Chapter 477: Twin Star Fall (7)
In fact, when the members of the Changyi Legion entered the water unicorn army formation, the sun did not set and the victory had already been achieved: because the Arrow Fort ship that was located in the river had already wiped out all the Darlan cavalry who tried to outflank it, so most of the Xiyi archers on the previous warships were aimed at the heavy knights of the Qilin on the west bank of the Cressy River, and even several captains of the Arrow Fort ships actually sent several Xiyi sailors on the ship to use hooks to connect their warships with their comrades' warships to increase space. Let more naval battle scorpion crossbows and Xiyi bows on the ship of the Arrow Fort are light, and you can see the arrows shooting at the cavalry of the Water Qilin Empire who have kept all their backs for themselves.
In the case of the crazy attack of the rain of arrows on all sides, Rao is water qilin heavy knights, who have participated in the war in the Western Regions of the Central Continent for many years and have good psychological quality, can not afford it, so let alone those Dalan light cavalry, so when the battle of the Lexi River here, the commander-in-chief of the water qilin Farabino, was cut off with a katana by a member of the Changyi Legion, and was hung on the military flag of the Righteous Legion on behalf of the Xiyi soldiers at the first time, located behind the Changyi Legion, After the Guliu Legion and the Xiyi samurai from the Tengu Legion who came to support also joined the battle, the Water Kirin Front began to retreat.
The reason why it is a retreat rather than a rout is because the fighting quality of the regular army of the Water Kirin is not as low as Oda Nobunaga imagined, except for the Water Kirin Heavy Knights and Darlan soldiers who have not yet engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers who never set the sun, under the command of several commanders of the Water Kirin Legion, crossed the Cresy River, which has been stained red by war horses and human corpses, and fled to their own positions, the soldiers of the Water Kirin Empire, who had been deeply trapped in the Sunset Army Array, chose to shed to buy time for their comrades to escape, Despite the continuous blocking of arrows and javelins shot by Xiyi bows and scorpion crossbows, in the end, nearly 20,000 cavalry escaped from the 70,000 cavalry of the Water Qilin Empire, leaving only nearly 50,000 corpses of the cavalry of the Water Qilin Empire and more than 70,000 war horses.
Due to the fact that in the process of retreating, the water unicorn side left the palace troops to block, and there were no cavalry troops in their own hands, so the war reached the end of the war, Oda Nobunaga's bow and ashigaru used a samurai bow to shoot the range of a certain dismounted water unicorn heavy knight standing on the west bank of the Cresy River, and after leaving 20,000 Xiyi ashigaru to clean up the battlefield, he ordered the whole army to retreat.
As the victor, Oda Nobunaga, although he killed nearly 50,000 water qilin cavalry, most of them were still the elite heavy cavalry of the water unicorn empire: the water unicorn heavy knights, and the main general of the right army of the water unicorn empire, Farabino, also died on the spot in the chaos, and his own losses were less than 2,000 people, but Oda Nobunaga's main purpose was not achieved: to leave all the cavalry of the water unicorn empire on the bank of the Cressy River. Although Oda Nobunaga's subordinates thought that their commander was a bit unfounded, after all, the horses of the water Kirin cavalry were left on the banks of the Cressy River, and now the leather of these horses was used by the Xiyi soldiers to repair broken tents, and the corpses of the horses were also dried and turned into rations for the Xiyi soldiers, Oda Nobunaga still believed that the cavalry troops of the Water Kirin Empire would make a comeback.
At the same time, Oda Nobunaga also believed that although the commander-in-chief of the water Kirin side was killed on the spot in the battle of the Cresy River, the water Kirin side was still able to maintain an orderly retreat, which is very likely to say that the other party's high-level commander was not dead, so in the post-war summary meeting of the Battle of the Cresy River, Oda Nobunaga vetoed the proposal of many Xiyi officers on the spot, leaving the naval army and the ashigaru army, and leading 3 regular regiments of the Xiyi to support Fort Rapids, but the other side still had 30,000 foot miscellaneous soldiers who did not participate in the battle, The more than 20,000 water unicorn cavalry who escaped will make a comeback, and chose to let all the Xiyi troops stay in the four counties for 1 month before speaking, and it turned out that Oda Nobunaga's judgment was correct.
On the 6th day after the end of the Battle of Cressy, the outpost located in the flooded area of the western district of the four counties was in just one day, and no less than 100 battle reports were reported that the traces of the Dalan light cavalry squad of the Water Kirin Empire were found, and then after 2 days, under the reconnaissance of the spies on the battlefield where the sun never sets, Oda Nobunaga had confirmed that the previous 20,000 cavalry were "alive" again.
And the reason for this situation is very simple, because in the camp built by the only 30,000 infantry soldiers in the right army of the Water Qilin Empire, there are still nearly 10,000 war horses, these war horses are all reserve war horses left by the water Qilin heavy knights who have been beaten by the Xiyi army before, and now these war horses have become the existence of all the Xiyi soldiers in the four counties of the Water Qilin Right Army.
Obviously, judging from the situation of the water unicorn side attacking everywhere in the past few days, the other party is going to fight the most frustrating guerrilla warfare, of course, if it is just like this, Oda Nobunaga will not be bothered, because guerrilla warfare is generally only fought by archers and light cavalry, if he sends all the Saiyi Ashigaru in his hands to encircle and suppress the Darlan light cavalry, it is 80% of the things that can be done, but the problem is to know that Oda Nobunaga did not just let go of the Darlan cavalry before the road, In fact, Oda Nobunaga at least let go of a group of more than 4,000 people dismounted the water unicorn heavy knights, if this group of water unicorn heavy knights in the regain of the war horse iron heart to fight guerrilla warfare with themselves, then who wins and who loses is really bad, after all, the group of heavy cavalry in tens of thousands of light infantry did not react to the situation of the charge, the result is not a small number of heavy cavalry side soldiers, most of the time is a large number of light infantry army because of the chisel and caused a rout, the most of the time became the object of heavy cavalry ridicule.
As for using the 3 major armies of Xiyi to deal with those heavy cavalry, even if they can win the victory, it will be a disastrous victory, after all, the only one who can deal with the cavalry among the 3 major legions is the wild sword warriors in the Tengu Legion, and these wild sword samurai must also be under the frontal charge to damage the cavalry, if the water unicorn side sacrifices the Dalan cavalry to contain the front of the Tengu Legion, and then sends heavy cavalry to attack on the side, the Tiangu Legion will definitely be disabled, and any regular army being disabled is not what Sherman wants to see, Therefore, before coming up with a good way, the more than 60,000 Xiyi soldiers on the side where the sun never sets, as well as the nearly 50,000 soldiers on the right route army of the Water Qilin Empire, are estimated to be consumed here in the four counties, waiting for the results of the battles between the two forces in other regions, and this time it is not the Water Qilin that is destined to be disappointed, but the side on which the sun never sets.