.But compared to the hesitant imperial government officials, the enemies we have to face seem much more cruel and simply.

"Urgent report, Your Highness, the urgent report from Swan Castle." He almost knocked open the door, and the palace guard rushed in with a message barrel despite the ongoing meeting of imperial government officials.

"What's going on?" Lan Yuan stood up angrily and shouted at the palace guard.

"An urgent report, very urgent." The palace guard said to Lan Yuan panting while swallowing his saliva. "We have suffered a sudden attack, and our sacred empire has been attacked by the barbarians."

Lan Yuan: "Barbarians? Asian Xia people?"

"No, it's not the Axia people, it's more barbaric than the Axia people. Swan Castle... No, the pastures and villages near Swan Castle were attacked."

"Take it." Hearing the report from the palace guards, he was silent for a moment before waved to him.

"As for your order, Your Highness." As he said that, the palace guard handed the message to me and retreated aside.

Under the attention of all the officials of the Imperial Government, they opened the letter tube and pulled out the letters inside.

This is a report sent by Hong Feng, the acting leader of the Imperial Free City Legion stationed in Swan Castle. A group of barbarian cavalry from the Mutu Empire bypassed the defense line of the Yaxia army confronted the Mutu Emperor team, entered the grassland area east of the Liv woodland, and defeated the temporary herder cavalry formed by the Grand Duchy of the Yaxia in the grassland area and began to approach the Swan Castle. When this document was set off from Swan Castle, the barbarian cavalry had entered the border area of ​​the Swan Castle and attacked the villages and pastures along the way. They killed all the men there, burned the villages, and plundered women, children, and all livestock and food. According to the information available now, it is estimated that the number of these enemy troops is about 5,000, and it is not ruled out that there are more barbarian cavalry in the hinterland of the grassland.

Given that all the enemy troops were cavalry, Viscount Red Maple did not order the Imperial Free City Legion to pursue those unknown enemy troops, but only collected civilians from remote areas near Swan Lake. Finally, he hoped that I and the Imperial Affairs Department could send reinforcements as soon as possible to ensure the autumn harvest along Swan Lake.

After reading it, I threw the report from Viscount Red Maple on the table. Come and read this report. Now I finally know where the nomads in the Mutu Empire will be used by the Seris. Yes, it is used on the heads of us and the Yaxia people. He really used the right place. The nomads in the grassland east of Liv Woodland have no rivals.

In my previous life, the discussion and research on light cavalry allowed me to understand some of the combat methods of nomadic people. Infantry has no advantage in dealing with nomadic people on the plains. It is not on the decisive battlefield, but on the strategic. The mobility makes the light cavalry have an unmatched advantage in the infantry. If those nomadic people fail on the front battlefield, they can easily exit the battlefield and not be pursued. Trying to pursue those light cavalry will be dragged to death. If the nomadic people defeat their opponents on the front battlefield, then their pursuit will be a nightmare for the opponent. From a strategic point of view, they can occasionally do large-scale mobile areas of dozens of kilometers from time to time and no one can defend against the enemy.

I don't doubt that the Western Continent Knights can defeat the nomadic cavalry in one-on-one battle. However, it is unlikely that the Western Continent Army will win the battle with a battlefield of hundreds of kilometers in a radius of several kilometers. And the land of the foreign continent is best at treating all areas of hundreds of kilometers as battlefields.

As for the front battlefield, I am not so worried. No matter how hard the horse arch is, it cannot shoot the archer's archer. It is not a question of whether the archer is accurate or not. On the battlefield, the archer's archery is negligible. The important thing is the amount of arrows, the target's protection ability and the range within a unit of time. In other words, the archer's archery is the issue of who can shoot a large number of arrows to the enemy as fast as possible. Whoever has a greater chance of winning will have. For a archer's shooting weapon, the impact of the range on the plain is not as large as the amount of arrows. Usually in such a situation, the archer or cavalry either detours and finds opportunities to charge against the enemy's infantry bow queue. Or they play to their strengths to avoid retreating for a short time. In their concept of combat, the battlefield is very large.

