In fact, Duke Eddard's desperate charge was doomed to failure. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although Duke Ed had made the greatest determination and completely abandoned his army, gathering only cavalry troops to fight the Count Don to the death, he still still had to lose.

Because his head has not yet turned a corner.

The concept of the supremacy of the hoplites, the supremacy of the hoplites, and the incomparable hoplites was like a spell that locked in his head, completely imprisoning his mind and making him unable to think about anything else at all. The hoplites were mythologized in medieval Europe, and everyone believed that as long as they had enough hoplites, they would only have to be laughing and laughing.

It's as if the cavalry commander in the brave heart said: "For 200 years, you can't win a war without cavalry."

Even after the Mongol invasion 200 years later, the Parthian tactics beat the European hoplites to cry dad and cry mother, or the rise of the Swiss infantry phalanx 400 years later, the cavalry of the whole Europe did not dare to plunder its edge, but the Europa commander's brain still did not turn a corner, until the popularization of firearms and the advent of artillery, making the hoplite cavalry group charge tantamount to suicide, which made the hoplite slowly withdraw from the stage of history.

Now, however, as the first (probably) Parthian Duke on the island of Ireland to enjoy Parthian tactics, despite his excellent sense of war, and even converted some of his hoplites into light cavalry in advance, he still did not realize the true use of light cavalry - he did not equip his light cavalry with bows and arrows, and the light cavalry had already broken a wing without a bow and arrow.

At that time, on this vast wasteland battlefield, the two cavalry units began to chase back and forth, light cavalry against light cavalry, it was a long game of endurance, skill, and luck, but the heavy cavalry chasing the light cavalry was purely their own death.

What's more, despite what has been said above, I still have to repeat that Duke Ed did not equip his light cavalry with even a bow and an arrow - this also made his cavalry passively beaten, the heavy cavalry could not catch up, and the light cavalry caught up with the other party and shot you in the face, such a battle, how to fight?

Moreover, it was impossible for the horseback crossbowmen of the Count of Little Tang to remain motionless, they also kept galloping on the wasteland, interspersed, as if they were an equestrian show, shooting wave after wave of crossbow arrows at Duke Eddard's cavalry troops, and what was even more immoral was that they did not shoot people, but only horses! Also know how to concentrate fire! Often more than a dozen people only shoot at one horse, and they shoot down on the horse that is running, and then the cavalry on horseback flies out under the action of inertia, and if they don't die, they will fall into a rut, and they can't get up for the time being.

But it was neither the pikemen of the Count of Don nor his crossbowmen on horseback that became the straw that broke the camel's back, but the betrayal of the Grand Duke of Murchid, who had been hiding in the shadows.

In this whole battle, we only saw Duke Ed use his own cavalry, infantry, and Praetorian Guard, which were his own army, so where did the army of Archduke Mulchid, as his ally, go?

The reason was that his troops were all wounded.

In fact, most of the soldiers killed and wounded by the crossbowmen in the previous days were the soldiers of the Grand Duke of Murchid, but few of them really belonged to the Duke of Ed, which is why the Duke of Ed was able to tolerate the paddling of the Grand Duke of Murchid in the battle - in the face of an army with more than half of the casualties and no morale, even if they slashed with a sword, they could not be motivated.

But intimidation could not arouse the fighting spirit of the wounded and defeated, but anger could, so the Grand Duke of Murchid, in his small barracks, said this to his soldiers:

"Soldiers, it's time, it's time for revenge!

We've had enough of Duke Eddard's tyranny! We've had enough of Duke Eddard's cruelty! We've had enough!

Soldiers, can we forget, in North Munster, in Limerick, how the Duke of Ed and his soldiers have mutilated our relatives in Munster? Can we forget how Duke Ed and his soldiers forced us to the front to act as shields when the enemy's arrows rained down? Can we forget how Duke Ed and his soldiers put steel knives around our necks to intimidate us into fetching water when the whole army was short of water?

No, we haven't forgotten, we just kept it in our hearts! Once, we bowed our heads in shame, just waiting for such an opportunity!

Now, it's time for our revenge, so let's take up arms and avenge our dead compatriots! ”

That's it, the Grand Duke of Murchid, through a speech, not only perfectly concealed the fact that Duke Ed was able to rob in North Munster because of his acquiescence, but also successfully associated himself with ordinary soldiers, disguised himself as a victim, and succeeded in arousing the anger of the soldiers and making them fight again!

I have to say that Archduke Mulchid's high diplomacy is really not covered, just talking about the ability to change his face behind the surface, as well as the ability to reverse black and white, it is much more clever than Count Xiaotang's speech two days ago! In this way, Count Tang still has to learn more!

So, a whole four hundred soldiers rushed out with a fierce cry, they howled loudly, like wolves and dogs, like bears and tigers, rushed out of the barracks and cut down people when they saw them, and in an instant, the infantry of Duke Eddard, who had been struggling to support them, was immediately in a great chaos!

(Of the eight hundred soldiers of the Archduke Murchid, three remained in North Munster, one hundred were killed, and almost half of the rest were wounded.) ）

In ancient battlefields, excellent generals always wanted to raid the enemy's rear, and more deeds show that raiding the enemy's rear can greatly damage the enemy's morale, and even make the enemy mutiny, directly surrendering without a fight - for example, in the Indian counterattack, a lost cooking squad suddenly appeared from behind a whole company of Indian soldiers, and then the Indian company surrendered directly without firing a shot - well, although the third brother has always been a lot of joy, but the third brother can be regarded as a modern army, If the rear is raided, it will surrender directly, which is enough to see the impact of the raid on the morale of the army.

Therefore, Duke Eddard's army is already in danger to this point, and if nothing miracle happens, then they have already lost, and I hardly need to say it.

And a miracle, if a miracle is really so cheap, so cheap that it appears when it appears, then it is not a miracle.

"We ...... Walk! ”

Finally, after one last glance at the heartbreaking battlefield, Duke Ed turned back and spoke firmly to the few remaining cavalrymen around him.

"But where are we going? Going to North Munster? We don't have a single soldier left, and the Grand Guild of Mulchid has directly tore us apart. ”

One of the horsemen asked, and the other horsemen were all in trepidation, looking at their commander, their duke, expecting his answer.

"No, let's go back to Bigerforne, the Earl of Donchester will definitely march, and we will fight him again in our own hometown!"

PS: Every time I finish writing a battle scene, I feel like I've been hollowed out......

PS: This chapter is not well written, I'm sorry for the book friends.