"Crying for what? I'm not dead yet! The best fate for knights and emperors is to die on the battlefield, I have lived to be eighty years old, I have lived enough, I have died several sons, and now only you and my young son are left, but now your brother has also been killed by Randy, the Hohenstaufen family, now you are the only male left, do you want me to die without peace? ”

Seeing that his father was so angry and his beard was all open, Prince Henry, who was already middle-aged, was frightened enough like a child, nodding his head constantly, and finally was dragged up by Frederick, who was still angry, and pushed towards the door.

"Hurry up and go to Rome, no matter what way you use, in short, I want you to continue the Hohenstaufen family, I will take my army and fight to the death with the puppet Emperor Randy, don't appear by my side again, look at the eyesore."

"I see, Father!" Henry wiped his tears and bowed to Frederick, then withdrew from the camp, found the most loyal knights, and left the army and ran in the direction of southern Italy.

After seeing his son leave, Frederick finally smiled and ordered: "The whole army marches south, takes the initiative to attack, and fights to the death with the Normans." ”

The last war belonging to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick is about to begin.

February 21, 1104 A.D.......

Although very surprised, after the spies and scout rangers carefully surveyed the terrain and determined that the other side did not have an ambush, Randy agreed to Frederick's request for war, and the two sides would fight on a complex of forests and plains on the outskirts of Frankfurt, thirty kilometers south of Frankfurt.

"At this time, do you still have to hold on? Does he feel that he can still be the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in hell? ”

Seeing Frederick on the opposite side dressed in fine clothes, under the performance of the court band, surrounded by a large group of knights into the battlefield, a Norman royal knight in the front row loudly mocked, followed by other knights and heavy cavalry, also laughed like this.

Because the opponent he faced was too weak, Randy did not carefully arrange the defensive counterattack formation as usual, but put his heavy cavalry, knights, and hired heavy cavalry on the first line, light cavalry on the flanks, infantry on the second line, and even the reserve position.

As Randy said before, it only takes one charge to completely crush the opponent, and the Norman army did the same.

Standing on the Liao Watchtower that was erected yesterday, Randy looked across with a telescope.

Looking at Frederick's calm and generous appearance, he seemed to understand what the old emperor was thinking.

"This old thing didn't even think of this battle as his own funeral."

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February 21, 1104 A.D.......

The Norman army of 100,000 and the German army of less than 30,000 fought at a distance of 50 kilometers from Frankfurt.

Seeing the heroic gesture of the old man on the other side using heaven and earth as a coffin and the three armies as a funeral, Randy was both angry and funny, and finally gave the order with two snorts.

"First array, heavy cavalry charge!"

The Norman heavy cavalry, Norman royal knights, a small number of feudal knights and hired knights in the first array, adding up to a total of more than 1,700 horses, those mercenary knights and feudal knights are not counted, the royal knights and Norman heavy cavalry are all elites who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood with Randy's battle, and they are embarrassed to come out to greet people without dozens of unjust souls.

They changed out of the new overalls that were used as ceremonial dresses, and replaced them with slightly tattered and patches in various places, as well as a large number of blood-stained overalls that could not be washed off at all, and armor and shields full of scratches, which carried the equipment of war exploits and arrogant killings, added a lot of bloody aura to their huge momentum, and some timid people would even be frightened to the point of weakness when they approached them.

This army is not for review, not for praise, there is no need to deliberately display their so-called heroic feats, they are there to kill, to kill, to destroy and destroy, they are terrifying killing machines born for the battlefield, they are fearless, they are irresistible, they are the royal knights under Randy, the heavy cavalry.

Originally, Randy had 2,800 heavy cavalry, although these armored cavalry were used as if they were treasures, but they still suffered heavy losses in many major battles, and the Royal Knights of 800 men were now less than 500 men, and the hoplite cavalry of 2,000 men were now only nearly 1,000 left.

But these bloody, terrifying horsemen who exude a terrifying aura like hell and put their entire bodies in iron armor bring even more deterrent power than the Norman heavy cavalry in its heyday.

