The battle for Krakow is in full swing......

The result was quite encouraging, with both the front and the right wing in favour of the Celtics.

The tactics used by the Celtic heavy spearmen on the front were almost indistinguishable from those of the Eastern Romans. In the same way as the tactic of arranging a wall of shields to stab with spears, their equipment is even identical, the only difference being the shield.

The Celts used large oval shields 80 centimeters high to protect the upper body, while the Eastern Romans still used the same tower shield of the ancient Roman Empire, which was very clumsy.

Although this kind of tower shield looks more neat and defensive than the Celts after receiving the formation, this bulky shield is very unsuitable for the user to dodge, block and other actions, and the use of this large shield is also a great drain on the user's physical strength.

As the war dragged on, the Celtic soldiers still had the strength to fight, but the Eastern Roman hoplites in the front row, after continuous battles, were out of breath and could not continue.

In addition, the Celts were more numerous, fifteen thousand hoplites, and the remaining two thousand lightning infantry, against only half of them, three brigades of Eastern Roman heavy infantry, and only about 5,000 light infantry and 7,000 mace daggers, could have a great advantage.

It's like a herald reporting to Her Royal Highness!

There are more of them than we are,

They are better equipped than we are,

They are tactically advanced and not afraid of death.

We are no match for them!

Of course, this poor herald who told the truth was immediately executed by Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu for disturbing the morale of the army.

"Damn! This is the first war since the official debut of the main palace, and it must not be lost like this. Lilianu scolded angrily, looking to the right flank, hoping that the group of Cossack steppe nomads could bring her some surprises, but the result was very disappointing, the hussars had completely crushed those nomadic cavalry, the vast majority of the nomads either fled or surrendered, only a small number were still struggling to support, most of them were horses wounded or killed, and they couldn't escape, but they didn't want to surrender, so they had to wield rudimentary weapons, scimitars, and spears for foot combat, and these guys were quickly tortured and killed, Some of the hussars who had been separated from their respective cavalry battalions to deal with these guys laughed and charged at them in groups of three or five, and with a wave of their sabers, they could cut off the opponent's head.

The only army that could still fight, the formed army, was still the Cossacks.

Although in the previous cavalry battle, a hussar cavalry battalion was eaten, Pugachev could also see that if the war continued, it would only lead to defeat.

As soon as the horn of retreat was blown, the Cossacks left a group of daredevils and began to retreat.

The group of Cossacks who remained behind really dared to fight hard, although the tactics were backward, the equipment was very poor, and the number was only three or four hundred, but they stubbornly held off the hussars for nearly twenty minutes, until the last Cossack ranger was killed.

By this time the Cossacks had all returned to their positions, and the cavalry quickly jumped off their horses and fled into the hands of the contradictions, while the more numerous Cossacks jumped under their horses and stood up with their shields, and called the archers who were with them to stand back, and a line of defense appeared.

The hussars ran around the position for a while, and General Saito snorted coldly: "Go around and explode his chrysanthemums,"

The remaining ten cavalry battalions immediately divided their labor, leaving two cavalry battalions to contain the enemy's attention, and eight cavalry battalions divided into two lines, four on the left flank and four on the right flank, hiding outside the range of the enemy's bow and arrow, and went around the enemy's rear to charge the enemy's rear archers.

Pugachev was in a hurry and shouted: "Cavalry, hold them back." ”

The Cossack cavalry was tossed for a while, and a thousand more horsemen stepped on horseback, turned around and charged the hussars in the rear, covering the foot archers.

However, the hussars immediately changed their tactics, and divided two cavalry battalions on the left and right, and rushed towards the flanks of the disorganized Cossack army.

"Archer !!"

The Cossack officers on both flanks shouted hoarsely, and the horses they had forced to press to the ground neighed uneasily, and then the two sides fired at each other again, and the battlefield that had just stopped for a while resounded one after another screams, but the Cossack soldiers had their horses as cover and the strong compound bows of the foot archers to support, so the Norman cavalry suffered a little from such a fire.

Soon the hussars began to charge, attacking the Cossack lines, and the melee hussars, wielding their sabers and supported by the bows and arrows of the archers, rushed towards the Cossack camp like a torrent.

At this moment, behind the Cossack position, a total of four hussar battalions, nearly two thousand hussars completely suppressed a thousand Cossack cavalry, and it seemed that victory would be sooner or later.

Pugachev gave the order to move the pikemen in front to the back of the position, and ordered four hundred Cossack heavy cavalry to attack and assist the Cossack light cavalry in the rear.

This is the case with the right flank, which looks even worse than the frontal battlefield!

