Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 301 The Battle of Kaiser Pass (Howl of the Harpy)
"Kill them all!" Blood Guard Ke Suo slashed a slave soldier's neck with his arakh scimitar and shouted loudly.

This is not an order, but simply venting, because no one can hear his voice here.

The wind roared on the top of the mountain, like the wailing of a harpy, covering up the surrounding tramples, shouts, metal collisions, skin being cut open, and bones breaking and shattering.

Ke Suo's roaring warriors easily penetrated the entire phalanx of slave soldiers stationed on the top of the mountain, and then quickly crossed the not spacious flat ground on the top of the slope, and stepped on the downhill on the back of the mountain.

At this moment, Ke Suo's vision suddenly widened.

On the back of this hill, there is such a huge legion hidden!These cunning ghis!That cunning thief of Pentos!

According to the intelligence of Fogo's wizard friend not long ago, the total strength of the Guise coalition forces at Keith Pass should be only more than 2.Even with the addition of the Lazarin mountain people who arrived at the mountain pass in the past few days, and all the middle-aged men from the plains that they evacuated from Hussey, their number is only [-] at most.

The scouting cavalry had reported before the battle that the Giss had nearly 2000 troops on the frontal battlefield alone. Drogo judged that there were only [-] people on this mountain at most, so he brought a full [-] roaring warriors here. Koso didn't pay attention to these things on the top of the mountain at all.

His task was to go down the mountain and cooperate with the army led by Khal Drogo to raid the right side of the Ghis left-wing army (from the perspective of the Dothraki) after clearing the enemies on the hill, and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

But what's going on here?There are at least 1 troops hiding in the shadow of the hill here!Where did they come from so many people?

Compared with the gentle slope that Ke Suo and the others rushed up, the back of the hill is a steep slope close to 40 degrees. After the roaring warriors broke through the paper-like defense line of the slave soldiers on the top of the mountain, they immediately poured down like a mountain torrent. Down.

The western slope of the hill was only 150 meters long, and Ke Suo and the others had just crossed the top of the hill before entering the range of the crossbowmen at the foot of the hill.Because the enemies on the shooting slope will not encounter any obstacles, the shooting accuracy of the crossbowmen at the bottom of the mountain is not known how many grades higher than when they are thrown.

For a moment, the arrows were like locusts, densely covering the cavalry on the slope. Quite a few cavalry around Ke Suo were hit by arrows, and then they slammed down the slope uncontrollably.

This is your last resistance!You will be slaughtered like wild dogs in no time!Ke Suo roared in his heart.

So what if 1 people are hidden?No matter how huge the flock is, it is just food in the eyes of wolves.

Ten seconds more and you'll be flying in all directions like your fellow cowards on the mountaintop!Then let us reap!
etc?what is that?As the distance between the two armies was shortened to less than 20 meters, the stragglers standing at the forefront of the legion at the bottom of the mountain quickly retreated from the gap.

It was only then that Ke Suo discovered that the enemy had arranged a large number of refusal horses behind the skirmishers in the first row!Dense thick sharpened wooden stakes were deeply inserted into the ground, pointing straight at Ke Suo's eyes.

Ian got here two days before Drogo, and two days was enough to do a lot.

No, you can't bump into it like this.

Although the Dothraki are brave, they are not completely stupid. They dare to go straight to the front of the infantry phalanx because so far, except for the Unsullied, all the troops they have fought against have been attacked by them. In an instant, they fled in all directions.

But hitting the rejecting horse is another matter. The rejecting horse will not be cowardly, will not flee, and will only kill them.

But it was too late. As the most brutal bloodrider under Drogo, Ke Suo enjoyed killing. When fighting, unless Drogo decided to let him accompany him, Ke Suo would always rush to the forefront.

It is impossible for the cavalry in the first row to stop when the cavalry charges. This will only cause the cavalry behind them to bump into themselves, and then fall to the ground together, being trampled into meat paste by the cavalry behind.

While Ke Suo was hesitating, the second round of crossbow bolts also flew out. This time the distance was closer than before, and there were probably more people who fell than before.

jump over!Koso made a decision.

The Juma, which is less than 1.5 meters in height, is hopeful to jump over with the riding skills of the roaring warriors. There is probably hope, anyway, there is no other choice.

On this steep downhill, the cavalry who had already picked up speed could not stop the horse in a short distance, at least the front row had no chance to stop.

What Ke Suo's brain with well-developed muscle cells didn't know was that even if the cavalry in the rear line stopped halfway up the mountain, it was useless. Enough for the shooters down the mountain to give them a devastating blow.

