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A total of a thousand elite heavy cavalry in heavy armor. Their movements were impeccable, and they managed to keep the line basically neat even as they rushed forward. Keeping the same pace. It can be said that such an elite army can be regarded as a well-known elite division on the battlefield of the Middle Ages. Compared with the Black Dragon Knight of Brandenburg, the Duke's Praetorian Knight of Swabia, and the Knight of the Golden Fleece of Burgundy, it is only stronger than the Knight of the Golden Fleece, even compared with the king of the classic heavy cavalry, the ironclad holy cavalry of Eastern Rome, it is conceivable that the Holy See has really invested heavily in training this new army.

However, such an army was completely helpless in the face of the Norman Emperor's new army and the defense that was ready to be put into battle. On the way to their charge, General Basumi concentrated more than 20 mortars and bombarded them with flowering shells. Although the accuracy of the artillery in this era was very poor, and it was not necessary to hit ten shots, the Holy See heavy cavalry was only lined up in three rows of one-line arrays, and the distance between them was large, so several rounds of artillery went down, but not a single heavy cavalry was killed.

Scared a few to death.

A few shells hit the cavalry, and the roar startled the horses at once. In these years, when gunpowder weapons became more common, the horses used for riding were professionally trained to make them not afraid of the sound of artillery. Therefore, the war horse was directly frightened crazy, and as soon as the front hooves were raised, the cavalry was thrown down, and the war horse sprinted with all its might, with a speed of almost more than fifty kilometers per hour. That's all there is to it.

"So the current gunpowder weapons are okay to use to siege cities or bombard dense enemy arrays. That's how it is...... But it's not enough. Egil shook his head. I thought so in my heart. Thinking about the matter, the opposing cavalry arrived in front of the Norman formation! At that moment, a thousand heavily armed crossbowmen in the front row fired a volley, and then quickly crouched down, and the well-trained comrades behind them were the same,... After four consecutive rounds of fire from four rows of four thousand heavy crossbowmen, a large number of heavy cavalry on the opposite side fell at that time!

"How could it be?!Why is the crossbow in the other party's hand so powerful?!" At that time, he was also holding a monocular (smuggled from Norman, two thousand florins apiece, love to buy it or not. Harold was amazed when he looked at him. The Italian giant shield crossbowmen are famous all over the world, and they were originally the place where elite crossbowmen were produced. And the Italians also spared no effort in the study of crossbows. Harold was confident that his other classes might not be as good as the Normans, but the Giant Crossbow would outperform them. But I didn't expect that the opponent's crossbowman would be able to pierce the heavy armor at such a distance with one round of shooting!

Before Harold could finish his surprise, the scene that had appeared in the Danube battle was reappeared. Norman's long-barreled cannon was loaded with shotguns, and if you calculated, it was also within range at this moment. Sixty artillery pieces were fired in one round, and the large pieces of iron sand, iron sheets, and iron marbles whined and whined, splitting their heads and covering their faces! The heavy cavalry of the Holy See and their crotch mounts that broke through the Norman crossbow array screamed, and the blood mist on their bodies, faces, limbs, and bodies burst out, and they died in a terrible state.

After this round of shotgunning, there were no more than two hundred heavy cavalry left. The firefighter with the closest range was ready, but the thousand-fire snatcher was equipped with 2,000 large firearms, and a lead bullet was fired, and he did not clean the chamber of the gun, but threw it away, grabbed another musket on the ground and prepared to continue shooting. At this moment, the heavy crossbowman had also finished reloading, and as soon as the fire snatcher in front of them lay down, there was another volley of crossbow arrows like flying locusts. The heavy crossbow that could shoot through the plate-chain composite armor at a long distance, and even pierced through the gold stone at close range! The remaining less than two hundred heavy cavalry died under the crossbow arrows of the Norman pulley...... crossbow. ...,

This round of temptation made the Holy See like falling into an ice cellar. A total of 1,000 heavy cavalry, none of them managed to penetrate the opponent's fire network and reach the front of the formation.

"In that case, can we really win?"

"The firepower of the other side is so strong.

I'm afraid we'll be killed before we can rush to the front, right?!"

