The so-called hoplites are soldiers who wear chain mail, have undergone quite rigorous training, and have received the best treatment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Such a hoplite, except that they don't need to be feuded, raising them is actually no different from raising a foot knight!

If it weren't for the fact that the Northern Earls Alliance was bordered by Scotland in the north and the Duke of Connaught in the south, and there were constant wars all year round, I'm afraid that the counts of the Northern Alliance would not have the determination to raise such a large group of soldiers who eat money!

Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while. The elite soldiers who piled up money like this were originally used at the most critical moment, and now, this is such a moment!

At that time, these 500 hoplites walked into the battlefield, like an impregnable wall, forcibly blocking the tide of Norman assault infantry, and they tilted and raised their big swords, as if they were cutting a stake, and they could easily cut a person in two.

This is a method learned from Scotland, the Scottish Highland swordsman, usually with a thick stake training, a sword down today's firewood is not lacking, must this big sword cut on the person, blood splashed will look better......

After all, the hoplites are better equipped than them, the training is better than them, and even the treatment is better than them, so it can be said that they are crushed in all directions, so that the Norman assault infantry who are fighting is completely suppressed, and it is miserable, and it often takes a ratio of three to one or even five to one to change to a hoplite.

However, there are many of them.

Almost all of the gold coins that King William had obtained from trading with the Earl of Don were used for military expenses, which allowed him to re-recruit soldiers who had been disbanded due to financial pressure.

Yes, although it costs money to maintain people's livelihood and even more money to build the country, King William still spent all his money on the army, because for a foreign conqueror, maintaining a strong army to suppress rebellion is the most important thing.

Thus, the Norman assault infantry had an almost overwhelming advantage over the hoplites in numbers! Moreover, the Normans, that is, the Vikings, were not dry in their fighting fanaticism!

"Kill-!!"

At that time, there was a Norman assault infantryman who saw that the enemy could not be attacked for a long time, and that his comrades were falling one by one, and his eyes were bloodshot, and he raised his two-handed axe in the air and roared like this--Of course, such a pretending on the battlefield immediately became the focus of the hoplites, and the next second he was chopped off - but his purpose had been achieved.

"Revenge-Kill-Kill!!"

Seeing his robe, his brother died tragically on the spot, and the remaining Norman assault infantry was like a pressure cooker that had been detonated, and it was like boiling oil with water, and it exploded all at once!

Never forget, they are Vikings! Even though they have come out of the ice and snow, even if they have changed their name to Normans, they are still descendants of the Vikings! In their veins, the blood of the Scandinavian Vikings still flowed!

The Norman assault infantry on the front line of the battle threw away their two-handed axes almost at the same time, completely ignoring their own life and death, desperately holding the hoplites in front of them! The Norman assault infantry in the back row immediately raised the big axe in their hands, seeing that the posture was about to kill their comrades and the enemy together!

"Damn it!"

The hoplites in the front row panicked when they saw the formation of the Norman assault infantry, and hurriedly twisted their waists. But the Norman assault infantry, who had abandoned life and death, was like a bear hug, and it was impossible to break free easily, so he could only watch the big axe fall in front of him in despair!

"This ...... Are these people all crazy?! ”

At that time, Count Connor saw the Norman assault infantry in such a desperate move, his eyes widened in surprise, and he was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

"Alliance leader! Now is not the time to be surprised! What are we going to do? ”

Count Connor was surprised, but the battlefield was changing rapidly, and now there was no time for him to be surprised! Under such a life-and-death attack of the Norman assault infantry, even the elite of the hoplites could not last long, and they were about to collapse!

“…… There is no way, let the heavy cavalry prepare, and they will go to the battlefield soon! ”

Gritting his teeth, Count Connor finally made such a decision, he was really unwilling! There are only 3,000 soldiers in the Northern Earl Alliance, and the 500 hoplites who are fighting and the 300 hoplites who are about to go on the battlefield are already all the elite forces in his hands! Now that the war has just begun, it has not been long before all the elite forces of our own side have been invested, and the enemy has even invested only one partial division! How can this be fought!

