Realm of Power

In the eyes of the Central Asians who live in a warm climate in the south, the grassland people from the north are already the most terrifying enemies. With long bows and fast horses, they can march hundreds of miles with only a little food, and then emerge from the darkness like wolves. The generals launched an attack, corpses were everywhere, the mountains and rivers were stained with blood, and the villages were burning, even though When encountering obstacles, these prairie people also moved forward without fear of death, until the sound of horse hooves shook the earth and mountains, drowning everything like a tide. In many cases, the Central-Bian army did not collapse at the first touch; Under the stacking tactics of the prairie cavalry like waves, they were crushed by the strong force.

The prairie people are the natural masters of the earth. Even now, Zhaguo Tiemu firmly believes in this. In the winter two years ago, the prairie people had completed two historic breakthroughs, two hurricane-like southward marches, two It penetrated the imperial capital of the Zhongbia people for the first time and finally drove the Zhongbia people southward. If it were not for the rise of the Yelu family, the Prairie Royal Court would now be the master of the Zhongbia people.

The helplessness of giving up Zhongbia Cangqiong Yanzhou has always been like a fire burning in Zhaguo Tiemu's chest. The only thing that made him feel a little more relaxed was that in Yanzhou, he and the Long family attacked Yelu in front and back. The army of the Yelu family eventually led to the death of Yelu Guda, the heir of the Yelu family, which can be regarded as repaying the hatred of the Yelu family for stabbing him in the back.

As long as these cold people are dealt with, the royal court can move south again. This is what Zhaguo Tiemu thinks. Although the gate of Yanzhou has been occupied by the empire, the Tulu Mountain area controlled by the Fengtai tribe is just east of Yanzhou. The place where it meets Daizhou is like a small mouth opening at the edge of Yanzhou's defense line.

This mouth may not even have a small mark on the map, but in reality, it is a large mouth with a length and width of thousands of meters. Zhaguo Tiemu has visited it personally, and the majestic Yanzhou Wall has arrived here. , it is already a short and low earth wall. It only needs to be knocked down to open the door to the south. Even a cavalry group can pass through it smoothly. There It is within the scope of the Fengtai Department. The Fengtai Department has concealed it very well. Even the empire that controls Yanzhou has not noticed this place. The Fengtai Department has reached an agreement with Wang Ting on this condition. As long as Wang Ting can help Fengtai. If the Tai tribe can take over the imperial capital and seize all the power from the Yelu family, the Daizhou line will be used as the dividing line. The area to the south will be the Fengtai tribe, and the area to the north will be handed over to the royal court.

The Fengtai tribe already controls 60% of the Yelu family. Especially when the Long family evacuated from Daizhou, they left all the more than 20,000 Fengtai tribe soldiers they had captured with the Fengtai tribe. The cavalry strength has increased dramatically. When the number reaches 100,000, plus the strength of other ministries, it is entirely possible to eventually mobilize more than 150,000 coalition forces. In comparison, the Yelu family, whose power has been greatly damaged, is now afraid that they can barely cobble together even 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry. Moreover, under the aggressive momentum of the Fengtai tribe, their people are already scattered and their military morale is extremely low. The Fengtai tribe proposed this. Conditions, the main reason is still the fear that the Royal Court will sneak attack the backyard camp when it attacks the Imperial Capital.

Wang Ting can easily acquire the entire Daizhou, hundreds of miles of fertile land, and three to four million slaves just by looking at it. It's all a good deal.

"King Khan, something is wrong." Zhaguotemu heard a white-haired old patriarch next to him say with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?" Zha Guotiemu raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't King Khan realize that the Handi people seem to be deliberately luring our cavalry in? They are delaying our attack with their lives!" The white-haired old man had a serious face, raised his finger and pointed forward, condensing. Said, "The physique of people in the cold areas is always better than ours, and under extremely harsh weather, they can even fight against beasts." Dare to fight with bare hands, but their wounds were torn apart with just one impact. If it was a normal breakthrough, it would be like a sharp knife thrusting in, squeezing the cold people to both sides. But now, what I see When they arrived, our cavalry rushed in, but the cold people did not retreat in panic, but clearly dispersed towards both sides."

"What does La Yeha, old chief, mean? The cavalry has a natural advantage over the infantry. If the cold people don't want to die, they have to spread out to both sides. Is there anything wrong with that?" Zhaguo Tiemu snorted with some dissatisfaction. Since he withdrew from Yanzhou, the patriarchs on these grasslands have become more and more unrestrained in their attitude toward him.

"King Khan, calm down, I just feel something is abnormal!"

