Chapter 120: Battle One (Fourth Reward)
Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info But the belligerent Bavarians were itching to cut people, and then they heard about the benefits of the Crusaders, and what fat sheep the Seris were!
The Bavarian aristocracy felt that it was not enough for the belligerent reputation to spread throughout the Frankish and German kingdoms, so they thought of taking this opportunity to follow the wave of the crusades and spread the warlike prestige of the Bavarians to the Greek peninsula, which they had never heard of!
What's more, there are also the random robberies and forcible orders promised by the church!
So, the Bavarian nobles, despite the long distance, directly drew out some troops and joined the crusading expedition!
The logistical rations of the Church were also drastically reduced, without which the Church would not have agreed to the participation of the Bavarians......
Such belligerent Bavarians naturally came up with a lot of real materials, such as the archers who were recruited by the crusaders and were reluctant to take out the archers in their arms, which directly accounted for more than half of the Bavarian army!
The Bavarian aristocracy felt that their army must be weak in front of the Franks, and if they wanted to gain advantage in the war and promote their reputation, they naturally had to occupy a good position in the crusaders, and at least show the importance of the Bavarian army!
In this way, the Bavarian aristocracy was keenly aware of the dirty ideas of the nobles everywhere to preserve their strength, and for the powerful and warlike Bavarian nobles, they did not have to worry about the neighbors around them daring to make a move, and the warlike reputation was not blown out, but fought!
Naturally, the Bavarian aristocracy took out a large number of archers, and did not have to worry about the problem of being coveted by their neighbors if their strength declined!
As a result, the Bavarians became the most frequently dispatched part of the crusader army, and even the high priest of Alibach attracted attention!
This undoubtedly fueled the belligerent vanity of the Bavarians, which was valued by the Crusader Commander, the powerful High Priest of the Church of the Lord of Radiance.
Therefore, the Bavarians, who are full of war spirit, are constantly ahead of the march of the Crusaders, eager to be the first to reach the enemy-occupied area, to make a good start, and to promote the bravery of the Bavarians!
Then, the Bavarians were too far in front of the troops, and they became the target of Lei Zihao's desire to weaken the strength of the Crusaders!
The Bavarians have been fighting against the Franks for generations, full of distrust of the Frankish allies in the Crusaders, and self-righteously thinking that they are strong, wanting to make a difference, and gradually separating themselves from the mainstream of the Crusaders!
Lei Zihao planned to defend the city, but after he learned the news of the various scattered movements of the Crusader army, he couldn't suppress this careful thought!
You must know that Lei Zihao has an elite who is strong and can quickly raid, and a thousand lancers!
So, a thousand elite Wei warriors with foot crossbows and a thousand fast troops of lancers advanced towards the Bavarians who broke ahead!
In order to reduce the weight as much as possible and increase the marching speed and endurance, the elite of Wei Wushu, except for the iron sword used in melee combat and the long-range pedal crossbow and crossbow arrow, all the heavy armor and shield long weapons were left in the city of Megala!
In this way, the elite of Wei Wushu can barely keep up with the ordinary marching speed of the lancers!
The two thousand men chose a raised hill area to ambush, and as the Bavarians strode forward, Wei Wushu's elite foot crossbows were aimed at the somewhat stunned Bavarian soldiers!
The brave and warlike Bavarians, accustomed to fighting warriors and soldiers, walked in front to show the dignity of their status, and the temporary levies who had no desire to fight followed behind, responsible for pushing carts full of supplies and carrying marching food and grass!
As a result, the Bavarian warriors who were walking in front were suddenly exposed to the elite crossbow arrows of Wei Wushu!
A salvo of thousands of foot crossbows was an absolute nightmare for the Bavarian warriors!
These Bavarian warriors, armed with oval shields and broad-backed machetes, even though they were wearing expensive chain mail, looked extra pale in the face of the armor-piercing arrows of crossbow arrows!
When these Bavarian warriors were suddenly attacked, they lived up to their belligerent reputation, roared and rushed forward with their shields raised!
The archers in the back also rushed forward with the hand-to-hand soldiers in front, because the range of the archers could not hook the elite of Wei Wushu who was holding a foot crossbow!
The projectile can't be hooked either!
Compared with the pedal crossbow and the hand crossbow, they are simply two extremes!
The hand crossbow is designed to be a convenient close-range shooting weapon, while the foot crossbow is a weapon that takes all the mechanical pull to the extreme, and is specially used for long-range armor piercing!
Before the advent of the Recurve Longbow, the Pedal Crossbow was the most superior long-range weapon!
Even if the pedal crossbow can only shoot directly, the effective killing range is a cut above that of ordinary bows and arrows!
The Bavarian brute warriors tried to resist the opposing long-range projectile class with the thick wooden shields in their hands and chain mail on their bodies, but they soon regretted their decision......
Powerful crossbow bolts easily pierced the proud chainmail of the Bavarian warriors, plunging into their fragile guts!
Even if he was lucky enough to block the shot of the pedal crossbow with his shield, the huge kinetic impact force also hindered the charge of the Bavarian warriors, and even many Bavarian warriors with unstable chassis were directly knocked down by the crossbow bolts that hit the shield!
A volley went down, and the originally surging Bavarian warrior charge queue suddenly became crooked!
In an efficient way, taking advantage of the chaos of the Bavarian warriors, Wei Wu's elite reloaded the crossbow bolts and conducted a second round of volleys!
In order to ensure the maximum short-term killing and wounding of the Bavarian warriors, the elite of Wei Wushu did not carry out the ordinary three-stage shooting method, and the number of Bavarian warriors was a little more than that of Wei Wushu, and they had to devote all their crossbow arrows to snipe the charging momentum of the Bavarian warriors!
This method worked well, and the Bavarian warriors, whose iron chain mail had completely failed in two volleys, were so miserable that they found it so difficult to engage the enemy!
Therefore, after the third volley, the Bavarian warriors, who had suffered heavy casualties, finally dismissed the stupidity of facing the crossbow arrows head-on, and the archers behind began to move forward!
The Bavarian archers were half of the troops!
Immediately, the Bavarian archers saw the rumbling iron horsemen turning out from behind the hills......
The lancers, who had been prepared for a long time, decisively launched a charge when the Bavarians had the opportunity to deploy their hand-to-hand arms and archers!
The cold cavalry spear was pointed at the pale Bavarian archers!