Although they didn't really say such words, the group of Holy See soldiers subconsciously turned their heads and looked at their comrades beside them, and they could clearly see such a meaning from the other party's eyes. And at this time, the Norman artillery was fired again. The mortar shells cut a high parabola and smashed directly into the array of the Holy See army. If a flowering bullet goes down, the Holy See army arranged in a dense array will suffer dozens, if not hundreds, of soldiers!

"It's really hard to do. Seeing this situation, Harold sighed with emotion In such a situation, in order not to be passively beaten, he had no choice but to charge forward! As long as there were enough troops to cross the opponent's firepower network and enter the hand-to-hand combat stage, the enemy's long-range superiority would be weakened! After Harold understood this, he immediately gave the order: "All the crusaders charge! Defend the glory of God and maintain the divine order!" But it was this cunning and ruthless commander who decided to use the soldiers who had been recruited by the Holy See in the name of the Crusaders as cannon fodder and use them to attract the Norman fire!

Harold shouted. Beside him, an archbishop sent by the Holy See shouted in the same way, cheering on the crusaders: "God promises to us, listen to you, pious believers! This is God's will! All people, all those who die in this glorious and holy war, will be washed away from the sins of their souls, and after death they will ascend to heaven!"

Encouraged by this, the Holy See's army fell back into madness. A total of 20,000 temporary signs, or rather, the Christian crusaders who volunteered, these ragged and poorly armed soldiers roared wildly, as vanguard, and at the same time as cannon fodder, and rushed towards the Norman lines.

These soldiers are scattered, fanatical and unshakable, and although poorly equipped, they are the craziest army in the world, and in this era, the so-called madness, from another point of view, is morale. In addition, there is another saying that it is very likely to be a fact, in the era of cold weapons, the most important thing for the two armies to compete is morale! The side with high morale will win!

"Of course, morale is a very important factor, but it is not absolute. People who think that victory can be achieved by morale are either desperate and self-anesthetized, or they are still living in the Middle Ages. Today's era is a contest of training, regularization, and tactics. And in this war, it is a contest between the intensity of firepower and the density of personnel. One side charges, the other side holds, and if the number of soldiers they use to charge with bows exceeds the number of barrages of muskets, crossbows, longbows, and artillery we can throw at ranged attacks, they win. ”

At this moment, seeing the other party's fanatical charge, Egil couldn't help but sneer, said the words one by one, and then turned to Talelang, who had just returned with a quill in his hand, an inkwell and a notebook: "Write this paragraph of mine as well." ”

The surrounding knights of the guards were speechless when they saw Egil's attitude. It seems that the emperor did not look at the other party at all. While pretending to be a biography, he was directing the battle...,

Of course, in fact, it is not Egil who is now commanding the battle, but General Basumi, who is a firefighter at the forefront of the army, who manages the firearms unit, and is said to be about to be transferred to become the commander of the Praetorian Guard Corps. Egil gave her command of the front-line artillery, Praetorian fire grabbers, crossbowmen, and 10,000 new armies. And the work she has to do is very simple, just look at the opportunity and say the word: "shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot!!"

At that time, a single charge of the thousands of heavy cavalry had not yet brought the Norman army to full strength, with five hundred crossbowmen armed with the wrath of Egil, and five hundred firefighters armed with early firearms, and six thousand longbowmen and five hundred Sherwood marksmen waiting in the second column. These soldiers, who could project a large amount of fire in a short period of time, did not move at all in the previous fire coverage.

Other words......

"Okay, let them see what high-tech is. When the fanatical, distorted-faced cultists, the Crusaders braved the fire of their cannons, ignoring their comrades who had been pinned to the ground by the crossbows, and rushed madly within range of the longbows, Egil gave a faint order. With a few long and short trumpets, the 6,500 archers of the second column drew their bows and arrows, and the arrows rained down......

"Raise your shield!" The pulley crossbow could only shoot two or three arrows a minute, while the longbow could shoot more than twelve arrows a minute, six times as much.

For Christian crusaders, who had little armor, there was almost no difference between the two, as they were both things that would kill if they hit a place. The only difference was that they fantasized that the shoddy rattan, wooden shields, and skin shields in their hands could withstand the longbow and arrow rain that those who held composite shields and arranged them into a Roman tortoiseshell formation, which were a headache for everyone who held ...... composite shields.

The end result naturally looks like this:

Screams, screams, and even worse screams came and went, and the Normans were in purgatory,...。 ）