The impact of the centaur is much stronger than the Celtic queen imagined. Almost recklessly, as if committing suicide, these centaurs crashed into the shield wall and the tip of the spear on top of the large shield, killing them instantly. However, the force of the impact also knocked Celtic's heavily armed spearmen away. Immediately afterward, centaurs armed with giant axes and long knives swarmed in from the rift that had been knocked out, ignoring the defenses, and frantically brandishing two-handed weapons that were several sizes larger than human weapons, slashing and slashing, widening the gap......

In this way, these gaps continued to widen, eventually leading to the collapse of the entire front. Centaurs and nomads swarmed in, some continuing to attack the Celtic heavy spearmen who had been isolated by broken lines and forming back-to-back circles, while others rushed towards the second line.

"Damn, it's not going to go on like this!"

Artoria hated. These centaurs charged as powerful shock cavalry, and in hand-to-hand combat, they were powerful two-handed infantry. After seeing the lethality of the Celtic shield wall against the cavalry, Ayujie Khan decisively ordered a change in the way of fighting. The centaurs gave up the charge and moved slowly instead, sticking to it and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Celtic hoplites. These monsters, armed with long-handled battle axes, two-handed axes, two-handed broadswords, or scimitars, and other powerful weapons that can slash hard, excel in melee combat. Artoria was convinced that even the dwarven axe warriors she had seen, or the Norman assault infantry, had such thrilling and terrifying lethality.

In melee combat, the centaurs display almost unstoppable power. The nomadic soldiers also reacted quickly, knowing that they should not be dragging their allies back at this moment, and all of them broke away from the rear battlefield, formed a new cavalry group, and slaughtered the hussars and light archers who were slaughtering on both flanks of the array.

"It looks like this...... Perhaps the light archers are too numerous in the army......" Artoria looked to the side with a telecular in hand, and then frowned: "The main troops on the front line are usually more than the troops that carry out projection reinforcement attacks in the rear. However, Egil's military reform stipulated that each light cavalry regiment should have a total of 3,000 melee hussars and 2,000 light archers. In practice, however, this ratio was a bit excessive—in the midst of the melee, there were a large number of lightly armed archers who were not adequately protected and had to go into battle. In terms of equipment, they were a little inferior to the hussars, and their performance in close combat was indeed unsatisfactory......

Of course, this was enough - a regiment of light cavalry of 5,000 men against a scattered nomadic hussar of less than 20,000 men. Such a comparison of combat power was still beneficial to the Normans. General Joseph ran and shouted at the front line. commanded the light cavalry to charge continuously, and when the number was less than half of the opponent's, he forcibly tore the opponent's array into several pieces. After that, they concentrated their relatively superior forces and annihilated them......

The battle on both flanks continued with the absolute superiority of the Normans. The astonishing combat effectiveness displayed by the Norman hussars made the Cumans feel terrified. There were even some timid Cumans who fled in disarray. The inappropriate situation on the two flanks forced the Centaur-Kuman army to divide part of its forces and transfer them to the two flanks to support. However, the frontal offensive effort was reduced......

"It's not the right formation...... It would be nice if we could add some more troops and make a detour to attack on the opponent's flank. Ayujie Khan muttered to himself. At the same time, messengers were sent to inform several other Cuman khans who were now attacking Moscow. Ask them to bring the army over to support. However, when the envoy returned, he only told Ayujie that the Cuman Khans had said that they were currently concentrating all their forces to attack Moscow, so they had no time to come to support. It's up to him to figure it out for himself.

"A bunch of incompetent waste, just thinking about how to rob after the city is broken?!" Ayujie scolded angrily: "I knew that I would have concentrated more centaur warriors......"

At this moment, although some centaur warriors were dispatched to support the two flanks, the pressure on the frontal and Celtic second lines of defense was reduced a lot. But the Centaur's wild attack still made it difficult for the Celtic heavy spearmen to support. When those red-eyed centaur warriors, with more than a dozen arrows stuck in their bodies, half of their arms cut off, and even their intestines rotten, still insist on fighting, and their brute strength is undiminished, I believe that the vast majority of people will feel fear. ...,

"Strange, monster!!"

Seeing that a intestine was torn out in half, the centaur with a fierce light in his eyes thought that he rushed over, and several Celtic soldiers finally had a nervous breakdown, so they wailed and turned around to escape.

