Nightfall can also be called Yaogeluo. There is only a slight difference in spelling between these two words.
The Night Horde Tribe is actually the royal tent tribe composed of the personal guards of the Ganzhou Uighur Khans in the past dynasties.
This is the most favored tribe among the Uighurs in Ganzhou, and it also occupies a large amount of fertile farmland and pasture inside and outside Ganzhou. Their loyalty to the Khan family is unquestionable.
So at this critical juncture, even though I had already charged into battle several times, I was almost exhausted.
However, after receiving the order from Renyu Khan, the five hundred cavalrymen of the Yezhuluo tribe completed their assembly very quickly, and then intercepted the galloping Guiyi Army cavalry.
They were not there to defeat the Guiyi Army cavalry, but to intercept the charging Guiyi Army cavalry, so as to buy precious time for the large army to retreat to Suzhou City.
Of course Zhang Zhao also knew this. Whether he could defeat the five hundred cavalry of the Yejie Luo tribe who came to intercept him as quickly as possible became the key to whether this battle could be resolved cleanly.
Murong Nobunaga rushed to the front, and beside him was a young man with a foreign appearance.
The two were about the same age and similar in stature, but Zhang Liecheng, a Hu boy who looked like he came from a poor family, always made Murong Nobunaga feel a hint of hostility.
Well, to say hostility may be too serious, it should be said that he was somewhat hostile to him, as if he was afraid that Murong Nobunaga would steal Zhang Zhao's favor.
This made Murong Nobunaga somewhat dumbfounded, but it also aroused the young man's competitive spirit.
Therefore, according to Zhang Zhao's plan, when the enemy cavalry came to intercept, the 300 cavalry led by the three of them were to go around to the two wings.
Because Zhang Zhao has a thousand pear-shaped spear cavalry under his command. In this era when gunpowder was still regarded as a sacred object and unheard of by many people, Zhang Zhao did not believe that any cavalry could withstand the spray of the pear-shaped spear. Even if the damage was not high, it was scary.
It also scares you out of your wits.
However, with the young man's desire to win, Murong Nobunaga and Zhang Liecheng didn't care what the plan was. They took the lead and rushed towards the five hundred Yeluo cavalry who intercepted them.
Li Cunhui, who was a little behind the two of them, could only sigh and rushed over.
Murong Nobunaga, who is dressed in white robes, is the best target. Although almost all the Murong family cavalry under his command wear white robes, who told him that his height and long legs are so conspicuous!
Therefore, the Yeluo cavalry regarded them as the most elite cavalry of the Guiyi Army.
Getting closer and closer, the intercepting Yejieluo cavalry charged towards them in a wedge shape, while Murong Nobunaga and his three hundred cavalry formed a sharp-edged charge.
As the saying goes, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. Young men on the battlefield do not regard life as that important, so on the contrary, at certain times, it can produce quite unexpected effects.
‘Boom! Boom! Boom!’ Murong Xinchang shouted on the horse and shot three arrows in succession.
A bearded Yeluo cavalryman shook several times in succession like an electric shock, and then fell straight off his horse.
Following Murong Nobunaga's three consecutive shots, hundreds of arrows roared towards both sides.
People kept screaming and falling off their horses, and Murong Nobunaga was hit by several arrows in succession, but he only felt as if someone had punched him a few times, and did not feel any pain at all.
Because underneath his white robe, he was wearing fine iron cotton armor given to him by Zhang Zhao.
On both sides of the hedging, one has a wedge-shaped formation that is conducive to shooting arrows, and the other has a direct and ruthless edge-shaped formation.
When the bows and arrows were exchanged, the Yejieluo cavalry clearly had the upper hand, but after only a dozen breaths, when Murong Nobunaga and others approached, the situation began to change.
As a sharp blade, Murong Nobunaga led the cavalry around him and penetrated the formation of the Yejieluo cavalry with a single blow.
He struck left and right with his horse's shaft, and quickly knocked the two Yejieluo cavalrymen to the ground.
The power of such a high-end weapon as the horse in a mounted battle is far beyond what the long saber in the hands of the Ganzhou Uighurs can match.
As soon as the two sides approached, the power of the horses of Murong Nobunaga, Li Cunhui and dozens of riders behind them were fully unleashed.
Often, before the Ye Luo cavalry could swing their sabers, they were stabbed to death by their horses or knocked to the ground.
Zhang Zhao changed his strategy when he saw that Murong Nobunaga and the other two men directly used 300 cavalry to defeat the 500 Uighur cavalry that came to intercept them.
He turned his horse's head slightly and rushed directly towards the large Uighur army that was rapidly retreating to the foot of Suzhou City.
Seeing that the red flag symbolizing the coach had deflected, the cavalry following Zhang Zhao had no choice but to follow suit, howling like ghosts.
Although you can rush to the enemy's vicinity faster by doing this, you will inevitably be exposed to a rain of arrows from the cavalry at night.
Sure enough, when Zhang Zhao led his army around the Yejieluo cavalry, although they were disrupted by Murong Nobunaga, they still did not forget their mission, and the uneven rain of arrows continued to shoot at them one after another.
The cavalry of the rebel army was advancing furiously.
