Realm of Power

"Assaulting the opponent's general may sound tempting, but in fact this plan is not feasible!" Stanres took off his helmet, suppressed the deep desire for this idea in his heart, swallowed dryly, and glanced at the stunned faces of his subordinates. The guards said with a wry smile.

"Why?" The excitement that had just appeared on the faces of the guards suddenly disappeared.

"Captain, are you too pessimistic!" Someone immediately expressed their opposition. Those who can become the imperial guards are elites. In the end, they stand out from the guards and become the forward scouts known as the eyes of the army. They are the elite among the elite. , the tough cavalry who dared to attack proactively in the face of the 50,000 Riela Army, once fought with the Gauls and the Northern Grasslands. The original cavalry scouts were so fierce in fighting each other that they naturally did not pay attention to the Hungarian cavalry, which was mostly lightly armed below. Although the number of the enemy was ten times that of our own, everyone was confident that they could seize the opportunity and fight for their lives. , it is not impossible to carve out a bloody path among the opponent, kill the opponent's general in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the chaos to break out! "

"If the opponent is infantry, it is naturally possible, but the opponent is light cavalry!" Stanres shook his head and explained with a wry smile, "The number of enemies is ten times that of our army, and there may be more cavalry to join behind. If I If Fang wants to attack and kill the opponent's 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 Hungarian cavalry below are as cautious as us. Even during their rest, they maintain a considerable number of patrols. This It’s quite disadvantageous for us with only two hundred cavalry.”

"We are riding fast with light cavalry, leaving all the melee and heavy armor behind. The opponent is also an extremely fast light bow cavalry. In terms of speed, we have no advantage. Once we are surprised, these Hungarian cavalry can defeat them with just their hands without spending time putting on armor." Bows and arrows can give us powerful damage. Even if we are lucky enough to find the enemy general's position, we will already be surrounded by layers of enemies and want to kill the opponent's most tightly defended general in one fell swoop. Is it possible!

"this....."

After hearing Stanres' words, the faces of the guards changed. They all took a breath of cold air, and their hearts suddenly became cold. It was like the power of the ice cave was transferred from the fire. For a moment, everyone fell silent. The situation It's really bad. We are all elites who have experienced hundreds of battles. Why are we so unlucky this time and got stuck here?

As Stanis said, the opponent's light cavalry are not vegetarians. If they really encounter a cavalry attack on the camp, they don't even need to wear armor. They can just shoot many of their own people with bows and arrows, even two hundred of them. If the imperial guards are good at fighting. It is impossible to attack and kill the opponent's general when surrounded by two thousand horse archers, let alone be able to easily walk away afterwards. It would be too easy to survive hundreds of miles without being chased by these light horse archers who are not as fast as themselves. ! But it's not okay to hide here all the time. You can't light a fire. You can bring your own food for a day or two to get through it, but for four or five days, without fire, the cold night can freeze people into popsicles. Without fire, people cannot eat raw horse meat, even if they have to bear the pain to kill the horse. Within four days, without the enemy finding out, everyone would freeze to death and starve to death!

"No, we can't just wait to die like this! Or we can rush out at night before the Hungarians find us," someone shouted in a low voice.

"Yes, rush out, you will die anyway, kill a few and you will be enough!" the guards whispered.

"That's enough! Don't get distracted before that time comes!"

Stanres snorted with a cold look on his face and said in a low voice, feeling depressed in his chest, "It would be great if the other detachments were here. We wouldn't have to hide from these Hungarian cavalry. Even if we don't want to face a head-on confrontation, at least we can evacuate." No problem, now we are blocked Inside, the teams outside don’t know yet. When the time comes... "Stanres’ voice suddenly paused. He was inside and the other teams were outside. , isn’t this the most advantageous sneak attack arrangement? Calculating mentally or not, all he had to do was order the troops wandering outside to take away the troops around the young general one by one. The other party would never have thought that there were still two hundred cavalry guards lurking under his nose, and they struck with all their strength. Next, the possibility of killing the opponent's commander is very high!