Hearing the deep dissatisfaction in Zhaguo Tiemu's tone, La Yeha quickly lowered his head. Although the royal court was no longer what it used to be, King Zhaguo Tiemu Khan's temper was not small at all. He had just lost his temper because of a clan leader two days ago. After resisting, he tied the patriarch to a wooden stake and gave him fifty lashes. His body and bones could not withstand the anger of the Khan King.

"As long as we prairie people's horse hooves start running, all resistance will be in vain!" Zhaguo Tiemu said with a cold face, "What's more, most of the people from the cold area are infantry. No matter how powerful the people from the cold area are, they can't make up for the defeat of the infantry. The natural disadvantage of cavalry is that although the Giant Bear Mountain in the cold area is said to have the habit of raising giant bears for combat, even if there are, the number must be quite limited."

Zhaguo Tiemu paused and continued, "More than 60% of the entire North Royal Court's troops are participating in the battle this time, a total of 60,000 Royal Court cavalry. I can't think of anyone who can stop such a flow of cavalry." , not to mention that the cold land is famously barren, and the degree of iron deficiency is higher than It's even worse on the grassland. If you look at the cold people, most of the weapons in their hands are sticks. A few nails embedded in them are considered weapons, and a stick with a sharp piece tied to it is a spear. How can we expect them to truly fight against our prairie cavalry?”

I don’t know who leaked the news, saying that Wang Ting and the Long family attacked the Yelu family army in Yanzhou together, and they were helping the Zhongbia people to massacre the grassland people, which was a betrayal of Changshengtian.

Although such remarks have been forcibly suppressed by Zhaguo Tiemu, the long-term request for all ministries to come together has indeed made the ministries quite complain.

The grassland tribe has no habit of gathering together, because the number of livestock and war horses that a meadow can bear is certain. If too many tribes gather together, the result will be that there is not enough to eat at all. Only in the cold winter and during battles, The various tribes in the grassland will gather together. After the Spring Festival and the weather warms up, the tribes will disperse, but this year they will not At the same time, throughout the winter, the large influx of people from the cold areas forced the royal court to gather various ministries to fight. As the war continued from winter to the end of spring, because the nearby meadows had been dug up by hungry livestock in winter, now Not enough grass could grow at all, and the livestock of various ministries were starved for the whole winter, but in the summer there were large numbers of deaths.

This is a sign of the plague! For the grassland tribes, the plague is no different from the disaster of annihilation. People's hearts are floating, and each tribe requires the royal court to conduct a decisive battle as soon as possible. The cold people also feel the large gathering on the grassland.

The stacking tactics of the prairie cavalry are like a side knife that is pressed forward, fiercely hitting the cold people. Every time it is pressed, it is a stack of impacts. As long as a hole is torn, it will be as cruel as a knife edge. Pull away hard,

The cavalry tactics, under the interpretation of the prairie people, even have an artistic beauty. The scimitar with a sliding arc is quite technical. The world is filled with terrifying and shocking killing sounds. The people charging forward The prairie cavalry followed the vanguard that had already rushed in and poured in fiercely.

Kill, the cavalry scimitar slashed into the shoulder of the cold man. The wooden stick in the hand of the cold man hit the prairie cavalry. He shouted loudly and pulled out the waving scimitar, which was a splash of terrifying bright red.

The attack line of the 60,000 Wangting troops under Zhaguo Tiemu was like a crescent moon tilting forward. The first team, the second team, and the third team pressed forward layer by layer, slashing with swords and trampling on horses, even if they were eaten. The cold people of the Blood Demon Grass were also trampled to the ground by horses' hooves. The corpses fell one by one, and the blood spattered on the grass roots on the ground. The large number of fallen corpses made the ground sticky.

"Baiku Jaye, our losses have been great. I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on for too long. The impact of these prairie war horses is too fierce. Even after taking the Blood Demon Flower, many of our soldiers were trampled to death." One of them said A strong man from the cold land wearing half armor ran back from the front. The armor on his body was stained red with blood. He didn't know whether it belonged to the prairie people or his own.

"It's good to be able to do this. The Blood Demon Flower can make Baigu's warriors immortal, but it can't stop the impact of the war horses." Bai Kujiaye's eyes flashed and he nodded to the strong man in the cold area. "Let your Everyone, please disperse. Leave the rest to me, Juxiong Mountain."

"Okay, I will let them disperse now. I hope the method you mentioned did not disappoint us! As promised in advance, one-third of the proceeds from this battle must belong to us, Baigu, and so will those war horses." With a sinister smile on his face, he took out a gold trombone inlaid with three red gems from his body, put it in his mouth, mustered up all his strength and blew it hard

"Woooo

A passionate horn sound suddenly rose up. When the cold people who were still blocking the prairie cavalry heard the horn sound, they all scattered to both sides.

