Without speed, these hussars of the coalition army of the princes of the eight countries, in front of the old and spicy Ukrainian Cossacks, are no different from lambs to the slaughter. Not to mention, the Cossack cavalry was still overwhelmingly superior in numbers.

As a result, the remaining more than 2,000 allied hussars were quickly routed by the Cossacks and scattered in all directions. At this time, the black-shirted knights relied on the advantage of being lightly armed, and finally caught up with those plate knights.

But this time, Durm's order was very different:

"Shoot the horse! Shoot the horse! "For the sake of victory, Durm can't care about the preciousness of those war horses.

Generally speaking, in this era, a good knight's war horse can be sold for tens or hundreds of gold coins. Therefore, in battle, war horses are very valuable trophies. In previous encounters, the black-shirted knights also preferred to shoot knights with small targets rather than horses.

But now it's different, at such a critical juncture, victory is the only pursuit. And for smoothbore guns with a low hit rate, it is easier to block the enemy by shooting the enemy's war horse.

So, this time, the black-shirted knights aimed directly at the much larger warhorses and shot......

"Bang-bang-bang-" After a burst of carbines. What followed was a wail of the war horses of "Yu-Yu--".

"What?" Baron Cross, who was leading the charge of the Coalition Plate Knights, was taken aback. Because, this kind of behavior of beating horses without beating people is too rare in Europe.

Because, most of the European aristocracy is poor with countless debts. Therefore, wealth is very important. And the war horse is undoubtedly one of the top wealth after land. For the average poor nobleman, they would rather kill the opposing knight than let the war horse be harmed. Because, if you capture a herd of war horses, you will make a fortune. Just as when Marin started, he relied on the thousands of war horses captured by French knights, and suddenly developed and had the capital to recruit troops and buy horses.

Therefore, the behavior of the black-shirted knights shooting their horses was, in the eyes of Baron Cross, simply deviant and very different from ordinary people.

But he didn't know that Ma Lin was a Chinese soul who had memorized Tang poems since he was a child. The sentence "shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief and capture the king first" is really impressive. Therefore, when training the black-shirted knights before, Marin proposed this tactic.

Of course, Marin also took into account the preciousness of war horses. Therefore, he once gave an order - under normal circumstances, it is not necessary to beat people and horses, after all, war horses are precious trophies. However, if the situation is urgent, the killing of the horse is given priority......

And now, it is such an "emergency" moment. In order to ensure that the sparse formation of the Third Legion would not be broken by the opposing knights, the black-shirted knights directly started the emergency mode, giving priority to killing horses.

The death of a war horse is not the same as the death of a knight. When a knight falls off his horse, it does not affect the cavalry's charge. On the contrary, the knights who fall off their horses will be trampled by the horses of their comrades.

However, the war horse is so big. Even if it dies, it's still a small Roshan. Therefore, after the horses of a group of allied knights were killed, they not only threw off the knights on horseback, but also created a roadblock for the horses behind...... In particular, the war horses used exclusively by European knights are all high-headed horses. Even if he dies on the ground, it's a big mess...... Moreover, these knights' war horses are also covered with hard horse armor, which is a very strong "roadblock" and is difficult to step on......

Then, in order to avoid these small mountains of barricades, the Coalition Knights' charge slowed down significantly. At the same time, most of the unlucky coalition knights who were thrown off their horses could not avoid the trampling of their comrades' horses.

Even if they wore plate armor, the horses carrying knights and heavy armor on their backs weighed nearly a ton. Such a heavy combat unit, even if only a quarter of the weight of each hoof is weighed, can trample a knight in plate armor......

And the black-shirted knights have more than one carbine in their hands - they have five......

At the same time, in order to increase accuracy, coupled with the fact that the coalition knights were rushing forward, these bold black-shirted knights rode their horses directly and fired at very close range, greatly increasing their hit rate......

When the five rounds of firing were completed, more than 2,000 allied plate knights fell directly. Moreover, the war horses that were frequently fallen slowed down the charging speed.

Although these five rounds of fire did not completely annihilate the Coalition Plate Knights, they also greatly hindered their charge. The Plate Knight was already slow to charge, but when he was disrupted like this, his speed was even slower.

This, then, gave the Third Army plenty of time to cope......

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"Stop the charge! Close! Move closer to the middle! "Steindorff roared loudly on the battlefield with a loudspeaker. And his heralds (specially selected loud voices) shouted along:

"The Legion Commander has an order, stop the charge and move closer to the middle! Move closer to the middle! ”

Then, the infantry of the Third Legion, mostly veterans, obediently halted the charge and moved closer to the center......

