As the two armies grew closer, the battle between the rangers intensified.

England Hobila Ranger ......

Norwegian patrol cavalry ......

Which one is stronger?

The answer is that both are rubbish!

For Randy, the patrol cavalry was a completely outdated early class.

He could no longer stand this kind of lightly armed cavalry, which was extremely weak in combat, they could not be armed with bows and arrows, they could not be equipped with sabers, they could not be equipped with shields, and they could not even be equipped with chain mail heavier than leather armor.

In Randy's cognition, the light cavalry should be the kind of man who comes and goes freely, can come and go, can cut and shoot, and it doesn't matter if the defense is a little weaker, but the mobility and attack power must definitely be strong, which is Randy's basic requirement.

So the patrol cavalry, Randy is ready to ditch it.

Randy was naturally not too polite about an outdated, useless, and waste-labeled breed, and before the start of the big war, a total of 500 patrol cavalry were thrown out by Randy to explore the way, step on traps, and fight with the opposing Hobira Rangers, so that the dwarves and the two guys who had no cavalry at all were very moved.

What you don't have is definitely good!

Under this strange thought, the two guys who are not good at cavalry at all subconsciously regard the patrol cavalry, a light cavalry, as an extremely powerful type of troops, and see that Randy's patrol cavalry will die two today and two tomorrow, and they feel embarrassed in their hearts.

Especially William Wallace......

After Randy surrendered Newcastle Castle without any conditions at all, Wallace had already equated Randy with the word Grand Duke's selflessness, and after watching Randy's action of actually cleaning up the garbage, he couldn't find any other adjective than being moved.

So in the next regular meeting, when Randy casually proposed to elect a commander of the Triple Alliance, Wald and Wallace, both of whom pushed the boat and let Randy serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition.

In this way, Randy, at least nominally, became the commander-in-chief of this coalition of more than 50,000 people.

The fourth day of the march of the great army......

In overcoming the summer heat, mosquito bites, and all kinds of bad road conditions......

These roads, which have grown half-human-tall weeds, were actually built during the reign of the Roman Empire, hundreds of years ago, and these damned barbarians of the British Isles have no awareness of even the slightest maintenance.

In a word...... After many difficulties, the forces of the Triple Alliance finally reached the outskirts of Yorktown.

Strictly speaking, Alfred the Great was indeed not a great tactician, and when he commanded in battle, he was even at an upper middle level.

However, his theoretical knowledge is quite high, he has surveyed the terrain outside York City early, and made accurate judgments, set up checkpoints in the place where the Triple Alliance Army is ready to pass, and arrange hundreds of defenders to defend this place, so as to block the attack of the Coalition Army.

It's just that this kind of temporary camp is too simple.

Randy climbed to a small hill opposite, holding a monocular that William Wallace and Wald were jealous of, observing the camp opposite.

Randy looked at the typical medieval style opposite, the sanitary conditions were dirty, and even the camp that was not comparable to the illegal buildings of later generations did not look like it could live in people, and it was not comparable to the camp of the same period in the East, which was heavily guarded, and some even brought some kind of formation.

The two people beside Randy watched Randy observe for a long time, and turned their heads curiously, as if they wanted Randy to give an explanation.

"It's surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it's a great place to bury bones. Cavalry, get ready to charge! ”

The knights of the guard blew their horns, and the equipped improved tomahawk cavalry quickly attacked, rushing towards the opposite camp.

Without any effort at all, before the other party could react, the tomahawk cavalry had already rushed to the opponent's camp, and with a few clicks of the tomahawk in his hand, he cut the opponent's patchwork of thin planks, and slammed the war horse draped in a heavy felt blanket, and slashed and killed.

In less than two hours, Alfred's camp, which he thought he could withstand for one or two days, was in ruins. Randy also took the opportunity to show off his cavalry combat effectiveness, making the two infantry-only dirt buns drool.

The coalition didn't stay too long, the small camp had no loot worth searching for, and after a little transformation to turn it into a foothold, Randy ordered the whole army to move on.

"Arrive at least the outskirts of Yorktown before evening!" Randy commanded.

On their way, both Wald and William Wallace want to talk to Randy about cavalry.

The dwarves were limited by their height and were inherently unable to develop cavalry, but Wallace came to inquire with a desire to learn from the experience.

