The one who slaughtered the scout force was naturally the first-class scout unit and longbowman under Egil's command, Sherwood Marksman. Sherwood's 200-strong marksmen circled around the Norwegian Black Forest and strangled nearly twice as many Finnish hussars, greatly slowing down the Swedish army's advance and demoralizing the Swedish army to a certain extent. A few hundred well-trained Finnish light cavalry is a decent force. In the end, he didn't even make a move, and lay down in the Norwegian Black Forest. This also cast a shadow over Gustav's heart.

"It seems that the other party is not easy to deal with. "Gustav had an army of 27,000 men, and the Finnish light cavalry numbered only 1,500. This is a loss of nearly a third. Anyone who changes it will feel pain. Coupled with the fact that the entire city of Biad had just been sacked, the whole army had made a windfall from top to bottom. The short-sighted soldiers are now fantasizing that after returning to their hometowns, they will use this large amount of money to buy a house and a wife, and then live a good life as a rich man. If you hang up at this time, it won't be cost-effective.

The military's mind changed.

The army is like a falcon, and if you want the falcon to obey, you have to make it hungry and hungry. If you don't have enough to eat, you will work hard (kill), and if you don't starve to death, you will have the strength to work (kill). But this time, this eagle, called the Swedish army, was eating and dying...... A total of more than 400,000 gold coins. Even according to the principle of fifty-fifty sharing, there are still 200,000 gold coins left. The officers and nobles have 100,000 gold coins, so there are 100,000 gold coins left. Well, each of the more than 20,000 soldiers received at least five gold coins. I took five gold coins, five gold coins -- a copper plate, a black bread, a silver coin, a chicken, a gold coin, and an acre of land. Five gold coins are five acres of land......

Well, it doesn't seem like much.

In short, the well-fed Swedes don't want to move. I want to go home. Special don't want to die.

When I was a poor man before, I died when I died. Anyway, there is a bad life, there is nothing but life, it is better to fight, it is impossible to fight for wealth. The so-called horizontal are afraid of being stunned, the flute is afraid of dying, and the barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes...... This is the reason why the northern barbarians were able to win the battle against the rich and noble families in the south.

So, the Swedes now have money - the richer they are, the more afraid they are of death, and the more well-dressed they are, the more they are afraid of splashing blood. This has been true since ancient times.

It's still the same sentence, and the military's mind has changed.

At this moment, King Gustav also regretted it, if the Norwegians were weak in combat, then with the Swedish Iron Legion that he had trained with his own hands, and the command ability of his own bunker, it would still be a great victory...... However, the Norwegians have already shown their combat effectiveness in terror. At least Gustav thought to himself, there was no such terrible army of archers in his army, who could sneak through the jungle without being detected and eat nearly five hundred elite hussars.

However, at this moment, Gustav is already riding a tiger. Like other kings, he had his own ambitions. Dominate the whole of Northern Europe, dominate the Baltic Sea, and even dominate the European continent, and complete Alexander's feat. What man would refuse these merits?

So, just like Egil sees him as the biggest stumbling block at the moment. He also saw Egil as the greatest obstacle - a monarch who was very good at collecting money, gathering hearts and rulers, and using a sophisticated army - and it was better for such a person to die quickly.

Therefore, Gustav gritted his teeth and completely ignored all obstacles, ignored the gradually declining morale of the army, ignored the territory that was constantly invaded by Norwegian pirates, and ignored the Baltic coast with a turbulent dark tide. Hold on and continue to advance towards Egil's great army.

Eventually, after thinking about it, Egil retreated fifty kilometres, giving up a large area of land in front of the Norwegian Black Forest, including the road from Biard to Oslo, as a military camp for the Swedes. And wrote the war book. Ask the Swedes to engage them in three days' time.

i.e. the Battle of the Black Forest in Norway.

Egil's army totaled more than 24,000 (although more than 1,000 were placed in the newly acquired Danish territory, but with the Oslo defenders, the number was still about the same). Except for the light cavalry, which was inferior to the opponent, the rest of the troops won on all fronts. And Sweden had a total of more than 27,000 troops, which was the opposite of the Norwegians. Except for the light cavalry, which was stronger than the others, the rest of the troops were defeated on all fronts - however, Egil took a slight look and saw that against the more than 20,000 horses, all of them were professional troops, and the most of them were shield spearmen equipped with leather armor. On board Gustav has a terrifying command ability of up to twelve points, and seven points of virtue, plus the special skills of a Nordic lion...... I'm afraid this battle will still be fought.

For the next three days, both sides were accumulating strength at the same time. Egil hurried to think about tactics, while Gustav seized the time to stabilize the morale of the army. After that, on June 8, 1001, the Swedish and Norwegian armies met in the Oslo area.