The Norman hussars had amazing combat power, and the tactics were even more erratic, and the Cossacks were completely passive in taking care of one or the other, and the cavalry fought the infantry like this, especially in the plain terrain, the cavalry came and went as they wanted, and they could fight wherever they wanted, and the infantry wanted to confront the cavalry, so they could only rely on the formation and terrain.

But the uneducated Cossacks didn't know these at all, they were all born in cavalry, and the cavalry played quite well, as for the battle in array or something, they all learned from a second-rate infantry country like the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and they have never been tested in actual combat, because they only learned one thing, their own teachers are second-rate, and the students are naturally second-rate, so what they learn must be third-rate!

How can a third-rate infantry phalanx be able to hold off a super-first-class hussar?

Failure is only a matter of time!

Her Royal Highness the princess ordered the heralds to come and go, bringing this depressing news, and the right flank could not be relied upon, so did the light cavalry, and the same was true of the heavy cavalry, and if the offensive of the Norman hussars was like a flash flood, then the offensive of the Celtic knights and heavy cavalry was like a mudslide, although slow, but more powerful, more indestructible.

After the first round of charges, most of the systematically trained Celtic knights, like the Norman knights, easily dodged the enemy's spears, stabbed the enemy to death with their cavalry spears, and then pulled out their battle axes to slash left and right.

After a series of tests, Artoria found that although the mace's armor-piercing ability is above the battle axe, the damage it causes is not as great as the battle axe, especially the current army is generally equipped with scale armor and chain mail, which have a shock-absorbing effect to a certain extent, so unless it is a move to break the Tianling cover, the mace can only seriously injure people at most.

But the tomahawk is different, there are no antibiotics these days, not even a standard professional medical system, after the tomahawk cuts out the wound, tetanus, infection, bacteria, and so on will follow, even if the other party can go back alive, he will also die in a few months, and the mace is not very easy to use against enemies equipped with light leather armor, or even no armor, and the Celtic economic situation is not as good as Norman, although the economic situation is rich, but it is still inferior to Norman, Able to equip heavy cavalry with both broadswords and maces, and using different strategies depending on the enemy, Artoria ended up using the Norman battle axe as standard.

The results of practice also proved that the ability of the tomahawk was indeed quite good, and the Celtic knights equipped with the tomahawk would not suffer a loss when fighting the steppe heavy cavalry equipped with maces, but on the contrary, they could take advantage of it.

The Celtic heavy cavalry had an advantage against the nomadic heavy cavalry, but the heavy cavalry of the coalition army was not only composed of these steppe nomads, although they were well-equipped, but they were not fully trained, and the cavalry with backward tactics even had the elite heavy cavalry formed by copying the Eastern Roman ironclad holy cavalry and trained by Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu.

The elite troops are built in full accordance with the standards of the ironclad holy cavalry, a total of four hundred heavy cavalry armed to the teeth, and the overweight force is still the young officer who was specially dug out of the ironclad holy cavalry by Her Royal Highness the princess, although the character is a little worse, and he has no thoughts about the princess, but the ability is so strong that he has nothing to say, while the Celtic heavy cavalry frantically abused those steppe heavy cavalry, this officer saw the opportunity, and completely ignored the life and death of those steppe heavy cavalry and feudal knights, Directly lead the troops around the other side of the cavalry group and charge the Celtic heavy cavalry flank.

Unlike the Ironclad Paladins, this elite cavalry used heavy Western European style mounted rifles, which were much stronger than Eastern style spears in terms of weight, deterrence, and lethality, which were very clumsy in close combat, but much stronger than spears when it came to charging.

Four hundred heavy cavalry, under the command of the officer, quickly lined up in a wedge formation, a group of heavy war horses plus heavily armed cavalry, weighing almost more than three hundred catties, hundreds of heavy cavalry running, able to shake the ground rumbling.

It's just that if the opponent of this batch of heavy cavalry was someone else, they would have already succeeded this time, but this time their opponent was the Celtic heavy cavalry, which was not much different from the Norman heavy cavalry.

Seeing the enemy's heavy cavalry rushing over, if it was an ordinary cavalry unit, the formation would definitely not be as fast as it was converted, but the Celtic heavy cavalry used the same improved version of the wave charge tactics in accordance with the Norman military reform regulations, with the hundred-man team as a unit, and the adjustment speed was not comparable to that of ordinary feudal cavalry.

"Turn around! Turn around! ”

Seeing that the enemy's heavy cavalry had rushed over, the three Celtic heavy cavalry centurions who were on standby immediately shouted: "Diamond formation! ”

Immediately after that, the three heavy cavalry hundred-man team responded violently, and the well-trained cavalry maneuvered the horses and quickly lined up into a diamond-shaped array, which has the same impact as the general wedge-shaped array, but it is very good in terms of flexibility, especially suitable for cavalry to respond quickly.

