Chapter Twenty-Seven: The West Dominates England (7)

Up to four arrows!

The first arrow fired was almost negligible.

The remaining three arrows ......

In the second round, slightly make the knight's shield clank,

In the third round, there was the sound of muffled snorts and the screams of the horses.

Only the last round caused a certain number of casualties among the cavalry.

After four rounds of continuous firing, the first array of a hundred improved Tomahawk cavalry lost a dozen men, and the remaining one rushed towards the defensive line built by heavy spearmen and longbowmen......

The improvised horse-repelling stake, which was held out with great hope by the English longbowmen, was also pointed at the bottom, so it could be stabbed into the ground with a single force, but even so, when fighting cavalry...... It can't be said that it doesn't work at all.

If the war horse was sentient, it would definitely flee without hesitation when it saw such a sharp thing.

But the most despicable and shameless race in the world, in order to help the friends of mankind, the war horses overcame their timidity and specially invented two props.

One of them is the eye patch!

When charging, there are special blindfolds for war horses, and if the eyes of the war horses are blindfolded, they will not see the objects in front of them, and will only rush forward vigorously.

The second is the spurs!

Mounted on the back of iron boots, if you want to accelerate, you can raise your legs, and a stab can cut a bloody wound on the war horse, and the war horse will rush forward desperately.

Randy is such a scumbag nature, and the heavy cavalry under his command is naturally not much better.

Naturally, both of the pit daddy's equipment are all there!

The heavy tomahawk cavalry in the first row pressed their bodies close to the horse's back, and with a spur stroke took away several pieces of skin and flesh on the horse, and the horse sat down and let out a wail, and the speed was significantly faster.

The tomahawk cavalry slammed into the horse rejection stake, and the huge impact force made the horse rejection stake pierce into the chest of the war horse, and at the same time uprooted it, and a large piece of mud and sand hit the face of the almost frightened heavy contradictory hand on the opposite side, and the last wail of the war horse still rushed forward with inertia for a distance, and the cavalry spear in the hand of the tomahawk cavalry pierced a heavy spearman at once.

No! It should be said that the matter is not over yet......

After the first column of eighty improved Tomahawk cavalry horses hung up, and the cavalry above them were also smashed, the second column of Tomahawk cavalry roared again and crashed directly into the shield wall.

This time, the casualties of the heavy spearmen suddenly increased, and they were directly pierced by the carbines!

At the same time it was hit with at least 70 yards of force, 50 yards in the second row and 30 yards in the third row.

In an instant, the heavily armed spearmen of the dense array suffered a big loss, and the battle line collapsed in an instant!

Immediately after the third column, and even the fourth, the tomahawk cavalry in the fifth column did not choose to charge, but frantically pursued the collapsed second array of England with a straggler array.

"Failed ......"

Alfred sighed softly as he looked at his own army as they fled from the south.

Although he had been defeated twice in a row since the start of the battle, losing thousands of men, and his morale had dropped a lot, Alfred still did not appear too flustered.

"Knight, charge!"

With Alfred's order, all the knights of England, royal knights, noble knights, knights, apprentice knights, chief knights, grand knights, ranger knights, and 800 knights with horses, equipment, and spears, rushed out with nearly 2,000 of them.

This is Alfred's killer weapon, which gathers the essence of war throughout England, and is the embodiment of the powerful mobilization power of the ancient feudal system, with a number of nearly 3,000 hoplites.

When you are not sure what method you can use to defeat the opponent's cavalry with your own infantry, then don't think anymore and decisively dispatch all the cavalry in your hands.

The war has lasted until the afternoon, but because it is summer, there is plenty of light, the light and shadow effects are very good, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the two sides are one south and one north.

Randy quickly ordered, and a total of more than 400 Tomahawk cavalry quickly withdrew after hearing the retreat bell.

"This method of using voice to control the army is very good, and you should learn it if you have the chance."

The two people next to Randy began to move their minds again, ready to knock on the side to see if they could take advantage of Randy, but they were destined to be disappointed, using rhythms, horns, bells and drums, and as signals to manipulate the army Randy did not have the ability to do so, he was only responsible for giving orders, and the real transmission of orders had to rely on his own guard knights, to be precise, the system soldiers produced by Enides could understand their own orders.

But Wald and Wallace naturally didn't know this, but speaking of their behavior, it can already be called a serious slippage.

As for defense......

Didn't you see that the Norwegian hoplites were in a strong formation, just waiting for the other side to crash into them?

