"Bang"

The two armies slammed into each other.

The sounds of fighting and screams mingled together, and blood rushed out and sprinkled on the white ground, as if they were working together to complete a red-dominated ink splash painting.

As soon as the two sides fought, the peasant soldiers of the Hunter family suppressed each other fiercely in momentum, they were fierce and aggressive, and they wanted to gain battle merits on the battlefield like a pack of hungry red-eyed wild dogs who found meat and bones, and everyone dared to pounce on them.

In the face of this group of Hunter peasant soldiers who did not have ordinary peasant soldiers at all and were afraid of war, some of the Will peasant soldiers soon retreated.

The would-be knights of the Will family supervised the battle and killed several people one after another before they stabilized their position.

The people of the Will family will not watch the peasants collapse without watching it.

The quasi-knights of the Will family tore apart the front line of the Hunter family with their personal guards, and the quasi-knights who took the lead even used the giant sword in their hands to cut the peasant soldiers of the Hunter family who were blocking in front of him into two with the spears in their hands, and the momentum of the peasant soldiers of the Hunter family was stagnant.

The would-be knights of the Will family may not be good commanders, but they are definitely qualified junior officers. They bravely fought and charged forward, and they stubbornly stopped the decline of the Will family.

Under the leadership of this group of quasi-knights, the peasant soldiers of the Will family finally recovered some courage and did not flee. The whole fight entered a white-hot state, and there was a situation of evenly matched.

"Kill"

After killing another peasant soldier of the Hunt family, the would-be knight of the Will family, who was charging forward, felt very uncomfortable, and the current situation was different from before, which made him very unaccustomed and even a little uneasy.

According to his idea, when these quasi-knights entered the battle with their personal guards, these peasant soldiers would soon lose their courage to retreat, and if the other side did not have a considerable number of quasi-knights to come out to stop them, the next battle would become a simple pursuit.

But this time, the surrounding peasant soldiers did not retreat as he imagined, leaving their backs to him, but firmly held on to the posture that they were still faintly about to encircle and attack him, and their will to fight was much stronger than he imagined.

All this is also due to Richard's management style, in Richard's view, to maintain the combat effectiveness of an army is nothing more than three words: "induce it to benefit, understand it to reason, and punish it together." ”

The so-called lure to profit is the opportunity for military merit to replace land and rise, so as to stimulate soldiers' enthusiasm for war and fight bravely to be the first.

Richard copied the way of the Hunan army here, trying to organize the villagers, fathers, sons and brothers in the same team so that they would have ties with each other, and would not easily abandon their comrades-in-arms, supplemented by loyalty education and ideological propaganda to defend the township, so as to stabilize the will to fight, even if it was out of headwinds, they would not easily escape.

In the end, the deserters were not only executed on the spot, but also affected their families afterwards, and even worse, Richard also stipulated that if there were more than a certain number of deserters in a certain village, then the entire village would be punished with a punitive tax increase in the following year.

In this way, even if these peasant soldiers have been extinguished by the brutal war and their enthusiasm has been discouraged, they will not dare to flee because of the fear of harsh military law.

Therefore, even if there was an explosive picture of the quasi-knights of the Will family directly cutting people in half, it could not scare off the peasant soldiers of the Hunter family, and the city guards with stronger combat effectiveness rose to the top in time, and the whole battle fell into a stalemate.

Richard couldn't help frowning a little as he looked at the situation in front of him, and he was obviously a little dissatisfied with the stalemate in the battle in front of him.

Still underestimating the Will family, Richard thought.

In Richard's view, the peasant soldiers he built up were not weaker than the regular professional soldiers in terms of fighting will and discipline, except for their inferior equipment and training, and the peasant soldiers on the other side should not have the ability to resist at all.

But the would-be knights of the Will family taught Richard a lesson with their martial prowess. These professional samurai, who are four or five times stronger than ordinary people, are wearing heavy iron armor and holding heavy weapons, and any of them are famous generals on the ancient battlefield in their previous lives, and they can definitely be called battlefield meat grinders. Like this, more than a dozen appeared on the battlefield at the same time, and the peasants and soldiers of the Hunter family were not directly defeated, which can be regarded as Richard's good management of the army.

It's no wonder that the lords of this world don't seem to care much about ordinary soldiers, to some extent, personal bravery is indeed much more important than the ancient battlefields of previous lives, not to mention the existence of even more terrifying knights above these quasi-knights.

If you can configure more quasi-knights in the team, Richard naturally doesn't want a group of ordinary soldiers to resist the quasi-knights on the opposite side, but it's a pity that the background of the Will family is indeed stronger than that of the Hunter family, ordinary elite soldiers can be trained in a few years, but the quasi-knights have no way to mass produce in a short time, counting the three system swordsmen, in addition to the two uncles and two cousins on Richard's side, there are also two quasi-knights who have been trained in recent years, and there are no more than ten in total.

And the Will family has more than 20 quasi-knights with the surname Will alone, plus the retainers and personal guards accumulated over several generations, the Will family has nearly thirty quasi-knights, even if Viscount Will sent nearly ten quasi-knights to charge with the personal guards, there are still twenty quasi-knights who stay with Viscount Will and wait for the opportunity, it is no wonder that the Will family has enough confidence to start a war.

The system's spearmen continued to protect the archers and unleashed cold arrows, and the archers of the system were as accurate as if they were hanging, and it was not obvious when they fired a volley in the opening battle, and when it came to the melee, they could still accurately attack the enemy and cause trouble for the opposing horsemen's would-be knights.

In addition to Richard's dissatisfaction with the current battlefield situation, Viscount Will was even more dissatisfied.

In Viscount Will's opinion, his side already has a numerical advantage, and as soon as the quasi-knights press into battle, not to mention the destruction of decay, they should also take advantage of it, instead of forming a balance of power like this.

"Harness, pilot."

The cavalry on both sides did not find a chance to break through after cruising and probing, and finally tacitly returned to their own formations.

There is a shortage of horses in the Northland, or the horses in the Northland are concentrated in the hands of the Marquis of the Northland, and the Will family can finally have hundreds of horses by relying on generations of business, while Richard has scraped together some horses by means of buying them at a high price, and has also pulled up nearly a hundred cavalry.

The cavalry of both sides gathered around their respective commanders, staring at each other in silence from a distance of several hundred paces, and suddenly they both raised their blades and burst out into a huge shout.

No matter what kind of calculation was made in the early stage, the key to victory or defeat in this battle finally fell on the knights.

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