Chapter 55: The Sword Pointing East (15)
Randy shook the archbishop's hand, "*Dead and dead, Bishop, I hope, no!" I order you to lead your men to break out, and I will support you in returning to the barracks with a group of knights, and return to the rescue with the greatest number of men and horses as quickly as possible. ”
"But that's ...... Your Majesty...... No! The matter of breaking through is better left to Your Majesty, and you will stay here. Randy said affectionately, and the bishop also seemed very moved, and tears almost flowed down his eyes.
"No, as a king, the soldiers under his command are still fighting bravely to kill the enemy, how can I flee alone, and the morale of the army will inevitably collapse."
"I understand ...... below"
The chief priest Peter finally couldn't hold back, leaving two old tears: "I just crowned Your Majesty last year, Your Majesty take care, and you will go back when you go down." ”
Although this kind of parting of life and death made Randy particularly uncomfortable, and the object was still a bad old man over 60 years old, Randy still nodded emotionally and shouted loudly: "Everyone, escort the archbishop to break out."
The surrounding Norman knights roared, lifted their spirits, and led the archbishop Peter, to break through backwards.
At the same time, Randy also ordered the knights of the guard to hold high the banner of the black dragon on a red background and charge in the other direction, the other party's attention was all focused on Randy's knight troops, and did not take Peter's one or two hundred knights to heart.
Seeing that the cavalry was gone, Randy breathed a sigh of relief, adjusted the formation again, and expanded the range of the knights again, and at the same time personally rushed to the front line and led the guards knights to kill the enemy.
After a night of fierce fighting, the Guards Knights were unusually energetic, and with the encouragement of the other knights, Randy unleashed the skill Hades Scream, which further reduced the combat effectiveness of the United Kingdom army, although Wladyslaw II's repeated urgings to intensify the attack were to no avail.
Seeing that the situation was easing, Randy breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he would almost make it to the arrival of reinforcements, and was glad that he had passed another hurdle.
"The next thing is to wait......"
In such a tragic atmosphere, Randy's army erupted with extremely strong combat effectiveness.
With less than 4,000 heavy cavalry, he was able to stand still and even fight against his own army ten times larger, of course, Randy believed that this was due to his command ability.
But in any case, no matter how strong Randy's command ability is, or the other party's lack of strength because he is hungry for food, or because of Randy's brutality value of up to sixteen points and the effect of Hades Scream, in short, although it has an absolute advantage in numbers, the United Kingdom's army still has no problem with Randy's knight troops, Wladyslaw II tried to rotate the army three times and twice to rest, but seeing the Norman knights rushing left and right, and afraid that the other party would take advantage of the gap in the army rotation to break through, So I thought about it several times and didn't give an order.
At this moment, the sky is already bright, and the balance of war has tilted in the direction of the United Kingdom.
In the course of repeated charges, a large number of noble knights were left behind, divided and surrounded in desperation, and disappeared.
There were less than 3,000 horsemen under Randy's command, and there were even several times when the Polish knights rushed to Randy's side, and the knights of the Guards were also red-eyed and directly tore those Polish knights apart.
Comparison psychology! In particular, the psychology of comparison with the enemy can make people do a lot of exciting things.
For example, now, seeing the Norman knight's posture like a wolf, the Polish knight on the opposite side turned into a heart of comparison, completely ignoring the objective conditions that the opponent's war horse is more cold than his own, the opponent's weapons and equipment are better than his own, especially the objective conditions that the opponent's commander is better than his own, thinking that he has lost face by doing so.
There are only a few thousand people on the other side, what about us? Tens of thousands! If you can't beat it like this, then how can you have the face to see Jiangdong's father?
Because of jealousy, shame, anger, and other negative psychological effects, the Polish knights inexplicably entered a state of screaming and fighting, completely ignoring the terrain and surrounding friendly forces and other obstacles, and began to launch a brainless charge at the Norman knights as soon as the mask was pulled.
Before anything went wrong on the Norman knights' side, the United Kingdom army on the opposite side was chaotic because of the formation, and many tragedies occurred that were bumped into by their own knights, which loosened the originally strict formation.
"Chance!"
Randy couldn't help but feel excited when he saw such a mistake with the main force of the United Kingdom due south, raised his command knife and shouted to charge, the melodious horn of the knights of the guards sounded again, and the entire Norman Royal Knights, as well as the improved tomahawk cavalry, surged forward like a torrent of steel.
Two heavy cavalry directly collided together!
