Thirty thousand iron cavalry, and the same number of horse-riding servants, surged in front of Sultan Giastin Baleban, Delhi.￠￡,

All the horse-riding servants were wearing torches. At this time, the stars were already everywhere, and the night was covering the earth around Delhi, and only the sky to the north was faintly glowing red. The red light did not fall from the sky, but rose from the ground. It was obvious that someone lit a fire that soared into the sky, and there was the camp of the Delhi army on the west bank of the Yamuna River.

It seems that the fierce battle is still going on! I don’t know how long the new army there can last?

Whether it was the Ikta Knight or the Gram Guards warrior, everyone was uneasy and looked back at the sky reddished by the flames.

The new army will not be defeated, will it? If they cannot defend the Dazhai, there will be no problem with Delhi, right?

Delhi is everyone’s nest! If it is lost, can the Sultanate continue to exist? If you retreat to Lahore, how much territory does the Sultanate of Delhi have? Can you still raise so many Ikta and Gurams?

Everyone was nervous, but they had no choice but to wave the whip and urge the horse under their crotch to run faster. Now they don’t care about saving horsepower. Run as fast as possible. At worst, they can get off the horse and fight on their feet!

In the night, tens of thousands of torches formed a huge fire dragon, heading south along the Yamuna River, moving forward like a torrent.

The climate in India is divided into rainy season, cool season and dry season. It is the dry season now, with little rain in drought. The water in the Yamuna River is insufficient, the water level is relatively shallow, and there are many shallows that can be crossed. As a local snake here in Delhi, the army of the Delhi Sultanate naturally knows where to cross the river easily.

The specific location of these shallows is the guarantee of the successful detour of the Sultan of Giastin Balesban. The nearest shoal to Delhi is about to arrive, and Giastin Balesban's heart once again raised to his throat.

Now I don’t know if that shoal was discovered by the enemy?

"Sultan, His Majesty Sultan, there is fire! There is fire on the other side of the river!"

A general of the Gulam Guard suddenly screamed. The sound came to the ears of the Sultan of Baleban. The Sultan hurriedly grabbed the war horse and looked in the direction of the general's finger. He only saw a stream of fire lights that looked like stars on the vast night ground at some time.

"This is..." Giastin Balban took a deep breath, "This is the enemy's cavalry!"

The Balesban Sultan, who had been fighting for many years, could see at a glance that the distribution and movement speed of the torches must belong to a cavalry marching at night!

"They must have discovered us!" Sultan's deputy and Chief Minister Kekobad rushed to Sultan and whispered to remind him.

"That's certainly. They are not blind!" Giastin Baleban gritted his teeth, "But it doesn't matter. A small team of cavalry can't stop my 30,000 cavalry! And there is the only true god behind us, the omnipotent true god!"

Kekobad said: "Maybe they have sent infantry to block the shallow..."

This is what is really worrying. If an infantry brigade blocks the shallows with long spears, then sets up muskets and cannons to bombard them, it would be a big terrible thing.

"No, no!" Giastin Baleban shook his head. "The True God will bless us! Now, we must believe in the True God..."

What this means is to bite the bullet!

Chief Minister Kekobard glanced at his old boss and smiled helplessly. Now this is the only way! The enemy has been forced to the doorstep. If you don’t bite the bullet and fight to the death, what way can you live?

"Sultan, let my people lead the way for you!" Kekobad volunteered. He is not only the most trusted minister of the Sultan of Balesban, but also the general of the Sultan and one of the several main commanders of the Gulam Guards.

"Okay." The Sultan of Balesban nodded, "You can let the soldiers dismount. Take shields and hammer across the river, and then let some people bring their bows and arrows to cover."

The hard-headed hammer of the Gulam Guards was not equipped at the suggestion of the Mongols. They had such guys. The hard-headed hammer was a symbol of the Gulam Guards' status, so it was a handful of people. This weapon was actually useless in India, because the enemies of the Delhi Sultanate did not have heavy armor. However, this is the tradition of Gulam, because heavy armor was popular in the world of the Turkish Persian Tianfang Cult in the Middle Ages. It was not good to chop with a scimitar, so the Gulam Guards regarded the hard-headed hammer as standard, and gradually became a tradition.

