Eagle Byzantium

After the letter was delivered to the fast horse, about two days later, cavalry outpost battles broke out on both sides of the Hillspis River.

As the cavalry going for reconnaissance alternated between the imperial camp and the front line, "large groups of enemies appeared in the fields south of Peshawar and were gathering here in a steady stream."

"There are a large number of heavily armored war elephants in the enemy team, as well as green crescent peacock war flags held high. They should be the main force of Ghazni Khan."

It seems that Yisrael received the assistance of the Eastern Scourge Riders and began to return to the city of Multan to save him.

"Gashni Khan has five thousand cavalry arrayed in front of the elephant formation. This cavalry is very fast and very fierce. Their horses don't have to walk through ravines and fields at all. They walk everywhere like flat ground. They gather and disperse. The scouts are scattered in the distance. Ten miles or even More than a hundred miles away, they are very alert and are not afraid of fighting with our army's scouts. Every time they fight with them, this group of cavalry has quite unique tactics. They carry a kind of fork gun with them, which can be used for hand-to-hand charge or as a resistance. horse, fighting At this time, the cavalry in the front line rushed forward and fired arrows, while the cavalry in the rear line dismounted and formed a formation with spears and spears. Riding and fighting with it, its front rank Riding horses to circle and shoot arrows, or fight and retreat, or line up on both wings, while the rear ranks stand behind the horses with crossed spears, shoot on foot, or fight hand-to-hand. After winning, they pursue on horseback. After several battles, our cavalry suffered many defeats. Mr. Sheng, no enemy prisoners were captured.”

Gawain attached great importance to the five thousand cavalry in front of Ghazni Khan. He believed that this was definitely not Yisrael's cavalry. "I will personally lead the team to fight an outpost battle and try to capture a few of them."

In the dark night, the rising crimson arc moon floated vividly in it, like a pale one-eye of the god. Gawain himself stood on the bank of the Hillspice River somewhere in front of an overflowing stream. On the long grass beside me, I waved from time to time He said a brief hello to the elite cavalry and infantry passing by, "Can you wade across?" After a while, the emperor asked the cartographers and guides around him with concern and sternness, and his tone was obviously to ask them to prepare for the outpost on horseback. Responsible.

"Yes, yes." Both the cartographer and the local guide replied with fear but certainty. "Although the river here is fast, the river bed is relatively shallow. Where it is blocked by several rocks in the river, both humans and horses can cross it. Pass."

Under the imperial umbrella and flag, the sound of roaring water spread to the other side of the grassy field like a big black carpet. The emperor reined in the reins, thought for a moment, and then seemed to say to himself: "Even if it comes from the east and north, The manqi doesn’t know, but there is no reason why Yisrael is unclear about the hydrology and geography here.”

The implication is that the ferry here should be where Ghazni and the barbarian cavalry must pass.

Now he has two choices. One is to hold on to the ferry and "counterattack by danger" to prevent the enemy's cavalry from crossing the river; the other is to abandon the ferry and let in the enemy, mainly cavalry and elephant soldiers, and put them in a smaller area. The river branch area between the Ská River and the Hilspis River is particularly unfavorable for cavalry maneuvers. It is sufficient to give full play to the advantages of one's own infantry and artillery to form pocket formations to annihilate the enemy.

Both options are quite reasonable, but the latter is obviously more favorable.

Therefore, Gawain decided to conduct a small-scale outpost battle at this ferry and capture a few "tongues" to find out the truth of the other party.

The emperor indeed attached great importance to this battle. He stayed quietly on the river bank and watched his three night patrols and about twenty-five cavalrymen with first-class riding and combat skills slowly cross to the other side.

There, a promontory protruding into the river and covered with towering dense forests, cut into the emperor's perspective and cut the entire Hillspis River in an inverted "L" shape. His outpost team was lurking in the river. On this side of the headland, the weird cavalry team was stationed there. The two sides were separated by the dense forest at the headland. It should be said that they did not confirm each other, but they were aware of each other's existence: three infantry night patrol teams. Soldiers, armed with various long and short weapons, wearing dark cloaks and animal skin hoods, lurked in the grass, forming a pocket formation, while twenty-five cavalry lined up in a semicircle to engage the enemy, with half of the cavalry sitting astride On the saddle, the other half also imitated the enemy's cavalry, erecting a row of light horses, leading the horses and holding long and short muskets and standing behind them - the cavalry in the light and the infantry in the dark were about seventy feet apart.

I don’t know how long it took, Hu Yue was like a walking and lively goddess, just running around in the sky, slowly walking from darkness to azure - the stars in the night sky were annihilated, and they seemed to be shot down one by one by the golden arrows of the Sun God. As if, a touch of fish-belly white appeared on the distant mountain peaks, and then grew bigger and bigger.

The dense forest on the promontory gradually revealed its outline. It was much longer than Gawain originally imagined, lying on the vast land on the other side.

Suddenly a trumpet sound suddenly sounded, startling countless birds in the forest. Gawain on the other side heard the sound and suddenly lost his drowsiness. He violently strangled the neck of Agatius, who was very sensitive to the battlefield - "Your Majesty, they are coming out. ! Good fellow!" Several inner palace guards in blue robes stood at the foot of the horse and shouted, pointing to the other side.

Gawain looked around hurriedly, not knowing when, a group of cavalry suddenly protruded from the edge of the dense forest. They did not form two formations at the front and back as the scouts reported, but formed a cone shape, with sharp cavalry on both sides. Hold up the fire, the tip of the fire is long and the armor in the middle is The cavalry were shouting and shouting in a language that was terrifying and incomprehensible. The cold light of their armor and weapons swept across the grass like meteors and tore the night apart - arrows shot straight from their strings, even on the other side. A whooshing sound can be heard breaking through the air.

"Damn it, although we set up cavalry to lure the enemy, this cavalry appeared here and attacked first, which shows that our scouts are really no match for them." The emperor hurriedly wanted to lead two squadrons of cavalry to cross the river to support, but was stopped by the guards. They were afraid that the enemy had a backup plan, which would be bad if the emperor was trapped in danger. Three guards jumped on their horses and held the battle flags, leading the two squadrons on the shore to quickly run to the other side.

Three of the fifteen cavalrymen who lured the enemy on horseback were immediately shot off by the enemy's armored cavalry. Their excellent horse helmets and armor could not resist the arrows and iron clusters of the other side.

Seeing that the enemy was unstoppable, the rest of the cavalry hurriedly turned their horses and walked into the circle of the ambush, drawing their bows and shooting back as they walked.

At this moment, a heavily armored cavalryman on the opposite side directly raised a birch-framed composite recurve bow, and a "shovel-head" arrowhead flew over. The square arrowhead directly passed over the back of the neck of the flag officer of the empire's cavalry, like a sharp shovel shoveled across a piece of cheese, tearing the flesh and veins, and blood burst out with a bang. The flame-tongue flag was dyed red for most of the face, and died with the owner under the horse.

For a moment, the arrows with white tails from the enemy and us were like snowflakes in a whirlwind, circling and interlacing in the open space outside the dense forest.

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"Shoot!" When the other side's group of cavalrymen who were rushing around arrived outside the ambush circle, the soldiers of the two night patrols stood up from the bushes and shouted loudly with the cavalrymen behind the chevaux de frise.

"Shushan, Shushan!" With the homophonic shouting, a group of enemy infantry suddenly stood up in the bushes.