Chapter 34: The Battle of the Grand Canyon. under
(PS: The characters in the picture are from Brave Hearts, and it is an excellent movie.) The old man was Edward, the king of England at the time, and the figure above was Wallace, the Scottish national hero. )
The military concept granted by King Pullen is a strategic model that serves military operations in more sense, such as the alternation of various formations, the use of multiple equipment, and close unity, and a series of things that are actually at the strategic level.
But this veteran of England is different, his every move is not a difference in strategy and tactics, it is simply how to kill the enemy in the simplest and most effective way, and keep himself intact. This is something that only a character who has actually crawled out of a mountain of corpses and blood can understand, and this is something that King Pullen could not teach the Puron army anyway.
At this time, a few Irishmen rushed over with red eyes, and they were going to kill this guy in front of them no matter what! But at this time, the veteran did not retreat but advanced, and rushed over in one breath, and the green tendons on his big hands like iron tongs burst out!
He first threw the spear in his hand like a javelin, and pierced an enemy through his chest on the spot. Then he sideways dodged the oncoming attack of another person, and with a sweep of his feet, the body of the enemy who rushed forward suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground. At this time, the veteran immediately rushed to the top of the spine behind the fallen soldier's neck, and kicked it down fiercely!
Just listen to "Click! With a thud, the veteran kicked the Irishman soldier in the neck on the spot. And at this time, this veteran has independently completed the "four kills!" "And in the center of the most chaotic battlefield, without the cover of his companions, he did it alone!
At this moment, the sound of a bowstring suddenly sounded behind the veteran, followed by the sound of arrows raining through the air, and the veteran looked back in shock after years of experience on the battlefield, and saw that the shadow of the arrow had swished from the sky.
The Irish archers standing on the top of the hill have already thrown a rain of arrows out!
The veteran was shocked, and quickly threw himself on the ground, and then pulled up a corpse and pressed it against his body! The rain of arrows only fell on the back of the corpse, but the heavy pressure still made the veteran's face as white as paper!
"Kill!! Take advantage of now!! ”
"Kill these Brits!!"
The sudden rain of arrows from the Irish made the unsuspecting England suffer a big loss, and the veterans in the vanguard lost almost half of them, and at the same time faced the two sides of the Irish and the Scots, these veteran troops were soon independent under the offensive of both sides, and many veterans saw that the situation was not good, they hurriedly went to the ground, touched two handfuls of blood on their faces, and then pressed corpses on their bodies, and then lay motionless on the ground and pretended to be dead......
Soon, the vanguard broke.
The Irish spearmen drove all the way to the center.
After cutting off the center of the British army, the Scots tried to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy as quickly as possible, and on the other hand, they kept trying to find Wilhelm II in the enemy's army. However, it is a pity that no matter how much they searched, the Scots could not find any trace of the enemy king!
The Scottish elite who rushed into the carriage was extremely depressed to find that King William II of England was not here at all!
Annoyed, they immediately reported the situation to Malcolm.
However, at this moment, suddenly there was a roaring sound of horses' hooves from the other side of the hill. Malcolm looked up and saw that King William II of England had led his cavalry around the hill and killed the Scots from another mountain trail.
The soldiers left behind in Scotland were shocked, shouting and screaming in a mess, and the whole army was in disarray, and there was no chance at all!
"Don't panic!!"
Malcolm temporarily stabilized his position, and at the same time mobilized his troops and horses to lay a heavy line of defense in front of him. But because four-fifths of all the soldiers he brought out this time were fighting in the valley below the mountain at this time, he had less than two hundred soldiers and twenty knights of the personal guard by his side.
On the other hand, King William II of England had at least thirty royal knights and more than a hundred hussars!
Although they are not much different from each other in terms of numbers, the English are all cavalry troops! Moreover, the top of this hill is also unusually flat, which is very suitable for cavalry short-distance assault charges. And the power of the cavalry once charged...... That force, I feel a chill behind my back when I think about it.
The English cavalry stopped thirty or forty meters in front of the formation, which was the best acceleration range for the knights. At this time, the knights in the front row of England slowly moved forward and divided into two sides, exposing a middle-aged man with a beard wearing a black feather and red cloak at the end.
