Chapter Seventy-Two: The Battle of Cen Shu Tan (4) A sharp blade piercing the enemy's back
The Qi army obviously thought that they had been deceived, so that by the time the third drum was beaten, they were only playing tricks on their superiors, so they were already relaxed and slack off mentally, which led to them not really devoting themselves to the battle at all, but the Lu army took advantage of the situation to kill, causing the Qi army to be caught off guard.
Obviously, these Qi Jun's cleverness brought bad luck to themselves, to put it simply, before the long-distance run on the sports field began, the referee blew a whistle, and then the athlete ran more than ten meters, and was called back by the referee, saying, "I just tried that the whistle didn't work." So the athlete went back to the starting line to tense his nerves again, and it turned out again, this time the referee said, "I just want to make sure!" "With such a round trip, will the athlete be suffocated with internal injuries? When it came to the third time, he naturally learned his lesson, and he would not rivet his strength to sprint, but planned to take a look at the situation first and confirm whether it was true or not. As a result, this time it was a real run, and he was naturally left behind by other people who were riveted, and Qi Jun was probably in this state.
In fact, it is taboo for soldiers to think on the battlefield, as a soldier, you have to get rid of distracting thoughts, completely obey the leadership of the group, and do not have distractions, as a basic part of the army, soldiers do not need to think at all, only need to obey orders, and let themselves become a cold killing machine.
Because thinking will be bad, and when you think, you will be afraid and worried, so the act of desertion is actually the result of the contradiction between individual thinking and group consciousness, and individual consciousness wins. It doesn't matter if one or two people think about it, because the big army will engulf them forward, and surrounded by his companions, he will feel much safer, and he will not be easily afraid, because of the herd mentality.
But if a large number of soldiers, such as Qi Jun, come back to their senses at the last drum and start thinking and hesitating whether this drum is real, it is a big problem, with their own ideas, they will hesitate, fear, hesitate, when they look at their companions around them and find that their faces have the same emotions written on their faces as his, their fear will increase, which means that he cannot get any sense of security from his companions, which is a devastating blow to the morale of the army.
Then they found that when the Lu army rushed up like a tiger, everyone began to be afraid, and then after the first person to escape, the others also began to flee, "Since they have all run away, what am I staying here for?" Sent to death? "As soon as this idea arises, the entire army will fall apart and eventually turn into a rout.
So Robert's idea was excellent, his loud shouts and the overwhelming number of heavily armed knights behind him could definitely have a devastating effect on the morale of the High Court soldiers, hitting the hearts of those High Court soldiers like a heavy hammer.
Besides, the actions of the heavily armored knights were already difficult to hide, after all, with their arrival, the ground began to tremble violently, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder behind Gao Tingjun.
These High Court soldiers looked back in surprise, and then they saw the brightly armored Robert knights, they were so frightened that they were almost stunned, and anyone who found themselves in the confrontation with others and suddenly someone sneaked up behind them would be shocked!
Robert was quite pleased with their expressions, and their horrified expressions seemed to be a source of strength for Robert, and greatly satisfied his vanity, and a hideous smile appeared on his face, as if he were a big bad wolf running towards the flock, and a feast was at hand.
For the warlike knights, there is no better target than a trembling, terrified enemy, for they will not resist, but will only run away, and then they can catch up and pierce their bodies with the sword in their hands, and everyone has a devil in their hearts, and the fear of the enemy becomes the best fodder for the devil in the hearts of the knights of the Robert Army.
But then the reaction of the Gao Tingjun was not at all like Robert imagined, they actually began to form a defense, the shields were lined up, the soldiers in the first row crouched down against the shields, and stretched out their spears through the gaps between the shields, the second row behind put the spears on the shields, and the third row put the spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the second row.
Although Robert could tell that they seemed to be trembling slightly, apparently for the first time in this formation, they formed a defensive formation quite quickly, and the only explanation was that they had been specially trained to react accordingly, which was the only explanation for their ability to react so quickly.
But Robert had absolutely no chance of braking, and while admiring Randolph Tully's training talents, Robert had to lead the knights head-on, and the only thing that could make them feel good was that at least their rifles were much longer than their opponents.
Even the most fanatical proponents of the theory of the invincibility of heavy cavalry would not be stupid enough to charge head-on to the spear phalanx, especially the Macedonian super-long spear (2 to 3 meters long), which is simply sent to the door as a "skewer", but in front of it is only a 1.8-meter spear phalanx, which can still be tried.