Thinking of this, Stanres turned around and gave an excited order to a guard: "Immediately send a message to the fifth and seventh detachments, telling them our current situation." Ask them to do their best to provoke the Hungarian cavalry. Attract its troops out of the canyon! "

A few minutes later, two gray homing pigeons fluttered out from the heights of the canyon. The Hungarian cavalry in the canyon was lighting a fire to cook. A hundred white smoke and dust, where would you notice these two different small black dots? Flying higher and higher, finally blending into the sky

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More than a hundred black light cavalry were speeding along the woodland at the edge of the wilderness. The armor on his body reflected little bits of light in the forest. Under the gloomy sky, Uluka, the captain of the seventh squadron, walked at the front. His eyes fell on a row of torches in the distance across the river. Next to the torch, obviously There were figures of soldiers who seemed tired from walking and were setting up camp to rest. As the first unit to receive Stanres' order, the Uluka unit turned around fifty miles away from the canyon and ran for most of the night. It's all cold and wet,

About two miles away from the canyon, we finally met the edge of the Hungarian cavalry.

The lights in the camp in the distance reflected on the people. Flashing and swaying, the aroma of wine and meat also spread with the night wind. At this moment, these Hungarian light cavalry did not know that the danger in the darkness was approaching rapidly. A whistling sound flew from above their heads, and the rolling pillars of fire in the camp were dark. The sky turned red, and suddenly the Hungarian cavalry beside the fire fell violently. It rained a large area and was caught off guard. There were countless casualties in the camp. The wails of those who were hit by arrows spread throughout the camp, and the shouts of the crazy enemies suddenly exploded in the camp. The few sentries on duty on the sentry tower still fulfilled their responsibilities. He fired his bow and arrow, and at the same time turned his head towards the camp and yelled "Enemy attack!"

In the camp, the Hungarians were running around in chaos. Some just grabbed a compound bow in the tent and jumped out. This Hungarian camp is located on the outskirts of the canyon and has about five hundred people. At this time, the horses neighed and the soldiers shouted loudly and mixed together, but it made it harder to hear clearly. Soldiers could constantly be seen falling to the ground after being shot by arrows. Any large camp would be attacked unpreparedly, resulting in chaos. I'm afraid they are all the same, no matter how elite you are, you are just average. Not to mention that these Hungarian cavalry never dreamed that they would encounter such a sharp blow. Night arrows and clusters of arrows falling in the night sky were tactics that even the ancestors on the grassland were shocked by.

The night was dark, and it was particularly dark tonight. The camp outside the canyon, which was mostly used as slaves, was completely defeated by the sudden attack. Uluka watched coldly from a distance. When he was sure that the opponent was in complete chaos, he ordered the cavalry behind him to fire with crossbows in the distance. Rows of arrows passed over the fence. The few soldiers on duty suddenly looked up to the sky and fell straight down from the top of the stockade fence.

"Quickly, open the camp gate!" Uluka raised his hand, and the leading cavalryman carried a long rope, which was thrown from a distance and tied to the fence. The guard's horse control skills were clearly revealed at this time. Rushing in front, such a tall and heavy horse also controlled the mount to make a sharp turn in front of the Zhai Fence and run a few steps along the Zhai Fence. Then turn around. The wood for these vertical fences is not strong to begin with, nor does it go deep into the ground. With just one pull, it collapsed. A row of imperial guards passed over the robes that had pulled down the stockade fence. He rushed into the camp first!

