Chapter 285: Fool
An army of more than 400 Hurons frightened them when they saw dozens of Mongol cavalry charging from afar.
More than forty Mongolian cavalrymen in heavy armor charged up, and they imitated the howling wind of the steppe and the low moo of herds of cattle and sheep, mingling with the sound of heavy horses' hooves, making the whole land shake in their footsteps.
The bows and arrows of the Huron phalanx came first, and the dense and precise rain of arrows was daunting, but useless.
The arrows could only make a tinkling sound when they hit the cavalry, and there were only a few cavalrymen under Hulan's command wearing cuirasses and iron arm bindings, most of them were grassland youths recruited by the Wanli Emperor to the Guiyi Wang, and most of them had similar stories.
Undisciplined, offended a leader or a strong contender for the next generation of chiefs of the tribe, but they had armor, brought all their possessions with them for the expedition, and inherited the armament from Paoze in Majiagang.
It is common to have a full set of iron armor that was active in the Liaojin period, and if it weren't for the sake of light travel, some people even had complete horse armor for war horses.
The Mongol Empire once fought Hungary not only by cavalry, but also by cavalry, and cavalry was never the exclusive property of the Mongols.
They relied on sophisticated logistics, strict discipline, ingenious tactics, extraordinary war fervor and, of course, armor like no other in the world.
European knights of the same period also wore chain mail.
And at this moment, Hulan's enemies, the arrows are too weak.
It's not that the bow is small, it's not too much to say that this longbow for fighting wild boars is a war bow, the problem is the arrow...... In the mobilization of the Mongol cavalry, they had already shot all the arrows, and the long and tense run did not give them time to knock out a good cluster of arrows with stones, and most of the arrows thrown were more than once on the ground, stones, and armor.
Hulan could even hear the sound of the stone arrows that had struck the outer layer of his chest piercing his chest.
Such an arrow can't even kill a horse!
Of course, there are also cases, on the way of the charge, the most fierce rider around Hulan did not even hold a bow, and fell into an unparalleled battle frenzy with his saber, and the people were about to get up from their horses, followed by a 'poof', a wooden arrow without an arrow hit the mount's eye socket from a strange angle, and the sore horse man stood up and flipped the rider down.
Luck was indeed terrible, but this kind of courage was commendable, and the rider who smashed to the ground rolled a few times on the grass like an iron hedgehog, and despite the pain in his body, he got up and pulled the reins, and seeing that he could not coax his wife well, he simply picked up the sharp saber and pulled out a short-handled bone from the saddle, threw the reins, and continued to roar and rush towards the Hurons on foot.
Berserker's Creed - Prairie Fury.
The second group of the Huron attacked much more powerfully, with the carefully selected sturdy and long-legged warriors walking out of the phalanx bare-chested in leather trousers and throwing a short hunting spear in front of the formation after a short two-step run.
At least in the eyes of the Hurons, spears were far more dangerous to the iron-clad enemy cavalry than bows and arrows, and their charging formations spread out in both directions before they could be thrown.
The cavalry did disperse, but not as the Huron imagined, they only dispersed habitually.
The forty horsemen scattered from the middle, divided into eight teams under the leadership of Hulan, still in a hunting formation on the left and right, and galloped from the Chinese army to the two wings of the Hurons.
The two sides came into range of each other, and Mongol horsemen with curved bows hurled arrows into enemy formations from left and right, and at this dangerous distance, a large number of stony and small iron throwing axes from North Asia smashed the grass into potholes.
By the way, there were not only forty horsemen, but also three berserkers who had fallen off their horses, the two of them were already eighty steps closer to the front of the Huron army formation in front of the charge, and one of them smashed his head and injured his leg when he fell off his horse, his eyebrow bones were stained with blood under his high helmet, and he jumped forward with a strong bow and feathered arrows, and his iron leaves trembled like a loquat tree blown by a strong wind, and he shouted: "Wait a minute, maintain the formation!" ”
What kind of formation do you maintain?
Although they were few in number, the situation was very good in the eyes of every Mongolian rider.
The hunting formation is completed, our side has no casualties, and the enemy has more than ten casualties, so the next battle is not easy?
Once they are wrapped in the hunting array and squeezed in the middle from all sides, they have an advantage in the local area, not to mention that they can still run if they can't beat it.
It is really a small number of Hulan troops, in the era of Genghis Khan, each 10,000 households has a thousand heavy cavalry, the general trend of flank outflanking, squeezing the enemy army to the middle, and the heavy cavalry under the trampling of each other can level the enemy formation in a wave.
It's just that since the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu and Chengzu, went north to kill the past, the grassland is not as good as a year, although they are fighting every year, they can no longer organize such an army.
Hulan knew the reason, the longer he followed the Ming army in Majiagang and Jincheng, the more he knew what he was willing to do.
The wind whistled in his ears, and a rider who had been too close to the Huron army was stabbed by the tribal warriors with a spear that could be used as a spear, and then left far behind by the horses at great speed.
In the afterglow of Hulan's return to mount and shoot, he saw his target fall in response to the sound of an arrow in front of the door, and also saw his rider get up from the grass and run rampant with a sword, and then be overwhelmed by the enemy.
The killing continues.
Less than a moment after the engagement, Hulan's four cavalry teams moved behind the Hurons, and walked another hundred and ten steps west with his men, and found that the enemy was not pursuing, so he stopped his subordinates and took a moment to look around and count the number of people.
"Three-five, three-six, counting us is three or seven." Hulan turned over and dismounted while calculating, patted the iron leaves that had been knocked out of the dents on his body, showing a little distress, and beckoned left and right: "Don't worry, let the horses rest and divide the arrows." ”
Most of them hung by the saddle of their horses, and the quiver that had been holding the twelve feathered arrows was empty, and one by one they were given the order to rub their thumbs with their wrenches.
On the way they came, the Hurons left more than thirty corpses, because Hulan's cavalry bow had a small pull, and it was difficult to kill them with a single arrow, and in fact, no less than 100 wounded soldiers were incapacitated and stayed in the army.
The Huron formations were so dense that the riders barely needed to aim their bows and arrows, and they would not miss an arrow if they shot it casually.
"Let's take a break, let the fear of the wounded spread in their formations, let them surrender...... Launched! Flint this big fool! ”
Halfway through his words, Hulan, who was looking at the battlefield, sighed helplessly after giving the order, and pulled the reins and turned over on the horse.
Fighting broke out again in the east, and the Great Flint of the Mohawks gathered their forces when they attacked the Hurons, and slaughtered them out of the birch forest and slaughtered them in an invincible manner, so frightened that the inexplicable Hurons broke up in an instant.
Where can they run? To go forward, you must pass within the range of the bird gun team of the banner army led by Guan Zheng, and to the back is the cavalry of Hulan, and on the right hundreds of cockscomb brothers Gui roared and killed with flint battle axes.
Only the dense forest on the left side that Hulan deliberately let them ignore remains.
Especially a hundred paces in front of the Mohawk charge, it was actually two Mongolian riders with two swords and axes and a one-legged archer who led the charge—Hulan looked helpless.