However, in any case, after several one-sided battles of light cavalry, the two sides completely figured out the details of the other party.

Artoria won several games in a row, and it was inevitable that she would be a little light, and Lilianu lost several times in a row, not only losing thousands of cavalry, but also a great blow to morale.

Therefore, when it came time for the final battle, Lilianu decided to take a defensive stance, choosing a hilly area not far from the Vistula River.

Her Royal Highness the Princess is also a famous general seed, and there is still something interesting in the arrangement of troops, even if most of the troops under her command are irregular forces, but under the arrangement of Her Royal Highness the Princess, it looks quite like that, and Artoria who built a watchtower in the appearance of Randy, and looked at it with a monocular, couldn't help but nod in admiration!

"It's kind of interesting." Artoria snorted and commented.

Lilianu split her main force, the Eastern Roman Empire's Professional Heavy Infantry Corps, into three separate heavy infantry brigades, and placed the lightly armed projection infantry halfway up the hill flank in the gap between the hilly heights and the highlands, using natural trees as shelter.

The left flank of the Eastern Roman Army was on the banks of the Vistula River, where there was a large area of tidal flats formed by the flooding of the river, such a terrain could effectively prevent cavalry charges, and Her Royal Highness the Princess also deployed troops in this terrain, a large number of irregular infantry from Eastern Europe, poorly equipped conscripted peasants were deployed in this position, it seems that Her Royal Highness did not expect much from them.

"As long as you can hold on!" That's what Liliano expects most from these people.

On the right wing, on the plains next to the hilly terrain, this is the main event of Her Royal Highness the Princess.

Two thousand three hundred hoplites were deployed here, of which 500 were the Eastern Roman lancers brought by the main army, and of the remaining 1,800 people, 1,300 were knights and hoplites provided by Poland, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia Khanate and other regions.

The remaining 400 heavy cavalry were the soldiers of Her Royal Highness the Princess.

These four hundred people are exactly the same as the ironclad paladazions in terms of equipment, wrapped in three layers of armor!

A layer of heavy scale armor, a layer of chain armor, a layer of leather armor, holding a mace, a shield, and equipped with war horse scale armor, can be called an elite warrior at the level of a battlefield destroyer.

This group of 400 cavalry is completely formed by Her Royal Highness the Princess, personally trained, and paid, their treatment is even better than the regular ironclad holy cavalry, and the training level is also very high, but the number of times they participate in actual combat is not much, although Her Royal Highness the Princess is arrogant, but he also knows the low-key way, and understands that this cavalry is too eye-catching, coupled with his embarrassing status, it is not good to arouse suspicion at that time, so when fighting in Asia Minor, Lilianu did not use them, but now in Eastern Europe, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, Lilianu didn't have that many worries.

Next to this formidable group of heavy cavalry were more scattered, less combat-effective, but more numerous, and these light cavalry were as chaotic as ever, inferior in equipment, and undisciplined as ever.

But many times these irregular troops can come in handy, at least when they charge the cavalry, at least they can scare the dirt buns who have not seen much of the world, and their riding and archery skills are annoying enough.

Wearing felt hats, sheepskin jackets, scimitars and bows, these men were also cavalry, but in fact they did not excluse foot combat, and among them were a group of specialized spearmen, armed with three-meter-long spears, wearing various styles of scale armor, with oval shields on their arms, and a number of Cossack foot archers, who were armed with powerful composite bows that were more lethal than cavalry. At the same time, there were also some heavy cavalry wearing heavy scale armor and holding spears in the Oriental style.

This is the situation of the entire Eastern European Alliance, it seems that Her Royal Highness the princess is playing the idea of defensive counterattack, using mountainous terrain, strong bows and crossbows and infantry phalanxes to frustrate the sharpness of his own side, and then covering the killing with heavy cavalry.

The abacus played quite well, but unfortunately Artoria was not fooled.

The war had already begun, and Artoria did not follow the baton of Her Royal Highness Princess Zi, but directly ordered the cavalry troops on the left flank to attack, and the main force advanced to the left, and the primary target of the attack was the opponent's large number of cavalry troops.

Artoria's hand is extremely dangerous, directly disrupting the overall layout of Her Royal Highness the princess, and as soon as she makes a move, she is full of strength.

