These spear-wielding super-heavy cavalry are said to have been modeled after the ironclad paladiers of Eastern Rome.

The ironclad paladier of Eastern Rome is said to have been established in imitation of the heavy cavalry of the ancient Sassanid Empire.

And the hoplite cavalry of the ancient Sassanid Empire was actually the legendary First Persian Empire.

And before the First Persian Empire......

In short, this extremely traditional, and then improved heavy cavalry, in a sense, dominated the era of heavy cavalry, and it is deservedly the strongest class!

Even now, with the rise of the knight class, the kings of various European kingdoms are vigorously developing heavy knights, making this ancient class of troops a little backward, but those who underestimate it will definitely suffer.

Although it was much heavier than chain mail, so that the speed and endurance of the cavalry were reduced, this kind of super heavy cavalry, which even wrapped men and horses in heavy scale armor, was indeed extremely strong in defense, and even the Royal Knights under Randy's command could not guarantee that he would win.

Only Randy's men and horses are equipped with heavy plate armor, which can be said to be the knight of the guard at the peak of the heavy cavalry.

Approaching 3,000 lightly armed Cossacks, 800 Poye cavalry, and less than 300 Duke's Praetorian Cavalry, such a force was not enough to compete with Randy's 5,000 elite cavalry, but it could also attract enough attention.

There are also a few classes that confuse Randy......

Or rather, biology......

It was not only humans who served in the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Although he has only appeared once in the cavalry confrontation in the past few days, Randy has paid special attention to it because it is too impressive......

Eight hundred and sixty-four in total......

Or eight hundred and sixty-four......

Gnolls, kobolds, halflings, dwarves......

Why are centaurs and not centaurs?

Is it because the lower body is too eye-catching?

So the ultimate definition is horses, not people?

The human knights have made the unity of man and horse the ultimate goal, but this strange race has done it from the beginning.

These bastards are born cavalrymen! After putting on heavy armor, there are heavy cavalry, picking up a bow and arrows is an archer cavalry, and riding a person on top is a double cavalry.

It's a perfect, pretty tough race, the ultimate class in a sense.

This creature who lives in the steppes of Eastern Europe, or in the middle of the ice and snow of Eastern Siberia, has for some reason joined the Grand Duchy of Moscow, has become the object of Randy's attention.

Then the war begins!

Perhaps for the same reason as Randy, in the chaotic cavalry battle in the past few days, a lot of information about Randy's cavalry was collected, and the other party also had a bottom in his heart, so it was very coincidental that less than five minutes after Randy gave the order to submit the war letters to the Rus, Swedes, and Slavs, the three countries on the other side also jointly sent envoys to deliver the war letters to Randy.

The time was set for tomorrow, and because there was plenty of preparation in advance, Randy didn't think the proposal was too sudden.

That night, Randy had a good dream that he was standing on top of the world and that the day had finally come to unify the whole world.

And the other party, those turtles from Eastern Europe did not bother him, in short, the night was very peaceful.

June 17, 1102 A.D.......

The weather was mild, and the four armies were divided into two camps.

The scale of this campaign is 50,000 VS 70,000!

Actually more than the last battle with Poland!

Front, because the opponent is outnumbered and vaguely lined up in three camps, the gap between the camps is very large, and in order to maintain the same width as it, the infantry line under Randy's command appears to be slightly thin, not the usual three lines, but two lines.

However, Randy had already expected this situation before this, in order to prevent the tragic result of being forcibly broken through by the other party, Randy adjusted the layout of his own troops, and arranged the dwarf secret room guards in the backbone position and mixed with the decisive assault warriors to form a tight line that could be attacked and defended, and deployed on both flanks of the army in three columns of crossbowmen, and slightly protruded, forming a half-moon formation, and at the same time leaving enough space behind the crossbowmen, followed by a slightly curved array composed of professional Viking warriors, If the whole formation is seen from the sky, it is similar to one ↔!

The longbowmen, as always, lined up in the second row ready to shoot, and now that the upgrade has been completed, the longbowmen's shooting speed has slowed down slightly, but their endurance has increased significantly, and the fingers that originally shot a dozen arrows will be strangled with severe pain, and even a finger that is strangled by the bowstring without paying attention will not happen again, and the actual combat effectiveness has increased a lot.

Later, on top of an artificially built mound, on a high platform made of wood, Randy watched the battlefield in silence along with dozens of knights of the Guard who were waiting for his orders to blow their horns.

Of course, Randy has a telescope in his hand so he can see better.

Brown bear flag opposite Novgorod......

Castle flag of the Grand Duchy of Moscow......

and the Swedish lion flag......

The opposing side did not have a neat and tight formation like Randy, and the three armies that were not subordinate to each other lined up all the infantry in the middle, forming a chaotic and thick infantry line.

The light cavalry guards the wings, and the heavy cavalry and charging cavalry are all placed in front to form a cone, seemingly trying to break down Randy's formation with the force of the impact in order to achieve victory.

The most typical tactics of the Middle Ages, simple and effective, suitable for barbarians.

But if you don't deal with it carefully, maybe you will really lose, just like the legendary three-plate axe that bites gold in the middle of the range, only with these two hits, you can win by carrying it.

