The inevitable war has finally begun, and the bloody battle is in full swing!

As the French soldiers rushed forward like wolves, all the archers in the Venetian army reacted almost at the same moment!

The 70,000 troops led by Alger this time were veritable soldiers, and they were also the strongest elite of Venice, and the quality of the soldiers looked around the entire Mediterranean, at least among the top three, as can be seen in the performance of archers!

The archers quickly formed three columns, the first row of archers knelt on one knee to form a low-angle shot, the next row of archers was straight, flat-ended longbows, and shot normally, but the archers of the last row raised the arrows and shot the enemy at a high altitude with a parabolic trajectory.

"Whoosh Whoosh ......."

Flying locust-like arrows suddenly filled most of the space of the entire battlefield, covering the ground and shooting out in all directions at the same time! The light of the entire battlefield was actually dim!

Chaotic screams rang out, and countless French soldiers were shot and fell off their horses, and then trampled into a mass of flesh by the torrent of battle formations rolling from behind! But the follow-up soldiers still rushed up with desperate flying horses! This round of offensive was actually all cavalry offensive! Looking at this posture, it was to disrupt Alger's army formation in one fell swoop, forcing them to fight separately, which was conducive to extermination!

Only a few waves of arrow rain French cavalry or wounded or killed, no less than a thousand, although the speed of the horse is fast, but the arrow rain is undoubtedly denser and more ruthless, although the French cavalry is numerous, but for a time it can not approach!

Charles VIII saw that the elite cavalry he had painstakingly cultivated had lost nearly half of his efforts in less than a cup of tea, and he was very distressed, and he had the heart to change to another team to attack again, the corner of the young man's mouth lifted, and said, "Your Highness is heartbroken?"

Charles VIII didn't seem to dare to offend the young man, and said in a harmonious voice: "Sir, our army is far superior to that Alger, why should we consume the cavalry so much, it will inevitably lose too much!"

The young man smiled coldly: "The so-called great things, informal, the benevolence of the woman above the battle array, although the army led by Alger is 70,000, but it is a few elite soldiers in the world, if you can't solve the battle as soon as possible, it will inevitably fall into a stalemate situation, after a long time, variables are self-generated, and it is not good to have many dreams at night." Moreover, the Venetian army is a rapid march this time, and the redundant equipment must be carried less, as long as there are a few casualties, it will inevitably be able to meet in short arms, at that time, what can the Venetian army do!"

Although Charles VIII was distressed, he felt that the young man was indeed reasonable, so he had to be ruthless and watch the battle with his heart!

As the young man had expected, after the French cavalry had paid more than 500 casualties, the distance between the two sides was finally only one stone's throw away, and the archers shot two more rounds of sharp arrows, and the French cavalry had already arrived in front of them! Under the rising sun, it could be clearly seen that all the faces were extremely hideous and terrifying!

Alger, however, was not in a hurry, and the red flag in his hand slashed down fiercely! Suddenly, countless stout wooden stakes were thrown out of the Venetian military formation! They all fell seven or eight feet away in front of the Venetian military formation! They were densely spread all over the ground! Some were long and some were short, some thick and some were thin, some were horizontal and some were vertical.

Just these seven or eight zhang space has formed a dividing line between life and death!

The French cavalry rushed forward like a whirlwind, just now suppressed by the rain of arrows, helpless, now it is close at hand, just waiting to be returned, a sudden mutation came. I didn't have time to react, so I hit my head over!

Many cavalry horses lost their hooves in an instant, the horses fell one after another, and the cavalry on horseback was caught off guard, and there was no room for adaptation, and one by one the upside-down onions fell down! The cavalry behind them were also galloping at high speed, where to stop in a hurry, and suddenly collided with the front again, for a while, people turned over on their backs, and they may not die if they fell off the horse, but the horse team behind them came one after another, and people fell on the horses, how could they still survive, as soon as the people fell, between a few breaths, they were trampled into meat by the war horses, and the scene was miserable!

The archers of the Venetian army stood up, and the arrows rained down, mercilessly slaughtering the defenseless enemies in front of them!

In the French army, the horn of withdrawal finally sounded. Charles VIII finally could not bear the loss of his elite cavalry, and forcibly gave the order to withdraw from the turbulence! The young man's face sank like water, and he didn't say a word!

The French cavalry at the back finally reined in their horses, and before the Venetian army arrayed, the space of less than ten zhang was already a hellish miserable situation! Many French soldiers who had been hit by arrows but could not die in an instant were still rolling on the ground in pain, howling miserably, and on the dry ground, blood flowed into thin streams, and the dead horses piled up like mountains, together with the corpses of French soldiers, just deliberately forming a barrier between the Venetian and French armies!

In this attack, the casualties of the elite cavalry of France were more than 6,000! In the direction of Venice, only a few hundred people were slightly wounded, and only a few dozen were killed. It's a big win for Alger, and he takes the lead!

