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The Swiss in the middle put up a hard fight. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info And General Farr immediately sent more elite soldiers in the direction of the middle lane. The Norman army opened the way with bows and crossbows. Attack in groups of infantry and charging infantry. Attacks were launched against the backbone of the Swiss.

Facing a powerful offensive from the Norman Empire. The Swiss seem to be overwhelmed. Although some young, inexperienced Swiss still want to fight with super long guns. But the older, more experienced Swiss mercenaries had already given up those weapons. Switch to hand-to-hand combat with short weapons. After all, in mountainous terrain, a four- or five-meter-long spear is too cumbersome.

In several successive failures. Suffer heavy casualties in battle. And after losing quite a few hilly positions. The Swiss are also learning to be more well-behaved. When the Norman Empire unleashed a rain of arrows, they crouched down and curled up behind their shields. Immediately afterwards, when Norman's hoplites charged in a group, they also charged. The infantry of both sides became entangled. The tomahawk sword slashed violently. It's a mess.

"Really...... It is worthy of a mountain monkey who grew up in the mountains. The fight is quite two-handed. "Seeing that his own side charged several times, although he took advantage of it, he couldn't directly tear and defeat the opponent's array as he imagined. General Farr, standing on a hill, snorted softly. I don't know if it's a compliment or a disparagement.

"But that's it for a while. Artillery will be delivered in no time. When the time comes, a few shells will be bombarded. No matter how strong an army is, it will crumble. Next to General Farr, one of his guards knights replied.

"Not necessarily...... The enemy can be regarded as tenacious. General Farr thought for a moment, but did not agree with what the knight had said. After a while, the Norman engineers in the rear, leading mules and horses, pushed sports carts, and finally transported a few guns to the front line. General Farr looked at it a little strangely.

"Why are there only five mortars?!, what about infantry guns?"

"The mountain roads are difficult, and the twenty-pounder infantry guns are too heavy, and beyond that, because the infantry guns are flat-fired. So it can't be used in the mountains. So we're just barely pulling these five mortars over. Hearing General Farr's words, there was a vague dissatisfaction, but the captain of the engineer said this neither humbly nor arrogantly.

General Farr, however, was not a man who did not know what to do, and nodded yes after hearing this. The words appeased the engineers. Then they were asked to set up their artillery and bombard the opposing army.

At this moment, the Norman army launched another attack. Open the way with assault infantry and cover with longbows and heavy crossbows. By this time the war had been underway, the Norman army had consumed a lot of bows and arrows. Some longbowmen have lost their ranged attack capabilities. At the same time, the Norman infantry was almost depleted of axes. The Normans lost some of their long-range support, which is why the Swiss have been able to hold out until now.

Seeing the other party again-I don't know how many times it was attacked. The Swiss mountain people once again took up their spirits and sacrificed their lives to fight. These veterans are no better than new recruits. I've eaten and seen a lot. I can also endure the pain. Some of them had their abdomen cut off and their internal organs flowed to the ground, but they still held down their enemies and jumped off the cliff to die with them. Others had several arrows stuck in their bodies, so they abandoned their defenses and attacked desperately, and fought with the Normans for a while before they died of exhaustion.

Such a fatal dispatch shocked the Norman army. At the same time, it also greatly limited the offensive of the Normans. In addition, the other party is condescending, and the equipment is much stronger than the average Swiss army. At the same time, he is also a mountain man who is good at mountain warfare. So for a while, the Norman army really couldn't help them. It is precisely for these reasons that General Farr said something like "these mountain monkeys have a way to fight" before.

In this way, the Norman army again left a pile of corpses halfway up the mountain. Reluctantly, I returned. And on the hills, the Swiss cheered again. It's just that compared to when the war first started, this cheer has less strength, and a little more hoarse and crazy. It sounds like a desperate, dying and struggling, trapped beast still fighting...... "launch." ”

Despite this, the cheers of the other party still made General Farr feel unusually unpleasant. Seeing that his army had suffered heavy losses, and seeing that the five mortars had been prepared, General Nafar snorted coldly and ordered the cannons to be fired.

So, after the final correction of the trajectory, the Norman engineers lit the fuse, and then immediately ran to the side and crouched down with their ears covered. Immediately after, with a loud sound, five landing flowering bombs roared and flew towards the hill where the Swiss were stationed. Two of the shells whizzed past and landed behind the mountain, but one shell exploded in front of the mountain. No more than two shells hit the target.

