Chapter 232: The Jedi Strikes Back
It's just a fraction of a second away from success!
There was a moment when he was so close to his dream.
It's a pity that God is jealous of talents, God likes to play torture tricks, make your yellow robe and glory beyond measure, and then when you are triumphant, come to collect the reward for the surprise experience, easily take your life, and can only cry in heaven to watch the empire you built with your own hands fall apart.
I got off the horse, took out my long sword and stuck it on the ground, and silently knelt in front of His Majesty, although I didn't have a good relationship with this young emperor, and I was almost used by him a few times, but in terms of personal energy and personality charm, this emperor is very different from the emperor I saw in the TV series since I was a child!
His hard work and conscientiousness......
His paranoid pursuit of ideals, bordering on perversion......
Day in and day out, he attacked non-stop, attacking and attacking......
These undoubtedly brought Germany to the pinnacle of the highest honors!
These are deeply imprinted in my mind, in other words, if I have the opportunity, I hope that I can get to know him again and willingly follow such a majesty to create great achievements!
But now that fate has given me the opportunity to change history, I beg everyone to see how much the little Count Nijmegen can make waves.
"Ahh
I drew a cross on my chest, ended my short prayer, and somehow got the courage to step forward to remove the armor from His Majesty's body, and the emperor's guards who were guarding the side did not do anything, pushing and shoving to prevent me from making such an indecent transgression, and some even showed their weapons:
"Count, please respect yourself! What the hell are you going to do!? ”
While motioning to a few Norman cavalrymen to come over and help me hold down the emotional Emperor Guard, I put the Emperor's armor on myself, and then picked up the Emperor's handsome flag that had fallen in the dust, turned over and pointed at the Emperor Guards who were pressed by the Normans and could not move, and stared at my Emperor Guards with gritted teeth, and at the same time shouted a declaration to all the soldiers who followed me behind me:
"Germany did not fail! His Majesty the Emperor did not die either! From now on, everyone must closely follow the Emperor's banner, call on the lost troops, and relaunch the counterattack against the infidels! An all-knowing and all-powerful God will never fail! God bless Germany! ”
The warriors, who had been demoralized, saw the Count of Nijmegen, who immediately raised the battle banner with a horizontal sword, rekindled their fighting spirit, and raised their weapons and let out an exhilarating roar, the gloom and depression of the mourning soldiers were swept away, and the hands that clenched their spears regained their strength, and they could not wait for me to issue the next order, so they could not help but rush into the Saracens who were confused by the situation here, and set off a storm of blood.
Taking advantage of the advantage in morale, the Saracens, who had not yet turned back, were beaten by our combination punches and could not find the north, and the pagan knights, who had no time to run away, had to face opponents as crazy as chicken blood.
More and more of the routs gathered around us to rejoin the counterattack, and for a time not only recaptured the occupied positions, but also launched a local counterattack, and the frenzied warriors even ignored the orders, and chased the fleeing Saracen cavalry with their tomahawks, and the banner of Saxony was erected immediately following the emperor's banner.
I took the lead with the Emperor's banner, and on the left and right were a hundred murderous Normandy heavy cavalry, who formed an unshakable Great Wall of steel, almost strangling all the enemies encountered along the way.
Some of the lords who had been divided and surrounded by the enemy also brought soldiers to follow, and slowly more and more flags representing different principalities and clans appeared, and the battle line of the collapse of Germany gradually stabilized, and with the Emperor's banner as the center, it condensed into a clenched fist, and smashed into the Saracens' spread attack surface.
"Be careful, sir!"
A cavalryman next to me suddenly shouted loudly, the shield hanging from his left arm above me, the warning voice was torn apart by the horse's hooves of the cavalry's majestic charge, before I could react, the sharp and piercing whistling came suddenly, and the arrows shot at me were all blocked by the shield, making an aggressive muffled sound, and the cavalry who protected me was hit by several arrows on the shoulder, and the strength of the foot actually tore the armor deep into the muscles and bones, and the wound was bleeding in a moment, he forcibly endured the pain and broke the shaft of the arrow, and continued to gallop without blinking his eyes.
"It's the Sicilian archers!"
"In front of us on the left!"
"Cavalry archers?"
This familiar and unfamiliar word into the consciousness, for a child accustomed to the nomadic invasion of the Central Plains drama for me, the archers are undoubtedly the nomads to conquer the world of the only weapon, legend has it that a generation of Tianjiao Mongols relied on it to fight all over the world invincible, playing all kinds of strong enemies between applause.
