Battle for the Steppes

[Lu Bu]

The flags of the Ma army wave in the wind.The terrain for this type of battle would prove useful to the army of Ma.Across the field was Kai Khan,ruler of these barbarians.Kai Khan has waged war against Ma Teng for years,but now it was time to put a stop to that.Lu Bu called for any available Ma officers to come to this battle.His student was the first to arrive.

Zhao Ping looked on in the distance.He saw how barbarious these tribesmen were.He called up all of Lu Bu's horsemen (750 in all) to get in line and prepare for a frontal assaults.But before that he sent a messanger for reinforcements and another messanger to have peace talks with Kai Khan,to lure him into a false sense of security.

The messanger made his way to the Qiang tent,the Qiang themselves felt like poncing on him the second he arrived.He walked to the main tent.It was lavish for a tribesman,but barbarious all the same.He walked up to the throne,and began his speech.

"Noble Khan,Lord Lu Bu wishes to end this war.Right now the army of Zhao Ping are at your door and we wish that you agree to the following statements.One,you must give use 500 of your horsemen,to serve lord Teng.Two,you, yourself,must come and serve the Ma empire.And three,your tribe must surrender Xi Liang to us,if you do their shall be peace,your tribe shall stay alive,or you could simply go back to the steppes.What is your responce"?

[Hua Xiong]

Hua Xiong had traveled from Tian Shui Castle to Xia Liang to support Zhao Ping. He rode closer to his Zhao Ping and greeted him shouting from about 15 metres away,
"Zhao Ping, I am here to support you in your battle against these barbarians that will die if they don't accept our request."
He halted next to Zhao Ping on Aphrodyt and drew his two wyverns from his back pouches and held them with a firm, tight grip. His light blue cloak fluttered behind Aphrodyt's rear. Hua Xiong prepared for battle that could engage at any moment.

[Vash]

*Just not far from Hua Xiong a warrior on a dark blue horse rides with the pace of his army on foot behind him. His friend was at the city back at Tian Shui. Behind him was an long line of men walking with a calm pace. At the front there were two flags. One which had Ma Teng's Forces and the other with Angel Forces. The ground was mostly dirt and few spots on the ground were a few small patches of grass were sticking out of the ground.*

*The warrior on horseback was Wolf a good friend of Vash. He kicked the side of his horse just a few yards away from Zhao Ping. Making a larger dust cloud he pulls on the rope as he gets just within feets of both of the officers. The men behind him lined up on his flanks and very close to the rear line of and formed as one with the others.*

"Hey I came to help out. if anything goes wrong just leave it up to me I will take care of any problem. It still depends if this is going to be a battle or not but stand on your guard because we will never know until we get word or an attack."

*The light swordsmens lined up in the very front. With Hua Xiong's bowmens Wolf's bowmens combined with his. Near the front line and behind it were the spearmens and holding there spears very low so they could just hold them and hide them just a bit.*

[Hua Xiong]

Xiong looked at the newcomer of the battle, he turned his head, grinned and said politely,
"I'm Hua Xiong, nice of you to join us in this could be battle. What name do you go by general?"

[Vash]

*Out of nowhere a general has spoken to him. He rised an brow and pulled his rope so he could face the man. He cracked his neck and looked at the man with his head slighted sideways. He looked up and down at the man and then looked at his weapons.*

"Nice weapons you got there but do you think you can handle them? OH and my name is Nicholas D. Wolfwood. For short you can call me Wolf."

*Wolf looked around the man's side and could see that was his army. They were all suited for battle and looked perfectly fit.*

"Your men looked fresh and if we do have a battle do you think they can handle any kind of battle."

[Hua Xiong]

"Hmmm ... These beautys, yeah. They can overcome this battle."Twirling them professionally then again firmly gripping them.
"Hmm ... It doesn't sound like your from around Asia, hmm?"
He looked at Wolf with one eyebrow raised. He then quickly hit the reins on Aphrodyt for her to turn around so Xiong was looking over the conjoined armys. He looked over thinking about what Wolf said, "Are they fit too fight?" he thought over and over. After a long think he snapped the reins signaling to Aphrodyt to face Wolf's horse. Hua Xiong finally answerd,
"Of course! Refreshed and fit ready for a emerging battle."

