"Is our projection unit within range?"

The other party chose such a tactic, and Lilianu, who was standing on the middle hill, secretly said that she was terrible, and immediately asked a warrior with a compound bow.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness the Princess, but the enemies are too far away for us to reach them."

"Damn! England longbow? If you continue like this, your army will be beaten passively because of the lack of range, which will cause demoralization, and if you advance the formation, you will not be able to use these hilly terrain for defense. ”

Lilianu seemed to see the pale-skinned, cold-faced woman opposite at this moment, smiling at herself, this was a provocation, and Her Royal Highness would never allow this to happen.

"All march! Guards ready! ”

Still, the princess was determined to move forward and respond to the provocation head-on, and at the same time ordered her private soldiers, her guards, the gladiatorial slaves, from the elite warriors she had dug up, to be ready to deal with the surprise attack.

Seeing the opponent's movements, Artoria still did not give the order to charge immediately, but ordered the longbowmen to throw five rounds of arrows as fast as possible, and use armor-piercing cone-headed arrows.

The Celtic longbowmen were quite different from the Norman longbowmen, and the Norman longbowmen troops were uniformly equipped with light chain mail, round shields, and long swords for hand-to-hand combat.

In fact, Norman longbowmen did do some melee killing training when practicing bows and arrows, and in the Battle of Budapest that year, Norman longbowmen did draw their swords after running out of ammunition.

But the Celtic longbowmen were different, the Celtic longbowmen were not equipped with chain mail, no shields, no swords, only a small number of longbowmen were equipped with daggers, hand axes and other weapons for close combat, but this was only the personal behavior of the soldiers, and the army did not have such regulations officially.

In other words, these longbowmen were used for ranged attacks, and only for ranged attacks, and their equipment consisted only of longbows and arrows, and the money saved could be used to equip other Celtic soldiers.

After entering the firing range, the Celtic longbow troops opened their bows and arrows, and kept shooting at the Eastern Roman army, the hoplite brigades of the three regular armies were okay, and the tortoiseshell formation could defend the maximum range of projectile weapons, although there would be some unlucky ghosts in the south, who were killed by the stray arrows that passed through the gap in the shield, but they would soon be filled by the Eastern Roman heavy infantry behind him to maintain the neatness of the line. And the heavy chain mail and helmets they are equipped with can also protect their bodies to the greatest extent, so under the intensive arrow rain of Celtic longbowmen, the casualties of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry are not very large.

But behind them, the Eastern Roman garrison soldiers who were thrown and hit by arrows falling from the sky were not so lucky, these improvised peasant soldiers were poorly equipped, and the few leather armor and light chain mail could not help them effectively defend against armor-piercing cones.

Because the Eastern Roman army was lined up with hoplites, they took them as targets, believing that the Eastern Roman army was the longbowmen of this elite heavy infantry, and made a wrong judgment, all using this more lethal but more expensive armor-piercing arrow, which of course further aggravated the casualties of the Eastern Roman Empire's conscripted peasant soldiers and secondary troops.

It is not easy to remove the array from the hill and rearrange the formation, even the Eastern Horse, which has always been known for its civilization and neatness, has spent a lot of effort, during this period of time, the Celtic longbowmen completed five rounds of shooting, a total of 5,000 longbowmen instantly threw more than 20,000 arrows, as if it was a torrential rain falling on the heads of the Eastern Roman Empire army, causing perhaps not a lot of damage, but the deterrent power was full, so that the Eastern Roman Empire's peasants and secondary troops panicked, The formation became even more chaotic.

It was at this moment that Artoria finally gave the order to attack.

"Lightning infantry, all attack."

Completely emulating the Norman army, the benefits of communicating orders by voice were obvious, and Artoria's knights of the Guards blew their horns and signaled the lightning infantry to attack.

The so-called lightning infantry was the assault infantry of the Celtic army, equipped with two-handed swords, plate chain composite armor, Norman helmets, tall warriors from Ireland or Scotland, their armor defense was first-class, their swords in their hands could shred human and leather armor, and when facing enemy hoplites, they would raise their swords flat like an awl or spear to achieve the effect of armor piercing.

The lightning infantry of 3,000 men is the sharpest saber in Artoria's hand, and at the moment the hussars in her hands are fighting against the nomadic cavalry of the Eastern European Alliance, and the Celtic knights under her command are also fighting against the heavy cavalry of the coalition army, so the task of breaking through the enemy line head-on must be handed over to these powerful two-handed swords!