"Don't go!

Artoria gritted his teeth, separated the third line of defense, and the longbowmen behind the second line, and with a wave of the sword of victory and oath, he cut a deserter in two: "Whoever dares to escape, Lone will kill him! If you can escape, how can your family escape?! They are still waiting for you in the Isle of Britain! What if they learn that you have escaped?!"

It's half threatening, half encouraging. The Celtic soldiers on the front line also had to grit their teeth and continue to fight - the British Empire was similar to the Norman Empire, with harsh laws and strict management, and one joined the army with honorable family and one deserter with the whole family......

Of course, such a threat alone is not enough. Artoria looked again, and felt that at this moment there would not be much to play in the second-line command post. So as soon as he gritted his teeth, he gave the order to the knights of the guard: "Forward!"

As a result, among the Norman army, the most powerful troops today, the whole body is covered by finely forged heavy plate armor, and the guards knights who are equipped with one-handed halberds, which can be chopped and pierced and can pierce armor, entered the battlefield with Artoria's order, and the Celtic queen, the Norman Queen, and Artoria, who is also recognized as the first warrior in the Norman Empire, rushed to the front of them!

In such close combat, it is very unwise to fight on a warhorse. Therefore, after rushing to the front line, these knights of the guard, armed with one-handed halberds and iris shields, quickly dismounted, formed several battle groups, and protected a position. Cooperate with each other to fight the centaurs - and so, for the first time, these terrifying monsters, who have been smooth sailing since the beginning of the war, can almost crush the entire battlefield, and encounter a terrifying opponent who can easily slaughter them!

The knights were heavily armoured, three millimeters thick of metallurgical improved heavy plate armor that even the large arquebuses of the Age of Enlightenment could hardly penetrate, let alone the shoddy tomahawks forged in the hands of centaurs. The sturdy and pliable armor counteracts the brute force of the opponent to the greatest extent, and the Knights of the Guard know how to make the least damage they take - if they are not aware of being hit, of course.

In fact, although they were wrapped in heavy armor, the skills of these guard knights were almost completely unaffected, and they were still able to complete a series of actions such as blocking and dodging with extraordinary flexibility. This is the advantage of plate armor, the weight is evenly distributed throughout the body, not like scale armor, which is borne by the shoulders and neck alone, and the heavy hem skirt armor will also affect mobility. Therefore, compared to it, plate armor, especially the plate armor that has been improved many times in the later period, is the best and most suitable armor.

At the same time, the attack power of these Guard Knights, who have amazing defense, makes the Centaur warriors exclaim, "These Tin Men can't be killed!" The attack power of these Guard Knights is also terrifying, and they systematically study the anatomy, and they know the weaknesses of human beings - although they are slightly wrong when fighting Centaurs. But the vital organs of the human body are basically concentrated in the upper body, which is absolutely true. So the knights of the Guards are often able to kill with one move. Sometimes, the centaurs who were attacked by these knights of the guards did not look badly injured on the outside, but on the inside, they were already like a mess of mush.

"These tin men are weird!"

"Most of them know sorcery! You'll have to call the shaman to come and see!"

The centaurs became suspicious after dropping hundreds of corpses, and their morale began to drop. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the knights of the guard divided into smaller units, in groups of ten, and swam around like firefighters, and when they saw a place that was badly attacked by centaurs, they immediately rushed to the rescue.

In this way, thanks to the efforts of the knights of the Guard, the defense line began to solidify. The white phoenix banner and the red dragon banner carried by the knights of the guard also greatly encouraged the Celtic spearmen and boosted their morale.

Unlike the artistic dismissal of these knights of the Guard, their commander, Her Highness the Empress, was quite violent, and even embarrassed the centaurs who could also be crowned with violent warriors - Artoria was the first to rush to the front, and the distinctive dark armor, as well as the special magic pattern and different face, immediately attracted the attention of several centaur warriors. The nomads did not rush to fairness like chivalry one-on-one, and several centaur warriors glanced at each other, and then attacked at the same time, two spears, one on the left and one on the right, and three centaurs in front of them, one of whom held a scimitar shield, and the other two with two-handed battle axes, and slashed at Egil!

In this case, Artoria did not dodge, holding the sword of victory and oath in both hands, and with a loud shout, he swept out a semicircle, and at that time, the combined attack of the five centaurs was dissolved at the same time!

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