Chapter One Thousand Three Hundred and Four: Tactics for Dealing with Dysprosium Horses
"Eaaah!...Eaha!..."
“Dingle bell!…Dingle bell!…”
The intimidating shouts of ten Japanese cavalrymen, accompanied by the ringing bamboo bells on the horses, and the billowing bamboo clothes, were so eye-catching on the open battlefield. It seems that the existence of these Japanese cavalry was not for
Attack and fight just to make an astonishing noise!
The most elite cavalry among the Kazuto warriors, maintaining a trot speed, ran out from behind the Kazuto spear formation in the middle and came between the spear formations on both sides. They did not rush or slow, first using their horse speed to attack
At the gun formation hundreds of steps away from the kingdom, he fired two rounds from a distance.
"Whizzing!…"
Sporadic arrows flew in and landed on the cloth armor of the Kingdom's warriors. They did not cause any casualties and did not even penetrate the cloth. At this distance, the bows of the Kingdom's cavalry could only shoot without causing any damage.
A's Ainu warriors are mostly just harassing the formation and damaging morale.
"Lord God! What is this? How can there be a monster with the body of a deer and legs of a deer, making human screams? And it has such a huge body!"
"Damn it! Those are not monsters, they are people on horseback! Behind them is a kind of scary stand, with the red cloth still floating on it... Lord God! This kind of weird four-legged riding beast, this kind of man-carrying horse
Weird horse!…”
"Ah! It's so weird! These tribes on the West Sea Continent can actually ride deer-like animals to fight!..."
At this moment, although the scale of the war was small, it was the first confrontation between the Nava warriors of the New World and the cavalry of the Old World from ancient times to today!
For this kind of "cavalry" they had never seen before, the kingdom's warriors were a little panicked at first, but they were generally calm. The kingdom's warriors wore heavy armor and were in formation. They had already seen horses and heard about "cavalry"
"The existence of ". And the other party is riding a low horse, and they are only shooting from a distance. In addition, the deer hunters in the team are used to seeing deer herds and are calm and composed...
Soon, the warriors of the kingdom adapted. They were even annoyed by the initial panic, and the desire to attack was ignited in their chests!
"Damn it! Rush up, chop these little warriors and strange horses to death, and sacrifice them to the Lord God!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! Hold the battle line and set up the spear! Without my order, the warriors are not allowed to attack without permission!..."
In the queue of the kingdom, the warrior leader Tamicao scolded and once again emphasized the instruction to hold on. He squinted his eyes and stared at the cavalry who were moving quickly and threatening to shoot arrows. He almost instantly thought of the flexible mountain after the snow.
The moving dog sled shooters, and the sudden attacks and blitzes of the hunters. But the sled shooters in the mountains can only be dispatched after the snow in winter...
"Damn it! Kazuto from the south actually has such a fast-moving 'archery cavalry'!"
In a battlefield where infantry and archers are fighting rigidly, with the addition of such a flexible and fast tactical unit, the battlefield command strategies are not just a little more, but many, many more!
Samurai Chief Tamicao has experienced wars for a long time, and he realized almost instantly that the ancient war pattern on the plateau in the past would undergo earth-shaking changes due to the emergence of the "cavalry", an unprecedented unit. But now, he saw it for the first time.
However, he still hadn't seen the full picture of this change. He just relied on his battle formation instinct to judge that in the face of such fast "cavalry", he should take a defensive stance and should not let the infantry disband and attack.
"Witness the Lord God! We only have two legs, there is no way we can catch up with their four legs... Stand still and wait for them to charge at us!..."
"Whizzing!…"
The Yabusame cavalry ran in circles and fired three more rounds. But after the five rounds of arrow rain, the Yabusame horses panted tiredly. The spear formation on the opposite side only made a slight commotion before settling down again. The Kingdom's warriors
The bright spear points were facing forward, with a solid wall behind them. Their formation was not disordered at all, and they were not attracted by the enemy's shots, so they chased in disorder without revealing any opportunities.
"Hmm?! It is indeed a tough elite mountain warrior! How could the Ezo people have such discipline and be able to face the intrusive shooting without panic... What a pity! The number of Yabusame horses is too small, and the bows and arrows are too weak.
, it has no effect on the heavily armored Yamata warriors! ...Wave the command flag! The Oyezaki warriors stopped where they were, and continued to form a formation to defend, letting the Yabusuri horses divide their wings to drive away the chaotic Ezo tribe!"
Following the order of the veteran Kudo Shigeyasu, the Oyezaki Samurai Spear Formation, which was advancing at a snail's pace, stopped again. They still maintained a defensive formation, a full 300 steps away from the Kingdom Spear Formation, leaving no room for those in front of the formation.
The Yabusame cavalry left enough space for movement. Soon, the Yabusame in front of the formation adjusted again. They did not approach the dangerous gun formation at all, nor did they stay within the shooting range of the opposite wall. They were directly divided into five people.
