Iron Powder and Spellcasters

   Chapter 294 Interlude

   Raids, a playwright's magic weapon, and a content that historians have taken for granted.

   Archives and historical sources tend to focus on the results of the raid, while understating the preparation process.

   It seems that as long as the general orders the "raid" commandingly, everything else will come naturally.

   However, the focus of the raid is not actually after the battle, but before the attack.

  High-risk operations require careful planning and reconnaissance: how about fortifications? How is the terrain? How many guards are there? From which direction can the attack be unexpected?

   Raiding the camps of the Heard tribes was even more difficult.

  Because the Hurd people know that their camps are weak in defense, they often arrange a large number of riding and mobile sentries, and the connection between the sentries is also very close.

   Attack with infantry, unless the goddess of fate favors it, or the whereabouts will be revealed before it gets close.

  The only way is to use a large number of cavalry, with speed and cavalry, to defeat the Hurds before they can effectively organize.

  Unfortunately, Ronald does not have this condition.

   He only had dozens of captured horses, most of which were useless. And in order to avoid the Terdun people from riding the post, he arranged the attack position two kilometers away from the ferry.

  Two kilometers, too far, charging is a waste of energy.

   So Ronald chose another "raid" method - walking over.

   Of course, it is not just as simple as "walking", to be precise, "walking from the river beach".

   Witnessing thousands of Platonic people file out of the forest, slowly approaching along the river bank, Qing Lingyu [Duoye] subconsciously wanted to escape.

   It's not that Duoye is timid and cowardly, but to the nomadic Hurd people, running away is almost an instinct.

   An instinct that has been cultivated in an environment surrounded by beasts all year round.

   is like a horse. The horse seems very timid, even if a rabbit emerges from a hole in the ground, it will be frightened and flee.

   But if it took the time to figure out what it was, next time it wasn't a rabbit, but a bear tore it open.

  Anyway, it’s okay to run away.

  The enemy is strong and we are weak, so we should run away; if the enemy is weak and we are strong, run away to see the situation clearly, and then turn around and fight back.

   Duoye couldn't figure out the intention of the two-legged man, and was even more worried that there were still soldiers in ambush in the forest.

  Ferry's Toltown Corps is about the size of three hundred cavalry teams, but "three hundred cavalry teams" does not mean "three hundred cavalry teams".

   These members belonged to more than a dozen different families and leaders, and their hearts and strengths were inconsistent.

  If you hit hard, who will die is unknown.

   Conversely, if you run away temporarily, then things are much easier.

  The Paratus had only two legs, so not only could they not catch up with them, but they could not take any women's goods with them.

   Once the space is opened, the Teltown people who ride on horses can easily take the initiative.

   By then, wouldn't it be easy for the three hundred Teltown light cavalry to deal with a group of Paratus dragged down by women and children?

   "Nigger (Battle Plan is beautiful, but it is troublesome to walk.

   is perfect, but it is cumbersome to do,

As soon as    came, Duo Ye couldn't move the children of other families - all the Kotas were already fighting for the sheepskin raft, and they all wanted to take their own catches and send them across the river first.

  Secondly, Duoye couldn't let go of what he had captured.

   The methods of the Platonic people here, Duoye has already experienced - they always burn them if they can't take them away. They are ruthless and ruthless.

  If Duo Ye forced Zhu Keta to leave his belongings with his front feet, and his back feet and legs set fire to everything, then things would be troublesome.

   "The Cart, the Miserly Merchant and the Wolf" was staged again at the ferry on the Big Horn River.

   Do you want the meat on your butt? Still want the goods in the car? A dilemma is placed in front of Qingling Yu Duoye.

   A great military strategist once wrote such a military principle: "If the attack wants to win, it is necessary to attack the weak position of the enemy's defense."

   Sometimes this adage can also be used in reverse.

  For example, at the ferry where Ronald led the militia to attack, the Terdun people's defensive strength is not very strong, but their will to defend is not weak at all.

  The personal guard quickly brought back news to Duoyi—the nearby forests have been searched, and no ambushes have been found.

  That is to say...the group of Platonic people in front of us are alone? Duo Yan suddenly felt that the odds were high.

   On the other side, Ronald also firmly believed in victory.

   The leaders of the two armies have the confidence to win, and the outbreak of the battle is inevitable.

  Like a shepherd who easily separates a mixed flock, the leader of Teltown arranges the group in this way.

   Duo Yeqin led the armored elites and dismounted to watch the battle at a high place. The Teltown armored soldiers sat on the ground and waited quietly for the fighter plane.

