Chapter 35 War has always been about interests There has never been a war for no reason, and even in primitive societies, wars fought with stones and sticks were about profit.
War is always the last resort to settle things.
However, when an ethnic group has few chips in their hands and does not have too many options, war has become their preferred way of negotiation, such as the Khitan, such as the Western Xia, such as the Western Regions, and then the Great Cannibals, the Qarakhanids.
The Great Song was a country with many options, so they liked to negotiate rather than brutal and brutal wars.
When a good person drops his horse and is trampled into flesh by the iron hooves of the warhorse, he has nothing left in his mind but fear and despair.
For the Khotanese cavalry, the greatest interest at present is to quickly enter the ranks of the Hami people, so as not to be wiped out by the powerful long-range weapons of the Hami people on the way to the charge.
Rahman's longbow continued to fire, and after twelve long arrows disappeared from his face, twelve of the fiercest cavalrymen on the opposite side fell to the ground and died.
"Retreat, retreat!"
The shouts of the team members rang out again, and at the same time there was the piercing sound of the golden gong.
The Hami soldiers standing behind the first trench quickly retreated, and the last of the towers to be withdrawn were clanged by the feathered arrows of the Khotanese people.
Some of the feathered arrows that came in through the cracks in the tower shield fell on the armor of the Hami people, some of them bounced and fell to the ground, while others broke through the armor and drilled into their bodies, causing the Hami people who were hit by the arrows to fall to the ground in pain.
Before he could howl twice, his companions dragged him back desperately, and some were directly tied to his neck with ropes, and when he returned to the second trench, his tongue was half a foot long.
The Hami people, who had just returned to the second trench, had no time to untie the nooses from their companions' necks, so they immediately removed the planks from the trenches, lest the Khotanese cavalry run along them.
The tower shield stood again on the edge of the trench, and the well-wound crossbow sounded again.
A one-zhang wide trench was nothing to the cavalry that charged, and the horses neighed and jumped violently, and the men and horses flew over the trench in a beautiful arc.
Some people were unlucky, and the huge horses that had just taken up were shot by crossbow arrows, and they could only fall helplessly into the trenches.
Rahman's great bow was led by a flaming rocket, and there were not many cavalrymen who crossed the first trench, so it was not worth lighting the fire oil at this time.
The cavalry who had crossed the trench did not stop at the first trench, and the muffled sound of a horn behind him told him that the second cavalry had begun to charge.
They had to make enough routes for the assault for more cavalry brigades.
Dense axes flew out of the dust, some smashed on the tower shield, some flew over the tower shield, and embedded in the forehead of the Hami soldier, Rahman's rocket finally fired, crossed a distance of two hundred paces, and accurately fell into the first trench, and then more rockets fell into the trench.
The loud sound of a gunpowder bullet was very clear on the noisy battlefield, and then a larger pillar of smoke rose into the sky, followed by a bright flame, the flames were rolling, and soon turned into a fire dragon, carrying a continuous explosion sound, spreading to both sides, and finally forming a wall of fire one foot high.
"Gunpowder shells ready, three, ignite, throw!"
The sound of the team sounded again, and at the same time, the Khotanese cavalry had already leaped across the second trench, the spear in one hand was pierced on the tower shield, the fragile spear was shattered in an instant, and the war hammer in the other hand had been swung desperately, which was their last means of attack.
The war hammer landed on the tower shield and did not smash the behemoth, and the horsemen sitting on the horses wailed, and even the men and horses crashed into the tower shield.
Thousands of pounds of things smashed on the tower shield, so that the Hami soldiers with the tower shield spit blood and flew out, and the silver tower shield was also torn apart by human corpses and horse corpses.
The cavalry that followed jumped behind the second trench along the gap that had been broken by their predecessors, and no sooner had the flickering scimitars been deployed than spears from all sides pierced their armor, lifted them high, and threw them into the trench.
More cavalry crossed the trenches, and the Hami positions were in disarray......
The gunpowder bomb that had just been thrown over finally exploded, and the sound of a landslide cracking made Yu Supu, who was more than a thousand steps away, feel extremely bad.
Holding the pergola and looking at it from a distance, I saw that there seemed to be a fire-breathing demon dragon on the battlefield not far away, it not only spewed smoke, but also spewed fire, even if it was more than a thousand steps away, the ground under his feet was trembling slightly, and the war horse under his crotch retreated uneasily, and there was a brief confusion in the formation of the headquarters.
Wei Chilei swung his knife to kill the cavalrymen who had stopped one by one, shook the empty sleeve on the right, and shouted at Rahman, who had already begun to straighten out the army: "Clear the battlefield, clean up the battlefield, the headquarters immediately advance and occupy the first trench!"
