"It's too careless!"

King William's lips were bleeding. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to avoid the eyes and ears of King William, the Earl of Don Jr. specially chose an inaccessible route; In order to intercept Count Don as soon as possible, King William specially chose a shortcut.

Then, by the unexpected.

The light cavalry on fast horses and armed with crossbows that came and went like the wind, and the bloodthirsty Norman assault infantry, were dumbfounded the moment they met through the jungle that obscured their view.

"Shoot! Shoot! Crossbow Shooting! ”

But it was only for a moment, and immediately, the commander of the light cavalry reacted, and in an instant, a crossbow machine sounded, and a dense barrage fell from the sky like a continuous drizzle!

But the Norman assault infantry was not easy to mess with, and the leader shouted "throwing axes", and the soldiers in the front row threw all the crossbow arrows that were whizzing and falling!

In the end, the mounted crossbowmen were slightly superior.

This is not because of weapons or anything else, as mentioned before, at close range, the power of throwing axes is even better than that of crossbows, and the reason for the victory of crossbowmen on horseback is simple: they are numerous.

This was not the beginning of the time, two or three small soldiers, weapons millet and rifles, the first day that the Earl of Don snatched the command of the Earl of Kildel and the Count of Osoruny, he stripped off all their cavalry (not knights) of a piece of iron armor, and then replaced it with two crossbows. Coupled with the army of the Grand Duke of Murchid and the Earl of Leinster, the Count of Little Don had six hundred crossbowmen on horseback!

After a round of crossbow arrows, the Norman assault infantry in the front row immediately fell limply, and each of them had more than a dozen crossbow arrows pierced into their bodies, and the blood gushed like a spring of blood, and it seemed that they would not survive! But that's not the end of it, don't forget that the crossbowmen on horseback have two crossbows on them!

"Quick! Fast! Fall back! Fall back! ”

After the two rounds of crossbow arrows were fired, the commander of the crossbowmen on horseback did not look at the results of the battle at all, and immediately turned his horse's head to beckon to the cavalry around him, and then only heard the sound of the horse's sudden rhythm, and by the time King William's main force arrived, the crossbowmen had already plunged into the jungle and could not see anyone.

Hence the above part where King William bites his lip.

"Your Highness, are we going to go in and chase them?"

Count Robert, who also hurried over, looked at the corpses on the ground, more than a hundred were Norman assault infantry, and only a few were crossbowmen on horseback, such an exaggerated battle loss ratio, for fear of touching King William's mold, he couldn't help but ask cautiously.

"No, no."

King William walked up to the corpse of a fallen crossbowman on horseback, picked up the bow that had fallen to the ground, and shook his head.

"They're hiding in the jungle now, we don't know where they are, and they could shoot us in the shadows at any moment, so it's too bad for us."

"Then Your Highness, what should we do?"

"We ...... Wait! ”

"Wait?"

The Earl of Castle was puzzled, but King William had already raised his head and looked into the distance, as if his sharp eyes could see through the heavily covered trees and see the little Earl Don in the distance.

"If they want to make peace with the remnants of Dukara Castle, this is the only way, let's withdraw a little, and then just block it here, I don't believe it, they can stay in this jungle for the rest of their lives!"

Needless to say, in less than half a day, a large army had already slowly driven out of the jungle and confronted King William's army head-on.

At that time, the Earl of Don had a total of 6,100 troops, and King William, because he had already gone through a major battle, divided his army to General Robert, and 8,000 soldiers.

Inferior to each other in terms of quantity, but what about quality?

King William's 8,000 men, the Norman assault infantry alone numbered 4,000, then 2,000 archers, 1,000 Norman warriors, heavy cavalry, knights, and the guards of the various lords and earls, adding up to about 1,000 men.

As for the Count of the Little Don, he relied most on his own private troops, a total of 1,300 men, and then the private soldiers of the various Grand Dukes and Counts, whom the Count of the Little Tang did not think could be counted as men.

Whether it is morale, military spirit, or training and discipline, they are far inferior to each other, even inferior to the Norman assault infantry, and they are destined to be just consumables and consumables in this war, how can they be called people?

Therefore, at that time, the Count of Xiao Tang divided the entire coalition army into three parts, the first part was the crossbowmen, the crossbowmen were in the front, and the archers were in the back. The second part is the infantry and cavalry, they are at the end of the whole array, closely behind the crossbowmen, ready to protect the crossbowmen, and finally the third part, which is the source of confidence of the little Count Tang, his fifty ballista carts, at the front of the whole team, slowly entering the battlefield!

The whole army, the ragtag armies, was silent when the whole army advanced at a barely uniform pace and came to a halt at the same time.

"Ballista ready - direct fire, three hundred paces."

As soon as the words of the little Count Tang came out, there would be prepared light cavalry desperately running to convey the order.

"The Earl of Donchester has an order! Ballista fire, 300 shots! ”

"Hum—"

The heavy lock twist was turned by two soldiers of strong weight, and finally the strings were stretched to the maximum.

?“ Disheveled! ”

?“ Puffy puffy! ”

Fifty spears glittering with cold light pierced the sky like a bolt of lightning, and the roaring arrows mercilessly pierced the body of one of the unlucky ghosts at the forefront. But how could the huge arrow that had already been shot stop so easily, and the unlucky ghost, and the unlucky ghost behind him, and the one behind him, were all pierced together. The two-meter-long giant arrow turned itself into a human gourd skewer.

"No—!"

King William watched his army being slaughtered so easily, and for a moment his eyes were split, and he couldn't help but cry out.

It's not that he doesn't know about ballistas, it's not that he doesn't know the power of ballistas, he also used ballistas in siege warfare, but since the collapse of the Roman Empire, there has never been an army that will use large-scale ballistas in field battles! Even if there were, it had nothing to do with the desolate and remote British Isles!

Therefore, the first attack, he suffered a big loss.

Fifty great arrows, each piercing two people, for example—in fact it was much more than that, that is, the loss of a hundred! You know, after this war is over, he will have a big battle with King Henry VII of France, so even if it is a crushing victory, it will be considered a loss!

"Cavalry! Cavalry charged from both sides! Infantry stand out and don't huddle together anymore! Everyone, forward! ”

In just an instant, King William already understood that he could not shoot at Earl Don Jr., at a distance of three hundred paces, the bow and arrow could not shoot so far, but the opponent's ballista cart could easily harvest life in the distance. Only to advance, only to advance, take human lives as a stack, even if the cavalry is lost, the ballista car must be destroyed, otherwise this battle will not have to be fought!

Therefore, even if his heart was bleeding, he gave an order that the Norman Iron Rider must destroy the ballista cart no matter the cost!

Note: Two days ago, I saw a book friend talking about the ballista car, blame me for not making it clear, this is a scorpion bow, not a torsion ballista improved by Rome later.

Note 2: Chapter 2 is being coded.