"Three, two" Just as Ke Suo was holding the reins and counting down the time to take off, a rain of javelins came, mixed with throwing axes and stones.

An ax flew past Ke Suo's face, cutting off his left ear, but Ke Suo didn't feel any pain at this moment, and all his energy was on controlling the horse to cross the horse-rejecting post. up.

After arriving at his expected take-off position, Koso lifted the rein and easily let his steed leap over the wooden post, and then became the target of the Astapor stragglers who had been prepared for a long time.

An unknown number of javelins flew towards Ke Suo and the other roaring warriors who successfully passed the Juma, nailing them into a sieve, and then the spears and halberds of the legion slaves greeted the corpses they smashed from midair.

More cavalry followed closely behind, and they were like the snow falling from a mountain avalanche. They either bumped into the repelling horses that could not be avoided, or jumped over the wooden piles, or rushed through the gaps reserved for themselves by the skirmishers. , and then resolutely rushed into the army formation behind the horse rejection, and were smashed to pieces in the violent collision with the slave soldiers in the front row.

The roaring warriors in the front row inevitably crashed into fate, and those cavalry in the back row who had seen the horse-repelling post on the slope early stopped successfully, but they were caught by the strict formation of the Ghisians. Somewhat at a loss with the surrounding hills.

Without the command of the blood guards, they fought in various ways. Some people took out bows and arrows to shoot at the enemy in front of them, and some turned around and wanted to return to the top of the mountain.

But it was all in vain. Under the strong firepower of the Giss, they were all shot and killed on the hillside very quickly.

"Get ready for the climb," ordered Fermor zo Nakroz. "We will march behind Drogo after his general attack begins."

Fermor was Ian's original commander of the left wing, but in this battle, Ian's actual deployment should be regarded as "hill reserve army, left army, center army, right army and Taniguchi reserve army", Fermore The legion commanded by Er was deployed to the left hill together with the Imperial Guard cavalry, and the left army, which was regarded as the 'left wing' in the eyes of the Dothraki, was handed over to Eres, the commander-in-chief of the new Ghis, who was eager to make contributions. Zoe Emder.

There is the most important battlefield of this battle, and Ian needs a veteran with more experience than Fermor to command.

The point is, letting the leader of the New Ghis to take the most important honor in this battle will greatly enhance the New Gith's sense of identity with the future empire, and increase the possibility of taking down the New Ghis without bloodshed. If you can't , then the New Ghis Legion, which suffered heavy casualties in this battle, will also lose the capital to fight against itself.

The troops led by Drogo and Poirot also acted immediately after Ke Suo's action. He did not wait for the end of the battle on the hill. With only one or two thousand infantry, he had no reason to think that Koso would not be able to take it down.

According to Drogo's plan, this time he and Polokko will each lead 1 roaring warriors to attack the left-wing legion of the Ghis Alliance Army from the front and the side, while his blood guard Koholo will lead [-] cavalry. Standing by in the central army, once the enemy's left wing corps shows signs of defeat, he will lead the army to attack the enemy's central army.

As for the right wing of the Ghisse Alliance Army, Drogo's scouts recognized the iconic spiked helmets of the Unsullied from a distance. Cliff array.

Drogo simply gave up the idea of ​​attacking the right flank of the Gith people, and only deployed Jakoko's Kas on his left flank - Jaco had the least manpower, but it was enough to keep an eye on the enemy.

Drogo decided to take down the Unsullied with all his forces after defeating the center and left flanks of the Pentos thief and destroying his long-range positions in the rear. Ideally, after defeating the central army Then directly capture the Pentos thief, so as to avoid direct combat with the Unsullied.

Khal Drogo led the elite cavalry of his headquarters to the flank of the left wing of the Ghis soon. At the same time, he noticed that Ke Suo had defeated the enemy's defense line on the top of the mountain.

Although Ke Suo and the others quickly disappeared into the shadows behind the mountain, Drogo knew that Ke Suo was chasing the remnant enemy.

"Attack." Khal Drogo waved his big hand forward, and the three thousand cavalry left the large group and began to advance to the left side of the Gith's left flank.

Poirot's Kas, almost keeping pace with Drogo, also sent three thousand horsemen and began to approach the front of the gith's left flank.

Of course, because Ian invested a lot of troops on the left flank, and because the leftmost army formation itself faces the left, for the Dothraki, the two directions they want to double-team can be counted as frontal.

