July 188 of the Holy Light Calendar

Alan led 2,000 regular troops and more than 2,000 conscripted peasants to march officially to the city of Tulga, where Count Andrew was located.

Count Andrew of Turga was living his extravagant aristocratic life until a letter came from his squire.

It's Allen's letter again, okay, let's see if he's coming to me. Earl Andrew thought so in his heart, but as soon as he opened the letter, a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out.

At the beginning, there is a sentence of Andrew old dog, sir, I came to take your dog's head, wash your neck and wait. As for the following, there are a lot of flowery rhetoric greeting Andrew's family, Alan is embarrassed to scold his ancestors, after all, he scolds himself accidentally, but there are a lot of personal attacks on Andrew. Anyway, it reads out a lot of beeps -- plus a lot of beeps.

Andrew was so angry that he tore the letter to shreds and said angrily: "Alan Ouranos, I want your life!"

Alan sighed as he looked at the mess that followed behind the group.

The armies of this era were like this, and every battle was followed by a group of merchants, whose camps in turn attracted prostitutes, thieves, jugglers or bards.

Therefore, many armies will be followed by a large group of people, which seriously affects the discipline and concealment of the army.

However, nowadays wars are all about knightly demeanor, and the time and place must be determined before the war, and the two sides have made an appointment, and then start fighting at the same time. At the same time, these merchants would carry food and wine, which would reduce the pressure on logistical supplies, and the loot that the soldiers received on the battlefield could be quickly exchanged for money that could be easily carried. And prostitutes can give a little comfort and an outpouring of stress to those who are about to be crushed by the pressure of war and death.

It is based on these points that Alan did not stop so many people from following, on the other hand, even if he stopped it, he couldn't stop it, this time he drove them away, and next time he will secretly follow.

It had been four days since the departure, and as soon as he had set foot in the territory of Tulga, Count Andrew sent a letter of war, and the two sides agreed to fight a decisive battle on the outskirts of Tulga tomorrow morning.

Alan didn't say yes right away, he personally led the scout cavalry boy to carefully observe the place. The location was on a large field of farmland on the outskirts of the city of Tulga, which, since it was uncultivated, and because of the dry summer weather and the absence of rain for several days, the land was solid and suitable for cavalry charges.

"Fighting on the plains, well, am I still afraid of you?" Alan muttered to himself. Immediately agreed to Andrew's appointment.

Early the next morning, Alan ordered the soldiers to have a full meal, and then led the army to the outskirts of Tulga, this time the merchants did not follow, they may have smelled the smell of war, and honestly stayed where they were, whether it was Allen's victory or Andrew's victory, they could make money, why bother to wade into troubled waters.

With the armies of both sides assembled face to face, Alan placed the heavy spearmen on the first line, the crossbowmen on the second line, and the two hundred heavily armed hammermen on the third line. Alan and Guy led the General's Guard to the Central Army. Three hundred scout cavalry stood on both flanks. As for the conscription of peasant soldiers, Alan was put at the rear, and these artillery fires that could only fight a tailwind battle, Allen didn't want them to cause trouble at all.

Andrew's troops on the opposite side were probably about five or six thousand, more than a thousand more than Allen's troops. However, Alan is not worried, because Allen is a regular army composed of professional soldiers, and the other party's conscripted peasant soldiers account for six or seven percent. In fact, the combat effectiveness of the army, Allen considered himself superior.

As for the detailed lineup, due to the distance between the two sides, Alan can't see the specific class team.

Alan rubbed his sour eyes, and decided to get a telescope as soon as he went back. I actually forgot about this thing, and I was really used to the life of a barbarian. Alan laughed to himself.

With a dense beat of drums, Andrew's cavalry moved.

This group of noble knights, feudal knights, mercenary knights, knight squires, knight apprentices, and knight apprentices, as long as there were horses and equipped cavalry, the heavy cavalry team of five hundred people directly collided with Allen.

Allen didn't expect the other party's style of play at all, it turned out to be a reckless wave, but a wave of natural power has a wave of power, and the heavy cavalry, as the core of this era, naturally has its natural advantages, and the powerful impact and lethality can solve the enemy's front row of soldiers in an instant, no matter how much armor they have, they can't escape this fate.