In addition to the weakness of shooting with the insurgent bow, the Mongolian cavalry in the previous life did not have other tactical defects. However, it was only a tactical defect for the Western army. In the previous life, the Western army could not grasp the tactical defects of the Mongolian cavalry in the previous life to defeat the Mongolian cavalry.

The most classic tactics of nomadic people in the past life were the tactics used by the Mongolian cavalry. The archers and cavalry shot on both wings, disrupted and squeezed the enemy formation. Then, in a dense rain of arrows, the Mongolian cavalry or simply used light cavalry to charge towards the chaotic enemy. The enemy was not in chaos. The Mongolian army would never charge easily. It would rather retreat and stimulate the enemy to pursue and look for opportunities than rush in when the enemy was in high combat intentions. In fact, many cavalry in the past life had used it. The Huns, Han people, Khitans, and Jurchens were used. The Mongolians used it very well.

Another weakness of the Mongolian cavalry happened to be in this charge. In the past Mongolian expedition, when the large Mongolian cavalry troops encountered the enemy head-on, the Mongolian cavalry would quickly line up in tactical queues to launch a real charge before the enemy was ready. The tactical queues were usually arranged in about five horizontal lines, each horizontal line being a single line. The distance between each horizontal line was maintained at a wide distance. This formed a wide front that was far larger than the opponent. The two columns in the front were heavy cavalry, and the remaining light cavalry were behind. In addition, a large number of rangers were making seemingly meaningless excitement and harassment of the enemy.

In terms of cavalry tactics, such a lack of training (compared to the knight storm-raid) charge array is easily torn apart by the opponent's cavalry. Even if they arrange two heavy cavalry in front, it would be useless. The one-line array itself is inherently inadequate in charge, which cannot be compensated by the thickness of the armor. This array greatly limits the power that the charge can cause. Once it encounters a cavalry that is comparable to them but is stronger than them in the storm-raid or a rock-solid infantry team, the result will be heavy losses. However, in the history of previous lives, the Mongols avoided these two weaknesses well, and rarely were caught by their opponents. The reason is no other. The change between tactics. At that time, the Western army was less able to adapt than them.

Of course, the Mongolian cavalry was not undesirable when using this type of one-line array charge. They themselves realized the shortcomings of the one-line array charge, and they also improved such a charge array.

For example, during their past life, when the Mongolian army approached the enemy, the light cavalry in the charge array would suddenly accelerate. They rushed out at high speed from the huge gap between the heavy cavalry in the front row and shot at the enemy. At this time, they had two choices, which depended on what kind of enemy they were facing.

One is that after the Mongolian light cavalry shooting, the enemy begins to collapse. Usually, the enemy that collapses under such a wave of attacks are a large number of land farmers. When encountering such an enemy, the heavy cavalry in the Mongolian army will directly rush into the enemy formation. For the collapsed enemy, even a single-line charge array is fatal. The second option is that the enemy does not collapse under the first wave of arrows. Usually, such enemy troops will be armed infantry, mercenaries, etc. In this way, the light cavalry in the Mongolian army will start to complete the team, run to the two wings, repeat the two-wing shooting, compress the enemy formation, and then the heavy cavalry charge tactics until the enemy is defeated and chased.

This more flexible combat method compared to the Western army made them exchange less casualties for more battle results in the Western Expedition, becoming a highly praised model of light cavalry tactical.

In fact, their tactics are not without rules. Mongolian cavalry also has a set of rules they follow in public during their long-term combat. It is this set of rules that Mongolian cavalry rampant in the Eurasian continent in their previous lives. The losses suffered by Western knights in the previous life in the past are just like the army in my hometown in my previous life in the past life in the island team lost in that difficult situation. The infantry of the island team was also like Mongolian cavalry, and only changed in a few ways according to their practice. However, the army in my hometown suffered for eight years.

