While many of the Balkan hill dwellers moved on, many more were frightened. He began to flee backwards without his life. As a result, the enemy's already poor formation became even more messy. This made Hunyadi feel very angry. Originally, the soldiers were in high spirits and wanted to win. But before the two sides could fight, their own troops were beaten by the enemy to this virtue. How good is that?!

Just as he was thinking this, at the front, the second round of shelling by the Normans began. Another salvo of hundreds of guns. In this era of dense formations. The bombardment of artillery can play a much greater role than you think. It was just two artillery salvos. The combined forces of Hungary and Romania lost more than a thousand troops.

"It's boring. "Seeing the enemy, he jumped up and down like a frightened rabbit, completely lacking the arrogant and active attack posture that he had before. Egil snorted. Begin to order your own army to be ready for battle. Then, there was the third round of shelling......

The third round of shelling was like the last straw that crushed the enemy - no, the salvo of hundreds of artillery pieces, it is really a bit inappropriate to use a straw analogy. But I couldn't find a better word to describe it. So I barely used straw - it was made of hundreds of pounds and 130 lead projectiles, which can be said to be the most important straw in the world.

After this "straw" fell on the heads of the coalition forces. The forward of the coalition forces completely collapsed. Even if it is a soldier with high morale, no matter how brave a soldier is. In the face of a dense artillery salvo, that earth-shattering power. will turn into the most timid cowards. Only regular infantry trained professionally in modern times can withstand such shocks.

"Offense. ”

Three artillery salvos have been completed. The Norman Emperor immediately gave the order to attack. Norman knights, Norman royal knights, knights of the Guard, hussars and Eastern European horseback militias all turned on their horses. Spear raised, saber and hammer wielded, the flail charged—this charge, in a sense, the same one that could go down in history—because the protagonist of this charge was changed from a knightly unit to a larger number of hussars—

The Norman Empire had an army of 150,000 troops, including knights, royal knights, and janissary knights, and more than 5,000 hoplites. At the same time, there were four hussar regiments, both old and new, for a total of 20,000 hussars. And now, two-thirds of this 150,000 army, that is, 100,000 troops, was handed over by Egil to his four marshals. At the same time, four thousand heavily armed knights and eight thousand hussars were separated. In this way, the Norman Emperor's headquarters had only a thousand heavy cavalry, and the Emperor's headquarters had twelve times the number of hussars!

Sure enough, the direction of development of this world is elite light cavalry. More flexible, more versatile, and more durable. In addition to this, a strong charge is essential.

On the tower, the Emperor watched as the horses galloped—a small number of knights barely visible in the sea of Nohussars and equally lightly armed cavalry...... At this point, the emperor already had a plan in mind - to reform the system of knightly troops after this. Reduced the weight and coverage of the Knight's armor. At the same time, the installation of vests will be abolished. Transform these hoplites into standard lancers.

- 1,000 heavy cavalry, 12,000 hussars, and ...... 30,000 horse-mounted militia and nomadic cavalry. Together, there were forty-three thousand cavalry troops. When the Normans opened up the phalanxes as a disguise, revealing their heavy cavalry, the opposing coalition was stunned for a moment. Such a chaotic formation, and the morale that has been hit. In such a situation, in the face of a cluster charge of the enemy's large cavalry. Defeat looks so close to ......

Hunyadi knew that if he didn't do anything about it in this situation, then the war would really end in defeat!

"Cavalry, charge!!" said Hunyati, drawing his saber, and at the same time holding up his teardrop-shaped shield adorned with images of the Virgin, the Icon of Jesus, and angels, which he aimed at his soldiers, and cried out to them: "Look, warriors, we need not be afraid! We are bound to win!!"

The "Emperor" skillfully persuaded his cavalry, whether it was his lineage of Vadateri archers or the Serbian knights who had taken refuge in him. Or the Hungarian hussars. All were inspired. They shouted loudly. And then, led by Hunyadi, launched a charge against the Norman cavalry, which was twice as large as them!

