Chapter 602 Wuwei Army
The four units in the north of the Lingbei region had more than 12,000 troops, galloping in rugged hilly areas for dozens of miles, with a spectacular momentum.
When the thought of the cowardly Han people trembling under their iron hooves, the morale of the knights was very high, no less than that of the headhunters.
The road by the Qingshui River is quite easy to walk. In just two days, the army arrived at Wanjiazhai Fort.
After passing Wanjiazhai Fort, it was a prairie with a flat horse, which was suitable for large-scale maneuvering combat by cavalry. The knights screamed and saw Wanjiazhai Fort close the gate and concentrate on guard. Without saying a word, the army surrounded him and fired thousands of arrows at the same time, shooting Wanjiazhai Fort into a hornet's nest.
Wanjia Village Fort could not resist the enemy at all. The defending men were killed and injured. The village gate was knocked over by dozens of horses, and the village fort officially fell. The excited knights robbed the village fort like a gust of wind, using blood and killing to comfort their hard work since the moon.
Wanjiazhai Fort is not big, with only a few hundred people, and it was robbed in a blink of an eye.
The knights were still unsatisfied and turned their attention to the south. There were denser villages and the wealth they had dreamed of!
So, at the order of the four leaders, the knights stepped on their war horses, turned south, and marched towards Hequ County.
It is always a joy to march, and the prerequisite is that there is no harassment. However, when more than 10,000 cavalry barely approached the Liujia Tower, they encountered troubles that they could not imagine.
"Damn it, what a bad commander, he actually divided his subordinates into dozens of shares, with more than a hundred people per share. Are you not afraid that we will defeat them at all?"
The four leaders suddenly discovered that countless cavalrymen appeared around them, photographed from afar, with green light in their eyes.
Just following, no one dared to step forward and shoot an arrow.
What is this called harassment? It’s just watching our march!
Although the four leaders were contemptuous of the knights around them, the green light that popped out of their eyes was too cunning, which made them a little uneasy.
In a state of anxiety, the four leaders chose the same response: once they found a cavalry, they immediately sent three to four times the cavalry to pursue and expel them.
Therefore, the pursuit of the grasslands north of Hequ began.
The Mongols were born good at shooting back while running, shooting the chasing enemies under the horse. Of course, they also knew the dangers of chasing, so the knights from Lingbei took a distance and kept stinging after the small group of cavalry. At the same time, they sent another group of cavalry to rush around from the flanks, trying to block the small group of cavalry to escape.
What surprised the Lingbei knights was that the small cavalry obviously knew this well. It would be impossible to completely wipe out the small cavalry by relying solely on the flanks to block the way. What made them even more shocked was that they found that the small cavalry on their faces were actually Mongols, and their riding skills were no less than theirs.
Especially the steel crossbow they used had a terrifying range of 120 steps. They often caught them off guard while they were not paying attention and overturned several knights from the horse's back.
When the Ridge North Knights were getting farther and farther away from the army, they suddenly discovered that several more cavalrymen were aiming at them.
The battlefield situation changed drastically, and it turned out that the Lingbei knights fled and a small group of cavalry chased after him!
With intentional calculations but no intentions, the lives of the Lingbei knights finally came to an end. Seven or eight cavalrymen smelled the smell of blood and surrounded them.
Three or four hundred against more than eight hundred, and the weapons were not as good as people. After fierce collisions and shooting, the Lingbei Knights who came out to pursue were wiped out and almost all of them were beheaded!
The four leaders were furious and discovered that the knights they sent had disappeared forever, and dozens of cavalry appeared around the army.
What annoyed them even more was that there were heads hanging on the belly of these cavalrymen. Needless to ask, these heads were the knights they sent out!
The four leaders sent heavy troops to each other, hoping to encircle and annihilate these annoying flies in one fell swoop. However, the small group of cavalry dispatched troops was obviously faster than the army and was more convenient to command. They were all like sparrows, and there were no figures flying in the blink of an eye.
The army was busy for two days and surrounded only two unlucky cavalrymen and killed them on the horse.
Such combat efficiency obviously cannot satisfy the four leaders. The four leaders gathered together for a long time and had no good ideas. After discussing, they finally decided that the army would continue to move forward and ignore these flies.
Unexpectedly, these small groups of cavalry surrounded them as if they smelled blood. They did not dare to attack the army openly, but took advantage of the dark camping, secretly came up, killed a few secret whistles, and shot steel crossbows into the camp, which made the army exhausted both physically and mentally and unable to maintain peace.
If this continues, the army will be dragged down before it reaches a place where the crowds are abundant.
Moreover, what made the leaders even more anxious was that the army had been delaying on the road for a long time, and I was afraid that the fat sheep from Hequ, Baode and Fugu County had already received the news and fled into the deep mountains.
Of course, with the experience of Mongolian cavalry plundering over the years, escaping into the mountains can easily find the fat sheep. However, the deep mountains are vast and only by obtaining small shares of plundering can we obtain more wealth.
