Augustus Under the Horseshoe

Julian calendar 405, Mars month, the thirtieth day. (March 30, 405 AD)

Under the command of the warchief, Gredinian, who had been silent for several years, was like a beast that had just awakened, showing its fangs and claws. Over the past four years, the population, strength, and strength of the Seven Races have gained great strength. According to the household registration statistics reported by the heads of one hundred households and one thousand households at the end of last year, there are now a total of 41,233 households, and the total population is roughly estimated to be around 120,000.

Before, the men and horses had to pull all the adult population of the clan out to fight at every turn. For a family of three, at least two soldiers must be sent to fight. The mobilization rate of soldiers is as high as two-thirds of the terrifying rate, which is almost the entire population.

But now, the people and horses live in the Gretinian Peninsula, which has a pleasant climate, lush vegetation, and no enemies. Food, wars, natural disasters and even diseases...the conditions restricting population growth have all collapsed, and the warchief even issued a series of decrees to encourage childbirth!

The crisis of the number of men and horses has been alleviated, and Peinhess has also slightly revised the strict conscription law-now it is good to have one soldier per household, so that even if a protracted expedition is launched, each family will have left. The next adult horse will take care of the children and livestock.

Of course, if there is a major crisis, the warchief will still pull all adult horses out to fight. The current 40,000 soldiers will instantly turn into 80,000.

However, the price is the tribe’s fertility, which is now slightly beyond Gredinian. If you want to feed more people, you must plunder more food and occupy more land. In order to achieve This goal requires more population-unknowingly, the tribe has entered an endless loop of expanding war.

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In this war to conquer the Caucasus, the warchief selected 10,000 men and horses to participate in the war, and 10,000 herdsmen with bows and spears. After setting up their livestock and bidding farewell to their families, they immediately took out the iron armor that the warchief had given them from the tent. , And the halberd, led two or three tall horses, and quickly gathered under the command of ten heads.

These ten teams followed the roar and ran towards the banner of their own heads of hundred households; the entire one hundred teams of hundred people merged into ten thousand households in a very short period of time, and came to Tunfang in a mighty manner. Warehouse of weapons.

The blacksmiths quickly opened the gate of the warehouse and piled them up into mountains. Large arrows more than one meter long and the thickness of a thumb were stuffed into quiveres sewn with animal skins. They were transformed into soldiers and herdsmen in a short time. Everyone picked up ten bags of arrows and hung them on the back of the steed.

And another warehouse nearby is full of large five-meter-long riding lances. From a distance, it looks like a dense steel jungle. Every soldier at least receives a lance, a heavy armored and fearless chief. The guards of the guard level received as many as three shots.

After receiving the weapons, 10,000 fully armed men and horses, stepping on earth-shaking steps, accompanied by sky-shaking dust and trembling earth, came to the clan’s food storage place, a pot of sweet fresh water, Strings of marinated dried meat and salted fish, bags of beancake made from roasted wheat and soybeans, and a large amount of warhorse feed mixed with high protein and high calories, hung the backs of these pack animals.

Painhurs looked at his army with satisfaction, five thousand dual-purpose light cavalry wearing animal skins, holding halberds and compound longbows, four thousand wearing iron armor, also equipped with halberds and compound longbows, and The dual-purpose heavy cavalry with lances and kite shields, and in the end, there are a thousand burly, bloody, angry and fearless.

These elite veterans, two bodies of man and horse, are dressed in terrifying triple armor: soft leather armor at the base; covering a large area, almost covering the whole body, like a curtain, hanging from the back of the horse to the hoof. Heavy chain armor; and metal scale armor that focuses on protecting the human body. There is also a red flag with a skeleton weeping blood inserted in the back, hunting in the blowing of the sea breeze.

And their weapons are composite longbows, lances, spare longswords, and a two-handed battle axe that is too large even for a large monster, an unusually heavy metal axe body, and a sharp axe shimmering with cold light. Blade, in the hands of these blood rage elites, exudes endless death chill.

In fact, the five thousand people wearing animal skins also had iron armor, but they were placed on the backs of pack beasts without wearing them.

The Parthian tactics that centuries are good at require a certain number of light archers. With their own speed of coming and going, and the rain of arrows that cover the sky and the sun, they can carry out harassment feints. Wearing heavy metal armor can indeed be used at a certain level. To a certain extent, it can resist the attack of cold weapons and greatly increase the probability of survival. However, it will inevitably affect the speed of the light cavalry, and the physical energy consumed when flying a kite will be more serious.

However, if there really is an occasion that requires a head-on confrontation on the battlefield, these five thousand light knights can also quickly put on iron armor within a few minutes, copy the lance on the back of the pack beast, and complete a terrifying cavalry charge like the sky and the earth. .