  The unarmed subjects and slaves were led by the chief, and a group of more than a dozen people.

   They either swept away from the formation and fired arrows, and suddenly rushed straight up, testing and pulling the Paratus in turn.

   This tactic may be able to disperse the rabble, but it cannot shake the "underdog" led by Ronald.

   It was because of these angry men who volunteered to fight that Ronald dared to give it a shot.

  The militiamen of Tiefeng County formed a formation against the river to resist the barbarians' onslaught with horses and fences.

  The north side of them is a concave river channel, and the east side is an earthen platform that appeared because the river bank collapsed.

  The shape of the soil platform is a bit like a terraced field, and the height is about one meter. The closer you are to the river bank, the larger the drop, and the closer you are to the inland, the smaller the drop.

   The Tiefeng County militia did not occupy the soil platform, which put them in a disadvantageous position.

   On the other hand, the Terdun people galloped and shot on the soil platform, but they took advantage of being condescending.

   Seeing that the formation of the Paratus people showed no signs of loosening, Qingling Yu [Duoye], who was watching the battle, put away the white ponytail flag and played the red ponytail flag.

   Like a swarm of bees that had scattered and reunited, the Turdun light cavalry regrouped and formed a horizontal line in front of the iron peak farmer's horse-rejecting formation.

  Although Major Ronald has little actual combat experience, it is impossible for him not to recognize what it is. He shouted to remind his subordinates and the militia: "The barbarians should use the Takis method of warfare!"

Amidst the chilling horn sound, the far right end of the Teltown front took the lead, and the other leaders followed in turn.

  Terdun's light cavalry is like a long snake, galloping around the anti-horse formation in a counterclockwise manner, strangling the Paratus.

   At the same time, the heavily armored cavalry on the Teltown side was still ready to go.

  Ronald's horse-rejection formation was "wrapped" by the Turdun light cavalry, and the thunderous sound of horse hooves almost suffocated people.

   Not only the sound of hoofs, but also the piercing screams of arrows came from all directions in the west.

  A middle-aged farmer leaning on the door panel fell silently, a featherless arrow stuck in the back of his neck, still trembling slightly.

The   Terdun people shot around the horse-fighting formation without any dead ends, and most of the shields of the Iron Peak County people had lost most of their effectiveness.

   Surrounding, riding and shooting, this is the "Takis method of warfare" in the mouth of Palatu.

  Its terrifying thing is not only that there is no shooting dead angle, but also that the Paratus people are always within the range of the Teltown bow rider.

   One-hit detachment-style swept-back cavalry shooting, leaving a very short shooting window for the rider, and at most three or four arrows can be fired each swipe.

   On the other hand, the Turdun light cavalry, which was galloping around the refusal formation, could shoot without limit until the quiver was empty.

  Faced with Takis tactics, the best strategy is to arm the warriors and fight back with a large number of projectile weapons.

  Armor and ranged weapons... both things Ronald lacked.

The    militiamen fought back with hunting bows and slings, and every Terdun man would have to lose ten people from Lower Tiefeng County in exchange for their fall.

   Witnessing the militiamen being shot down by arrows, Major Ronald almost clenched his teeth.

The   Takis method of warfare meant galloping without a break, and the stamina of the Terdun steeds was rapidly depleting.

  While the horse-rejection formation of the people of Lower Tiefeng County was crumbling, the Turdun light cavalry gradually showed its decline.

  Finally, Ronald saw more and more Teltown steeds struggling even to leap onto the knee-high dirt platform.

   "Bagpiper!" shouted the Major.

The    militia had no snare drums, let alone bugles, and only two bagpipes served as messengers.

   The bagpiper heard the command, took a deep breath, and clamped the airbag hard. They don't play military melodies, so the Major, as long as they can make a sound, the louder the better.

  The rumbling of horses' hooves, the screeching of arrows, the cries and screams of dying humans... The loud and sharp sound of bagpipes penetrated the noise of the battlefield and reached everyone's ears.

   The sound is so peculiar that no one will hear it wrong.

  The people of Teltown don't know why, but the farmers in Iron Peak County clenched their weapons - when the bagpipes sounded, it was time for the general attack.

   "Lovrensix Adam!" the major shouted violently.

  Adam responded with a growl.

The Juma formation on the side of the river was suddenly moved away, Adam took his subordinates—all the militiamen who had seen blood—rushed out of the Juma formation, stepped on the beach and the river, and plunged fiercely into Teltown. In the torrent of light horses.

