The King of Bohemia looked at the turbulent Elbe in front of him, and crossed it into the hinterland of the East Franks, and his people were struggling to cross this fast-flowing river without bridges, and some light cavalry found a shallow part of the river, and even then it was a great task to cross the Elbe. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's been five days." The King of Bohemia said anxiously.

"Your Majesty, there are so many of us, and there are many women and children." The Bohemian nobles said worriedly that their warriors could cross the river quickly, but the women and children were not so fast, and as a tribal migratory principality, they could not leave any of their people behind.

"I'm afraid that the East Francians will take advantage of the opportunity to stop us." The King of Bohemia frowned and looked at the dense forest along the Elbe, he did not know when the East Francians would rush out of it with spears and shields, and the fear of the unknown was the most uncomfortable.

"Understood, Your Majesty." The Bohemian nobles also realized the danger and began to join the ranks of the channelers, but the large ranks of the Bohemians were slow to progress.

"Woo~~." Just when the Bohemian nobles were sweating profusely, they heard a long trumpet coming from the other side.

"It's not good, it's the East Franconians, and the soldiers of the West Bank are defending it." When the king of Bohemia heard the sound of the trumpet, he immediately gave a loud command.

The Bohemian infantry, who had already landed on the west bank, hurriedly raised their shields and spears and built a human wall on the bank of the river, and they watched nervously at the dark forest of the Germans.

"Boom, boom~~." There was a thunderous sound, and a Bohemian infantryman swallowed nervously, he was wearing a small round iron helmet, his leather armor was dirty, and he smelled of livestock, and he held a slightly curved spear in his hand, and his shield was nothing more than a wooden plank with a leather handle nailed to the inside, and he couldn't help but look down at the ground when he heard the roar, and found that the vibration made the pebbles on the ground jump.

The ancestors of the East Francians were the Germanic people in the Black Forest, and they were the people who were feared by the Roman Empire, and when Otto personally led this warlike nation in the long history to appear on the west bank of the Elbe, the Bohemians suddenly found that their huge army was cut off by the Elbe River, and their most powerful Bohemian archers were left on the east bank.

"Your Majesty, the Bohemians are crossing the river, should we strike?" Otto, dressed in chain mail and a helmet with two crowns, and his courtiers in military uniforms, immediately inquired of Otto when they saw the Bohemians crossing the river.

"Attack." When Otto saw this scene in front of him, his heart immediately rejoiced, he did not expect that they appeared in such a timely manner, this was a good opportunity given to them by God.

"Don't you let the priest bless the warriors?" The court priest asked in surprise, before the Christian army went to war, the priest had to pray for blessings.

"No need, make up for it afterwards." Otto knew that the time was short, and he immediately drew the sword at his waist, pointed at the Bohemian army on the west bank, and launched the order to attack.

"Oh oh oh~~." The East Franks heard their king's order to fight, and they charged the Bohemians on the west bank, centered on their horseback nobles, and the East Franks shouted for murder all over the riverbank.

The cavalry spear team composed of East Frankish knights is a combat organization with cavalry and foot coordination, every dozen East Frankish infantry surrounds a knight with a flag gun, and the knight is responsible for commanding and charging on horseback, and the knight will be centered on the higher nobles, which is the war organization under the Western feudal system.

"Rush, rush~~." The East Francian nobles waved their swords in their hands, they kept giving orders to the knights to charge, the knights urged the horses to lead the infantry to rush quickly to the Bohemian infantry position, the wall made of wooden shields seemed to be as thin as paper, the knights drove the horses under their crotch, holding the spears on horses fluttering flags, they used the spears on their horses to charge the horses, aimed at the shields of the Bohemians, the horses carried the master on their backs and crashed headlong into the human shield, and the spears pierced into the Bohemian crowd behind the shield, Not to be outdone, the Bohemian infantrymen raised their spears and stabbed them at the knights on horseback.

"Brush." The East Franconian knights, who were experienced in combat, immediately gave up the spears in their hands, drew out the swords of their closest friends at their waists, and used the swords in their hands to chop dozens of spear tips that stretched out, the knights were not afraid of these spears, because the fine chain mail on their bodies was enough to protect their bodies, and some knights not only armed themselves, but also covered the war horses with thick linen cloth, leaving only the eyes and hooves of the war horses to run, providing a certain defense capability for the knights' war horses.