"The right choice. On the opposite side, Egil, with a telescope in hand, nodded, secretly admiring his opponent's determination - in such a situation, the chaotic infantry force could not sustain itself. The infantry, who had lost their morale and formation, and whose equipment was not right, would never be able to stop so many cavalry charges. At such times, the desperate tactic of cavalry charge is the only effective way to deal with it.

"'It's just, it's still too much to take for granted. My warriors are completely different from your dirty dregs......" Egil chuckled and uttered such words of contempt.

Indeed, the Hungarians, the once king of nomads. The Vadaterri archers combined the skills of the Romans with the fierce elite warriors of the Hungarians. And the Serbian knights are also an elite in the Balkans. But it's not enough. Far from enough. Far from enough—if there was anyone they could compare themselves to in Egil's army, it was the irregular Eastern European equestrian militias—

No, in fact, Egil felt that they were not even comparable to their own horseback militia. After all, their own horse militia and nomadic cavalry are all trained in reserves. and even semi-professional soldiers who once went to the battlefield and competed with the Mongols. In particular, after the implementation of autumn drills in recent years, the combat effectiveness of these reserve units has increased considerably. They are quite comparable to the professional troops of the average country.

As a result, two cavalry units, one strong and one weak, slammed together. It was as if two torrents had slammed into each other. The weaker side was scattered at once. It's like now. Hungary and Yugoslavia had the same cavalry. Their knights and cavalrymen in the front row, under the cover of the archers, launched a counter-charge. Combine bows with lightly armed cavalry, and knights and hussars and mounted militiamen under the cover of a barrage of hussars armed with cavalry crossbows. The final result ended in the complete defeat of Hungary and the Slavs.

Washed out, washed away, the front was torn apart, forcibly cut out large and small openings. Then he was forcibly interspersed by the Norman hussars, the knights and the royal knights. The screams of the cavalry and the wailing of the horses were heard one after another. On the battlefield, however, the loudest voices are not the screams of the dying. It's the roar of the Normans!

"For the great Egil. For the sake of the Holy Norman Empire!!"

Similar roars were heard endlessly. Knights and hussars charged repeatedly, playing a symphony of terror called war with spears and tomahawks, sabers and armor-piercing hammers. Every cavalry can be regarded as a musical note, and all Normans are powerful and highest.

At this point, there is no suspense about the war.

There is little strategy, no stratagem. No calculation, no thinking, no commanding, no art, no no, no, no no...... Just a very simple charge, a very, very simple tactic. Even a barbarian who can't read a single word can do the work that can be done - just say, "Charge." "The word. After that, you don't have to worry about it. The horde of Norman's cavalry will take care of everything for him.

Seeing that the opponent's tens of thousands of troops were most of them killed by their own army's charge. Egil thought it was interesting at first. But when you think about it, it's a little boring. Later, Egil thought about it for a while, and then remembered that he could still give such an order: "The whole army is attacked." ”

...... Well, this one seems to be a more boring version of the previous one. Hungary, which had already been defeated, had no ability to resist after being attacked by Norman infantry groups again. It was a complete collapse. The 60,000-strong army fled in disarray, and finally managed to escape back to Budapest, with less than 3,000 men. The rest of the army was captured, killed, or fled to an unknown location. And their "emperor" Hunyadi died in the chaos.

And the losses of the Norman army were...... Less than a thousand. Among them, more than 200 were killed (including non-combat attrition), and more than 500 were seriously injured and could not be recovered. This was not a problem at all for the Norman Emperor, who had an army of 150,000. That is, his army also has extremely vigorous combat effectiveness. You can continue to fight.

Thus the war ended with a complete victory for the Normans. The Kingdom of Romania, which had just been established for a short time, fell, and the Kingdom of Hungary, which had been inherited for a long time and had the reputation of the Holy Aegis of Christ, died.

Hunyadi, a man with the ambition of a falcon, did not escape the minions of the Norse wolf king in the end. Although this "emperor" also had two sons. But none of them came of age. In such a war, it is absolutely impossible to maintain the advantages of Hunyadi. In this way, the country built by this generation of heroes rose and fell. It was just a wave in the tide of history, and then disappeared......

(To be continued)