   At the same time, another part of the militiamen rushed out of the Juma formation carrying pickets, erecting a barrier between the Juma formation and the river.

   It was like an axe that was shattering from the sky, and the giant snake wrapped around the Paratus was split in two in an instant.

   Outside the picket, the Turdun light cavalry looked back blankly, wondering what was going on.

   Trapped between pickets, rivers, mesas, and the Platoons, the Tordun cavalry changed from "surrounded by two-legged people" to "surrounded by two-legged people", and it was heart-wrenching.

   Another unresponsive Turdun light cavalry was unable to restrain the truce horse and plunged headlong into this dead place.

   The Pallatians who fought and killed each other with the Hurds for hundreds of years were also familiar with the Takis tactics.

   To a certain extent, the victims of the Paratus knew the advantages and disadvantages of the Takis tactics better than the Hurds.

The core of   Takis's tactics lies in "circling", and it must be counterclockwise.

   Because most people are right-handed, even if some people can bow left and right, the left hand is not as strong as the right.

   With the bow in the left hand and the string in the right hand, it will be more comfortable to shoot arrows to the left side of the horse.

   In the same way, when shooting in a gallop, the rider has to circle clockwise.

   It wasn't that Ronald was forced to set up here, but Ronald chose this battlefield.

  The formation of the formation against the river compresses the space for the activities of the light knight in Teltown.

  The soil platform is a trap.

   It seems that the Teltown people are condescending and dominant, but once the Teltown people use the Takis tactics, this platform with a drop of one meter will become a one-way valve.

The principle of    is very simple. When running counterclockwise, Teltown people jumped from the river bank with a high drop, and then jumped up from the inland end with a low drop.

  The one-meter-high earth platform looks very inconspicuous, and it is easy to jump off. But to jump up again...it's not that easy.

  The surrounded Turdun light cavalry is like this, the platform is more than one meter high, and it may be able to jump on the horse at ordinary times.

   But now their war horses are seriously exhausted, let alone a one-meter-high platform, even a half-meter-high obstacle warhorse refuses to jump up.

   did not give the barbarians any time to think, Adam had already brought the peasants to fight.

   Half of them had barbed mallets and half of them had lassoes.

   When one person traps the barbarian on horseback, two or three other people will come and work together to drag the barbarian off the horse. As long as the barbarians fall from the horse, they will immediately be beaten to death with sticks.

   The so-called Terdun light cavalry were not full-time samurai who specialized in fighting, and most of them were just slaves and ordinary herdsmen.

   Relying on the war horse to shoot arrows at a long distance, many people can do this kind of thing.

  Face to face, knife to knife, you and I fight at close range, that is another matter.

  There is no difference between the Heds who lost their horses and the Paratus, and the hated Paratus is braver, more ruthless, and more ruthless than the Heds.

  The people of Teltown to the west wanted to rescue, but were blocked by the farmers of Lower Iron Peak County, who were guarding the picket.

   The Teldun people on the eastern mesa tried their best to draw their bows and arrows, but no matter how many arrows they shot, they could not save the Teldun people who fell into the trap.

  If the Teltown people can be dragged into hand-to-hand combat, the people of Lower Iron Peak County, who have more numbers and higher fighting spirit, cannot lose.

  Terdun, who was in a panic, either rushed into the river, or scrambled away from their horses, and the Tildun people tried to rush to the platform on the dead bodies of the people and horses.

   "Remove the corpse!" Adam roared and swung his spear, knocking off the Turdun light cavalry who was trampling on the corpse: "Remove the corpse!"

   "Blow hard!" Ronald saw in his eyes, anxious in his heart, stared at the bagpiper and yelled: "Blow harder!"

  The sound of the bagpipes suddenly increased by a third, trying to accompany the **** performance.

  Ronald looked at the position of the ponytail banner, he was waiting for the judgment of the commander of Teltown.

   Is a strong man breaking his wrist? Or a throw of the universe?

   On the high ground on the bank of the river, Qing Lingyu [Duoye] had another thought of "running away".

   Duoye really didn't expect the other party to have such means. He admitted that he lost an arrow, but he didn't lose - because there were not many traps in his followers.

   Ronald's position has limited vision. But Duo Xie could see clearly, the other party opened his mouth wide, not to mention eating nearly a hundred tribes.

  The balance of power has changed significantly, and Duo Yan feels that it is better to retreat first, and then make a long-term plan.