Robert and his knights rushed to the phalanx of spears hastily formed by the High Court Army, most of the High Court soldiers in the first row were not targeted by the knights because of the protection of their shields, and the real victims were the spearmen in the second row, most of whom were shot in the chest and abdomen by the cavalry spears, and were killed on the spot. If they had any last words, it would have been "Damn, why is my spear so little bit short!" "That's right, for the sake of melee consideration, their spears are only one meter eight, too long to be used in close combat, but the knight's carbine is two meters long, so they are a little bit worse, and they can only end up with hatred.
But don't think that the soldiers of the High Court in the first row will be the lucky ones, what awaits them is a more terrible fate than the death of their comrades in the second row.
Except for a few knights who were stabbed by the spears of the first row and the horses were injured or killed, so that they fell off their horses, most of the knights managed to break through the defense, their horses and armor crashed into the crowd of the High Court Army, those High Court soldiers in the first row bore the brunt of the knock and flew up, if they could get up in time and escape the sword of the Robert knights, then he still had a chance to live, otherwise, they would be greeted by the hooves of the Robert knights.
Most of the soldiers of the first row of the High Court were not spared, and before they could get up, they were trampled by the hooves of the horseshoe nails, and at first their shields could still withstand one or two, but the Robert army did not only have one or two horses, a full 3,000 men in four rows, and a thousand people in a row, and they also had to face the trampling of four horses, not to mention that if he happened to be in an awkward position in the middle, the number would be expanded to eight. By the time the horses had stepped over them, all that was left on the ground was their unrecognizable corpses, a mixture of flesh and bones.
Even if the lucky few got up, they were greeted by the swords of the Robert Knights, whose fragile necks were lightly sliced by the horsepower-blessed sword, and the chain mail was easily sliced open, leaving a deep wound to the bone. The kid in front of Robert was even more pitiful, he was directly hit by Robert's sledgehammer into the Tianling Gai, and the entire helmet was smashed into the plate armor vest, leaving only half of it exposed, obviously, the owner of the armor would definitely not be spared, in fact, before the sound like a bell rang, everyone faintly heard the sound of bones breaking.
The cavalry led by Robert broke through a full five rows of enemies, stabbing into the back of the Gao Tingjun like a sharp blade. But that was the end of the story, the horse's impact had been exhausted before then, and Robert and the knights would have to draw their swords and join the melee, slashing at the enemies on the ground with their swords.
There is no doubt that the spear can fight against the cavalry, but it is definitely not the cavalry in the charge, and the best way to deal with the cavalry in the charge is to point the stake, don't look at this thing just sharpening the wood and burying it in half, but it is this simple thing that made the French knights who charged England to death, how ridiculous! A group of scleric knights were defeated by a few cheap stakes, but this was true, because it was not the pointed stakes that were really deadly, but the speed and great impact of the horses that the knights had.
Of course, the super long spear can also play a role in fighting the cavalry charge, but there will definitely be casualties, but the troops equipped with the long contradiction card are obviously not among them, even if they are equipped with spears and have a certain ability to fight against cavalry, but in the face of cavalry charge, they will still suffer heavy casualties, which is why the concept of "heavy cavalry invincibility" appeared in the Middle Ages, because the only pikemen that can fight the cavalry cannot pose a threat to the knights because of their poor equipment and low morale.
However, although the Gao Tingjun were not elite soldiers, they were not a group of poorly equipped and demoralized peasants, and under the training of Randolph Tully, the only difference between them and the elite soldiers was actual combat experience, and obviously, as the battle progressed, these soldiers began to accumulate actual combat experience, which brought them one step closer to becoming elite soldiers.
As Robert and the knights lost their speed advantage, the spearmen of the High Court turned their way and began to fight back against Robert's cavalry, what an ironic scene! Just now, they were bullied by Robert's knights with two-meter horse pistols, crying and crying, but as the knights lost their speed advantage and the horse pistols broke one after another, the High Court soldiers turned around and began to counterattack. The spears in their hands were now longer than the swords of Robert's knights, so everywhere the knights' horses were pierced by the spears, and there was a cry before death, and then the knights fell from their horses, and before they could get up, several spears came one after another, nailing them to the ground, in fact, even without these spears, they could not get up on their own, because the whole body plate armor was so heavy that the knight who fell was no different from the "Wang Ba" who turned over the shell!
What will Robert come up with to reverse this decline?