Chapter 131: The Fall of Eastern Rome (31)

Swiss! The most famous mercenary nation of the Middle Ages.

The Swiss phalanx of ultra-long spears, the most famous cavalry nemesis of the Middle Ages.

But today, the Ironclad Paladins have changed all that.

The ironclad paladons, who were heavily weighted, well-armed, and on a hunger strike, crashed headlong into the Swiss phalanx of super-long spears, followed by a burst of people on their backs.

The huge mass and impact of the cavalry made the super long spear in the hands of the Swiss instantly pierce into the body of the ironclad paladier, and the ironclad paladier didn't snort at that time, and the huge impact not only made the super long spear pierce his heart, but also directly shattered the internal organs in his body, and the blood instantly flowed out from the eyes, mouth, nose, ears, and the seven orifices bled out, and the dead could not die again.

Immediately after that, the huge impact was also transmitted to the Swiss pikemen.

The Swiss pikemen who held the barrel of the gun tightly dislocated their hands in an instant, and even more unlucky directly fractured their hands, and for a while the sound of Gaba Gaba's bones shattering was endless, and then the ironclad paladier who was already dead pressed over with men and horses, and the weight of nearly a ton was directly pressed on the several Swiss pikemen in the front row, such a terrifying weight, even if they were not dead, they could take half their lives.

Before the Swiss pikemen could recover their strength, the second round of attacks of the Ironclad Paladier arrived, because of the efforts of the first round of the Ironclad Palazzoar, at this moment the pike's phalanx had been destroyed a large number of gaps, at this time, the French conscripted peasant soldiers should have stepped forward to fill the gap, but these peasants saw the fierceness of the Ironclad Palazzoars, but they all flinched and did not dare to step forward.

Seeing that there was a gap in the spear phalanx, the ironclad paladon no longer charged, to prevent being pierced by the super long spear, but trotted over slowly.

Losing the impact of the ironclad paladier itself, it was impossible for the Swiss pikemen to pierce the opponent's three-layer armor with the spear in their hands, seeing that the other party rushed over like a walk, the mace in his hand was raised high, and he hit his own pikemen, and the Swiss pikemen holding the halberd quickly stepped forward, raised the heavy and sharp halberd in his hand, and slashed at the ironclad paladier.

At the same time, on the other side, the dwarven chamber guards had almost the same problem.

The phalanx of spears arranged by the dwarven guards in the chamber is more sturdy than the Swiss, they wear better armor, use tougher and sharper spears, and humans are more calm than humans, so the ironclad paladers and guards cavalry are also more killed and wounded, and in front of the super-long spear phalanx arranged by the guards of the chamber, there is almost a layer of corpses of enemy cavalry and war horses.

But the dwarves were also badly wounded, and some of them were even hit by their horses, spurting blood up to three feet high.

There is a gap in the dwarven chamber guards' ultra-long spear phalanx, but they don't have strong warriors who use armor-piercing heavy weapons like the Swiss halberds, and the dwarven chamber guards should cooperate with other powerful troops of the dwarf clan, but Randy is greedy and only hires this single class, which will not have the cooperation of the dwarven two-handed axemen, and the dwarven secret room guards are about to lose, and the dwarven mercenary captain has no choice but to order some of the dwarven secret room guards to put down the super long spears and take out the hand axes and one-handed hammers on their waists to attack.

However, these auxiliary weapons, although they have a certain bonus effect on armor piercing, but the attack power is not high, the dwarves resist very hard, the battlefield frontal saw the enemy heavy cavalry rushing over, professional Viking warriors calculated the distance, shouting: "One, two, three," the slogan, the front row of Viking warriors, then threw out the flying axe in their hands, and rushed towards the enemy cavalry with fanatical shouts.

The lethality of the throwing axes at close range was extremely amazing, and the hundreds of Greek heavy cavalry in the front row fell down with a wail, and the heavy cavalry in a row behind them immediately reduced their speed when the situation changed, so as not to be pulled into the water by the overturned cavalry in the front row, but this time it hit the arms of the Norman infantry, and then the Viking decisive charge soldiers rushed out with a roar, and in the earth-shattering shouts of killing, these heavy infantry in heavy armor but extremely flexible, crossed and fell, with a large number of throwing axes inserted in a mess, Some of the Greek cavalry, who were not yet dead and were wailing, charged directly at the heavy cavalry on the side.

"This bunch of barbarians...... Are they crazy? Actually assaulted the cavalry head-on with infantry! The ironclad paladazions in the front row were shocked, they couldn't believe that this was true, but this was the case, the tens of thousands of heavy infantry in the first Norman array did rush towards them.