   Before waiting for Duoye's order, the six armored soldiers had already stepped on their horses, roaring and rushing towards the horse-rejecting formation.

   Duoye can escape, because his troops are not many casualties, but other leaders are not like this.

   The six soldiers who rushed out without equal orders, their followers, fathers and brothers, slaves, were all caught in the battle against horses. If they run away, they have nothing.

   Duo Ye cursed in anger, and the rest of the armored soldiers looked sideways.

   "That face!" A soldier asked Duo He, "The two-legged man can't hold it anymore! What are you still hesitating about?"

  In the Heard tribes, the armored soldier is not only a simple "soldier in armor", but the armor itself is a symbol of the power class.

  The Teldun people who can wear armor are mostly children of the headman, companions and guards.

   The soldier beside Duoye is not his employee, but his shareholder.

   It is difficult for Duo Ye to decide whether to retreat or give up.

   The other armored soldiers urged loudly when they saw Duo Ye's timid appearance. There are also armored soldiers who mounted their horses in anger, and it seemed that they were going to act on their own.

"Then you and I will rush and kill! Leave life and death to the gods!" Duo Xie gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "But you can't rush casually! Just follow me closely, and fight through those wooden forks, first Beheaded the leader of the two-legged man!"

  The armored soldiers roared excitedly, and each carried their guns and mounted their horses.

   Duoye led more than 20 armored cavalry down the hill, forming a formation like a cluster of arrows, until Ronald was there.

   This is a true heavy-armoured assault lancer, which no longer exists in the Palatine Standing Army.

  Because in today's increasingly powerful muskets, the cost and utility of heavy lancers are difficult to match.

   But in this battlefield, the heavy cavalry with all members of the team wearing armor, some people even equipped with horse armor is the hardest hammer.

  Ronald watched as the armored Hurd roared down the hillside.

   The last moment has come - Ronald has no reason to say such a sentence in his heart.

How to resolve the impact of    heavy cavalry?

   One is to block it with fortifications, and the other is to fill it with human life.

  Rejection of the horse has become broken, so it can only be filled with human life.

   fill up the barbarian armored cavalry, win; be destroyed by the barbarian armored cavalry, lose.

"The last moment is here!" Ronald drew his saber and shouted at everyone beside him in a voice of martyrdom: "Take up arms! For your family! For your blood! Papa Latour Republic! Long live!"

The peasants may or may not have heard what Ronald is saying, and they probably don't care about the Palatine Republic at all, but all of them roared "Long live" and waited for the moment of death by holding on to the horse-rejection stake. .

  Telltown heavy cavalry stabbed straight at Ronald with thunderous momentum, and at the last moment...

   At the last moment they suddenly turned a corner and ran away.

  The farmers in Tiefeng County were in a fog, wondering what the **** the barbarians were up to.

   "Rat! Coward!" Ronald came back to his senses, and immediately humiliated the Teltown people: "Go back and get in the crotch of the bitch!"

   Duoye couldn't hear this, and Ronald didn't scold the enemy.

   His audience, the farmers in Lower Iron Peak County, burst out laughing, shouting all kinds of foul language at the back of the cavalry.

   The frontal collision with the horse-rejecting formation was nothing more than a total death. When Ronald cut, the barbarians were obviously testing and involved.

  Faced with the first charge, the surging farmers may have the courage to fight to the death. But facing the second and third charge, Ronald didn't know what to expect.

   Just as Major Ronald racked his brains thinking about the most vicious swear words to humiliate the enemy and try to keep the farmers' morale from falling.

  The barbarian armored cavalry didn't turn around as he expected, then rushed over, but ran away in a hurry, running farther and farther.

   Not only did the horsetail banners run away, but other Terdun people around the horse-rejecting formation also dropped their corpses and their kinsmen and fled.

  The farmers were stunned, silent, and then cheered hoarsely. In their view, the battle has been won.

  Ronald's heart was bleeding and he could barely stand still.

  It is necessary to destroy the establishment of the Telton people at the ferry port to have a chance to rescue the captive women and children. The battle is not won until the Teltown people are completely defeated.

   Again, a dilemma confronts Ronald:

   Retreat, the safest way;

   Advance, occupy the ferry, you may be able to win, but you must not escape.

   You can only stick to the camp, otherwise the militia troops will be dragged to death by marching with a group of old and weak women and children.

   Just when Ronald made up his mind, the sound of the war drums of "Dong Dong" came from the river.

   Ronald finally understood why the barbarians had fled: a fleet was going upstream, and the Terdun ferry had been taken.