Alfred is not Randy, and he doesn't use the high-end tactics of cavalry taking turns to attack, his mind is still stuck at the simple and primitive level of the more the merrier, and those knights who are like hot-blooded idiots are naturally even more impossible to make a correct judgment, and thousands of hoplites in England are rushing towards the coalition army in such a chaotic scattered front.

But having said that, there are still 3,000 hoplites on the other side!

The coalition said that they were not afraid, but that was false.

Seeing that the opposing cavalry was getting closer and closer, Randy had not moved, and William Wallace couldn't sit still.

I saw him run down the bell tower, climb the two-meter-high courtyard wall, jump down in one breath and wave the big sword in his hand and shout: "Long live Scotland!" For freedom! ”

In an instant, the Scottish Highland pikemen in the middle of the lane gained a great morale boost, and the morale that was originally ready to move also returned to normal.

The English Iron Cavalry was rolling forward, and while there were a few unlucky ones who were shot on their backs by Norwegian crossbowmen and dwarven crossbowmen, most of the knights completely ignored the attack and kept moving forward.

The war has entered a white-hot phase......

Cavalry VS Infantry!

Infantry VS Cavalry!

This whole day of war has been almost all about this subject.

Before that, the English infantry ended in a tragic defeat, and I wonder what will happen next?

…………

All right! After watching a large number of spear shafts broken in the middle lane, a large number of seriously wounded people screaming to death, and almost collapsing the first column of Scottish dwarven super strong spear formations, Randy sighed slightly, shook his head, and muttered in a very sad and helpless tone:

"Win!"

The first array, nearly two thousand extra-long pikemen, lined up in five rows, one horizontal and one vertical.

Whether it's the dwarven chamber guards or the Scottish mountain pikemen, they are fierce and fierce warriors, but they are still at a disadvantage in the face of the continuous charge of the English iron cavalry.

The 3,000 hoplites set off a large cloud of cavalry, covering not only the pikes in the center, but also the hoplite defense on the left and right flanks.

Although Randy's professional Viking warriors were extremely skilled, and the opposing hoplites suffered heavy casualties after a round of throwing axes, cavalry was cavalry after all, and the chivalrous knights of England shouted the names of God, Our Lady, and King Alfred, and launched a desperate charge on both flanks of the hoplites.

First up are the elite dwarven soldiers standing in the first row!

Although he had tried his best to hold on to his large shield, stretched out his two-meter-long heavy spear, and fixed the battle axe in his hand to the ground, the axe handle supported the shield to form a triangular solid body, but this preparation was only slightly stronger than the opponent's heavy spearmen.

Seeing that the English iron cavalry knocked the dwarven elite warrior with the shield together, and listened to the sound of the shield shattering, the dwarf king Wald squeaked, rolled his eyes, and almost fainted.

This is the most powerful force of their dwarves, and when they attacked Hadrian before, there were less than a hundred casualties, which made him feel distressed for a long time, who would have thought that there would be such a big casualty this time.

Wald's eyes turned red instantly, and he felt the tomahawk on his waist and went downstairs with a roar, looking like he was going to fight the enemy on the front-line battlefield.

"Ding-dong! Affected by the Scottish national hero William Wallace, the Scottish army has +5 morale, +3 against England, +3 against cavalry, and +2 attack from the infantry dominance attribute, intimidating nearby enemies. ”

"Ding-dong! Affected by the attributes of the orthodox Dwarven King Wald, the Dwarven army has +3 morale and +1 defense. ”

"Ding-dong! Affected by the attributes of Alfred, the national hero of England, the morale of the English army +5, +3 against Vikings, and the attributes of wise rulers, morale +3, defense +1. ”

All right! Although on the battlefield, the English knights did have a slightly higher combat effectiveness against professional Viking warriors, causing more casualties to the Viking army, which was originally inferior to the dwarven hoplites, this is not an unacceptable fact.

At this moment, because of the consequences of the wave of English cavalry, the entire cavalry camp lost its impact, and the width of the entire camp of the opposing coalition army was much wider than the line composed of 3,000 cavalry, that is......

"Flanks! Death warriors and dwarven axe warriors attack! ”

The thousands of hoplite long-handled axe warriors deployed on the flanks moved instantly, and these warriors wielding long-handled battle axes, although their impact power was not as perverted as that of the hoplite cavalry, but it was also quite impressive, and the sharp long-handled battle axes in their hands did have a certain restraint effect for the cavalry with a slightly higher position.

Other than that, it's a flank charge!

