Chapter 824: Water Net
The sound of shouting at the top of the dock castle came one after another. The Sasanian iron armored knights who climbed up to the city along the flying claw rope were fighting fiercely with the defenders at the city. At the foot of the dock castle wall were corpses everywhere, and the small dock castle was even more corpses piled up like mountains. Outside the fort, the Sasanian iron cavalry continued to throw out their flying claws and climbed towards the dock castle. Every time they climbed up to the top of the city, they could cause several casualties to the Kushan guards. However, the Kushan guards in the fort rushed to the top of the city one after another to replenish, as if endless.
In the end, the Kushan soldiers relied on the strong fortress and the sea of people to withstand the fierce attack of the brave Sassanian iron armored knight. At this time, the Sassanian general's face turned pale. He thought to himself, why did the Kushan soldiers become so difficult to deal with after just a few days?
In fact, this is not surprising. The Kushan army is still the same Kushan army, but now, whether it is Xihou, civilians or slaves, all know about the Sassanian army burning, killing and looting in the Indus River Basin these days. This forces them to unite to deal with the survival crisis. Secondly, they adopted the correct tactics - layer by layer to consume enemy troops and morale, and concentrate their forces to defend and wait for assistance.
Finally, his sect released the colorful wolf smoke provided to them by Liang Jun, believing that he had successfully transmitted the signal, and it was a matter of time before he received reinforcements. His confidence and morale were naturally different from those Kushan Dock Castle City that had been breached. Based on the above factors, the Sassanians could not easily defeat the enemy with just two hundred cavalry.
The Sassanian general turned his gaze to the red wolf smoke rising from the sky. In fact, he noticed the wolf smoke as soon as it rose, but he didn't care about the Kushan army. He thought it was just that the other party was asking for help from other Kushan friendly troops nearby. He even thought that it was a good thing that had the rest of the Kushan soldiers coming to help, and that he could take more heads and make more military achievements.
But now, when he saw that the Kushan army became stronger than before, he felt shaken. He muttered again that he had suffered heavy casualties under the fortress. If thousands of Kushan reinforcements came again, wouldn’t he be in danger of being wiped out?
Thinking of this, a chill suddenly rose from his spine and immediately shouted: "Transfer our military orders to stop siege the city, don't chew this hard bone, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties. Retreat! Let's retreat quickly!"
The cavalry team of more than a hundred people left as soon as they said they could leave. They immediately gave up on the attack on the fort, and gave up dozens of corpses of their accomplices. They all turned their horses and rushed downstream along the river passing through the manor.
At the top of the fortress, the vest of the Kushan Xihou was soaked in cold sweat. The soldiers in his fortress had actually been broken for more than half. If the enemy persisted for a while, his soldiers might be motivated and he would be killed. Now that he saw that the enemy finally retreated, he had no time to be happy and hurriedly sent an order: "Rise up the green wolf smoke and tell the Liang army that the enemy has retreated."
Before he finished speaking, he saw that the Sassanian warriors who had not yet run far and were passing through the reeds by the river fell from their horses like pear blossoms hit by rain. And he vaguely saw more than twenty Viking warships in the river.
The Liang army sailors on the ship threw rounds of javelins and flying axes. The axe had little effect on the Sassanian Iron Armored Knights wearing iron armor, but the javelin made of Uz steel was stabbed one by one. As long as it could hit the Sassanian Knights' body, it could penetrate the iron armor on their bodies.
In a moment, the Sassanian cavalry lost another thirty or forty cavalry. The general in charge shouted in grief: "They are in the river, hurry up and stay away from the river."
As soon as the Sasanian general led the remaining soldiers and horses to leave the river for dozens of battles, he heard the sound of horse hooves running. He looked away, and his face suddenly showed a desperate expression. They were hundreds of Liang army and heavy iron cavalry.
He was already like a frightened bird and did not have the courage to face the enemy. He turned his head and changed direction to continue to escape, and the rest followed closely. The Sassanian cavalry general was also stunned and forgot the most basic common sense of cavalry. If a cavalry encounters it at close range, it is most taboo to turn around and escape and expose his back to others, especially when the speed of his own horse is slightly inferior to that of the other party.
In just over a dozen breaths, Liang Jun heavy cavalry chased after him, and he rode his spears and pulled most of the remaining Sassanian cavalry down in half a moment. The general was also shot on the butt, and was frightened and then knocked him down. The moment he fell, he rolled forward, removed his strength, and ran away from his head and mind after getting up.
Just as he was about to drill into a bush of acacia, he saw a bright object attacking his face. With a puff, his world turned red with a bloody smell, and then his eyes turned black and his body fell to the ground.
When Dian Wei pulled out his halberd from his corpse's face, the other Viking ship sailors who landed also killed several Sassanian knights who had lost their war horses and fled on foot.
It turned out that Dian Wei had been tracking Kosak's cavalry for several days. He knew Kosak had entered this area of 100 miles, but he didn't know the specific location of the opponent.
Fortunately, this area was in the middle of the Indus River and the water network was dense. He divided the fleet into several parts, carried troops and horses to travel day and night at different locations of the water network, and sent scouts on the shore to conduct warning investigations. The Kushan lords had been told before, how to cooperate with Liang Jun.
Today, a scout on his shore saw the wolf smoke and immediately reported it to the fleet. He immediately ordered the heavy cavalry to go ashore and cooperated with the fleet to surround the other side of the water and land, thus achieving such results.
At this time, Dian Wei personally interrogated the captured Sassanian riders, but there was no one in his army who knew their language. However, this would not be a problem immediately, because the rescued Kushan Xihou had already brought his entourage soldiers out of the city and thanked Dian Wei Qian's for thousands of years. Many of the people he brought were familiar with Persian.
The interrogation went very smoothly, and the Sassanian cavalry began to act like heroic spirit. However, after Liang Jun used some means to give them some flesh and blood, they quickly took all the tricks.
When Dian Wei knew about the "temporary base camp" of Kosak, a hint of surprise immediately appeared on his face. He knew that this was the best opportunity to easily disintegrate Kosak's ranger. But he still spent some time thinking about how to defeat the enemy. First, while Kosak's plundering troops did not return, he directly destroyed his temporary base camp and seized all his food, grass and camels. In this way, they became a leaderless army of food and food, and then spent time to defeat each one and gradually wipe out. Second, when all the plundering troops came back, concentrate, and then carried out a surprise attack and captured them all in one go.
These two methods have their own strengths and weaknesses. To follow Dian Wei, it is better to use the first method.
Chapter completed!