Chapter 128
"Which mercenary groups are still resisting?" Dany looked up at Grey Worm and found that there was some blood on his leather armor, but overall it was much cleaner than hers. It seemed that Unsullied's mission was easier to complete.
"There are seven small villages left."
In this battle plan, 2,600 cavalry were responsible for intercepting the enemy's camp in the middle, and then driving the horses to attack the camp from north to south.
And the five thousand Unsullied took two thousand longbowmen to block the enemy's escape route on the White Poplar Slope. After all, the Ghis Alliance was not stupid. Seeing ten thousand horses galloping in the distance, they naturally knew that they should avoid it.
When the horses went around the White Poplar Slope and left, Unsullied set off from the White Poplar Slope and pressed towards the broken camp of Ghis, forming a pincer attack with the two thousand cavalry.
After clearing up the stragglers, the 20,000 people carrying sandbags will set up an isolation belt at the gate of the enemy's small camp.
Well, stop the other party from escaping, Unsullied has no horse, can't catch up!
"Company of the Rose on the edge is the best preserved, Second Sons was broken through by horses, and suffered heavy casualties, leaving only 200 people to hide in the camp of Ghis Wise Masters.
Stormcrows Worse still, they are powerful, with 500 iron armored elite cavalry.
Because their entire regiment is cavalry, the camp they built is connected with the stables, and nearly 2,000 horses rioted with the horses. The camp was trampled to a pulp, and almost no one survived."
Speaking of this, the eunuch Warrior, who has always been restrained, could not help but sighed and sighed: "The mercenary group of the strongest has been destroyed the most. What a fool, they should have surrendered to Your Majesty sooner."
Well, Dany's "old lover" unfathomable mystery got a boxed lunch, sadly.
"This is their oneself's choice." She said lightly, pulled down her face armor, stood up, and shouted to the horse men cavalry who surrounded her in a circle to protect her: "Aggo , let Ser Barristan clean up 10 kilometers north with Unsullied as planned."
"Yes, Khaleesi."
"Come on, finish the finishing work, we can also take a break for a while now," Dany said to Grey Worm.
Seeing her coming, horse men immediately brought a tall horse with yellow fur.
Well, her little silver horse stumbled and got hurt.
The iron cavalry guards, who already numbered less than five hundred, quickly surrounded Dany again with Dany as the center.
Little White also spat out the bones in his mouth, flapped his wings and flew above Dany's head, following the group slowly in circles.
"Quaro, how many brothers did we lose?" Dany asked the armored guard beside him.
Unlike Aggo's three Bloodriders, Quaro began to adapt to the iron armor after joining the Queen's iron cavalry guards.
"20 dead and 40 injured, Khaleesi, how are your injuries?" the horse men asked with concern.
He had witnessed the whole process of Dany's horse throwing before his own eyes.
"It's okay, the inner armor cushions most of the strength."
The wearing process of the full-body armor is very complicated.
Start with the close-fitting cotton coat, the light and soft leather armor, the flexible and elastic inner pad, the silk or linen coat, and finally the iron armor. If you want to be more beautiful, you can also wear it over the iron armor. A coat.
Of course, ordinary warriors do not have the financial resources to assemble a complete set of equipment. For them, poor-quality inner armor will affect the performance of the martial skill. In the case of overwhelming majority, only a layer of leather armor will be added to the armor. .
The difference between a noble knight and an ordinary armored cavalry is that when they fall off their horses on the battlefield at the same time, after the noble master spirit slowly recovers, there is nothing to do, so he gets up and continues to swing his sword and slash; even if the ordinary cavalry does not fall If the internal organs are broken, there will also be internal bleeding, and 80% of them are unable to fight again.
There is another point, the iron armor with fine lining can partially resist the hammer blow, while the ordinary iron armor encounters a strong man wielding a Spiked Mace, and it is almost injured and killed when it hits.
Well, in the battle of the armored cavalry, the hammer is the most lethal, followed by the steel essence lance, again the two-handed heavy sword, and finally the machete.
