The combat effectiveness of this group of stormland levies is really not enough, they are veritable "conscription militia", as if they are a group of peasants who have just put down their hoes, the only thing that is stronger than the peasants is that they are slightly braver than the medieval peasants, after all, the stormland is a difficult place, and the difficult living environment makes them more fortitimate.

Even so, the loose defensive formation formed under Sir Harbert's emergency organization was easily crushed by the High Court Knights, after all, their rusty spears and tattered shields were of little use compared to the stubborn High Court Knights.

The knights of the High Court are like the waves surging on the seashore, and these stormland levies are like some child's castle built with sand, and when they are slapped by the waves, they instantly turn back into a plate of loose sand. The knights of the High Court rode their horses and slaughtered in the formation of the second echelon, just the first charge, which caused nearly two thousand casualties in the second echelon, you must know that these knights of the High Court are only this number, and as the knights of the High Court began to draw their swords and slash them, this number is still expanding.

The further expansion of casualties has directly led to a serious decline in morale, if you have played "World of Tanks" (military game, you can play the tank network confrontation, tanks are roughly divided into several departments by country, 10 levels, and there are light, medium, heavy, anti-tank, artillery several categories) will have a profound experience, these second-echelon soldiers seem to be level 4 tanks (typical: M3 Lee), and the enemy is the existence of level 7 (typical: Tiger tank), so they poke and poke, It's a pity that they can't pierce the armor on the other side at all, and the other side only needs to slash them with a sword to kill them.

In this case, there is no choice but to escape, after all, you can't hurt the enemy, but the enemy can hurt you, the combat effectiveness of the two sides is not at the same level at all, people stand and let you beat you and take him, so what else to fight!

Although Sir Harbert was calm, shouted loudly, and personally supervised the battle to let them continue to fight hard, Sir Harbert's hoarse roar could not restore the decline on the battlefield.

In fact, the decisive factor that really prevented the soldiers of the second echelon from escaping was neither loyalty nor Sir Harbert's prestige, but that they could not outrun on four legs on two legs! Turning around and running away will only lead to faster death, since running is also death, and not running is death, it is better to be a martyr than to die on the way to escape as a coward, right? The people of the Stormlands are still very strong.

You may wonder why the second echelon suffered so many casualties in the face of the High Court Knights? It stands to reason that the casualties of the previous raid by Robert were far less significant.

The fact is that their equipment is so poor, and the two sides are completely incomparable. The people in the second echelon are almost a typical medieval militia, and the knights use the "experience pack" to upgrade their experience. An important practical basis for the theory of the invincibility of heavy cavalry.

The Gauting Army was able to withstand Robert's charge because of Randolph Tully's well-trained and well-equipped personnel, which naturally provided some protection. On the other hand, Robert's second echelon is completely old, weak, sick and disabled, not to mention no armor, and even the weapons are "inferior", but the knights of the High Court led by Randolph Tully himself are one of the best in a hundred, although the number is far less than that of Robert's army, but their war horses are better than Robert's, which makes their charging power even more amazing.

Robert's charge only penetrated about five platoons of the Gauting Army, while Randolph Tully's charge almost penetrated the second echelon. However, as they entered the melee, the spears of the second echelon still came in handy to some extent, and after losing nearly a third of their troops, they finally began to learn their lesson, which was a veritable "lesson in blood".

They gave up on attacking the knight with a spear, as it would be useless, and instead concentrated their attack on the knight's horse. Although the war horse is wearing a vest (the vest is similar to a chain mail dress, and the soft belly of the war horse can be seen when the "skirt bottom" is lifted), but note that the word is "batch", not wearing, which means that there is no protection in the soft chest and abdomen of the war horse, they only need to pierce the spear into the gap under the horse armor, and they can severely damage the war horse.

If the horse is running, this move will not have a chance to work, because the vest extends all the way to the knees of the warhorse, but as the speed of the knight of the High Court begins to stall under the obstruction of the corpse and the crowd, this move has a chance of success, after all, even a sharpened wooden stick can easily pierce the soft belly of the warhorse.

In fact, it was discovered by chance, that one of the lucky men, Ralph, was crushed under the corpse of his companion, so he was lucky not to be trampled to death by the horse's hooves, and when he struggled to crawl out of the pile of corpses, he found that the High Court cavalry had rushed past him. This guy is also a man, he didn't take this opportunity to escape, but tried to get back from the gap under the horse unconsciously, after all, at this time the knight of the high court had stalled, the cavalry in front did not go forward, and the cavalry behind had to wait on the horse, his plan went smoothly at the beginning, after all, the ground was full of stumps and broken arms, and no one paid attention to him at all, even if someone accidentally glanced at him, he just had to lie down and pretend to be dead.