"The spearmen are ahead! Squatting on the ground, the tail of the spear is inserted into the soil, and the angle is 45 degrees forward! Steindorff continued to yell.

Then, his loud heralds shouted in unison:

"The spearmen are ahead! Squatting on the ground, the tail of the spear is inserted into the soil, and the angle is 45 degrees forward! ”

"The spearmen are ahead! Squatting on the ground, the tail of the spear is inserted into the soil, and the angle is 45 degrees forward! ”

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The spearmen in the front row hurriedly did so, they crouched down and stuck the tail end of the spear into the dirt. The spearhead, on the other hand, is 45 diagonally upwards and forwards.

The tail of the spear is inserted into the dirt, so that when the enemy knight collides with it, the powerful impact is transmitted by the spear to the earth without injuring the spearman himself. As for why they crouched, it was because the Plate Knight's mounted spear was at a high level. If you stand up, you can easily be stabbed with a spear. Squatting down greatly increases the difficulty of the opposing knight's stabbing and improves the survival rate......

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Just after the Third Legion completed the formation, the remaining more than 1,000 people of the Coalition Plate Knights also rushed to the front of the Third Legion. However, after previous delays, the Third Army is no longer the original loose formation. Now, the Coalition Knights are confronted with "A Wall", a wall of death made up of spears......

Of course, this "death" is not for knights, but for war horses......

The spearhead of these spears, which are inclined forward at 45 degrees, does not poke the knight sitting high on horseback, but faces the chest of the horse......

Although the war horse is also dressed in horse armor, the protection of horse armor is not as good as plate armor. Because, if the horse armor is made into plate armor, it will be inconvenient for the horse to move and run. Therefore, the horse armor of war horses is often similar to piercing armor, or chain mail, rather than a whole plate armor.

Therefore, when the coalition knights collided, many of the horses were pierced in the chest, and there were bursts of mournful screams. Even if a war horse that happened to stab the armor piece of iron collided with a spear with its tail plunged into the earth, even if the spear was broken, it would not be comfortable for itself. The point is, it had to stop......

In this way, the fierce charge of the allied knights was stopped by this spear formation that the Swiss are good at......

Moreover, the spearmen in the back row were not vegetarians either. Seeing that some of the spears in the front row failed to hurt the enemy horses, the spearmen in the back row immediately stepped forward with their spears and used their spears several meters long to rush the unprotected front legs of the horses......

At this moment, the war horse suddenly couldn't stand it. Generally speaking, in order not to affect the running of the war horse, the four legs of the war horse are not armored. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the horse's legs to step away.

Now, the war horse was forced to stop by the spear formation, and the two front legs of the war horse were just exposed in front of the spearmen. Therefore, the spearmen in the front row did not hesitate to stab the two legs of the horses that had not been pierced in the chest. Receiving such an attack, the war horse was suddenly frightened. And some war horses, after being stabbed in the leg, people turn over on their backs......

Whether it was the war horse that was pierced in the chest before, or the war horse that was stabbed in the front leg later, the knights on their horses were thrown off by the painful war horses and fell to the ground......

When Steindorff saw this, he immediately shouted:

"Warhammers, up! Beat them to death! ”

Then, a group of soldiers with sledgehammers for migrant workers rushed to the front of the formation from the side and slammed them at the coalition knights who had just fallen off their horses and were a little dizzy. Moreover, these people are chicken thieves, specializing in smashing the limbs of those knights with hammers. Even if those knights were not stoned to death and their limbs were beaten, they would not have regained their combat effectiveness for a certain period of time...... Occasionally, a few knights who stood up to resist were quickly smashed and lay down......

After a fierce confrontation, more than a thousand allied knights who rushed to the front of the Third Legion suddenly only three or four hundred people remained. But at this time, they also have no fighting spirit. Because, they simply couldn't break through the spear array in front of them.

In addition, the 2,000 black-shirted knights, who had been running away to reload their ammunition, also surrounded them and aimed the loaded carbine in their hands......

"Surrender or kill!" Durm shouted.

Then all the black-shirted knights shouted along:

"Surrender or kill!"

Seeing that if he didn't surrender, he might be shot on the spot, Baron Cross had no choice but to lead the remaining three or four hundred intact coalition knights to surrender:

"I surrender, I ask for noble treatment!"

Durm nodded:

"No problem, follow the rules!"

In this way, the 3,000 plate armor knights and more than 4,000 hussars cobbled together by the alliance of the princes of the eight countries were completely annihilated......

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