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When all fifteen Norman guns were calibrated. The engineer officer who was the arsonist www.biquge.info Pen, Fun, and Pavilion turned his head and looked at General Farr with a hint of advice. The general nodded, "Hmm". After receiving the affirmation, the engineer officer turned around and waved his hand and shouted, "Fire!!"

In an instant, the mountains shook, and the flat ground thundered. A group of Norman No. 5 horses next to them raised their front hooves in a panic, and the Norman knight immediately pulled the reins to appease them to prevent the horses from getting out of control. A total of fifteen guns fired in unison. Although it is not as impressive as last year's Battle of Burgundy, the hundreds of artillery pieces are as impressive. But it was enough to scare the other party, those unseen ravine savages.

Only fifteen projectiles were thrown out, and they were fired straight towards the Swiss position. Ten twenty-four-pounder infantry guns were flat-fired, while five four-inch mortars were curved-fired. The shells of the ten infantry guns were made of solid shells, and after adjusting the angles, they suddenly opened a few bloody alleys among the earthen walls, or the Swiss on the dirt hills.

Those in the first row were cut off by half, the back rows had their abdomen popped, the back rows were chested, and finally the neck and head...... Because of the high terrain of the earth mountain, the flat-firing infantry artillery shot out in a diagonal line, so there was such a bloody and curious scene.

The lower half of the men's bodies, three-quarters or headless corpses fell crackling, and then the upper body, a quarter of the body, and the head, were beaten into a large pile of three-ripe minced flesh, crackling like a rain of blood falling on the other survivors.

Artur, the boy who had just turned eighteen and was fighting for the first time, was a lucky, or unlucky, fellow. He was not hit by a Norman shell. Immediately afterwards, there was a large patch of half-cooked flesh and blood on his body. One of them fell on his head.

The boy, who was a little stupid by the scene in front of him, subconsciously reached out and took off the half-cooked piece of meat, and put it in front of him - he saw that it was the half of the head of some unlucky ghost, still leaking out of his brains...... On the half of his face that was still well preserved, the eyes that were so immortal were still staring at him.

"Ahhhhhh!!!!hh There was a dense layer of goosebumps on his body, and he screamed uncontrollably. And with this scream of his. The soldiers around him, who were also terrified, screamed in horror - and turned around to jump off the earthen wall.

When they turned around, they saw an even more horrific scene than before—the flowering shells fired by the mortar cannons were even more horrific than the solid ones. Five flowering bombs exploded just under the earthen wall, in a dense array of Swiss. The Swiss soldier in the middle of the explosion was torn apart.

And the Swiss soldiers in the blast range were not without anything at all. If you are unlucky, you will have half of your head cut off by shrapnel, or you will be shot through the chest and abdomen, and you will definitely not be saved. The slightly more fortunate one was hit in the limbs and lost his hands, feet, arms and legs. If you can get through it, it's a disability, and if you can't get through it, it's just a breath more than the bad luck.

On the earthen wall, the Swiss, who was about to jump down, saw that the bottom of the earthen wall was also a mess, and it was extremely miserable. It was even more terrifying. The morale was completely lost, and they fled in all directions. However, they didn't get far away. The Norman army was in the front and delivered a second round of blows. I saw hundreds of Norman longbowmen wearing half-body plate armor quickly stepped forward, and a round of projectiles was like a rain of locust arrows.

The Swiss mountain people were poorly equipped and wore leather armor. The vast majority of them are clothed in battle. Nature can't stop the rain of longbows and arrows. After one round of shooting, the Swiss screamed even louder. The Norman longbowman had already received the order, and after one round of shooting, he did not rest, and after five rounds of rapid fire in a row, his tired arms ached, and then he retreated. Looking at the Swiss side again, the screams that were originally louder were left for a while, and only a few people were left to wail intermittently......

Those who were slower on their legs and feet, who were less lucky, were dead in a moment—there was no longer a single figure to be seen on the hill on which the Normans had been used to hold back them.

"Okay!" the longbowmen scattered, and the crossbows stepped forward and quickly occupied the territory mountain!" General Farr applauded, and then continued to give orders. The longbowmen at the front immediately scattered to the flanks and made way for them. The Emperor's Wrath crossbowman, armed with a repeater, quickly advanced and climbed the dirt mountain as fast as he could. This was followed by the new Norman Army.

Watching the other side bombard, and then another round of bows and arrows. Then they will scatter their own forwards. The Swiss army was in turmoil. But he is not willing to accept such a situation. At the shouts of the officers, the old mercenaries, thousands of Swiss soldiers, roaring angrily, charged at the dirt hill, intending to retake the position.