After all, Rove looked like a corpse now, in order to climb back, his body was covered with scarlet blood, some of which had begun to dry up and turn black, and even some pieces of flesh and tissue fragments stuck to him, like a "bloody man".

You may wonder why no one has tried to make up for it? That's because the sword in their hand wasn't long enough to reach the corpse lying flat on the ground.

And then you think, "Wouldn't it be okay if I lay on the ground and pretend to be dead when the cavalry came?" "Bad idea! It is true that the cavalry will not be able to cut you, but their horses will trample you into meat sauce.

However, at this time, the Knights of the High Court were temporarily stationary due to congestion, so the horses would not pose a threat to Ralph. This gave Rove the opportunity to sneak under the horses.

In fact, it's not that no one has discovered him, but for the knight lord, dismounting is a super strenuous and cheap thing, "Do you think of me as a lowly inferior?" "In their eyes, fighting on foot is a sign of inferiority, especially since they are still high-court people, and the people of Stormland also have a natural passion for foot combat, for example, Robert is a good player, but the high-court people are complete chivalry, and they feel disdain and contempt for foot combat from the bottom of their bones.

What's more, Rove is nothing but a blood-drenched "dying" man! "It's normal for this kind of half-dead person to crawl on the ground, after all, human beings' will to survive is so strong, or it won't be long before they die on their own. Even if he was able-bodied and uninjured, they were beaten to the ground just now when they were holding weapons, not to mention that now they don't even have weapons? There is no threat at all! Obviously, the previous smooth charge had caused the Knights of the High Court to be full of disdain for these "miscellaneous fish" in the Stormland, and their self-confidence had never been more inflated.

It was as if his luck had run out all of a sudden, and as he was about to return to his ranks, he suddenly felt that he was being held by something, and when he looked back, he saw that it was a tall black horse, covered with a yellow waistcoat, with four hooves as big as the mouth of a cup, and the farriers on them were cold and shiny, and stained with blackened blood. Obviously, this Uncle Ma has obviously obtained "one blood", at this time, this "Uncle Ma" suddenly became interested in Rove who was crawling forward on the ground, most likely because of this "voyeur" who drilled his "skirt" and felt extremely unhappy, so he bit Rove's shirt, which frightened Rove, and he struggled to run, but it seemed that the pulling movement was too big, causing the knight on the horse to notice it, so he was discovered.

The knight was obviously more conscientious than his companion, and as soon as he pulled the reins, the horse's front hooves rose into the air, and he was about to kick Rove hard, and at the last moment, Rove picked up a broken spear and plunged it into the belly of the horse, and the horse immediately collapsed to the ground with a wail, and Rove escaped.

When Rove returned to teach his companions his experience, Sir Harbert learned of it, and the old man immediately praised Rove, and then asked the remnants of the levies to do the same.

In the face of the "despicable acts" of the second echelon, Randolph Tali decisively ordered the cavalry to retreat, in fact, even if this despicable trick was used, it only alleviated the casualty rate of the second echelon, and the battle loss ratio between the knights of the court and the second echelon was maintained on the basis of at least 1:3.

However, Randolph Tully did not intend to let this group of "miscellaneous fish" exchange his elite knights for the crowd tactics, so he decisively ordered to retreat.

Seeing the High Court Knight retreating, Sir Harbert breathed a sigh of relief, and put the saber in his hand into the scabbard at his waist, "It's too dangerous! "But Sir Harbert, who had been in battle for a long time, was taken aback by this terrible situation.

The second-echelon conscripts around them were even more moved to tears, they paid nearly half of the casualties, nearly 5,000 people, and left less than two hundred High Court Knights, looking at the back of the High Court Knights who were gradually moving away, they had a feeling of the rest of their lives.

Unfortunately, however, Randolph Tully's ideas seem to be a little different from theirs. Looking at the group of Robert army conscripts in the distance looking like they were living after the catastrophe, many of them laid down their weapons and sat down on the ground. Even the stern and meticulous Randolph Tully couldn't help but laugh: "They thought I was going to retreat!" Hahahaha! ”

When they saw Randolph Tully's cavalry stationed at 800 meters and then turned their horses' heads, the soldiers of the second echelon almost felt like they were crying, and the sky fell.

"O Seven Gods! Don't play like this! This is the voice of all of them.