Chapter 35: Phalanx vs. Cavalry!

The scene of flesh and blood made Victoria extremely uncomfortable, and a strong feeling of nausea welled up from the depths of her heart. Victoria didn't dare to look any further, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, wanting to get rid of the feeling of nausea, but unfortunately this is the deepest emotion of life, how can it be eliminated so easily.

Alan couldn't control Victoria at the moment, although he forcibly brought the people in. After discovering through the telescope that the recruitment of serfs had no effect, Gavin immediately abandoned the idea of continuing to send experience. Instead, they decisively prepared for a heavy cavalry charge.

As soon as Alan found out about this situation, he immediately conveyed an order: "Let Alexander get ready, the other party is ready to charge, and inform Guderian to act according to the plan!"

The herald next to him immediately passed on Alan's order.

The Count of Leon, who was following behind Allen, stepped forward at this time and said: "Lord Duke, the other party's heavy cavalry is about to charge, so why don't you send us to block it, although the Duke's soldiers are mighty, but the impact of the heavy cavalry will inevitably be missed."

Alan patted Leon on the shoulder and comforted: "Leon, don't worry, I naturally have confidence in them." As for you, I have other arrangements, go and get ready first, and then listen to my orders. ”

Leon didn't say anything more, although he didn't understand why Alan was so confident, he could only listen to Allen's arrangement at this time.

According to the previous heavy infantry, it is simply a fool's dream to fight a thousand heavy cavalry with a thousand people. Normally, the 1,000-strong heavy cavalry would be divided into two waves, with the first wave of heavy cavalry breaking up the formation, and the second wave of cavalry expanding the victory. Therefore, the use of heavy infantry against cavalry is generally also a multi-front battle to contain the cavalry's ability to break through. There are usually three fronts, the first two of which are dedicated to abandoning the cavalry to counteract the huge charging power of the cavalry, and the third is the main force to resist the cavalry.

Naturally, Alan set it up like this. The infantry of the 1,000-man Isis phalanx at the front was Allen's strongest line of defense against the cavalry. Each phalanx was neatly arranged. Each phalanx was divided into five columns, each with twenty men. And the first ten hundred-man teams were the method that Allen used to restrain the most powerful heavy cavalry of this era.

Jiawen's heavy cavalry came quickly, and it took only five minutes from the time they were ready to fight to the time they set off. And at this time, Allen's order had just been given.

Alexander, the commander of the Essis phalanx's infantry, also armed with a round shield and a spear, stood firmly in the front row of the phalanx. Alexander's original name was not Alexander, he was nothing more than an orphan whose parents died before he joined the army. Due to the loss of his inheritance, he had no choice but to wander around the city of Essis all day long, and after hearing the news of Allen's recruitment, he entered Allen's army.

However, he thought that in the army, he was just eating and waiting for death, and bullied and bullied the villagers with a salary of a noble lord. Reality tells him that Allen's army is definitely not that simple.

Alan came from a country with extremely strong national pride, and he couldn't stand a citizen who didn't have the slightest affection for his country. So Allen started with his army and cultivated their sense of collective honor, patriotism can be produced simply, patriotism comes from nationalism, and nationalism comes from blood identity or cultural identity.

In this era of cultural scarcity and illiteracy, Alan had no way to educate them about cultural identity. Then one of the easiest ways to increase centripetal force is the cult of personality! So in the army, Allen's personality cult was thoroughly implemented. We will ******** all the decisions Allen makes, and we will unswervingly follow all Allen's instructions.

In this way, Allen's authority was established in the army, and an elite army with Allen as the core was built.

And Alexander, as a fanatic fan of Allen, coupled with his outstanding performance, was selected by Allen as the commander of the Assis Phalanx Legion.

After receiving Ellen's message, Alexander shouted: "Soldiers, hold your chests, Lord Duke is watching us." It's time to serve the Duke! Let the Duke see our courage and strength! For glory! For Ouranos!"

