The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

The Kalmyk chasers finally appeared on the way to Chechen and their retreat to Cherkessk. Their vanguard was about a thousand men, which was the size of a thousand-man team. From Prigit, Chechen already knew that the Kalmyk’s army organization was a decimal system, that is, the smallest unit was ten cavalry, and there was a ten captain in it. Then ten cavalrymen of ten captains formed a centurion team, and their officers were the centurions, and so on, the highest rank was ten thousand families. However, in the Kalmyk Khanate, only the Great Khan has the power to command a team of ten thousand people.

To deal with a cavalry of a thousand men, the strength of Xie Miao and Patriarch Isaac was obviously not enough. So Chechen immediately took the Hessian cavalry and five artillery to support after receiving the news that Xie Miao and the others had accepted the enemy.

When Cheerchen arrived, Xie Miao and the others were in a hand-to-hand battle with the Kalmyk cavalry. These Kalmyks have already given birth to the heart of underestimating the enemy because of the continuous victory of Lien Chan. They saw that Xie Miao and Patriarch Isaac had only these soldiers and horses. Rushed in the array.

Xie Miao and his soldiers have mixed equipment. Half of them are equipped with shields and page hammers, and half are equipped with spears. When the Kalmyk arrow rained at them, the soldiers in the front row decisively erected steel shields to shield themselves and their companions.

Then, the Kalmyk cavalry approached the front of the phalanx. Since that wave of arrows did not cause effective damage, the pikemen in the phalanx firmly held the spears in their hands and pointed them forward.

Kalmyks are not afraid of death, but their horses, as animals, are naturally afraid of sharp things. When the horse's eyes saw that they were hitting the spear, they instinctively wanted to avoid it.

Some horses passed by the tip of their guns, while others were not so lucky, and ran into them under the control of the rider.

There was a crackling sound, and dozens of spears in the phalanx broke off at the same time. But the Kalmyk cavalry's offensive also stopped.

"Ula!"

Xie Miao shouted. He squeezed through the gap of the spear and came to the Kalmykian. It was a page hammer towards a Kalmyk cavalry who had fallen off his horse and was about to get up.

The heavy iron hammer hit the Kalmykian's face, his face immediately changed shape, and his body flew out under the influence of the hammer.

The other soldiers also followed suit. They held a steel shield in one hand to resist the cutlass that the Kalmyk had slashed from immediately, and in the other hand they slammed the warhorse or Kalmyk's exposed thigh with a page hammer.

In Azov, this set of fighting skills, they have been very proficient in training.

In only one confrontation, ten Kalmyk cavalry and the bodies of their horses lay around the phalanx, but Xie Miao suffered no more than two casualties.

The commander of the Kalmyks knew at this time that they had encountered a hard bone. He quickly notified the cavalry in front of him to retreat with a semaphore, and then aimed the attacking spear at the Tatar cavalry led by Patriarch Isaac.

Patriarch Isaac’s Tatar cavalry originally wandered on the two wings of the phalanx, using arrow rain to stop the Kalmyk cavalry from encircling Xiemiao and the others. When the Kalmyk cavalry focused their attack on Semeniao, it was easy and pleasant, and there was no pressure. But when the Kalmyk focused on attacking them, the shortcomings of the Tatar cavalry that were not good at close combat were exposed. . They were forced to fight close combat with the well-prepared Kalmyk cavalry, and suffered heavy casualties.

Gradually, Patriarch Isaac and his tribal cavalry began to lose support. Although Xie Miao was willing to support them, once they left the phalanx, they would be blocked by the Kalmyk cavalry arrows and forced to return.

This is the battle situation when Cheerchen and the others arrived.

Seeing Patriarch Isaac's declining support, Cheechen hurriedly ordered the artillery to build an artillery position on the spot.

Five shells poured into the Kalmyk cavalry team that appeared to the west in less than ten seconds. The sharp roar of the artillery shells through the air and the huge roar when they landed have produced a thrilling effect. The Kalmyk cavalry sat on the horse that had not undergone artillery adaptability training and raised its four hooves in shock. Several Karls The Maek cavalry was even saddled by their own horses.

Cheerchen pulled the telescope's casing to its longest length. He eagerly wanted to see the results of this round of shelling, but because of the smoke, he couldn't see anything in the vagueness.

When the smoke finally cleared, the Kalmyk cavalry who had been shrouded in the smoke was no longer there. On the ground are the corpses of seven or eight war horses lying stumblingly, some of them are still breathing. These poor creatures convulsed their spasmodic four hooves, exhausting their last strength in the struggle~www.readwn.com~ and other than that. Besides, there was no corpse of Kalmyk cavalry on the ground.

Of course, if there were no casualties, it would be impossible. Even the tenacious horses fell dead so many, judging from the casualties of the horses, this round of shells also killed at least a dozen enemy cavalry. It was just that these Kalmyk cavalry were well-trained and took away their wounded and the bodies of their companions when they retreated.

Seeing Cheerchen rescued himself, Patriarch Isaac hurried over to thank him.

"Bey, it's too time for you to come." Patriarch Isaac said.

"The patriarch, in fact, even if we didn't come, relying on the bravery of you and your tribe's children, it would be nothing to repel them." Chechen complimented.

Hearing Cheerchen complimenting himself so much, Patriarch Isaac was overjoyed. He drew the scimitar arrogantly, and pursued the retreating Kalmyk cavalry.

Seeing Patriarch Isaac's back, Cheerchen took down the binoculars and sighed in secret. He said, "Uncle Pietro, what do you think?"

For a long while, Cheerchen didn't hear a response, only to remember that Pidro was not following and was commanding the retreat in front.

But looking at the battle and retreat just now, Cheerchen finally got an intuitive impression of the Kalmyk’s bravery-these Kalmyk cavalry are indeed powerful!

And he was also a little helpless—compared to the Tatars in Crimea, these Kalmyk talents from the East are the real descendants of Genghis Khan.

Cheerchen knew that the Kalmyks had never seen a weapon like artillery before. But after being caught off-guard by the artillery, the commander of this Kalmyk cavalry stabilized the team in such a short period of time and took away all the wounded and corpses. This alone can bear it. The name of the strong army!