Those ballistas were like straight and hard strips of thick wood, but when they hit the mercenary's body, it was like slapping a sword on a tomato, instantly piercing the mercenary's body, and the heads of many soldiers were immediately shattered! The ballista that passed through a body would continue to shoot forward, killing seven or eight people in a row before stopping, and at once the soldiers and mercenaries who were standing at the forefront of the Church Alliance were scattered.

The ballista carts of the East Oguna Empire were loaded very quickly, they had just fired a round, and they were immediately replaced with new horsehair and shells, and it only took a little more than ten seconds for the ballista carts to be ready, waiting for the order to fire.

The leg of the horse under Rassad's seat was also hit by a ballista, like a turnip that had been broken by a sledgehammer. He fell off his horse at once, and was splattered in the face by the flesh of the horse's legs. Under the fierce attack of the ballista cart, the mercenaries of the Church Alliance were already frightened. Some of the mercenaries had survived the night raid of the Eastern Oguna cavalry before, but now the threat was even more terrifying than that night, the human body and iron armor had no way to defend against these ballista carts with strong torque and elasticity, and every soldier targeted by the ballista cart was as weak as an egg, and was lightly smashed.

Most of the mercenaries who had been placed in the front had turned around and fled, and the church fighters were also suppressed by the bombardment of ballista trucks, and they were in danger of rout and retreat. No matter how much the deputy head of the Church Knights, Rashad, and the other knights, shouted or commanded, there was no way to make the more than 30,000 soldiers of the Church Alliance take a step forward.

At this time, the archbishop was already under the protection of the chief knight Kiro and was about to return to the city of Crafe, and all the soldiers in the city had left the city, so it was more like an empty city.

"What about the army of the Kingdom of Salin?" Archbishop Arthur Auerbach looked back at the battlefield on the banks of the river from his carriage, and when he saw that many of the soldiers of the Church Union had begun to run backwards, he immediately asked the chief knight Kiro in a loud voice.

Kiro also didn't know where the soldiers of the Kingdom of Salins had gone, and he knew that the captain of the prince's guard named Chedi was not the one who held the power of the army, but a white-haired general named Guillermo who commanded 40,000 infantry of the Kingdom of Salins, but now he was missing. Without the support of the regular army of the Kingdom of Salins, this battle would surely drag the Papal States into the abyss of death.

Everyone in the Potato Mercenary Regiment could see from a distance how the mercenaries of the Church Alliance were "torn apart", those murderous weapons of the East Oguna Empire were really terrifying, if there were no assault troops to destroy these weapons, I am afraid that even if they hid in Crafeld City, they would only be defeated.

However, just as the Church League was desperate, the armies of the Kingdom of Sahlins began to appear in the upper reaches of the river. A large pile of thick shields and ironclad infantry, swords in their hands, slowly made their way across the river to Selena's Church Knights. And when she saw the arrival of reinforcements, the female knight immediately asked the church knight, who had already lost more than half of them, to retreat back and try to reduce the damage of her subordinates.

The East Oguna Emperor** team, who were still firing ballistas, did not send reinforcements to pay attention to the infantry of the Kingdom of Salins approaching from the west, and they began to cross the river in an orderly manner in the direction of the city of Crafe in the northwest, and the steel shield wall that had been spread out for hundreds of meters also began to advance forward, slowly expanding the open space on this side of the riverbank.

The cavalry sent by the Castle of the River and the cavalry sent by the reinforcements numbered nearly 9,000 men, but there were also many losses in the confrontation with the church knights. When they saw Selena retreating in the direction of the kingdom's infantry with the remaining church knights, they immediately pursued the infantry with their spears and knightly swords. You must know that on the plains, the average infantry is completely unable to resist the cavalry with spears in their hands, but the infantry of the Kingdom of Sallins is orderly and has no fear in the face of the menacing imperial cavalry. Instead, the dense formation slowly changed from a dense formation to a larger-spaced phalanx, allowing the retreating Church Knights to pass through the columns of the infantry phalanx and flee behind the Kingdom soldiers.