Frontal impact Except for the Dothraki, there should be no one who would use cavalry in this way, right?The new Ghis commander Eres zo Emud, who commanded the left army, couldn't help thinking.

There is no record of large-scale use of cavalry in the ancient books of the ancient Ghis Empire. All the war experience of the Ghis was invested in infantry. As for the later period of the Valyrian Empire. It was even worse, the Valyrians The level of using 'people' to carry out wars has even degenerated to a level that is not as good as that of primitive people, because dragons can solve almost all of their problems.

However, in the battles between New Ghis and Qarth, as well as some cities along the Summer Sea and Jade Sea for markets and colonies, Erez zo Emd still accumulated a lot of experience in using cavalry.

It is basically the most common way to use infantry to attract the opponent's infantry, and then use cavalry to charge sideways or back. It is not that it is impossible to break through from the front, but the cost of cavalry is too high. For the party using pikemen, three One spearman for one cavalry must be a bloody profit, even if it is five for one, it will not lose money.

Therefore, in those battles that must be attacked from the front, the cavalry commander will inevitably try to find the weak point first, and then repeatedly attack that point like nailing a nail, in order to open the gap, and then rush in to fill the gap. expanded to drastically reduce casualties.

Instead. Eres zo Emud looked at the Dothraki who had already started charging in front of the formation, instead of charging directly at the entire defensive surface like them.

However, Khal Drogo does seem to have this capital.

From the perspective of economic cost, it is true that exchanging three spearmen for one cavalry is bloody, but if the number of enemy cavalry is not much less than the number of own spearmen, this exchange of blood is another story.

Fortunately, that terrible battle loss ratio will not appear.

Seeing the Dothraki cavalry close at hand, Eres zo Emd smiled.

"Vathdos, Dothraka!" With a deafening battle cry, the roaring Dothraki warrior who charged frantically crashed into the Ghis infantry wall with the roar of his horse.

Soon, the Dothraki who rushed to the different phalanxes found that they were facing very different fates.

After some roaring warriors scattered the Lazarin cannon fodder standing in the front row of the enemy with short spears or even wooden sticks, they bumped into the horse-repelling posts hidden behind them, and both men and horses were stabbed out of the huge The blood hole, and then, together with the rear cavalry who continued to hit because they couldn't slow down, were overturned by the super long spear stretched out after rejecting the horse.

And other roaring warriors got their wish and easily broke into the enemy's phalanx. Those seemingly orderly infantry teams were just as they expected, like iron sculptures that had rusted for an unknown number of years. It turned into powder with one poke.

Many roaring warriors passed through the thin phalanx and rushed into an open space without even feeling the shock caused by the impact.

The roaring warriors who were stopped outside the phalanx by the repelling horses and super-long spears saw that their companions had opened a gap in the enemy's formation, so they quickly turned around and rushed towards the gap together.

"The vanguard has achieved results, and the follow-up troops will follow up!" Khal Drogo ordered decisively after seeing this scene, "At the same time, let Koholo also start attacking!"

There are ten thousand Unsullied people wearing pointed helmets on the right wing of the Ghis, which shows that the main force of their Unsullied people is deployed there.At this moment, there are some phalanxes on the left wing that can block the cavalry's impact. There is no doubt that these positions are the Iron Legion of New Ghis.

If the Unsullied and the New Ghis Legion were deployed on the left and right flanks, the enemy's central army would only be left with the slave soldiers and Lazarin's goatmen.

Then Koholo doesn't need to wait for the left wing's battle to end, he can directly attack those mobs, and even, he may be able to end the battle earlier than the left wing.

The cunning thief actually wanted to take advantage of the inertial mentality of the most difficult to break through the defense line of the Chinese army where the coach is, and fill the Chinese army with some rotten fish and rotten shrimp!
"Tell Cohollo that I want him to capture the thief of Pentos alive! I will kill that coward myself!" Drogo gave the final order, and began to drive on.

Now that the vanguard has opened seven or eight gaps in the ranks of those cowards, the arrival of the second batch of howling warriors will completely crush the enemy.

So this time, Khal Drogo will personally lead the attack.

Following behind the cavalry in the front row, the roaring warriors in the back row kept rushing towards the gap that had been opened. What they didn't know was that what happened to the cavalry who had poured into the gap was a disaster.

These gaps were deliberately placed by Ian for the Dothraki.

There are two main ways to annihilate cavalry, one is to have more and more elite cavalry than the opponent, and the other is to have powerful long-range troops and create an environment that makes it difficult for the enemy to retreat.

