Chapter 69 5 Field Battles

When the news of the enemy attack came, Frank General Fisher, who led an army of 8,000 mercenaries, was stunned for five seconds and did not react.

If you think that he is incompetent because he is unresponsive in the face of enemy attacks, you have wronged him. In fact, Fisher was not an incompetent, but rather an excellent general in Frank's country. Not only is he excellent in all abilities, but he is especially good at memorization, which is the main purpose of this selection of his leader, and the Frank nation needs him to record the situation in the land of Yaki as completely as possible so that it can be used as a reference when implementing the national strategy. As General Frank, he is almost completely ignorant of the land of Yagi. All he had at his disposal was the location of Yaqui's mountains and rivers on a large number of maps, and it was really difficult for him to lead a large army to the battlefield after a long journey in Yaqui, and to immediately grasp the local water and soil features. In particular, Libera did not explain the battle plan to him in advance, so Fisher did not know that he was already in a buffer zone between the enemy and us, and he always thought that Durbans in front of him was at the forefront of death, and only when he got there would he engage the enemy in close combat.

Not only did he think so, but so did all the soldiers under him. So the soldiers were not prepared for battle at all - most of the Cretan archers did not even have a bowstring, the Frankish hoplites mostly wore helmets and carried heavy armor on their backs, or simply threw them on transport vehicles, and only a few wore armor on the road.

The Franks didn't expect to be attacked, and in fact, no one even the 2,000 Yaki troops who were traveling with them did not expect to be attacked, because they were there to raid the enemy in the first place. Who would have thought that someone who raided someone would be attacked by their opponent first?

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves woke Fisher out of his distraction, and he understood the gravity of the situation. Immediately start deploying: "All in place besiege the circular formation!" Protect your archers and hold your ground! ”

Fisher's reaction was not wrong. It's just that the enemy army is one step faster. The battle began as the first soldiers were knocked away by the galloping horses.

The attack was the most elite cavalry unit of the Dils army, and due to the absence of the deputy commander Alam, the commander of this time was Muller, the lieutenant Chikelda, and Muller's wife Elaine, and these three fierce generals launched a fierce offensive against the Frank army from three directions with a thunderous force. The horses slammed the human body apart, the horses' hooves crushed the sternum, and the scimitars and bows and arrows mercilessly tore through the flesh of the Franks, a mixture of blood and internal organs. If the Frankish hoplites had been in full gear, Muller's cavalry might not have been able to inflict such damage on them. It is even possible to suffer losses, but unfortunately this group of soldiers is really not called a heavy infantry regiment, they are as fragile as a group of peasants with weapons, and their unprotected bodies have become a pitiful existence in front of Müller's cavalry. Coupled with the fact that it was night, the darkness of the night exacerbated the confusion of the Franks, who were soon cut into four pieces by Müller's cavalry, unable to deal with each other.

After successfully cutting off the enemy army, Muller did not let up, and immediately ordered his subordinates to launch an all-out offensive, and Fisher struggled to stabilize the position of his unit. Start forming a defensive formation. However, the remaining three were not so lucky, and the severed troops could no longer provide protection for the Cretan archers, many of whom were headless corpses in the wilderness before they could wind up and release their arrows.

Muller's cavalry was like three knives, and the Frankish army was like a piece of tofu cut back and forth by three knives. As the ranks became more and more fragmented, the Franks' fighting spirit became weaker and weaker. At this time, the 2,000 Yaki troops mixed with the Frank army served as a worst example - because of their previous fear of the thief army, they lost their will to fight before the Frank army, and began to flee one after another. Catalyzed by the Yaki army, the Frank army finally couldn't resist and began to flee.

At present, only the 2,500 soldiers of Vietnam under the command of Fisher have not lost their will to fight. Fisher used the organized formation to protect the force. Then he watched as the enemy ate the remaining allies one bite at a time, in order to gain valuable preparation time. If his brain is hot at this point and he goes to the rescue of friendly soldiers. Now he ordered the infantry to dress as neatly as possible, using the defense and shields of the hoplites to form a perimeter defense, and the Cretan archers inside also adjusted their weapons and began to launch a counterattack against the enemy.

Having successfully routed most of the enemy's forces, Müller gathered his forces and once again launched a centripetal assault on Fisher's circle from three directions. However, this attack was far from smooth. The prepared Frankish heavy infantry used their superior defensive capabilities to halt Müller's cavalry several times, while the Cretan archers, though few in number, provided the necessary cover for the friendly forces on the periphery with their excellent skill, and if it were not for Müller's troops, who were at the peak of their morale, the troops would not have made any progress at all.

Sensing that the situation had changed, Müller immediately adjusted his strategy, gathered the three cavalry into one, and led the way, Chikirda and Elaine protected his flank, and the three of them burst into the enemy line like a wedge, opening the way for the subsequent cavalry.

Muller's twin knives were not as hot as usual, because he noticed that the opponent's armor was very defensive, and if he fought hard, the attack effect of the twin knives would not be very good, so he turned to a set of smart and feminine knife techniques, specifically targeting the unprotected parts of the Frank heavy infantry, and the slash also became a stab-based attack. How can the combat skills of the Frankish infantry be compared to that of a master like Muller? They were stabbed to death or wounded one by one like dolls in front of Müller, and soon a passage appeared in front of Müller.

"Husband, why have I never seen your knife technique?" Elaine asked her husband as she knocked down the enemy with her hammer and machete.

"Of course, I don't like this knife technique." Müller's answer was concise and to the point.

"But it goes well with your gloomy personality." Elaine gave her husband a sneer, but her hands did not stop at all.

Seeing the three enemy generals easily break through their defenses and lunge towards him, Fisher knew that his defeat was only a matter of time. But he could not give up the dignity of a military general and escaped, Fisher slowly raised the big sword in his hand to his chest, made a salute, and said in the Yaqui language: "Frank General Fisher, I am willing to fight with Your Excellency!" ”

"Dare to touch my husband, kill you!"

Elaine turned her horse to get on, but was stopped by Muller's horizontal knife: "Give the opponent a chance to die in honor." Elaine, you continue to assault! ”

Elaine glanced at her husband and obediently brushed away the horse's head: "Then you be careful." ”

Mueller nodded, urging his horse towards Fisher.

The two fought for more than a dozen rounds, and Fisher only felt a chill in his heart: the enemy in front of him was probably strong enough to become a well-known general in Frank's country, and although he was not weak, he was by no means his opponent. It seems that today is the time for me to die a glorious battle.

"To be able to meet a character like Your Excellency at the last moment of my life is really no regret in this life." Fisher said as he parried.

Mueller instantly understood what he meant, since he was already doomed, the other party said this obviously telling himself to refuse to surrender and would rather die in battle. Mueller nodded sincerely: "Then I will take off Your Lord's head to show respect for Your Excellency." ”

Fisher smiled slightly when he heard this, and slashed at Muller with all his might, Muller used his left-handed knife to unload most of the power of this sword, and with a wave of his right hand knife, he cut Fisher with his head and hands! Fisher's body crashed to the ground.

Muller then led his men to disperse Fisher's men, and the battle continued until dawn. The Frankish army lost more than 4,700 of its 8,000 men, more than 1,000 were missing, and the 2,000 Yaki army lost more than 400 of them, and the rest fled back to Abdos. The Dils army, on the other hand, suffered only 120 casualties and more than 70 wounded, achieving a complete victory. (To be continued.) )