Chapter Seventy-Five: The Battle of Cen Shu Tan (7) The Great Rout
As mentioned above, it is very difficult for cavalry to retreat in time and then use "repeated charge tactics", which has high requirements for army literacy and commander prestige, and due to the influence of horsepower, command, order transmission, army quality and other factors, the godlike "repeated charge tactics" in the game are not feasible in reality.
However, this varies from person to person, and Robert's army will never be able to do this, because Robert's knights are the vassals of Robert's vassals, and the unity on the battlefield is entirely due to the maintenance of Robert's personal prestige, and it is extremely difficult to get them to perform the difficult tactic of "charging repeatedly".
What's more, due to the fact that the order was not conveyed in time, the rear team was transferred to the front team, which was likely to cause the knights who were originally on the front line to expose their rear to the enemy, but the knights who were originally at the end did not receive the order in time to start retreating, which also led to the knights on the front line being "stuck in traffic" in place, and then being counterattacked by spearmen resulting in heavy casualties.
As a result, most units are not equipped to use the tactic of "repeated charges", but it is clear that the High Court Knights led by Randolph Tali are not among the "majority" of this.
As one of the Westeros military gods, Randolph Tully is a good hand at training and arranging troops, and more than 400 of the more than 1,800 knights who belong to his own soldiers have been trained to retreat in an emergency, which means that even if most knights don't know what to say, there are always Randolph Tully's personal soldiers to demonstrate, right? It's always going to do it, right?
Besides, the first problem that plagued Robert, there were too many people, resulting in the inability to convey orders, this problem could not bother Landall Tully, because his own soldiers could act as a mouthpiece, not to mention that his army was more than half less than Robert, and most of the knights of the High Court admired him, after all, he could lead them to such a refreshing victory, just by charging just now, they harvested at least two lives each, and some even harvested 5 to 8 lives, When have they been so enjoyable on the battlefield!
Speaking of horsepower, the Storm Horses live in plain areas, and may not be as tall as the Storm Ground Horses, but their endurance and speed are better than the Storm Ground Horses, after all, they can gallop in the wide grassland pastures, compared to the Storm Horses' horse farms, the Storm Ground Horses' horse farms are as small as toilets, and the terrain is often uneven. After all, there aren't many plains in the Stormlands, and a few plains have to be used for farming.
Finally, there is the question of the enemy's counterattack, come on! When the soldiers of the second echelon of Robert's army saw that Randolph Tully was about to leave with the High Court Knights, they were moved to tears, and shouted "Seven gods bless!" Our Lady of Mercy! ”。 The Knight of the High Court is willing to leave, and he is already blessed by the Seven Gods, and he still fights back? Therefore, they did not even think about the problem of catching up and expanding the results.
After all, the only reason most of them could still stand and fight was because they didn't want to die, and when the knights of the High Court turned around and lost their fear of death, the only thing that supported them in battle was gone, and they immediately sat down on the ground with their butts slumped, and then muttered something "Thank you, Heavenly Father!" Thank you, Our Lady! Thanks fighters! .
So to sum up, for Randolph Tully, "repeated charges" are completely feasible, and the biggest problem is that the carbine is gone, which will cause the damage of their charge to drop significantly, and the question is: can the spears in the hands of the second echelon of recruits really pose a threat when they charge? The answer is no.
Because their spears were originally shoddy, either bent or rusty, and the little bit of iron in the head of the spear was pitiful, Gao Tingjun's spear head was probably enough for them to fight three. And I don't know how many impurities are mixed with it, so that it looks black and rusts very quickly.
You know, the most important thing about a good gun is the barrel, which must be tough and hard, and the selection of materials must be extremely strict, and it also needs to be wrapped with copper wire and metal for reinforcement. Of course, Westeros doesn't have such a statement, but the humid weather in the stormland is obviously extremely "unfriendly" to gun barrels, coupled with improper maintenance, these gun barrels are veritable "strong outside and dry", or strong and rotten outside?
As the hooves of the horses like rolling thunder of the Randolph Tully and the knights of the High Court rumbled again, the recruits of the second echelon of less than 4,000 who participated all had expressions on their faces, after all, this was simply slaughtered! The previous 8,000 people were washed away by the opposite side, and the remaining 4,000 is not a piece of cake?
The most important thing is that the most hurtful thing in this world is not that there is no hope, but that there is just a little hope but it is ruthlessly taken away again, which is called despair. Clearly, the word "hopeless" is the right word to describe the remnants of the second echelon, for some of them have refused to stand up, but are lying on their backs as if they were slaughtered, and no matter how much Sir Harbert kicked them, they would not get up even if they died, either daydreaming with their eyes closed, or looking at the sky as if they could see the Virgin smiling at them.
