Unknown Knight

The Kugit cavalry who broke into the city gate discovered that although the enemy on the opposite side had been retreating inside, they always maintained an orderly shield formation.

It was not until they used their horses' hooves to force the infantry in the array to retreat continuously and broke through the city gate that they discovered that there was a mystery inside.

Before they could react, the Kugit people who came behind to take credit pushed them forward, filling up the newly expanded small space in an instant.

Looking up, he and the cavalrymen were in a square wall that was more than ten meters long and wide. A big door on the wall facing the city gate had been closed at some point, but how come the remaining infantry in the formation had retreated to the corner and disappeared?

After a careful search, they found that there was a small door only slightly wider than one person at the corner of the wall on both sides. The shield-bearing infantrymen who had withdrawn were blocking the small door with their shields. Through the gaps in the shields, they could see the infantrymen grinning at them as if their evil plan had succeeded.

"No! Get out!"

The Kugit cavalry who understood what was happening roared, but it was not so easy to be blocked in front and behind, and now they couldn't even turn their horses around.

Before more people could react, rain of arrows fell from overhead, in the doorway, and behind their backs, and everyone fell down in an instant.

More than ten cavalrymen at the back were squeezed in and shot like hedgehogs in an instant. The square space of only more than 100 square meters was filled with the corpses of men and horses.

It turns out that Aix, who had flooded the military forum with nonsense, did not do nothing about the Schulers Fortress. He had watched a documentary about the urn. In view of the strong breakthrough capability of the Kugit cavalry, a urn more than ten meters long and wide was set up in the city gate.

Normally, people enter and exit through the small gates on both sides of the city wall. These small gates are 60 centimeters wide and less than 1.9 meters high, so it is impossible to enter on horseback. Only when a large group of people and supplies need to enter the fortress, the inner gate will be opened.

This not only does not affect the normal entry and exit of personnel, but also prevents the risk of cavalry breaking into the city. It can be regarded as a special design full of malice towards the Kugits.

"Retreat quickly, this is a trap!" "Oh no, there's an ambush!"...

The Kugit cavalry in the doorway turned around and shouted to the cavalry behind them, but by the time their shouts reached the ears of the outermost cavalry after being transmitted through layers of communication, before they could turn their horses around, the second wave of cavalry ordered by Tuojunayan had already arrived from behind, blocking their way completely.

The archers on the city wall shot down with all their might. They didn't even need to aim. The small leather cavalry shields of the Kugits could not protect against the arrows shot from high above. If they didn't hit people, they would hit horses.

For a moment, the Kugit cavalry outside the city wall were thrown to the ground, and the number of casualties was incalculable, and the situation was very unstable.

“Duwu——!”

Suddenly, a low and distant horn sounded, and the main gate of the fortress suddenly opened. Aix personally led the only twenty or so riders in the fortress and rushed out, tightly sticking to the Kugit cavalry who were unable to advance or retreat in the city gate.

The heavy cavalry led by Fatis and Niza, and the light cavalry led by Ran Hu, who were lying in ambush on the side, mounted their horses and rushed out of the hidden forest after hearing the horn order to attack.

The Kugit cavalry, who were at a loss as to what to do, saw a large group of heavy cavalry rushing out of the forest. They couldn't tell how many soldiers and horses there were in the thick smoke, and they thought they were ambushed. They were frightened and turned their horses around to flee far away.

The Kugit cavalry, who did not have time to escape, were in a loose formation and had no will to resist. The densely packed heavy cavalry array led by Fatis easily cut through them like a knife cutting cheese, and passed through them.

Following closely behind, more than a hundred light cavalrymen led by Ran Hu used bows and spears to make the gap wider, completely dispersing the Kugit cavalry.

Fatis and Niza split their troops into two groups. Niza only led a dozen cavalrymen to block one end of the suspension bridge, and forced the more than 20 Kugit cavalrymen who were still on the suspension bridge and the gate to dismount and surrender.

Aix did not hesitate and ordered the infantrymen in the array to rush forward and take the surrendered Kugits into the fortress. He then joined forces with Niza and continued to pursue the fleeing Kugits.

Aix, who had just mounted his horse, had not yet started the horse's power when he saw the thick smoke in the distance. The Xuantian White Swallow Flag of Tuoju Nayan suddenly fell down. Ran Hu, who was not afraid of trouble, led the other Nakers to shout in Kugit:

"Tuoju Nayan has been captured. Hurry up and surrender! Tuoju Nayan has been captured. Hurry up and surrender! You won't be killed if you surrender!"

Not to mention, there were actually a few frightened Kugits who dismounted from their horses, knelt on the ground with their heads lowered, raised their scimitars high above their heads, and surrendered.

Most of them fled in all directions, and there was no organized group that dared to resist.

As a last resort, Fatis and Ran Hu had to divide their subordinates into small teams of ten or twenty people and pursue separately.

