Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 302 The Battle of Kaiser Pass (Raging Fire)

The central army of the Guise coalition army used almost the same tactics as the left army. Ian alternately deployed 2000 Unsullied and 3000 Lazarin cannon fodder to form the front line of the central army.

There are 7000 Unsullied in the rear of the central army - most of Ian's long-range troops are deployed in the left army and the hills on the left. The central army has no shooters available, so Ian directly let the Unsullied serve as the crossbowmen and mountain people in the left army. After all, the Unsullied who is proficient in the use of three types of spears is himself the most elite thrower.

Moreover, because most of the repelling horses Ian made by cutting down trees nearby in the past two days were placed in the left army, the Chinese army's horse repelling defense line was far thinner and sparser than that of the left army, and there was a big risk of being breached.

Therefore, there is a high probability that the rear of the Chinese army will engage in large-scale hand-to-hand combat with the Dothraki cavalry entering the formation-such a job is best suited for the Unsullied.

Koholo, the blood guard who commanded the Dothraki center army, almost acted together with the second cavalry on the right wing of the centaur led by Drogo himself. Therefore, when Khal Drogo himself rushed into the gap of the left army, the first batch of Dothraki center cavalry led by Koholo also broke through the formation of the Lazarin cannon fodder and rushed into the formation.

The ratio of the Unsullied to the Lazarin in the front of Ian's army was two to three, so the first wave of the Dothraki's charge directly penetrated three-fifths of the entire front of the Chinese army. From the perspective of the Dothraki, their attack was not just as simple as tearing a few gaps in the Ghis army, but more like it had been completely defeated.

The joy of breaking the formation and the thrill of slaughter drew Koholo's cavalry. They did not leave a third of the troops on the right wing commanded by Drogo as the final reserve, but the whole army charged forward and came straight to Ian's center.

This is exactly what Ian wanted.

It was Ian's risky decision to let the entire front line be almost completely defeated in order to allow the enemy to put most of their troops on the battlefield faster.

After all, the contact surface between the central army and the enemy is only about 700 meters. If you still only leave some gaps for the enemy to attack like the left army, the speed at which the Dothraki pour into the pocket will be much slower. In the end, when Ian closes the net, a large number of Dothraki will be in a position where they can retreat.

Those Dothraki who had successfully retreated would have wreaked havoc if they escaped to Lazarin, but Ian had little ability to catch up and wipe them out.

Like today, there is only one chance for the opponent to take the initiative to attack a position that he has occupied for two days.After Jisdaka and today's battle, the other Dothraki will be a hundred times more cautious when facing themselves, and if they want to take care of them at that time, they can only rely on stronger cavalry than them.

So Ian has to take a risk.

It stands to reason that this kind of behavior of using more than half of the troops on a certain front as 'bait' can easily collapse the morale of the surrounding friendly troops, leading to the defeat of the entire army, but the good news is that the main force of Ian's entire central army is composed of Unsullied.

The Unsullied's morale lock is equivalent to an unlock in this case.

Vultures and crows hovered in the sky, and Ian Falcon had to lower his altitude slightly to avoid colliding with those guys or being blocked by them.

Through the vision of the two falcons, Ian can easily control the trend of the entire battlefield.

The front line of the central army was torn apart, leaving only a few phalanxes formed by the Unsullied with heavy casualties. The Dothraki cavalry crazily flocked to the rear. Some of them were shooting at the Unsullied at the rear, and some had already broken through the weak repelling horses of the Chinese army, and started a hand-to-hand fight with the Unsullied.

Left army, more than half of the cavalry led by Khal Drogo and Poroko has already entered the pocket of the left army, only the 6000 cavalry originally scheduled for the third attack remained in their positions.

But unlike the almost one-sided situation of the central army, the battle of the left army was very stalemate, and the crossbowmen in the rear did not take any advantage in the confrontation with the besieged roaring warriors.

The rapid-fire crossbows brought by Astapor were assigned to the Fermor Legion on the left-wing hill. The crossbowmen here used the old-style crossbows originally used by the Yunkai and Meereen slaves. They only fired two or three arrows per minute. In addition, these crossbowmen and spearmen were unarmored like the Dothraki.

And the hedgehog circle formed by the new Gistiron Legion and the Unsullied in the front line also suffered a lot of losses under the close-range shooting and repeated charge attempts of the centaur who surrounded them.

The well-equipped New Ghis First Legion and the Unsullied were slightly better, and the other two New Ghis Legions had a tendency to be shaken under such blows.

The entire battlefield is like a meat grinder, mercilessly harvesting the lives of both sides.

