Chapter 1609, the barbarian cavalry who lost their minds
This makes them angry and mad.
The high priest's status among the Sivan barbarians was too high.
It can be said that, except for Jinlu Khan and several deputy khans, the rest of the senior Xiwan barbarians would kneel down to express their respect for any high priest they saw.
To put it simply, the high priest is equivalent to the incarnation of the god worshiped by the Xiwan barbarians.
For such a high-status religious group to be killed by a Daze man undoubtedly shattered the views of most Xiwan barbarians.
You know, in their hearts, the high priest is almost omnipotent.
Just when more than 20,000 cavalry were about to turn Qiongshui County upside down, Fang Xiaoyue had already led those county soldiers back to the valley, and set up a phantom formation with talismans at the entrance of the valley, completely covering the entrance to the valley.
To put it simply, as long as the barbarian cavalry is not so unlucky that the barbarian cavalry crashes directly into the valley, there is no way the barbarian cavalry will find this place.
In fact, in the next few days, the Siwan barbarian cavalry was still looking for people everywhere like crazy.
It is not surprising that Tongdas Khan, who was lucky enough to save his life, was also in anger and panic at this time.
A high priest lost his life at his own hands. If this news spread back and the other high priests knew about it, it would be terrible.
Although there are a large number of cavalry who can prove that the high priest was killed by a Daze man, the other high priests can also freely prove it.
Is it because you, Copper Das Khan, did not do a good job in protecting the high priest? Is it more likely that it is the result of you, Copper Das Khan, having a dirty hand?
As for the testimony of those cavalrymen, you are the deputy commander. Do they dare to speak nonsense? Are they at risk of their lives?
Of course, those high priests may not be free to realize this, but in any case, the death of a high priest will also make Tongdas Khan's brother Jinlu Khan extremely angry, not to mention the losses in advance.
No less than three thousand cavalry.
If those Daze people were caught, Tongdas Khan's punishment might be lighter.
Of course, Tongdas Khan can also choose to stand on his own, break away from the jurisdiction of Jinlu Khan and form his own clan.
But if this kind of thing had been done before, it would have been able to attract some tribes who were dissatisfied with Jinlu Khan to submit.
But after the death of the high priest, if Tongdas Khan dares to do this, let alone Jinlu Khan, even the tribes that previously supported Tongdas Khan will turn around and rebel.
No way, the spiritual status of the high priest among the Xiwan barbarians is so high.
However, the barbarian cavalry was looking for people everywhere, and the reinforcements sent by Dahe Province escaped.
In fact, the first encounter with the barbarian cavalry was the two hundred county soldiers sent by Qiongshui County to escort the caravan.
They returned from Dahe Province and ran into more than a dozen barbarian cavalry as soon as they entered Qiongshui County.
If these dozen barbarian cavalry were scout cavalry, they would probably turn around and leave after shooting a few arrows.
After all, the job of the scout cavalry is to detect the enemy's movements, not to fight with the enemy.
But it happened that these dozen barbarian cavalry were herdsmen cavalry, and they respected the high priest more than those elite cavalry.
I had been searching for a long time but couldn't find the Daze people, and now a group of them actually appeared?
The angry herdsmen cavalry did not care about the numerical difference between the enemy and us, and charged directly towards the county soldiers.
Of course, they still used their usual riding and archery skills, turning to shoot arrows dozens of meters away from the enemy and escape.
But these county soldiers are not vegetarians.
They returned this time with five hundred bows and arrows.
To put it simply, because there were too few archers in Qiongshui County, it was difficult for Fang Xiaoyue to cause enough damage to the enemy in long-range attacks, so she had previously negotiated with the three caravan leaders and purchased from these three trading houses.
A batch of military bows and arrows.
When it comes to buying and selling military bows and arrows, it is a beheading business anywhere in Daze Country.
But I can’t stand the fact that other people’s firms have backers.
Think about it, any firm that can do big business in the international market cannot do so without a strong enough backer.
Small trading houses without backers have long been swallowed up by others, or have switched to other businesses.
What's more, this batch of bows and arrows was personally negotiated by the magistrate of Qiongshui County.
With this kind of relationship, the three firms don't have to worry about anything going wrong.
Besides, those two hundred county soldiers took the bows and arrows and left. As long as they left the gate of the trading house, even if they were caught, the trading company would deny it.
