The original gun array was sandwiched between the two monasteries, so that the flaws in the gun array flanked the problem disappeared, and when fighting in the middle of the monastery before, the Scots and dwarves had no flaws in the gun formation, so they could advance so quickly, but the gun array was also pushed out of the middle of the monastery because it was too far forward.

In this way, the wings of the gun array are exposed!

The aristocratic commanders on the opposing front line clearly discovered this flaw, and several guys wearing medium-sized chain mail, as well as knights and servants by their side, shouted and ordered the English army to launch a fierce attack on the opponent's flank.

Although the gun array was supported by the long-range fire of the dwarven crossbowmen and the Norwegian crossbowmen on the walls of the two monasteries, England was outnumbered after all, and the monastery was only two meters tall after all, and some English people had already tried to form a human ladder to go up, although they were eventually shot by the dwarves and Vikings, but the situation seemed to be very critical at present, and the crossbowmen did not dare to shoot at all, but divided their minds to see if there would be enemies climbing up.

The long-range fire support was lost, and the two flanks of the gun array were strongly attacked, and the dwarves and Scots on both flanks had to drop their spears and draw their battle axes to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, but after all, they were super long pikemen, and they were not good at using battle axes, and their combat effectiveness was really not comparable to that of professional hoplites.

On the battlefield on both flanks, a large number of England were like a mountain of seas, converging the noble knights on the front line, rushing in the direction of the coalition army, and then they were met head-on.

The front row of the coalition army was already full of the strongest two-handed axe warriors at this time, with long-handled battle axes in their hands slashing, guns to shoot, people to die, extremely powerful, just using such a big axe, the physical requirements for the warriors are very high, although the selected Viking and dwarf warriors are full of physical strength, but if they continue to fight like this, they are still a little unbearable.

Located in the back row, the professional Viking warriors under Randy's flying axes were thrown round by round, so that the English people had to worry about being opened by the axes that fell into the sky during the charge, and the battlefield was crowded with people, even if they wanted to dodge, there was not much room to dodge, and the blood-soaked Lao Gao, once he was hit by the flying axe, most of this person was declared dead.

However, the Viking warriors' flying axes add up to only four handles, and although they are divided into several echelons and thrown in rotation little by little, they will eventually run out.

The long-handled axe warriors standing in the first row, who would have weakened considerably, took advantage of this opportunity, and the English, after dropping thousands of corpses, finally squeezed in, and the long-handled axe warriors quickly retreated, and the hoplites armed with axes and shields rose to the top, and the two sides engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand fight.

More than two hours had passed again, and at five o'clock in the afternoon, although the sky had not yet shown signs of darkness, it must have been soon, and the two armies that had been fighting on the battlefield for a long time were also in a state of exhaustion.

The English, in particular, were flanked by the two wings of the coalition army, and the attempt to attack the gun array in the middle was also blocked by Wallace with a vote of hundreds of Scottish swordsmen and thousands of Scottish axe soldiers.

The so-called balance of victory is tilted a little bit, and this is the situation!

The array of coalition forces continued to advance, stepping on the corpses of the enemy and their own people, the entire front had advanced a full fifty meters, and there were almost more than 10,000 Englishmen lying on the ground, if it were not for Alfred holding on to death in the rear, I am afraid that the English would have collapsed long ago.

But it's only a matter of time before the crash happens......

Now the English are still holding on, it should be that they want to wait until the evening, the two sides will withdraw their troops and strike the war, so that even if they lose a little manpower, they can maintain a reluctant draw, and now Alfred is already thinking about negotiating, it is a big deal to cede the entire central part of England,

But things are not as simple as he thinks!

Randy knew in his heart that England had reached the point of exhaustion, as long as he gave himself a little more push.

And the final blow was naturally the heavy cavalry that had not been used just now.

Charge on the left flank!

That's right, the hoplites stormed the flanks, still a band charge.

After a total of several consecutive charges, the English on the left flank finally collapsed.

Even the English, who were in the center and on the right, were affected in such a situation, and fear spread among the English like a contagion.

Lost their armor, the army was defeated, and the English collapsed on all fronts.