Just as I closed my eyes and recalled, Pid picked up the report. "They pierced our civilians and all the women who dared to resist with sharpened trees, making the living afraid. Cut open the babies and eat their hearts... It's simply..." Halfway through the thought, Pid's voice trembled. "They are devils from the East, and they are even more cruel than pagans..."

When Pid finished speaking, there was a burst of noise in the conference hall, and all the officials gritted their teeth after hearing Pid's words... the only one was the exception.

"What exactly do you want to say? Empire - Prime Minister - Pid - Lord!" Just as the indignation of the officials in the conference hall was about to erupt, a cold and slightly sharp word came from the back row of the officials in the Military Affairs Department. It was Ostan. "If those barbarians come here without killing people, is it to hold a custom barbecue meeting with us? Chi-

Ostan's unkind words were like a basin of cold water, which immediately awakened all the officials present and reminded him of those words. Only then did they remember that another oriental man sat in the conference hall. Then there was a dead silence in the conference hall.

After a while, I opened my eyes, then let go of my hands crossed on my chest, and looked at all the imperial officials present. I also saw the description of the victim village in the report document just now. The reason I didn't say anything was because I had nothing to say. When I heard the news that the nomadic peoples defected to the Mutu Empire, I hoped that the nomadic people would be mobilized to the south of the Mutu Empire to fight against the Mulanders. But now... I didn't expect that those nomadic peoples would be faced. Fate always likes to put what you least want to face in front of you.

"Sorry, Your Highness." Pid also realized how dangerous what he said just now was, and immediately bowed and apologized to me.

Just as Pid apologized, Ostan tilted his head and looked at the ceiling and said, "Whether it is the Holy Son or the enemy we have faced in the past, we have taught us how to deal with things, eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth. Uh... Your Highness..."

The raised fingers interrupted Ostan's next words. I smiled satisfied in Ostan's panic: "That's my answer."

"Sorry, Your Highness. I was just...too indignant, it was really infuriating." Pid was still trying to redeem his unintentional mistake just now.

"I know, Pid, ​​sit down. You are not that stupid..." He waved his hand to Pid in an understatement: "Seeing this report from the Red Maple Commander, I think I know what the barbarians have done to my distant hometown. Now the nightmare has been driven to us. Those killed are subjects of my son, and this is his hometown. Before he grows up, I also have the responsibility to protect those subjects and protect his hometown. Now... tell the Duke of the Lion and Duke of White Rose. The reinforcements they expected are gone. If they do not want to be surrounded by the Mutu people in Bai Rose City, it is best to give up the broken city as soon as possible. I must first deal with the devil's shit and the bastard."

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This time I was a little surprised. I remember that Ostan was a genuine Bessa University student and an authentic professional student of this era. How could he say he was a literary general?

However, this time his vulgarity won the favor of the military nobles of Gotton. On the contrary, Pid seemed to have some hesitation about my sudden decision, and wanted me to take back the decision just now: "But... Your Highness. Now that autumn is about to get to the fore, we can..."

"Pid..." Before Pid finished speaking, he raised his hand to interrupt him. "A good decree can certainly make business prosperous, subjects rich, and culture prosperous. But there are some things that decrees cannot do. Just as war cannot make culture prosperous, God of the Father gave me a pair of hands, allowing me to paint, play, write poetry, and also let me hold a sword to defend these things..." I paused and stared at Pid for a while: "Now I don't want to draw or play, I just want to kill those guys. That's my territory. War requires our soldiers to have extraordinary courage to defeat the enemy, and also requires you and the Imperial Government to do so.

The ministers of the palace can ensure sufficient supplies to give them the strength to fight the enemy. It is not that we want to war now. It is that our enemies drag us into the war, which begins with their will. If the war is again ends with their will, then it will not be peace, but an endless war. Although I, like you, do not know the nomadic peoples. But I know that all enemies, whether they are from the Western Continent or from where they come from, have one thing in common, that is, for them, the things they send are never better than what they stolen."

"Lan Yuan." After saying to Pid, ​​I turned around and called Lan Yuan.