"Archers, let the archers go to the river, where are the archers, where are my archers?" When the king of Bohemia saw that his advance army had been attacked by Otto, he was furious and immediately put the archers who remained on the east bank into position, trying to stop the East Francians with a long-range attack.

"They want to send out archers." Otto saw the movement of the Bohemians on the east coast and immediately judged that the other party wanted to mobilize the archers.

"Let's send the archers too!" Otto's courtiers said to him.

"Dispatch the archers." Otto nodded and agreed to the courtiers' suggestion.

"Archer~~." The heralds, who were beside the king and his courtiers, immediately raised a leaf-yellow banner representing the archers, and the herald kicked the horses under his crotch, raised the flag in his hand, and passed in front of the reserve troops, and the archers who saw the banner crowded through the crowd and walked to the front.

Soon at the head of the procession gathered one hundred and thirty archers, who were usually ordinary hunters, but instead of only collecting dead branches in the lord's forest, they could hunt hares in the lord's forest as a reward for their military service with the lords.

"Whoosh, whoosh~~." The East Franconian archers, lined up in three columns, put their arrows on the bowstrings, and at the command of the captain of the archers, aimed sixty degrees across the river, and the arrows crossed the sky and landed in a parabola among the Bohemian archers, causing a terrible scream.

"Damn it." The King of Bohemia cursed angrily at the arrows falling from the sky, hating the cunning King of East Francia and, even more, Brother Robert for pulling him into the water.

"Your Majesty, be careful." Several Bohemian guards held large shields in their hands, and hurriedly stepped forward to protect the Bohemian king with their shields, and the arrows hit the shield with an aggressive sound.

"Leave me alone, shoot back immediately, fight back." The King of Bohemia pushed his guards away, and with a powerful wave of his strong right arm, he commanded his archers.

"Shoot back, shoot back." The Bohemian archers fired arrows across the Elbe towards the East Franks, and the arrows flew over the river like locusts, over the heads of the Bohemian infantry and East Frankish soldiers, and fell on the heads of the East Frankish archers.

"Whoosh, ah~~." Arrows rained down on the archers, and many East Franconian archers were shot in the arms and legs, and they fell with screams.

"Stick to your post, take your arrows and prepare to fight back." When the captain of the archers saw that his side was being fired from a distance, he encouraged the archers to immediately mount their arrows and prepare for a volley.

"Whoosh~~." When the archers of East Francia, with the encouragement of the captain, picked up their arrows again and prepared to shoot with their bowstrings, another wave of arrows rained down on their heads, and the archers panicked.

"What's going on, why is it so fast?" The nobles of East Francia were astonished to learn that archery was not a simple matter and required long-term training and practice, which is why the nobles could tolerate commoners hunting in their forests.

However, what they didn't know was that the Bohemians, because of their long-term dealings with the Magyars, had already learned the simple method of making the Oriental compound bow, using glue made from fish intestines, gluing several pieces of tough wood together, and also tied with ox tendons, the two ends of the bow pressed the horns, the compound bow had a much faster rate of fire than the single bow of the Germans and Vikings, and it was also very lethal.

"Immediately place the plank baffle in front of the archers." King Otto watched the archers shoot at this battle, and he had already noticed that the opponent was shooting much faster than his own, so he immediately asked his men to take out the wooden baffle and place it in front of the archers' position in front of the bow position in the rain of arrows overhead.

This baffle was made by East Franconian craftsmen, and it was actually a large wooden shield with a bracket on the inside that could be fixed in one place, and it was usually prepared for the siege.

"Ping-pong." When the archers fired at each other across the Elbe, the melee between the East Frankish warriors and the Bohemian infantry entered a white heat, the East Frankish infantry was fierce by nature, they waved their spears desperately, knocking on the Bohemian shield wall, while the East Frankish swordsmen turned their sword wheels like windmills, and the Bohemian infantry could not lift their heads.

"Wow~~." While the Bohemians were preoccupied with holding off the East Francians, some of them felt a sharp pain in their legs and feet, and they couldn't help but howl miserably, and when they lowered their heads, in addition to the bleeding legs, they were a group of half-grown children, holding bloody daggers in their hands, and nimbly drilling through the countless trees of legs and feet in the crowd.

"The East Franconians served in the army from the age of thirteen to seventy, and King Otto placed soldiers of every age in the most suitable position, which was also his mastery of the art of war." The clerk of the Saxon court, in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the battlefield, wrote down everything he saw.