In addition, the Gulam Guards also have a tactic of using hard-head hammers to fight formations, which is to fight into a row and swing the hammers down uniformly under the command of the officers. The movements are neat and uniform, very beautiful.

In addition to being able to wear heavy armor and hit people with a hard-headed hammer, the Gulam Guards are not good at shooting archery. However, the Gulam Guards are not good at riding and shooting. They are heavy cavalry and fight on horseback. They only shoot archery after dismounting and standing. It is said that the best Gulam Guards can fire five arrows in 2.5 seconds! This is an amazing rate of fire, and even the Mongolian cavalry may not be able to do it.

...

"King, there are at least tens of thousands of people!"

"It should be the Gulam Guards?"

"Just across the Yamuna River, they... probably wanted to cross the river, and it seemed that they had stopped."

Several young and strong generals from the Yongqing Shi family were surrounding King Su Shi Tianze at this time. Tens of thousands of troops marched on torches at night, of course, a big goal, and it was impossible not to be discovered by the Shi family's light cavalry.

Of course, if the Palestinian did not take a torch and walked at night, the speed of the march would slow down. We would definitely not be able to complete the detour tonight. By tomorrow, his village on the Yamuna River would likely have been occupied. By then, even if the detour was completed, it would be useless.

Moreover, even if there is no torch, the sound of tens of thousands of horses trampling on the ground is enough to expose their position. A truly experienced horse tramper can tell by just putting his ears on the ground and listening.

Therefore, the Sultan of Balesban simply asked his subordinates to march on torches, and was not afraid of the other party's discovery. Now he is just seeking speed, and he wants to succeed before the opponent can adjust the front line!

"It should be the Gulam Guards!" Shi Tianze said, "Start the rockets and gather the men."

"Old prince, do you really want to fight with them?" A confidant Shi Tianze lowered his voice. "These eight thousand sons are your hard work. It's not worth it to fight for the sake of Chen's surname..."

Shi Tianze waved his hand, "Don't be distracted by the grasshopper on a rope. Even if you want a dog to bite a dog, it is also a matter of the future. If you defeat this, our Shi family will have at least two hundred years of family and country. Your children and grandchildren can enjoy the glory. If you lose, we can still go back thousands of miles away from our motherland? Let's set the rockets! By the way, how many people have been summoned?"

"Report to the old prince, there are more than one thousand brothers coming one after another."

"Okay! Then let's go and block them." Shi Tianze stroked his white beard and asked with a smile, "My boys, have you ever put down the kung archery skills?"

Everyone around him laughed and replied, "How could he let it go? That's our skill in eating!"

Shi Tianze laughed: "That's fine, let those nobles in the Heavenly Kingdom see our Beidilang's skills."

Everyone laughed and agreed. Shi Tianze said again: "Leave the torch here and find some tree branches to insert it. Let's go there quietly. Don't fight them in close combat, just use the horse shooting to deal with it."

...

A fireball suddenly exploded in the night sky, and then turned into countless sparks, disappearing without a trace in a blink of an eye. Then another fire light rose like a flying light, turning into a dazzling fireball in the air. Then another fire light rose...

This is a signal rocket that someone is launching early warning into the night sky, one after another, and can be clearly seen hundreds of miles away.

The Gulam Guards and Ikta Knights on the other side of the Yamur River are no exception. They have arrived at a ferry called Berwall. There is a shallow here, which can be wadered during the dry season.

Kekobad led the three thousand Gulam Guard soldiers in his headquarters. At this time, they had already gotten off their horses and put on their heavy armor under the service of their servants. The Delhi Sultanate ruled the richest territory of India, and they were all good places no less than that of Jiangnan. The level of handicrafts, especially metallurgy, even surpassed that of Jiangnan, the world-famous Damascus swords under the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty, were made of Indian steel!

Therefore, the heavy armor protection of the Delhi Sultanate is not under the steel armor of the Ming army, but it is too heavy. Even the strictly trained Gulam Guard soldiers can only wear armor before going to the battlefield, otherwise people can bear it. The horses will be exhausted. The Gulam warriors not only have servants but also pack horses to follow. The heavy cavalry of this era is a costly aristocratic army!