In such a crowded battlefield, the knights had almost no room to dodge, and the Norman royal knights' mounted spears had long been missing, so in the first round, hundreds of Norman royal knights were stabbed in the heart by the opponent's cavalry spears.
But that's not all!
Under the effect of gravitational acceleration, the two knights died in their lives, still sitting on their horses and charging forward, and then the two war horses collided directly together, wearing chain mail, and the Norman war horse with an iron head directly knocked over the Polish war horse on the opposite side, but he also suffered heavy losses.
At this moment, the sound of spears breaking and the skulls of war horses shattering came and went.
Immediately after that, the second column of knights, who trampled on the knights who had fallen to the ground, and the war horses collided again.
And so it goes...... Cycle......
The most pessimistic and brain-dead traffic accidents on the medieval battlefield have been staged again and again, the knights in the front row have already been trampled into meat sauce with people and horses, few people have survived in the second row, more than half of the dead in the third and fourth rows, and the corpses of knights and horses on the entire battlefield, broken swords, spears, armor and shields, are scattered all over the ground.
Both Randy and Władysław II were heartbroken.
These are knights, heavy cavalry, and treasures!
It takes at least a dozen years to train a knight, and as a result, a charge is all dead.
I really can't stand it, it's like throwing a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry into the sea in front of Scrooge, that feeling can make people's hearts ache to death.
Randy is okay, he comforts himself vigorously, he is not afraid, and he can save a few more months to recruit a group of knights.
Knights who don't have wives and children can still take back that piece of land.
Randy comforted himself like this, but his face was pale as if he had lost too much blood, and his body shivered violently.
And Władysław II on the opposite side was more direct, leaning back with a swoop, if it weren't for the guards around him to quickly support him, Władysław II would definitely fall off his horse and eat.
In that charge just now, the Polish national knights were reduced by 1/4, and he didn't have Randy's kind of fiefdom that could continue to recruit wandering knights, and it would take at least ten years to make up for this momentary loss.
This cavalry team hedged against each other and pushed this battle to the maximum.
The soldiers on both sides were not as concerned about firewood, rice, oil, and salt in the kingdom as the two kings, they only knew that such a scene was very exciting, the scenery of flesh and blood stimulated their hormones, and the knights' fearless spirit was worth emulating.
In such a frenzied atmosphere, the Poles completely overcame Randy's fearful psychology of up to 16 points of brutality, and rushed madly one by one.
"Cavalry!"
Seeing that this continued, his side would suffer, and quickly ordered the improved Tomahawk cavalry to come to the rescue.
Like the knights, the cavalry spears of the tomahawk cavalry have long since disappeared.
Fortunately, they also have tomahawks, at least the cavalry is also very good at chopping people, although the movements on horseback are not flexible, but these legendary tomahawk cavalry, the Scandinavian Vikings, have extremely strong abilities.
Fight on foot on horseback!
Although still on horseback, he kept his body upright and swung his tomahawk as if he were on foot to kill and injure enemies.
However, the hand-to-hand combat effectiveness of the tomahawk cavalry was basically unskillful, and it was all based on these four major journeys plus defensive equipment, which did not have an advantage in the fight against the nomadic light cavalry.
Perhaps the heavy cavalry system should also be improved, Randy couldn't help but sigh as he watched his army fall into a bitter battle, and roared in a hoarse voice to boost morale.
"Kill all the heretics in the sight of the Father!"
"Kill them all!!"
When the soldiers heard Randy's order, their spirits were even more uplifted.
It is also unfortunate for the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, which pursues a policy of religious freedom to a certain extent, whether it is the polytheistic faith of the Baltic coast or the nomadic steppe herders who believe in shamanism, and what is even more unacceptable is that the United Kingdom has openly declared that Jews are welcome to do business in the country, and has made assurances that there are absolutely no laws against Jews, and even more preferential treatment for them.
These decrees are intolerable throughout Christendom, and Randy is not wrong in calling out the pagans.
Seeing that the soldiers around him who were already tired and dying had once again burst out with huge combat effectiveness, Randy couldn't be happy anyway, and the words "return to the light" suddenly popped out of his mind, and the light that burst out from the knights and cavalry looked like the afterglow of the end of the world.
"No! No way! No way! ”
Randy shook his head vigorously, reminding himself not to think about the bad side, maybe the reinforcements would arrive in a few minutes, but Randy suddenly remembered some very disgusting things, such as the reinforcements always not coming, and he had to wait until he died to the last one.