The second hussar corps, three garrison corps, a total of 5,500 elite cavalry, all led by the veteran general Saito, with a cavalry battalion of 500 people as a unit, eleven cavalry battalions arranged in five columns, the front row of melee hussars brandished reformed, more suitable for chopping and lighter swords, the rear row of lightly armed cavalry stretched their bows and arrows all the way to the smoke and dust, rushed towards the right flank of the Eastern European Alliance.

But Artoria also knew that there were also a lot of cavalry in the opposing army.

The Cossack light cavalry and the steppe nomadic cavalry combined amounted to 20,000 men.

The hoplites from the feudal lords, as well as the steppe nomadic nobility, the Eastern Roman lancers, including the princess's own private soldiers, also had more than two thousand hoplites, and such a huge number would have suffered if they had attacked with hussars alone.

So Artoria sent out all the elite Celtic cavalry under her command, including 1,000 Celtic heavy cavalry and 500 Celtic knights.

These hoplites were trained in the same way as they were in Norman, and in the financial abundance of Northwest Britain, the shortcomings of the original equipment were compensated, the hoplites wore heavy chain mail and light leather armor, and the knights used plate chain composite armor, and the horses were all split and hung with chains and horse felt, and wore a red dragon coat of arms on a green background representing Northwest Britain.

The knights and cavalry roared, "For the sake of Northwest Britain, Queen Artoria and Emperor Randy." ”

Such slogans were also launched to attack the enemy's right flank with a band charge.

In addition to these Celtic heavy cavalry, which were identical to the Norman heavy cavalry, there were also more numerous Celtic cavalry, more than 2,000 special cavalry with no armor at all, armed with heavy machine guns, they were called light lancers, and used heavy cavalry attacks to attack the enemy with a powerful charge, but because of their poor armor, they were not resistant to close combat, in addition to the fact that each of these cavalry was equipped with two javelins, which could be used to project attacks, or used for hand-to-hand combat if necessary.

Artoria did not put the two thousand cavalry to use, but stayed as a reserve, hoping to surprise at a critical moment.

"It's coming so fast!"

Lilianu was a little distracted at this time, but the cavalry on the right flank didn't care so much, the men on the grassland dared to think and dare to do, their brains were simple, and when they saw that the enemy was rushing over, there was no other way, and they also rushed over with a wolf howling and waving their sabers.

"Cossacks, forward!" Pugachev shouted, and rushed towards the Norman cavalry first, this guy has long been not as calm as he was when he was arranging his troops, forgetting all the spears and bows and arrows, fast horses and strong bows, scimitars like the moon, this is the romance of men.

Cavalry from the Cossacks, Tatars, Cumans, Turks, Lithuanians, Huns, Magyars, and various peoples of the steppe, with the usual tactics of light cavalry, rushed at the Norman hussars at the fastest speed in scattered arrays.

Looking at the past from afar......

Looking at the past from above......

That is two pieces of smoke and dust, swords and swords, listening to countless shouts and horses' hooves, tens of thousands of light and heavy cavalry, fighting on this land.

Not a hundred!

Not a thousand!

It is a cavalry cluster of tens of thousands, which is not visible at a glance, and a huge cavalry cluster war.

There is almost no one in the whole of Europe, and this can only happen in Eastern Europe, where there are many tourists in Eastern Europe!

At the beginning of the battle, there was a climax, the Norman cavalry was strictly arrayed, charging forward in a uniform phalanx, and the nomadic cavalry of the coalition army was very scattered, relying on the advantage of numbers, it was easy to rush to the flank of the Norman hussars, hoping to defeat them with the advantage of formation!

The two sides did not give in to each other, the Norman light archers opened their bows and arrows, and shot at the dense area of the enemy cavalry, accompanied by a large buzzing locust-like sound, the screams of the nomadic cavalry were endless, because they did not have any armor and equipment, and were shot by the short compound bow in the hands of the light archers, and the losses were heavy, and the archers on both sides fired a volley, and the Normans did not take advantage of it as always.

The Cossack archers who outflanked them from their side, fiercely attacked their flanks, and the Cossack archers who used special wolf's tooth arrows were not as strong as the light archers in terms of the strength of the war bows, but when it came to attack power, there was not much difference, in the final analysis, whether it was a melee hussar or a light archer, it was just a light cavalry equipped with leather armor, and the defense was much better than the average light cavalry, but it was still very vulnerable.

As if cutting through a layer again with a knife, the two rows of cavalry on the westernmost side fell like wheat and fell down in one swath.

