Chapter 9: Dragon Rises in Northern Europe (8)

Count Felix has been in battle for a long time, and when he saw the other party's tactics, he was also speechless for a while.

Although the vast majority of people now have a sense of superiority in IQ compared with Olaf III, the cavalry wave tactics cannot be said to be ineffective, if the charging side is not fully prepared and is broken down by the other side, then all the conspiracy and intrigue and the command of the battle formation are all in vain.

Those conscripted militias with only five combat effectiveness will definitely flee as soon as possible, and the regular army will also be affected by this, resulting in a rout and finally an irreparable rout.

"Archer shoots!"

In this era, crossbow arrows are still not popular, and the single bow mainly used by the Nordics is really bad, as long as it is a cavalry wearing chain mail, it can basically be well defended, and when the opposite 800 cavalry charges, some of the knights have been filled with dense arrows.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, Felix gritted his teeth and insisted, instead of sending his own knights to meet him, he chose the most dangerous method.

"Spearmen in formation!"

"Grab the forest!"

The battle had already begun, and Randy and his 2,700 soldiers were placed on the flanks, standing close to the Chinese army.

Although Count Felix once patted Randy on the shoulder and said, "Please."

This kind of thing, but Randy is not his descendant after all, and he is still not at ease after all, and there is another idea, that is, Count Felix does not want Randy to establish meritorious service in this battle, after all, after this battle, he is the real Grand Duke of Norway, and it is inevitable to reward him for meritorious deeds, so that if he divides the territory of Olaf III, there will be nothing to do with Randy.

On the front line, a group of professional soldiers standing in the front row, wearing heavy chain mail, swung their four-meter-long spears sideways.

Such a move is completely inconsistent with the mechanical setting, there is no counterweight device at the end of the gun, the shoddy long spear, the front is heavy and the back is light, and it is a little difficult for one person to hold, so it needs to be used by two soldiers together.

Behind them there were two soldiers who were slightly luckier than them, also holding four-meter long spears, and the reason why they were slightly luckier than them was because in front of them, there were at least two human shields.

To tell the truth, with such equipment, the soldiers standing in the front row are absolutely dead or alive.

At that time, all the soldiers had already drawn lots to decide who would do this kind of hard work, and who would be selected by lottery, and there would be enough good wine and meat that day, basically the same as the last meal in prison.

Seeing the roaring cavalry and the cavalry's rifles clipped under their armpits, the last glimmer of hope of the soldiers standing in the first row was dashed, and many people came up with the idea of escaping.

And more people were directly scared silly......

The chain armor cavalry came into contact with the super long spear for the first time, and the galloping war horse screamed, and was stabbed in the chest, and at the same time, some cavalry were under the action of huge inertia, even if they were wearing heavy chain armor, they could not avoid the fate of being penetrated.

And the super-long pikemen on the opposite side are also uncomfortable, their hands and arms are absolutely properly fractured and dislocated, twisted and deformed, which is quite high in the medical conditions of the current era, and the possibility of them becoming invalids is quite high. But in the end, the vast majority of them did not become wasters, but became dead.

How could a war horse under the inertia of charging be stopped so easily?

Despite a pause and slowing down, the chainmail cavalry in the front row still resolutely rushed headlong into Count Felix's line, whether they were dead or alive.

Also under the effect of inertia, the cavalry spear in the hand of the cavalry stabbed the situation, usually piercing the two soldiers with extra-long spears in the front row, and then the cavalry snapped off.

There are those who were pierced into gourds by riding spears, and there are those who were trampled to death by war horses, and they fell to the ground on the battlefield, which is basically equated with death, and there will be no kind people waiting for you to get up again, whether it is the enemy or their own people, they will scramble to step on it until they trample you into a pulp.

A single charge of eight hundred chainmail cavalry sent at least three thousand soldiers on the side of Count Felix into heaven......

This is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying is the great panic caused by this group of cavalry.

Seeing that a single charge had such a huge lethality, even those professional soldiers changed their faces, and the conscripted militiamen trembled their legs, and they couldn't run if they wanted to.

After the charge, the chainmail cavalry troops built by Olaf III with a lot of money were almost lost, and the loss of these troops would be distressed for a long time no matter which monarch was replaced. However, Olaf III was in no mood or time to feel heartache now, and under his orders, more than 20,000 soldiers under his command rushed towards him with a roar.

"Charge!"

