Chapter 322: Victory
The soldiers of the two sides were about to collide and engage in hand-to-hand combat, and in fact, when William sensed that the nobles wanted to rebel, the Earl of Cansville chose to fight outside the city, which was already doomed to him.
Truth be told, if William didn't know what the nobles wanted to betray, and being stabbed in the back by the rebellious nobles would definitely cause a loss, and possibly cause a riot.
If that were the case, the Earl of Cannesville would indeed have a chance of winning, and it was not impossible to defeat William, but they underestimated William's intelligence ability too much, and it was too hasty.
The soldiers of the Earl of Cansville shouted loudly, brandished their swords and spears and charged towards the Denlenburg infantry.
The Denlenburg infantry, under the command of their officers, also carried out close cooperation, and the spearmen followed closely behind the sword and shield soldiers, and the sword and shield soldiers also stood their shields on the ground for maximum defense.
Instead of moving forward, the Denlenburg infantry stood still, with the sword and shield men at the front, while the spearmen, with their high damage and longer range, hid behind and continued to deliver.
All this was commanded by William in the rear using the flag.
From the outside, the Denlenburg infantry seemed to have the upper hand, and they were reduced to the defensive side, but the attacking enemy did not think so.
Their attack was so difficult that for a split second they thought they were storming an impregnable mountain, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't shake the enemy's formation.
Even if they were lucky, at the cost of several or even a dozen people, desperately broke through the scale armor, chain mail, innermost leather armor, and then the last layer of armed cotton clothing, pierced the body of the Denglenburg infantryman, and killed him, the next Denglenburg infantry would soon fill the vacancy.
This made them a little desperate, the combat strength of the Denlenburg infantry was too strong, not at all what they had imagined, except for the excellent armor and beautiful queues on their bodies, the combat skills were rather clumsy.
Under the cover of the sword and shield infantrymen, the spearmen kept stabbing the spears in their hands, blood splattered, colorful internal organs fell to the ground from time to time, and the desperate screams of death almost rushed into the sky.
Not only that, but the sword and shield infantry also saw the long swords in their hands stabbed out in the gap between the shields, which also caused many casualties to the enemy.
Admittedly, the enemy's armor was not bad, and the treated leather armor still had some protection against the spear, although the spears used by the Denlenburg infantry were improved by William, with a longer tip and a more easily piercing shape, but they still could not kill the enemy wearing leather armor in many cases.
However, the tactics of the Denglenburg infantry meant that the enemy often had to face several spears, and it was difficult for the enemy to make an effective counterattack and defense under the blow of several spears.
Bell was a Denlenburg infantryman who had been serving for seven years, and was one of the earliest veterans of William's formation.
As a veteran in the army, he became an officer early, you know, the earliest batch of veterans at the beginning, there are less than fifty people left.
But almost all of them became team officers or above, as the first group of people to follow William, their loyalty and support for William is the highest, therefore, he is now also a team officer.
He was now commanding twelve of his soldiers, and as an officer, he had also studied at the military academy established by William, and was taught tactics by the Grand Duke of the Principality of Zenketu.
After studying, they were quite handy in commanding operations on the battlefield, and under their command, the Denglenberg infantry defeated the enemy.
"Come on, warriors! Look how incompetent they are! What cowardice, they are our merits! ”
Bell waved the long sword in his hand, wearing armor that was superior to the ordinary Denlenburg infantry, and said loudly: "Young soldiers, do you want to have a field of your own?" Want to own a lot of credits? Do you want to be a warrior in your hometown? Do you want to be a hero in the eyes of the girls? ”
"If you want to! Then fight hard! The death of your enemies will bring you merit and glory! ”
Bell followed William for seven years and was taught, so the morale-boosting means were quite good.
The soldiers were encouraged to fight harder, and this was not the only case in this one unit, but in the whole of the 2,400-strong infantry in Delenburg, there were 240 officers, and each of them had been educated, and therefore had this ability, of course, it might be uneven.
"Drink!"
A spearman stabbed his spear into the belly of one of the enemy's armed infantrymen, and his young, strong and well-trained strength was thought to be good, and he immediately broke through the enemy's relatively fine leather armor, plunged the tip of the spear into his stomach, and then stirred it so violently that blood flowed from the enemy's mouth and nose.
“……”
The soldier's throat let out a weak breath, and as the soldier pulled out his spear, a large amount of blood flowed out of the wound, which had become larger after agitation, followed by some blood clots, followed by some broken internal organs.
This is a common occurrence on the battlefield, the soldiers are accustomed to it, and the recruits have been trained for four years and participated in anti-bandit missions, so they are not afraid of blood.
Fragments of internal organs on the battlefield were everywhere, and broken limbs were scattered on the ground, and the mangled corpses were trampled on the ground by the soldiers on both sides, becoming even more dilapidated.
The bloody and brutal scene began to cringe the enemy, and William began to throw his heavy infantry into battle again.
William looked at the situation on the field and was almost sure that the victory of this war was in his own hands, so he planned to let these soldiers go to the battlefield to practice their hands again.
Banstesk rushed to the front, he was a front-line battlefield commander, so he absolutely could not stay in the rear to command.
The tactics of the heavy infantry were very simple, they fought in groups, using their armor and weapons to crush the enemy.
One out of every five of them is a Golden Lion Guard who has been transformed by potions, and usually the Golden Lion Guard is the vanguard of a group to launch a surprise attack on the enemy, while the other four ordinary heavy infantry follow the Golden Lion Guard.
The heavy infantry rushed into the enemy's formation at heavy and slow paces like heavy and slow armored vehicles.
Their attack was hardly hindered, like a hot handful of butter inserted into it, and the enemy was defeated and retreated with ease.
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