Although the imperial guards did not wear heavy armor, their attack momentum was extremely fast. The Guards Cavalry almost flew over the fallen stockade fence. It landed heavily in the camp and crashed into the tent with unabated momentum. . Their hands were full of long sharp spears. The cavalry scattered on both sides simply used heavy maces to sweep across the chaotic Hungarian crowd. The Hungarians who hurried to the side fell immediately. piece,

The cold war horses equipped by the Guards Cavalry are tall and majestic. The huge momentum immediately knocked the frightened Hungarian Army slave who was standing in front of him away, and he fell to the ground with broken muscles and broken bones! There are not many real Huns in the camp, but there are hundreds of servants. No matter how large the number is at this time, few generals will focus on preventing the enemy from breaking the camp. The combat power of these servants is extremely poor, and occasionally there are A few stubborn Hungarian officers pushed the servants to fight. The attacking soldiers lost their weapons and fled back. At this time, Uluka's detachment had completely entered the camp. Under the impact of the war horses, those who stand are invincible. Some of the guards who had dismounted and fought on foot had already climbed up to the heights of the sentry tower, and were shooting arrows into the camp. Several Hungarian rallies failed due to harassment.

The fire in the camp was like a pillar of fire rising in the dark night

"What's going on in the outer camp?" King Baijieros of Hungary stood in front of his tent in the canyon, looking at the place illuminated by the fire with bright eyes.

"Your Majesty, the outer camp encountered the Falcon Empire cavalry rushing into the camp!" An attendant hurried over with a panicked expression.

"How many people are there on the other side?" Hearing that the Falcon Emperor finally couldn't bear to reveal his whereabouts, Bai Jieluoshi showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth. Centering on the main road of the canyon, he spread out tens of thousands of Hungarian cavalry, like a A huge net covers an area of ​​20 miles. As soon as the Falcon Empire cavalry appears, they will be entangled in this big net.

"The current number is only about a hundred people." Beads of sweat appeared on the attendant's forehead.

"Only a hundred people? Are there no others?" Bai Jieluoshi's face was stunned for a moment. Such a number of Falcon Empire cavalry can only be a detachment at most. It is far from the thousand-man scale that the Ruila people said. Big, the opponent seems to have dispersed. One of the detachments couldn't help but reveal its whereabouts. It seems that the report of the Rilla people is true. These Falcon Empire cavalry are not ordinary courageous. A thousand people dare to attack an army of ten thousand people. A hundred people dare to take the initiative to attack the camp! It is very similar to the style of the savage and fierce Falcon Empire, but the other party chose the wrong target. He is not the cautious King Ruila, and Hungary is not Ruila.

"Order the front battalion to contain them first, and order other troops to respond!" Bai Jieluoshi said decisively with a slight frown on his eyebrows, looking at the red sky. Such a scene can be seen even within twenty miles. , since the Falcon Cavalry is so arrogant and bold, I will use this team as bait to mobilize all the Falcon Empire Cavalry!

at this time. On a forest mound ten miles east of the canyon, a captain of the Imperial Guard was staring at the fire in the distance. The fire was getting bigger and bigger, as if half the sky was already burning. Looking from this direction, You can even see sparks flying and splashing in the sky. Just as Bai Jieluoshi thought, this fire indeed attracted the attention of all the Falcon Empire detachments. After receiving Stanres's order, the scattered detachments began to turn around. This time, Stanres personally divided the troops. He led one team to explore the Hungarians to the east, and Uluka's seventh team was responsible for the southern flank. The rest are four detachments led by deputy squadron leader Gabriel. They are the main force on the periphery and can jump into battle immediately upon receiving orders at any time. They can also be used as a support force to retreat.

The seventh detachment, which received Stanreth's order, adopted a direct and direct approach to attract the Hungarian troops. At the same time, it also informed Stanreth, who was trapped in the canyon, of the situation.

Deputy squadron leader Gabriel focused his attention on the field periphery of the Hungarian cavalry. As a light cavalry scout who is good at attacking, he is often used to the main force wandering outside. In addition to a part of the Hungarian cavalry encamped to guard the main road, there are also about 3,000 people of the main field force outside the camp who are not in the camp. With such a fire, the Hungarians will inevitably summon their main field force. After all, the attack on the camp is only a temporary attraction. The force of the seventh detachment was no more than a hundred cavalry, and the losses it could cause were not great. They withdrew after a slight harassment, in order to attract the attention of the Hungarians. It is still necessary to make a decision on the main force roaming around the periphery of the field. If this main force in the field is painful, the Hungarians will definitely mobilize all their strength!