"What about the Unsullied and Longbowmen casualties?" Dany asked Grey Worm, who was walking beside her.
“Unsullied and the longbowman didn’t die, only a dozen Warriors were hit by the arrows.”
At the end, Grey Worm respectfully praised: “Your Majesty, you hit a shot. It's a battle that can be praised for thousands of years!"
This is not a deliberate compliment, not to mention the slave soldiers of the Ghis people, and the yellow silk cloak is also rubbish, but the five thousand mercenaries are too terrifying.
The mercenary has a bad reputation, but the battle strength is really strong. Whether the individual warrior's martial power or the small Legion's collective battle, in this different world, it surpasses the regular army of almost all countries and city-states.
Let's put it this way, 5,000 mercenaries are hard anus and 5,000 Unsullied, and half of Unsullied may lose.
Unlike the Dothraki screamer, the mercenary battle skill is too high, and it is very versatile. Many mercenaries can be both cavalry and archer, equip him with armor, and become a heavy armored Knight.
For example, Jorah Mormont, who once worked as a mercenary, signed labor contracts with several little-known small mercenary groups.
At Jorah's level, he can only become the Small Captain of a 50-person team - his highest position in the mercenary world. In most cases, he is just an ordinary member of the mercenary group.
More importantly, the mercenary group is richer and better equipped than Unsullied.
For example, Stormcrows, which was destroyed in ten thousand horses galloping, had only 500 cavalry on the surface, but was equipped with 1500 war horses and 500 pack horses, and the rest of the material was countless.
"Khaleesi, you can add another bell! I dare say that no Khal on the prairie has ever beaten you."
Quaro was also excited , is deeply proud of oneself to be able to pledge allegiance to such a great Khaleesi.
"Khal Drogo cheers for you in Night Land too."
If you don't say the last word, this time the flattery counts as full marks, now forty points will be deducted for you Passed, keep up the good work.
Dany complained in his heart, but said sympathetically in his mouth: "It all depends on the lives of the soldiers, in order to liberate the slave's great major event, we have sacrificed a lot of brothers today, and we will lose more comrades tomorrow. "
"It is my honor to die for Khaleesi!" Quaro said immediately.
"I'm willing to die for Queen Your Majesty!" More than 400 Knights shouted in unison.
Very good, the military heart is available, and the morale is high!
It may be possible to change the established strategy.
Previously I just wanted to repel the attack, then wait for the dragon to grow for another year, plant a year at the same time, and finally sweep Slaver's Bay with crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.
But the fact that the slave-master hired the mercenary group on a large scale reminded her that the slave-master is already rich, and that group of guys who should go to Hell are using her money to hire soldiers to attack her city. This. .....
Dany thought angrily.
"Don't kill me, don't--uh--"
Suddenly, a scream woke Dany, who was in deep thought.
"What's going on?" She slapped the horse's belly a few times, walked a few steps quickly, and came to the front of the queue.
Not far away, a man in linen with a huge dragon's head pattern on his chest was lying on top of a corpse, desperately pulling the chain around the opponent's neck.
In the noon sun, the chain reflects a little golden light, and the gold chain with thick fingers?
Dany hadn't had time to "invent" printing and papermaking, but printing and dyeing equipment for carving patterns out of large blocks of oak had already been developed.
She is a bit obsessive-compulsive and dislikes the messy uniforms of this era. The soldiers under her command, even the people, have uniform clothes, two linen shirts with black dragon heads printed on their chests.
Like the man who picks up the corpse.
Dany glanced around, the ground was torn by the hooves of ten thousand horses galloping, the weeds and flowers of the fields were trampled into the dirt, the carcasses of men and horses and smoking stakes, Stepping into the tent in the mud, you can smell the fragrance of the mud and the scorching stench of blood and fire between the nostrils.
