Chapter 13: The Battle of Krakow (VI) is like a dream
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That's right, the elite troops built exactly according to the standards of the ironclad paladazions, the so-called private soldiers of Her Royal Highness the princess - a total of four hundred elite heavy cavalry, armed to the teeth. The one who controlled this force was the young officer specially dug out of the ironclad holy cavalry by Her Royal Highness the princess - although his character was a little worse, and he even had thoughts about Her Royal Highness, but he had no ability.
While the Celtic heavy cavalry was frantically abusing the steppe heavy cavalry, the officer saw the opportunity - completely ignoring the life and death of the steppe heavy cavalry and the feudal knights, he directly led his troops around the other side of the cavalry group, and then aimed at the flank of the Celtic heavy cavalry and launched a charge......
Unlike the ironclad paladiers, this elite cavalry used heavy cavalry spears in the Western European style. In terms of weight, deterrence, and lethality, it is much stronger than the spear of the oriental style. This mounted lance is very clumsy in close combat. But when it comes to charge, it's much more powerful than a spear.
A total of 400 heavy cavalry, under the command of the officer, quickly lined up in a wedge-shaped formation. A heavy horse, with a full suit of cavalry and horse scale armor, weighed almost more than five hundred kilograms, and hundreds of cavalry could rumble the ground when they ran.
It's just that if the opponent of this batch of heavy cavalry is someone else, then this time it will definitely succeed, and there is no need to say more. However, their opponents, the Celtic heavy cavalry, were no different from the Norman heavy cavalry - in this military reform, although the Celts did not have money to replace their equipment, but the tactical level was also improved. In particular, the heavy cavalry units that were most valued by Artoria. Egil has three scientific research institutes, and he has been continuously researching cavalry tactics and cavalry equipment, but at this moment, he is showing his power.
Seeing that the enemy's heavy cavalry was rushing towards - if it was an ordinary cavalry unit, the formation did not turn so quickly, and halfway through, the opponent would rush over. And if you don't count the formation, and only care about a single heavy cavalry turn, the formation will be chaotic, and it will not be the opponent of the opponent.
However, the Celtic heavy cavalry, in accordance with the Norman Sergeant Reform Regulations, used the same modified band charge tactics. Take the hundred-man team as a unit. The dispatch speed is not comparable to that of ordinary feudal cavalry.
"Turn around, turn around!!"
Seeing that the enemy's heavy cavalry was rushing over, the three Celtic heavy cavalry centurions who were on standby immediately shouted loudly: "Prismatic formation!
Immediately after that, the three heavy cavalry hundred-man detachment responded violently, and the well-trained cavalry maneuvered their horses, and soon arranged into a prismatic array—this prismatic array was similar in impact to a wedge formation, but it was still more flexible than that. It was especially suitable for the rapid reaction of cavalry - one of the three centurians was in the center, and the other two went around the flank of the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry, and immediately launched a counter-charge. In this way, it was the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry that was at a disadvantage in formation.
From the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry detouring next to the Celtic heavy cavalry, to the discovery of the Celtic heavy cavalry, changing formation and launching a charge, before and after only a few minutes, the Celtic heavy cavalry formation is smaller, the strength is not much, the formation changes quickly, so they can react quickly, but although the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry also saw that the formation was inappropriate, but because of the large number of them, and at the same time did not do similar training - even their officers did not know what to do in such a situation. had to be beaten both flanks, and was charged by the Celtic heavy cavalry, and the two wings were crushed......
And the front is slightly better, the Celtic heavy cavalry is well trained, but the Eastern Roman heavy cavalry is not bad, the loss ratio of the two sides is close to one to one, the war horse, the horse lance, the charge, all are extremely powerful. The heavy cavalry in the front row, along with their horses, were all killed, and then they were trampled into pulp by the iron cavalry of both sides, which continued to gallop. The howls were endless.
However, both sides will be people with iron hearts, such a tragic scene, but they can only make them more excited, after a collision, the Celtic heavy cavalry because of the advantage of formation, the battle loss ratio of the two sides is as high as 1 to 3 - almost all of them are killed in one blow - the heavy chain mail and scale armor can not stop the terrifying power of a heavy cavalry charge. ,
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry on both sides quickly dropped the cavalry spears that were broken in the bodies of the dead enemy, drew their off-hand weapons, tomahawks or iron maces, and fought so hard that for a time the heads and arms of the people who were cut off by the tomahawks flew wildly, and the people who were sprayed with blood from the brains of the maces were all over the place......