[Vash]

*As Wolf was waiting for a word from Hua Xiong he looked around the land that surrounded him and the rest of the men. Getting a good look of your area and getting use to it should be the first thing you should do where ever you go. His eyes looked up at the sky and away from the light of the sun so he would not be blinded. Its like he was thinking of something also.*

*Then the general finally said something to him. He was dissappointed that it took the man so long to respond back to him. Wolf looked at his men and they all looked at him like they were waiting for an order. He looked right back at Xiong and the men went back at ease.*

"Well I know my men are ready they always are. And you should feel the same way about yours. You should not even have to think about it that long. Do you have a name for your small personal army?"

[Sun Ce]

*Kai Khan rode out atop a large, dark brown horse. It was plad in dried and stitched leather. Though leather is usually light, the horse wore it as a jacket over his coat of hair, with plently more layers covering his neck, stomach, and other vital areas. Kai Khan wore similar armor, though he had a much more fearsome look to him, spikes on his shoulders and horns on his head. He charged from atop a hill, a large scimitar in one hand, and a silver round shield that covered alot of space in the other.*

*Following him was a group of horsemen, armed to perfection. They had three javalins in a large fit quiver at the horse's side, an ordinary bow with plenty of arrows, and a shortsword for when they got up close. They met the Ma Army with a barrage of javelins, and began riding up closer, throwing another, repeating for the last. As they finished their supply of javelins, chaos broke. They began riding in a counter-clockwise motion, little order of formation, around the army, shooting them with arrows.*

*Kai Khan was at their head, leading them around the army, yet not shooting a bow.*

[Lu Bu]

(you might wanna edit that,I had a messanger come and talk with you first)

[Sun Ce]

(Bah... he dismissed the messenger and drew arms.)

[Hua Xiong]

Before Xiong had time to answer the barbarians had already started charging at Ma's army. He snapped the reins against Aphrodyt's white coated neck so Xiong faced the barbarians."YOU FILTHY VERMIN! I SHALL CRUSH YOU ALL!" He taunted shouting loudly across the dry land. As they rode around his, Wolf's and Zhao Ping's army Xiong signaled to his bowmen to fire. The bowmen raised their bows to shoulder length as they prepared the bow when they were ready they curled their two fingers around the stub they aimed the bow and released into the air. The horses were hit aswell as the riders.

[Vash]

*When Wolf just finshed his sentence Kai Khan had riden on top of an hill. Both of the general eyes turned to th man. The messenger has just been dissmissed but the forces of Ma Teng knew this kind of attack would happen. before this battle had started Wolf had made small plans for the attacks of Kai Khan and his great horses and riders. In seconds as the enemy lord had gotten to the top of the hill and watches down at us Wolf turned his head at the second in command of his small army. They both shaken there heads with confidence and Wolf turned back to Kai Khan.*

"We will take the front and center and try our best to defend your men. Zhao Ping, I think you have an idea of an counter-attack. Alright here they come!!!"

*The men under Wolf's control ran to the fronts of the line to defend. There were 50 spearmens all in 3 lines each. The very frontal line were going to be the true defenders of this attack. These men stood on there knees with one leg up for a quicker stand up. Spears were held at an 60 degree angle. Next line of spears were the first line of standing up. They held there spears at an 90 degree angel. Just in between the kneeling spears in front of them. And the final line was also an stand up group. These men did the same with there spears and all filled in the gaps. Only they held there spears a bit upwards making it be near the spearmens heads in front of them.*

*For these three lines of pointy spears were strong. All of the sharp ends of the spears were pass the person's body in front of them. Last line were still safe not to kill anyone at the very front line by stabbing them in the head or other upper body parts. Every gap was full either with a man or a sharp point.*

*Wolf looked at the horses coming closer and closer and within a few yards he drew his weapons and gotten ready to destroy anyone who is life threating to the men on his left. His horse moved side to side ready to make a move on danger. Xiong were using his bowmens to start the first wave of our small attack.*

*As the spearmen were getting in there little defencive line the swordsmens and bowmens moved right on in to get ready also. Passed there friend's ranks they jumped into there own split up formation. Lined up on the flanks were the men of swords to defend the best they can for the attacks Kai Khan horsemens were going to do. With the bowmens just behind them they ran up in the middle. Filling it in as Wolf has planned it to be. Most of the front half was facing toward the enemy horsemens and the other were facing the whole other way.*

*Both groups of bowmens loaded there arrows and hoped for the best for whats about to happen. There were ten bowmens still out there but where were they. Wolf was not even paying attention to the very front. He was so forcus on the enemy everything else just seem black to him. In the very very front pass the pointed ends of the spears ten bowmens lined up in a line had there arrows loacked and ready to release when given the order. So did the other bowmens behind the spears. With the help of another bowmen he knows the range of the bowmens and waits for the horses to get within range of them.*

