This volley of archers directly disrupted the formation of the opposing lancers, and at the same time made these Eastern Roman lancers a little overwhelmed.

Two cavalry units collide head-on!

Both Finnish light cavalry and professional hussars possess the combat effectiveness of ordinary hand-to-hand cavalry, although slightly inferior to the Eastern Roman lancers in terms of armor, but the scimitar in their hands is more conducive to slashing fierce nomads, and it is not something that these Eastern Romans can compete with.

And even more important is that the Norman light cavalry was four times larger than the Eastern Roman lancers!

Therefore, the dispatch of the Eastern Roman lancers did not save the collapse of the 25th Legion, under the attack of the Norman heavy cavalry in the middle, the 25th Eastern Roman Legion quickly collapsed, there was not even a little suspense, and the two Roman legions on the left and right wings did not even have time to rescue, in just 40 minutes, the Norman heavy cavalry's band assault was carried out a total of three times, completely scuttling the opponent's infantry array, and the remnants of the Eastern Roman soldiers immediately lost their armor and fled in embarrassment!

The Lancers were also affected by the collapse of the infantry array, and collapsed with it.

When the heavy cavalry succeeded, he heard the call to retreat, and Randy felt sorry for the cavalry and didn't want them to participate in the next war of attrition.

In this way, the Norman heavy cavalry calmly retreated from the battlefield, returned to the camp to unload their armor and began to rest, although the combat time was very short, but the consumption of physical strength was very large, and these heavy cavalry were temporarily useless for a short time.

In fact, in Randy's plan, after the first round of powerful charges to chisel through the opponent, these heavy cavalry can go to rest, because the terrain of the city wall on the east side of Bologna is complex, except for the middle of the battlefield is relatively flat and suitable for cavalry charges, the left wing is a large bush, and the right wing is hilly and mountainous terrain, whether it is the left wing or the right wing, it is not suitable for cavalry charges, and the heavy cavalry is too slow to even capture prisoners, so the next task only needs light cavalry to complete.

"What's going on? When did those Germanic people have such strong cavalry? What tactics did they use? Why have you never heard of it before? ”

Seeing that his twenty-fifth legion was so simply ravaged and crushed by the opponent's heavy cavalry, the commander-in-chief of the four legions of the Eastern Roman Empire this time, Epirus' eyes were immediately bloodshot, and he asked his generals and guards loudly.

Speaking of which, in the current situation of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman army has also begun to be filled with blind optimism and arrogance, believing that the Eastern Roman Empire is invincible and invincible, and neither the pagans nor the Germanic barbarians are their opponents.

Therefore, the Eastern Roman Empire began to relax its intelligence work, and generally held a contemptuous attitude towards the Norman army, believing that barbarians were barbarians, and that they could still play tricks.

So today, the Eastern Roman Empire's army will inevitably pay a heavy price for its pride.

The first array of the opposing side quickly moved forward, the crossbowmen with their crossbows in their hands, and the longbowmen with longbows further back, ran into range and fired a rain of arrows, shooting the Eastern Roman lancers who were ready to charge the Norman infantry into a sieve, while the duel warriors with two-handed battle axes also began to charge.

Epirus finally began to get anxious, according to this situation, he must have suffered a crushing defeat this time, remembering the horrific torture of the defeated general's private family by the Eastern Roman Emperor Basil II, Epirus fought a cold war, and felt that he was more happy to die in battle.

"Nope! It's not there yet. There is still hope ......"

Epirus forced himself to put this idea behind him, and he himself ordered himself to direct the Legion at full speed to fill the gap left by the collapse of the Twenty-fifth Legion.

The four Roman legions were placed in a T-shaped formation by Epirus, with three Roman legions marching together in front and a Roman legion under his own command as a reserve in the rear, but what Epirus didn't expect was that it had only been an hour before the war began, and his own reserve came in handy.

The scales of victory began to move in favor of the Normans!

The hoplite phalanx of the Eastern Roman Empire, after the baptism of longbows and crossbows, became crumbling after the charge of the decisive warriors, especially in the middle, although Epirus quickly ordered to fill the gap in the middle, but the middle formation was still recessed in a large piece of the back, and there was a danger of tearing apart.