  The Teltown people have only rafts, not boats.

  boat means…

   "Reinforcement!" The people of Xiatiefeng County who had been fighting till this moment burst into tears, hugging each other and shouting: "Reinforcement!"

   Later, Ronald met the commander of the fleet, Samukin.

   Arrived ashore together, as well as Captain Epert, whom Ronald sent to ask for help.

  In the humble camp built by the Terdun people, all the Palatine people kidnapped by the barbarians were rescued, and the reunited families were happy and cried.

   Ronald didn't seem to feel this joyful atmosphere. He went straight to Samukin and asked, "How many people did you bring?"

   In the face of Major Ronald, the former "enemy leader", Samukin always felt uncomfortable. He didn't know how to call each other, so he simply didn't call each other.

   "As far as you can see." Samukin pointed to the ferry, where thirty or so simple boats were moored: "These boats."

   Got this answer, Ronald's expression was painful: "Where's Winters?"

   Hearing the other party calling out the centurion's name, Samukin frowned slightly: "I don't know either."

   "He will send you."

   "Just send me."

"Too little! Too little! What the **** is Winters doing?! What's the use of sending these people?!" Pointing at the happy crowd around him and shouting:

"Look! Look at them! The Hurds come back, what will they do? More Hurds come back, what will they do? They have nowhere to run! Winters! What the **** is he thinking!"

  Samukin was startled for a moment, then waited quietly for Ronald to finish venting.

   "I don't know what you have to complain about." Samukin put away his polite smile and said to Ronald coldly: "But you should not have the right to accuse Your Excellency the tribune of Winters Montagne."

   Being confronted by a rebel who was not even an officer and didn't know how to describe his class... Rebels confronted him face to face, and Ronald was in a state of suffocation for a while, unable to say anything.

   "Don't worry." Captain Epert hurriedly smoothed things out: "Captain Montagne also thought of a way for us."

   "What way?" Ronald asked angrily.

"Your Excellency Baominguan sent me here, of course, he made a thorough consideration." Samukin said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Your Excellency Baominguan was in the **** battle at Teldun Khan's tent in Zhongtiefeng County. Hearing that you asked for help, he still did not hesitate to divide his troops. Please understand the weight of it."

   Ronald was silent for a moment, put away his anger, and asked earnestly, "What can Captain Montagne do?"

   "It's very simple, take you..." Samukin raised his finger to the west: "All to the other side of the river."

  …

  [Battle of Heishui Town Ferry] came to an end. Although the scale of the battle was small—three hundred cavalry against more than a thousand infantry, it was strictly a head-to-head duel.

  Samukin said Winters was in a "blood battle" with the Turdun Khan, and he had some exaggerated emotions in it.

   Because Zhongtiefeng County never saw such a head-to-head battle.

  [Tai Chi] is very eager to choose a good location, line up the battle, gongs to gongs, drums to drums, and are fighting a main battle dignifiedly.

   But Winters didn't give the Teltowners a chance.

  While Taich was going crazy for a main battle, Winters was still building his walls—and weaving more baskets.

   [Sorry for being late]

   [The time has become completely chaotic, but in the end, the battle of Lower Tiefeng County has come to an end]

   [At first, I thought it was inappropriate to write about this battle in detail. I also wanted to see Winters vs. the Burners, so I deleted and wrote, wrote and deleted]

   [This battle is a little more important, is the victory or defeat of the whole battle at this ferry? Obviously not. But Ronald still gritted his teeth and attacked the ferry, because if he let the Terdons carry the captives, the Palatians would be plundered.]

   [Objectively speaking, Ronald was not good to these abducted Palatu people in the past, after all, he was the actual executor of the forced expropriation policy. But he sacrificed his life to save them]

   [Some book friends have already pointed it out... In fact, it is the germination of the emotion of "compatriots"]

   [that is, nationalism, and the germs of greater patriotism (not limited to city-state 'patriotism'), nationalism and patriotism, two things that will change the world]

   [It has been said before that there is no such thing as "patriotism" in Winters' era]

   [Love the family, the guild, and the city may all exist, but patriotism... The country is too big, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have a real sense of "country", so there is no emotion of "love"]

   [In the Senas Alliance, the only group that generally has 'patriotic thoughts' is actually only the officers trained by the Luyuan Academy. As for why they have such a common feeling...that's very complicated]

   [Thanks to book lovers for their collection, reading, subscription, recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, rewards and comments, thank you all]

   (end of this chapter)