Chapter 256 Arabian horses and camels(1/2)
"There are elephant soldiers on the other side!"
"retreat!"
Lian Po's regiment of Hu Ma, the prefect of Jiuyuan County in Bingzhou, was attacked by a hundred war elephants. A large number of soldiers were killed, and Lian Po could barely support himself with the help of heavy infantry.
War elephants were raging! Huge war elephants were trampled in the rebel army, with poison blades tied to their tusks, and the infantry fell one after another. There were solid wooden towers on the backs of the war elephants, and archers and spearmen stabbed them with spears and spears from above.
Shoot the enemies seen by the soldiers and archers of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Most of the lords in the Eastern Han Dynasty had no experience fighting against elephant soldiers, and suffered heavy losses due to their lack of experience.
If it weren't for Lian Po as the commander-in-chief, I'm afraid the entire army would collapse!
"This Eastern Han Dynasty army is really tenacious. It was attacked by 30,000 people from our Mughal Empire and did not collapse."
The great lord of the Mughal Empire in India, the Kshatriya, united with two other great lords to attack the Lian Po Army.
A great lord could not deny: "The lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty had powerful generals and soldiers. I suspect that the great lords of our Mughals who died in battle were killed by the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty."
"No matter what, the lord we attacked must have huge influence in the Eastern Han Dynasty. If we can kill him and capture his hero, we can cause huge losses to the Eastern Han Dynasty. My hero Shivaji can strengthen the control of the war elephant.
, it is almost impossible for them to crack my elephant soldiers."
Shivaji, the Kshatriya hero, rode on a war elephant and commanded light cavalry to besiege the Lianpo army. Thirty thousand Mughal soldiers clung to the Lianpo army.
"hold fast!"
Lian Po's army was extremely tenacious and was not completely defeated. He protected the lord Huma and retreated all the way to the city. The archers in the city covered Lian Po and others as they retreated into the city.
Huma returned to the city alive and finally stopped the ferocious war elephants with the towering city walls.
When he came to the city wall, there was an arrow stuck in his armor and he was bleeding profusely. The doctor rushed to treat his wound.
"If I had been prepared, how could I lose to the elephant soldier? And his war elephant is very different, his war elephant is very calm!"
Huma gritted his teeth when he saw the war elephants demonstrating outside the city.
Fortunately, he captured a city in advance, otherwise the Lianpo army might have been completely annihilated by the three Mughal lords.
The war elephant troops of the Mughal Empire are different from ordinary war elephant troops. Even if they use a phalanx of spears, it is difficult to panic the war elephants.
Lian Po was hit by several arrows, but his fish scale armor reduced the damage caused by the crossbow arrows: "Lord, we must contact other lords to compete with the enemy."
"Where are our lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty?"
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"Where are the other Eastern Han lords?"
Chutian sent cavalry to investigate everywhere, and found five or six civilized lords one after another, but never found the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Before joining the other Eastern Han lords, Chu Tian was looking for fighters to capture as many servants as possible and gain points at the same time.
"General Zhao Yun is injured!"
Zhao Yun, who went out to patrol the city, returned to the city and returned injured.
Zhao Yun was followed by more than a dozen white horse followers, their white robes stained red with blood, many of them were hit by arrows, and there were seven or eight arrows hanging on Zhao Yun's Mingguang armor.
A white horse righteous fell from his horse, hugging his injured shoulder and enduring the pain.
Zhao Yun frowned. He was hit by so many arrows and still didn't die. Zhao Yun's vitality was extremely tenacious.
"Please come, Mr. Hua Tuo!"
The miracle doctor Hua Tuo and a group of doctors treated the injuries of Zhao Yun and others. Among the doctors was Li Lan, who had been serving the army since Xiacun. Li Lan had already reached the threshold of a senior doctor.
When Hua Tuo saw that Zhao Yun was not killed despite being hit by eight arrows, he could not help but frown in surprise.
The condition of Zhao Yun's injury is really not optimistic.
Hua Tuo cut off the arrow shaft and asked Zhao Yun to take off his armor and reveal his strong body: "The process of taking out the arrow cluster will be very painful. I have numbing powder here to relieve the pain."
Chu Tian learned that Zhao Yun was injured and came to understand the situation.
With the strength of Zhao Yun's five tiger generals, he was seriously injured and his strength dropped significantly.
Zhao Yun said: "The general encountered a group of light cavalry. Their horses were very fast. Our group of more than 30 people were surrounded by six to seven hundred enemy cavalry. We killed hundreds of enemies before we successfully broke through. There may be several people behind them.
Thousands of cavalry, and camel cavalry.”
No wonder Zhao Yun was seriously injured. It turned out that he was surrounded by twenty times the number of enemies.
Zhao Yun was able to bring half of the cavalry out from the heavy siege, which was extremely difficult.