However, it was of no use in the end. The Guiyi Army cavalry, which had been recuperating for several days, quickly left behind the Yejieluo cavalry who came to intercept them, and the troops reached the foot of Suzhou City.
Renyu Khan commanded the army to retreat rapidly, but when he saw that the interception of Yeluo's cavalry had failed, he could only beat the war drums and let his soldiers quickly assemble at the head of the pontoon bridge.
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This pontoon bridge is one of several pontoon bridges leading from Hewan Battlefield to Suzhou City. As long as you cross the pontoon bridge, you can reach the foot of Suzhou City.
Of course, you don’t have to go through the pontoon bridge, because this is the dry season, the snowmelt in the mountains has not yet begun, and the Beida River is wide and shallow, with the deepest point being only more than two meters.
The weather in early April is not very cold, so you can swim through it, but the key is that there must be no pursuers.
More than 8,000 hedgehogs gathered together, it was still a big place, but it was a bit confusing with people shouting and horses neighing, but the banner of Renyu Khan always stood still.
After the drum beat, the officer who woke up from the panic began to order his soldiers to form a formation.
By the time Zhang Zhao and others rushed in, the Ganzhou Uighurs had miraculously completed their second rally.
But it was too late, the sky glowed in the eyes of the Uighur soldiers in Ganzhou. For a moment, the jet of flames was louder than the sun in the sky, and the roaring thunder completely drowned out the sound of the drums.
The Guiyi cavalry who rushed to the Uighur formation in Ganzhou were first rained down by three waves of arrows.
When the Uighur soldiers in Ganzhou became a little panicked, the pear-shaped spears in the hands of the rebel cavalry began to spray out golden flames, as well as iron sand and porcelain shards contained in the flames, based on three hundred shots.
Not to mention the soldiers below, even Renyu Khan and others had never seen such a scene. It was like a magic spell. The Ganzhou Uighur soldiers whose faces were burned screamed and fled in all directions.
Even if they were swept by flames or scratched by a few pieces of broken porcelain, these injuries that they could completely ignore in the first place were suddenly magnified countless times under the fear of the unknown, almost to the point of being unbearable.
But what collapsed first was not the howling Uighur soldiers, but the large number of horses behind them.
Horses are timid and sensitive. They may have been trained to accept the fighting and crying on the battlefield, but they have definitely not been trained to spray poisonous fire and iron sand to break porcelain.
Soon, an unlucky horse was ignited by the flames from the pear gun, which ignited the mane on its tail and neck.
This time it was completely plunged into great fear, and the knight's efforts to comfort it had no effect.
The screams and chaos of a horse quickly aroused the collective reaction of the surrounding horses. They began to run back and forth crazily among the crowd, and some alert horses began to jump directly into the river.
The formation that had just been assembled was completely shattered, and soon the soldiers, like the horses, lost their restraints, and the final chaos was about to come.
At this moment, among the two thousand cavalry led by Zhang Zhao, more than 300 armored cavalry had already put on their armor.
This is the advantage of cotton armor. It allows armored cavalry to no longer need auxiliary soldiers, and a single soldier can wear the armor. This means that the ring armor is a little more troublesome to wear, but it is much easier to wear than the wrap-style piercing armor.
With men and horses in full armor and the sound of hooves thundering, Renyu Khan in the crowd suddenly realized that he had made another mistake.
The enemy cavalry that came was only about 2,000 people. Even if you include the Shazhou Han from Hewan, there were only about 7,000 people, and you had a total of 9,000.
If he did not evacuate from the river bend, the chaos and sand on the river beach alone would render the cavalry on the opposite side completely useless.
As soon as the armored horse comes, I'm afraid the horse's hooves will sink directly into it. If you choose to fight hard, you may not lose.
‘Boom!’ The crowd at the front dispersed in a hurry, but in fact the armored cavalry of the rebel army did not rush in directly at all.
The place was too small and the crowd was too dense. If they were not frightened into scattering, the armored cavalry might also be trapped in the Uighur army.
"Khan! You have to leave! Leave immediately!" Zuo Dayehu couldn't help but drag Renyu Khan back, who was still commanding.
As a race on horseback, Zuo Dayehu could tell at a glance that the armored knight on the opposite side was intimidating and adjusting at the same time.
He also knew that with the current chaos, there was no chance of a comeback.
Renyu Khan still couldn't accept this reality, and he couldn't help but struggled a few times.
"I can't leave. I can't leave the warriors behind. Here are the most elite warriors of the Khanate!"
"Prince Jingqiong, you lead the three hundred cavalry and take the Khan to go first, and I will serve as your rear guard!"
Zuo Dayehu didn't care so much. Losing a few thousand cavalry would really hurt his muscles and bones, but if he even lost the khan, he would collapse immediately.
"Run quickly! Defeated! Defeated!"
"Shazhou Hanhui's evil spell can't be resisted!"
Just as Prince Jing Qiong was protecting Khan Renyu from the pontoon, he made several attempts to drive away and frighten the 300 armored cavalrymen of the Guiyi Army, and finally stormed in.
Some Uighur soldiers raised their spears to resist, some cried and collapsed, and a large number of people took off their armor and jumped directly into the Beida River and swam towards Suzhou.
The moment of total collapse of thousands of soldiers and horses has arrived, and several pontoon bridge heads turned into a mess almost at the same time.