Previously, due to the topography of the Scottish region and the limited national strength, it did not develop its own cavalry armament, but after Hadrian's Wall changed hands, Northumberland and Cumbria changed hands, and this situation changed to a certain extent.

The expansion of the territory and the strengthening of the strength made Wallace begin to think about whether he could support a cavalry force of his own?

And Randy doesn't seem to be hiding at all, taking out his experience of commanding cavalry battles several times and sharing it with Wald and Wallace.

"The speed, the impact, and the weight of the cavalry itself. As long as these three advantages can be brought into play, the heavy cavalry can play the greatest role, no matter how other arms want to compete, they must rely on the formation and terrain to be successful, so on the flat terrain, the heavy cavalry group can play a devastating charge, basically a heavy tank in the war of this era. ”

However, not all of the above is true information.

The legendary heavy cavalry frontal assault spear phalanx is generally not done by any fool.

Even in the late Middle Ages, the people who dominated the battlefield were phalanx soldiers, super long spears + sword and shield + arquebuses, and their combat effectiveness could still be extremely strong.

But here's the problem......

Where do I have to get an arquebus?

Therefore, the key to the problem is the security of the flanks, imitating the Roman infantry to carry large shields to defend the two wings, and use strong legionary infantry to defend.

However, it will be better to defend the flanks with surprise soldiers!

But this required a lot of cavalry, if it was a phalanx......

Phalanx + Legion......

It's called the Viking phalanx!

Randy withdrew from his delusions and laughed at the two allies:

"So the hoplites are an extremely strong class, and the phalanx can only be passively defended, isn't it, Lord Wallace?"

William Wallace thought for a moment, smiled and didn't answer.

But Wald couldn't sit still: "What heavy cavalry is the strongest, and if you have the ability, we will bring the army to the Scandinavian mountains and fight our dwarves in the mountains." ”

Why? We're allies, so it's not good to kill each other, don't you? Lord Wallace? Randy laughed.

"Of course, dwarves, Scots, Norwegians, friendships endure forever." Wallace said the same.

Next, the Triple Alliance exchanged war letters with the English, and agreed to decide the victory and defeat on the outskirts of York City in half a month.

Through the investigation of Randy, it is found that there is a large area of arable land on the outskirts of Yorktown, and most of the area is plains, which is very suitable for large-scale battles, and there are only two points to pay attention to.

First, there are the two monasteries in the center of the battlefield, all of which have been evacuated and are now empty.

Speaking of medieval monasteries, there is no difference between castles, and there is a little more religious color, in Randy's eyes, these two monasteries are two small fortresses, almost able to accommodate hundreds of people, the courtyard walls are also more than two meters high, and the spires and bell towers everywhere can also be used as arrow towers, which means that if you can occupy these two monasteries in battle, you can get two strong enough support points, which is very beneficial for the battle.

On top of that, there's a large mess of houses, mills, pigsties, and so on to the north of the battlefield.

The peasants who had lived here were either conscripted as peasant soldiers or fled farther into the mountains, and all their livestock were snatched back by the soldiers on both sides.

This messy place is more suitable for stragglers to fight guerrillas.

Randy thought about it for a moment, there were no classes in his army suitable for street fighting, and the professional Viking warriors were barely half, but because the armor on his body was too thick, and he was equipped with too many weapons, his mobility was insufficient.

Therefore, in this area, it is necessary to beware of stragglers and ambushes from the opposite side of the England.

After Randy consulted these two things with Wallace and Wald, Wallace patted his chest and assured him that the residential area would be left to him, and as for the two monasteries, it would take faster cavalry to grab them, and this task could only be done by Randy anyway.

Three days later......

The weather was clear and cloudless.

The armies of both sides were gathered, because there were too many troops, and it was impossible for the two sides to decide the victory or defeat in a single day, even in such a battle.

The first battle was led by the Norwegians!

Norway's remaining 200 or so cavalry patrols quickly dispatched and rushed towards the two monasteries in the middle of the battlefield.

The English, on the other hand, did not seem to be interested in the two monasteries, and the first formation of a large number of conscripted peasants, hooked peasants and spearmen, formed a chaotic array, under the shouts of the knights and their servants, slowly moved towards the center of the battlefield.