"Where is the enemy?"
"It's only seven or eight miles away from this city."
"Send someone to investigate immediately!"
Chu Tian learned that Zhao Yun was once surrounded and the enemy appeared nearby, so he immediately mobilized the scout cavalry.
He noticed the horses mentioned by Zhao Yun and asked: "Compared with the Liaodong horses, how do the Liangzhou horses compare with their war horses?"
"I'm afraid it will be even higher than Liaodong horses and Liangzhou horses."
"Could it be an Arabian war horse?"
When Chu Tian thought of camel cavalry, he couldn't help but think of the civilization of the Arab Empire.
The civilization of the Arab Empire had an extremely excellent war horse, the Arabian horse. After modern times, both the West and the East introduced Arabian horses to improve the quality of local horse breeds.
In addition to Arabian horses, there are also particularly excellent war horses such as Dayuan horses and Wusun horses. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even requested war horses from the Western Regions.
The breed of war horses is determined by the geographical environment and has nothing to do with the quality of civilization.
The more Chu Tian thought about it, the more likely it became.
If a group of tall Arabian horses (body height 144-152cm) were captured and returned to the Eastern Han Dynasty to improve the local horse breeds in Xuzhou, it might be possible to improve the breed of Xuzhou war horses.
However, Arabian horses may not be able to breed in Xuzhou. After all, the soil and water support the people.
"Catch him first and then talk about it."
Chu Tian ordered Zhao Yun to rest well and decided to recruit troops to attack the cavalry of the Arabian Empire.
Thousands of Arab cavalry occupied a town and used scimitars, spears, and javelins to loot the townspeople. The whole town was filled with black smoke and wailing.
"I didn't expect to be defeated by the Mughal lords of India and my city would be taken away by them."
The lords of the Arab Empire lost the battle with the Kshatriyas, the lords of the Mughal Empire, and were forced to retreat to the west. On the way, they encountered Zhao Yun on patrol out of the city, so they pursued Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun did not expect that a cavalry force of several thousand people would approach, so he could only rely on superb force to break through at the cost of serious injuries.
"The small group of cavalry I met during the day seems to be the army of other lords. There must be a city nearby. As long as I capture the city and recruit soldiers, I still have a chance to hit the world rankings."
Hundreds of camels gathered around the fire to form a camel city.
Camel cavalry is only a special auxiliary unit. The great conquests of the Arab Empire still relied on the combination of light cavalry and heavy cavalry. Arabian war horses were the resources that the lords of the Arab Empire valued.
Thousands of Arab cavalry were resting in the town, and a small group of horses was separated to patrol.
The Arab cavalry was tired after the continuous fighting.
Before dawn in the morning, a group of soldiers and horses secretly surrounded thousands of Arab cavalry.
"The Arabs haven't noticed the danger yet. The god of death has already stretched out his sickle to them. The rockets will light up the night. The neighing of the war horses will wake up the sleeping soldiers..."
Chu Tian imitated the Western bards and talked to himself.
What is the lord saying?
Li Xiuning, who temporarily served as a guard, was confused.
Chu Tian ordered the Shesheng camp to ambush, and he also brought four thousand servants.
The scary thing about "Tian Khan" is that when conquering aliens, as long as he can win, the servant army will continue to grow. It doesn't hurt at all to use the servant army as cannon fodder.
Le Yi, who was good at siege, led a thousand heavy infantry and four thousand servants to attack the city.
When the Arabs in the town were lax in their defenses, a siege force of 5,000 people launched a strong attack on the town!
A hail of arrows killed the patrolling Arab cavalry. Li Guang led the infantry to advance again, killing more than ten enemies with his own hands and seizing the city gate!
Xue Rengui, Hua Mulan, and Hua Xiong's cavalry marched straight in!
Knowing that they could not defend themselves, the Arab soldiers fled through another gate of the town.
Chu Tian personally led the Shesheng Battalion and Li Xiuning's Detachment of Women to set up an ambush early. The Arab cavalry was ambushed and was covered by the Shesheng Battalion's rockets, causing them to fall off their backs!
The rockets and the whitening sky left the Arab soldiers who were trying to escape nowhere to hide.
Hundreds of Arab Empire soldiers were shot dead by rockets, and there were galloping horses and camels everywhere.
This is regarded as revenge for Zhao Yun, and also to accumulate points.
The fact that there is no grudge between the Arab Empire and the Eastern Han Dynasty does not mean that Chutian cannot take the initiative to attack.
About a thousand Arab soldiers were killed in the battle, and three thousand Arab cavalry were captured.
The size of Chu Tian's servant army increased to 7,000.
Chu Tian was not interested in the Arab soldiers wearing turbans and partial robes. He was interested in Arab war horses and camel cavalry.
To be continued...