Perhaps this desolate mountain range, which has always been sparsely populated, has received so many guests for the first time in thousands of years, so I want to keep them all here forever.

Can't wait anymore, Ian sighed softly.

The reason why he used these cannon fodder to stand behind the refusal line to shoot at the Dothraki, and kept the mercenary longbowmen and Lazarin archers who were obviously more dominant in the confrontation in the Taniguchi reserve army was to give Drogo an illusion that he could defeat himself no matter how hard he tried, thus luring him to invest all the remaining troops.

But now Ian is worried that if it drags on, Khal Drogo may really be able to defeat the left army. Or at least, he can defeat the two poorly equipped new Ghis legions and break out.

"Yada, let the 'Military Band' pass the order and start serving our Kayo." Ian saw that more than two-thirds of the cavalry of the enemy's central army had also entered the battle, and turned around to order the water dancer Yada.

"Yes, sir." Yada took the order and left.

The sound of ordering quickly sounded. Unlike the chaotic battlefield ahead, the position of the Taniguchi Reserve Army, who stayed at the entrance of Kaiser Mountain Pass as a reserve team, was in order at the moment. Although the shouts of killing from the front could be heard here from time to time, the officers still clearly heard the orders from the commander in the completely silent army formation.

After they waved the flag to complete the feedback that they had received the order, a dragon whistle sounded, and the vultures and crows gathered in the sky scattered and fled in an instant.

The black dragon Ian took off from the nearby mountain and came to the sky above the battle position. Under the guidance of the 'Dragon Mark', one thousand hired longbowmen and two thousand Lazarin archers in the Taniguchi reserve army quickly moved to the designated position.

Immediately, a large number of ignited bows and arrows fell from the sky, falling like a rain of fire among the Dothraki cavalry in front of the Juma Line.

The next moment, a large number of dry weeds and bushes on the ground were ignited, and the large flames raged with heat waves.In the steaming hot wind, the fire spread rapidly, and the bushes spread forward like a sea of ​​fire.The raging flames shot up into the sky, thick black smoke began to envelope the crowd, and arrows continued to fall from the sky, like the shadow cast by the god of death.

The flames frightened the warhorses of the Dothraki, though the howling warriors had the best riding skills and the training to ensure that they could ride their mounts in any situation.
But fire was not one of them, especially in such a crowded crowd, it was impossible for the howling warriors to control their mounts before causing chaos.

The Dothraki in the pocket quickly fell into a huge chaos. The cavalry rushed and trampled each other, and the advantage they had regained briefly by virtue of their excellent shooting skills disappeared all of a sudden.

"Look at the mountain! New enemies have appeared!"

"That's it?" Hago, who was in charge of commanding the third batch of cavalry under Drogo, looked up and saw a large number of Ghisian flags appearing on the hill that had already been taken by another blood guard Ke Suo, and a large number of infantrymen appeared on the slope.

Then they began to move down the mountain one by one along different roads, and the flying flags fluttered on the hillside like waves. The slave soldiers of Astapor were in the front, and a group of Lazarin tribesmen in different costumes and costumes were behind them.

Those "sheep people" who would be scared out of their wits when they talked about the Dothraki on weekdays, their morale was high at this time, and they seemed to be looking forward to a certain exciting moment, so that they could vent their hatred and anger towards the Dothraki that had been accumulated for thousands of years.

"How is this possible?" Ha Ge was a little confused, in various senses.

Whether it was why there were so many enemies suddenly, or why Koso was missing, Haggo couldn't figure it out.

Hargo is not a person with a brain at all. In the original book, after Daenerys married Drogo, the only impression she had of the bloodrider was that she was 'huge but silent'.

At this moment, seeing the enemy that suddenly appeared on the hill, and the friendly army that was still blocking the gap in the Ghis army formation and had not been able to completely defeat the opponent, Ha Ge was still unable to make a decision.

He worried that the enemy on the hills threatened his rear, and that Drogo would not catch up in time when he needed follow-up troops to deliver the final blow.

He sent several sentinels to ask for Drogo's instructions, but none of them came back, and it was not known whether Drogo had not been found or something had happened, or both.

After hesitating, all the enemies on the mountain had already descended and completed their formation again.

"We must eliminate them, otherwise once they merge into the enemy's left flank, they will block Kao's retreat." It wasn't until the commander of the remaining 3000 people in Poroko came to remind Hago that he realized that he had to make a decision.

"Then destroy them. Let us lead our troops to attack their left and right sides respectively, and try to defeat them in one fell swoop!" Hago gave the order. When Kaa was away, the bloodrider would represent Kaa, and Poloko's men would naturally be under the command of Hago.