The advantage of this kind of horse shooting is that the riders have the ability to shoot through the sun, coupled with the speed advantage of the horses, so that they can quickly approach the target, spread the sky, and then run away before the enemy can react, and use the time difference to kill repeatedly, and finally drag down the pursuers.
And at this moment, the core of the army in my hands is the heavy cavalry in full armor, and the rest are barefoot infantry, and they are all top experts in face-to-face fighting, but compared to the endurance of repeated see-saw and the speed of pursuit, the Sicilian archers wearing only cotton robes can completely blow up a few streets of us, play with us like flies biting carrion, and kill the last enemy standing.
What to do? The only way to deal with the archers is to have the spearmen form a phalanx to cover the archers in the core, force the scattered archers to slow down, and then use the advantage of the speed of fire of the archers to destroy the enemy.
But at this moment of a massive counterattack, once the charge is stopped, it will not only damage the morale that has just risen, but also make the nobles and soldiers who follow them realize that they are not His Majesty the Emperor himself, and the problem will be even more difficult at that time!
When the victory and defeat hung by a thread, I gritted my teeth and pulled out the small dagger hanging from my waist, and began to cut the cowhide rope used to tie the armor on the bumpy horseback, and at the same time ordered the Normandy heavy cavalry, and also learned from me to hurry up and remove the armor, and the heavy cavalry was transformed into light cavalry!
"Grandma's, chase me!"
Stripped of the restraints, I kicked the horse's belly hard, the gallop was obviously faster, the archers noticed our unusual panic and put away their bows and arrows to urge the horses to run away, but the Normans who were clung to them would not give up, and a wonderful chase was begining......
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The sound of the wind is like a white-clothed female ghost with a cloak, screaming past her ears, at this time her ears are full of roars filled with wind, and you can't hear the noisy sounds on the battlefield at all, and the communication between your comrades can only rely on hitting each other's helmets with spears to remind each other to keep a certain pursuit distance.
After the unarmouring of the heavy cavalry, the speed increased significantly, and our hundred people gradually broke away from the team that followed, like a golden eagle scattered by a hunter, stuck behind the prey, slowly wearing down their stamina.
The Sicilian archers were desperately urging their horses to run forward, and at the same time they used their ability to immediately turn around and shoot arrows, although the violent jolts greatly reduced the accuracy of their shots, but they posed a certain threat to us riders who were not wearing armor, and had to deliberately slow down the pursuit and wander around the edge of the enemy's range as if they were leaving.
Seeing that the Saracens were about to take the opportunity to pull the distance, I was anxious to knock the helmet of the Normandy cavalry in front of me on the right with my spear, and when the latter turned his head, he waved his hand to make a flanking motion, he nodded understandingly, raised his spear to give a signal to his comrades, tightened the reins of the horse and led the people to outflank the right, and I also took the rest of the cavalry to pursue from the left side.
The enemy, who had been outflanked on both flanks, found himself in danger and had to abandon the loose diffuse formation and gather the ranks into a line, greatly reducing the pressure on our defensive side facing the enemy.
"Hey, hey! Wait for death, heretic! ”
Seeing that my team was getting closer and closer to the enemy, I couldn't help but hook the corners of my mouth proudly, there was such a strong religious gimmick in my unreligious own words, and now as long as the tiger rushed down the mountain from the side, these archers were basically only tied to their lives.
But God always likes to joke, and I won't let me eat such a cake easily, and just as the corners of my mouth have not yet closed, the enemy suddenly makes a sharp turn inward, revealing the phalanx of infantry that has just been hidden behind the dust they have raised, and countless crescent banners are hunting in the wind, and the ghostly words on them seem to laugh at our embarrassment.
The archers disappeared into the array of infantry, looking at the first few rows of soldiers, the bright spears were like the armor on the hedgehog's body, intimidating all those who wanted to challenge, I looked at my equipment, now the heavy cavalry has all become light cavalry, in order to reduce the load, even the vest hanging on the chest of the war horse and the shield in the hand are abandoned, in such a state to attack the enemy's infantry who are waiting for the enemy, it is tantamount to packing yourself into fat and sending it to the mouth of the hungry wolf, and the large army behind is still far away, the situation is very tricky.
Just as I hesitated to pull the cavalry back and join the main army, the enemy's phalanx suddenly opened a passage, and many Saracen riders in full gear wrapped their headscarves and flew in the wind to form a sea of white.
"Damn it!"
I burst into a foul mouth and hurriedly grabbed the war horse, and without saying a word, I led the cavalry back wildly, muttering in my heart:
"It seems that this is the enemy's reserve, their commander must be in it, MD, when the offensive situation on the whole front is good, they are reluctant to put in reserves, and they are really calm."
(End of chapter)