Even those who struggled to stand up were all trembling, as if they were people who had gone out in their pants for four or nine days, their teeth kept colliding with each other, and they sounded like a "machine gun" and made a "da-da" sound, but unfortunately the sound of chattering teeth could not kill any enemy. Obviously, the knights of the High Court left a very deep impression on them, after all, the hellish scene in front of them still reminded them of the power of the knights of the High Court, the grass stained red by blood, and even the grass showed signs of being trampled by iron hooves, you must know that these grasses are the tenacious existence of the legendary "wildfire cannot be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows".
Just one charge, and nearly 2,000 people were completely abolished, and the second echelon completely collapsed, and they were left with only a thousand remnants left, and these survivors rushed backwards like rabbits, even if the price of being a deserter was to be pierced through the heart by the troops who supervised the battle behind, and they went to the back of the first echelon one after another.
Just when these poor creatures were slaughtered by the knights of the High Court, just behind them, the soldiers of the first echelon close to the rear had gathered 5,000 people and set up a defensive formation, from this point of view, the sacrifice of the second echelon was not meaningless, at least they bought precious reaction time for the first echelon.
And the initiator of all this is Sir Harbert, this "bad old man is very bad", knowing that the second echelon is not the opponent of the High Court Knights, but he forcibly ordered them to meet the charge of the High Court Knights head-on, just to sacrifice them to buy time, so that the first echelon can organize defense in time. Very calm and sensible thoughts, but rather rather ruthless, perhaps in the eyes of these Westeros nobles, commoners are just some kind of expendable.
But what is certain is that even in the first echelon, their equipment is far from being comparable to that of the Gao Ting Army, so their experience is not much better than that of their compatriots in the second echelon.
However, they still somewhat blocked the impact of the High Court Knights, causing the two sides to fall into a stalemate, but they did not expect that the appearance of something completely changed the tide of the battle.
That's the horse! A large group of horses, not ordinary horses, it is the war horses of Robert and those nobles, after Robert and they dismounted to fight, these war horses were released by them, after all, the front line sword has no eyes, these war horses are treasures, if they stay by their side, they will inevitably hinder the action.
These horses are all dressed in colorful coats of arms, and Robert's choice to dismount and fight on foot is indeed correct, but he ignores the fact that the war horse is the "life" of a knight.
Especially the "sun" running at the front, wearing an apricot yellow crown buck coat of arms and waistcoat, don't be too eye-catching! Almost all of the Stormlands soldiers have seen Robert riding the Sun.
This caused an uproar in the hearts of the soldiers of the Storm Army, even Sir Harbert felt a tightness in his heart, and what was worse was that because Robert and other nobles dismounted and fought on foot, they could not be seen from the field, and the horses were not there, which means that Robert and the nobles of the Storm Land had been "killed"? After all, knights don't leave their horses easily. Immediately, the hearts of the Robert soldiers were full of suspicions.
What a shrewd man Randolph Tully! Seeing the opportunity at once, he immediately took the lead in shouting: "The traitor Robert Baratheon is dead!" The knight beside him immediately shouted loudly, acting as a human megaphone. As he spoke, Randolph Tully threw out a human head, which rolled around the ground a few times, which immediately stunned the Roberts.
The Chinese army of the Robert army suddenly collapsed, "The boss is dead, and he is still playing a ball!" Run for your life! After all, Randolph Tully has even come up with ironclad evidence, and Robert's head is rolling on the ground! The defeated second-echelon soldiers made a bad start, and about 800 of them managed to escape from the center of the battlefield, some of them were already close to the edge of the battlefield, and from a distance they looked like a swarm of ants pressed by black pressure.
Randolph Tully did not send a single soldier to stop them, it became a silent encouragement, as if a magic voice sounded in the heads of the warriors: "Run!" For your little life! Lo and behold, those people have managed to escape, they are out of this damn battlefield and can go back to their families. Why are you still here? The commanders are all dead, do you want to stay here and wait to die? ”
No matter how much Sir Harbert scolded and kicked him, he could not prevent the rout of the Chinese army, including the 5,000 men who had been urgently organized.
The entire first echelon was reduced by half at once, and a full 7,000 men joined the rout, as if to prevent them from returning to the battlefield, Randolph Tully sent half of his cavalry to "hunt down" them, and it was not right to call it "pursuit", it should be driven to the contrary, just to let them leave the battlefield as far as possible, and not to suddenly recover their morale and return to the battle.