Unknown Knight

In addition, Zhebu divided the light cavalry into five waves and let them patrol around the enemy like a pack of wolves.

Once the enemy reveals any flaw, these light cavalrymen maneuvering around will rush forward and attack without hesitation, and when the enemy organizes a counterattack, they will quickly withdraw without any delay.

In addition, Zhebu only allowed three cavalry teams of 100 people to carry out the mission, and the other two took turns to rest, which allowed the light cavalry to always maintain sufficient physical strength.

On the other hand, the army of the third prince was already in a panic because their hometown had been raided. In addition, there was a cavalry unit next to them that they could see but could not touch, which would come up and bite them from time to time like a hungry wolf. Although this light cavalry unit that was very skilled in both long-range and close combat might not take their lives in a short period of time, panic had already begun to spread among the three armies.

Before moving camp, the three princes had a brief negotiation and agreed that the three families would cooperate and support each other and advance and retreat together. However, the three brothers were already disunited. At the beginning, the three families could still follow the prior agreement. However, after the cavalry led by Jebu succeeded in several attacks, the three princes' own thoughts began to show serious differences.

Especially Niza's third brother Azzam and fifth brother Sharif, the two had already received accurate news that their cities of Amrad and Bariya had been lost.

However, the eldest prince's Nubian city Dukuba was not lost. When he heard the news, he had an idea in his mind. He thought that since his two younger brothers' cities had been lost, he might as well persuade them to join forces with him to fight the enemy together.

One of the benefits of this for the eldest prince is that it concentrates the strength of the three families, giving him a greater chance of winning against the army of unknown origin.

And once he reaches his own territory, Dukuba City, he can control the food, lodging, and wages, and spend a little money to win over the middle and low-level generals. As long as he finds a suitable opportunity, he can easily incorporate the armies of his two younger brothers that have lost their foundation. Isn't this a good plan to kill two birds with one stone?

Under the influence of this idea, the eldest prince Nubia tried his best to keep marching with the armies of his two younger brothers, and in the name of safety, he asked everyone to slow down the march as much as possible so as to resist the harassment of the Jeb light cavalry together.

In fact, he had already sent out his elite reconnaissance cavalry and had roughly figured out the movements of the army of unknown origin. He calculated in his mind that it would be best to let the three armies and Aix's army arrive in Dukuba City one after another, so that he could take advantage of the situation and ask his two younger brothers to lead their armies into the city as well.

It's just that the eldest prince Nubia had a nice idea, and his two younger brothers were not stupid either. Now that the disaster was imminent, not only did a large number of people suffer losses after several attacks by Jeb, but also those who fell behind driving cars, it turned out that 20% of the tenth manpower had been lost. Who would care about the previous agreement between the three families?

At first, they wanted to use the troops at hand to retake their nest, but after several attacks by Zhebu, not only did they lose a lot of men, but also a lot of food and grass. It seemed uncertain whether they could return to their nest safely if this continued, let alone retake the lost city.

The two families now only want to speed up their progress so that they can return as soon as possible. They are even willing to abandon some unnecessary baggage, some temporarily recruited militiamen and the elderly, weak and sick, and only retain their own elite troops. In this way, they can not only greatly increase their marching speed, but also their actual combat power will not be greatly reduced. After returning, they can still hope to retake their own nest.

In this way, the three brothers had their own ulterior motives, so how could they abide by the previous agreement? The three families began to gradually widen the distance between them, especially Sharif, whose base was in the city of Barie. He was the farthest away and the most anxious, leaving his third brother Azzam's team behind him three kilometers away.

However, this posture of competing to march, and even the act of abandoning some militia servants, brought about a bad consequence, causing the three armies to begin to panic uncontrollably.

The vast majority of soldiers, especially the lowest-ranking soldiers, had no way of knowing the true intentions of their own prince. They only saw their own army rushing back in panic like a stray dog, and harassing cavalry would often suddenly appear around them, and each wave of harassment would take the lives of some unlucky soldiers.

Worried about being abandoned by the chiefs, and even more worried about the light cavalry around them like hungry wolves, ready to rush over and kill them at any time, the ordinary soldiers under the three families began to resist orders from above and became increasingly unrestrained.

When faced with harassing light cavalry attacks, ordinary soldiers no longer resisted, but simply fled and hid to save their own lives.

Then an intriguing spectacle appeared in the desert. The elite Sarranid infantry and cavalry, numbering as many as five or six thousand, were chased around like sheep by several light cavalry units of less than a hundred people.

Zhebu soon discovered the enemy's changes, so he did not hold back and boldly sent out all his cavalry. He gave them only one order, which was no longer to focus on attacking the enemy's baggage and food supplies as before, but to use raids and infiltration to disrupt the enemy's formation, causing confusion and panic in the enemy until they collapsed and fled.

The five light cavalry centuries that received the order were like five excited and bloodthirsty wolves, scratching and biting the enemy non-stop. This lasted for less than a day before the enemy no longer cared about their formations, food, and supplies, and began to flee in a complete rout.

Niza, who was far behind them, soon received a message from the signalman sent by Jeb, and immediately ordered the entire army to abandon some of the baggage and advance at full speed to pursue the enemy who had already completely fled.

As a result, the armies of the three princes could no longer avoid this doomed defeat. They first encountered a fierce attack from Jeb's light cavalry, and were repeatedly penetrated and cut by five teams of 100-man light cavalry, which scattered the three armies.

After the light cavalry charge, the frightened stragglers scattered in the desert tried to gather together under the leadership of some powerful chiefs.

But before they could gather their strength, they encountered the large army of Niza who were marching at a rapid pace. They were easily defeated and scattered again, becoming defeated soldiers who fled for their lives, and no longer had the will to organize any resistance.

However, the three armies were not a motley crowd. Each of the three princes had a group of loyal elite soldiers, the most core of whom were the Mamluk heavy cavalry.

As mentioned before, these Mamluk heavy cavalry were bought from slave traders by chiefs and nobles at a very young age. After arduous training and layers of selection, only a very small number of them can become Mamluks, and each one is the elite among the elite.

The most important thing is that these Mamluks were all born as slaves and had no close relatives to rely on. They could only be loyal to the chiefs and nobles who supported them with generous conditions.

There were also many perverted chiefs and nobles who castrated the Mamluks as soon as they were purchased. Their purpose was to cut off their human desires and make them loyal to themselves like eunuchs, so that they could better control them and serve them.

With such a group of loyal Mamluk heavy cavalry always guarding them, the three princes quickly gathered many noble relatives' armed forces and the elite warriors with strong martial arts in the army with them as the core.

There were about two thousand people, who surrounded the three princes in the center and fled towards Dukuba City.