Yes, the sky is clear and cloudless. The weather is good, the wind direction is south-northwest, and the wind force is 1 to zero. To put it bluntly, there is basically no wind. As a result, the bow is minimally affected. The hit rate has increased dramatically, which is undoubtedly good news for Egil, who has a gorgeous long-range lineup of 1,500 longbowmen, 2,000 crossbowmen, and 200 Sherwood marksmen.

Thus, in the first round of attacks, the Norwegians took the lead - the crossbowmen of the first line were half-crouched, then the crossbowmen of the second line were standing in a loose formation, and the crossbowmen of the third column were staggered in the middle of the crossbowmen of the second line. In this way, it was possible to ensure that the crossbowmen of the first three columns fired horizontally at the same time - although the pulley crossbow and the Yuanrong crossbow had not yet been invented, nor did the "high-tech" equipment such as standard gears and bronze triggers. But the technique of pedaling the string (tensioning the crossbow) has matured. This greatly increases the attack power and range of Egil's crossbowmen. Armor-piercing ability has been greatly increased. The combat effectiveness has increased a lot.

And seeing the three-row crossbowmen formation arranged by the other party, Gustav on the other side is also a person who has experienced a hundred battles, so he can naturally see the benefits of this array. Three rows of crossbowmen take turns firing, creating a finer network of crossbows. It is difficult for the opposing troops to charge forward. However, such a formation has high requirements for the training quality of the soldiers. Looking at the neat formation cut out of the opponent's tofu blocks, whether it is cavalry, melee infantry or projection infantry, they are all extremely neat. Gustav's heart couldn't help but "pop". Before that, he had never heard of an army with such a terrifying level of training, except for the phalanx infantry and legionnaires of ancient Rome and Greece.

"But...... And even so, so what? Didn't Rome eventually be destroyed by us barbarians? What was the use of just walking nicely?"

Despite the self-consolation, however, it is an indisputable fact that the other side is a strong, well-trained army. Gustav was 120,000 careful. Quickly adjust the formation, and the spearmen and heavy shieldmen with large shields were transferred, replacing the Nordic Guards, who were originally in the front line with two-handed axes. At the same time, the Finnish light cavalry galloped out from both flanks of the Swedish army like beans. Protected the flank of the Swedish army. King Gustav no longer had the intention of forcing an attack, but wanted to let Egil attack first. Force it to change formations and make plans again.

However, Gustav's careful thinking did not come to fruition in the end, and in the middle of this, all the half-crouched crossbowmen in the first row of Egil's command stood up. Then the whole army marched forward fifteen paces, just outside the crossbowman's farthest range.

"Even if that's the case, there's a chance...... And at such a range, the attack power of the opponent's crossbow bolts is not very large...... "Gustav calculated, and then came to such a conclusion, and decided to continue to hold his troops.

The battle continued. At this moment, the main array under Egil's command had stopped advancing all of a sudden. Immediately after that, the longbowmen moved forward, under the command of Robin Hood, the captain of the longbowmen, divided into a dozen rectangular arrays, and aimed at the Swedish army on the opposite side (the longbow has a greater range than the crossbow). At the same time, the three columns of crossbowmen continued to advance.

"Damn. ”

Seeing that the plan to take advantage of the chaos to collapse the opponent's formation has no room for implementation. Gustav gritted his teeth and ordered the first array to advance - at the same time, the Finnish light cavalry on each flank of the Swedish army drew a hundred light cavalry and charged from both flanks to the center against the crossbowmen array under Egil's command. Egil was-for-tat, three thousand elite mercenaries on both wings, and the dwarven room guards formed a phalanx of spears and stepped forward quickly, ready to block the opposing cavalry.

At this moment, the crossbow array has entered the optimal range. The three columns of the formation were aimed at the swarming Swedish shield spearmen and fired fiercely, and together with the longbowmen of the second column of the formation, the rain of arrows that covered the sky fell again beside the Norwegian Black Forest.

So, a barbarian is a barbarian after all. Under such a combination of bows and crossbows, the Swedish army soon fell a large number of men. However, because of Gustav's strong command ability and high virtue support, it has not collapsed. However, this situation soon disappeared. The Swedish shield spearmen arranged the monkey version of the tortoiseshell formation in the manner exclusive to the barbarians, that is, the tortoiseshell formation of three columns of shields. It's a little bit of a slow push. In this way, although there are still some people who will be shot by stray arrows. But the casualties are no longer serious.

At the same time, the Finnish light cavalry roared in, and the pikes of the chamber guards were close at hand......

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