For example, the big downhill that is within range behind the hill on the left, or this one created by Ian by alternately deploying Lazarin cannon fodder and the new Gist Iron Legion/Unsullied, for the arrogant Dothraki Large tailored pockets.

The roaring warriors who charged Lazarin's cannon fodder broke through their line with almost no resistance and crashed into the open space behind the line. He was blocked outside a solid horse-repelling line hidden between the front and rear formations.

The horse-repelling wall was full of sharpened wooden spikes in a width of four meters. This distance basically declared that the Dothraki had no possibility of rushing over.

Behind that line of defense, there are a large number of spear throwers, Lazarin throwing axemen, mountain hunters and crossbowmen. The elite crossbowmen are all assigned to the hill army commanded by Fermor. It's the trash slaves of Meereen and Yunkai, but if the enemy is just a trapped turtle within 50 meters, there seems to be no difference between the most elite crossbowmen and the most trash.

And other cavalrymen who were on the edge of themselves tried to attack those new Ghis who were not defeated from the side, in order to widen the gap and let more companions pour in.

But those New Ghisians and Unsullied who had been around as early as the cannon fodder shrank their formation the moment they were defeated, and formed hollow circles of hedgehogs behind the forward-facing horses. The roar of the sword and the samurai were completely at a loss.

They could only take out their bows and arrows to try to kill these Iron Legion soldiers, but facing these armored shield warriors, the killing effect of bows and arrows was not obvious. Instead, they fell to the ground under the enemy's javelins because of the distance.

Cavalry continued to pour into the gap from behind, and those Dothraki who failed to attack the hedgehog had to give up their actions, leaving them to the later notification, and then drove their horses to the open space ahead to receive those who arrived earlier than them. The despair that the companions here have received.

Javelins, throwing axes, and crossbows kept falling on the Dothraki. They were crowded in a narrow space and were in chaos. They wanted to attack and had nowhere to start. They wanted to retreat, but there was a continuous influx of cavalry behind them.

They can only take out the riding bows on their backs and shoot at the enemies in front, or try to drive the horses slowly through the gaps in the horse-rejecting walls to attack the enemies hiding behind.

Every second, people keep falling.

The hollow formation of the left army of Ghis was like a huge pool, sucking the sewage outside the pool frantically through the weak drains that the Dothraki thought were washed away by them.

After entering the battle, it was discovered that the deceived Dothraki were attacking the Neoghis and Unsullied who were nailed to the position like nails again and again, but those hedgehog circles who were basically surrounded by the enemy Not moving at all.

The Dothraki cavalry huddled together, and as the open space around them was filled by subsequent cavalry, they found it increasingly difficult to overwhelm the New Ghis and Unsullied defenses without the power of running.

There were also many Dothraki who wanted to return from the gap, and then squeezed together with the cavalry in the rear who were still pouring in, causing even greater chaos.

Khal Drogo noticed all this too. But it seemed too late, for he himself had already rushed into the gap with the second attacking cavalry.

To his surprise, what he saw was not that the back row of the Ghisians were being slaughtered by his roaring warriors, but that his men and horses were all squeezed into this small space, in chaos, trampling on each other.

From time to time, arrows rained down from the sky, taking the lives of some warriors.

"What happened?" He wanted to ask, but it was too loud for anyone to hear him.

Maybe someone heard it, but no one could give him an answer.

Riding among the crowd, Drogo was suddenly stabbed by a thrown spear. He dodged it deftly, and then shot an arrow at the opponent with a keel bow with his backhand. The arrow hit the opponent's chest, but because of the arrow It wasn't hard enough, and it didn't shoot through the guy's breastplate, it just left a dent in it.

Looking at these surrounded but unafraid enemies, Drogo noticed that the entire phalanx where the soldier was was wearing half plate armor, and they were all young men without beards.

Unsullied!It's those damned eunuchs!

The next moment, Drogo's pupils shrank suddenly.

Because he found that none of these dead eunuchs were wearing their proud spiked helmets.

If these real Unsullied did not wear spiked helmets, what exactly were the more than 1 guys wearing spiked helmets on the right wing of the Ghisse Alliance Army?
Moreover, the troops deployed by the Ghis people on the left flank are no more than 1 people. Excluding the proportion of the new Ghis army, where are the remaining main forces of the Unsullied?

be cheated!
"Korholo!" Drogo snarled, throwing his head back into the sky.

Crows and vultures have already gathered in the sky above this valley, making creepy screams, like the song of the harpies, singing the chapters of death.

(End of this chapter)