Chapter Eighty-Six: The Second Battle of Budapest, The Beginning

In this way, the little nun finally took Egil's order. Orders to commit suicide after Egil's defeat.

And Egil finally put his heart at ease, and with the help of the little nun, put on his full set of armor, put on his cloak, and walked out. Then I saw Her Excellency Sister Joan of Arc standing at the door, fully armed.

"Hear that?"

Joan of Arc sighed, "I remember I asked you to take care of her. ”

"I feel like I'm taking care of the tǐng good. ”

"One, you've taken care of it so well!" "Thank you for the compliment." ”

Looking at Egil's scoundrel appearance, Joan of Arc sighed and did not speak again. Then he turned around and walked in the direction of the battlefield, where the soldiers had eaten their breakfast and were ready to go.

Egil quickly followed, and only the knight of the guard led the horse beside him, and Egil turned on his horse, and then asked, "Ask Joan of Arc, just a question." "What's the matter?" Jeanne d'Arc asked angrily as she mounted her horse.

"Although you are an incorrigible scumbag, tyrant, madman and murderer. But, if it were you, I think I would. Joan of Arc said after a moment's consideration.

"Do me a favor. So Egil said, "Because that guy is a fool, I'm not sure she'll be able to carry out my task well." So, after we're defeated, you go back and see, and if she fails, help her. ”

"Why don't you do this dirty thing yourself!?" Jeanne d'Arc asked angrily.

"Because if I fail, I'll die on the battlefield. Egir finished saying word by word, and then as soon as he clamped his horse's belly, the horse galloped in the direction of the battlefield.

On August 15, 1003, the 190,000 Catholic coalition and the 170,000 troops of the Eastern Roman Empire met in an open grassland, 200 kilometers away from Budapest. At this point, the final battle between the Eastern and Western Churches has finally begun. The all-out war of aggression of the Eastern Romans, which lasted for a year, was coming to an end.

Either side has a reason to win, and both sides are ready to die. The soldiers of both sides were constantly encouraged during the fifteen-day truce. Having eaten up all the meat, and promised all the money and booty, even the most susceptible Duke Charles said, "If you are victorious, you will empty all the coffers of Burgundy and reward the soldiers!"

The morale of the armies on both sides rose to its peak.

Both armies consider themselves the strongest, the most righteous and the most glorious, the most invincible under the estimation of Christ the Lord!

But there can only be one invincible army!

Standing in front of the Ten Thousand Horse Army, looking at a pair of expectant eyes, Egil felt that he should say something, but Egil didn't know what he should say. The so-called glory, the so-called money, the so-called status, the so-called fame. This has been repeated many times over the course of fifteen days. If such clichés are repeated, it will not be annoying, not to mention morale-boosting, and may even have the opposite effect.

Eventually, however, Egil spoke.

"I have been in many wars. I think you're the same. Egil's deep voice spread little by little through a large number of soldiers and captains to all corners of the entire army of nearly 200,000 people.

"We've fought together in a lot of places. In Scandinavia, in the British Isles, in France, in Burgundy, in Italy, in Eastern Europe, in Livornia, Prussia, Lithuania, Bōland, we are invincible! They are the Greeks! The most wicked empire that has enslaved us Europeans for thousands of years and wants to enslave us for thousands of years!!I ask you, soldiers, the Greeks who are arrogant and contemptuous to call you barbarians, slaves, and dregs who are inferior to cattle!!Do you want them to ride on your head again and do you might?!" The earth-shattering roar has not been heard for a long time.

"We don't want to!"

"Kill all the Greeks!!!" "Europa is the place of the Europas, drive out all the Greek dogs!!"

"Long live Your Majesty Egil!Messiah!!Messiah of the new millennium!!",

The soldiers cheered. Heightened by Egil's words, the envy and hatred of the Indo-European natives of every non-Roman Europa-Semitic tribe for Rome, the most glorious empire in the entire history of Europe, exploded in an instant.

Hungry for blood, madly thirsting for blood, hoping to be able to kill all the Greeks and Romans on the other side.

"Let's go, soldiers! Let's make history! That's right! It's history! Today will definitely be remembered by history! Even if a thousand or 10,000 years have passed, someone will definitely remember it! Or you can't wait for that day. But as soon as you are old, lying in a rocking chair, you can say to your grandson: "Yes! That's it! On that day, I stood with His Majesty Egil, and we fought against hundreds of thousands of heretics and we won."

The soldiers roared and rushed to the battlefield.

At the same time, on the other side, the speech of the Roman Emperor Basil II also spread to the 170,000 Roman army: "We have ruled all of Europa!

We are the descendants of the Romans, soldiers, think of the great deeds of your ancestors! We must not be disgraced! Go, go to the battlefield! Let them see what it means to be a real and powerful force of the civilized world!"

Similarly, the legions of the Eastern Romans were also demoralized and rushed to the battlefield.

First of all, the two sides began to set up formations in full swing~ Egil has already ordered: "Because there are elite extra-long spearmen and longbowmen in the French army." