hungarian Archers like a raptor (to be continued......