While killing and wounding the enemy, it also played a role in destroying the opponent's formation, and after a large number of heavy cavalry charged, no infantry could stand down in a dignified manner.

It can be said that the heavy cavalry of this era is equivalent to tanks, do you want to be a tank cluster charge, what do you use to resist? Unless you also hedge with your own heavy cavalry, causing a heavy cavalry encounter.

Seeing that the opposing heavy cavalry was charging, Alan didn't think about immediately ordering the crossbowmen to use armor-piercing crossbow arrows, these armor-piercing crossbow arrows were carefully prepared by Allen to fight against the heavy cavalry, because Alan knew that the power of the bow and arrows was too small, this was not the legendary English longbow, the crossbowmen were not English longbowmen, and there was no mud pond in the place of battle to stop the French knights' charge.

All Alan had was a normal archer and a normal bow. It is impossible to kill heavy cavalry with such a bow, unless the arrow is shot into the gap of the helmet or the eye of the horse by faith. However, as a materialist, Allen only believes in science, so naturally he has no interest in this kind of luck.

Just as Andrew's heavy cavalry had made their final charge, and were only thirty or forty meters away from Allen's heavy spearmen, the crossbowmen had already loaded their crossbows.

At Guy's command, five hundred crossbow arrows whizzed out, and under the reverse bonus of Andrew's heavy cavalry speed, they directly penetrated the plate chain composite armor and pierced the flesh. Some of them didn't hit people, but they shot straight on the horse, but the strong muscles of the war horse were not as hard as the knight's armor, and they immediately penetrated the body of the war horse.

In an instant, the people in the first row of the five hundred heavy cavalry were shot and fell from their horses, and this round of shooting directly reimbursed more than fifty cavalrymen on the other side. But the results can only stop there.

The next moment the remaining cavalry slapped at Allen's heavily armed spearmen like a flood. Also in an instant, dozens of heavily armed spearmen were directly knocked out and flew more than three meters high, and by the time they landed, they had already had comminuted fractures of the bones of their bodies, only the air came out but not the air intake.

However, the knight on the opposite side was not comfortable, the strong inertia made them crash into the spear, even if it was a plate chain composite armor, it could not block the sharp spearhead, and it was directly worn on the spear, and occasionally there were individual lucky and experienced people who could adjust their bodies in time, so that the tip of the spear crossed the armor without piercing the armor.

Then the cavalry in the back row poured up like a tide, and the powerful thrust crushed the line of heavily armed spearmen, and as soon as the line collapsed, those lone spearmen were no match for the knights at all.

Andrew, on the other side, saw that the five hundred heavy cavalry of his family had broken Allen's line, and he couldn't help but smile at Allen: "This kid is also capable of this, see Lao Tzu catch you and don't cut off your head!" Under the intense excitement, he immediately ordered the whole army to surprise and prepare for a battle. So the remaining 1,000 heavily armed spearmen and 3,000 peasant soldiers rushed towards Allen.

Allen, of course, did not allow Andrew's cavalry to wreak havoc in his own line, and immediately ordered a reserve of 200 spearmen and a 200-strong hammer soldier to be put on top.

Seeing Andrew's whole army rushing up with a hula cheer, he was not surprised, if Andrew and himself exchanged troops, Alan really couldn't help it, now Andrew thought he was sure of victory and ordered the whole army to raid regardless of the formation, originally a thousand heavily armed spearmen were still a threat to Allen, but now they are like being hit by heavy cavalry, mixed with the peasant soldiers, what formation, queue is not at all.

Allen immediately made a decision and ordered Guy to lead his general guards to flank the enemy's heavy cavalry, while he himself led two hundred general guards around the center of the melee battlefield and directly charged Andrew's infantry, while directing the light cavalry to attack the opponent's flank.

Allen's two hundred generals' guards were like knives cutting cream, ploughing the peasants in stragglers, leaving a blank space wherever they passed. Even Andrew's heavily armed spearmen couldn't stop him. Coupled with the impact of two hundred light cavalry on the flank, this miscellaneous army of more than 4,000 people could not hold out at once.