General Moreno knew that it was impossible to defeat his opponent in a street duel. So, he commanded in a loud voice:

"Plate infantry stand back, let the sword and shield soldiers come up!"

The plate infantry is the trump card in his hand, and he can't be killed by the enemy so easily. And the French saber and shield soldiers also had six or seven hundred people.

However, unlike the elite sword and shield soldiers of the Fourth Legion, the sword and shield soldiers of the French army are only ordinary troops. The wooden shield they used was not covered with iron sheets, but just ordinary wooden shields. They did not wear plate armor either, but only ordinary leather armor.

In terms of combat effectiveness, they were certainly no match for Morson's elite sword and shield soldiers. But his purpose was only to reduce the casualties of the plate infantry and, in addition, to slow down the enemy's advance.

Slowly, more than 600 French sword and shield soldiers stepped forward and replaced the plate infantry with less than 400 men. Subsequently, the musketeers of Femborough also stopped shooting. Because, although their clockwork muskets are not afraid of rain, they are difficult to reload. If it rains, it is fine to shoot a rifle, but if the gunpowder is rained when it is reloaded, it will be over. So, they also try not to waste bullets on ordinary French soldiers.

At this moment, the elite sword and shield soldiers, who had been beaten by the French plate armor infantry and could not advance, regained their vitality and began to use their equipment advantages to bully the ordinary sword and shield soldiers of the French army in front of them.

The musketeers of Van Paul took refuge in the houses on the side of the road to reload the wound muskets that had been fired. They all carried gunpowder in oil-paper bags, and as long as they entered the rain-proof house, they could reload their ammunition normally......

But the two sides who were fighting fiercely did not see that the French commander Moreno was already quietly retreating with the remaining 400 French plate infantry.

Moreover, after retreating, Moreno quietly called a large number of ordinary French infantrymen to go to the houses to carry miscellaneous things out and began to block the streets......

In other words, the more than 600 ordinary sword and shield soldiers of the French army who ran to the front and fought hard with the handsome elite sword and shield soldiers were regarded as outcasts by Moreno......

……

"General, what do we do now? The enemy's army has entered the city! Monchi, the captain of the French plate infantry, asked.

General Moreno hesitated for a moment, then said:

"Now, Monchi, you divide the 400 plate armor infantry into two parts, and go around the alley next to you to the path under the city wall on the north and south sides of the west gate, and then suddenly attack the west gate from the north and south sides."

"However, you have to be optimistic about the timing, and it is best to wait until all the enemy's sword and shield soldiers have left the gate of the West Gate before launching a surprise attack. That way, you won't have to deal with those damn sword and shield soldiers. After entering the city gate, don't care about anything else, close the city gate first. Then, defend the gate hole. When the time comes, I will mobilize other armies to encircle and suppress the enemy's sword and shield soldiers! ”

"How do you encircle and suppress those sword and shield soldiers? Normal weapons are not effective against them at all! Monchi said depressedly.

Moreno confidently said:

"Don't be afraid, I'll send someone to block the main road of Ximen Street now. In the meantime, I've sent to gather all the Warhammer soldiers in the city. These war hammer soldiers were originally designed to deal with plate armor. Swords and shields are just as difficult to break through as plate armor, but warhammers can still do their job. At the same time, I will send people to the blacksmith shops and other places in the city to collect all the sledgehammers and distribute them to the strong soldiers to use to smash the enemy's shields and plates! As long as those sword and shield soldiers are fed pigs by the warhammer soldiers, and with your cooperation, there is nothing to worry about! ”

"That'...... Those musketeers? ”

Moreno sighed and said:

"There's no good way, so I can only fight hard. Also, I'm going to find some archers. Like, those musketeers didn't wear plate armor......"

"But we don't have any archers in our army......" Monchi said with some depression. With arquebusiers in place, crossbowmen began to be phased out in the French army. Now it's raining, and it's so depressing.

Moreno shook his head and said:

"There are no crossbows in the army, but there are still people in the city. I remember that there was a shop near the Doge's Palace that was run by an Englishman who specialized in the sale of English longbows, and I sent someone to forcibly requisition the longbows in that shop, which were ......"

"That's all it takes...... Meng Qi nodded, and then divided the remaining 400 plate armor infantry into two teams, relying on the familiarity with the terrain of the city, and went around the alleys to the north and south sides of the west gate......

