The battle formation of thousands of people may not really be a big scene in Art's original memories from later generations, but for the ordinary soldiers of the Welsh Legion who have lived in a vast and sparsely populated environment since childhood, this kind of scene is shocking enough.

Hundreds of people on both sides raised their weapons in the flat and open wasteland outside the city and rushed towards each other, and the visual impact and auditory shock were the most intense.

The most effective infantry of the Welsh Legion was the banner team under the command of Kazak and Tuba, which did not possess absolutely excellent weapons and armor, in fact, since the arrival of Art in Paris through borrowing money and the harvest from the Dean family, the armament of the Welsh Legion has improved considerably, and for the average infantryman, everyone's weapons and armor are roughly the same.

The strongest of the banners of Kazak and Tuba is due to the fact that they have the highest proportion of veterans, and almost half of the soldiers of these two banners have more than five wars, and most of them were in the regiment before the national war of Provence. In the rest of the Welsh Legion, only the squad leader is generally a veteran, and the number of veterans in the very brave heavy infantry is less than a third, and the heavy infantry is just a slightly stronger soldier.

Why would Yate spend a lot of money to build the most elite baggage medical team possible? Today, a medic has the status of a Welsh regiment more than a squad leader. The reason is also very simple, Art needs to treat more wounded soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the wounded soldiers who can survive the enemy's sword will increase in vain, maybe even they themselves don't know why they will no longer tremble so much when they come back to the battle after being stabbed by the enemy, and the spearhead that stabs at the enemy and the sword that slashes at the enemy will no longer shift.

However, the two most powerful flag teams left the military formation, so the Welsh legion, which was facing the western army in the open space east of Vaal City, not only did not have an advantage in combat strength, but was in a disadvantageous position from the beginning.

Attacking Vaal City was the Palace Janissary Legion and the elite Western Frontier Army, especially the Praetorian Guard Legion, needless to say, their training is not comparable to the ordinary army, for the ordinary standing legion, two days of training a week is normal, three days can be regarded as strict military discipline and well-trained, and the training of the Praetorian Guard Legion has reached five days of training per week.

The Welsh Regiment trains six days a week, from dawn to dark, and this intensity of training can be called devil's training. However, less than a year after the official formation of the Welsh Legion, most of the soldiers were civilian-born farmers, laborers and miners, hunters, woodcutters and even robbers, and the only iron tools they had access to before joining the Welsh Legion were iron hoes received from their fathers and grandparents, and even more so, many of them borrowed iron hoes from the lord's farm implements and houses.

On the other hand, the Praetorian Legion, which was established under the court after the Count of Burgundy became an autonomous marquisate, grew from a hundred and ten men to three infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment over the decades, and although it rarely fought wars, it also accumulated enough combat experience.

Such an army is not accessible to ordinary civilian farmers.

Most of the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard are elite soldiers selected from the armies of the country, and every year the court will select a group of soldiers from all over the country to enter the palace guard legion, and after a few years of mixing in the palace guard corps, they will also be sent to the frontiers and provinces of the country to serve in military positions. Another major source of the Praetorian Legion is the sons of the "middle class", most of them are the second sons of low-ranking knights and nobles who have no right of inheritance, the sons of merchant officials, or excellent professional mercenaries, who are all heading for the good treatment and broad prospects of the Praetorian Guard.

Whether selected soldiers or "middle-class" sons, these people have a physique and an innate ability to fight beyond civilians (at least they have access to weapons from an early age}.

The disparity between the two armies, the history of their formation, and even their weapons and armor was evident in the first moment of engagement.

The shock formation of the Western Army, with a slightly complete infantry regiment of the Praetorian Guard Corps as the arrow front, another infantry regiment and a regiment of the Western Army as the flanks, rushed straight towards the Wells Corps.

Before the infantry of the Western Army rushed into battle, the cavalry of the thirty cavalry had already set out from the right flank, diagonally nailed to the right flank of the Wells Legion and the middle army, and the Palace Guard Corps had a full-time cavalry regiment, so the infantry regiment was not equipped with heavy cavalry, and the only thirty or so cavalry were also light cavalry responsible for transmitting military orders and battlefield sentinels, and they rarely joined the battle. This was one of the few superior strengths of the Welsh Regiment compared to the Janissary Legion infantry regiment.

The enemy's cavalry tried to rush over and interfere with the army's formation, and Lusignnan immediately led more than 20 cavalry of the Wells army to rush over, intercept and drive the western cavalry away, and chased the western cavalry to the flank......

While the cavalry was fighting, the gōng nǔ hands of the two armies also began to shoot at the opposing army's formation, and the Wells regiment almost had a shield in their hands, so they were not damaged much in the rain of arrows. However, the Western Army made full use of the weapon advantage of their besieging side, and used small trebuchets in infantry field battles, fist-sized stones kept beckoning to the Wells legions, and the stones flew hundreds of paces away, as long as they rubbed a little edge, they could break people's bones, and the Wells legions heard a few shouts from time to time......

In order to minimize the damage caused by the stones thrown by the trebuchet, the Arte made a quick charge, forcing the two armies to engage as quickly as possible, and once the two armies merged with the trebuchets on the opposite side, they would stop.

However, the initial superiority of the Welsh regimental cavalry was not born in the infantry.

At the beginning of the battle, the infantry formation of the Wells Legion was immediately dented, and the adjutant of the legion Odo, who commanded the infantry in the rear, immediately put the prepared heavy infantry team on top, and the strong men of the heavy infantry team led by the fierce Klaus went up, which stopped the retreat of the Chinese army.

The squad leaders and squadron leaders of the Wells Legion desperately tried their best to stabilize the soldiers' positions, and the soldiers with spears and shields protected their bodies with their shields, and at the same time stabbed the winged short spears in their hands at the weak parts of the enemy's shield armor, while the halberd chains on both sides kept waving the halberd chains, the barbs of the halberds hooked through the flesh and blood of the enemy soldiers and tore desperately, and the chain hammers of the chain flail hands also waved and smashed the iron armor helmets of the enemy soldiers; The Western Army also reaped the lives of the Welsh Regiment infantry with their thick armor and wielding long swords and battle axes in their hands......

This kind of melee is absolutely indispensable to the soldiers who are afraid of death, so both sides have sent the military law team responsible for supervising the battle or the commander's personal soldiers to press the formation, but any soldier who has the slightest intention of retreating will be immediately beheaded by the overseer, and the soldiers have no way to retreat but to kill the enemy desperately......

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"My lord, the Chinese army withstood it, but the right flank began to show disadvantage. Bangada's flag team has already lost a squadron, and the right flank may break up. Otto rode back to Arte's rear on a warhorse and reported to Art on the right flank.

Art stepped on his horse and immediately looked over, the right flank was indeed rushed in by the enemy, and he could see several officer-like Western troops slashing and slashing in the formation.

Although the left wing was relatively stable under Angus's personal axe-wielding battle, it did not have the slightest advantage.

The Welsh Legion was a little overwhelmed.

"The herald will raise the wolf smoke, and the guards will follow me to support the right flank!" Art yelled at Ron's side, removed the bow and arrow from his saddle, and kicked his horse toward the right flank.

Ron turned his head and let Matthew wave the flag three times in the direction of the barracks in the back room, and also raised his riding spear, and followed Art to the right flank.

In a few moments, three puffs of smoke rose from the barracks behind the Wells Legion, and the smoke reached into the sky......