Chapter 398: Annihilation

These Norvidians looked at the enemy in front of them and didn't pay much attention to them, because they didn't look like some well-armed and powerful Astra knights.

It even looked weaker than the Astra Kingdom infantry that they had beaten with heavy losses.

During this time, there were many conflicts between the kingdom of Astra and the Norvids on the border, and after all, there were only a few wandering knights in charge of the battle, and most of the battles were completed by the Astra infantry.

Although the kingdom of Astra is known as the country of knights, its strong national power has also created powerful infantry, and they are wearing heavy chain mail, which is lined with cotton armor and leather armor, and is quite well equipped.

Although it is not as good as William's Denlenburg infantry, if it is placed near the Kingdom of Tskema, it is also a sweeping force, and those few particularly rich countries, as well as the Imperial Army of Rodland, can be slightly better than them in terms of equipment.

But even so, they still suffered a lot in the battle against the Norwids, who were not wealthy, and most of them could not even afford to wear leather armor, but their terrible constitution became a capital to compete with the Astra infantry.

Their tomahawks and wood-cutting axes are so lethal that they usually have a 40 percent chance of being killed with a single hit if they hit the Astra infantry.

And if two axes go down, it is certain death, and with their terrible strength, they are simply bulldozers on the battlefield.

Even William's heavy infantry is estimated to be on par with them in terms of strength, and this is still a rabble that has not been trained much.

The terrible thing about those regular troops with some training, that is self-evident.

Therefore, when the Astra infantry fought with the opponent, they often suffered one-to-one battle losses, which can be said to be quite uneconomical.

After all, you must know how many warriors of this level are there among the Norwids, that is more than 200,000 people, and as for the Astra Kingdom, the Astra royal family has less than 10,000 infantry of this level, even if the army of all the lords of the country is mobilized, then such infantry will definitely not exceed 40,000.

The numbers of both sides were completely disproportionate, and if they were to fight at this casualty rate, the Norvids would probably die laughing in their dreams.

In fact, to be honest, if you really try your best to fight a battle, and all of them are fought by regular troops, then the kingdom of Astra will crush the Norweeds.

But contrary to their wishes, the strong physique and national characteristics of the Norweeds determined that they could not fight only with regular armies, and every Norweed was born warriors, and as long as they grew up, they could compare with the regular armies in the hinterland of the Holy Cult world.

Therefore, in this way, the military strength of the Astra Kingdom is actually inferior to that of the Norwids, after all, the 22 million citizens of the Astra Kingdom are only civilians.

At this time, the Norvids looked at the light cavalry, and only regarded them as the spontaneous army of some relatively wealthy Lordes.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of arrows piercing through the cold wind rang out, and a hundred arrows poured down into the Norweeds.

With a scream, the Norweed people suffered more than twenty casualties under the recurve bow, but the number of dead was not much, only about seven or eight people, after all, they were still wearing a layer of leather armor as protection, plus their superior physique, the damage caused by the arrows to them was not very large.

Of course, this is a recurve bow that has been modified into a riding bow, and the range and power are not as powerful as the powerful infantry recurve bow, so it does not do much damage.

When the Norweeds were attacked, they did not waver, but jumped up and down to provoke the hussars.

But what they didn't expect was that they didn't charge directly like those knights, but turned their horses' heads and ran in the other direction.

This made them furious, and it seemed to them that the men on horseback should have shot and charged at them, only to be crushed by their battle axes.

But not only did they not do what they thought, but they completely reversed themselves and ran in the other direction.

Their anger had no effect on the hussars, who were originally their basic tactics with kites.

Although the former Chekel people did not use this tactic on a large scale, as a Kriza people, Hurim is really good at this tactic, and besides, how could William, as a person from another world, not know about the nomads' artifact kite tactics?

Of course, this kite tactic also depends on timing, if the opponent's ranged weapons exceed the range of the light cavalry, then the kite tactic will not work, and a salvo will cause them heavy casualties.

This tactic only works for armies that don't have enough ranged forces, such as these Norweed patrols in front of you.

In this way, the light cavalry used this tactic to kite back and forth for several rounds, directly inflicting eighty or ninety casualties on these Norvid barbarians, and relying on kite tactics alone, they inflicted more than half of the damage on the enemy.

The light cavalry also noticed the panting of the war horse under their crotch, and they knew that if it continued like this, the war horse might run out of strength.

Coupled with the fact that they could also feel a slight soreness in their shoulders, which was due to the fatigue caused by multiple bow shots, they were ready to charge.

The light cavalry ran to a distance of four or five hundred meters from the opponent and stopped, allowing the horses under their crotches to recover slowly, while resting their tired muscles and preparing to charge.

The Norvid barbarians looked at the hussars who had stopped, and began to scream, and they ran to the hussars with joy, in their opinion, these cowardly enemies could finally be slaughtered by them.

In this way, they waved their battle axes in their hands and rushed towards the light cavalry.

In addition to tomahawks, they also have bone axes pinned to their waists, which they use as ranged strength for irregular troops.

The two officers of the hussars looked at each other, then put the recurve bow back behind their backs, and took the rifle from the hook and placed it in their hands.

Their spears were different from the huge four-meter-long spears of the Iron Cross Knights, who were just over three meters long, and perhaps it would be more appropriate to call them spears.

Like the officers, the hussars drew their rifles and prepared to attack the enemy.

"Rumble ......"

There was another roar, and the hussars finally drove their horses again, and made them run.

Their horse speed does not increase slowly like the knights.

They quickly increased the speed of their horses, and their horses galloped with light cavalry thinking of the other side to charge.

I saw the light cavalry form a V-shape, and rushed into the formation of the Norwids with sharp arrows.

The Norweeds wielded the battle axes in their hands, but the battle axes were short weapons, and they were inferior to the three-meter spears used by the light cavalry.

In this way, the Norvids were soon divided and then surrounded, slowly consumed by them with their spears and sabers.

And they don't stay in the enemy line for long, and when they feel like they've lost their speed, they quickly break away, or they don't stop at all, just go straight away.