It would be of little use to county soldiers from other places to obtain these bows and arrows. After all, any qualified archer needs a long period of training.
But Qiongshui County is different from other places.
In the previous preparations for war, archery was a necessary skill for Fang Xiaoyue to train county soldiers.
Any county soldier needs to spare an hour every day for archery training.
At the same time, the Shocking Sword Technique they practice has a very good effect on strengthening their bodies. In terms of strength, agility, etc., they are more than twice as strong as ordinary county soldiers.
Under such circumstances, the effect of their archery practice is much better than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, when the barbarian cavalry played mounted archery in front of them, they suffered a heavy blow.
The barbarian cavalry had just slowed down and turned, and had just taken the bow in hand, when the arrows of the county soldiers missed and shot over.
As mentioned before, the standard military bows of Daze Kingdom are infantry bows with a range of about 100 meters, while the Xiwan barbarian cavalry use cavalry bows with a range of 50 meters.
No matter in terms of strength or range, the military bows of Daze Kingdom crush the cavalry bows.
Under such circumstances, the dozen or so barbarian cavalry were shot into pieces in an instant, including their men and their horses.
Except for one barbarian cavalry who luckily escaped critical injury.
Of course, after this barbarian cavalry became a prisoner, he quickly told everything he knew honestly.
After receiving the news, the county soldiers became anxious.
Of course, they also knew that rushing over in a hurry would be of no avail, so they passed the news to the reinforcements who had just left Dahe Province.
After receiving the news, the Dahe Province reinforcements immediately sent out a large number of scouts to explore the military situation.
The final military intelligence report confirmed the claims of the Qiongshui County soldiers and allowed the reinforcements from Dahe Province to escape disaster.
After all, according to the previous military situation, Dahe Province's reinforcements would definitely rush straight to the provincial capital of Luyuan Province to relieve the siege.
In that case, they would collide head-on with the 30,000 barbarian cavalry heading south.
While marching in the wild, if one collided with a barbarian cavalry, the consequences would be quite terrifying.
But now, the Dahe Province reinforcements have slowed down their march and sent out a large number of scouts to investigate. The difficulty of the barbarian cavalry's surprise attack has been greatly increased.
What's more, at this time, Tongdas Khan was completely immersed in rage and almost lost his mind. He sent out a large number of cavalry to search every day, vowing to capture those Daze people.
Under such circumstances, even if some barbarian cavalry fled back to report the information, Tongdas Khan did not pay too much attention to it. At most, he sent two thousand cavalry to harass the Dahe Province reinforcements.
Because of this, Tongdas Khan ignored the Daze reinforcements coming from Baishan Province.
Baishan Province does not border Qiongshui County. Its location on Kantu is in the north of Dahe Province and borders Dahe Province.
The Daze Kingdom army has an obvious advantage over the barbarian army, that is, when the army is dispatched, there must be Taoist officials responsible for contact.
There is no doubt that compared to cavalry galloping to communicate, the communication methods mastered by Taoist officials are undoubtedly faster and more advanced.
No matter how far away it is, it only takes a few seconds to contact them through Taoism. This also allows the reinforcements from the Daze Kingdom and even the Northwest Army to maintain a state of near-instant communication.
It can be said that this kind of communication method allows the Daze Army to ensure a certain degree of intelligence advantage and absolute battlefield dispatch advantage when facing the barbarian army.
When all the scattered armies are squeezed into a fist and gathered into a whole, the power exerted is definitely not comparable to the mobility advantage of the barbarian cavalry.
So while Tongdas Khan was still digging deep in the ground in Qiongshui County to look for Fang Xiaoyue and his party, the reinforcements from Baishan Province had quietly circled to the north of Qiongshui County and blocked the passage to the north from Qiongshui County.
After replenishing a large number of crossbows, the reinforcements from Dahe Province continued to slowly move northward.
A week later, reinforcements from Dahe Province officially appeared outside Qiongshui County.
Shocked to hear that an army of Daze Kingdom, numbering no less than 40,000, was approaching, Tongdas Khan, who was worried that he could not find the culprit to vent his anger, was overjoyed. He then gathered his cavalry and rushed towards the Dahe Province reinforcements.
But what Tongdas Khan never expected was that the reinforcements from Dahe Province had set up a strong camp early due to their preparations.
The entire camp is surrounded by layers of earth walls less than half a meter high.
Of course, the construction of such earth wall fortifications is more labor-intensive than trapping horse caves.
