Chapter 547: Defeat
The nobles of the coalition army were shocked when they saw this, and they could not imagine why such an enemy suddenly appeared in the enemy army.
They clearly did not expect such a scenario, and now it seems that their left flank has collapsed, and in the event of a rout on both flanks, the enemy's flank can directly encircle the Chinese army, inflicting huge losses on the Chinese army, and leading to a collapse in morale, which ultimately leads to the defeat of the war.
In fact, this was the case at this time, the importance of the two flanks was well known, and when the flank of the noble coalition was crushed, the enemy's right flank quickly launched an attack on the coalition center.
The soldiers of the original left flank fled one after another, and their morale collapsed after their comrades were brutally killed one by one.
Without looking back, they left behind their masters and masters, their precious weapons, and even some of them took off their armor in order to lighten their burdens.
The left flank, which was originally nearly 1,000 men, was crushed by the enemy in just ten minutes, and then quickly routed.
Duke Bunkerson's face was full of smiles, he was very satisfied with the battle situation at this time, and he said in his heart: "The 10,000 silver coins are really not in vain, the combat effectiveness of this group of mercenaries is indeed extraordinary!" ”
It turned out that the recruits that Duke Bunkerson hastily recruited in the news obtained by the aristocratic coalition were the mercenaries hired by Duke Bunkerson at the expense of this group of dukes.
There are about 500 of these mercenaries, each of whom is a brave person tempered in life and death, you know, if you hire mercenaries around here, 10,000 silver coins can hire at least 1,500 mercenaries.
But the mercenaries around here are really a rabble after all, and in addition to having some combat experience, the military discipline and training level are miserable.
And although the number of these five hundred people is small, they are all hired by Duke Bunkerson from the middle of the continent, where can I get the holy land of mercenaries, most of the powerful mercenary organizations, mercenary groups and warlords and the like come from.
And Duke Bunkerson sent people to the middle of the continent, and after careful selection, he selected this small mercenary group, after all, the appearance fee of those large mercenary groups was too high.
He couldn't afford it, for example, the Blackstone Army, who had a grudge against William, wanted to hire them to send out at least 200,000 silver coins.
Duke Bunkerson could never afford such a high price, so he could only select the strongest elite soldiers among the small mercenary groups.
After all, there are many mercenaries in the middle of the continent after they are skilled, and even wars between countries in the middle of the continent have to hire a large number of mercenaries to participate.
Except for some necessary forces to maintain order, most of the foreign wars can be said to be wars between two mercenary groups.
In such an atmosphere, the development of a large number of mercenary organizations and the large increase in the number of mercenaries have become inevitable, and mercenaries are even a specialty in the middle of the continent.
And Duke Bunkerson is not sure of winning this war, and his troops are not very large, and even after having these powerful mercenaries, he is not very sure that he will be able to defeat the enemy.
That's why he let these mercenaries put on his uniforms and hide in the middle of the troops to catch each other off guard, and obviously, this strategy was very successful.
The left flank of the aristocratic coalition was completely routed, and they successfully opened the way to the enemy's center.
They quickly launched an attack on the Chinese army of the aristocratic alliance, and the soldiers of the original Chinese army were preparing to fight the enemy in front of them, but they thought that so many enemies suddenly appeared next to them.
In a panic, they were inflicted a large number of casualties by the enemy, and the Duke of Bunkerson, who was behind, immediately shouted: "The time has come!" All knights with me, charge! ”
After receiving the order, more than 400 knights immediately followed Duke Bunkerson, raised their mounted spears in their hands, pointed at the enemy and began to charge.
The sound of more than four hundred horses was deafening, and even now it was only a jog at the start, and it made a thunderous sound.
The nobles of the coalition finally reacted from their previous shock when they heard this voice, and the few big nobles led by them immediately shouted: "All knights prepare!" ”
The knights were immediately ready to charge, and several high-ranking nobles didn't care about anything else at this time, and picked up the tall banner in their hands and shouted: "Charge!" ”
The same more than four hundred knights also launched a charge against the enemy.
After Duke Bunkerson spotted the charging enemy knights, he did not hesitate and directly changed the direction of the charge to them.
Just now, Duke Bunkerson charged just now to seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy's queue in one fell swoop, but since the enemy's knights were also dispatched, their task was to fight the enemy's knights.
Anyway, their soldiers are still flanking the coalition forces, and even if they try to hold off the enemy knights, the advantage is still there.
As long as nothing happens, the victory will ultimately belong to the Duke of Bunkerson.
The knights on both sides gradually accelerated, the tips of their mounted spears kept cutting through the air, and the heraldic pennants tied to them also snarled in the wind.
The charge of the knights was majestic and majestic, and the galloping horses had an unparalleled pressure of Mount Tai, which was a deterrent to the knights on both sides.
But as knights, they are all masters of battle who have survived a hundred battles on the battlefield.
Their blood had been ignited under the swift charge, and with a loud bang, the knights of both sides collided together.
Some knights stumbled past each other, but others crashed straight into the enemy's horses and perished with the enemy.
The sound of the cavalry spears breaking was also extremely crisp, and they stabbed the cavalry into the enemy's chest, and then quickly broke and threw it away, pulling out the long sword at their waist to engage the enemy in a second wave of fierce battles.
And just when the knights were enjoying the fierce battle, the coalition army that had been killed and wounded in large numbers finally couldn't bear it, and the morale of the soldiers who had lost a lot of their comrades finally collapsed.
The escape of these soldiers directly triggered the collapse of the Chinese army, and the entire huge Chinese army collapsed in an instant, and the neat formation no longer existed.
What's more, the Chinese army is the center of the entire army, the soul of the left and right wings, and as soon as the Chinese army collapses, it is still fighting the enemy next to it, and even the right wing, which has not fallen to a disadvantage, finally can't stand it.
People always have a kind of conformity, not to mention that even the Chinese army has been defeated, and the left wing has long fled, which caused panic to the soldiers on the right wing.
As soon as they thought, anyway, everyone else is gone, and there is no shortage of me, so they also threw down their weapons and fled from here.
At this time, the aristocratic coalition was already defeated, losing all the soldiers, and the knights were still fighting, and they had no chance of turning the tables in the slightest.