"For glory! For Ouranos!" With Alexander's roar, a thousand phalanx infantry immediately roared, like the clear song of a young phoenix, although it was not loud, but it penetrated people's hearts. Alan looked at this scene and couldn't help but have some tears in his eyes, he didn't know what was wrong, maybe it was a touch between men.

Gavin's cavalry sorted, and a thousand heavy cavalry split into two waves like a textbook, the first wave of five hundred cavalry quickly accelerated after just stepping into the range of Allen's bow and arrows. Fifty meters! This is the best distance for a cavalry charge, and fifty meters is nothing more than a rain of arrows for an archer.

Ding-ding-dong, the sound of a bow and arrow striking on the armor and then being bounced off the armor. Five hundred knights braved the rain of arrows and slammed straight into the thousand phalanx infantry.

Alexander looked at the heavy cavalry who were getting closer and closer, and shouted, "Prepare to engage the enemy!"

Hearing Alexander's order, the soldiers in the first row half-squatted down, erected the round shields in their hands, and leaned closer to their comrades. The six-meter-long Macedonian spear in his hand plunged the back end into the earth, and the warriors behind him held the spears on the backs of the first row of soldiers, each leaning on each other. Because they know that only the comrades-in-arms around them can be relied on now, and only by maintaining the formation can they have a glimmer of life.

In the blink of an eye, the five hundred heavy cavalry crashed into the Assis phalanx infantry, but the three-meter-long knight's spear was only half the size of the Macedonian spear, and it could not reach the shields of the first row of soldiers. The only thing the knights can do is to use their bodies to smash a gap for those behind them.

The strength of hundreds of kilograms forced the knight and the war horse to wear on the spear together, and the phalanx warrior holding the spear could not resist the force of that moment, only heard the sound of a broken bone, and the hand holding the spear was either broken or violently rubbed away the flesh on the hand.

People borrowed horsepower, horses helped manpower, and the powerful strength of the knights forced the phalanx soldiers to retreat again and again. Just when the soldiers in the rear wanted to step forward to fill their positions, the second wave of 500 heavy cavalry had already arrived. In the face of an array that was no longer neat, the second charge was much better.

Because the first wave of heavy cavalry directly knocked out the phalanx, causing the phalanx to no longer be a monolith, but a wavy front, and there were weak defensive points, so this second wave of charges directly added a force to those weak points and broke the hole.

Wow! Alan seemed to hear the sound of trees falling. The first and second columns of the 1,000-strong Essis phalanx corps collapsed directly, and could only barely maintain a weak line of defense with the fighters of the last three columns.

We can't let the array be destroyed, and we can't let the phalanx retreat! Alan nervously grasped the hilt of the knight's sword at his waist, and quickly ordered two additional heavy Mao soldiers to support the front line, and at the same time replace the faintly retreating Isis phalanx infantry.

Alexander survived under the charge of two waves of cavalry. One of Gavin's horsemen slammed his spear through his shield and hit him with his shield, but Alexander was not trampled to death by his horse.

Getting up from the ground, he did not feel that his right hand was badly deformed, and all his attention was on the battlefield. "Hold on! Don't mess around! Maintain the front!" His roar was like a beacon on the battlefield. The soldiers, who were frightened by the tsunami charge of the cavalry, reacted quickly, reorganized the battle line again, and slowly relied on the advantage of the length of the spears to stab the knights of Jiawen off their horses, and little by little they were pushed back by the rushing battle line.

I didn't expect the heavy cavalry charge to be so powerful, and Allen's strength for the heavy cavalry charge was once again raised to a higher level. I thought that relying on the strength of the Macedonian phalanx would be able to restrain the performance of the heavy cavalry, but I didn't expect the heavy cavalry to be such an unreasonable army. You can say it's harsh to use, it's too expensive to maintain, or it's a one-off class.

However, no one dares to doubt the absolute lethality and destructive power!