Randy ordered to be on guard on the front, and the dwarven chamber guards were ready to sacrifice everything to meet the charge of the enemy cavalry.

On the frontal battlefield, it is not like Randy who can mobilize a large number of baggage troops to build dirt mountains, and Gustav, Rurik, and Semenovsky in the Triple Alliance on the opposite side are all standing on a slightly biased hill, so the sight is not as good as Randy, and before the outbreak of the war, several leaders are still arguing about who will be the commander of the coalition forces, Gustav feels that he is a landlord, and he has the powerful buff of the Nordic lion, and he is very suitable as the commander.

And Novgorod is a defeated of his own men, and he can ignore it.

The Grand Duchy of Moscow sent only one general, not the duke himself, so it didn't work either.

But Semenovsky of the Grand Duchy of Moscow did not agree!

When it comes to command ability, he is not bad, and his own Russian strong charge, the actual effect is no worse than the Nordic lion buff, and he is the representative of the emerging Eastern European power Moscow, speaking of which, the reason why he participated in the war is because Gustav asked for help from him!

As for the other, Rurik in Novgorod, he was completely ignored by two men.

So in the end, the argument did not come to a conclusion.

Therefore, the efficiency of quarreling is really not as high as fighting, and in the end, the Triple Alliance decided to fight their own armies, directly command their own armies, and notify them when they ask their teammates to cooperate.

In this way, the choice of a simple formation such as a cone formation is also a decision made to facilitate command and make up for the loopholes in the command level of the coalition forces.

However, Randy didn't know the internal problems of the Three Kingdoms Alliance in the East, but felt that the formation on the opposite side was too loose, although the temporarily conscripted troops and the undisciplined Rus' were at this level, but would they die if they were lined up closely?

After this exclamation, Randy focused all his attention on the cavalry of the first array on the opposite side.

Heavily armored feudal knights, dukes' guards with ominous silver masks, and centaurs with full-coverage helmets and iron armor that covered their chests......

Less than 2,000 people in total!!

"Just kidding, how can this shabby lineup break through my array?"

But Randy's idea was destined to come to naught in the first place.

It is true that the opponent's heavy cavalry, which is less than 2,000 pieces of blood, is indeed no match for the main heavy cavalry he has cultivated with great concentration, but judging the strength of the other party just by his appearance is really a bit arbitrary.

No! It should be said that the group of centaurs increased their speed to the extreme at the first time, almost completely without the weight of the armor on their bodies, and increased their speed to sixty yards, and these animals with the speed of light cavalry and the impact of heavy cavalry collided with the dwarven chamber guards at the first time.

"Damn! Crossbowmen retreat! ”

Randy didn't expect that the other party's speed could be so fast!

No, it should be said that the defense of those centaurs is so strong!

After receiving three or five bows and arrows, he can still continue to charge like a man who is fine.

Seeing this group of unusually hideous centaurs rushing over, Randy's order seemed to be given relatively late.

The centaur legion, which charged in a loose formation, some of them collided with the dwarven chamber guards, and the super-long spear unleashed a terrifying lethality in the hands of the extremely high kinetic energy and rock-solid dwarven heavy infantry, directly piercing the armor and heart of the centaur chest, and then stabbing out of the back.

It was impossible for any monster to survive, and although the centaur expression could not be seen through the helmet, it was obvious that the monster must have added a bit of pain to the hideous expressions of these guys.

Similarly, the dwarven chamber guards are unlikely to be unscathed.

At the moment when he was charged by the centaur heavy cavalry, the hands that held the gun with all his strength were instantly broken into several knots, twisted and transformed into a twisted shape, even if this guy was lucky enough to survive the battle, it was impossible for him to step into the battlefield again in this life.

This is the fate of pikemen!

Good against enemy infantry, but only one ending against cavalry......

Fight like Kilkenny cats!

However, the deal was worth it, the battle loss ratio between the Chamber Guards and the Centaurs remained at about 1 to 1, usually the Chamber Guards lost more, but they died with a hoplite who was worth far more than their own, which is the best way to use the Super Soldier.

In comparison, the performance of the crossbowmen was extremely unbearable.

Seeing that the monster on the opposite side had several crossbow arrows hanging on his body, he roared and rushed over, many crossbowmen were instantly frightened and stupid, and even forgot to escape, and were stabbed through by the centaur directly in the chest, and his teammates standing behind him were also shot, but fortunately, Randy's crossbowmen were only lined up in three formations, so at best it was three.

After stabbing through three crossbowmen and knocking over a bunch of crossbowmen, the centaurs raised the spears with several people hanging on them and smashed them to the ground with extremely violent brute force, and in the screams of the crossbowmen who were not yet dead, their lower bodies were shattered, and the centaurs drew their long knives at their waists and slashed in a chaotic array of crossbowmen.

In such a situation, Randy's retreat order seemed a bit redundant, because even if he didn't say so, the crossbowmen could no longer hold on, and when all the hoplites in the rear rushed over, the crossbowmen array on both wings collapsed.

"Damn it!"

