Chapter Thirty-Four: The Heavy Knight's Death Charge!
The sound of the trumpets died down and was replaced by a slow, rhythmic beating of the drums. The two-seater moving forest marched to the beat of the drum, like a starting heavy train.
Faster and faster, faster and faster!
It's not just the drums that are getting faster, but the knights are getting faster!
It's here! It's time for you! The charging knights had already sensed the limit of the war horse, and the cavalry spear that they were originally holding was slowly put down, and the knights used the rushing force of the war horse to maintain the balance of the heavy cavalry spear with the head of the spear facing forward.
The sound of horses' hooves on the battlefield is not as messy as imagined, and trained war horses, like humans, will closely cooperate with humans and act in unity. There won't be a horse ahead, and there's no horse behind. Thousands of people leaned on each other closely, just waiting for the scene of contact.
Finally, the knights on both sides slammed together in the center of the battlefield like two unstoppable torrents.
In an instant, the thick cavalry spear stabbed into the horse's chest like a sharp kitchen knife inserted into the tofu. That's right, compared to the shorter, more agile knight, it is undoubtedly a more effective way to attack by dealing with the opponent's mount first and making the opponent's heavy armor a burden to the opponent.
So the knights at the forefront of the array, with that absolute impact force, slammed into each other fiercely. Just one sprint, dozens of lives were taken on the battlefield. If the absolute impact force was directly on the knight's body, even if it was protected by strict armor, it would only be the price of a comminuted fracture of the whole body.
Some unlucky knights were directly stabbed by the cavalry spear, and the plate chain composite armor could not reach the powerful penetrating power, and was torn in half in an instant. And the remaining upper body is separated so quickly that people can even see their lower body hanging from the saddle.
The fierce fighting did not stop after the charge, and the remaining knights threw away their broken cavalry spears and drew their knightly swords. Crazy slashing and slashing all the enemies around him.
The soldiers on both sides were also stimulated by the fierce battle, their eyes turned red, and their mouths involuntarily let out bursts of roars. In the end, these roars seemed to be contagious, and tens of thousands of people shouted together! Some soldiers even tapped their shields fiercely, adding a layer of momentum to the magnificent symphony.
The knights in the center of the battlefield had already been completely engaged in the fight at this time, and they were not aware of anything outside the battlefield. After abandoning the cavalry, Charles II's knights, who wielded knightly swords, immediately showed their superiority in swordsmanship, both on horseback and in foot combat.
Often in the process of fighting each other, Charles II's knights can dodge the sword of King Paul's knight with their swordsmanship, and then accurately pierce the opponent's body through the gap in the armor of King Paul's knight. After an initial exchange of casualties between the two sides, Charles II's knights gradually gained the upper hand.
King Paul is naturally accustomed to this situation, the swordsmanship of the knights of the Kingdom of Ammuxi is famous in the mainland, but another Achilles' heel of the other party is the serious lack of horses!
Seeing that the battlefield was turning in favor of Charles II, King Paul ordered a second heavy cavalry to charge. Another thousand heavy cavalry swarmed out of King Paul's army and headed straight for the central battlefield.
Charles II had long understood the movements of his old opponent, and he left to send 3,000 heavily armed troops to support the central battlefield, and at the same time informed Allen on the left and al-Bashir on the right to march at the same time, forming a situation in a trap.
Dense dispatches were rapidly transmitted as the heralds ran back and forth.
As soon as Alan received the order from Charles II, he knew what he meant, and it seems that Charles II wanted to take advantage of the advantage of the middle lane and break through the middle lane. However, it was really that easy, and King Paul's 2,000 heavy cavalry was not so easy to solve.
No matter what Alan thinks, he can only act on the orders of Charles II now.
"Order, the whole army marches!"
Unlike the attack, Allen's troops maintained the battle line and moved forward little by little, although slowly, but perfectly able to maintain the moving array.
King Paul's actions made King Paul see it, and King Paul naturally understood Charles II's plans. The competition on the battlefield is the yang conspiracy, and the strength determines the final victory or defeat, and few conspiracies can play a role on the battlefield.