"Flank, turn, rush!"

In the first round, the Eastern European coalition took advantage of the numerical and formation advantage.

However, after all, the Norman hussars were a battle-hardened and professionally trained steel division, and it was impossible to bow their heads and admit defeat because of such a setback, so the four cavalry battalions on the flanks quickly turned their horses' heads, adjusted their formations at great speed, and rushed towards the enemy army on the west side.

This is the advantage of a small light cavalry unit, which can quickly and flexibly adjust its formation to achieve the corresponding purpose.

"Kill them! Kill them! ”

The hussars charged at the enemy cavalry with red eyes, the kind of dense array of cluster charges, the kind of uniform posture, the kind of discipline and training, which the nomadic cavalry on the steppe could not reach in any way, and even dare not imagine that even the best equipped Cossack light cavalry of these nomadic cavalry, the most like the regular army, was still not enough to see against the Norman hussars.

The Cossack warriors did not have an advantage in equestrianism and swordsmanship, and the hussars, who also came from the nomadic tribes of the steppe, also had these two specialties, and the hussars in dense arrays in terms of organization cooperated seamlessly, and in local battles they were often able to fight one Cossack with two or three people, so they had the advantage, and the cavalry was extremely smooth like an unstoppable torrent, interspersed into the Cossack array, wielding sabers and cutting off countless arms and heads.

With just one shot, all the points lost in the riding and archery process are replaced.

The Normans, like an iron wall, broke down the line of nomadic cavalry with extraordinary ease, as simple as cutting butter with the sharpest saber, invincible!

On the other side, nomadic cavalry from other tribes suffered equally heavy losses.

These fellows, who were worse than the Cossacks in terms of armament and organization, naturally behaved worse under the charge of the Norman hussars, who, after the Norman hussars had cut through nearly half of the formation of one of the opposing cavalry battalions, many of the nomadic cavalry were terrified, wailing and began to flee.

Pugachev had mixed feelings in his heart, he had long lost his previous confidence, just now he personally took a group of guards under his command, a group of cavalry also equipped with composite leather armor, the first most brilliant blacksmith forging scimitar and the best war horses, led them to attack a Norman cavalry battalion from the flank, the two sides soon fell into a melee, the Norman cavalry because of the sudden blow, the entire phalanx was cut into two sections, lost the power to continue to rush forward.

Pugachev immediately gathered more Cossack cavalry to engage him, and specially selected the hussar officers who were dressed in the skins of precious animals, and the long knives in their hands were like living creatures, and there was no one under his command to fight.

"Haha, kill them, kill these damned Normans, Cossack warriors, no one can enslave us, no one can force us to bow our heads."

Pugachev and a hussar officer exchanged a knife for a wound on the arm, seeing that the other party was staring at him unwillingly, blood gushed out and flowed down the blade of the knife to her arm, and fell down the horse with a thud, he stepped forward, trampled the opponent's corpse with the horse's hooves, and roared wildly while letting his attendants bandage him.

When the Cossacks heard the voice of their leader, they roared like wolves, and the whole steppe suddenly resounded with a wolf howl, and the Cossacks achieved the greatest victory since the beginning of the war, and they threw in at least 3,000 men, paid nearly 800 casualties, and completely annihilated a Norman cavalry battalion.

But that's all there is to it!

The Cossack cavalry led by Pugachev himself on the battlefield here achieved such a result, but in other respects, the other three Norman cavalry battalions cut through the Cossack formation very smoothly, and the Cossack cavalry of 12,000 people chiseled through the Norman hussars of less than 1/6 of their number, and the formation instantly became extremely chaotic.

When the Norman hussars were unable to move the Eastern European Union light cavalry, the Celtic warriors also attacked the Allied positions at the other end of the battlefield.

Similarly, the Celts did not come up and put a large number of troops into a direct attack as the other side imagined, in fact, after the Battle of Paris was defeated by Joan of Arc because of such tactics, Artoria abandoned this method of warfare.

Artoria ordered her large number of longbowmen and heavily armed shield-spearmen from Wales to advance slowly.

The hoplites mixed with the archers, the shield spearmen formed a four-column shield wall, the longbowmen hid behind the shield wall, and the 20,000 Celtic warriors marched forward with a slow, but unusually determined pace, stopping beyond the range of the opponent's crossbows.

(End of chapter)