(Three watches, rubbing my face, very hard to ask for a monthly pass)

To be honest, this kind of densely wooded mountainous terrain is difficult to attack, and easy to say. It is difficult to say because the terrain here is dangerous, the roads are narrow, and it is difficult for the large army to deploy. When you climb a mountain, you have to use both your hands and feet when you encounter a dangerous place, and you have to endure the stones and bows and arrows on the mountain-gravity is on the side of the garrison, and the arrows of the side of the garrison will definitely fall to the attacking side, and if the attacker is not shot with a strong bow and a crossbow, then he will not be able to shoot something or fall to his own place......

That's it, generally speaking, such a hill is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even more difficult to attack than some cities built on flat ground, which is also one of the reasons why bandits are rampant in mountainous areas. It is too difficult to exterminate, and even if it is exterminated, it will only get some ravines that are not suitable for farming, which is not cost-effective - the bandits do not cultivate their own land, they rely on robbery.

And it's easy to say, because today is September 28, 1004, an authentic autumn, and it seems to be in response to Dong Zhongshu's theory of heavenly induction, since Egil sent troops to Eastern Europe, there has not been a drop of rain in the sky, and the drought is dying. Therefore, the grass and trees are all withered and yellow, and there is no more water. A little spark will be obtained, and a fire will attack it, not to mention the two hundred or so people in Artoria, even if it is ten times more, it will be useless, and it will still be burned to charcoal.

However, Lilianu was reluctant.

So the Eastern Roman soldiers and the Eastern European nomads took their lives to add their lives to it.

There were more than 5,000 soldiers in total, and if it was a decisive battle on the plains, the round of bows and arrows would go up, and then the rangers would hold the two sides, the infantry phalanx would hold the front, and the heavy cavalry would charge again, and Artoria's two hundred or so men would have to be explained. However, this is an attack on the mountains.

It's not easy to attack on the back.

Lilianu was also a soldier and soon divided the infantry group into several parts, the stragglers, the daggers, and the Eastern Roman hoplites and her personal guards. In the beginning of the war, first let the stragglers go up to consume the opponent's physical strength and ammunition, then let the irregular militia such as the short sword and nail hammer soldiers wear down the opponent's vital strength, and finally let the main force go up and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop - those nomads who ride horses all day long and have become lap-legged nomads, it is estimated that half of these people will die if they climb a mountain.

However, Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu's calculations were wrong.

When those who carry sticks and farm tools, and all kinds of scimitars, sabers, sabers, long swords, short swords, and half-swords that have been taken from the dead men...... Scattered soldiers of weapons and so on, temporarily conscripted, or scattered soldiers rushed forward. After that, they climbed the mountains with their hands and feet, and at this time, these guys who didn't have a scabbard to pack their weapons felt extremely difficult.

And those with shields, or two-handed weapons such as swords, were even worse, and they were all half frightened to death - such hills were rare in the steppes of Eastern Europe, and basically no one came, and they belonged to the kind that was very unwelcome. As a result, most of these soldiers were nomads from Eastern Europe, or soldiers armed by feudal lords, and had no experience in fighting in the mountains. It's clumsy to act. What's more, there are trunks and branches cut down by the Normans at the various passes, and these things must be moved away if you want to advance. So these soldiers marched very slowly. The clumsy appearance also looks very funny - even some idiots accidentally fell off the weapon in their hands when they climbed, almost shaving off a layer of scalp from their comrades behind them......

"Wait, wait until they're close. Artoria said as she pulled herself together, ignoring the pain.

The Norman soldiers responded violently - at this moment, among the two hundred or so, there were only about thirty lightly armed archers, and more than twenty Celtic light cavalry, and after the previous fierce battle, the average bow of the archers was only about ten, and the Celtic light cavalry had a total of ten javelins, all of which were concentrated in the hands of a captain with the best javelin skills in peacetime. However, the remaining hussars, as well as the Celtic light cavalry who did not receive javelins, and the small number of archers who shot arrows too fast and wasted, were not without long-range attacks.

