While the Norman hussars were fighting more with less, suppressing the Allied light cavalry and unable to move, at the other end of the battlefield, the Celtic warriors also launched an attack on the Allied positions.

In the same way, the Celts did not invest a large number of troops to attack directly, as the other side imagined. In fact, after losing to Joan of Arc at the Battle of Paris that year because of such tactics, Artoria abandoned this style of play.

Artoria ordered her large numbers of longbowmen from the Welsh woodlands, and heavily armed shieldlancers armed with heavy chain mail, oval-rimmed shields, and two-and-a-half-meter-long spears to advance slowly. The hoplites mixed with the archers, the spearmen formed four columns of shields, and the longbowmen hid behind the walls, and a total of 20,000 Celtic soldiers marched forward at a slow, but unusually determined pace. Immediately afterward, it stopped outside the range of the opponent's crossbow.

"Is our projection unit out of range?!"

Seeing that the other party had chosen such a tactic, Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu, standing on the hill in the middle, thought in her heart, "It's going to be bad", and immediately asked the nearest warrior with a compound bow.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness Princess, but the enemy is too far away. We can't reach them. The archer replied.

"Damn it...... English Longbow...... Her Royal Highness snorted softly twice and muttered: If this continues, her army will be beaten passively because of the lack of range, which will cause low morale. However, if the front was to advance, then her army would not be able to take advantage of the hilly terrain for defense. At the same time, the army is moving forward, which will inevitably cause confusion in the formation. What if the enemy attacks at this time?

At this moment, Her Royal Highness seemed to see the other side, the pale-skinned, cold-faced woman smiling at herself—this was a provocation. Her Royal Highness would never allow this to happen.

"The whole army - forward. The Guards are ready!"

Eventually, Her Royal Highness made up her mind to move forward and respond head-on to this provocation, while ordering her private soldiers, the so-called Guards, to prepare from gladiatorial slaves, from those who had defected to her, or the elite samurai she had excavated. in order to cope with the surprise attack of the other side.

However, after seeing the opponent's movements, Artoria on the opposite side still did not give the first order to charge, but ordered: "Longbowmen shoot, throw five rounds at the fastest speed, use armor-piercing cone-headed arrows." ”

The Celtic longbowmen were quite different from the Norman longbowmen. Norman's longbowmen units were uniformly armed with light chain mail, round shields, and long swords for melee combat. In fact, the Norman longbowmen did do some advanced lethal training in addition to contacting the bow and arrow. In the Battle of Budapest that year, the Norman longbowmen did draw their swords after running out of ammunition......

But the Celtic longbowmen were not equipped with chain mail, shields, or swords - only a small number of longbowmen were armed with daggers, hand axes, and other weapons for close combat. But this is just the personal behavior of the soldiers. There is no official such provision in the military.

That is, these longbowmen are used for ranged attacks, and only for ranged attacks. Their equipment consisted only of longbows and arrows. The money saved could be used to equip other Celtic soldiers......

After entering the firing range, the Celtic longbowmen opened their bows and arrows, and fired at the Eastern Roman army without stopping. The hoplite brigades of the three regular armies were fine. The tortoiseshell array is the most powerful way to defend against projectile weapons, although there are unlucky ghosts to the south who are killed by stray arrows that pass through the gaps in the shields. But it was soon filled by the Roman heavy infantry behind him. Maintain the neatness of the front. And the heavy chain mail and helmets on their bodies can also protect their bodies to the greatest extent. Therefore, under the intensive rain of arrows of the Celtic longbowmen, the casualties of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry were not very large.

But behind them, the light infantry, hammermen, and daggers of the Eastern Roman garrison, who were thrown and struck by arrows falling from the sky, were not so lucky. These improvised peasant soldiers were poorly equipped. The only amount of leather armor and light chain mail did not help them, effectively defending against the armor-piercing cones fired by a well-known longbow. ,

- Because the Eastern Roman army was lined up with hoplites. As a result, the longbowmen who targeted them and believed that the Eastern Roman army was such an elite heavy infantry misjudged and used more lethal but more expensive armor-piercing arrows. Of course, this further exacerbated the casualties of the Eastern Roman conscripted peasants and sub-units.