Although, the armor of these heavily armored centaurs looks colorful and messy. However, with such a large number of heavily armored troops, the power of the tribe is evident in itself.

The heavy chain armor on the left that hangs down from the shoulders to the chest of the horse is wrapped in red or white cloth on the edge, and there are two additional chain armor shoulders on the shoulders-the standard chain armor of the Roman Empire soldiers, the original red The cloak was replaced by a complete wolf skin and draped over his shoulders.

And the soldier on the right, the metal armor that protects the chest and abdomen, is like the skin of a silver dragon. Numerous metal scales shining with cold light are densely overlapped. You can see at a glance that it is the silver scale breastplate of Sasanian Persian. The brown bear Bai Sensen’s skull was torn off by the owner of the armor. The remaining part was directly buckled on his shoulders as decoration. Numerous dark red flexible tendons passed through the hollow eye sockets of the skull and fixed them firmly. .

Look at other places. Some people and horses wear rough chain mail decorated with white bones, heads, and fur. The position of the heart is tied to a small buckler with a skin by various means such as iron chains and ropes, in a prairie style. It's extremely obvious.

Centaur soldiers, most of them wear the above three styles of armor, but there are also lists. Some people have chain armor with a strong Gothic style. Some people have scale armor. Each piece of iron on it is not arc , But a rectangle, each piece of iron is connected by a red flexible rope, even the helmet is of this style, the dim armor piece forms a sharp contrast with the bright red rope.

Very few people even wear the bronze breastplate from the last era-probably bought from the second-hand market in Panticapone.

And a centurion, wearing a Roman chain armor, the blood-colored horizontal crown on the helmet is very conspicuous, and there are even nine discus carved with intricate patterns on the chest—standard centurion armor.

And behind the ten thousand heavy armored centaur, there is also a goblin wolf rider of a ten thousand team. Their light green or earthy brown body is just wrapped in a piece of animal fur, and the weapon is only a spear thrower, and A bag of short spears. Directing these little things are hundreds of sturdy hobgoblins.

When he landed in the Transcaucasus region and converged with the beast Leonardo, his horrible green skin that was all-soldier, also had a scale of tens of thousands, plus the naval fleet of the Eastern Gothic Kingdom, it was enough to defeat the small country built by Teverin. .

"Want to get more land! More wealth! More victories?! Follow me!!!"

Painhurs raised the halberd in his hand high, like a pale storm, and rushed out of the royal court of horses and horses. The rest of the soldiers froze for a moment, and then showed a terrifying expression of greed and fanaticism, shouting wildly. In the name of the warchief and the gods he believes in, like a torrent of destruction, sailing to the east with great strength...

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Julian calendar 405 years, flowers bloom on the second day. (April 2, 405 AD)

Transcaucasian

"WAAAGH!!!"

The deafening green-skin battle roar rushes into the sky, and the bloodthirsty and terrifying beasts wanton! Thirty or so evil sun orcs wearing blood-colored leather armor and covered in scarlet war patterns, riding on Skug, like a scarlet wind, waving the short bow in their hands, roaring forward, hundreds of feet Besides, there are more than 30 half-human half-devil riding on prairie horses.

The scouts of the evil flame clan and the Kingdom of Abkhazia met unexpectedly in the cold grassland in early spring.

"These **** green-skinned monsters again! The king has ordered! Kill them all, not one left!"

The commander of the scout squad, bending his bow and shooting arrows while issuing orders, shot a galloping moving target on the bumpy horseback. It was too difficult. Teflin and the orcs could only compensate for the accuracy with numbers. Inadequate, in the deafening sound of bowstrings, sharp feather arrows roared and tore through the cold air, biting the flesh and skin of both sides fiercely!

"Charge! Kill these monsters invading our homeland!"

The leader of the scout squad retracted his bow and drew his sword, trying to use the charge of the horse to cut off the green-skinned head in front of him with a single knife. The horse under his hip also lowered his head during the sprint. The neck was stretched straight, almost parallel to the back of the horse. The air resistance is reduced to a minimum.

However, the horse’s instinctive action of striving to achieve the fastest speed when charging has become its fatal weakness: the huge green-skinned riding Skugger, while running wildly, opened himself almost without hesitation. Big mouth as big as the blood basin of the body! Countless fangs sharp like a razor dripping with disgusting mucus!

"Crack!!!"

The battle-tested Skugger saw the time and leaped forward fiercely. The two rows of fangs, under the action of the monster's jaw and the terrifying bite force, directly penetrated the horse's flesh and skin, even the firmness. The skull, biting off half of its head alive!

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