"Retract the entire army and move toward the fire!"

Gabriel stepped off the divine steed, as if he also knew his master's desire. They turned around in a circle, raised their front hooves, and neighed low in the night. Hundreds of war horses galloped across the night. Silent like thunder. It struck everyone's heart. This was the main force of the forward scouts, although it did not have heavy armor. But everyone still wore close-fitting chainmail, and their bodies were bent on the horses, reducing the windward area, and the horses galloped. Sticking to the direction of the fire ahead, they approached from the inner wing of the forest, and at the same time released some scouts to block the flanks. The sound of horse hooves hitting the ground suppressed all sounds in the night! The firelight illuminated the road ahead of them,

Gabriel mentally calculated the direction in which the main force of the Hungarian field force might appear. His tall body had shrunk into a very small ball, clinging tightly to the horse's back. He loudly shouted to the scouts released from the flanks, "Hit." Brace yourselves and keep an eye on the northeast! There is no exploration by our troops there, and the main force of the opponent's field operations is probably there."

Suddenly, groups of black shadows on the side of the river attracted his attention. He originally thought they were riverside shrubs, but these shrubs were actually moving, and the speed was not low. The direction of movement was exactly the direction of the fire. He The main outer cavalry force of the Hungarians that they had been looking for really came in this direction.

"Attention, northeast!"

The flank scouts yelled wildly and ran up to the top of the flanking hills. Before he finished speaking, he heard the loud sound of whooshing through the sky. The distant firelight dimly illuminated the top of the hill. Several figures of the outposts on the top were vaguely visible. One of them was shot over by a cluster of arrows. The others quickly avoided it, turned over and fell off their horses, with arrow clusters dangling on their shields.

"Everyone, charge forward!" Gabriel shouted loudly. At this moment, everyone could see at a glance that the hillock holding the diversion point between the two armies was the key to this sudden encounter. Who grabbed that hillock? Anyone can be condescending. The opponent is a cavalry archer. Once they occupy the high ground, it will be a disaster for the Falcon Empire cavalry below. Gabriel rushed up the hill and saw densely packed Hungarian cavalry carrying white flags below, madly charging towards them in the night. forward. Seeing the black imperial cavalry appearing here, they seemed to be a little panicked. Since they did not choose to fight, they were galloping while panicking on the horse with their bows and arrows. The rain of arrows buzzed and trembled with the bowstring, pouring down like a heavy rain!

"Put your shield up!" Gabriel shouted, feeling so anxious that he immediately covered his body with the cavalry shield in his hand, and the incoming arrows were nailed to the shield. The hill was not that high. Hundreds of imperial guards also stood on horseback, shooting from a high position with crossbows. Arrows flew like locusts, and the Hungarian cavalry suddenly fell on their backs.

"fight back!"

More and more Imperial Guards light cavalry surged up. Shoot downward with the crossbow. The crossbow arrows whizzed down against the hilly ground, and the people below screamed, and all kinds of shouts rang out together. The Hungarian cavalry's compound bows had extremely poor shooting accuracy while marching at high speed, and arrow clusters were flying everywhere like raindrops.

In reality, if the average archer cavalry does not cover an area, they are all sharpshooters who can hit targets fifty meters away on high-speed horseback. When shooting from the side on horseback, just the airflow caused by the running horses is enough to make everyone Most of the arrow clusters lost their accuracy,

Among the rumored grassland marksmen, few actually shoot at high speeds on horseback. Most of them shoot while standing on the ground.

The Hungarians on the periphery of the field did not expect to encounter the Falcon Empire cavalry here. It was too late to change their formations. The dense formation of horses was almost a living target for the imperial guards, and the horses outran them. It was already too late to recover. A man who fell off his horse was like a dumpling. He ran four to five hundred meters in one breath before finally turning around.

At this time, the Imperial Guard Cavalry had already drawn all kinds of close combat weapons, and madly poured down from the top of the hill, piercing deeply into the rear end of the Hungarian archers like a fierce dragon (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels are better and updated faster!