If that's really the case...... That's God's work.
But in the end, Randy is relieved, and despite the incomprehensible number of casualties, as long as he can win.
And Randy is winning now, yes, though it doesn't count as a win so far.
Archbishop Peter's reinforcements were very timely, although he lost a large number of knights, and the situation was at an absolute disadvantage, but Randy could hold out for at least four hours, and it was at this time that a huge shout came from behind him, led by the Viking decisive assault warriors and hundreds of heavy horsemen who broke through the siege, 30,000 fresh troops rushed into the battlefield like a mountain and a tsunami, the rain of arrows from the longbow fell like a hail and a blizzard, and a large number of throwing axes tore apart the armor of the Poles' weapons with a tooth-barring sound.
Suddenly, under such a fierce attack, there was a slight disturbance in the nomadic light cavalry in the north that had blocked Randy's return route, and the nomads realized that in order to prevent Randy from escaping, they had lined up too closely, thus losing the mobility of the light cavalry, causing their own army to suffer heavy casualties from the enemy's long-range attacks.
"But it doesn't matter, we can still win."
The courage and good fighting of the nomads can be seen, suddenly suffered such a terrifying attack is still high-spirited, many cavalry turned their horses and rushed towards the reinforcements, and at the same time there were many lightly armed cavalry who wanted to go around to the flanks, but the horses under their crotch had been running for a day, and the speed had been reduced to a minimum, and when the nomads gathered enough cavalry to make a detour, they found that the enemy's two wings had been blocked by a large number of dwarven warriors armed with extra-long spears, and the impact of the light cavalry was not strong. Seeing that the two wings were blocked by the phalanx of super-long spears, the nomadic cavalry had no choice but to charge at the heavy infantry array in the center, followed by a tragic scene like a massacre.
The other side is all lightly armed cavalry, and Archbishop Peter, who has watched Randy command many battles, has arranged the crossbowmen in three formations at the front, and the mercenary spearmen and professional Viking warriors in the back form a shield wall, the first two rows of the shield wall are interspersed with Viking dueling warriors with two-handed battle axes, and the back rows are interspersed with longbowmen.
The enemy's lightly armed cavalry had to go through a round of longbow and crossbow fire, which the nomads armed with short bows could not resist in any way.
After the two sides closed the distance, the crossbowmen retreated and retreated into the heavy infantry array, and the Viking warriors knocked down all the light cavalry in the front row with a flying axe, and the light cavalry's charging posture was blocked, and the power of the charge was not much of a threat to the mercenary spearmen armed with shield spears.
The two sides entered a close-quarters fight......
The Viking warriors wielding tomahawks showed their might, slashing cavalry up and down on horses, and a single round could even cut the enemy into two pieces, while the Viking warriors' plate chain composite armor and pointed steel helmets made it impossible for the nomadic cavalry to find a suitable place to start anyway.
The Viking warriors were equipped with a layer of fur and two layers of fine chain mail on their necks, which made it difficult for the nomads' scimitars to inflict fatal wounds, but fortunately the mercenaries did not have such small improvements, and after a while, the main targets of the nomads became these mercenaries armed with shield spears.
Norman reinforcements arrived, and the morale of Randy's knights was greatly boosted.
But such a morale boost could not hide the exhaustion of this group of knights, who had been fighting for a day and a night.
After another charge, a large number of war horses finally couldn't bear it anymore and fell to the ground with a plop.
"All stand back and join the reinforcements."
Randy frowned and ordered, so some of the knights fought on foot, following the knights who had war horses, the army retreated while fighting, retreating from the enemy with little difficulty, in the process, there were constantly knights who were entangled by the enemy, and never came out after falling in, Randy's knights under his command became fewer and fewer, seeing that this knight army was about to break through successfully, the enemy's interception was getting stronger and stronger, and the casualties were getting heavier and heavier, but more and more helpless.
In the end, most of Randy's Guards knights suffered casualties, and even Randy himself was not allowed to fight for a while, accompanied by the cheers of the Normans and the sighs of the United Kingdom soldiers, the Norman knight army of less than 2,500 people finally managed to get out of trouble, and after killing a nomadic light cavalry, he successfully joined the main army, and Randy was completely relieved.
The next thing to do is to counterattack!
The cooldown time of Randy's Hades Scream skill has expired, and after releasing Hades Scream again, nearly 40,000 Norman troops launched a general attack on the enemy, rushing towards the frightened United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.
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