Chapter 220: The Battle Tide Tilts
Looking at the stalemate of the battle, William's face was expressionless, he had expected this situation, so he did not have any other emotions.
At present, the main combat force of the two sides is still light infantry, and only after they are exhausted will they begin to fight with elite troops such as armed infantry.
Therefore, this stalemate must have lasted for a long time, except where there would be a difference in the Manders infantry, because such a large number of light infantry, even if it was uncontrolled attrition, would have been a long time.
The light infantry greeted the enemy with all kinds of rudimentary things in their hands, and in order to survive, they no longer cared what kind of injuries they had, they only knew that only by destroying the enemy in front of them could they let themselves survive.
Lothor was a light infantryman under Viscount Curwen and had a fairly happy family, and as one of the two male members of the family, he fought in the war at the same time as his brother.
The only difference was that his older brother had already served in Viscount Curwen's unit as an armed infantryman five years earlier.
And also held the position of a squad leader, in charge of ten armed infantry, which is considered a petty officer.
With his brother's care, their family is living very well.
Because neither of their parents died, they all lived together, and they had seven children in addition to their parents.
His brother and we are all boys, he has three sons and a daughter, and it is a relatively wealthy and happy family.
But a war, a conscription order, shattered the original tranquility of their family, basically every village, every family, and the men in their families, even teenagers, had to be called up for service.
Now he wears a leather armor that protects his chest, which his brother helped him get, and it can be regarded as some small privilege.
And according to his brother, this battle was very dangerous, and they had to face the famous fox of Denlenburg, Baron Wilhelm.
Not only did he command well, but his soldiers were also the best of the best, and they were all the most powerful troops in the kingdom.
Therefore, even the light infantry who brought him and his village were all afraid of this battle, which was something that Lothor's brother did not expect, and his original intention was only to let his brother be careful and save his life on the battlefield.
The subsequent chain reactions were completely unaware of him.
Lother stabbed the short spear in his hand into the chest of the light infantry in front of him, and blood spurted from the enemy's body and splashed on his face, and the warm and hot blood fell on his face, arousing the excitement in his heart, and he began to become excited.
Just as he pulled the spear that his brother had given him from his enemy's chest in the same way, something unexpected happened to him.
With a burst of air, a barrage of arrows fell from above their hair, and sadly, Lother was in range.
His armed infantry brother could not help him at this time, and after two arrows in the chest, one of them was plunged into his neck.
The leather armor on his chest made him suffer a lot less damage, and without it he would have fallen when the first arrow fell.
But in the end, a leather armor still failed to save his life, the arrow on his neck pierced his artery, and blood inevitably spurted out of his major artery, even if he desperately covered the wound, but it was still to no avail, and the blood still kept splattering from the wound.
Leaping more than two meters high, he finally felt the sensation he had just brought to the enemy.
Not only him, but more than 30 people in his area were just like him, and they fell unwillingly under the blow of arrows and became part of the meat grinder of the battlefield.
Lothor can only be regarded as a microcosm of the battlefield, and there are many more brutal scenes played out in other places, and the scenes of brains splashing and eyeballs flying everywhere are also extremely common.
William looked at the troops in the fierce battle, and narrowed his eyes slightly, at this time the battle had been going on for more than twenty minutes, and the light infantry had been fighting for a while.
Their physical strength and morale have been depleted to varying degrees.
William's judgment of the form of the battlefield is not bad, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to Banstesk beside him: "Banstesk, bring your people to press me on, and then push me forward, and strive to crush the enemy's light infantry units, I want to see the results of training during this time, and I also want to see the combat effectiveness of the Golden Lion Guards!" ”
His tone was serious, and the orders he represented were unquestionable, and on the battlefield, seriousness was the most basic quality of a commander.
"Yes, my lord, the hoplites and the Golden Lion Guards will guarantee the completion of your mission!" Banstesk nodded, bowed and said.
"Hmm!" William nodded, but then he felt that this arrangement was inappropriate, and then said, "I will let that group of mercenaries cooperate with you, and you will cooperate with the Manders infantry to defeat the enemy!" ”
William's order was to defeat rather than annihilate, and the reason he planned to attack now was to kill fewer people, because he hoped to give him some more people left after he unified Denlenburg.
If, after reunification, the whole of Denlenburg is empty, and the population is not much, it will be completely pointless for him to go to great lengths to provoke a war.
Therefore, he hoped that after the battle, he would try to talk about the defeat of the enemy, rather than its extermination, and when the time came, as long as he recalled him, he would be a good serf who obeyed the law again.
After letting the heavy infantry go down, William said to the herald beside him: "Go and inform the remaining mercenary captains, and let them cooperate with the heavy infantry to defeat the enemy!" ”
Five hundred mercenaries followed behind the more than forty heavy infantrymen, and more than five hundred of them marched violently behind the Manders infantry to help them defend the line.
The Manders infantry and heavy infantry fought in a mixed manner, while the mercenaries advanced in an undisciplined overwhelming enemy camp.
The heavy infantry waved their battle axes in their hands, and the way they opened and closed was terrifying, and they even gave up the shield block and directly crushed the enemy with the thick armor on their bodies.
The Manders infantry, on the other hand, hid behind the hoplites, using the three-meter spears in their hands to draw cold from time to time.
The battle axes of the hoplites are extremely powerful, and the Golden Silk Guards have also completed the cultivation of potions, and are now in full form.
Therefore, every time they swing their giant axes, they look very terrifying, and they can even knock the enemy out three or four meters away, and smash a group of people.
The soldiers of the two sequences cooperated seamlessly, setting off a bloody storm among the enemy, and with the terrible battle cry of the heavy infantry, the morale of the local light infantry had obviously begun to waver.
The mercenaries also made trouble among the enemy, so that the light infantry finally couldn't stand it, and some people began to flee in all directions, and they were all conformists, and when they saw someone running away, others couldn't help it and fled with them.