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Chapter 968 Fool
The army formation composed of more than 400 Hurons saw dozens of Mongolian cavalry charging from a distance, which frightened them.

More than forty Mongolian cavalry in heavy armor charged up and looked like they were not many at all. Their mouths imitated the howling grassland wind and the low mooing of cattle and sheep, mixed with the heavy hooves of horses, making the whole area The ground shook with their footsteps.

The bows and arrows of the Huron phalanx shot over first, and the dense and precise rain of arrows was daunting, but it was useless.

The arrows hitting the cavalry can only make a tinkling sound. Only a few cavalry under Hulan's command wear breastplates and iron armbands. Most of them are grasslands recruited by Emperor Wanli to King Guiyi Problem youth, everyone mostly has similar stories.

Those who are not disciplined, have offended the leader or the next generation chief of the tribe are strong competitors, but they have armor, bring all their belongings for the expedition, and inherit the armed forces from Paozhe in Majiagang.

It is common to have a full set of iron armor that was active in the Liao and Jin Dynasties. If it wasn't for light clothing, some people even had complete horse armor for their war horses.

The Mongol Empire did not rely solely on riding and archery to reach Hungary. Mounting and archery has never been exclusive to the Mongols. A good shooter.

What they rely on is complete logistics, strict discipline, exquisite tactics, extraordinary war fanaticism, and of course, armor that is unparalleled in the world.

At the same time, European knights still wore chain mail.

At this moment, Hulan's enemy, the arrows, seemed too weak.

This is not to say that the bow is weak. This kind of longbow for fighting wild boars is not too much to say that it is a war bow. The problem lies in the arrows... During the mobilization of the Mongolian cavalry, they had already shot all the arrows. The long and tense attack It also made them have no time to knock out qualified arrow clusters with stones. Most of the thrown arrows hit the ground, stones, and armor more than once.

Hu Lan could even hear the sound of the stone arrows hitting the armored chest guard on the outer layer of his chest breaking.

Such an arrow can't even kill a horse!
Of course, there is also an example. On the charging road, the rider who screamed the most fiercely around Hulan didn't even hold a bow, and he was waving his saber and fell into an unparalleled battle frenzy. He was about to stand up from his horse and followed closely With a puff, a wooden arrow without an arrow hit the mount's eye socket from a strange angle, and the painful horseman stood up and threw the rider down.

Luck is indeed bad, but this kind of courage is commendable. The rider who fell to the ground rolled a few times on the grass like an iron hedgehog. Regardless of the pain in his body, he got up and pulled the rein. Seeing that he couldn't coax his wife well, he simply picked up the sharp He drew a short-handled bone from the saddle with his saber, let go of the rein, and continued roaring and rushing towards the Huron formation on foot.

Berserker's Creed - Wrath of the Prairie.

The second batch of attacks by the Hurons was much more formidable. The carefully selected strong, tall and long-legged warriors walked out of the phalanx wearing leather pants with their upper body bare, and after a short two-step run-up, they took a hunting short Spears were thrown to the front of the formation.

At least in the eyes of the Hurons, throwing spears is much more threatening to the armored enemy cavalry than bows and arrows, and their charge formation spread out to both sides before throwing them out.

The cavalry did disperse, but not as the Hurons imagined, they just dispersed habitually.

The forty cavalry spread out from the middle and were divided into eight teams under the leadership of Hulan. They were still in the hunting formation on the left and right, and galloped from the central army to the two wings of the Hurons.

The two sides came into range of each other, and the Mongolian riders holding bows shot arrows at the enemy formation from left and right. In this dangerous distance, a large number of stone and a few iron throwing axes from North Asia smashed the grass into potholes.

By the way, there are not only forty riders, but also three berserkers who fell off their horses. The two of them had already approached the front of the Huron army by eighty steps in the charge, and one of them smashed his head and injured his legs when he fell off his horse. The brow bone was stained with blood under the top helmet, leaning on a strong bow and clutching a feather arrow, bouncing forward on one leg and flicking the crutches, the iron leaves all over his body were shaking like a loquat tree blown by a strong wind, and he was still shouting : "Wait, let's maintain the formation!"

What kind of formation do you maintain with a total of three people!

Although there are few of them, every Mongolian rider sees the situation as good.

The hunting formation is completed, there are no casualties on our side, and more than ten enemy soldiers have been killed or injured. Isn't the next battle easy?
Once surrounded by the hunting formation and squeezed in the middle from all sides, they have an advantage in some areas, not to mention they can still run if they can't fight.

It is really that Hulan has few troops. In the era of Genghis Khan, each of the ten thousand households had a thousand household heavy cavalry. One wave can level the enemy's formation.

It's just that since the two emperors Taizu and Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty went to the north to fight, the grassland has been worse every year. Although they are fighting every year, they can no longer organize such an army.

Hu Lan knew the reason. The longer he stayed with the Ming army in Majiagang and Jincheng, the more he knew what he wanted.

The wind whistled in the ear, and a rider with a strong horse who was too close to the Huron army was stabbed over by a tribal warrior with a long spear used as a spear, and then was driven far away by the horse team at an extremely fast speed. left behind.

In the corner of Hu Lan's back riding and shooting, he saw his target fall in response to the arrow, and also saw his rider get up from the grass and run rampant with a knife, and then was overwhelmed by the enemy.

The killing continues.

Less than a moment after the battle, Hulan's four cavalry teams moved behind the Hurons, led his subordinates and walked a hundred steps west, and found that the enemy had not pursued them, so he stopped his subordinates and took a leisurely look around to count the number of people .

"Three five, three six, counting us is three seven." Hu Lan turned over and got off the horse while counting, patted the dentted iron leaf on his body, showing a little distress, and said to the left and right: "Don't worry, let the horse rest Yes, divide the arrows."

Most of them had emptied their quiver of twelve feathered arrows hanging beside their saddles, and each of them was ordered to rub their thumbs with finger spanners.

On the way they came, the Hurons left more than [-] corpses. This was because Hulan's riding bow had a weaker pull and it was difficult to kill them with one arrow. In fact, there were no fewer than a hundred wounded soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness and stayed in the army formation.

The formation of the Hurons stood so densely that the riders almost didn't need to aim when they bent their bows and set their arrows.

"Let's rest for a while, let the fear emanating from the wounded spread through their ranks, and let them mount... on their horses! Flint, you fool!"

In the middle of speaking, Hu Lan, who was looking at the battlefield, sighed helplessly after giving the order, and pulled the rein to get on the horse.

Fighting broke out again in the east, and the big flints of the Mohawks gathered their troops when they attacked the Hurons, and rushed out from the birch forest to the army formation with an invincible posture, scaring the inexplicable Hurons to collapse immediately.

Where can they go?Going forward, you must pass within the shooting range of the blunderbuss team of the Banner Army led by Guan Zheng, and behind you are the cavalrymen who are watching Hulan, and hundreds of cockscombed brothers on the right are roaring with flint tomahawks.

Only the dense forest on the left that Hulan deliberately let them ignore remained.

Especially a hundred paces ahead of Mohawk's charge, two Mongolian riders who fell off their horses with swords and axes and a single-legged archer took the lead in the charge——Hu Lan had a look of lovelessness.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)