But it has more advantages than trapping horse cave.
Although the Horse Trapping Cave is easy and quick to make, while it limits the enemy, it also limits itself.
If dense horse trap holes were dug around the camp, not only would the cavalry of the Dahe Province reinforcements be unable to dispatch, but even the infantry would have to watch the ground carefully if they wanted to dispatch.
The advantage of the half-meter earth wall is obvious. Not only can it greatly block the enemy's cavalry charge, it will also not block the attack of our own infantry. As for our own cavalry, the reinforcements dispatched by Dahe Province are county soldiers gathered from various places.
The number of cavalry is very small, and they are mostly used for out-of-field reconnaissance.
Therefore, even if there is a half-meter earth wall, the small number of our own cavalry can lead their horses around and the impact will not be too great.
Of course, in Tongdas Khan's opinion, this earthen wall is better than Tramping Horse Cave. At least the earthen wall can be seen, and it is not as hidden as Trapping Horse Cave.
But even so, if the barbarian cavalry wanted to attack the camp, they still couldn't get around the earthen wall.
As a result, when the barbarian cavalry attacked the camp, they could only jump over a few earth walls, and then they had to dismount. Otherwise, the dense layers of earth walls would make it difficult for the horses to move forward.
And those pikemen and archers deployed behind the earth wall will make the dismounted cavalry feel the fear of death.
At other times, Tongdas Khan would never let his cavalry attack such a strong camp.
However, the deputy khan was eager to vent his anger, so he gave up the mobility advantage of the barbarian cavalry and instead let the cavalry attack the camp.
Such stupid behavior caused the barbarian cavalry to suffer huge losses.
In the first wave of charge alone, the barbarian cavalry dropped more than two thousand corpses at the earth wall.
Although thousands of cavalrymen were not shot to death by bows and arrows after dismounting, they were lucky enough to rush into the camp.
However, thousands of cavalry without horses could not exert any combat effectiveness in the face of the massacre by the spearmen.
As for the subsequent cavalry, they desperately wanted reinforcements and tried to open more gaps in the camp, but the archers in the camp would not give them more opportunities. The constant rain of arrows easily blocked the cavalry's advance.
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Even if the barbarian cavalry charged in, their speed would be far slower than the speed of being stabbed to death by spearmen.
Under such circumstances, the camp became a continuous bleeding wound for the barbarian cavalry.
After investing more than 6,000 cavalry one after another but failing to completely tear apart the defense of the enemy camp, Tongdas Khan finally calmed down and ordered the troops to retreat.
When he started to count the battle losses, he realized that this battle had caused too many casualties to the barbarians.
There were as many as 3,900 cavalrymen who were directly killed in battle. Of course, there were also many cavalrymen who were seriously injured in the wall area and could not escape.
For this part, Tongdas Khan directly included them in the death list.
In fact, what he did was right, because after those seriously injured cavalry were captured, they were all executed after being interrogated by a detective colonel from the Daze Kingdom.
With the army out there, it was impossible to leave these seriously injured prisoners to waste food and grass.
Coupled with the hatred brought by the Siwan barbarian invasion, these prisoners will not end well.
In fact, even if the Sivan barbarians captured Daze soldiers during a battle, most of them would kill them on the spot.
The reason is very simple. It is impossible for them to bring a group of prisoners of war with them when marching. This will greatly slow down their marching speed.
And the prisoners of war are likely to riot and cause losses.
After Ming Jin withdrew his troops, Tongdas Khan was caught in a dilemma.
He was reluctant to withdraw his troops and leave.
As mentioned before, after the death of the high priest, if he goes back without getting enough credit, he will definitely be strongly suppressed by Jinlu Khan.
If nothing else, more than half of the more than ten tribes under his command would probably be divided.
And if the troops are not withdrawn, the Dahe Province reinforcement camp will be like a hedgehog lying there.
Not to mention that he only has less than 23,000 cavalry left under his command. Even if he has a full strength of 30,000 cavalry, if he wants to completely attack this camp, he will have to lose at least half of the cavalry.
The population of the Siwan barbarians is limited.
Let alone losing more than ten thousand cavalry, even if he loses one or two thousand more cavalry, Tongdas Khan's heart will bleed.
It is not impossible to ignore this camp and turn around and head into Dahe Province.
This seems to be able to completely disrupt the hinterland of Daze Country.