Therefore, after understanding Charles II's intentions, King Paul ordered both flanks to attack at the same time.
Once again, the horns of the two sides converge on the battlefield, but this time no one cares, because what awaits them is the coming battle, the choice of survival and death.
What followed was the most tragic and the most central, heavy infantry competition.
The battle on the central battlefield seemed to have reached a tacit understanding between the two sides, and no one cared about him. On the contrary, the fiercest engagements broke out on both flanks.
Alan was in no mood to pay attention to Charles II's battlefield at the moment. Alan had to face an army of 20,000 led by the Duke of Lorraine and Prince Gavin.
The reputation of the eldest prince Jiawen Alan has heard it many times. As the first prince born in King Paul's thirties, he naturally had high hopes for King Paul. He joined the army at the age of thirteen and stayed in the army for more than 20 years, helping King Paul to fight in the north and south many times, quelling many noble rebellions, especially resisting the southern invasion of the Pamalat Kingdom, and spreading Jiawen's prestige to the entire continent.
And this time, in order to deal with the invasion of Charles II, Gavin II specially led his descendant troops, the Northland Garrison, to the south.
Don't listen to the name, but the military achievements are brilliant, and it is a feared army in the northland of the Moslian Empire. It can be said that compared to Allen's copycat army, it is also not weak. Coupled with the defeat of the Duke of Lorraine, the army of 20,000 people is not the army of serfs mixed with water.
In the face of Allen's 1,000 hedgehog-like phalanx infantry legions, Gavin decisively gave up his plan to let the heavy cavalry charge. He decided to use up the serfs on his hands to drain the other party's strength.
Sure enough, Alan saw that Duo Jiawen sent more than 2,000 serfs at once, or loosely rushed towards Allen's phalanx infantry, and he knew how lacking Jiawen's tactics were.
This era was the era of heavy cavalry as the core, but since the heavy cavalry has moved slowly, and the battle has not lasted long, so the large-scale weapons of destruction on these battlefields can only be used once or twice. Or that if their charge does not work, then only death awaits them.
In this case, it is useless to encircle and attack, long-distance attack, and there is only one method of heavy cavalry, that is, charge, charge, and charge! Until tearing through the opponent's defenses! Destroy all the preparations of your opponents!
Therefore, in the face of Allen's spear hedgehog array, Jiawen did not launch a heavy cavalry charge at once, after all, not only would he not be sure to break through Allen's defense, but the casualties were too great.
The two thousand conscripted serfs, driven by the knight lord behind them, could only desperately crash into Allen's hedgehog array. Even they knew that nothing would do anything but make the enemy exert a little more effort. But these pathetic serfs have long been accustomed to the orders of the nobles, and their numb hearts have long been dominated by the nobles, even if they are told to die, they do not dare to raise the slightest sense of resistance.
So, the two thousand conscripted serfs passed through the rain of arrows from the archers and slammed into Allen's phalanx. The six-meter-long special spear was longer than an ordinary four-meter spear, and these serfs could not even touch the shields of the phalanx infantry, not to mention the strength of the phalanx infantry.
Allen's phalanx infantry didn't need to aim at all, they just needed to simply stab and stab forward. Basically, the onslaught of these two thousand conscripted serfs could not have any effect in the face of such a solid defense.
Such a result was expected by Allen, but it exceeded Jiawen's expectations. With Jiawen's years of war experience, no phalanx can achieve such an efficient defense as Allen's phalanx. Although the Empire's heavily armed soldiers have also undergone rigorous training, it is absolutely impossible to be uniform and turn themselves into a part of the group.
No matter how Alan built such an army, it was undoubtedly impossible to rely on the conscription of serfs to consume the opponent's physical strength. Since you can't fight a war of attrition, you can only harden it.
Garvin was tall and dressed in pale gold armor that dazzled in the crowd. I saw Jiawen's eyes narrowed and his expression was solemn, and those who were familiar with Jiawen knew that this meant that Jiawen had moved to kill.