It was not easy to pull the array off the hill and rearrange it. Even an army like the Eastern Romans, which has always been known for its "civilized" and "neat", spent a lot of effort, and during this period of time, the Celtic longbowmen completed five rounds of shooting, a total of 5,000 longbowmen, and threw more than 20,000 arrows in an instant, which fell on the heads of the Eastern Roman army like a torrential rain. The number of casualties caused may not be very many. However, the deterrent effect was so strong that the peasants and sub-units of the Eastern Rome panicked, and the formation became more chaotic.

And it was after this that Artoria finally gave the order.

"Attack, Lightning Infantry!"

Completely emulating the Norman army, the benefits of conveying orders by voice are obvious. The knights of the Guards under Artoria blew their horns. Signaling the so-called lightning infantry to begin the attack.

The so-called lightning infantry was the assault infantry of the Celtic army, armed with two-handed swords, plate chain composite armor, and Norman helmets, and tall warriors from Ireland or Scotland. Their armor is highly defensive, with their slashing swords capable of slicing through human bodies and leather armor, and when faced with enemy hoplites, they will use their swords flat like an awl or spear to achieve armor-piercing effect.

With a total of 3,000 lightning infantry, it was the sharpest saber in Artoria's hands. At this moment, the hussars in her hands are fighting against the nomadic cavalry of the coalition, and the Celtic knights and heavy cavalry under her command are also fighting against the heavy cavalry of the coalition. On the front, then, the task of breaking through the enemy line was left to these two-handed swordsmen with powerful impact.

After this, the array of longbowmen and heavy spearmen in front of the Celts quickly opened. The soldiers gathered together to form a denser array and made way of the road ahead, opening up a few gaps in the blink of an eye. Immediately afterwards, the lightning infantry dressed in the red dragon heraldic robe, armed with swords, swarmed out and launched an attack on the Eastern Roman army, which was still hundreds of meters away!

The two-handed swordsmen walked briskly at first, then trotted faster and faster—and when they were still about five meters away from the Eastern Roman hoplites who had been arranged as a shield wall, they let out an earth-shattering roar, and increased their speed to the maximum, and launched a charge!!

"Hold your ground, don't be afraid of their !!"

The centurions of the Eastern Rome shouted this, and at the same time, the light infantry between the heavy infantry brigades - the javelinmen and slingers were the first to attack, they threw stones with slings, and threw javelins with all their might, but the light javelins, and the round stone projectiles were seldom effective, and the plate and chain composite armor that had been refined by the dwarven craftsmen was quite reliable, unless it was hit in the face. Otherwise, an attack of this magnitude would only give the infantry a pause at best. It's as if someone pushed them in front. Some people who don't have a good sense of balance may fall. However, the cotton lining of the plate chain composite armor can prevent them from falling because of this. As long as you get up and pat the dirt on your body, you can continue to rush forward.

Of course, there are some more tragic guys who have been hit in the face. I saw a lightning infantryman who had just been hit by two stone bullets, and the armor in his chest was dented by a large piece of it, and then he was gulping, ready to continue charging forward - as a result, a javelin was inserted into his left cheek, and the head of the spear went downward, piercing the throat and the major artery, and immediately "poof" The soldier shouted the above and pulled out the javelin, and then felt that the world was spinning, and his body felt very cold because of excessive blood loss, and then he fell to the ground, and his body twitched and did not move......

Those who were hit by stone bullets were better - some had their front teeth knocked out, some had their nose bones broken, some had their eyeballs blown out, and all of them were seriously injured and incapacitated. But I was able to leave a life behind. After treatment, there is also the possibility of returning to the battlefield. Of course, there are some guys whose skulls were directly cracked, and the red and white flowed all over the ground......

After a slight setback, the lightning infantry mostly rushed forward, raising their swords high and slashing the heads of the panicked Roman projectile infantry. And the hammermen, the daggers were no match for them, and the Irish, Scottish-style swords cut off their weapons and bodies very violently. Disemboweling and shattering - after all, these weapons are more suitable than tomahawks than cutting human bodies.

On the other side, the Eastern Roman hoplites, who had formed a wall of shields, were slightly better - they also stabbed their spears from the top of their shields and between the shields as they watched the lightning infantry rush towards them......