The one who slaughtered the scout force was naturally the first scout unit and sharpshooter longbowmen under Randy's command:

Sherwood Marksman!!

Sherwood marksmen, a total of 200 men, strangled nearly twice as many Finnish hussars as they made a circle in the Norwegian Black Forest, greatly slowing down the advance of the Swedish army and demoralizing the Swedish army to a certain extent.

Hundreds of well-trained Finnish hussars, which were a good force, did not make a single movement in the end, and lay in the Norwegian Black Forest, which also cast a shadow on Gustav's heart.

"It looks like the other party is not easy to deal with!"

Gustav's army of 27,000 troops, and the Finnish light cavalry is only 1,500, this time the loss of nearly a third, anyone will feel pain, plus the ransack of New Nijmegen, the whole army from top to bottom has made a windfall, short-sighted soldiers, now are now fantasizing about returning to their hometown, with this large amount of money to buy a house and marry a wife, and live a good life as a rich man, if he dies at this time, it will not be cost-effective.

The military's mind has changed!

The army is like a falcon, if you want the falcon to be obedient, you have to make him hungry, and if you can't eat enough, you will try to kill, and if you don't starve, you will have the strength to work and kill, but this time, this eagle called the Swedish army is eating and dying.

400,000 gold coins, even according to the principle of fifty-fifty splitting, there are still 200,000 gold coins left, and the officers and nobles have 100,000 gold coins, then there are still 100,000 gold coins left.

Then more than 20,000 soldiers, each of whom received at least five gold coins!

A copper plate and a black loaf......

One silver coin and one chicken......

One gold coin per acre of land......

Five gold coins and five acres of land......

In short, the well-fed Swedes don't want to move, they all want to go home, and they don't want to die.

When I was a poor stick before, I died when I died, anyway, I had a rotten life, and I had nothing but my life, so I might as well fight for it, and I couldn't say that I could fight for a fortune.

The so-called horizontal ones are afraid of being stunned, the flutes are afraid of dying, and the barefoot ones are not afraid of wearing shoes.

The northern barbarians were able to win against the rich and noble families in the south, and this is the reason.

Nowadays, Swedes are rich, so the richer they are, the more afraid they are of death, and the more well-dressed they are, the more they are afraid of splashing blood, and this truth has been true since ancient times.

It's still the same sentence, and the military's mind has changed.

At this time, King Gustav also regretted that if the Norwegians were weak in combat, then with the Swedish Iron Legion that he had personally produced* and the command ability of his own bunker, it might still be a big victory.

However, the Norwegians have already shown their combat effectiveness in terror.

At least Gustav thought to himself, there was no such terrible army of archers in his army, who could sneak through the dense forest without being discovered, and eat nearly five hundred elite hussars.

Now Gustav has ridden a tiger, and like other kings, he also has his own ambitions, to dominate the whole of Northern Europe, to dominate the Baltic Sea, and even to dominate the European continent, to complete the feat of Alexander, what man would refuse these human exploits?

Therefore, Randy regards him as the biggest stumbling block at present, and he also regards Randy as the biggest obstacle, a monarch who is extremely good at accumulating wealth, gathering people's hearts and rules, and using experienced soldiers.

It's better for such people to die quickly!

Gustav gritted his teeth and ignored all obstacles, ignored the gradually declining morale of the army, ignored the land that was constantly invaded by Norwegian pirates, ignored the Baltic Sea coast with turbulent dark tides, and insisted on continuing to advance towards the Randy Army.

Eventually, Randy retreated fifty kilometers to give up a large area of land in front of the Norwegian Black Forest, including the road from Nova Nijmegen to Oslo, as a military camp for the Swedes, and wrote a war letter asking the Swedes to engage him in three days.

Battle of the Black Forest in Norway!!

Randy's army totaled more than 24,000 people, and except for the light cavalry, which was inferior to the other side, the rest of the troops won on all fronts.

The Swedish army, totaling more than 27,000 men, was the opposite of the Norwegians.

Except for the light cavalry, which was stronger than others, the rest of the troops failed on all fronts.

However, Randy observed a little, and the more than 20,000 horses on the other side turned out to be all professional troops, and the last time was also a shield spearman equipped with leather armor, coupled with Gustav's terrifying command ability of up to twelve stars, as well as seven virtues, plus the special skills of a Nordic lion, this battle may still be fought.

Over the next three days, both sides were building up strength at the same time, with Randy taking the time to think about tactics and Gustav settling the morale of the army.

Three days passed in a flash, and on June 8, 1101 A.D., the Swedish and Norwegian armies met in the Oslo area.