"Charge the whole army! Kill Alfred!! ”

Randy shouted, and his knights of the guard followed his example and shouted, "Kill Alfred!! ”

The coalition forces attacked on all fronts, and Randy was rarely brave, leading the knights of the guards to attack the English rout, and at the same time directing the rest of the cavalry with a horn, divided into small groups of fifty people, and charged wherever the enemy showed signs of resuming resistance, making sure that the English could not recover.

"It's over!"

Seeing that his army was defeated, Alfred closed his eyes in pain, and under the repeated urging of his guards, he threw away his dazzling crown and gorgeous red cloak, and fled like a lost dog......

Speaking of the experience of being beaten by the Vikings and escaping in embarrassment, it is not the first time for Alfred.

Ninety-nine percent of his early war career was chased by the Vikings, and although he hadn't practiced this technique for a while, it didn't seem too rusty, so under the cover of night, Alfred took the lead and ran to freedom.

As he escaped, Alfred began to think......

The city of York had just been burned a few days ago, and it would certainly not recover in such a short time, and there was no food or reinforcements outside, so it was only to wait for death if it fled back.

But Alfred was really reluctant!

The entire 50,000 troops, although most of them were killed and wounded by the other side, as long as they continued to stay in York, they would be able to gather at least 10,000 or 20,000 horses, but with these horses alone, could the defeated generals of the Vikings really be able to hold York?

Alfred didn't dare to take the risk and eventually gritted his teeth and decided to give up on York.

Under the cover of night, Alfred and dozens of guards around him hurried straight to London like lost dogs and fish that had slipped through the net.

The coalition won a great victory, and the crowd rejoiced.

The warriors generously took out all the booty, poured barrels of ale into the pits, jumped into baths, took out large bags of flour to build snowmen, slaughtered large numbers of cattle and horses, and demolished the city of York for firewood.

In short, how to play how to scourge and how to play how to lose.

This caused Randy's brutality to rise again, gaining the attributes of a brutal conqueror.

-1 for personal safety, +2 for brutality.

But these are not the point, the point is that the coalition forces achieved this victory.

Moreover, the coalition itself only lost more than 5,000 people, and the core strength was still there, while the British initially estimated that at least nearly 10,000 people were killed and wounded, and more than 30,000 were captured by surrender, and the rest were lucky enough to flee the battlefield.

However, after this war, England could no longer assemble an army that could fight against the Triple Alliance.

"Hehe, win, win, win......"

Randy shouted with a laugh as he exploded a barrel of wine and poured it on his head. Speaking of which, at least half of the current virtue of the coalition army is due to its own damage.

"Chief, after the questioning of those captives, the subordinates judged that Alfred had escaped the battlefield safely, and now he is so happy, is it really okay?" The Guard Knight asked.

"Don't worry, I sent Carter out the other day."

"I see, although it is nominally a land battle, it would be a little wasteful to use the navy, and at the same time it would be necessary to transport some loot back to Norway, but in fact the leader wants to raid London by water, right?" The Guard Knight reacted and asked.

"That's right! After the capture of England, if nothing else, the Scottish side should also be fast, but the United Kingdom of Ireland and Wales is a little troublesome, and the mountain jungle battle or something, you have to think of some other ways to do it. ”

At this time, although England had not yet been included in Randy's bag, Randy had already begun to unify the whole of Great Britain.

"Scotland? What's going on over there in Scotland? The Knight of the Guard was puzzled.

"Although I get along well with William Wallace, it's better for this person to die."

"Oh?!"

At the same time, shortly after the coalition defeated England, Scotland also suffered a tragic fate in the north of the British Isles.

With 5,000 troops mobilized in Scotland, plus some other patchwork of miscellaneous soldiers, Kenneth I found that there were not many people in his country, and no matter how much he mobilized and recruited, the remaining crooked melons and bad dates were not enough to form a fighting force.

So, Kenneth I was very reluctant to take this army and advance to the mountains of western Scotland.

On 31 August, Kenneth I met Edward, Duke of Black.

For unknown reasons, the scouts on both sides did not find each other, which directly led to the occurrence of this encounter that neither side expected, and after that, the decapitation of the scouts on both sides.