"That's too weak! The Eastern Roman Empire shouldn't have done this, is the other side just an empty shell of a foreign power? It seems that the previous arrangement was indeed a bit redundant. Randy muttered quietly.

When the frontal battlefield was in full swing, the right flank of the battlefield, the battle between the Burgundian legions and the Venetian legions, also began to gain the upper hand.

At this point in the war, there is practically no suspense.

The retreating Eastern Roman Empire army, although with its elite hoplites, barely supported the collapse of the front, but the defeat was only a matter of time, the Roman legionnaires armed with spears and shields, after the line was broken, could only draw out the short sword and the Norman legion hand-to-hand combat, but the short sword is such a thing, how can the lethality be compared with the battle axe?

The large shields of the Eastern Roman legions, which were indeed very useful in maintaining formation and defending against arrows, were too much of a hindrance in the melee, causing the Roman legionnaires to complain.

In fact, before this, the generals of the Eastern Rome had noticed this, the traditional Roman heavy infantry, has gradually failed to keep up with the pace of war in the new era, should be eliminated, and improved, some of the generals of the Eastern Rome, also put forward specific improvement suggestions, but unfortunately in the Roman Senate vote, was strongly opposed by the old school of senators, perhaps in their opinion, the so-called traditional glory, more important than a million Roman soldiers, in fact they did the same.

With the exception of a few of the most elite Praetorian Guards, under the urging of Basil II, the rest of the Roman legions remained the same, except for the replacement of bronze with steel.

This medieval soldier was a little more vulnerable to the modernized Norman Viking warriors with better armor, sharper weapons, better organization, and more reasonable tactics.

Of course, these guys performed a little better than the rabble of peasant soldiers, and the most mainstream spear soldiers in Western Europe.

In Randy's opinion, if there were no accidents, these 30,000 Greeks should be able to resist for five or six hours, after which they would gradually collapse because they were torn apart in the middle lane, and then divided and surrounded......

Of course, everything is under the best assumptions, maybe the other side will eat the gold in an instant, one to fight two, and it is possible to counterattack the Normans.

If you think about it this way, it's not something you shouldn't have arranged before.

On the left flank, in the bushes and bushes, Randy's newly organized battlefield Assassin troops, carefully avoiding several groups of Eastern Roman stragglers, slowly advanced.

Dressed in camouflage and camouflage, armed with daggers and daggers, and armed with poison-hardened knives, these elite assassins were hunched on their waists and feet, and they did not make a sound as they advanced, and they could not detect anything wrong from a distance.

In addition to the thirty heavily armed Killers, each team of Assassins on the battlefield also included five Sherwood marksmen armed with purple wooden bows and arrows, and five daredevils armed with two-handed flaming swords, ensuring the ranged and melee combat capabilities of the battlefield assassins and diversifying the methods of the assassins.

This is the newest class of troops under Randy's command, an elite army capable of assassinating enemy generals in the midst of thousands of troops.

But that's just an idle move!

If Randy is the kind of person who relies on the Assassins wholeheartedly, and has no other skills, and the Norman Kingdom has already perished many times, Randy's own thoughts do not mean that he will not cheer on those Assassins, saying that the rise and fall of the Catholic world is all on your shoulders.

Under such a sense of mission and the lure of a hundred gold coins promised by Randy, three battlefield assassin regiments and one hundred and twenty assassins took the cover of the battlefield terrain and approached the enemy commander little by little, only a little farther away.

"I also almost saw that in the middle of the enemy's army, this position where the longbow could not shoot, needed to be a little closer."

Seeing that his group of people was about to come out of the woods, the sharpshooter with the best eyes narrowed his eyes and said.

"A little further!"

The captain of the battlefield assassin was silent for two seconds, and then ordered: "It's okay, now that our army has the upper hand, the enemy's army formation has been confused, wait a while, and when the opponent's formation is completely chaotic, we will rush over and kill a way, and then the sharpshooter will snipe that guy." ”

Battlefield Assassins are still lurking......

On the right flank of the battlefield, the Venetian army was somewhat unable to support it......

Although at the beginning, because of the massacre and tomb robbery, the Venetians showed a little bit of a weakened army to win, with an army of 10,000 against a 25,000 Burgundian army without falling behind, but over time, the tenacity of the Swiss mercenaries was revealed, which made the Venetians feel helpless.

