Chapter 179: The Emperor's Death (I)
In the first round, the Germanic knights won completely!
This was followed by the second round......
When the horses of the two sides were staggered, the Norman knights and heavy cavalry waved the heavy weapons in their hands and smashed them down according to the enemy's helmets, whether it was a battle axe or a mace, compared to the plate chain composite armor on the cavalry, it was obviously much thinner, and only by hitting a layer of iron helmet could it achieve the effect of instant killing.
The Norman knight chopped it down with an axe, and with the help of horsepower and the sharpness of the battle axe, he could easily cut the opponent's layer of iron skin, including the scalp and skull inside, and directly cut it open.
A large amount of red and white mess flowed out of the gap cut by the tomahawk, and the Germanic knight didn't even have time to snort before he directly announced his death.
The Norman heavy cavalry who used the mace looked even more terrifying, and the heavy cavalry wielding the mace with all their strength could directly deform the opponent's iron helmet, like a collapsed watermelon.
The two sides then became entangled......
The Germanic knights abandoned their spears and replaced them with swords in a fierce hand-to-hand fight with the Norman knights.
"Damn! Someone forgot to equip us with heavy armor-piercing weapons! "Many Germanic knights thought about these questions before they died.
Sadly, the common equipment of the Germanic knights is the long sword, which is very convenient for slashing and stabbing, this light weapon has a fast attack speed and a longer attack range than a short-handed weapon such as a mace and battle axe, which is very advantageous when facing lightly armed enemy forces.
Such a configuration is indeed very suitable in the traditional medieval feudal warfare, but in the case of more and more diversified soldiers' armor equipment and higher armor rate, this equipment is a bit out of place.
The Germanic knights were beaten very badly, and the long swords in their hands were completely unable to break through the defense of the Norman cavalry wearing plate chain composite armor and even heavy chain armor, on the contrary, the armor on the Germanic knights could not block the attack of the opponent's tomahawks and maces, although the Germanic people roared madly, desperately, and fought with the Normans with the spirit of an indomitable daredevil, but the final result was still unsatisfactory.
At the same time as the heavy cavalry of both sides was engaged in a decisive battle, the Norman hoplites also rushed forward.
Under the cover of the longbowmen's projectiles, they launched a charge against the first array of the Holy Roman Empire that had retreated, completely smashing the barely existing opposing array, and a large number of Norman soldiers continued to pour in from various gaps, and the battle axes in their hands slashed fiercely, killing the Holy Roman Empire army to the ground, and the first array completely collapsed.
In just two hours, the Holy Roman Empire's army had fallen into a comprehensive disadvantage, the original three-line infantry array arranged by Frederick, the first array of 5,000 people had completely collapsed, fled, captured, and killed, in more than 90%, and the second array was ravaged by the Norman iron cavalry, and it has not been able to organize an effective resistance until now, seeing that the Norman infantry is following one after another, the soldiers are fleeing even more, and it seems that it will not take long to completely collapse.
Although the third array was able to survive the Norman cavalry for a moment due to the charge of the Holy Roman Empire's heavy cavalry, the number of escapes continued unabated, and the few Germans who still held their posts were also blue and discouraged.
Randy has experienced good times and adversities since his debut, winning and losing battles, but he really hasn't encountered an extremely easy battle like today.
The tens of thousands of troops on the other side fled in embarrassment, and his own army drove straight into the no-man's land, and Randy was a little difficult to accept for a while.
At this moment, the light cavalry that detoured back to the left flank was in place, and after a round of bows and arrows, the enemy infantry completely collapsed in an uproar, starting from the left flank, the soldiers scrambled to be the first to scatter and flee with a distorted appearance, evading the strong bows and curves of the Norman light cavalry, like lost dogs, being chased by the light cavalry, the huge number of Norman cavalry and the speed and endurance of the lightly armed horses, as well as the long day that had just arrived at noon, guaranteed that the effect of this pursuit would be very amazing.
At this point, the infantry line of the Holy Roman Empire completely collapsed, and there were less than 200 people left who could still hold on to the battle with a very small number of elite knights in the middle.
Frederick roared wildly, and let their soldiers return to their positions and continue to fight, but it was useless, neither duty nor duty, nor the glory of the Holy Roman Empire, nor the loyalty of Catholicism to the Emperor, these reasons could not be convinced, and the peasants who had been completely frightened, or rather, who had completely taken the Emperor's words as wind in their ears, did not listen to them at all.