The array of longbowmen and heavy spearmen in front of the Celts quickly opened, and the soldiers gathered together to form a denser array, giving up a few gaps in the blink of an eye, and then the lightning infantry in the red dragon coat of arms and slashing swords swarmed out to attack the Eastern Roman army hundreds of meters away.

The two-handed swordsmen walked briskly at first, then trotted faster and faster, and when they were still about five meters away from the Eastern Roman hoplites who formed the shield wall, they let out an earth-shattering roar and increased their speed to the fullest, and launched a charge.

"Hold your ground, don't be afraid of them."

The centurions of the Eastern Roman Empire shouted this, and the light infantry between the heavy infantry brigades, the javelinmen and slingers, were the first to attack, and they threw stone bullets with their slings, throwing javelins with all their might, but those light javelins and stone projectiles polished into a round shape were of little use, and the plate chain composite armor carefully processed by the dwarven blacksmith was quite reliable, unless they were hit in the face, otherwise this level of attack would only make these infantry pause for a moment.

Of course, there will be some more tragic ones, stabbed in parts without armor.

After a slight setback, most of the lightning soldiers still rushed over, they raised their swords in the air, and cut off the heads of the panicked Roman projectile infantry, those hammer soldiers, short sword soldiers, and not their opponents, Irish Scottish style swords, very violently cut off their weapons and bodies together, disemboweling and dismembering the belly, after all, these weapons are more suitable than battle axes than cutting human bodies.

On the other side, the Eastern Roman hoplites who formed the shield wall were slightly better, and when the lightning infantry rushed towards them, they could be regarded as stabbing their spears from the gap in the shield.

The lightning infantry fought with the Eastern Roman heavy infantry in a dense formation!

The spear of the heavy infantry is 2.3 meters long, which is much longer than the sword of the lightning infantry, but in order to maintain balance, the position of the spear shaft of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry needs to be slightly back, plus the length of the arm, compared with the 1.4 meter long sword of the lightning infantry, it does not have much advantage.

11 cm, but that's enough.

The Eastern Roman heavy infantry were all professional troops who had undergone rigorous training and battle-tested, and they did not fight once or twice against the barbarians with strong impact power, and they were quite experienced in such situations, and they grasped the timing of their strikes just right, as if to cooperate with them, the lightning infantry took two steps forward at the same moment as their spears were pierced, and the opponent collided with the spears themselves.

"Ah!!h The Eastern Roman hoplites shouted in disbelief.

"Ah!!h The lightning infantry roared wildly, swung the long sword in his hand in front of them, and was slashed off by the head of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry they stabbed, and directly cut off her head, and their faces were all in disbelief.

Seeing that the lightning infantry did not want to die, even if they died, they had to pull the enemy to die together, everyone in Dongguan horse soldiers was frightened, and the heavy infantry was more cautious to shrink the formation, and those short sword soldiers and nail hammer soldiers were a little cowering.

"It's incredible!" Although there is no cheating prop monocular like the Norman Empire, as a defender, because of the proximity to the battlefield, coupled with standing on the hill and looking far away, her physical fitness or eyesight is also very good, Lilianu saw this scene very clearly, and let out such a sigh.

With the charge of the lightning infantry, fifteen thousand Celtic heavy spearmen also rushed towards the formation of the Eastern Roman Empire, and there was also a Norman garrison corps on each of their flanks, and three thousand five hundred professional Viking warriors rushed towards the Eastern Roman Empire army.

But this was enough, in the battle of Budapest that year, the Normans relied on such equipment to fight on a par with the Eastern Roman Empire.

22,000 well-equipped and well-trained professional infantry, just like this, opened the terrain and attacked from three sides, like the Eastern Roman Empire army attacked, the situation was instantly very unfavorable to the Eastern Roman Empire, but at this time another accident happened......

Seeing that the Norman Celtic army rushed over, the rabble of various feudal lords deployed by Her Royal Highness the princess on the left flank were also stimulated, and these disorganized and undisciplined guys instantly had their heads congested, forgetting the orders that Her Royal Highness insisted on.

"Charge! Defeat them! ”

A young nobleman from Poland blushed with excitement and said something that sounded as if it would be easy to defeat the Norman army, but some people believed what he said.