A group of civilians were scattered on the land that had been "plowed" by swords. Carrying baskets and machetes, they bought the lives of the dying and wounded as if they were buying crops, looting their shoes, Leather armor, helmets, iron arrows, swords and other weapons, and even wallets and precious jewelry that you carry with you.
The machete was sent into the dying man's neck, and from time to time there was a rapid and short whine. Dany opened and closed his mouth several times, but said nothing, took a flattery a few times, and remained silent. move on.
Maybe she can save a few with her means, but what's the point of that?
She can't save oneself's little brother, is it wasting oneself's energy and scarce medicine for the enemy?
This is war!
Soon she crossed the battlefield and came to the only seven stockades left at the forefront of the camp.
The reason why they were preserved in the trampling of thousands of horses is mainly because of their location to the west, in the rocky recesses of the coast.
At this time, there is a circle of low walls stacked with sacks on the periphery of each small stockade, which is about one meter or two. Light riders charge at high speed and may be able to jump over... If you ignore the sandbags The words behind the Unsullied lance array.
“Which camp is the Second Sons hiding in?” Dany asked.
Grey Worm didn't have time to speak when a familiar voice came from the top of a wooden tower 40 meters away: "Queen Your Majesty, I surrender, I am willing to lead the team to join you!"
The camp is backed by a continuous cyan-gray color huge rock. The tallest stone is four or five meters high, and the short one is one meter square. The other three sides have a circle of "fences" composed of a mixture of carriage and wooden stakes.
It looks like it was just built, but the carriage is connected by a wrist-thick iron cable, which seems to be quite sturdy.
Behind the fence formed by the carrier, there are two rows of warriors with shields in their left hands and daggers in their right hands. There are more than a hundred archers behind the shieldsman, and three or four of them are placed at the feet of each archer. String crossbow.
Behind the warriors, near the rock, there is a wooden tent with the top tent removed. Similar to Dany's wooden palace, the wood is used as the wall and the canvas is used as the ceiling.
At this time, in the tent with the roof removed, a small sentry tower more than four meters high was built with wooden tables and wooden stakes, and two people were standing on it.
It was the bearded "Titan's Bastard" Mero who waved to Dany.
The slave-master next to him also met with Dany last night, a Meereen Great Masters who also seems to be called Grazdan, although his last name is Dany.
"Drop your weapons and come out and surrender." Dany shouted from behind the sack wall.
“We at Second Sons are here to serve Your Majesty,” Mero said.
"Put down your arms and talk."
"We're Warriors and can serve Your Majesty."
Dany, annoyed, points to the big Braavos man , said to the mercenaries and Ghis soldiers inside: "Cut off the head of this man who disrespects me, put down your weapons, and surrender on your knees, or kill without mercy!"
"You—" Titan's Bastard was surprised and angry, and the golden long beard dragged to his waist couldn't stop shaking.
He never imagined that Dany was so arrogant. His Second Sons still had more than 200 members!
Two hundred elite mercenaries are almost equal to two hundred experienced cavalry, and in Westeros there are more than two hundred Ser masters.
"My team members swear allegiance to me, Mother of Dragons, I apologize for my inappropriate words and actions last night. But please also understand that by accepting my refuge, you will have hundreds more Warrior, if you choose either the fish dies or the net splits, my brother and I will take you a thousand Unsullied!" Mero suppressed his anger, persuaded hard and soft.
At the same time, he swears in his heart that as long as he gets out of trouble this time, he will find a chance to fiercely take revenge on this silver-haired bitch.
"pēng pēng pēng "Second Sons sword and shield player immediately tapped the shield with a dagger to express his support for the regiment leader, and also to show the unity and courage of Second Sons to Dany on the opposite side.
"Titan's Bastard, Titan's Bastard!" They shouted in unison.
The big Braavos man straightened his back and looked down at Dany behind the sand enclosure with a smug smile on his face.
Amid the shouts of the Second Sons crowd, Dany slowly backed out of the Unsullied array, indifferently said: "Use a tinderbox, don't leave a living hole!"