"Your Highness."

"Mobilize the Swan Castle Legion and all the Rangers to board the ship in Weeping Willow City and head to Swan Castle. At the same time, order the Viscount Red Maple to prohibit the war before I lead reinforcements to Swan Castle. In addition, order the Emperor Sax and other small warships of the Empire to head to Swan Lake."

"As for your order, Your Highness."

"Pider. Mobilize enough material to transport it to Swan Castle."

"As for your order, Your Highness."

"Bat. Send envoys to the Grand Duchy of Yaxia, I need the help of the Grand Duchy of Yaxia."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"By the way. I almost forgot you, Ostan. Go to Swan Castle with me."

"My glory, Your Highness."

With the issuance of the order, all departments of the Imperial Government started to operate. The ships collected by the Imperial Government were soon ready and transported the supplies to the Swan Castle.

Just as I was waiting for the second fleet to transport the Swan Castle Legion to Swan Castle, Viscount Red Maple sent a few pickled heads. The heads were the so-called Eastern nomads. The places they were sent together also had their clothes and weapons they used, without armor. According to Viscount Red Maple, these heads were the bodies left by these nomads when they came to plunder and were shot and killed by herders and hunters. When they were killed, these barbarians did not have any armor on them. The weapons they carried were only knives and bows.

Judging from the heads sent by Viscount Red Maple, I really can't remember which kind of nomadic people I have ever seen. I even doubted whether I had seen such nomadic people in my previous life. The barbarians wear lilac clothes and hats are not much different from those grassland people in my previous life. But those heads are difficult for me to refer them to those nomadic peoples in the east of my previous life.

Do you say these barbarians are Mongols? They have braids, and they say they are Jurchens. The braids are not the common type in the past life, but the whole head is shaved and left to braids in other parts of the head. The braids on the top of the head are different. Some are wrapped on the top of the head, and some are tied up after folding them. There is also the most prominent feature, which is that this nomadic people also plays non-mainstream and likes to wear nose rings and mouth rings. Judging from the few heads sent, I can't see the rules of face decoration for the time being. In addition, this nomadic people also like tattoos. From a certain perspective, these nomadic people are also fashionable, and can be said to have both the singular personality of the post-80s and post-90s.

Regarding this nomadic people who defected to the Mutu Empire, the common word (that is, Rana) is pronounced as "Zodiac Dog". I don't know what it means. But since I have run to my territory, I have to close the door and beat you up first.

Yesterday, a brother posted a book review expressing his disappointment. After reading it, Lao Tie deleted it casually. He said sorry here.

In fact, Lao Tie also knows that sometimes he is in a bad state and does not care about his mood. He has a deep understanding of this book for a year. Sometimes he is in a good mood and sits in front of the computer for two hours but only codes a hundred words. Sometimes when he is in a bad mood, he can code three thousand words in three hours. He can't grasp the state, so Lao Tie also hopes that he will stay in a good state and let me write those passionate words.

Please ask the brother who has been deleted to forgive Lao Tie for his emotional emotions, which may be due to habits. I remember when I was studying, my teacher once told me that if I just need to describe something in a painting, it is enough to just be calm. And if I create, I need to have extremely sensitive emotions to capture changes that are difficult to understand, and convey rich emotions to those who are watching your works in works that have limitations in expression. I think the same should be true for writing, even if it is a fantasy novel that is not included in traditional literature and art.

The book review that was deleted by Lao Tie has now become the driving force for Lao Tie to write, which also makes the plot of this book separate from the outline and accelerates the progress. However, Lao Tie does not think it is a pity to abandon the story in the middle. A book is a life, and life is full of surprises. Just like the saying in a classic film, "Life is like a box of chocolate, you will never know what the next one will taste."

No matter how long this book is, no matter what purpose I started to write, I hope to continue writing, and then start a new story after the end of this book. Even if I am still so embarrassed after writing a few books, it doesn’t matter. Because... I really love writing books.
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