"Damn! Kill them. ”

First surprised, then suspicious, and finally angry.

In an instant, the Greek heavy cavalry clearly felt that they were despised, how could these equally arrogant warriors withstand such an insult? I was about to continue the charge, but I didn't expect the Viking warrior to touch his belt, followed by another round of throwing axes, with the help of the forward momentum, this flying axe was even more violent than before, and another group of cavalry fell without suspense.

At this moment, the Greeks could no longer care about so much, and these arrogant warriors, completely ignoring the fact that their own robes had been slaughtered, only wanted to kill these damned barbarian heavy infantry, so they charged at full speed.

"Come on! You damn sissies, come and bite the uncle's chirp! ”

The Viking warriors laughed wildly and charged at the Iron Paladins with their flesh and blood.

Cavalry and infantry collide violently, whether it is an over-heavy ironclad paladon or a heavy guards cavalry, they can knock one or more Viking warriors into the air with great force in an instant, break their ribs, knock them down, and then step on them to kill.

The Viking warriors in the front row instantly fell into a terrible hell, and there was not one out of ten, and the blood and scraps of flesh were splashed and fell on the armor of the Greeks, making these terrifying warriors look even more hideous, and the terrifying red color was still dripping down little by little.

That's it!

This charge did not deter the Normans at all, as the Greek heavy cavalry imagined, on the contrary, the cavalry that lost their speed found that they were surrounded by the Normans, and then the group of cavalry fell into the Norman heavy infantry, and fought against a single cavalry with multiple hoplites, and the Viking warriors slashed wildly, while tearing the cavalry, pulling it off their horses, and slashing it indiscriminately.

"What a bunch of savages......"

Seeing that the Normans were so fierce, resisting the cavalry with their own flesh, causing the cavalry to lose speed and slaughter it, the Greeks instantly thought of what had happened when they had fought the Italians nearly a month ago, and that the light infantry who looked like madmen, and the pilgrims who were equipped like garbage, also resisted the attacks of their own cavalry in this way.

"Damn it!"

Seeing the heavy cavalry and super-heavy cavalry in the front row suffered heavy losses, Basil II shook his head helplessly, and did not expect the follow-up lightweight Eastern Roman lancers to have any effect, those foreign Latin cavalry were even more unreliable, and they were now facing a coalition of Latin mercenaries from their homeland.

At this time, Randy also saw that something was wrong, his frontal infantry protruded too much, but the friendly armies on both wings were still in place, so it was easy for the opponent's heavy cavalry to impact the two wings, causing his own infantry line in the middle to be damaged, if that was the case, the battle would develop in a direction that was unfavorable to him.

"Infantry line fighters retreat, what about alpha? Let Alpha lead the men in pursuit. Randy gave such an order.

The Viking warriors, holding aloft their skull-studded spears and a wing flag captured from the Ironclad Paladins, retreated in high spirits, and in front of the two armies they asked for oil and torches, splitting the flag in half, half of which was given to Randy as a trophy, and the other half was set on fire.

Seeing that their own banners were burned in this way, the ironclad paladiers were furious, and despite Basil II's orders, they turned their heads and charged again, trying to find the Normans desperately.

They collided head-on, and the Death Knight faced off against nearly a thousand Norman riders led by Alpha.

"Kill them!" Fa snorted lightly and said in a deep voice without a hint of emotion.

The voice was so low that the cavalry around him didn't know if they heard it clearly, but Alpha didn't care about this, as long as he was alone, it was enough, the Death Knight had always been so confident, and this would naturally be no exception.

After choosing an opponent, a guy who looked like an officer in a purple cloak, the Death Knight raised his rifle and began to charge, and then the guy who also found Alpha also adjusted the angle of his spear and rushed towards Alpha.

Merely......

"What's going on? Why did the opponent's rifle become longer in an instant? Seeing that the other party's mounted spear was actually faster than his own budget, pointing directly at the tip of his nose, the officer instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and thought of it before he died.

The trick used by Death Knight Captain Alpha is the same trick he showed to kill an elite knight during the Viking Kingdom Knights Conference a few years ago.

Back then, with Artoria's strength, he didn't figure out what was going on in the end, and even Artoria and other figures who rode a thousand horses couldn't figure it out, let alone ordinary ironclad paladers, although these warriors had excellent physique and athletic skills, but they were still too far behind characters like Alpha.

However, in an instant, the Alpha stabbed the cavalry spear in his hand again and again, and took the lives of the four ironclad holy cavalrymen.