*As soon as the enemy horsemens gotten just a few feet in range of the bowmen's the man signal them out and about. Only the firsts behind the spearmen bowmens fired their and not the ones facing the other way. As for the frontal bowmens they wanted until the horsemens gotten in yards of them so they could just fire an 95 degree angle arrow at the horses directly. Both attacks had to have some effect on there targets. Either from a slow wounded horse to a dead one or a wounded rider to a dead rider. For those ten brave bowmens at the front they dropped down hard and rolled towards the spearmens and face thereselves back at the horsemens and try and load there arrows again to fire one last time, if there is a last time for them.*

Sp--Sp--Sp--Sp--Sp (50)
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Sp--Sp--Sp--Sp--Sp (50)
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LsLs--BmBmBm--LsLs (20)--(30)--(20)
LsLs--BmBmBm--LsLs (20)--(30)--(20)
LsLs--BmBmBm--LsLs (20)--(30)--(20)
LsLs--BmBmBm--LsLs (20)--(30)--(20)
Ls--BmBmBmBmBm--Ls (10)--(V)--(10)
Ls--BmBmBmBmBm--Ls (10)--(All)--(10)
Ls--BmBmBmBmBm--Ls (10)--(140)--(10)
Ls--BmBmBmBmBm--Ls (10)--(^)--(10)

'This is going to be fun...."

(I think I will stop there....I could roleplay this whole thing a finsh it but maybe who should take ir by steps Sun Jian unless you are ok of me to finsh my whole post and stop at where Kai Khan horsemens are firing his arrows)

[Lu Bu]

Zhao Ping lined up his horsemen in the following order.

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Zhao Ping sounded the horns for the counterattack.He waited for Hua Xiong to finish his current volley,then charge at the enemy horsebowmen.He sat upon Black Angel,ready to capture the villian,Kai Khan.Just then a messanger from Lu Bu,that was sent to Shu arrived.

The messanger explained how rude Liu Bei and his soldiers were,shoving him off as if he was a mere spy for Wu.This could not be tolerated,because if indeed they were honorable and allies of Ma Teng,then why would they do such a thing?Just as Zhao Ping put his messanger back into line,Kai Khan's troops attacked.....

"There is no need not to wait to kill vermin such as these,move now to the left flank and keep riding until we are out of sight,that way we can flank their troops.Horsemen CHARGE"!Zhao Ping left his current position to ride of into the sun,for now; he will not be battling and will return to cause a crushing blow.

[Hua Xiong]

The bowmen finished their 2nd volley and Hua Xiong charged at the villian Kai Khan and his men. As the horsemen came closer he swung his Wyverns madly in the air hitting the riders off their horses.

"FORMATION 2"

Shbouted Hua Xiong to his troops. The bowmen went into the middle and the horsemen surrounded them with their swords pointing outwards. So if the horses came past the horses of feet would be caught wounding them.


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[Vash]

*As the spearmens shift from front to rear and rear to front thrusting there spears in the enemy horses as the others were taking few wounded men or dead men. With the enemy horsemens now done with there javelins attacks they still get closer to Wolf's lines. Wolf looked at the enemy riding around and was about to take out there bows. As soon as he saw this he jumped off his horse and waved his had to himself. With that all of the men ran right for him. His horse kneed down and the bowmen formed all around it in a circle. Just after that the spearmens formed the second layer of the circle. And next was the light swordsmens forming the last layer of the circle.*

*Everyone were in there formation and the bowmens were well protected by the inner spearsmens. With the light swordsmens in the very top of the layer of the circle they held there swords close to them and try to block any arrows that comes near. The spearmens held there spears out pass the light swordsmens heads in case of an direct attack to the center. It was like an spikey orb only sticking out of the side. The bowmens aimmed all in diferent directions and WOlf was there directer. The horsemens were moving in a kinda perfect circle or had to be. So as many of the bowmens were ready and hope they were on the right path to kill the horses off. And so Wolf gavce them the signal and that sending 500 arrows landing anywhere close near the horses.*

"Our only real defence is those spearmens. Swordsmens keep them alive and block those arrows the best you can. Bowmens just keep on firing. Spearmens hold those spears out because they could turn at us right now and charge from any side they want."