Compared with the 10,000 axe-throwing cavalry of the Franks, the 3,000 archers of the Hu Empire were indeed much smaller in number, but each of these 3,000 archers had two horses, and the size of the war horses was tall and long, and the gap between the horses was large, so the area occupied by these 3,000 archers was much larger than that of 10,000 axe-throwers.

This cavalry archers swept over the world, and the momentum created was not at all comparable to that of 10,000 infantry, and the Frankish axe-throwing soldiers standing on the ground saw the archers in the distance, as if they saw a large dark cloud surging towards them, accompanied by a thunderous roar.

All the Frankish axe-throwers were timid, they could not keep their composure in the face of this great momentum, so after Cyldrik gave the order to assemble and fend off the enemy, the 10,000 axe-throwers could not complete the assembly, and the whole march road, the Frankish axe-throwers were in disarray, because of the panic, but the soldiers never had a chance to stand up, and were instantly overwhelmed by countless feet.

The cavalry archers were lightly equipped, the horses had more strength for galloping, the gallop was faster, and the last longer, these three thousand cavalry archers arrived in an instant, and the axe-throwers under the command of Hilldrick, some of them began to form a phalanx facing the rushing archers, but most of them were still looking for their own hundred-man team on the road.

As the archers got closer and closer, the troops of the three long platoons began to converge into more than a dozen formations in the high-speed march, gradually showing signs of a cone formation, which made Cyldrik even more sure that the opponent was going to use a cone formation to assault the charge this time, but he soon found out that he was wrong. And it couldn't be more wrong.

"Bow up, wind, shoot-" The commander of the cavalry who rushed to the front personally led the team. This was a rare opportunity for the tactics of archers to be used in actual combat, how could he give up lightly and command in the rear?

The first few rows of archers opened their bows and fired arrows under the command of the regimental commander, and each cavalry archer only fired three rounds, and the commander of the archers shouted: "Points-"

The shout came, and the archers' cavalry troops, which had originally formed a cone-shaped formation, suddenly split into two from the middle of the longitudinal position, and were more than a hundred meters away from the Frankish axe-throwers at the front, at this distance. The Frankish axe-throwers couldn't throw their axes at all, and before they could react, an overwhelming barrage of arrows rained down from the sky. Wave after wave, patches of Frankish axe-throwers fell with arrows.

The archers, who had split into two groups, did not turn back, but began to gallop sideways to form a parallel formation with the Frankish axe-throwers, more than a hundred meters apart. They didn't stop shooting. Instead, they kept their distance from the Frankish axe-throwers and shot arrows at the same time, and most of the Frankish axe-throwers were still messing around on the road, and the long line had not changed at all, but became more and more chaotic, except that many of them fled to the Rhône because of timidity.

Now the 10,000 axe-throwers began to be attacked by the archers, suffering heavy casualties. The casualties were rising by ten every second, and the heavy casualties made Cheldrick unusually angry. He knew that he had miscalculated the opponent's attack silk just now, but he didn't expect that the opponent was mainly bows and arrows, and after archery, he didn't attack in close quarters, but divided into two parts to keep the axe-throwers on a parallel line with his own long axe-throwers and continued to gallop and shoot arrows, and his 10,000-strong axe-throwers became a live target for the archers. With the heavy cavalry on his side and the Rhône behind him, there is nowhere to run, and it is impossible for the infantry to run past the cavalry, and now it is not possible to issue an order to the 10,000 heavy cavalry on his side to come to the rescue, and the heavy cavalry is also suffering the same dangerous fate, the three thousand heavy armored iron cavalry of the Hu Empire have found them, and they are taking care of themselves.

For Hildrick, the only way now is to withstand the casualties and risk death to approach the archers, and then throw deadly axes in order to kill and injure the archers of the Hu Empire in large numbers, he immediately issued an order, but now his army is in chaos, there is a problem with the transmission of orders, and his order was not conveyed until a few minutes later, and at this time the archers of the Hu Empire have been fully drawn into a straight line, a straight line parallel to the axe-throwers, in this short time, the archers of the Laker Empire did not have a single casualty, But half of Hildrick's 10,000 archers had already been killed or wounded.

When the commander of the Archers saw that the Frankish axe-throwers were beginning to run at high speed towards their side, attempting to approach and then engage in close combat, he immediately conveyed the order to all of them to retreat, shooting arrows as they retreated.

It was too easy for the long-trained archers to turn ninety degrees, and in two seconds they had turned ninety degrees and began to turn around and shoot arrows at the galloping Frankish axemen.