The Gulam Guards who dismounted the horse were heavy infantrymen. The Gulam Guards soldiers holding shields with hard-headed hammers formed a formation in the front row, and the soldiers holding a quiver on the back of the compound bow followed behind the Gulam Guards.

Kekobard also got off the horse and stood at the end of the team surrounded by several personal guards. Looking at the fireballs that kept exploding in the air, the expression on his face did not change at all. After fighting with these Chinese enemies for so long, he certainly knew that the other party would call the police with the rockets.

But what if the other party knows? At this point, the detour will be successful. After the army crosses the river, they will continue to rush forward without any effort and will be in place before dawn. The other party has been fighting hard for a day and night, how much strength can they have to fight again? As long as they fight with the other party in melee before dawn, they can also fight a great victory with the endurance of the Gulam Guards.

"Cross the river!" Seeing that the troops had finished their entire team, Kekobad waved his hand without hesitation. Three thousand Gulam guards responded in Persian in unison: "There is such a great god!"

Then he waded across the river...

"Your Highness the Prince, Rocket Warning, is in the south!"

Just as Chen Defang was concentrating on the fierce battles ahead, Li Tingzhi had already discovered rockets rising in the southern air.

Chen Defang's face was full of energy at this time, and it seemed that he was sure to win in the battle today. In just half a day, he had already captured two chest walls of the opponent. If the opponent's general led the troops had decisively burned the floating bridge on the Yamuna River and caused a situation of fighting back and forth, the army of the Delhi Sultanate would have collapsed long ago.

However, now, the devastating troops of Delhi Sultan are just surviving and have been compressed on the dam beside the Yamuna River, relying on the river embankment to carry out the final resistance, but it is only a matter of time before the entire army is wiped out.

"A warning, south?" Chen Defang turned his head and looked at the sky in the south. A rocket happened to explode, and it turned into countless orange-red stars in the air like a firework.

"Is there really a trick?" Chen Defang smiled contemptuously and turned to Li Tingzhi and said, "Since the Sultan of Delhi is not giving up, then let's fight until he gives up!" He thought for a while, "Is it enough to transfer seven brigades and one artillery battalion?"

Li Tingzhi frowned slightly and thought: "King Shi Su has 8,000 cavalry. When it can delay the enemy until the early morning, we might as well attack with all our strength. First, we will solve the enemy in front of us, and then turn around to deal with the enemy behind us."

Chen Dexing shook his head and chuckled: "If you defeat the thief in front of you, will the Sultan of Balesban still hit us?"

"He can't run away. We have 8,000 light cavalry, and we can follow and harass you." Li Tingzhi frowned and explained to Chen Defang patiently, "The so-called Gulam Guards of Delhi Sultan are all heavy armored soldiers, and a pair of heavy armors costs fifty or sixty kilograms, which is almost the same as the infantry armor of Song State in the past. With such heavy armor, they can't run fast at all. If they walk two or three hundred miles, they can't compare to infantry soldiers. We just need to chase them all the way, and chase them for five hundred miles."

Of course, the most standard way Li Tingzhi gave is the most. The heavy armored cavalry is an opponent that no one wants to confront head-on. Even the formerly powerful Mongolia is unwilling to use his old capital to fight against the heavy armored soldiers of the Song State. Generally, the Han army vassals are vassals to be cannon fodder to consume their opponents. However, Chen Defang is definitely an exception.

"It's inappropriate. The enemy can escape by just abandoning the armor. If they are allowed to enter the city of Lahore, the battle of India will probably last for a long time. It's better to use a dignified formation to wipe out all the battles!"

The dignified formation... I have to fight to annihilate it all? Is this a little too big? Even your brother Chen Dexing dare not say this here, right?

Li Tingzhi wanted to persuade him again, but Chen Defang waved his hand and said, "Reinforcement is like putting out a fire. There is no need to discuss this matter. I will lead the 7th Brigade... Eighth Brigade, um, the elite troops of the Ninth Brigade went to help King Shisu. Duke Fu (Li Tingzhi's own Duke Fu of Song) You are here to govern the army. You must defeat the enemy on the banks of the Yamuna River as soon as possible, and do not care about casualties. You must know how to be in charge of the army!"
Chapter completed!