The next day, the genius showed a slight light, the opposing two armies were already ready for battle, especially the Viking army, the Viking warriors standing in front of the vanguard in addition to the life-and-death axe, each with a long sharpened wooden pole - this was obviously made overnight, in order to prevent the little Tang Grand Duke from another chariot attack. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But this is all in vain, a total of twenty chariots were all lost in yesterday's attack, just one night, even if the little Tang Grand Duke has great ability, he can't get it, so the Vikings on the opposite side can really be said to be a waste of effort.

By the way, a total of ten ballistae have been installed, and the glittering bolts are pointing straight ahead, ready to reap the dead.

By the way, although it was just dawn, the time was actually around 10 o'clock in the morning, but it was just because of the polar night, and the dawn was relatively late.

"Attack."

The confrontation lasted for nearly half an hour, and the sky changed from bright to bright, and the Vikings on the opposite side had not moved a bit, and the two sides were like sculptures. Especially on the side of the Duke of Xiao Tang, because of strict discipline, the soldiers would not move when they stood in formation, and the entire camp seemed to have become a place of death, not only the hostile Vikings were uneasy, but even their own Viking mercenaries had some small riots.

Helpless, the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang could only order the army to attack first, besides, if the confrontation continued like this, I am afraid that it was also what the old patriarch on the other side was looking forward to, and he wished that he could delay it for a while.

"Super pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, word line forward! The light cavalry followed on both flanks, and each team should pay attention to the opening boundary, and do not block the ballista from firing! ”

As soon as the words of the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang fell, Knight Wade began to give orders loudly. The so-called shooting boundary is also a new concept -- but in wartime, as long as you pay the price, everyone can learn quickly and well, and those who have not learned it, reality is not a game, there is no friend or foe judgment, and the crossbow bolts that shoot like bullets will be pierced no matter who is standing in front of them.

The shouts of Wade Knight were particularly clear on this silent battlefield, and the super-long pikemen who originally stood in a dense phalanx were immediately divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts, and then divided into left and right, and the left and right quickly ran away to form the left and right wings, and the left and right sides of the overly wide middle army (that is, the upper part of the original dense phalanx) converged to the middle, turning the wide into long, and the original wide became narrow, and there were gaps between the various armies, and the zigzag formation was formed.

The reason why he gave up the dense array and chose the Pinzi array was actually the result of Xiao Tang's great duke meditating for half a night.

In terms of probability, the probability of everyone standing together, the dense array of people crowding people next to each other, and the flying axe falling from the sky, is much greater than the probability of hitting people in a scattered zigzag formation - even if it is not, because the soldiers are scattered, even if the soldiers around them are knocked down and killed, the soldiers around them will 'seem' much more than 'actually', and the soldiers can be less flustered in their hearts.

"Let the front-line warriors move forward and prepare the axes."

On the other side, after a night of summing up, the old patriarch, after listening to the reports of the bravest fighters on the front line, completely abandoned the flashy weapon of the javelin, concentrated the flying axes of the whole army on the soldiers on the front line, and let these soldiers each carry four, and be sure to smash the enemy at the beginning of the battle to confirm the initial advantage.

Of course, the abandoned javelins were not in vain, and the binding of several javelins, together with other pointed sticks that were hurried, was an improvised rejection of the horse when inserted into the ground, and the old patriarch looked forward to this way to reduce the enemy's cavalry advantage.

Of course, it's still useless.

The blow of the first wave of crossbow bolts was not long in coming.

To be honest, if possible, the Duke of Xiao Tang prefers the rough stuff of trebuchets, even if it is a small trebuchet, dozens of kilograms of stones can be smashed down to ensure that one smash is accurate, not only can smash the enemy into a pulp, but also can continue to smash the enemy next to him; But alas, he didn't.

It cannot be said that there is none, the first trebuchet prototyped in Desmond has been tested, and both the power and the range are quite satisfactory, even beyond imagination - if the ballista is a rifle, then the trebuchet is the level of a cannon - the point is that the trebuchet is too inconvenient to transport.