The Frankish axe-throwers really became a bitter force, previously they could only watch the rushing enemy archers shoot arrows at them because the axe throwing distance was not enough, after suffering a large number of casualties, now they have to brave the enemy's waves of bows and arrows to chase and kill, the enemy has horses, has four legs, they only have two, how to catch up with people?

After the archers ran out of a certain distance, they all stopped and shot a few arrows in a row, and when the axe-throwers approached the throwing distance, they ran out of a distance again and shot a few more arrows, and so on, and the pursuing axe-throwers became fewer and fewer, and Cyldrik saw that this could not catch up at all, and so many people died, so they simply did not chase, and many axe-throwers did not wait for his order to throw the axe and run, this kind of battle could not be fought at all, could not hit the enemy, only the share of being beaten by the enemy, how could this be fought? The Frankish axe-throwers, who had always been fearless of death, were frightened, and they fled everywhere, but the archers of the Hu Empire would not watch them flee, and the archers turned around again and pursued them.

Under the leadership and command of the regiment commander, they played and used the tactics of the archers to the extreme, three or five archers and cavalry could encircle and kill a group of Frankish axe-throwers, on this riverside plain, everywhere there were scenes of archers chasing and killing infantry, the archers kept their own combat principles, and never fought with the enemy in close quarters unless they had to, not that their close-quarters combat ability was not strong, but that they could maximize the combat lethality when they distanced themselves from the enemy. When the arrows in the quiver are finished or the bow is broken and the battle is not over, the archers will choose to draw their sabers and fight the enemy in close combat.

Cyldrik saw that the 10,000 axe-throwers on his side did not survive the opponent's attack for half an hour and collapsed on their own, after suffering such a huge blow and fright, he also fled to the north under the escort of the guards, the 10,000 heavy cavalry was no longer able to be counted on, and now the 10,000 heavy cavalry could not protect themselves, and the 3,000 heavy armored iron cavalry of the Hu Empire killed before they could react, and crushed the 10,000 heavy cavalry that had not had time to assemble with an unrivaled force, They easily smashed the 10,000 Frankish heavy cavalry, which had been dragged for several miles.

After the three thousand heavily armored iron cavalry of the Hu Empire rushed over, the battlefield left the neighing of countless Frankish horses and the Frankish cavalry that had been seriously injured but had not yet lost their breath.

The remaining Frankish heavy cavalry really did not have the courage to fight anymore, and when the heavy cavalry of the Hu Empire had just turned around and had not yet launched another charge, the remaining Frankish heavy cavalry jumped down from their horses and knelt down to beg for surrender.

The Saxons and Sarmatians at the rear, together with ten thousand infantry, were attacked by two thousand crossbow cavalry at about the same time, for the crossbow cavalry, the denser the enemy's formation, the greater the damage caused by the crossbow arrows they fired, so they were not in a hurry to attack, they were in a hurry to ride back and forth in front of those ten thousand infantry, and the whole battlefield was trampled to dust by the flying hooves of their horses, and in less than a quarter of an hour, The entire southern part of the battlefield was shrouded in dust.

The Saxons and Sarmatians, shrouded in dust, numbered 10,000 men, fearing an attack because they could not see anything, gathered together at the shouts of their chieftains, densely packed like ants.

At this moment, there was a "buzz", and then from the sky came the sound of sharp arrows piercing the air, and countless "whoosh" sounds sounded, and those who gathered together before they had time to erect were shot into hedgehogs, and only those soldiers with rich combat experience heard the sound of arrows from the sound just now, and promptly used a small wooden round shield to protect the vital position.

The arrows falling from the sky were like a storm falling from the sky, impenetrable and continuous, even if the barbarian soldiers who reacted in time were protecting the key position, but the rest of the body was still shot by the arrow, and the Saxon and Sarmatian barbarians fell in the war.

In a few minutes, the Sarmatians and Saxons felt as if a century had passed, and when the sky stopped shooting arrows, they realized that there were not many people left alive, and just as they were about to rejoice that they had survived the terrible blows of their bows and arrows, they realized that they had been very wrong, for from their sides came the sound of a large number of neat and heavy horses' hooves, and the ground shook very violently.

The queen of Sarmatia and the leader of the Saxons knew that it was bad when they heard this voice, and the only thought in their hearts was to run, run immediately, run as far as they could, and the three thousand heavy armored iron cavalry of the Hu Empire once again aimed the spearhead of the charge at the five thousand Saxons and five thousand Sarmatians behind after crushing the 10,000 unsuspecting heavy cavalry of the Franks, and any phalanx was vulnerable in front of this heavy armored iron horse, and they were like a torrent of steel, which swept away the remaining Sarmatians and Saxons like a bamboo, leaving countless corpses and stumps and severed arms on the battlefield. (To be continued......)