"General!" a partial general looked at the battle situation in front of him expressionlessly, but said to Alger beside him: "Although the first contact was successful, the enemy was outnumbered, the army strength of the arriving side was more than five times that of mine, and it was surrounded on all sides, the situation was too dangerous, we need to break through as soon as possible!"

"Not busy. Alger watched the French soldiers retreat like a tide, shook his head, and said, "It's only the first wave of French attacks, and it's not clear how their forces will be distributed. Or wait a little longer. Dayuan, France knew that our army was waiting for the battle, and actually came up and sent cavalry to kick the camp, which is already very unusual. ”

The general, Marcus, had been with Alger for more than ten years, and was Alger's right-hand man. His brows furrowed as well, and he said, "Yes, this matter is very incomprehensible. At the moment, the best way to pay more for our army is not to advance slowly with the infantry, and the archers and spearmen to make intensive attacks first. As long as a large number of bows and arrows in our army are consumed, the elite cavalry will be dispatched in the end, and the elite cavalry will be dispatched to wait for work, and will surely defeat our army in one fell swoop with the momentum of thunder. This was the most basic military common sense, but the other side did not adopt it, but instead adopted the foolish cavalry charge! People were puzzled, and their subordinates thought that there were two possibilities for a commander who could make such a decisive decision. ”

Alger asked, "What are the two possibilities?"

Marcus said: "The first possibility is that the current commander of France is not good at commanding troops, and he thinks that he has the chance to win, so he has committed the taboo of soldiers! ”

"This is impossible!" a partial general next to him retorted: "How can the commander of the 400,000-strong army not be good at commanding the troops? If he is really not good at commanding the troops, how can he set such a careful ambush trap, I think this move must have other motives!"

Marcus nodded and said, "However, the second possibility is that our reinforcements are very likely to have arrived in a hurry on the way, and the other party is in a hurry to make a quick decision, so there is such a mistake!"

A middle-aged general came up, it was the general who had quarreled with Apollo and won the bet, named Jonathan, and only listened to him: "This is not very likely, both of them are already determined to kill us, where will Venice send us any additional reinforcements? What's more, the general's descendants have already poured out of the nest this time, what backup is there there? Even if there is information to help, it will inevitably be blocked by the 30,000 army of the three mongrels, and in my opinion, it must be another conspiracy of this group of French saddles." ”

Everyone nodded in unison. Apollo's identity was Alger's personal guard, and it was not his turn to speak at this time, but when the matter was urgent, he couldn't take much care of it, and said loudly: "Who we don't have reinforcements? My son's reinforcements will arrive soon! These saddles of France, in the eyes of the son, are just a group of chickens and dogs!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was relatively speechless. These people have stayed on the battlefield in recent months, except for the news related to the war, other news can be almost completely blocked, how do they know that Nangong Yu has risen in the sky and is under the shock! In my heart, I still have the impression that he is a good-for-nothing gentleman, at most he is a gentleman with good kung fu.

To everyone's surprise, Alger actually nodded and said, "Yes, I believe he will definitely lead the army here." Therefore, before he arrives, we must find a stable place to hold on, and try our best to delay time until reinforcements arrive! What we lack now is time, and the longer it drags on, the more favorable the situation will be!"

The generals already had a fixed opinion about Nangong Yu in their hearts, although it was confirmed by Alger, it was inevitable that some generals would be suspicious, but they still agreed in unison!

Marcus said: "I believe that when the enemy attacks again, it should reveal their true attack intentions." And directly besieging and annihilating our army is the most subordinate method. Even though the French army is many times superior to our army, but the elite strength is far inferior, if you want to annihilate our entire army, at the moment the French military strength will be lost at least half, I believe that such a huge consumption, the French people in charge will not be willing to bear, and may not be able to afford it. Therefore, the general will deduce that France will inevitably adopt the tactics of encircling three and one, opening a gap, letting our army escape, breaking the morale of our army, and pursuing at the tail of the tail, which is the right way. ”

"And there must be another ambush on the road that has been set aside!" Jonathan said, "As long as the generals who have been on the battlefield a few times do not know?"

Marcus smiled slightly, and said: "People's will to survive is so strange, knowing that there are traps in the place where it seems to be a way to live, but they will also covet the temporary vitality and step in, if we do the opposite, or it is the real life, if we break through from the opposite direction, that is, the strongest side of the enemy's army, and fight desperately, if we can get out of the encirclement, it is the real way to survive! That is, if the gap they leave is the north, we will break through to the south! If they leave the east, we will break through to the west." He smiled proudly and said: "In this way, we will certainly be able to take the enemy by surprise, and the risk will be reduced a lot! Although breaking through in the opposite direction will inevitably face the strongest side of the enemy's army, the enemy will adopt the tactic of encircling three and one, and at the beginning of the war, he will inevitably refuse to tear and kill desperately, and if he advances on three sides, the troops will inevitably be scattered, and our army's military strength will be superior, and in addition to fighting with all his might, I believe that the vitality variables will definitely increase greatly!"