The sky was clear, the weather was good, the wind was south-northwest, and the wind was one to zero, that is, there was no wind, so the bow was very little affected, and the hit rate increased significantly, which was undoubtedly good news for Randy, who had a gorgeous long-range lineup of 1500 longbowmen, 2000 crossbowmen, and 200 Sherwood marksmen.

So in the first round of attacks, the Norwegians shot first.

The first row of crossbowmen is half-crouched, the second row of crossbowmen stands in a loose formation, and the third row of crossbowmen is staggered between the second row of crossbowmen, so that the third row of crossbowmen can fire.

Although the pulley crossbow, the Yuanrong crossbow, and this kind of mass killing weapon have not yet been invented, and the high-tech equipment such as standard gears and bronze triggers are also absent, the technology of pedal string pulling has matured, which has greatly increased the attack power and range of the crossbowmen under Randy's command, greatly increased the armor-piercing ability, and enhanced the combat effectiveness a lot.

Seeing the three-row crossbowmen formation arranged by the other party, Gustav on the other side is also a person who has experienced a hundred battles, and he can naturally see the benefits of this array, the three-row crossbowmen take turns to shoot, which can weave a more detailed network of crossbows, so that the opponent's troops charging forward are difficult to move an inch, but such a formation has high requirements for the training quality of the soldiers, and then look at the same neat formation cut out by the opponent's tofu blocks, whether it is cavalry, melee infantry or projection infantry, all are extremely neat, Gustav's heart can't help but chuckle, before that, With the exception of the phalanx infantry and legionnaires of ancient Rome and Greece, he had never heard of an army with such a terrifying level of training.

"Even if so, so what? Wasn't Rome finally destroyed by us barbarians? What's the use of just walking to look good? ”

Despite this self-comfort, it is an indisputable fact that the other side does have a well-trained army, Gustav played 120,000 points of caution, quickly adjusted the formation, transferred the shield spearmen and heavy shield spearmen with large shields, and replaced the Nordic Guards who were originally in the front line with two-handed axes, and at the same time the Finnish light cavalry galloped out from the two wings of the Swedish army like beans, protecting the flank of the Swedish army, King Gustav no longer wanted to force the attack, but wanted to let Randy attack first and force him to change formation, Make another plan.

But Gustav's careful thinking ultimately did not materialize.

The first row of half-crouched crossbowmen under Randy's command all stood up, and the entire army marched forward fifteen paces in a cadence, just outside the crossbowman's farthest range.

"Even if this is the case, there is a chance, and at such a range, the attack power of the opponent's crossbow bolt is not very large." Gustav calculated, then came to a conclusion, and decided to stay put.

As the battle continued, Randy's main array had stopped advancing, and the longbowmen moved forward, divided into more than a dozen rectangular arrays under Robin Hood's command, and scattered densely at the Swedish army on the opposite side, while the three columns of crossbowmen continued to advance.

"Damn it!"

Seeing that there was no room for implementation of the plan to take advantage of the chaos to break the opponent's formation, Gustav gritted his teeth and ordered the first array to advance, and at the same time the Finnish light cavalry on each flank of the Swedish army drew a hundred light cavalry, and charged from the two flanks to the center against the crossbowmen array under Egil's command.

Randy confronted each other, with three thousand elite mercenaries on both wings and dwarven room guards forming a phalanx of spears and stepping forward quickly, ready to block the opposing cavalry.

At this time, the crossbowmen array had entered the optimal range, and the three columns of formation fired fiercely at the swarming Swedish shield spearmen, and together with the longbowmen of the second column of the formation, the rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun fell again beside the Norwegian Black Forest.

Barbarians are barbarians after all, and under such a combination of bows and crossbows, the Swedish army quickly fell a large number of people, but because of Gustav's strong command ability, it did not collapse, but this situation soon disappeared.

The Swedish shield spearmen arranged the monkey version of the tortoiseshell formation, that is, the tortoiseshell formation of three columns of shields, according to the way of the barbarians, and the slow advance was a little bit, although some people were still shot by stray arrows, but the casualties had dropped significantly.

At the same time, the Finnish light cavalry roared, and the phalanx of spears formed by the guards of the secret chamber was also close at hand.

The gun array advanced smoothly and orderly, the heavy feeling like a mountain gave people infinite pressure, the dwarven secret room guards with heavy armor on both wings, although they had not yet formed a line with the three crossbowmen, their might had passed, the dwarves made a 4.5-meter super long spear, the gun head was all thickened and lengthened, and the materials were very exquisite, but the gun shaft was a tree species that did not know where it was used, and what kind of processing it underwent was very hard, and it was not as elastic as some tree species, so that the gun barrel was too long to be controlled, it was really an excellent killing weapon.