This is how the rout began......
The knights who were still with Frederick and insisted on fighting were less than fifty men left, and all of them were wounded and could not afford to fight again, looking at the Norman army that was constantly coming, as if it was endless, and at his own army that was scattered and fleeing like a poor little girl, Frederick looked up to the sky and laughed wildly.
"It's not enough! My funeral wasn't gorgeous enough, soldiers, my knights, do you see the hillside? That's where the Norman Puppet Emperor is, and we're going there, and I'm going to make that victor remember forever what it cost him to kill another Emperor!" ”
After Frederick finished speaking, he did his best to use his personal skills!
Fifty knights of the Holy Roman Empire fell into an ethereal state, their speed, reflexes, and combat abilities increased dramatically, and each of their movements seemed to have been calculated millions of times by the computer to achieve the most perfect effect, perfectly dodging every enemy's attack, and each of their attacks could directly hit the enemy's vital point, killing with one blow.
In such a complex battlefield, these knights found the easiest and safest route to assault.
Along the way, they fight many enemies, but they don't do any entanglement, they have a firm attitude, sharp eyes, no fear or distractions, and all lock onto the watchtower where Randy is.
Heavy infantry on both sides also began to fight in the forest on the right flank......
Because he had been reminded by his own emperor that the professional Viking warriors did not appear to be so frightened when they encountered the enemy, on the contrary, the German heavy infantry, whose morale was not very good, were taken aback, but soon these carefully selected soldiers with good salaries returned to normal, forming a dense formation and charging as much as possible while maintaining the formation as required by the regulations of the military reform of the Holy Roman Empire.
The sergeants of the Holy Roman Empire advanced rapidly in a neat formation that the feudal peasant soldiers could not match, although the advance was accompanied by a slightly dogmatic movement of the bow and arrow, and the formation began to loosen when charging quickly, but on the whole it was still a good force that could be called a strong force.
"For Randy von Hoffmann!"
The Norman warriors on the other side roared, and the soldiers with throwing axes in the front row began to charge, and they ran within twenty paces as they threw a throwing axe with maximum force, destroying the opponent's already somewhat scattered formation, even more completely.
However, those Imperial sergeants' seemingly untimely actions and movements came into play at this time, the oak composite shields inlaid with iron-edged skin, there was really nothing to say in terms of defense, although the impact of the axe was very strong under the action of inertia, but it only made the Imperial sergeant's hands tremble.
The hoplites on both sides collided violently, tomahawks and maces, kite-shaped shields and kite-shaped shields, white phoenixes and black falcons, and the soldiers on both sides let out an earth-shattering roar, and the fierce fight was about to break out.
With the elite heavy infantry that the Norman is most proud of and has been tested in countless wars, against the product of the Germanic military reform, the imperial elite sergeants and soldiers are facing each other, and the Shura battlefield suddenly emerged, the soldiers waved their weapons frantically, attacked, blocked, killed, a professional Viking warrior in the front row waved a battle axe, and slashed at his enemy, the neck of an imperial sergeant, the sergeant hurriedly raised his shield to block, the tomahawk bit straight into the surface of the shield, leather, iron, wooden boards, and the three-layer defense was completely breached, Directly cut off the sergeant's left ring finger, middle finger, and index finger.
"Ahhh!!hhh The screams like killing pigs are rising and falling on the front-line battlefield.
The Viking warrior wanted to take advantage of the situation to send his opponent to hell, but the wood of the shield and the tomahawk were clamped so tightly that he couldn't pull it out in a hurry, and the Norman warrior threw away his shield, put his tomahawk on the ground along with the enemy's shield, stretched out his foot and stepped on the shield, and tried to pull the tomahawk out with both hands.
But at this time, the Imperial sergeant with the severed finger finally came to his senses, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he took two steps forward and raised his mace, and smashed it directly at the horned helmet on the head of the Norman warrior.
The Norman warrior suddenly heard an evil wind blowing overhead, knew that things were not good, and no longer pulled out his axe, holding the axe handle high and holding the tomahawk high, even with the shield still embedded in the tomahawk, to protect his head, and then with a muffled sound, the shield that had obvious cracks could not withstand the full force of the opponent's mace, and directly broke in half, and the Norman warrior's axe also broke away from the shield and re-functioned, and the Norman warrior did the same, swinging the tomahawk with the trend, Slashed heavily at the Imperial sergeant's wrist, cutting off one of his opponent's hands.