Ran Hu personally led more than 20 riders, closely following a group of about a dozen Kugits in front, among whom was his old master Tuoju Nayan, who still remembered the hatred of having his horse stolen and abandoned.

The crowd chased him from morning to noon, and from noon to dusk, all the way to the foot of the snow-capped mountains.

Aix was afraid that something unexpected might happen after dark, so he ordered the messengers to patrol back and forth along the foot of the snow-capped mountains on horseback, blowing two short and quick retreat horns, "toot, toot," as they patrolled.

Ran Hu really did not disappoint Aix and he captured Tuoju Nayan. However, he himself did not have an easy time as he was shot in the left arm.

According to Ran Hu, the person who shot him was the one who escaped in Adakulum last time. It really proves the saying "enemies often meet again".

At the foot of the mountain, after Aix confirmed that no one was pursuing the enemy any further, he led his troops back to Fort Schulers.

On the way back, Aix also ordered the cavalry who were not escorting prisoners to spread out to the left and right, with each person thirty meters apart, and the entire span reached a width of three thousand meters.

Every few people, a tribesman was assigned to shout in Chinese to the wilderness from time to time:

"My fellow countrymen, don't go back to Kugit to be slaves. Come to our territory and be free men. The lord will give us land and houses."

Not to mention, they actually picked up more than thirty escaped Han slaves along the way.

The group traveled slowly all night and only returned to Shules around noon.

The remaining infantry and archers cheered loudly when they saw them returning triumphantly.

In this battle, not only was the army of nearly 400 people led by Toju Nayan defeated, more than 140 people were killed, more than 60 Kugit cavalry and four Nayan nobles were captured, including one big and three small. The big one was Toju Nayan.

This Tojunayan was ranked among the top three nobles of the Khergit Khanate and was an important figure in the Khanate. He was also the lord of the important city of Achemor.

It is said that his city is rich in spices, leather products, woolen cloth and other high-value goods. It is really a rich place. Now Aix doesn't know what kind of ransom he should pay to be more in line with his identity as a big man.

In addition, more than 120 Han slaves were rescued, including those picked up by Aix on his way back, as well as more than 30 slaves of other nationalities.

The Kugit camp outside the city was almost intact, and the supplies inside were left intact. When Aix led the team back the next day, Desevi and his team had not even moved half of the supplies.

After statistics, the major items seized in this battle included nearly 200 horses, more than 500 bags of wheat, more than 100 baskets of dried meat, more than 100 baskets of various fruits and vegetables, nearly 1,000 bundles of fodder, more than 30 bundles of furs, more than 400 rolls of woolen felt, more than 50 marching tents, and more than 30 wooden trucks.

The other small items of supplies were too numerous to count, such as salt, oil, cheese, spices, cooking utensils, various types of wine, herbs from the military doctor's office, various daily necessities for the Yans, etc.

Weapons and equipment are also a big deal, with nearly 300 scimitars and sabers of various types, more than 300 light and heavy cavalry spears, nearly 50 sets of Khergit heavy armor, more than 200 sets of light leather armor, more than 200 light and heavy helmets, more than 100 sets of light and heavy cavalry horse harness, and more than 300 bundles of Khergit arrows totaling more than 35,000.

With these weapons and equipment, after being repaired and reinforced by the territory's craftsmen, Aix's troops will no longer be short of weapons and equipment in the short term.

In addition, several boxes of military funds that were left unopened by the Kugits were seized, including money collected from Kugit captives. The total amount of money obtained was: more than 500 gold coins, more than 2,000 silver coins, and more than 30,000 copper coins.

Other miscellaneous items such as gold and silver jewelry, precious porcelain, jade jewelry, gold and silver wine vessels, gold and silver candlesticks, tableware, etc. are also countless.

It can be said that the harvest from this battle was huge. Aix felt that he had everything he needed and no worries. Now he was definitely a rich man.

However, the Aix side also suffered casualties in this battle, with the heaviest casualties among the cavalry. Most of them died in the process of charging and pursuing. A total of seventeen light and heavy cavalry died, and thirteen were seriously injured; eight array infantry died, and five were lightly or seriously injured; eleven archers died, and six were seriously injured.

Although our losses were minimal compared to those of the Kugits, such heavy casualties were still hard for Aix to accept. This was unprecedented casualties since he took over the army.

The main reason was that the soldiers' weapons and equipment were too poor, and many of them had no armor to wear at all. If it weren't for the mature shield-making technology in the territory, which basically equipped everyone with a shield, Aix estimated that the casualties this time would have been even greater.

This also made him determined that after returning to the territory, his focus would be on weapons and equipment, and to improve the quality of equipment of his troops' generals and soldiers.

Moreover, based on the knowledge he learned in his original world and compared with the existing weapons and equipment, he had many ideas for improvement but had not yet implemented them.

Thinking of the casualty data again, he just felt guilty for having been involved in all kinds of romantic affairs between men and women recently.

"If I had focused more on the important things during this period, maybe there would be fewer casualties this time?"

He felt guilty in his heart.