The team rushed towards the Ainu tribe skirmishers on both wings.
"Eaaah!...Hoha!..."
“Dingle bell!…Dingle bell!…”
The galloping Yabusame horses let out threatening shouts, surrounded the attacking Ishikari clan warriors, and shot at the warriors of the Hoyu clan. Facing the harassment of the Yabusame horses, compared to the solid mountainous Kingdom spear array in the middle, the Hoyu clan on both sides
The soldiers performed much worse. After a while, their originally scattered formation completely collapsed!
"Damn it! The power of the guardian! The chief has been hit by an arrow... retreat! Protect the chief and retreat to the wall of the village!"
The great chief of the Hanmarsh tribe, Bei Yu Ni Bo, was too conspicuous and was hit by an arrow in his arm. He led the remaining more than a hundred tribal warriors and completely retreated to the stronghold wall. Without this stronghold wall, I am afraid they would have completely collapsed.
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The Hanbin tribe guarding their homeland was more numerous and had stronger morale. They only retreated to a position fifty steps away from the village wall. Relying on the support of the archers on the wall, they fought back and forth with the Ishikari tribe.
The passage around the fishing port is exposed.
"Blessed by the divine power of the guardian! Kill the cowardly Beiyu clan, occupy their hunting grounds, and steal their women!..."
"Blessed by the divine power of guardianship! Kill the evil Ishikari clan and protect our territory, women and children!..."
Iron spears pierced the chest, stone spears stabbed into bloody flowers, and the tribe's bone arrows fired at each other, taking away the lives of all Ainu people.
After several quarters of hours of fighting, the gun formations of the Kingdom and the Oyezaki clan maintained a confrontation in the front, like two alpha wolves preparing to pounce, observing each other's weaknesses. They remained motionless, with almost no casualties, and Ai on the wings.
Instead, the Nu clan killed and injured over two hundred people in a brutal fight.
The Beiyu clan was on the defensive, but they still lost thirty or forty more warriors than the attacking Ishikari clan! A shrill wail could be heard in the grass on both sides. And the blood of the Ainu flowing was also dyed red.
The ancient clan barnyard...
"Ancestor! My brother, hurry up and send troops! ...The clans on both wings have suffered too many casualties! Those Kazuto on horseback have dealt a huge blow to the morale of the soldiers! Only your powerful heavy-armored warriors can resist
ah!…"
The chief of the Cold Swamp tribe covered his bleeding arm and staggered up to the wall, hoping that his "good brother" and future "son-in-law" would send troops. However, Zuvalo ignored him and just squinted his eyes and spoke in a mysterious way.
He couldn't stop looking at the "divine eye weapon". At the beginning of the war, he handed over a hundred or so armored warriors to the warrior chief Tamicao who specialized in fighting. But only twenty good men were left by his side.
The deer archers who shot him served as a support and reserve team and guarded the city with him.
"Witness the Lord God! These Kazuto on horseback are running slower and slower... Not only do they consume a lot of physical strength, but the horses under their crotches seem to have no energy. On the other hand, the Kazuto spear formation on the opposite side has been standing still.
They can't move, like a prickly hedgehog. Their physical strength is almost not used up, and there is so much iron armor that it seems difficult to chew..."
"His Majesty said in the prophecy that the Nava warriors who fight in close combat on the plateau cannot catch up with the long-range 'cavalry' on the West Sea continent. To deal with the cavalry, we can only organize excellent archers and attack them at the critical moment.
!...The critical moment, the critical opportunity..."
Zuvalo was mumbling something that the chief of the Cold Swamp tribe could not understand, and he was holding a strange golden long pipe in his hand. He was like a shaman who was performing a ritual, communicating with an unknown god.
It was a bit bluffing. The chief of the Hanmarsh tribe waited for a moment and continued to persuade, but saw Zuvalo perked up and a smile appeared on his face.
"God bless you! The enemy's cavalry has stopped. They are low on energy and need to regain their strength... The deer shoots the rabbit. I will give you twenty archers. Are you sure? Go over and shoot these cavalry to death!..."
"Great Chief, they are far away. Twenty shooters have to get off the wall and run in front of the gun formation to be sure of shooting! But if they see such a big movement, they will probably retreat...
These horse archers scurrying back and forth are more timid than the snow rabbits on the peninsula. Even if I am a good rabbit shooter, it will be difficult to kill them with one arrow!... Unless..."
Lu Shetu, the sharpshooter from the Koryak Deer Division, scratched his head hesitantly. Then, he leaned into Zuvaro's ear and whispered something. Zuvaro listened for a while, and his eyes lit up! Still!
These nomadic herding people know better the habits of "four-legged animals" and the weaknesses of these cavalry!
"Okay! Just do as you say! Quick, go down and get ready!..."