Chapter 526: Under the Battle of Stamford Bridge

The tragic situation of the Norman knight is right in front of him, looking at the Danish giant Asby Bear who is like the god of war in the world. Munso, the Norman knight was momentarily taken by his momentum, and involuntarily stopped the pursuit.

Behind the Norman knights, William also noticed the mighty Danish giant Asby the Bear in front of him. Munso, looking at the tragic situation of the Norman knight in front of him, his heart couldn't help but twitch, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Danish giant Asby the Bear. Manso was like a madman, and the huge axe in his hand was constantly slashing, and each axe was accompanied by the screams and blood of a Norman soldier.

Giant Asby the Bear in Denmark. At his side, Munso had a hundred elite soldiers of the King's Guard at all times to protect him from the Norman siege.

That's it, the Danish giant Asby the Bear. The two-handed battle axe in Mansotong's hand killed nearly forty Norman soldiers, including three poor Norman knights.

"Order, order the Norman knights in front to stop the pursuit and return to their own camp to standby." William ordered one after another: "All of them, line up, put up their spears and march slowly!" ”

In the narrow Stamford Bridge riverbed, the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Munso and a hundred Kingdom Guards were no match for the Norman skirmishers, and his soldiers could no longer be sent to their deaths.

To deal with such an enemy, only a close spear phalanx combined with a Norman longbow can be defeated in one fell swoop.

"Let me show you, the strength of an individual is no match for a disciplined army!" William smiled confidently.

A phalanx of tight spears slowly approached the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Munso and a hundred of the king's guards around him, the jungle of sharp spears and the shiny tips of the spears were terrifying.

The slowly approaching phalanx of spears gave the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Manso's tremendous pressure, and at the same time, powerful longbow arrows flew from both sides of the phalanx from time to time, shooting the king's guards around him one by one.

To break the deadlock, the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Manso took the initiative to meet him, raising his huge axe and aiming it at the spear array, which was a fierce slash.

Helplessly, there were so many spears he faced, and some of the dozens of spears gathered together to resist the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Manso's advance, some of them stabbed the opponent's vital point from the shadows like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter.

Danish giant Asby the Bear. Manso was unable to break through the Norman spear array, and after a moment of stalemate, cutting off several spears, he was unfortunately stabbed in the ankle with a spear by a Norman soldier.

Immediately, more than a dozen soldiers armed with swords and shields burst out of Norman spears, and they swarmed up and aimed at the Danish giant Asby Bear who had fallen to the ground. Manso slashed away.

Danish giant Asby the Bear. Munso was far behind the Kingdom Guard, and he was eventually besieged by the Normans at Stamford Bridge.

The Normans pursued them for a while, and after a hundred Kingdom guards were killed by dozens of them, they fled back to the Danish and Norwegian camps.

Anyway, King Swain's younger brother, the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Munso used his life to fend off the Norman attack, causing his attack to be thwarted.

The Danes and Norwegians were given a precious respite, and they hurriedly lined up.

Before the Normans crossed the Derwent River across Stamford Bridge to the east bank, they formed a tight and thick shield wall to defend against William and the Normans.

William did not forget to restrain the Danish giant Asby the Bear. Munso's corpse then crossed the river with the army.

After crossing the Stamford Bridge bed without hindrance, the Normans formed a line slightly narrower than the Danish and Norwegian armies on the east bank of the Derwent River, and then charged.

Because of the surprise attack of the Normans, many Danish and Norwegian soldiers put their armor in the boat, and at least a small half of the soldiers did not wear armor, which was a great disadvantage for the Danes and Norwegians.

Especially in the case of the Normans with sharp Norman longbows, the losses they suffered in battles would increase dramatically.

Despite the extremely disadvantageous situation of the Danes and the Vikings, they still formed a tight shield formation under the organization of King Swain II of Denmark and Prince Olaf of Norway in the face of the menacing Normans, and collided head-on with the charging Normans.

Shields clashed against shields, spears and swords clashed with each other, and the Normans lost no less than 600 men to the Danish and Norwegian armies alone, while their own side relied on their superior armor to fall with fewer than 100 men.

As the battle continued, the occupation became more and more unfavorable to the Vikings.

Because of the lack of armor, although the Vikings relied on their courage to fight the Normans, the spears and swords that kept falling from the sky between the longbows and arrows and shields took the lives of many Vikings.

After hours of fierce fighting, the Danes and Norwegians, who were evenly matched by the Normans in a moment of blood, finally began to show defeat.

At some point, there were several gaps in the Danish and Viking shields, and they could no longer rely on the shields to fight the Normans.

Duke Richard took the opportunity to break through the shield wall with his soldiers, and countless Norman soldiers swarmed in through the gap in the opponent's shield array, fighting with the Danes and Vikings.

Norman soldiers fought numerous close-knit wars with each other, forming arrays in pairs to wipe out the Danes and Vikings in the melee.

"Knights, charge with me!" William raised his arms and commanded in a loud voice.

With the defeat of the Danish and Viking forces already apparent, William was keen to grasp the skill of battle and ordered his cavalry to circle the enemy flanks from both sides.

The cavalry on both flanks were led by Roger. Morality. Baron Outwell and Baldwin. Morality. Led by the Count of Brionne, he launched a surprise attack on the weak flanks of the Danes and Vikings.

At this moment, the cavalry superiority of the Normans was fully exploited, and they charged from time to time from the flank, and the Vikings, who lacked cavalry, were simply unable to counterattack.

Moreover, they were exhausted from the Norman infantry led by Duke Richard, and where could they still have the ability to counterattack the Norman knights, and a few javelin arrows could not pose much threat to the Normans at all.

Thousands of elite Norman knights charged at the weak flanks and rear of the Vikings, killing and wounding countless soldiers, shaking the morale of the Danes and Vikings, and drawing their attention, so that they now had no energy to organize defenses.

There were shouts of slaughter on all sides, and the Normans had completed the encirclement of the Danes and Norwegians, and now they were little more than a piece of fat to be slaughtered on William's chopping block.

The advantage was on the side of the Normans, who no longer rushed to kill the Danish and Vikings with their lives, but formed a tight formation, erected shield formations and continued to advance, gradually compressing their living space.

At the same time, the Norman longbowmen continued to shoot arrows over the heads of the Danes and Vikings, inflicting great damage on them.

Suddenly, a scream was heard, and the Danish and Norwegian lines stirred irrepressibly......