This made the panic of the Imperial sergeant even more terrible, and he rolled on the ground in pain as he held his broken wrist, and then was trampled on the stomach by the Norman warrior who saw the opportunity, and his head was chopped off.
The Norman warrior laughed wildly, raising his tomahawk in one hand and the head of a Germanic soldier in the other, and continued to charge into the depths of the battlefield.
There were many similar scenes on the battlefield, and the madness, bravery, and experience of the Norman warriors were all unmatched by the Germanic sergeants who had just been formed for three months, and as the war continued, the numerical superiority of the Norman army was gradually revealed.
Five thousand VS two thousand!
The Norman army took out 3,000 men to engage in a tug-of-war with the opposing side in a tug-of-war, followed by another 1,000 men on each flank to outflank them, and the other side soon fell into a semi-encircled state of being surrounded by the enemy on three sides, and as time went by, the front line was broken through little by little, and then divided and surrounded.
There was no suspense in the war, and the final result would be the victory of the Norman army.
It was supposed to be like this!
In Randy's eyes, in the eyes of all Norman officers, and even in the eyes of the Holy Roman Empire itself.
The fifty ragged knights who had come out of the ranks were completely unable to arouse even the slightest interest in Randy, it was nothing more than a dying struggle, and it was more interesting to pay attention to the ants on the ground than to pay attention to these people.
"Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on with those knights?" Randy's slightly frantic voice rang out, and the people around him were dumbfounded, completely unsure of how to answer his question.
"Viscount, tell me, can the Norman royal knights have this level?"
"I'm sorry Your Majesty, I'm afraid not."
"And what about the Knights of the Guard?"
"If you do some intensive training, maybe there will be some ......"
"So what's going on? Why were the Germans able to have a cavalry force that was even stronger than ours? ”
"This is indeed incredible, if it was just an accident, then it is impossible for this group to gather in such a short time and charge in a cone-arrow formation, so they should have some premeditation, but this premeditation can actually allow dozens of heavily armed knights to kill from tens of thousands of troops, which is indeed a little ......"
As an expert in heavy cavalry combat, Captain Death Knight's second Fa thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't come up with an adjective to describe it.
On the other hand, Randy was not in this mood at all, for the Norman Emperor, analyzing how this small group of cavalry broke out of the chaotic battlefield, so that the academic questions could be left a little later, and it didn't even matter if they weren't discussed, the most important thing now was to kill all these guys who didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
"Look at that, Your Majesty, that one seems to be the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." At this moment, one of the knights of the guard suddenly shouted in surprise, and pointed to the old man who was surrounded by a group of knights in the middle, dressed in fine clothes and with white hair.
"So what? My merit book is thick enough that there is no need to add such a stroke. ”
Randy also saw that this group of knights was unusual, and directly rejected this obscurity, as if he wanted to persuade him to capture the other party's suggestion, raised his arms and said:
"All projection troops concentrate their firepower and destroy them."
Under Randy's orders, the Norman crossbowmen, who had thought that in this war, would only play soy sauce slightly, and some of the Northern Italian giant shieldmen who had volunteered to join the Norman army, quickly moved into action, wound up to aim, pulled the trigger, and with a tooth-chattering buzz, thousands of crossbow arrows shot straight at the group of knights.
"Frederick's knights, charge!"
The old emperor roared so loudly that he and his knights raised their irises to protect their heads and torsos, leaned their bodies on the horse's back as much as possible, and increased their horse's speed to the highest speed, hoping to break through the rain of arrows as soon as possible, while some of the Norman's thousands of longbowmen reacted to Randy's order and pulled the bowstring at the group of knights.
The sky rains down, its shape is like an arrow cluster, and the northern concubine is called the bow and arrow.
The extremely violent rain of longbows and arrows was indeed partially blocked by the shield in the knight's hand, but the terrifying impact made the knight feel a huge pressure, and it continued to ...... In fact, I felt that the left arm holding the shield was almost numb, and there were even several knights under such a dense rain of arrows, and dozens or hundreds of arrows were densely inserted on the shield, and in the end, I don't know which arrow overwhelmed the camel's last straw, and directly shattered this fine shield with oak skin and iron rim!
Immediately afterwards, the heavy cone-headed arrows rushed forward, lest they take a step slowly, and the knights did not snort, and became a hedgehog, and fell down with men and horses.
(End of chapter)