……

At this time, the main force of the British army, led by General Sabrakin, one of Edward's close confidants, went around the west gate from the north and prepared to enter the city.

However, at this time, the sword and shield soldiers of both sides were still fighting a decisive battle on the street of the west gate of Calais, and the city gate was blocked in a panic, and it was difficult for the main force to enter the city at all.

Sabragin thought for a moment and ordered:

"Since it is difficult to move forward, then you make way for my soldiers to climb the stairs on the side to the gate tower, and then attack the north gate tower from the city wall. Then, go down from the north gate tower and open the north gate......"

It's a good idea to bypass enemy blockades. But Morson prevented:

"General, I heard that there are a lot of debris stuffed in the gate hole of the North Gate, even if you capture the North Gate Gate, if you want to open the North Gate, you will have to clean up the debris for a long time, and you will have to face the French counterattack!"

After a pause, Morson suggested:

"I think we might as well attack the south gate from the wall, right? The south gate is the entrance passage for French reinforcements, and there will definitely be no more debris in the city gate! ”

Sabragin immediately nodded, and then ordered:

"Okay, that's it! Morson, your sword and shield soldiers lend me 100 to be the vanguard of the attack on the men's gatehouse. My army, all on the wall, marched towards the south gatehouse. Of course, there was a limit to the number of people who could be accommodated on the walls. Most of the rest of the people went around from outside the city to the south gate, waiting for the city gate to open! ”

"Yes, follow your orders!"

Subsequently, the commando soldiers who were surrounding the inside of the West Gate Gate Gate Cave turned sideways to open a passage, allowing the main force outside the city gate to enter a group of people and climb up the West Gate Gate Tower through the stairs. Then, 100 soldiers in the back row of sword and shield soldiers also followed up the city wall, and as a vanguard, they ran along the city wall to the city gate tower at the south gate of Calais......

Forty minutes later, two groups of French plate infantry led by Monchi had quietly clinged to the base of the city wall and came to the vicinity of the west gate.

At this time, the elite sword and shield soldiers of the British army had successfully defeated the ordinary sword and shield soldiers of the French army, and killed in front of the barricade area set up by the French, and began to move the barricades. And near the city gate, there are no more sword and shield soldiers with super high protection.

Meng Qi saw the opportunity and shouted, and the French plate infantry at the base of the city wall on the north and south sides of the west gate immediately rushed out bravely and slaughtered towards the city gate, killing hundreds of Beihai musketeers and dozens of ordinary commando soldiers on the spot. Then, rushed into the cave of the city gate.

But what Meng Qi didn't expect was that because the commander-in-chief of the British army, General Sabragin, was outside the West City Gate, hundreds of English knights gathered at the West City Gate at this time......

Although the English knights are not as many as the French knights, there are still a number of them. It just so happened that General Sabragin had 500 rare English knights around him......

Seeing the French plate infantry coming to the city gate, General Sabragin was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered the English knights around him to dismount, brandished their two-handed swords and rushed forward, killing the plate infantry led by Monchi......

You know, these English knights are authentic knights, and they are still more powerful than the French plate infantry. Although the members of the French plate infantry are also basically from the knight family, they are generally eliminated members who fail the knight examination. Although the martial arts are stronger than ordinary people, they are still inferior to regular knights. Moreover, these French plate infantry suffered a big loss in weapons......

Although the same two-handed broadsword was used, the two-handed sword used by the French plate infantry was processed by the French from pig iron ingots, and the quality was just like that.

The two-handed swords used by the English knights were purchased from the North Sea Kingdom. The material is made of steel!

The two-handed greatsword of the English knight is made of medium carbon steel with good toughness, and it is carbon spring steel with added silicon manganese elements. However, the appearance of the sword body, especially the cutting edge, has been carburized, and it is abnormally hard.

After many collisions, the pig iron two-handed greatsword of the French plate infantry was no match for the steel sword of the English knight, and many of them were cut off. Then, naturally, he was abused by the English knights and was completely annihilated......

When the most elite troops of the French defenders of Calais were wiped out, the French army in the city could no longer resist the British attack......

Soon, the south gate of Calais was lost, and a large number of British troops poured in from the south gate, copying the back road of the French army. After most of the day's fierce fighting, the fortress of Calais officially changed hands......