"Eeyah!... Yeehah!..."
"Jingle!... Jingle!..."
The intimidating cries of ten Yabusame riders, together with the bamboo bells clattering on their horses and the bamboo horo billowing with a whoosh, were so striking on the open battlefield. It seemed the purpose of these Wagoku cavalry was not to charge and kill at all, but simply to make an astonishing racket!
These elite riders among the Wajin warriors kept to a trot, riding out from behind the Wajin spear formation in the middle and arriving between the two sides' spear lines. Without haste or hurry, they used their horses' speed to loose two volleys from afar at the Kingdom's spear formation several hundred paces away.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!..."
Scattered arrows flew over and landed on the Kingdom Warriors' cloth-covered armor, causing no casualties at all. They did not even pierce the cloth surface. At this distance, the Wagoku riders' horse bows could only wound unarmored Ainu warriors. More than anything, they were merely harassing the formation and striking at morale.
"Main God! What is that? How can there be a monster with a human body and deer legs that makes a human cry? And with such a huge body!"
"Damn it! That's not a monster, it's a man riding a horse! That thing on his back is some kind of frame for scaring people, and the red cloth on it is still fluttering... Main God! These strange four-legged riding beasts, these bizarre horses that carry people as they gallop!..."
"Ah! How uncanny! The tribes on this Western Sea continent can actually ride animals like deer into battle!..."
At this moment, though the scale of the war was small, it was the first clash between the New Continent's Nahua warriors and Old Continent cavalry from ancient times to the present day!
Facing these "cavalry" they