The fighting of this heavy cavalry is more rigid than the flexibility of the light cavalry. But it was more violent, bloody, steel and steel, steel and flesh, the roars of the warriors, the shapeless corpses of men and horses...... The battle between the heavy cavalry is always the most eye-catching scenery on the battlefield.
However, Princess Lilianu had no heart to appreciate it—not that her artistic or aesthetic qualities did not match this iron-blooded exaltation—but that it was her soldiers who died.
It's very lively to see people on fire in other people's houses, but if it's your own house on fire, then the command will be upset.
Her Royal Highness the princess saw that the light cavalry could not win, the heavy cavalry could not win, and on the frontal battlefield, a total of 15,000 Celtic heavy spearmen marched in formation, but the posture was similar to that of the legion heavy infantry of Eastern Rome, and what was even more infuriating was that behind their infantry array, there were really many spear throwers. Armed with a light round shield, an iron helmet, and no armor, the lightly armed Celtic javelinmen were the elite auxiliary units in the Celtic army. The heavy javelin in his hand has a slightly shorter range than the light javelin of the Eastern Roman auxiliary infantry, but it is several times more powerful. Even the scale armor of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry may not be completely defensible, and it will have to pierce a layer of flesh and skin.
On the other side, the Prussian garrison led by General Hans, the offensive of 3,500 professional Viking warriors made Her Royal Highness feel even more upset. The Vikings' tactics were still to use throwing axes to kill the enemy, and then charge with great ferocity - a simple, but very practical tactic that the Norman army was proud of and used to combat infantry.
Norman sergeants charged fiercely on the flanks of the frontal battlefield, and elite Viking warriors wielded battle axes, quickly dispersing the irregular armies used by the Eastern Roman army to guard the flanks, with a small number of mace and daggers. This was followed by an attack on the flank of an Eastern Roman heavy infantry brigade.
In front of the heavy infantry brigade, a fierce battle was being fought with the Celtic hoplites - the tactics of both sides were almost identical, shield walls, spear assassinations. It seems a little monotonous, and at the same time very organized, because the defense of the heavy spearmen is higher, and the lethality is slightly weaker, so the progress of the war is relatively slow, and it is impossible to see who is responsible for a while.
This kind of war has the advantage of being convenient for commanders to dispatch and command, and Her Royal Highness the princess can see at a glance from a high place: Oh, it is a stalemate now. It doesn't matter. And when you fall into the disadvantage, you won't fail for a while, and you can calmly dispatch reinforcements over. The so-called civilized armies, the so-called armies of the Greeks and Romans, liked to use such tactics to fight the enemy.
However, the addition of the Norman army changed the tide of the battle in an instant. Rampage, like beasts, the Norman warriors frantically charged the flanks of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry, twisting the heavy infantry into a scattered formation - this is the so-called barbarian battle, using fierce roars, wild charges, and devastating battle axes!
Like all barbarians and so-called civilized men. When the formation of the spear infantry was destroyed, when the neat array of which they were so proud was broken, then it was time for them to perish - the Norman soldiers who charged from the flank broke the right flank of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry at once, hundreds of heavy infantry were cut down, or driven down, and then trampled to death, and the right flank of the entire frontal battlefield was in danger again in an instant.
"Damn, damn, damn!!" Her Royal Highness the princess said three sentences of "damn" in a row, which directly exposed her extremely bad mood now. At this point, Her Royal Highness had lost the confidence she had at the moment - and even the idea of sharing Eastern Europe equally with the Normans was beginning to waver......
"But this war, this palace must not lose!" Her Royal Highness the princess shouted, and immediately ordered: "The Guards are dispatched! The second, third, and fourth thousand-man troops will come to the aid of the front, fill the gap, and block those barbarian spearmen, and the fifth thousand-man team will assist the right flank, and block those Normans!"
Her Royal Highness the princess's private soldiers are only 7,000, all of them are well-equipped hoplites, and they are very precious in normal times. In order to assist the left wing before, only a thousand-man team was used, but this time, when it was shot, it directly mobilized four thousand-man team and took out more than half of the troops, which shows that Her Royal Highness the princess is determined.
The guards roared in response, sounded their horns, imitated the ancient Roman Empire, the centurions wearing wolfskin helmets waving the eagle flag representing the Roman Empire, and the soldiers who also wore ancient Roman style iron plate armor, red feather helmets, and purple cloaks held their long swords high, beat their oval shields, and shouted: "Long live His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" formed a neat array and walked towards the battlefield.
Lilianu prefers to be called a crown prince rather than a princess.
"This, what the hell is going on?!"
The scattered and deserted peasant soldiers who had been beaten by the Normans, and the soldiers of the garrison regiment, were stunned when they saw this group of soldiers who seemed to have walked down from an ancient picture scroll.