The Burgundians began to recruit 30,000 troops, of which 20,000 were Swiss mercenaries hired at high prices, leaving 5,000 Burgundian troops in Marseille, so that the Swiss mercenaries were more numerous.

Although these Swiss mercenaries directly obeyed Charlie's orders, the actual combat commanders were the most qualified mercenary leaders.

In fact, it is these Swiss mercenaries who are the protagonists of the right-wing battlefield.

The mercenaries wore rudimentary armor, and pikemen and halberders mixed to form a phalanx, and the soldiers swung their spears up and down to try to block the oncoming bows and arrows, while advancing unhurriedly at a slow and steady pace, putting great pressure on the enemy while maintaining their own formation.

The Venetian thought it was incredible, the Swiss didn't seem to know what fear was, completely ignored the swords of their compatriots who fell to the ground, and just adjusted their formation a little as they went, and then continued to move forward as if nothing happened.

That attitude of not taking life and death seriously is really scary.

Venice is a country that attaches great importance to long-range weapons, because it is very afraid of death, and at the same time it is very rich, so it is better to be able to kill the enemy without touching the other side.

Therefore, Venice's long-range strike force is quite good, in addition to the giant shield crossbowmen who are the same as the signature of the whole northern Italy, there are also Venetian archers who hold powerful compound bows in the oriental style, there are more than 2,000 giant shield crossbowmen in the entire Venetian army, more than 1,500 Venetian archers, these crossbowmen are wearing chain mail, wearing long swords, and iron helmets, and their equipment will definitely make many citizens in other Western European countries envious, jealous and hateful.

If this is the case, others will scold at most, and they will naturally not care.

The reputation of the Venetian tyrants could not have spread so widely, and the 4,000 heavily armed projection infantry was not the point, but the Venetian hoplites, who Venice was proud of and claimed to be the strongest heavy infantry on the European continent.

Four thousand Venetian hoplites, all dressed in high-priced plate-chain composite armor from Northern Italy, not to mention it, were lined with a layer of inlaid leather armor, wore steel helmets, and held war hammer shields, which can be described as armed to the teeth.

Venice is not as convenient as Randy, the Norman Empire has dwarven blacksmiths, as well as Enides, the price of plate chain composite armor is unimaginably low, and the plate chain composite armor produced in Venice, each set is around a thousand florin gold coins, the gold content of florin gold coins is about 98%, the weight is three or four grams heavier than the general gold coins used by Randy, and four thousand sets of plate chain composite armor is 4.8 million gold coins, plus other equipment, these four thousand hoplites can be topped, the total tax of the Norman kingdom in a year, And there is surplus.

If this amount of gold doesn't scare you, then look at Venice, the remaining two thousand five hundred cavalry,

The Venetians traveled north and south, the range of activities spread throughout the Mediterranean, and there were many dealings with the pagans, and they were particularly concerned about the archery tactics of the pagan nomads, in order to fight against them, Venice specially trained crossbow cavalry troops, these crossbow cavalry were equipped with the best fast horses, the most sophisticated light chain mail, iron helmets, and light crossbows, a total of 1,000 crossbow cavalry troops in the whole of Western Europe are also one of the few, not to mention the combat effectiveness, the creativity is absolutely novel.

Then came the Italian heavy cavalry, which was also equipped with plate chain composite armor and horse chain armor.

If Randy didn't care about the other troops, this 1,500 super-heavy Italian heavy cavalry, even the well-informed Norman Emperor would vomit three liters of blood.

Randy worked hard to form the Knights, and until now there are only eight hundred royal knights with such equipment, and the remaining two thousand Norman heavy cavalry are still equipped with traditional heavy chain mail, which is a grade worse than that of royal knights.

So to what extent do Venetians burn buns? These 10,000 troops are all created by Jinshan Yinhai, and all the equipment on their bodies is money!

It is not difficult to understand the heartfelt hatred of these Swiss people who came out of the mountains after seeing the Venetians.

Everyone has a hatred of the rich, and the poverty index is directly proportional to the hatred index.

Just like the Swiss, when the poor in the ravine see the rich second generation of Venice, even in peacetime, they may pick up the bricks and go forward desperately, not to mention that now they belong to the enemy country, the Swiss naturally have a reason to kill.

(End of chapter)