If it is divided into small shares, wouldn’t it just happen to be the target of the flies around you?
The four leaders discussed until late at night, but they were unable to get the key points and fell into a dilemma.
Just when they were at a loss, Oboi's military order suddenly came from the bank of Qingshui River, ordering them to return to the bank of Qingshui River immediately. As for the reason, Oboi did not mention a single word.
I went for a vain and lost more than a thousand troops. Is it like this?
The four leaders were puzzled. However, the military orders should not be violated. They ordered their subordinates to turn their horses and march towards Wanjiazhai Fort.
As soon as he embarked on the return journey, the four leaders received an emergency military information. Obai informed the four people that Zhang Fengyi led more than 4,000 Wu Guard troops to be stationed in Hequ County. Be careful when returning, and do not fall into the ambush of Wu Guard troops.
He had heard of the four leaders of the Wuwei Army. He knew that the commander of the Wuwei Army was a delicate girl. He also knew that although the Wuwei Army was an infantryman, everyone was equipped with war horses and his movement speed was no less than that of the light cavalry.
Thousands of men actually followed the command of a woman? The leaders looked down on this army from the bottom of their hearts. However, based on the life-saving habits developed over the years, the leaders were quite vigilant about Hequ County behind them.
Moreover, the changes in the battlefield situation made these leaders feel increasingly uneasy.
On the one hand, the knights on his side were about to loot, but before they arrived at their destination, they were ordered to return. Their morale was conceivable, and they were listless and difficult to lift their spirits. On the other hand, the small groups of cavalry around them seemed crazy, and often rushed over while the army was not paying attention, harvesting several heads and then fled.
The attacks of small groups of cavalry did not cause much damage to the army. However, under the uninterrupted attacks, the army is often disrupted and it takes considerable time to reorganize the team.
The speed of the army's march inevitably slowed down.
Obviously, the Wuwei Army is likely to peek around, and may even bypass the army and run directly to the front to fight a sniper battle.
The four leaders began to worry again that the Wu Wei Army suddenly appeared in front of them.
The worries of the four leaders really became a fact! When the army was more than twenty miles away from Wanjia Village Fort, it received a notice that thousands of infantrymen were blocking the main road ahead and were ready to fight!
The Wuwei Army finally showed signs, and the four leaders were relieved. After all, the Wuwei Army had a full plan, with only more than 4,000 people, and there were tens of thousands of knights on its own, with a very high chance of victory.
The four major leaders led their troops forward and marched to a distance of only three miles away from the Wuwei Army formation before stopping their progress. The leaders stepped forward to observe the formation. When they saw that the leaders felt as if they had a reassurance, they put their hearts back on their stomachs.
The Wuwei Army did not place anything like resisting horses, and there were not many spearmen who were afraid of the cavalry. Each soldier was holding a fire stick in his hands, which looked like a soft persimmon, and it would break when pinched.
The leaders looked at the Wuwei soldiers wearing shiny black plate armor and kept swallowing their saliva into their throats. If they could defeat the Wuwei Army in one battle and obtain thousands of plate armor, it would be a fortune, which would be much more cost-effective than robbery!
The four leaders quickly reached an agreement: defeat the Wu Wei Army and strip off their plate armor!
Woo... Woo...
The shrill and long horns sounded, and the Lingbei knights finally aroused a trace of morale and began to prepare for battle. Then, the sound of war drums suddenly rang out, and the first wave of knights kicked the horse's belly with their feet, and the war horse began to accelerate!
Without temptation, the four parts of the north of Lingbei were located in four directions and launched an attack on the Wuwei Army at the same time.
Their purpose is very clear, which is to rely on their superior forces to defeat the Wuwei Army in one battle.
Ten thousand horses galloped, rolling up the yellow sand all over the sky, and the huge figures of the cavalry were hidden in the yellow sand, with shadows that were not real.
For musketeers, they don’t need to take the cavalry seriously. They just need to aim in the approximate direction, pull the trigger, and pour the projectiles forward.
The dense rain of bullets arrived quickly towards the cavalry, hitting the horse's head and the knights, and the people were on their backs and horses were overturned, and the battlefield was in chaos.
Round after round, in an instant, the cavalry lost 20% of its troops.
Suddenly, the gunfire stopped, and the knights were overjoyed, desperately burying their heads behind the horse's neck, and urged the horse to rush towards the infantry array.
However, what surprised them was that there were countless iron lumps, which were flying towards them with a hissing fire.
Before the knights could understand what this thing was, a violent explosion suddenly came.
Ships roared around, razing within two feet of the explosion point to the ground, including the running cavalry!
Boom...boom...
After waves of iron lumps flew towards the Mongolian knights like no capital, forming an insurmountable gap within the range of twenty to sixty steps in front of the Wuwei Array.
The war horses were rolling, the knights were screaming, and the parts of their bodies were flying around...
Even if there were surviving knights, they were lucky enough to run to the array and immediately lost their lives under the bayonets and bayonets.
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The first wave of more than 2,000 cavalry was gone like this?
Chapter completed!