After the order was given, the two began to act separately.

After the enemy descended the mountain, they took the initiative to move southward. At this time, their sides and back were exposed. At this time, it was much easier to annihilate them than when they attacked the mountain just now.

These enemies are only in the early 6000s, and there are close to [-] people on their side. With such an advantage, the last Dothraki defeat dates back to the Battle of Kehor. The Battle of Kehor is not a field battle.

So, under the leadership of Hargo, the cavalry left as a reserve team began to move north.

Poroko tried his best to control the horse under his lap, so as not to be agitated by the fright, his face was blackened by the thick smoke, and his red eyes were filled with tears.

The hand holding the bow and arrow hangs down. Poirot no longer remembers how many enemies he has shot and killed with precision. In the past, such killings would definitely make him feel excited, but today...
Today is a disaster.

Except for the part where Poirot led his personal guards directly smashed through the enemy's formation at the beginning of the attack, and then chased and killed the rout all the way to the line that blocked the horse, which was beyond his expectations, the rest of the story was completely out of his control.

It was not that Poirot had never encountered enemies who set up horse or chariot formations before. Faced with this situation, the Dothraki had a common method, which was to attack and feign defeat. As long as they left enough corpses, they would be able to attract those stupid enemies to pursue them, and then wipe them all out.

But this time, they didn't even have the chance to implement the plan.

The way to retreat was not blocked by the enemy, but by our own people. The cavalry on the outside still wanted to charge in, but the order to retreat could not be conveyed.

The sharp arrow pierced through the thick smoke, and Poirot felt someone else fall beside him. He couldn't remember how many times it was, even his son. His young son, who had just become a howling warrior, was also lying under the horse at this moment.

There were several broken arrows stuck on his son's bronzed skin. The despicable Ghisian used barbed arrows that could not be pulled out, so he directly broke the shafts of these arrows, and kept the arrowheads in his body to continue fighting.

The flames burned all the way to four meters in front of the horse-repelling wall, and there was no flame burning outside the phalanx of the Ghis and Unsullied. What the Dothrakis didn't know was that Ian had already cleared the weeds and bushes in these places and built a isolation zone.

The centaurs only knew that there was no fire there, and they flocked to those places even more frantically.

The two wings of one's own side are surrounded, the enemy's army is defeated, and one's own side pursues and harvests.

In Hargo's countless previous experiences, things should have developed like this.

The enemy's Unsullied and the New Ghis Legion have already appeared in the front, and few of the troops running down from the hill are wearing cowardly iron clothes. Their own attack should have succeeded in one blow, but
Are their crossbows firing too fast?

After the two armies approached, Ha Ge only felt that the crossbow arrows were coming overwhelmingly. From the time when his side began to accelerate at a fast pace, and finally began to hit the enemy's formation at full speed in just over 20 seconds, the opponent actually shot three rounds of arrows.

Not only did the cavalry around Hago fall down, but even Hago himself was shot in the left arm by an arrow.

In Hago's memory, he had never seen a crossbow that could shoot so fast, nor had he heard that the master craftsman could make such a masterpiece.

Of course, it doesn't matter anymore, because he has already touched the enemy.

Ha Ge followed two roaring warriors and crashed in from an oblique corner of a phalanx. Although the opponent did turn a few long spears towards himself and the others at the end, these sparse weapons were completely unable to stop the centaur cavalry when the entire phalanx was unable to turn.Many slave soldiers were knocked out amidst the screams of despair, bringing down a large group of people, and those roaring warriors who were stabbed also rolled straight into the bright spears with their horses.

Sure enough, he was vulnerable. Looking at the scattered enemies in an instant, Hago raised his arakh scimitar, and slashed straight at the neck of a slave soldier who was not covered by the protective gear. Blood spurted out and was carried into the air by the inertia of the arakh scimitar, drawing a dark red bloodstain.

Feeling the shock in his crotch, Hago suddenly found that a spear had stabbed his horse, and the horse under his crotch immediately neighed in pain. The opponent's spear was not drawn out, and Hago's arakh scimitar could not reach the enemy at this distance, so he took off his bow very skillfully, and shot through the slave soldier's head with an arrow.

The sound of skinned heavy drums and harsh metal sounds that would appear on the battlefield from time to time alternately sounded again, and then a black shadow swept across the sky.

Under the reminder of a personal guard, Ha Ge looked towards the hills to the west
God on the horse!After these slave soldiers who were about to be defeated, new enemies appeared on that hill? !
What the hell is this?Wizard's magic?Can an army be created out of thin air?
Ha Ge couldn't wait for the answer, and when he was in a daze, a crossbow shot into his ribs at a very large angle. If Ha Ge had armor, even if it was just an old leather armor, he might be able to survive under this small-power rapid-fire crossbow, but it's a pity that he didn't.