Count Felix also gave the order to charge, but his face changed color.

Standing on the flank of the army, Randy suddenly noticed that a cavalry team with a total of more than 800 people had quietly slipped away from his eyes.

This force consisted of almost half of all the knights of Count Felix, as well as their knightly servants and hussars.

Is the other half on the other side?

Want to launch a flank charge?

Hehe, little trick!

With a wave of his hand, two teams of 400 crossbow militiamen, as well as three teams of 300 Viking soldiers, a team of 300 Viking warriors, and a 50-strong Field Order, quietly followed.

The battle on the frontal battlefield has entered the white heat......

Count Felix, whose morale plummeted because of a round of charges, and lost a lot of professional soldiers, was in a rather bad situation at the moment, with alarms everywhere on the entire front, and even a small retreat in a few places, but it was quickly suppressed by the cold-blooded Earl, and the Viking Governor sent by him.

But it's not the way to go!

Count Felix stood on a high ground, surrounded by hundreds of Viking warriors armed with axes and shields, the last troops that could be mobilized.

On the frontal battlefield, Count Felix's side was suppressed layer by layer, and seeing that a complete collapse was not a dream, the count was still as pale as iron, staring at the battlefield with cold eyes.

"It's finally begun!"

The corners of Count Felix's mouth turned up, revealing an extremely hideous smile.

Looking at the battlefield, the left flank of Olaf III's army was in an uproar, and when he saw that it was actually attacked by a large force of cavalry, the conscripted peasants were instantly scattered, and they abandoned their weapons and fled backwards without their lives, and behind them the knights with long swords, knights and light cavalry struggled to chase and slaughter.

The tide of the battle is reversed, and Olaf III is shaken on all fronts!

However, Count Felix was even more surprised than before!

"What about the cavalry on the other side? Why didn't it show up? ”

Count Felix could not have imagined that the cavalry on the right flank had been swallowed by Randy with superior forces while they were still in ambush in the forest.

A flying weapon worth three hundred gold coins, the Viking Flying Axe is quite effective in this complex jungle terrain. And those knights who are extremely strong in the plains terrain lose their ability to maneuver because they lurk in the forest.

Throwing axes! A flying axe that is one size smaller than a hand axe!

Each person is equipped with at least three handles, and although it is much worse than the Javelin in terms of range, it is extremely lethal and has armor-piercing properties.

Order......

Twelve hundred throwing axes, with a tingling sound, flew out in circles.

"Huh? What is that? ”

To train a knight, you need to start at the age of fourteen, as a knight's squire and follow the knight as an apprentice, without a salary, serving his teacher like a grandson every day, and training in swordsmanship, spearmanship, and horsemanship.

It is not until the age of twenty-one that it is possible to be canonized as a knight, and if you want to really get ahead, you have to continue to fight, survive for a few years, and get at least one knight's medal, so that you can survive it.

It takes ten years to make a good knight!

And it only takes five seconds to kill a knight!

A knight who reacted very quickly heard the sound of breaking the air, turned his head sharply, and saw an axe flying towards his head in a circle, and before the knight could speak, the left part of the head was slashed by an axe, and the skull made a clicking sound on the spot, and the head was directly cut off.

There was a great confusion among the knights, and the other party really couldn't think of how the enemy had gone around his rear, and shouldn't he be the group of cowards of New Nijmegen behind him? Why are you being attacked?

The fool knight, whose brain never turns, doesn't know how he died in the end.

More than a thousand throwing axes were thrown, directly killing more than two hundred knights.

The crossbow-wielding militia followed, also in a volley, the armor-piercing ability of the crossbow arrows was slightly inferior to that of the throwing axe, but it still killed and wounded at least a hundred cavalry, and greatly weakened the number of enemies, causing them to be chaotic, and then thousands of Viking warriors rushed out and slaughtered, slashing and slaughtering.

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3 days ago......

Olaff III Domain, Bergen!

After learning that Randy, the lord of New Nijmegen, had been forced to surrender by Count Felix's strong oppression, Olaf III scolded and was in an extremely bad mood for a while.

However, when he saw the secret letter that Randy had written to him, Olaf III's mood suddenly became confused again.

The letter reads as follows:

His Majesty Randy von Hoffmann worshiped the Catholic Lord, Olaf III, who upheld the Catholic teachings and knew the way of loyalty, and as the eldest son of the previous Grand Duke, he should inherit the position of the Grand Duke, which is the right principle of heaven and earth, and cannot be questioned.