A ballista is dismantled into parts, only one wagon is needed to transport it, but a catapult is dismantled into parts, even if it is small, three wagons are not enough, and it takes only half an hour to install a ballista, but to install a trebuchet...... Then I have to hehe.

However, for the Viking barbarians, a ballista alone was enough.

After all, they are all flesh and blood, whether it is a rifle or a cannon, it is a death to hit it, right? The difference is just a hole or a dead body.

"Can anyone tell me what that is!!"

When the first crossbow arrow was fired, stringing the Viking warriors at the front of the three stations into a sugar gourd, the old patriarch's expression changed instantly.

Just like King William saw the ballista on the battlefield for the first time, or even more surprised, after all, King William still had the concept of 'ballista' in his head, and Britain had entered the Dark Ages when the Vikings invaded, and the old patriarch had never heard of the high-tech ballista!

In addition, to be honest, with only ten ballistas, even if they hit a hundred shots, each crossbow bolt can penetrate three people, and it is far from possible to defeat the Viking warriors if they shoot all the crossbow arrows. But the blow to morale is really huge when a series of living people are skewered into sugar gourds, and these sugar gourds may still be able to gasp and lie on the ground and wail without moving.

"Damn it! Shrink the line of defense, call the soldiers back, we are in the camp, relying on the camp defense. ”

Gritting his teeth, the old patriarch almost broke his old teeth, too aggrieved, too aggrieved, when did the heroic Viking warriors suffer such humiliation, they had to hide in the camp tent without even seeing the face of the enemy; But for the sake of the soldiers not wasting their lives in vain, he could only make such a decision.

However, it may not be the right choice.

After all, the camp was the territory of the Vikings themselves, and the Vikings were camped...... Don't mention it, it's messy like a kennel, maybe the kennel is cleaner than this, all kinds of obstacles, it's really not good for the pikemen to go in.

"Let those mercenaries move forward, and explore the way first."

Seeing that the group of Vikings shrank back again, he knew the strengths and weaknesses of his own soldiers, and he personally trained the soldiers to know everything about the little Tang Grand Duke. After frowning, he said to Wade Knight beside him.

The horn sounded, and the pikemen in front immediately stopped advancing, and the Viking mercenaries, though reluctant—to find a way, this is a cannon fodder to die—but under the urging of the saber-wielding, fierce light cavalry, they began to advance slowly.

Then he was smashed back by a round of throwing axes that fell from the sky.

After that, he was forced forward by the light cavalry, and then he was smashed back by the throwing axe.

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It was only after several back and forth that the morale and casualties of the Viking mercenaries had reached an unbearable point that the Duke of Tang relented and let the group of defeated soldiers enter the camp and be treated by the medical team.

So you see, the benevolence of the Duke of Xiao Tang is only aimed at his own soldiers and his own people, and for others, such an act of using the human body as a bargaining chip and consuming the other party's materials can undoubtedly be called a tyrant.

In other words, the little Tang Duke, you are not afraid of being oppressed too hard, the officials forcing the people to rebel, oh no, the officials forcing the Vikings to rebel?

He was really not afraid.

The number of Viking mercenaries was clear from the beginning: before the Battle of Bergen it was seven hundred, and after the war it had dropped to five hundred; Yesterday was another big battle, and the mercenary mad dog-like posture attracted a lot of firepower for the pikemen, and the number plummeted to less than three hundred; There will be a few more rounds of throwing axes, and the rest, plus the wounded and those who can still breathe, will not exceed two hundred.

The infantry of 200 people is against the light cavalry of 200 people, and this group of infantry is still wounded, even if you are a fool, you know how to choose at this time.

"Your Excellency, it's okay."

After counting the number of throwing axes thrown by Viking warriors, and feeling that it was about the same, Knight Wade whispered in the ear of Grand Duke Xiao Tang.

"Hmm." Grand Duke Tang nodded, and then said: "Order the soldiers to move forward, just use the squad tactics we have trained, let the actual combat test, let me see if they have learned." ”