"Go and tell Duke Eddard that if you don't want the Chinese army to collapse now, support me right away! And the same goes for the Duchy of Dehebas! ”

In a fit of rage, Count Connor yelled at the earl beside him, and now that the situation was critical, the earl didn't care whether Count Connor was rude or not, and hurriedly shouted to pat his horse and rushed to the back of the military formation.

"That shit! I knew I couldn't count on him! ”

At that time, after the herald informed Count Connor of his orders, Duke Ed roared angrily. As mentioned before, the grievances and feuds between Duke Ed and the Northern Earl Alliance can be traced back to twenty years ago, when Duke Ed first succeeded to the throne and wanted to start a big career, but he was beaten back by Count Connor and his father, so Duke Ed was very, very disdainful of Count Connell.

But Duke Ed is also an excellent commander, and naturally knows that if there is still infighting at the moment, it will end sooner or later, but- I still have to say but- but Duke Ed is also powerless now!

The 1,000-strong archers of England were far less lethal than the Welsh longbow, but they were faster, firing twelve arrows in a minute, or even fifteen if they didn't need to aim! Each wave of arrow rain was like a locust infest, and millions of locusts buzzed down from the sky, and it seemed to be a dark cloud, which obscured the sun high above! In later generations, the French literati once described it as follows: The downpour is like the arrow of the British Yi......

Therefore, although Duke Ed learned to be like Count Don, he tried his best to dance his spear in the air to open the arrows, but such a dense rain of arrows, even if Count Don himself came, he would suffer heavy losses, not to mention the knockoffs of Duke Eddard!

Of course, in general, Duke Eddard's side is not King William's key attack area, and it can still fight back and forth, and the form is always a little better than that of the Chinese army.

"Tell that bastard! I'll give him all my cavalry! Once he has crushed the enemy in front of him, he will come to my aid! Do you understand! ”

"Yes, yes, Lord Duke......"

Duke Ed roared like a madman, the herald was pulled by Duke Ed's neck, he didn't breathe, his face was pale, and finally a few words came out of his throat.

"Finally...... That guy knows the big picture......"

When Count Connor heard the herald say this, he looked at the total of four hundred cavalry who had already arrived, including three hundred light cavalry and one hundred heavy cavalry, and then said with a sigh of relief. In this way, he already has 900 cavalry in his hands, even if it is a head-on attack on the army of 10,000 people, it is not worth it at all!

However, as exciting as it was, it was still not spectacular, because for the first time since the beginning of the war, the army of the Duchy of Dehebas had moved!

They raised a flag.

With a black background and a golden cross, the patron saint of Wales, St. David's descends here!

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

The warriors of the Duchy of Dehebas roared and shouted, under the gaze of the patron saint of Wales, even the most timid farmer could have the courage comparable to that of ordinary soldiers, and ordinary soldiers could be compared with elite soldiers, and elite soldiers could even fight to the last man, this is the power of faith, such an army is destined to be the most powerful nightmare of all armies!

But King William was waiting for this.

"Faith...... Hmph, faith, that's their hole card? What a boring battle! ”

Then King William turned to his soldiers, staring at him, and made his first speech since the beginning of the war!

"Soldiers! Lonely warriors! Lone warriors!

The enemy in front of us dares to provoke us! How dare they provoke us, the bravest of all peoples! It's an insult! It's shame! It's the greatest hatred! Such a deep hatred can only be repaid with the blood and tears of the enemy! If they don't have blood and tears, let their corpses prove it!

Soldiers! Hold high the battle flag and move forward! Let the light of your glory shine like lightning on all directions! May your cries of attack echo like thunder!

We are the Normans, the strongest race in the midst of ice and snow! God bless us, killing, plundering, we are born to enjoy it all! ”

"Zheng-"

The sword was unsheathed, and King William pointed his sword forward, and said word by word:

"Heavy cavalry, charge!"

PS: Yesterday I was keeping vigil on the mountain, and the internet speed was not good, and I just found out that I actually weighed a chapter......