” The last cavalryman, still fighting, was raised high by his spear, and before he could hit the ground, his body was bleeding everywhere like a torn leather bag, and when he fell to the ground, he died without even any convulsions.
Gathering the frightened horses, the planks were re-erected on the second trench, and the tower shield soldiers carried the tower shield across the trench and re-came to the back of the first trench.
The flames in the trench were only three feet high, and after a stick of incense it would slowly extinguish.
Using fierce fire oil on the sand by the river is not a good choice.
But it was this trench that allowed the Khotanese cavalry to follow up.
In the sporadic crossbow firing, the Khotanese cavalry slowly retreated, and after leaving the range of the crossbow, they circled the field and returned to their own formation.
The flames were extinguished, the smoke cleared, and the battlefield returned to tranquility.
The tall tower shield of the Hami people was still erected behind the first trench, and the long spearhead poked out from behind the tower shield, like a thorn forest.
"Clear the trenches!"
Wei Chilei issued an order, and the second row of soldiers covering their mouths and noses with cloth towels quickly dragged the burnt dead men and dead horses out of the hot trenches and piled them up in front of the battlefield, and a very strong smell of burnt smell spread, and some people began to vomit.
More than 2,000 cavalry went out, and less than 100 returned, and these 100 were spared by the fire.
The first wave of cavalry was used to test the reality of the Hami people, and it was normal to have casualties, and Yusupu was mentally prepared.
He didn't expect that the casualties would be so large, and the result of the almost total annihilation of the vanguard army made his lips dry.
Eureka was also a little anxious, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said to Yu Supu: "The military formation of the Hami people is specially used to deal with the cavalry, the three trenches delay the speed of the war horses, and the loud noise made by the strange weapons they have has a great impact on the war horses, all of which proves that their military formation is a huge grave for the cavalry.
Now, if we want to defeat them, we can only wait for the arrival of the infantry brigade, we only need to advance slowly and then strike them with trebuchets to make their army formations useless. ” Yusupu nodded, and Eureka gave the order in Yusupu's place.
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Soon, Khotan's cavalry formed an arc and slowly approached two hundred paces before stopping.
The whole army was like a cauldron in front of the Hami people.
The enemy was eight hundred paces away, which was the best range of the Eight Bull Crossbow, and Yu Supu was sitting on a white umbrella cover "It would be nice to have an eight-ox crossbow."
"It's too heavy for us to bring here."
"The camp should be told to design the eight-ox crossbow so that it can be carried on horseback, and sometimes, the eight-ox crossbow is just too useful."
"Lao Lei, these cubs are good, they have been counted just now, and the two thousand cavalry were swallowed by them in less than an hour, and their own battle losses are less than two hundred, this is already a very good warrior, why did the king eliminate them?
You say, how elite should those who haven't been eliminated be?
” Yu Chilei looked at the young soldiers whose faces were covered with sweat, blood, and soot and said, "The king's plot is very big, and such an elite is not enough to support the king's ambitions. ” Rahman opened his mouth to speak, but looked at Yu Chilei's face and swallowed his words again.
Wei Chilei looked at it in his eyes and sighed and said: "My sins are not forgiven this time, the king may spare me for the sake of my diligence in the past, but the military position may be removed, and we want to continue to fight together, it is impossible."
Rahman, you don't have to worry about me. ” Rahman smiled: "If you are not an officer, you can still be a civil officer, you don't like to be an officer in the first place, you were forced to have no choice, so you had to put down your paintbrush and hold the sword."
It's okay like this, after so many years of hard work, now the revenge has been avenged, and I will return to Qingxiang City to live a good life for a few years.
You are not yet fifty, and it is too late for you to marry and have children. ” Yu Chilei smiled bitterly and sent Rahman to the left to monitor the enemy's movements, and he came to the right.
Seeing the enemy eyeing him outside, Yu Chilei became sad.
He is now the only high-ranking officer in the Khotanese royal family, and if his military position is removed, it will be difficult for the Khotanese clan to gain a foothold in the army in the future.
Yu Chiwen is destined to be a civil official, Yu Chi Zhuozhuo stays by Tie Xinyuan's side, whether she can become the concubine of King Hami or not, she must also firmly hold that position, so that the Khotanese royal family can always be close to the Hami royal family.
Yu Chi Lei used to always worry that Yu Chi Zhuozhuo would be emotional and ruin the plans of the Khotanese royal family, but now it seems that he is the most unreliable one.
The sound of the Khotanese horn woke up the pensive Wei Chilei, and he found that the Khotanese were slowly retreating, retreating in a very orderly manner.
He jerked to the other side of the river, and saw smoke and dust flying far upstream......