Beside Alpha, the Norman cavalry wielded the battle axe in his hand and fought on par with the enemy cavalry, although there was a slight gap in numbers, and the equipment of the Norman heavy cavalry was slightly inferior to that of the ironclad paladers, but with good coordination, and better training, as well as the ruthlessness of the Viking ethnic group from the ice and snow in the northland, the casualties of the Norman heavy cavalry and the ironclad paladier have been maintained at a level of one to one.

But neither side is satisfied!

Basil II frowned and thought to himself, it seemed that the idea of using heavy cavalry to force a breakthrough did not work, and then he heard a confusion on the right flank, Basil II looked over sharply, and found that the decisive battle of the light cavalry on the right flank was nearing the end, and finally his own barbarian mercenary cavalry was defeated, leaving less than 500 horsemen to flee in confusion and flee in all directions.

The opposing cavalry took over the high and low area with loud cheers, and placed crossbowmen there, shooting down from a high position, and the confusion on their own side was due to this.

"Send a regular corps over to recapture the high ground and advance in line with the infantry."

Basil II thus ordered, followed by a total of nine thousand five hundred Roman infantry, which began to move in the direction of the unnamed heights, while the rest of the Roman legions began to advance.

"Send out all the barbarian archers, harass those Franks, concentrate all the Trabizon archers, crossbowmen, and transfer them to our left flank."

With a burst of intense arrangement, Basil II nodded with satisfaction as he watched the Roman army slowly moving like a sophisticated killing machine.

Very good!

The Eastern Roman hoplites in the front row raised their shields to protect most of their bodies, leaving only two eyes to see people and protect themselves to the greatest extent, and behind them, the light infantry armed with catapult javelins to provide them with assistance in the attack.

The hoplites slowly pushed through the Roman shield, which was a slight obstacle in melee combat, but was quite powerful when it came to fending off ranged attacks.

The painted, arc-shaped shield can minimize the force of the shield and bounce off most of the weapons that come at it, so that although there are still some unlucky ghosts who are shot by Norman crossbowmen from time to time and die, but the loss of a few people is nothing to a legion of nearly 10,000 people.

"Prepare the axe!"

Seeing that the opposing hoplites were getting closer and closer, the crossbowmen had to retreat to find other gaps and shoot at scattered enemies in other directions, because Randy's crossbowmen did not develop such a thing as a card slot, so the angle of the crossbowmen should not be too large when shooting downwards, otherwise the crossbow arrows would slide out of the crossbow slot, which was very troublesome.

Then a group of Norman conscripts were sent to the militia, and the irregular armies were very rudimentary, with only a small number of wealthy soldiers armed with chain mail, the rest equipped with leather armor or leather armor, and armed with hand axes and small round shields, as well as two light throwing axes.

A professional Norman officer, as well as two lieutenants, were sent over as the commander of this improvised armed force, but this commander also understood that the other party was a regular and full Roman heavy infantry legion, and with the Norman militia of three thousand men in his hand, even if he had the advantage of the terrain, it was impossible to resist them for too long, thinking of this, the commander also gritted his teeth, stood up and shouted: "Honor! Normans, you are also the descendants of powerful warriors from the northern ice and snow world, let me see, are you a bad seed? Hold them off and defeat those Greeks. ”

After such a roar, the Norman officers threw out their axes and rushed towards each other.

At this time, Randy also found out about the unnamed high ground and the embarrassment of his own army, and after snorting lightly, he ordered to transfer the first three professional Viking warriors of the 1,000-man team to reinforce them.

Light cavalry was not of much use against the Eastern Roman hoplites, and at this moment, Randy sensed that the other party seemed to have some intentions for his French allies, so he ordered these light cavalry to move to the side of the French line, guarding the edge of the French Swiss phalanx, ready to attack again.

As the Eastern Roman hoplites retreated, the two wings of the super-long spear phalanx were given a chance to breathe, and the dwarf mercenary captains and Swiss mercenaries hurriedly readjusted their formations, and built the corpses of the enemy and the war horses into a slope in front of the spear phalanx, so as to reduce the impact of a wave of enemies.

At this time, the infantry phalanx of the two professional legions in the forefront of the Greeks, as well as the infantry phalanx of the two temporary conscription corps, had arrived at the central battlefield, and the opposing projection troops began to assist in the attack, and the two legions on both flanks were also approaching little by little, to unite their own heavy cavalry, to surround and annihilate the Norman heavy cavalry in the center of the battlefield.

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