On the battlefield of the Middle Ages, the heavy cavalry with the crotch mounted war horse and the iron armor was always the strongest, most elite, and most devastating army, especially in this battle because of the enemy's weakness, low morale, and numerical inferiority, Randy decided to use a different heavy cavalry tactic than before.

As soon as Randy gave the order, he rushed towards the opponent's array in a three-horizontal array with a distance of no more than eight meters.

They were so close together that they appeared as a single unit, and at a glance there was a large crowd of heavily armed cavalry, and such a dense wave of cavalry charges was clearly different from the more elaborate, more technical, and more powerful band charges that the Normans were accustomed to use.

But this can better reflect the horror of the heavy cavalry, like the ocean, like a flash flood, like a fire in the prairie fire, the cavalry raised several meters of smoke and dust in the full-speed charge, making the whole cavalry sequence look much better than the actual number.

The knights, the cavalrymen, the Norman warriors in armor like monsters roared: "For the great Randy von Hoffmann! ”

There is no God, no saints, not even the word Norman, this group of Norman's most powerful knights, this group of Norman knights, has only one name in their hearts.

Randy von Hoffmann, their master, the king, their most powerful commander!

These soldiers don't even need faith anymore, or rather, these people believe in Randy, and if Randy has an order, they even dare to show their weapons to God.

"Oh my God! Norman cavalry! It's the Norman cavalry! ”

Seeing the Norman cavalry, dressed in armor and as famous as monsters, the Norman cavalry was well known on the European continent, although these Germans had only heard of it, but they had also imagined it in their hearts.

However, after seeing such a terrible charge, these Germanic serfs suddenly realized that the horror of the Norman cavalry was much greater than they had imagined.

Under the charge of the cavalry that Randy tried his best to create a strong deterrent, the Germanic people, who had no contact with the cavalry, had low morale, and had no will to fight at all, collapsed in an instant.

They cried and screamed like headless flies, and fear spread like a contagion among the Germanic army, which was about to collapse.

"Is this the army of the Holy Roman Empire? Nothing! ”

Seeing such a poor reaction from the other party, Randy snorted lightly, feeling that he was still too conservative, if he ordered the infantry to charge directly behind the cavalry, then most of them would have won victory at this time, but it was not too late, wasn't it?

Randy snorted lightly, raised his head and waved forward: "The second array, the third array, and the infantry are all pressed up, the left wing light cavalry is around, attacking the enemy flank to pursue the deserters, and the right wing light cavalry is going around the left flank." ”

The right flank is forested terrain!!!

Randy has been used to fighting in flat terrain recently, and he also has some experience in mountainous terrain, but the forest terrain is not very long, and the Norman emperor standing on a high ground can not fully grasp the war in the forest covered by branches and leaves, and before that, Randy often avoided this terrain when fighting, and if he could, Randy would choose other terrain to avoid the troublesome terrain of the forest.

But today was a bit of an exception, because Randy was not sure of the other party's mind, and he was afraid that the army of the Holy Roman Empire would quickly retreat to Frankfurt to defend after coming into contact with his own army, and when the enemy in Munich got the news that it would be troublesome to let the two armies merge together.

So I had to take the initiative without hesitation, and a little bit of forest terrain didn't scare me.

"Send five thousand professional Viking warriors into the forest and attack from the right flank."

Randy hesitated, although the transfer of such a number of professional troops would reduce the strength of the frontal infantry line, but Randy still chose to do so, because the front seemed to be fine, and this forest terrain made her feel uneasy, if the other party chose to fight in this jungle terrain and launched an offensive, it might cause some unnecessary trouble to the Norman army.

At this moment, the frontal battlefield ......

The Holy Roman Empire army, which was completely unequipped with a phalanx of super-long spears, a dense array, or its defense against heavy cavalry charges, was overwhelmed by the Norman heavy cavalry at the first time, and then the Norman heavy cavalry used the chiseling tactics that had not been applied before to break through the first array of the Holy Roman Empire without any suspense or hindrance, and then rushed towards the second array.

