"They must all die here! Not a single one can run! ”

At that time, King William made such a decision in his heart, and he did not look at the Norman horsemen who were already in the mire, and although they were now in the middle of a bitter battle, King William believed that his generals and his soldiers could not be easily destroyed by a mob armed with faith!

That's right, although the soldiers of the Duchy of Dehebas have shown their fearless courage and determination not to be afraid of death, in the eyes of King William, who has calmed down, they are just a group of high-level cannon fodder with constant morale. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There is certainly the pride and prejudice of the king, but some of it is also true.

Whether it is attack power, armor, or training, discipline, everything is far inferior to the king's regular army. The soldiers of the Duchy of Dehebas were not so much soldiers as fanatics, pious people who were willing to give everything for their faith, and the greatest pride of these pious people was courage, and the only thing they had was courage.

After all, no matter what, flesh and blood can't compare to steel.

"So, the best way to deal with these crazy creatures is not to charge with cavalry, but to choose to form a dense formation with more elite and armored hoplites, waiting for them to die themselves?"

King William's mind was spinning, and immediately his mind came up with how to deal with these fanatics, although he had not dealt with this kind of army before, but the way of war, be careful and make bold attacks, you can achieve victory.

Thinking of this, King William no longer hesitated, and immediately shouted: "Robert, Count Robert!"

"Here I am, king."

The Earl Robert whom King William calls is his half-brother (real history), because of this relationship, Count Robert is unlimitedly loyal to King William, and King William also gave him the greatest trust - he even gave the most powerful part of his power to Count Robert!

"Robert, my brother, send your soldiers out and let them build a line of defense here, we must first drain the enemy's strength."

"Yes, king."

Earl Robert listened to King William's words, and immediately turned to greet his soldiers, and soon the black torrent converged on the first line, like an impregnable wall, forming an impregnable line of defense.

This black torrent is King William's most powerful force, the hoplites in his army! The Norman assault infantry was nothing more than light infantry, and although the brutal nature inherited from the Vikings made them extremely fierce, this still did not escape their extremely fragile weakness, and the Norman Iron Cavalry was the most expensive and sharp sword, which could not be used, so it was necessary to have a class to fill the gap between the two armies.

And this class of troops is this black torrent, Norman warriors!

- Although it is strange to call an army a warrior, every Norman warrior is extremely demanding, and they must first be men of good physique and superior martial arts - in fact, they are a prerequisite for becoming Norman warriors, which is to defeat the Norman assault infantry one-on-one in a fair battle, a total of three wheel battles!

Then, they had to go through a series of strict, even harsh training, any soldier who did not meet the requirements in the training, the first warning, the second slap of the board, the third straight brush down - for the Normans, the pain was not death, but the humiliation of being looked down upon after brushing!

Therefore, any Norman warrior who has completed a full set of training, whether it is combat effectiveness, discipline, or training, even if you look at the whole Europa, can be called second to none, and can be regarded as the world's first-class strong army!

However, King William's possession of Norman warriors is a weakened version. The reason is very simple, he does not have enough soldiers to form a formed army, so he can only lower the conditions in order to form a combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

"But, even so, on this island of Great Britain, no, in the whole of Western Europe, is there anyone who can crush an army like mine?!"

King William thought so proudly, and then, in the eyes of all, the fanatics collided with the iron wall.

"Holy! Holy!! Holy !! St. David's !!! ”

At that time, the soldiers of the Duchy of Dehebas roared and shouted, completely ignoring the iron wall in front of them, ignoring the great axe that flashed with cold light, and the speed did not decrease, no, it was even faster, immersed in the frenzy of chasing wind and electricity, like a fierce wind and fire, and collided with the Norman warriors!

In an instant, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

In the face of such fanatical soldiers, the Norman warriors in the front row did not hesitate to swing the big axe in their hands, and in an instant, the corpses of a group of fanatics were separated, but such a blow that was enough to make ordinary soldiers collapse could not stop the footsteps of fanatics at all! The fanatics attacked the Norman warriors with their will and piety, bravely, madly, and even tragically, completely ignoring their own wounds, their severed arms and thighs, their broken wooden spears, and their short swords with many gaps in their hands. Crazy, frenzied shouts are incessant and lingering!

In such a tragic atmosphere, the soldiers whose hands were cut off kicked with their feet, and the soldiers whose feet were cut off scratched with their hands, even if their hands and feet were cut off, as long as a head was still attached to their necks, they would bite with their teeth, hit their heads with their heads, and even throw their own blood in the air, fascinating the eyes of the Norman warriors, even if they died, they had to open a way!

However, it is useless.

Although it has been emphasized, I still want to emphasize again, no matter what, flesh and blood cannot beat steel.

The shoddy wooden spear is only a white spot when pierced, the potted short sword is only a white mark, and the black army is like a mythical wall of sighs, even if the fanatics go one after another, wave after wave, but it is like a river hitting a, it is just a sacrifice in vain.

Of course, it can't be said to be completely in vain, at least, under the attack of the fanatics, especially under their five-for-one, or even ten-for-one fanaticism, the originally rock-solid Norman warriors also began to slowly retreat, and for the first time, King William's army appeared a small crack!