One of the three centurs was in the center, and the other two went around the flank of the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry to launch a counter-charge, so that the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry was at a disadvantage in formation.

From the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry to the Celtic heavy cavalry, it took only five minutes before and after the Celtic heavy cavalry found out, changed formation, and launched a charge.

The Celtic heavy cavalry had a small formation, not many troops, and the formation changed quickly, so they could react quickly, although the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry also saw that the formation was inappropriate, but because of the large number, they had not done similar training, and even their officers did not know what to do when they encountered such a situation?

I had to let the two wings take a charge from the Celtic heavy cavalry, and the two wings were instantly crushed.

The front is slightly better, the Celtic heavy cavalry is strictly trained, the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry is not bad, the battle loss ratio of the two sides is close to one to one, the war horses, riding spears, ramming, all are extremely powerful, the front row of the heavy cavalry and their war horses are all killed, none of them are spared, and then they are trampled into flesh by the iron cavalry of both sides who continue to gallop, and the sound of participation is endless.

Both sides are people with iron hearts, such a tragic scene can only make them more excited, after the collision, the Celtic heavy cavalry has the upper hand because of the formation advantage, the battle loss ratio of the two sides is as high as 1 to 3, almost all of them are killed by one hit, and the heavy chain mail and scale armor can not stop the terrifying power of the heavy cavalry charge.

The cavalry on both sides quickly dropped the cavalry spears broken in the enemy's body, pulled out their secondary weapons, and fought with tomahawks or system maces.

The fighting of these heavy cavalry is more rigid than the flexibility of the light cavalry, but it is more violent, bloody, steel and steel, steel and flesh, the roar of the soldiers, the shapeless corpses of men and horses, and the battle between the heavy cavalry, which is always the most eye-catching scenery on the battlefield.

However, Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu has no heart to appreciate it at all, not that her artistic cells or aesthetics do not match this kind of thing, it is because these dead are her soldiers, and it is very lively to see other people's houses on fire, but if her own house is on fire, it is her own distraction.

Her Royal Highness the princess saw that the light cavalry could not win, and the heavy cavalry could not win, and a total of 15,000 Celtic heavy spearmen on the frontal battlefield were assembled into a formation, and the posture was almost the same as the heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman legion, and what was even more infuriating was that behind their infantry array, there were really a lot of spear throwers, this kind of light Celtic javelinmen were the elite auxiliary arms in the Celtic army, and the heavy javelins in their hands were a little shorter than the light javelins of the Eastern Roman auxiliary infantry, but the range was several times greater, Even the scale armor of the Eastern Roman hoplites was not necessarily completely defensible, and they had to wear a layer of skin and flesh.

On the other side, the Prussian garrison led by General Hans, the offensive of 3,500 professional Viking warriors, made Her Royal Highness feel even more upset, the tactics of Viking warriors are still to use throwing axes to kill and injure the enemy's formation, and then launch a fierce attack, such a simple but very practical tactic, has always been the Norman army proud, infantry combat the only magic weapon.

Norman sergeants attacked on the flanks of the frontal battlefield, and elite Viking warriors wielded their battle axes and quickly dispersed the irregulars, a small number of mace and daggers, who were used by the Eastern Roman army to guard the flanks, followed by an attack on the flank of a Roman heavy infantry brigade.

The heavy infantry brigade was engaged in a fierce battle with the Celtic heavy spearmen in front of it, and the tactics of both sides were almost identical, with shield walls and spear assassinations, which seemed a little monotonous, and at the same time very organized, because the heavy spearmen had higher defense and weaker lethality, so the war went very slowly, and it was impossible to see who won and who lost for a while.

There is also an advantage to such a war, that is, the commanders of both sides dispatch and command.

Her Royal Highness the Princess looked over from a high place, and it was clear at a glance that it was now in a stalemate stage, and she could leave it alone for now, and when she fell into the downwind, she would not fail for a while, and she could calmly dispatch reinforcements.

The so-called civilized armies, the so-called armies of the Greeks and Romans, liked to use this tactic to engage the enemy.

However, the addition of the Norman army changed the tide of the battle in an instant.

Rampage, like beast-like Norman warriors, frantically storming the flanks of the Eastern Roman hoplites, twisting and twisting those hoplites into a scattered formation, this is the so-called barbarian battle, using fierce roars, wild charges and lethal battle axes, compared to a little literary spearmen to assassinate each other, the Normans prefer this kind of painful warfare, like everything, the war between barbarians and civilized people.

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