"It seems that the infantry of the Kingdom of Sallins is not all on this side!" Noor saw that the number of infantry of the Kingdom that was advancing in an orderly manner was less than 40,000, and perhaps they had sent other infantry on the other side.

Fei De also saw the powerful infantry of the kingdom, and he believed that under the guidance and training of Uncle Evan, the infantry of the Kingdom of Sallins were very disciplined and steel-willed, and would not back down even in the face of those powerful ballistas. Sure enough, in the face of the onslaught of the cavalry of the East Oguna Empire, the infantry columns of the Kingdom of Sarins began to spread to the left and right, but each column was still able to maintain a uniform and did not disrupt the original formation in the slightest. The infantrymen clenched their thick shields to their chests, while their short swords were placed on the side of the gap, their blades swinging horizontally.

The Imperial cavalry charged at the phalanx infantry with their spears, and generally could not effectively stop the charging cavalry without attacking spears at great distances. But something unexpected happened in an instant - the infantry of the Kingdom of Salins standing in front of them crouched down one after another, and then let the thick shield tilt to protect their bodies. They pressed the short swords in their hands to a very low position, and in the face of the momentum of the imperial cavalry, the collision immediately cut off the legs of countless warhorses that had rushed over! Except for those cavalry who had hit the thick shield, most of the other warhorses rushed into the gap specially left by the phalanx, and many imperial soldiers were immediately thrown out by the horses that had lost their legs!

The solid shields of the kingdom's infantry could not fully withstand the brutal onslaught of horses and spears, but they were able to reduce the damage a lot. The cavalry that rushed into the phalanx either fell into the phalanx or rode wounded horses, and the kingdom infantry in the rear surrounded one after another, raising their swords against the imperial cavalry who broke through to the formation, and the war horses and imperial cavalry that were stabbed to death in the chaotic sword accounted for the vast majority, and some were squeezed to death by thick shields.

The cavalry of the Eastern Oguna Empire in the back saw that the cavalry rushing to the front had suffered heavy casualties, and they pulled the reins one after another, and did not continue to break into the infantry phalanx of the Kingdom of Salins.

The Potato Mercenary Regiment, led by Fed, continued to move downstream of the river. And the armed men of those churches began to recover a little, and they distanced themselves from the ballista trucks. Although the ballista carriage has a very strong attack power, its range is only a little more than a hundred meters, which may be related to the terrain it is in. Rashad began to realize this after adjusting the soldiers behind him, and immediately asked the longbowmen to shoot high, returning fire at the ballista carriage from a long distance.

At this time, the generals of the Chinese army who were far away in the East Oguna Empire saw the tactics of the Kingdom of Salins in their eyes.

"Very good tactics and infantry, those are the elite infantry of the Kingdom of Salins, right?" A fat man in a thick fur coat was sitting in a carriage driven by four war horses, and his fat face was still shiny, which showed how unathletic the generals of this empire were.

A lieutenant general on horseback next to him immediately responded: "Back to Lord Juan, do you want me to let the ballista unit deal with those guys?" The person who replied was Kionis, the leader of the Shock Mercenary Regiment, a second-class privileged mercenary regiment of the East Oguna Empire, whose mercenary group has mastered the technology of various siege weapons, and these invincible ballista carts are the products of his technicians.

The big fat man named Juan was forty-four years old this year, and he was the commander-in-chief sent from Glynco to support the Riverside Castle this time, and he was also a son of Duke Popo and Lady Purple, nobles in the southern part of the Oguna Empire. It seems that Prime Minister Hollow has succeeded in convincing the powerful Duke of Pobo to remain loyal to Grimmko and Electris IV, and to send his own son to the rescue of the Riverlands.

"No, no," Juan waved his fat palm, in addition to being covered with fat and oily fat, he also liked to wear all kinds of large gems, looking like an upstart, "You underestimate the regular cavalry of our country too much, they have no problem dealing with the small infantry of the small kingdom, let's hurry up and cross the river, if it goes well this time, it will be good to take down the Holy Light City directly, hehe." ”