"Seize the moment! Cavalry! Infantry! Everyone rushes! This is our only chance! ”

At that time, seeing this fleeting, once-in-a-lifetime fighter, Count Connor immediately jumped up excitedly, and he had a hunch that this time, I am afraid that it will be the only chance to win! King William would never give him such a chance again!

In fact, there is no need for Count Connor to say that Duke Ed has already driven his pikemen to start the march, and the pikemen with a total of nine hundred (many of them have been killed) are about to fight hard with a neat pace, leveling the pikes!

However, in the face of such a crisis, King William had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, as if he had expected it.

"Command! The Norman warriors stop retreating! Fight back with all your might! The second column of Norman assault infantry threw all the throwing axes! The third reserve column is ready to enter the battlefield at any time! Archers don't reserve their stamina anymore and shoot at full speed! ”

Then, turning to the herald beside him, he said, "Go and ask the Count of Castle if his cavalry is rested!" As soon as the battle began, I asked his cavalry to immediately charge the enemy from the flank! ”

That's it, to everyone's surprise, King William at least hid a physically strong reserve of more than two thousand people! After all, in the previous battle, he only dispatched the first array of 1,000 Norman assault infantry, as well as 800 Norman iron cavalry, plus the Norman warriors used to defend, he had already forced out the full strength of the opposing coalition army, which made his long-prepared ambush useless at all!

But right now, it's the best chance yet! The coalition forces on the opposite side have been blinded, and step by step into the pre-designed trap, they are already doomed!

Hearing the king's order, the archers, who had always been lazy and perfunctory, immediately began to get serious, and round after round of arrows sprayed out of their hands, covering the sky like dark clouds, and making the sun lose color!

What's more, there was the flying axe raid of the Norman assault infantry later, and the powerful flying axe contained the fierce anger of the Norman assault infantry, falling from the sky, and was about to crush the bandits with the mantis arm as a car into slag!

Such a dense attack, concentrated in a small area, was like hail falling from the sky, every fanatic, every infanfantry, every cavalry was hit at least twice, and the soldiers fell like autumn wheat stalks, one stubble after another! Suddenly there was an empty spot among the enemies!

Of course, most of the soldiers who fell were actually wounded, but given the level of medical care in this era, I am afraid that the number of casualties after the war will still be greatly increased.

But that was also after the war, and now, after the death of the rain of arrows swept low, the death of the cavalry had already swung the scythe again!

Despite the bitter battle with the fanatics, the Norman Iron Horsemen managed to leave the battlefield and regroup, as King William had expected, after leaving behind some of their corpses.

Of course, the cavalry like this, who had just left the battle and was about to regroup, must have insufficient physical strength, and the power of the charge would not be too great. But letting them charge from the flanks, not from the front, but also with the enemy whose formation has been scattered, is a job that is completely easy and pleasant.

And the Norman warriors in front also stood firm, they defended in the first row and attacked in the second row, slowly, but firmly, squeezing the living space of the enemy soldiers little by little, making the enemy unstable, and there was no place to stand!

Under such a three-sided attack, gradually, as the front retreated little by little, the soldiers of the alliance and the soldiers of the Duchy of Dehebas realized that their end might have come. The men began to panic, they began to be afraid, and finally they abandoned their weapons and companions and began to flee.

"Don't run! Soldiers, don't run! We're going to fight to the death! Are you going to be cowards, Irish? Welsh, don't you want to defend your country? St. David is watching you! ”

Seeing that the army was defeated, it was gradually showing a posture of retreat, despite the shouts of Count Connell and the slaughter of dozens of deserters with his knights. However, such a meager effort was simply not enough to save the tide of the war, which had completely collapsed. The number of soldiers fleeing is more and more, and there are countless soldiers, no matter how hard the nobles shout, no matter how hard they slaughter, no matter how much they promise benefits, the soldiers who have lost their courage are not willing to return to the battlefield full of corpses.

The victory or defeat is irretrievable.

In the end, there were no more than 1,500 soldiers who remained in place, who still insisted on resisting to the end, and they had already experienced a whole day of fighting, resisting the continuous attacks of the Norman assault infantry, Norman iron cavalry, and even Norman warriors, and even the physical exhaustion, physical and mental exhaustion, and they could not even hold their own weapons.

However, they still chose to resist to the end.

"Thank you! I thank you, soldiers! In these last moments, I thank you for choosing to stay the course! I thank you for fighting to the death for Ireland, for De Hebas, for me!

We've tried hard enough! We've been brave enough! The enemy is well armed and outnumbered, but we have fought until now, and that is enough, enough!

St. David will remember our valor! This land will remember our bravery! The whole world will remember our bravery! I promise you! One day in the future, all the people will sing that there was once an army, and they were defeated here, but they were still defeated, because none of them took a step back! ”

Perhaps sensing that this was his destiny, Count Connor straightened his crown, straightened his sword, and then put his clothes in order, and then turned back to face the soldiers who were willing to go to Yellow Springs with him, and for the last time, he used a hoarse voice to boost the morale of the soldiers.

"Remember, soldiers! I'm with you! I am with you! I die with you! ”

PS: 4,000 words, I'm finally done, I'll see if I can code another chapter at night.