The severe pain caused Ha Ge to lose his strength all of a sudden, so that he couldn't control his restless horse due to the injury. He was directly shaken off and landed in the crowd, and then countless spears stabbed him, making his bloody and bloody.

"Principal Guard cavalry, attack!"

On the hill, Kui Ge, commander of the Imperial Guard cavalry who had received orders from the Chinese army, let out a roar.

Immediately afterwards, the Janissary cavalry around him poured down from the hillside and rushed to the back of Hargo's troops.

Amid the thunderous roar that covered the terrified screams of the soldiers, the yellow-bottomed double-headed eagle flags held by the cavalrymen of the Imperial Guard fluttered in the wind, and with the bumping of the horses, they rolled past like a huge yellow wave.

They were the vanquished in the tribal struggles of the steppe, slaves unworthy of horses and arakhs.It was Earl Darry who purified them with miracles, gave them horses and weapons again, and made them warriors again.

Now they will let the khal, mightiest of the Dothraki seas, hear their roar.

The painful neighing of the horse echoed throughout the battlefield, and Drogo walked on the ground holding the arakh scimitar in his hand tightly.

Not far in front of him was his red horse—the steed that made him so proud was rolling on the ground at the moment, and there was no good piece of meat on it.

Drogo was heartbroken over the loss of his horse, but he was even more heartbroken by the soldiers who kept dying around him.

The air was filled with smoke, and Drogo could no longer see what was going on, and he could no longer effectively issue orders to anyone but himself.

But he knew that his men were being slaughtered.

"Ian Darry!" growled Khal Drogo, and for the first time he called Ian by his first name instead of the thief of Pentos or the coward of Ghis. "Come out! Ian Darry! Come out!"

"Don't hide in the shadows! Ian Darry! Come out and fight me!" Drogo roared to himself, "I'll kill you myself!"

But he was just a mortal after all, the voice from his throat was drowned by the surrounding noise within a few meters.No one heard his voice, and no one knew that this Kayo was trying to invite Ian to fight in such a desperate situation.

Of course, even if Ian heard it, he would just pretend he didn't hear it.

He wasn't Rhaegar, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to accept a one-on-one fight when the army had the upper hand.

Drogo was yelling when a crazy horse, covered in flames, came galloping at him.He dodged it sideways, and the horse immediately rammed into the Xinguis phalanx not far away.

I don't know which soldiers suddenly failed to resist the pressure and gave way to the fire horse. The horse rushed into the circular formation of the New Ghis, and instantly turned the people who hit the formation on their backs.

Khal Drogo quickly seized the gap and led the people to rush in. The new Ghis circle with hundreds of people left was suddenly shattered.

"Rush out from here!" Khal Drogo withdrew from the horse refusal line. He knew very well that Ian's entire rear formation was still intact, and it was impossible for him to continue attacking with these remnants in his hands.

I need to stand out first, there are Hargo's cavalry outside, and Jaco's cavalry, I can gather a large number of troops.Now that I know that the enemy's right wing is all fakes pretending to be Unsullied, then my next attack can start from the enemy's right wing. As long as I slaughter those Lazarin first, Ian can give Ian another fatal blow.

Drogo slashed and killed the New Ghis in front of him, while thinking about how to counterattack.

Suddenly, a dagger pierced Drogo's waist from the side, causing him to let out a heart-piercing cry. He turned around and slashed down, blood spattering, half of the head of the new Ghis warrior who attacked him disappeared instantly, and red and white slurry sprayed out.

Sensing the curved blade, Drogo looked around and found the corpse of a Howling Warrior, and as he bent to pick up the man's scimitar, he felt a gust of wind blow through the air.

Suddenly, the alarm bell in Drogo's heart rang wildly, and an ominous premonition rushed straight to the sky. He drew the keel bow at his waist very quickly, and then took the arrow with the Valyrian steel arrow that Vogo (the player) gave him earlier, and drew the bowstring to point directly at the sky.

This is the method of slaying dragons, at least for young dragons under one year old.

But the sky is shrouded in smoke, where is the dragon?

After a moment's hesitation, the dragon flames poured down like lava, and Khal Drogo and the roaring warriors around him were instantly reduced to ashes.

Immediately afterwards, the black dragon Ian climbed at full speed amidst the black smoke, leaving the area where it might be attacked.

After all, apart from Drogo, it is difficult for Ian to guarantee that there will be no other Dothraki with this weapon.

(End of this chapter)