It stands to reason that at this moment, the Finnish light cavalry saw the opponent's spear formation coming forward, although there was still some distance, they should also retreat, after all, the lethality of the super-long spear for their light cavalry is not ordinarily large, there is no armor, there is no vest, and the frontal hard shaking of the super-long spear formation is an act of seeking death.

Still shouting strange and desolate slogans, the Finnish hussars charged towards the flanks of the crossbow array, apparently with the intention of dooming together.

The crossbow array quickly deformed under the command of the horn of the rear formation, the two wings folded directly to the middle, and a three-column phalanx directly turned into a trapezoidal array, followed by a round of crossbow arrows.

This is already the best effort that Randy can do, when the three crossbowmen are too far more than the main formation, such an outcome has been decided, the lightly armed Finnish light cavalry was instantly shot down by the crossbow arrows, but more light cavalry has already rushed over, people borrowed horsepower, the snow bright long knife in the hand was raised high, followed by a head to the ground, the moment it first touched, the crossbow array was hit hard, the trapezoidal array was messed up like an orange that had been pinched, and the blood and water were flying.

"Back ......"

As soon as Randy frowned, a large number of shield spearmen and heavy shield spearmen in front of the Swedish army were about to rush over, knowing that he must be the one who suffered in the fight, and the shot just now was quite cool, but he didn't expect the retribution to come so quickly.

"Do you want to use that?" At this time, Artoria, who was beside Randy, asked eagerly.

"Not at this time, and besides, you are not allowed to go to the battlefield." After Randy finished speaking, he completely ignored the spiritual pressure released by Artoria and continued to focus on the battlefield.

Crossbowmen array flanks......

Because of the small number of people, combined with the desperate resistance of the crossbowmen, the Finnish light cavalry on both wings was badly wounded at this time, and when they rushed out, there were 200 men, and now there are less than 120 men left.

But still not to have an advantage!

The main training of the crossbowmen on weekdays is how to shoot accurately, melee hand-to-hand combat or something is completely a last resort, don't look at the arm with a small round shield, a long sword on the waist, and a light chain mail on the body, this body is much better than the average light infantry, but it is not professional or not.

The light cavalry continued to spin and charge, quickly turning their horses after a battle with the crossbowmen, and at close range the crossbowmen did not have time to wind up and fire again, or to charge again when they regrouped, and the crossbowmen array collapsed completely.

The Finnish light cavalry, despite their physical exertion, were still in good spirits, and Randy reluctantly ordered the main formation to advance and ordered the crossbowmen to retreat.

Less than eighty Finnish hussars remained, all of whom were killed headlong in the guns of the dwarven chamber guards, and were poked into sugar gourds.

In the first round of the encounter, both sides have their own winners and losers!

Although the crossbow array and the gorgeous long-range lineup of the archers made the Swedes fight a lot, but the fighting power of the opposing Finnish light cavalry was also a pillbox, but two hundred horsemen completely destroyed the crossbowmen array, and in the case of the loss of hundreds of people and the complete destruction of the array, the crossbowmen had to retreat.

Then came the bloodiest, most lethal, most intense, and most boring melee infantry encounters.

Frontally, after the remaining crossbowmen were withdrawn, Randy's Viking daredevils rushed forward with their long-handled battle axes in their hands, charging and shooting at each other, splitting the opposite Swedish shield spearmen in half, along with their shields.

And the opponent's spear, when it encounters a sophisticated plate chain composite armor, is powerless, at most it can only cause the opponent a little minor injury, if it is not a vital hit, it is difficult to cause fatal injuries.

The Swedish army is being eaten away little by little, but the speed is still slow, in the final analysis, it is because of the commanding ability of this guy Gustav, which gives the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under his command a bonus, which doubles the combat effectiveness of these inferior troops.

"Robin Hood is there any movement there?" Randy frowned, and asked the Guard Knight next to him in a whisper.

"It's difficult, such a distance...... Also, the other party seems to be prepared. The Knight of the Guard replied.

Truly! Because of the previous skirmish battle in the Black Forest of Norway, Gustav had a preliminary understanding of the abilities of the marksman under Randy's command, so this guy rarely wore a plate chain composite armor produced by dwarves, and forcibly put on a heavy chain armor and a leather soft armor inside, and the whole person was dressed like a king.

At the same time, there are dozens of horses holding big shields, their eyes wandering, ready to block arrows for their lords at any time, plus there are more than 20,000 cannon fodder in front of them, even Robin Hood, who is excellent in archery, will feel a lot of pressure!

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