A group of young nobles in their teens and twenties around him, who had never seen anything in the world, also shouted loudly when they heard him say this, plus people of this age are indeed very energetic, and their tempers are also very eager, and they can't wait to win a country in one day and one night.

The coalition army was also full of momentum for a while, and tens of thousands of self-feeling rabble rushed towards the Viking professional warriors in their direction.

The formation is disorderly, the military appearance is not in order, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, even mixed with some agricultural tools such as sickles, nail rakes, and wooden sticks, this group of soldiers is even worse professional than the peasant soldiers of the feudal lords in Western Europe, and the peasant soldiers in the so-called more developed areas will also get a short spear, a shield and other equipment, but these Eastern European guys can't even do this, they deserve to be conquered.

But then again, the current situation in Eastern Europe, the proportion of agricultural civilization is not high, and the development is not very good, but it is because of this that it is more necessary to occupy, and to lead the people of Eastern Europe to civilization and prosperity, what is needed is Randy the Great!

Professional Viking warriors charged, as did the coalition rabble on the left flank, so that the left flank was the first place where the battle began.

Although the professional Viking warriors are not as good as the Death Shock Warriors or the Norman Assault Infantry, the burning Viking blood on their bodies, your temporary blood, also gives them a powerful charge bonus, which may be slightly insufficient against the professional shock infantry, but it is completely enough to deal with these rabble.

The legions deployed on the left flank, even including the Norman garrison corps in Pomerania, from the general to Anderson, the oldest of the garrison generals under Randy, although the rest are not experienced in a hundred battles, but they can also be regarded as battle-hardened generals, seeing that the other side did not organize a defense but took the initiative to attack, secretly said God help me, did not take the 3:1 ratio of troops to heart at all, General Anderson shouted loudly, ordered the soldiers to calm down, and only shouted loudly when they were less than ten meters away from the enemy: "Throw!" ”

The Norman infantry also used a similar crossbowman three-stage shooting tactic, squatting down immediately after the first row was thrown, followed by the second row of throwing, after four consecutive rows of Viking warriors were thrown, the opposing coalition army had already been stunned, the strength of the Norman flying axe was not small, even the soldiers wearing chain mail would be hit, not to mention that the vast majority of the peasant soldiers of the Eastern European coalition army did not even have basic leather armor, and this round of four-column throwing directly took the lives of hundreds of coalition soldiers in the front row.

The weapon doesn't have its own eyes, and it can't tell whether you are a nobleman or a peasant soldier, the young nobleman who first shouted, and also rushed to the front, was first chopped off three fingers of his right hand by a flying axe, and before he could cry out in pain, he was slashed in the right chest by a flying axe, and his lungs were directly torn a large hole, and then the flying axe inserted by the co-insertion directly cut off his neck and carotid artery, this pathetic fool snorted and fell to the ground, and went to hell to continue to daydream of getting ahead.

After the four-wheel throwing axe, the professional Viking warriors in the front row jumped up violently with a 100-meter sprint squat starting method, rushed towards the enemy, and waved the battle axe in their hands wildly.

"Damn! The bunch of garbage! Seeing that although the Eastern Roman soldiers on the frontal battlefield and on the right flank were at a disadvantage, they were still able to maintain the stability of the front and not be defeated immediately, but the group of idiots of the Eastern European Alliance on the left flank looked as if they were about to collapse, Her Royal Highness couldn't help but scold.

Scolding and scolding, teammates are teammates no matter how pig-headed they are, and they can't just leave it alone.

Lilianu hated her to death, but she was not slow to give orders, and immediately sent two Thousand Eastern Roman Macepers, as well as one of her private guards, a Thousand Guards.

These elite soldiers from gladiatorial slaves, elite warriors, and taught to fight in the regular army, armed with heavy scale armor, Roman helmets, lighter oval shields, cross-guns similar to the Papal Guard, and two javelins, a group of elite soldiers armed to the teeth, although they did not have the great feats and glorious history of the Eastern Roman Imperial Guards, but Her Royal Highness believed that these elite soldiers were only slightly less experienced than the Imperial Guards.

With the addition of the 3,000 Vital Army, the left front quickly stabilized, and although it was still a little more convex than the other fronts, it was easy to be hit harder, but it did not collapse.

But Lilianu still felt unhappy, after all, this group of soldiers was actually left behind by her, hoping to use it in the counterattack, in addition to this, Her Royal Highness also understood a truth, in a war, the first to use the reserve army is more likely to fail.

(End of chapter)