England's vanguard was a team of dozens of mounted sergeants, who were in leather armor and armed with spears, at least better than the mounted militia and the Hobila Rangers, but somewhat less reflexive.

Seeing that a few avatars with messy blue stripes on their faces suddenly came out of the grass opposite, several cavalrymen were stunned on the spot at first, and then saw the other party snatch an axe.

However, the highland axe soldiers on the opposite side were obviously a little out of control, and they failed to hit the fatal point with a few axes, and those cavalry were not slow to react, and the spears passed directly and stabbed the opponent's chest.

Perhaps the first round of the battle between the two sides, the fate of the two soldiers, also foreshadowed the final outcome of the two armies, the English mounted sergeant took a little effort to poke the pile of highland axes to the ground, and there were not many people left around him, but at this moment, the commanders on both sides reacted.

Edward, the Black Duke, immediately made a decision, and withdrew to a small hill next to him with more than a thousand longbowmen under his command, and half of the rest of the cavalry group quickly moved to the top of the mountain, and the other half quickly divided into several squads, and did not know where to run.

Immediately afterwards, Kenneth I led the Scottish army and launched a charge against the mountains defended by England.

The Scots have lived in the Scottish Highlands all their lives, and although they cannot be said to be on the same level, they are not far behind, and the speed of climbing the mountains is significantly faster than Edward IV imagined.

But these are still useless, when the black duke crisscrossed France, with longbowmen to abuse the French knights inside and out, the speed of the French cavalry is much faster than the speed of the infantry, but it is not still useless.

The Scottish Highland archers were no match for the English longbowmen at all, and they were thrown out of several streets by the English longbowmen in terms of range, shooting speed, and shooting accuracy.

However, Kenneth I also had his own estimate in mind, the Scottish mountain people were brave and fierce, and they were extremely strong in close combat, as long as they could rush up the hill and engage in hand-to-hand combat, they would definitely win.

But the wishes are beautiful, and the reality is cruel.

When the Scots managed to storm the hill, Edward IV ordered the English cavalry to charge.

As soon as the cavalry charged, the Scots threw away their armor and fled down the hill.

Kenneth I did not give up, and organized seven charges in succession throughout the morning, all of which were in good condition, five times in total touching the hill, but they were all driven down by the counter-charge of the English cavalry, and the remaining two were only halfway up the hill and covered with a rain of arrows from the English longbowmen.

When the Scots' eighth charge was repulsed, the shrewd and decisive Edward decisively chose to counterattack, and the cavalry that had dispersed in advance was recruited by a loud shout, rushed out of their hiding place, and charged from above with Edward IV.

The Black Duke, dressed in a pure black armor coat, took the lead, waving the long sword in his hand again and again, showing extremely clever swordsmanship and horsemanship, and the Scots, whose attacks had been repeatedly frustrated, suffered such an impact and collapsed instantly.

Kenneth I was not a dead eye like Alfred, and when the situation was not good, he yelled and wanted the Scots to regroup.

After that......

There is no after......

Kenneth I was beheaded by Edward IV's sword, and the 5,000 Scottish army was wiped out in an instant, and Edward IV led the army to attack in the direction of Edinburgh.

News of Kenneth's one-year-old death and Alfred the Great's defeat reached the commanders of both sides at about the same time.

Looking at William Wallace's sluggish look, Randy sighed in his heart, and sure enough.

In fact, the final result of the battle between the two armies, Randy had already predicted, and now that England had suffered heavy losses and lost more than half of its territory, it would be better if Scotland was in a state of collapse from then on.

The next day, William Wallace left the coalition with the entire Scottish army.

Before leaving, Randy privately hinted that William Wallace could take his place, and that the coalition would not hesitate to support him if necessary.

William Wallace was silent, did not agree, but did not object.

At the same time, Edward sighed after receiving the news of Alfred's defeat:

"Why isn't that old immortal thing dead? It's faster than a rabbit. ”

The current black duke has no intention of staying in the poor countryside of Scotland, and in his eyes, the throne of England is beckoning to him, but if he wants the throne of England, the little force he currently has in his hands is definitely not enough, so ......

"Looks like I'm going to have to find a few allies!"

(End of chapter)