"Resist! Resist! You idiots! Kill them, pick up your weapons, and get close to the people around you to form a dense formation. ”

A small number of generals and nobles who remained loyal to Emperor Frederick shouted to organize the already panicked soldiers like a flock of fowls, but to little avail, a large number of soldiers began to flee, and the entire Holy Roman Empire army position, which looked crumbling, looked like huge cubes of candy falling into the water, were quickly dissolved.

The deserters were like tiny particles of sugar, detached from the huge sugar cube in a series and speeding in all directions......

"I, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the chosen one of God, deserve to die in such a mess." The old emperor, who was already in his eighties, drew his sword.

"Emperor's Will Guard, go forward, let those arrogant Normans see, our Germanic warriors." The Emperor shouted like this, and rushed to the battlefield first, and behind him four hundred knights in black eagle banner robes also roared, and the emperor who followed them rushed towards the battlefield like the emperor.

On the right flank, a small number of Holy Roman Leggeants marched forward, two thousand troops armed with heavy chain mail, pointed iron helmets, iris shields, and heavy maces, the product of the Holy Roman Empire's latest military reform.

Influenced by the Normans and Eastern Romans in previous wars, Frederick felt increasingly that his empire needed a more sophisticated, professional, and fully controlled hoplite unit under the emperor's control, as well as better equipped and well-trained hoplites, more elite archers, projectile troops, and other related equipment.

Unfortunately, however, the reform lasted less than three months, and the final result was only 2,000 hoplites, and many of the old emperor's military reforms were made useless.

But this so-called new army was still expected by Frederick.

The old emperor hoped that they would be able to penetrate the forest terrain on the left flank and launch a fierce attack, so as to reverse the increasingly unfavorable situation of the battle.

The war has now entered a white-hot state!

The Norman hoplites continued to assault, and after breaking through the second array without suspense, they were hit head-on by the Holy Roman Emperor's Will Knights' Guards, although the two sides were extremely similar in equipment, and the members of the composition were all elite knights who had experienced a hundred battles, but the Emperor's Will Knights Guard had one more advantage than the Norman knights, that is, speed.

After the Norman cavalry group cut through the two layers of infantry lines in a row, its impact force has dropped to an almost negligible level, the knights of the Holy Roman Empire have just run, the two sides can be imagined, and the Norman knights and heavy cavalry in the front row of the moment have no time to react, and they saw a heavy knight wearing a black hawk coat on a white background, rushing towards him viciously, and the heavy cavalry spear in his hand stabbed straight to his heart!

"Glory to the Germans!"

The knights of the Holy Roman Empire in the front row roared, increasing the speed of their horses to the extreme, and charged towards the Normans.

"Ahhhh In such an unfavorable situation, the Norman knights and heavy cavalry let out an earth-shattering roar, and did not advance but retreated, and their cavalry spears were mostly broken at the first assault, and even if they were still intact, they could no longer be used, and in this chaotic close combat, a tomahawk or mace was much more useful than a clumsy knight's spear, and these knights were armed with swords and shields to launch a counter-charge against the Germanic knights.

A fierce clash of heavy cavalry on both sides began......

The first round belongs to the Germanic knights with longer weapons!

Before the Norman heavy cavalry and knights reached the attack distance, the cavalry spears in the hands of these knights were already approaching the chests of the Normans, and the next moment those most elite knights, while equipping heavy armor, the Norman knights who dexterously made evasive actions escaped, and avoided the edge of the flag spear in the next moment when the other party was stunned, and the horses of the two sides passed by, and the next round belonged to the Norman knights.

Those inexperienced and unskilled knights or heavy cavalry, were picked by the opponent's cavalry spears, and the heavy cavalry spears under the high-speed charge were almost indestructible, and even really as the Eastern Roman princess praised, they could break down the Tower of Babel in Babylon, under such power, the heavy chain mail on the Norman cavalry, the plate chain composite armor was as useless as tissue paper, and the cavalry spears of the Germanic knights pierced their armor without hindrance, directly piercing their bodies, and the spear head made of fine iron protruded directly from their backs.

The Norman knights spurted blood on their visors, swayed and fell off their horses, and were trampled to rotten flesh by the galloping heavily armed horses.

(End of chapter)