Randy gritted his teeth and quickly changed the order: "Don't retreat, the crossbowmen on both wings resist, the first column of Viking warriors on the flanks advances, and the first column of hussars on both wings advance, kill the rout!" ”

A series of orders were conveyed by the knights of the guards in the form of a trumpet!

Of course, because the battlefield was very large, the number of fifty knights of the guard was simply not enough, so Randy specially arranged a hundred more Norman royal knights, divided into two teams to stand in the middle of the position of the horn at the back of the battlefield, and then blew out the same horn, so that the command of the entire battlefield could be completely unimpeded, and it would not be like the army in the Middle Ages, where there was no command at all, and the chaos was like driving sheep.

The cruelty of the professional hussars is not only effective against the enemy, but when facing the crossbowmen who have fled from their own side, these guys are also fierce, completely ignoring the feelings of the old robes, waving their sabers in their hands, and countless heads rolling to the ground.

"The Lord has an order! Don't hold back! ”

"Fight the enemy with all your might! Otherwise, there will be no mercy! ”

The murderous hussars were no worse than the half-man, half-horse monsters, at least in terms of momentum, and the crossbowmen were stunned for a few seconds after being subjected to such horrific treatment, until the hussars cut off a few heads, and then they reacted.

"It's not that we don't want to fight, but the difference in strength between the two sides is too great."

As soon as the man finished speaking, his head was tragically cut off.

"Then follow us, squat down and hold your head to block the knife for us to make a meat shield, the lord said that you are not allowed to retreat, that is, you are not allowed to retreat."

Under this threat, the crossbowmen had no choice but to grit their teeth and draw their short swords for melee combat, and followed the hussars, and the main force of the professional Viking warriors on both wings at about the same time had already rushed forward, and after a burst of axes, they joined the battle with the centaurs.

The lethality of the axe at close range is much stronger than that of the bow and crossbow, and this round of the axe goes down, killing and wounding hundreds of centaurs, and the hussars rush like a gallop and fight with the centaurs.

Seeing that the situation on both flanks had improved and had not caused a devastating effect, Randy breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand, "Heavy cavalry, the first line moves." ”

Randy then picks up the monoculars and looks at the centaurs in melee combat with the hussars.

I have to say that the combat effectiveness of this group of animals is indeed outrageous!

But this is also how it should be, after all, they are one man, and it is normal to stabilize the elite light cavalry.

The hussars of the first array totaled 1,200 horsemen, plus the remnants of crossbowmen of the light infantry, and the first array of professional Viking warriors of the hoplites.

Under the strength advantage of the Norman army of nearly ten times, although they were defeated and retreated, they still resisted desperately, and the long knife in his hand was able to cut through the plate chain composite armor on the captain-level Viking warrior under the power of the centaur monster, of course, after that, the knife was stuck on it and could not be pulled out, and the result was cut off by other soldiers.

However, there were also some extremely violent centaurs, roaring and lifting the Viking warrior to sweep through the army as a long knife.

After being held back by the dwarven chamber guards, the hoplites in front were hacked to death by the deadly warriors with two-handed axes, and Randy immediately decided: "The middle array advances, and the daredevils form a semicircular front to charge." ”

This group of Viking daring assault fighters rushed forward with large axes, and they were mixed up with the peasants on the opposite side who were using various weapons in a mess, and even many were holding farm tools and scythes and hoes.

"The Swedes are also beginning to degenerate." Randy looked at the opposing lineup with binoculars, typically standing and talking without backache.

However, although the vast majority of the Swedish army was a temporary conscription, Novgorod, as well as the army of Moscow, still had a lot of soldiers to fight.

Novgorod's monkey version of the Viking troops,

Moscow's heavily armed axemen, forest axemen, and professional spearmen equipped with scale armor still have a certain combat effectiveness, although they were cut off by Viking daredevils after a face, and the daredevils who were armed with two-handed axes and wore plate chain composite armor were like killing machines, completely ignoring the enemy's attacks, trying to swing their tomahawks, lifting them high and falling heavily, and then turning their heads over and disemboweling their stomachs......

However, the coalition infantry array was barely able to hold it!

"Kill all in God's sight!"

The Norman Field Order, which was advancing with the hoplite array in the center, shouted and shouted to boost morale, and the soldiers on the front line instantly turned into a state of fierce fighting, and their attack power increased again.

This time, Randy also grasped the correct way to use the Norman Field Order, although these guys are also elite heavy cavalry, but the most important point is that these guys specialize in big iron clubs, and they are completely useless for riding spears, so the strategic significance of removing the powerful charging ability is not even as good as the traditional improved tomahawk cavalry.

Before this, Randy's heavy cavalry was not much, so he barely used these guys to fill the number, but this time the improved Tomahawk cavalry was improved again and became the Norman heavy cavalry, this kind of completely professional heavy cavalry unit, the combat effectiveness rose again, and the field order did not need to make cameo heavy cavalry, except for a small number of heavy cavalry who followed the heavy cavalry sequence to charge to boost morale, the rest were scattered and placed in various parts of the army to boost morale, such a configuration made the combat effectiveness of the Norman army increase a lot.

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