"Don't worry, I know the prairie people well. Once they launch a charge, they will never stop on their own initiative."

Bai Kujiaye grinned and stared at the front line of the Coldlanders who were suppressed by the shock cavalry. His face was as cold as a knife. Just like the ice in the Coldlands, the Coldlanders were indeed taking the initiative to attack both sides. The lines are spread out, and the infantry is at a disadvantage against the cavalry. Even the cold people are the same. There is no cavalry in the cold area because there are no horses in the cold area, but there are all kinds of large beasts on the ice fields in the cold area.

Thousands of years of struggle for survival, just like the fighting style of the grassland people has a deep hunting style, the fighting style of the cold people is also summed up by fighting against large beasts for many years. They do not know how to lure the enemy deep, but they know how to face the enemy deeply. Of course, the impact of a large beast must be dispersed. When the large beast falls into a trap, the cold land spreads around it. People will quickly gather around and kill these ferocious beasts with their javelins, so the scattering of the cold people is just an illusion. Even if they are attacked by the prairie cavalry, they feel like they are about to collapse. The face of any cold person None of them showed any signs of panic. They were injured, tired, exhausted, and their clothes were in tatters, but their eyes were still calm.

Even if you are besieging ferocious beasts, there will be sacrifices, let alone tens of thousands of prairie people.

They are waiting, waiting for the moment when the prairie people fall into the trap

The "traps" for dealing with the prairie cavalry are at the feet of Baiku Jaye. The previously surging and dense crowds were just to cover up these traps. In front of Baiku Jaye, these pits with no apparent depth were simply covered with a layer of water. Layer of soil, only Baiku Jaye knows what is in the pit. Naturally, it will not be something that cold people use to deal with ferocious beasts. What a good thing, in the extremely cold cold land, cold land people can dig traps on the hard frozen soil, and dig out the frozen soil to build holes, which are the most basic way of survival for cold land people. Digging Pit is the instinct of cold people. For tens of thousands of cold people, it only takes the blink of an eye to temporarily dig several deep pits like this on the battlefield.

No matter how good the grassland people's vision is, they can't see behind the crowd.

Compared with the grassland people, the total number of people gathered in the cold area is 150,000 to 60,000, which is almost more than half of the men in the entire cold area. Even on the two sides where the fighting intensity is not high, women and children are also included. The ranks of the people have joined the battle, winter is advancing and extending, and the sun that originally came out in March has now come out. I haven't come out yet, because there is no sun, and the lakes that serve as habitats are becoming more and more frozen. Even the water sources have been frozen. Last winter, 50,000 to 60,000 people in the cold areas died. In order to save food, let For most people, 90% of the elderly chose to commit suicide last winter.

Throughout the winter, the population of the cold areas dropped by one-fifth. In the next winter, half of the people may die. This is the situation faced by the people of the cold areas. Going south is the only way for the people of the cold areas to survive. Even if The powerful Giant Bear Mountain also took out all the Blood Demon Flowers it had hoarded for three hundred years.

Either people in the cold land die, or people in the grassland die, that's it. An imperceptible deep sadness flashed across Baiku Jiaye's face. Looking up at the sky, the morning light was like blood. The sun here is golden, but the sun in the cold land is deep. , dark red shrouds the ice sheet, but even like this, the sun has not come out for six months.

When Bai Kujiaye's sight saw the prairie cavalry rushing towards him with red eyes in the scattered crowd of cold people like a horizontal line, he was already sure that this He has already won this war. The attack line of the prairie people seems to have scattered the cold people in all directions. In fact, he has also become scattered. The advantage of the prairie cavalry in groups is no longer, and the cold people's battle has just begun.

"Bump!" There was a violent collision and rolling sound, and a prairie cavalryman holding a scimitar suddenly flew up. The war horse under his crotch slammed into the ground as if it had stepped into the air. The prairie cavalryman's stunned face had not yet reacted. He fell heavily to the ground, and blood exploded like a squeezed tomato. The prairie cavalry looked at it in disbelief, as several simple spears from the Coldlanders had been inserted into their bodies.

The first cavalryman's tumbling had not attracted the attention of the royal court, but when thousands of prairie cavalry began to tumbling, Zhaguo Tiemu's expression changed. It was a trap. . . The Coldlanders dug a trap behind them. Zhaguo Tiemu saw that the scattered Coldlanders began to gather together with a tacit understanding. Countless javelins were like dense raindrops, killing the rolling prairie cavalry.