Wanyanku didn't pay much attention to the approximately 400 leather-armored cavalry resting on the slope. Now in this land of the Western Region, there are cavalry everywhere, and it is completely normal to encounter a few cavalry.
When Wanyanku led more than a thousand of his followers and passed down the slope, the cavalrymen who were resting on the slope waved to greet them.
The grassland people were all generous, so Wanyanku and his entourage naturally raised their whips high and cheered in response.
But the next moment, Wanyanku realized something was wrong.
The four hundred or so people seemed to be resting, but at the foot of the hillside, there were at least two hundred people on horseback, seemingly on alert at all times.
This just made Wanyanku feel strange, and he thought to himself, are these people sand bandits? That's why they are wary of the passing cavalry like him?
However, when he saw the leather-armored cavalry standing on the hillside, waving their scimitars and yelling hello to them, Wanyanku's eyes almost popped out of his head.
He has seen this kind of knife before.
That was nine years ago on the battlefield in the wilderness of southern Xinjiang!
It is the standard scimitar of the Celestial Beast Cavalry.
He will never forget this kind of knife!
During the battle in the wasteland, I almost had my head chopped off by this kind of scimitar, and there is still a long scar on my back that was cut by this kind of scimitar.
After countless years of war, mankind has summed up weapons suitable for various types of arms.
There are roughly three types of weapons for cavalry: long weapons, such as spears, flails, etc.
Fighting on horseback with long swords or machetes cannot bring out the true combat power of cavalry.
Especially when the cavalry is charging at close range and under high-speed impact, the two-foot-long scimitar is the most lethal.
Because the human cavalry fights on horseback, the scimitars they are equipped with are two feet long. The celestial cavalry is different. They ride tall and fierce six-legged beast cavalry, and the close-combat scimitars they are equipped with are longer than those of the human cavalry.
The scimitar is about half as long, that is, three feet long. It is almost an infantry machete. Mo Dao's
length.
Moreover, due to problems with the refining process, although the heavenly swords and human swords are mainly made of iron, some special minerals are added to the heavenly swords to give the swords a dark cyan color.
But under the sunlight, the color will change from dark cyan to silvery white.
Wanyanku originally didn't pay much attention to this group of leather-armored cavalry, but he was greatly surprised when he saw the scimitars they were equipped with.
As a veteran who has survived hundreds of battles and is currently a middle-level and high-ranking member of the Western Region Cavalry, he certainly knows that there are such scimitars in the world, but almost all of the weapons captured by the Celestial Army back then were in the hands of the Central-Earth court.
There are about 30,000 long scimitars of this kind in the Western Regions, all of which are equipped with the mysterious beast cavalry regiment that General Jebie relies on most.
That beast cavalry was formed jointly with the most elite and bravest warriors from the Western Regions and the grasslands, and the beast cavalry from the Black Forest in the northern Xinjiang.
Currently stationed at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, it is absolutely impossible to appear here, and that group of people are riding Northern Border beasts, definitely not horses.
After having doubts in his heart, Wanyanku began to look at the group of leather-armored cavalry and determined that the scimitars each of those cavalry were equipped with were the standard scimitars of the heaven. He immediately realized that this group of leather-armored cavalry was definitely extraordinary.
They are definitely not sand bandits or cavalry from the Western Regions.
In fact, these 30,000 disguised cavalry sent by Heaven are almost invulnerable.
However, the scimitars in the hands of the women and children from the Western Regions that they massacred that day were very old, and almost all of them were inferior products that had been eliminated.
Although the Celestial Cavalry wore the clothes of those people, they did not change their weapons.
Only then did Wanyanku see the flaw.
When the Heavenly Realm Cavalry saw the Prairie Cavalry heading south, they did not take this group of human ants seriously.
In the past few days, they encountered many groups of prairie cavalry, but none of them recognized their identities.
Of course, they also look down on the human world in their hearts, thinking that all humans in the world are stupid ants.
This made the Celestial Cavalry feel paralyzed and careless. They had no idea that they would become the trigger for the Dragon Gate Battle.
Wanyanku led his team to continue heading south. The more he thought about it, the more something was wrong.
Those leather-armored cavalry were definitely not sand bandits from the Western Regions, and they definitely couldn't be beast cavalry sent by Zhebie.
Could it be that they are cavalry sent by the Chinese imperial court to infiltrate the Western Regions?
Wanyanku speculated in his mind.
But he quickly rejected the idea.
Zhao Zian is not a fool. Even if he sends people to infiltrate the Western Region, he will not forget to change their weapons.
Thinking of this, Wanyanku suddenly pulled the reins of the war horse, and the cavalry of more than a thousand people stopped advancing.
Wanyanku looked back at the leather-armored cavalry who was resting three miles away behind him, with a thoughtful look on his face.
A dark-skinned man with a beard next to him said: "General, what's wrong?"
Wanyanku said: "Alei, order the entire army to turn their horses around and get ready for battle."
The man named Alei immediately shouted loudly.
These are Wanyanku's personal followers, the real warriors on the grassland, brave and good at fighting.
The order was given, and soon, more than a thousand cavalrymen turned their horses and began to form a battle formation. However, they did not speed up the attack, but slowly approached the leather-armored cavalry.
Stopped about two miles away from the leather cavalry.
The heavenly cavalry resting on the slope felt a little unusual when they saw the prairie cavalry who had just left turning back.
But they were not too worried and thought they were just here to say hello and drink. They had encountered this several times in the past few days.
The commander of the Celestial Cavalry is the man who checked the map in Kouwai City last time.
He signaled his men not to panic and to stay calm. The heavenly army was still gathering in the west of Yinshan Mountain, and it was not yet time to show off their scimitars and start a war with the human world.
Wanyanku saw that the group of leather-armored cavalry didn't seem to be panicked when they were facing him, and he began to murmur in his heart.
Until now, he had not thought that these cavalrymen might be people from the heaven in disguise.
Alei said: "General, is there something wrong with these cavalry?"
Wanyanku shook his head and said: "I'm not sure either. I always feel that something is wrong. It seems that it's not the Prairie Wolf Cavalry or the Western Region Cavalry."
Therefore, Alei, who had strong limbs and a simple mind, said casually: "Could it be the cavalry from the Middle Kingdom? This is our territory, and the Chinese cavalry will not appear here. General, why don't we test it by raising a flag."
This seemingly simple statement has a profound impact.
Wanyanku hummed.
Arei immediately called the flag soldiers to come forward and began to signal to the leather-armored cavalry on the slope.
First, I made the semaphore on the grassland.
Then use the flag language shared by the Middle-earth and Grassland Cavalry and ask them if they are the Middle-earth Cavalry.
The Celestial Talisman Leader on the slope saw the other party signaling and immediately knew something was wrong.
They are in disguise, so how do they know the semaphore of the human cavalry?
He immediately called all the cavalry to mount their horses.
This move made Wanyanku immediately confirm that this group of leather-armored cavalry was not one of his own, nor were they from China.
"Attack!" Wanyanku was a ruthless man. Seeing those leather-armored cavalry hurriedly looking for his horses, he immediately ordered the entire army to attack.