"Ahahahaha!! Malcolm, you old immortal, have set up an ambush! If I hadn't led the cavalry troops out of the army in advance and came around from behind, I wouldn't have been able to really be given to the general by such a trick from you! ”
That middle-aged man with a full of temperament and a full face is naturally King William II of England! It turned out that Wilhelm II had foreseen that there would be an ambush in this place long before the troops entered the canyon, because the road led to the bottom, and the road was surrounded by mountain walls on both sides, which was a natural place for ambush armor to sneak attack.
Therefore, Wilhelm II, who saw this, did not immediately order the troops to stop. Instead, he ordered the team to move on, and did not tell anyone about his discovery, so as not to expose his feet, so that the Scots who were in ambush would be alerted when they found out. While the Scots and their own armies were fighting together in the canyon, Wilhelm II led his men around the battlefield quickly, quickly climbed to the top from the trail behind the canyon, and directly surrounded Malcom's own army, who were watching the battle from the top of the mountain.
It's just that William II and Malcolm didn't expect that the other party would go to the front in person, so they were a little surprised for a while.
Behind the heavy protection of the soldiers, Malcolm shouted at Wilhelm II: "William! You've already lost. Look at the poor group of English soldiers below the gorge, they can't hold off for long! ”
Wilhelm II laughed. He bared his mouth full of yellow teeth and replied, "Then let's kill!" Slaughter it! These people are just a ragtag army of serfs, and they are not the main force of my English army at all! It's a pity that they're all dead, but if we exchange their deaths for our England's total conquest of Scotland! Not to mention 4,000 people, it's 40,000 people, if you want to kill them! As long as you Scots disappear from the world completely!! ”
Malcolm frowned and roared coldly, "William! You really didn't intend to follow the agreement in the first place! Just like your father, you're stalling for the next war! It's ridiculous that the nobles in my country still believe your words and take them as a symbol of peace! “
Wilhelm II: "Everyone is the same!" Didn't you, the Scots, take advantage of the emptiness of the Kingdom of Great Britain when they took York thirty years ago? If it weren't for the timely intervention of my father, the Norman king, who saved great England! Maybe today will be when you become Lord of the British Isles! “
Gale winds.
It's chilling.
After Wilhelm II and Malcolm stared at each other for a few seconds, both of them stared at each other at the same time, and each other's faces were full of hideous moments and roared at the same time: "Attack!! “
Thundered......
Late October 1086 AD.
The 4,000-strong vanguard led by Wilhelm II was annihilated after being ambushed by the Scots at the Grand Canyon.
However, the Scots and Welsh also suffered their own injuries, the most severe of which was when the two armies fought in the gorge. King Malcolm of Scotland was successfully attacked by the cavalry troops led by William II, more than 200 personal guards were killed, 20 royal knights desperately escorted Malcom out of the encirclement, and returned to the battlefield to stop the enemy's cavalry pursuit, 20 loyal and courageous knights dragged the enemy's pursuing troops for nearly 20 minutes and then all the souls returned to Valhalla, and at this time Malcom had fled to safety.
However, Malcolm was dying at that time, and when he escaped, he was shot in the back by Wilhelm II's bow and arrow, bleeding profusely. After gathering all the nobles temporarily, Malcom passed his throne to his youngest son at the time, Malcom. Duncan.
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November 1, 1086 A.D.
In another assault, the English army wiped out all the Irish forces on the edge of the Torres coastline, and then reversed the spearhead and headed straight for Edinburgh until they reached the city.
Although the English army lost a large number of soldiers, they were only a ragtag army of serfs. And in the course of the sweep, the English captured a lot of Scottish labor, which filled the army and formed a new vanguard force.
The Irish suffered heavy losses in the battle on the island and had to withdraw from the battle early.
The Scots gathered the remaining 6,000 men and retreated to Edinburgh until winter.
In the snowy November, the Scots could only watch as the English army of 3,000 set up camp outside the castle, while the remaining thousands of the English army retreated to the town of Glenchore, less than 30 miles from Edinburgh, to escape the winter harassment.
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