Flanks, flanks, flanks, flanks are key!

But it is also very difficult to charge on the flank, where do you get so many opportunities on the battlefield to attack the flank?

Either you have a lot of people and are able to line up a wider line than your opponent to form a two-way bag.

Either that or practically fast cavalry, with the advantage of extremely fast maneuvering to go around the flanks.

But there is a problem here, when both sides have cavalry, the second way is very difficult to succeed.

In the long run, the cavalry of both armies, which wanted to storm each other's flanks, launched fire on the flanks, and the infantry on the frontal battlefield continued to charge, and the cavalry on both sides fought against cavalry, infantry against infantry, and engaged in a completely balanced war.

But that's not the case now.

After an unsuccessful attempt by the English hoplites, some of the knights and servants tried to turn their horses around and charge again. But more of the knights were red-eyed, and they silently recited the words God, human heads, and the like, and even if they were pulled by nine oxen, they could not pull them back.

They are not afraid of death, really, really not afraid of death.

Or rather, they feel that it is better to die, because the knights who die on the battlefield can enter heaven 100 percent, be accompanied by beautiful women and good food all day long, eat enough every day, sleep and eat enough, and can leave a good name for themselves in their rooms.

And some knights who didn't want to die still clenched the long swords in their hands and fought bravely.

Because military merit is honor, honor is prestige, prestige is the envy and jealousy of others, the flattery of noblewomen and young ladies, the praise of lords, knightly medals, and the addition of territory.

In a word...... Compared to professional cavalry and national knights like Randy, traditional feudal knights are more tragic,

Although their knights have brought great casualties to the enemy, they are now surrounded by the enemy's hoplites, and at least 50% of the current English nobles are in the cavalry array, if they all die, maybe England will instantly enter a chaotic state of anarchy.

Serfs without masters......

Distant relatives who want to snatch the inheritance......

Want to snatch the son who inherited the title......

Randy won't win this battle without a fight, because these people don't care who is in charge of England, they don't even care if this land is called England in the future, and they don't care too much about changing a king, anyway, whoever governs the country needs to rely on their group of nobles.

Sure, Randy may be different, but they don't know it!

So they're going to be a tragedy!

"The whole army charges ......"

This word is the only way that Alfred can come up with to change the situation of the battle now, he didn't even think about it before that, and he will see it today, so he only organized the army of almost seven or eight thousand people into two arrays, that is to say, Alfred the Great budget, today can almost fight seven or eight thousand casualties, but the final result was beyond her expectations, his two arrays were quickly wiped out, Alfred felt that he couldn't get over the face, so he ordered the cavalry to charge.

But even so, Alfred still had no intention of going to all-out war, he just wanted to use the numerical superiority of the cavalry to eat Randy's hundreds of Tomahawk cavalry, and that's it.

However, Randy withdrew his cavalry, and the indomitable knight of England, like a brake failure, crashed headlong into the heavily arrayed coalition infantry line, and was about to be wiped out.

What else could Alfred do in such a situation?

You can only charge the whole army!?

Seeing that the other party still wanted to play infantry after playing Infantry Wave, Randy shook his head helplessly.

"Go up!"

Although the English were chaotic and did not look in formation, the number of people was there, and the array displayed on the front was wider than that of the coalition army, which could easily create a situation of outflanking, so Randy ordered the soldiers of the second column in the rear to start preparing and stretch out the two wings to level the enemy army.

Now England has pressed all the armies, and the coalition still has nearly half of the army unused, in the flank of those messy buildings, also proved that there is no enemy ambush, can be used with confidence, so under Wallace's beckoning, the Scots left a small garrison there, and tens of thousands of Scottish mountain people with rudimentary weapons, rushed out from the flank and crashed into the side of the English.

Randy's 8,000 troops have all been thrown on the front line, but the dwarves still have more than 10,000 conscripted dwarven soldiers and militia on the second line, and Randy is not in a hurry to use them, but uses them as reserves.

And Randy also has a hole card, that is, more than 700 heavy cavalry with no serious losses,

"Flank detour, flank detour," Randy muttered, quietly ordering the cavalry to move to the side.

On the frontal battlefield, the second column of dwarves and Scots spear quickly advanced, and launched a spurt at the English who were in disarray on the opposite side, whether it was peasants, professional soldiers, mercenaries, all of them were treated equally, and under the fierce offensive of the coalition army, England was suddenly beaten to the north.

But in this way, the frontal battlefield advanced by more than ten meters, and then the problem arose.

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