"Aim, fire!!"

What awaited them was a much more dense and deadly storm of repeating crossbows than the previous rain of longbows and arrows! General Farr had 5,000 new troops under his command, and each team of 1,000 men had 50 repeating crossbowmen. A team of five thousand men is two hundred and fifty, and one round of shooting is two hundred and fifty crossbow arrows.

And a dirt mountain is not high, but it is not far away. It's almost a minute away too. According to the slogan of a repeating crossbowman with one arrow per second, that is, 60 crossbows, and 250 people, that is, 75,000 arrows! In total, every Swiss who recoil over must be hit with 75 crossbow arrows! No matter how elite and fierce the general is, he will be helpless! Of course, we can also see from this that the repeating crossbowman is a kind of army that consumes money and materials.

Of course, this is just a general calculation, and in fact, on the battlefield, it is not at all the same. At that time, when I saw the buzzing on the opposite side - a rain of arrows like flying locusts, shooting at me continuously. The more than a thousand Swiss soldiers who rushed over were already dumbfounded. The first group was shot like hedgehogs. The rest of them looked inappropriate, turned around and ran. An attack, from the opponent's charge to retreat, only a dozen seconds. Hundreds of corpses were found underneath the dirt mountain.

Looking at some of the hedgehog-like corpses that were still trembling slightly, as if they were not dead. The Swiss army gasped, but it did not dare to launch another army to counterattack the Normans.

And they did not dare to counterattack. The Norman army, however, still did not want to let them go. When the Norman phalanx infantry stepped forward, they combined with the repeating crossbowmen again to form a typical Norman phalanx fire. General Farr also ordered the Great Army to move forward. With the Norman new army as the vanguard, in turn, a charge was launched against the Swiss under the dirt mountain.

Immediately afterward, the two sides fought on the narrow mountain road. Just now, the Norman army, with its sharp long-range weapons, has severely wounded the Swiss. At this moment, it is still not far away. After a condescending charge had crushed a number of Swiss troops, the Norman phalanx halted its advance and wounded the Swiss from a distance with crossbows and muskets, forcing the Swiss to turn around and fight their own. At the same time, the Norman longbowmen, who followed suit, climbed the dirt mountain to throw a rain of arrows.

As a last resort, the Swiss launched several more attacks, and the final result can be imagined, all of which ended in failure. So the Swiss army continued to retreat, and the Norman phalanx advanced unhurriedly, followed by longbowmen. The phalanx always stopped within range of the repeating crossbow muskets. Then the longbow and crossbow muskets were fired at the Swiss......

In this way, several times in a row, the Norman army, with its sharp long-range attack, beat the Swiss without any temper. After a day of fighting, the Swiss army was scattered, then gathered again to charge, and then again scattered...... When it encounters dirt hills or hills, artillery bombardment is brought in. Such a continuous battle. The Norman army advanced about three kilometers. The number of killings and wounding in the Swiss was in the thousands. and simply occupied a camp of the Swiss.

Of course, they also paid quite a lot of materials. In total, hundreds of thousands of crossbow arrows, as well as tens of thousands of bows and arrows were consumed. This made the baggage soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield after the war quite unhappy - they had to be busy for hours to find the arrows lost on the battlefield - the shafts of the arrows could be dispensed with. But the steel arrowheads had to be recycled.

On the second day, the remnants of the Swiss retreated, not daring to fight the Normans again. At the same time, the Swiss commander, who commanded this army, also conveyed the information to the Swiss parliament in Bern.

Having learned the whole story of the battle, the Swiss looked at each other - they would not have been able to win if they had fought the Normans in the mountainous terrain they were best at. So what the hell can be done to stop these crazy and terrifying conquerors?!

For a time, there was a quarrel in the Swiss parliament. Some parliamentarians believe that the war can no longer continue. A truce must be found with the Norman Empire. Some even suggested that they could betray Germany's "allies" as a greeting gift, and even cede some national interests.

However, such a proposal was quickly dismissed as "cowards" and "traitors" by a larger and more radical number of Swiss parliamentarians. Crack down. And the speaker of the Swiss parliament, who is also a radical, took the opportunity to suppress dissent. Incitement of public opinion. Falsify evidence of collusion with the Normans by the parliamentarians of the Lord and the Lords. Sent them to the guillotine. In this way, they strengthen their rights.

"You're going to ruin Switzerland! The reading power and freedom we've so hard won will be ruined in your hands! You're a traitor!!

When the guilty verdict was announced, one of the most agitated members shouted at the Speaker, his voice full of grief and indignation......

(To be continued)