The small ones were about goose egg fists, the medium ones were similar to the teapot pen holders, and the large ones were like watermelons—all of them were things that could kill people if they were used well. So they waited until the enemy attacked, and then, according to Artoria's orders, they got closer and fought again—the stragglers climbed up in vain, until when they were halfway up and looked up, the big stone had smashed their heads and faces. The two fools who climbed at the front, and the two fools who lacked a string in their brains thought that they could make a fortune, but they didn't expect to die faster the further they went. ,

As a result, if the guy who followed him was nimble and agile, he would be fine, but do you think that the brain that followed the second one could be nimble? At this moment the second soldier was also smashed - although the corpse was soft, no more than a stone to die, but it was also smashed with meat and vegetables. Immediately afterwards, he also fell down - this height fell down, unless the ancestral tomb smoked, he would never die again. Seeing this scene, the soldiers seemed to understand why Artoria ordered the enemy to be brought closer before fighting.

In this way, the advantages of the garrison were soon evident - a stone was dropped, and then a large number of people were to die, and the snow was rolling bigger and bigger - but fortunately, some people learned to be obedient and shouted, "Hug the tree next to you!" In this way, the soldiers hurriedly learned to hold on to the trunk of the tree next to them, and then they had a foothold, although they would be injured if they were hung up, but the mortality rate was greatly reduced.

And those soldiers who were killed in the battle could have tripped over branches or trunks after falling down for a while, and then hung up there. In the air, the smell of blood began to diffuse little by little......

In this way, many of these stragglers braved many people, and before they even had time to fight the Norman soldiers, they were hit by a stray arrow and fell down the mountain to become fools. In the process of climbing, in order to avoid falling rocks and the corpses of the soldiers in front of them, one accidentally fell down and was injured......

"What a fucking grievance!"

Humpty Dumpty, who couldn't climb up, finally gave up his efforts and stabbed himself into the trunk of a nearby tree, scolding and shouting. Immediately afterwards, he was hit in the head by a stone that fell from the sky, I don't know if it was thrown by someone else or if the mountain rock was loose and fell: "Oops!"

In this way, these stragglers attacked twice in a row, and were easily driven down by the Norman and Celtic armies. The morale of the military has been frustrated a lot. It's too much to fight anymore.

"Change the second team. Lilianu frowned, although she felt a little dissatisfied, but she didn't care, after all, cannon fodder is cannon fodder, that is, consumables. Originally, they were allowed to take the lead to consume enemy ammunition. Although in the end, the enemy figure was beaten to the ground without seeing a single figure, which is really a bit embarrassing. But it also consumed some of their strength, don't you say?

So, the second echelon of the Roman militia reserves was immediately thrown into the war, because the previous rabble had moved the barricades and paved the way with corpses, and more importantly, the Normans had only about two hundred men, and most of the ammunition had been consumed before, so this attack seemed to be much smoother than the last one—and finally, after wielding a shield and blocking a few flying arrows, he finally came face to face with a Norman hussar - Then he was slashed in the neck by the smiling hussars. Then he kicked him in the chest, causing the guy to fall along with one of the javelinmen behind him......

In any case, however, this also meant that the phase of hand-to-hand combat had begun - the Norman soldiers had a geographical advantage, the hussars were well-armed, and even the elite light infantry of the first class in land warfare had taken advantage of the enemy. The mountain roads are narrow, and the large troops cannot stretch out, and they are often one-on-one single-line fights. Naturally, the Norman army took advantage of it - even seventy or eighty Norman hussars could hold the mountain passes, and there were reserves in rotation when they were tired. The two sides fought back and forth for nearly two hours, and only a few of the Norman troops were accidentally wounded, and none died.

But the Eastern Romans also had a way, and after losing a group of daggers and hammermen, the Eastern Romans also learned wisely, and this time sent a group of javelinmen up, and those javelinmen did not fight in close combat at all, but when they were five or six meters apart, they leaned against the trunks of the big trees on the side of the road, and then threw a javelin. At such a close distance, there is almost no need for an accurate head or anything, and the lethality will not change a lot due to gravity. The Norman hussars watched the javelins whizz in their eyes, and most of them either dodged or took their shields to block - while the Eastern Roman javelinmen used light javelins, the Norman hussars used composite shields made of high-quality hardwood, which could be pierced, but it was absolutely impossible to pierce them.

However, there were also some Norman hussars who had too much physical exertion, or who were not so good at their own skills, did not dodge, did not block, and after more than four hours of fighting on this nameless height, the Norman army had lost its soldiers for the first time......