The English longbowmen, on the other hand, were placed in the second formation, followed by the cannon fodder of about 3,000 men, and behind the English longbowmen, in addition to the longbows, there were two extremely sharp wooden stakes that seemed to be used against the cavalry.

It seems that Randy's easy defeat of the outpost of the English a few days ago left a deep impression on Alfred, and such a configuration, with the rejection of horse stakes and cannon fodder, is all prepared to resist the frontal charge of the cavalry.

However, contrary to what was expected, the Norwegians did not initially use tomahawk cavalry equipped with heavy armor and weapons, but instead used light rangers to seize the two monasteries in the center of the battlefield, and then the Norwegian crossbowmen and dwarven crossbowmen quickly armed the two monasteries.

When the English on the opposite side were alarmed, a large number of Scottish Highland pikemen, as well as the dwarven chamber guards, were already densely packed between the two monasteries, forming a very dense phalanx of spears, behind them, a formation of archers composed of thousands of Norse archers and Scottish Highland archers ready to shoot.

Under Randy's command, next to the two monasteries, a large number of dwarven hoplites, professional Viking warriors, as well as dubious warriors and dwarven assault warriors armed with long-handled battle axes, formed a solid infantry line, and the dwarven elite infantry held high the shields in their hands to form a shield wall in the first line to provide assistance to their comrades behind.

All preparations are complete, just waiting for the English to attack!

Seeing the garrison formation of the opposing coalition forces, the English cannon fodder in the first array couldn't even cry, even if this was the case, in the face of the enemy army with an extremely tight defensive formation, they could only use a charge, right?

And so, the 1st array of England began to charge!

The vast majority of the tragic soldiers, who were only equipped with shields and short spears, and were not equipped with any armor, were first shot and killed by long-range crossbows, and then crashed headlong into the thick spear phalanx, and were stabbed into a sieve one by one.

The soldiers charged with the attack on the two wings were taken aback by the flying axes, and then they were beaten to pieces by the counter-charge of the Viking Death Warriors and the Dwarven Axe Warriors.

What caused a certain loss to the Three Kingdoms Alliance was the dozens of knights and their servants in the first array, who saw the opportunity to launch a charge, knocking over a lot of assault troops, and then they were chopped into meat sauce with big axes by the dwarves and Vikings who reacted.

Although he knew that the first round of attacks was just a temptation, seeing that the opponent was very easy and defeated thousands of his soldiers with almost no effort, Alfred the Great suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

"It seems that there is no possibility of winning in head-to-hand combat, but if you are going to impact the opponent's defense, you will only be brain-dead."

But the English don't need to do that at all......

After collecting the rout, the time was almost noon, because the two sides had not yet invested the main force in the decisive battle, so the soldiers on both sides were still relatively idle, some of them found the black bread they carried close to them, and ate lunch on the stream next to them.

It was at this time that the second array of England advanced,

An array of 3,000 longbowmen, 2,000 heavily armed spearmen, stopped directly within the range of the longbowmen, followed by a rain of bows and arrows.

"Cut! Think that's all it takes? Heavy spearmen are almost the same as ordinary cavalry, and if you want to compete with my heavy cavalry, you are still far behind! ”

Standing on the bell tower of the left-wing abbey, Randy snorted coldly, and then the big bell behind him was struck five times, three long and two short, and then the Norwegian knights, who had long been unable to hold back, and the improved tomahawk cavalry, stood out from the coalition array and rushed towards the second array of England.

There was no slope in front of the longbowmen to slow down at all, and there was no rain some time ago, the ground was in very good condition, and in such a situation, a total distance of 500 meters, the improved Tomahawk cavalry lined up in a line, it took less than half a minute to rush in front of the longbowmen.

The effective range of the longbowmen is not that far at all, and the farthest can only shoot at a distance of 400 meters, but the arrows at that distance are basically not lethal.

As for the English longbowmen in general......

You can shoot through cloth armor from 300 meters away!

You can shoot through leather armor from 200 meters away!

You can shoot through chain mail from 100 meters away!

50 meters away......

Can't shoot through plate armor!

There were only three arrows at the time of the battle, so three arrows were already a lot.

The English longbowmen tried with all their might, completely ignoring the hit rate, and desperately pulled their bows to wind.

Although their speed is also remarkable, averaging one shot in five seconds......

(End of chapter)