The subordinates want to vote for the heart of the lord and the king, like the hope of the great drought, and the hope of a child. However, Count Felix was a petty man and suppressed his subordinates by force.

The army of 30,000 soldiers came to the city, and his subordinates had no choice but to make a false deal with it.

However, it is a great rebellion to fight with the sovereign, and the ministers have decided to turn against the sovereign at the time of the decisive battle, and make an agreement with the sovereign to wave the gray flag three times as a signal, and the subordinates will inevitably turn against each other and fight Felix endlessly.

"Really?"

Olaf III put this letter away with suspicion, he naturally knew that if this force defected at a critical moment in the war, then his chances of victory would be greatly increased, and there would be no harm anyway.

Therefore, when the two sides were fighting, the local attack on Randy's side was pitiful, and Olaf III still had a thought in his heart about what to do, thinking that he was the true son of heaven and that all the people would return to their hearts.

Randy moved his neck and asked the knight of the guard beside him, "How many times has the gray flag on the other side been waved?" ”

"Four times! The first time the battle began, one after the cavalry charge, one attack on the flanks, plus one that was now shaking, a total of four. ”

"Hmmm! The cavalry on the flanks, done out? ”

"Hmmm! Just came the news, all gone! ”

"Very good,"

During this time, the battle situation took a new turn.

Olaf III suffered from Count Felix's flank charge, and the left flank immediately had a tendency to flee, but this guy is really a bear child, without saying a word, he directly led more than thirty Viking berserkers to the top, this is a real Viking berserker, although not as strong as the red-haired berserkers that Randy met before, but it is not too much, and this is another trump card in the hands of Olaf III, the legacy left to him by his father Archduke of Norway.

More than thirty berserkers, under the leadership of Olaf III, rushed directly into the left flank army, at this time the knights had lost their impact, and the cavalry spears in their hands were broken into two, even if they were not broken, in such a chaotic army, they were completely useless, and the knights all threw away their guns, drew their long swords at their waists, and slashed condescendingly.

The conscripted peasants had a short spear and a skin shield in their hands, the gun was broken, the shield was broken, and there were no props on their bodies that could defend themselves.

However, with the arrival of the Viking Berserk, this is a different story.

First of all, the berserkers have extremely strong attack power, and if they are slashed with an axe, they will be seriously injured if they do not die, and secondly, although the berserkers seem to be brutal, they are actually much faster and more agile than knights who do not touch the ground on their horses. Coupled with a group of miscellaneous peasant soldiers around him, the berserker quickly cut down dozens of cavalry, and then recruited the peasant soldiers to rush up, pulling the originally high knight off the horse, a few people held down their arms and legs, and then stripped off all the knights' helmets and chains, and then greeted them with sharp and blunt weapons in their hands.

The battle line on Olaf III's side was temporarily stable, but soon he was faced with another problem, which was that they had no commander.

The main infantry lines of both sides had already begun to fight, and the Viking warriors, also armed with chain mail, armed with axes, shields, and long-handled battle axes, roared and slashed at the neck.

At this moment, nearly half of the Viking warriors in all of Scandinavia gathered here, they once gathered under a banner, plundering everywhere as Vikings, fighting side by side, but now they are enemies.

In addition, the shield spearmen who wear leather armor and also hold short contradictory cards, but have been in the army for a longer time and have more numbers than Viking warriors, form the backbone of the professional military, and the spear in their hands stabs, although it seems that the axe of the Viking warrior is not as shocking, but the lethality is also very strong.

After the battle was extremely fierce and the tendency of the left flank to collapse was suppressed, the two sides once again entered the stage of a tragic war of attrition, in which batches of cannon fodder and high-grade cannon fodder were killed, corpses were chopped to pieces, and then trampled by the enemy and their own people......

"Damn! If both wings had been charged at the same time, I should have won, right, what was going on over there? Wait, that bastard named Randy! ”

After issuing a series of orders and completely stabilizing the battle line, Count Felix regained his strength and clearly figured out something.

When he looked over to his right flank, he noticed that Randy seemed to notice his gaze, his expression was slightly surprised for two seconds, and then the corners of his mouth grinned, and he saluted again, and at the same time, the three thousand armored soldiers of New Nijmegen turned around and launched an offensive against Felix's army.

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