That's enough, though. Watch as the shells explode in the enemy. Blow up the Swiss in a dense array. General Farr finally laughed heartily.

Immediately after the shelling, the engineers got up and ran to the side of the gun, cleaned the chamber and pulled out the remaining black powder. At the same time, the gun that has been moved back slightly due to recoil is pushed back to the original position. Reload, aim, correct, reload gunpowder, and fire...... In this way, in half an hour, the Norman artillery fired a total of seven times. Killing and wounding the Swiss was secondary, but the blow to the morale of the Swiss was extremely serious. Although the Swiss mercenaries who had seen the Norman artillery shouted as hard as they could, telling his robes not to be afraid. But there were still some people who panicked and ran away aimlessly shouting nonsense such as "Devil!"

However, this figure was still within an acceptable range - the Chinese army, with presumably about 10,000 Swiss troops remaining, died after the Norman bombardment, and less than 1,000 collapsed. Nearly 10,000 Swiss still mustered up the courage and determination to continue fighting. And it was exactly as General Fall had thought...... A frontal breakthrough could not be made, but the battle on the left and right flanks went very smoothly. After being completely suppressed. The Swiss, in turn, attacked the Norman army on the hill twice, trying to break the disadvantage. The end result, however, was that more and more people were killed. Having heard about this situation, General Fall decided to try to persuade the Swiss to surrender.

Eventually, after some negotiations, General Fall pledged not to kill any surrendered Swiss, regardless of their status, and to try to persuade his emperor not to send the surrendered Swiss as drudgery to Eastern Europe as serfs. After these two conditions, the Swiss militia on both flanks laid down their arms and surrendered.

The number of Swiss prisoners counted after the war was around 13,000. In addition, a considerable number of Swiss fled, or were killed. General Fall therefore reasoned that the Swiss would not have more than 10,000 men today.

After persuading the enemy on both flanks. General Farr tried to persuade the captives to surrender the Swiss veterans in front of him. But in the end, the Swiss veterans killed two captives in quick succession who had gone up the mountain to persuade them to surrender. And the third, the captive who shouted at the bottom of the mountain, was also killed with a bow and arrow by the Swiss on the mountain.

I saw that three prisoners were killed in battle. General Farr was furious and continued to give the order to attack. The Norman army struck with hatred. In the end, they still did not occupy the hilly area held by the Swiss Chinese army.

"Damn it. "I saw that the sun was about to set. General Farr snorted coldly. muttered, "If it was in the plains, I would have cleaned up these bastards a long time ago." "But it's no use complaining. After a day of fighting, the Norman army was also tired. As a last resort, General Farr ordered his army to retreat a little and enter the camp where the baggage troops had just completed.

Although today got a big victory. But General Fall did not let his guard down because of this. Instead, he asked his soldiers to be on double alert. to prevent the Swiss from attacking at night.

In this way, the battle between General Farr's headquarters and the Swiss came to an end. The Normans won a great victory, but they did not win all. The Swiss suffered a crushing defeat, but they still retained what little strength they had. It's just that I don't know how long this poor army can be saved...... That night, a small group of Swiss decided to make a desperate attempt to attack at night. These men were armed with the remnants of the Swiss, the best armor they had gathered, the best swords, and a small amount of black powder obtained through special channels. There are also lighters. Each of them asked their fellow villagers to send a message to their families after their deaths. So each of them has nothing to worry about.

Then, their small army was crushed by the strictly guarded Norman guards without any suspense. From the hill, the Norman camp was in an uproar. The Swiss haven't had time to rejoice yet. The shouting had already subsided. In total, nearly 500 Swiss dead soldiers really became "dead" soldiers. And the last bit of hope of the Swiss is also small.

Wait until the next day. General Farr, on the contrary, was in no hurry to attack. He dispatched the army. Surrounded the hill that the Swiss had entrenched. cut off their water supply. Then bombarded with mortars. This slowly demolishes their morale...... Time passed like this. The Swiss people are still holding on, but they can't drink water. The little food that was left was almost gone. Bear the artillery bombardment every day, and the casualties are constantly ...... All this has caused the physical strength and morale of the Swiss to continue to decline.

Finally, on the sixth day, when the Swiss people on the mountain, because of hunger and thirst, were tired. Barely able to move, the final Norman attack began......

(To be continued)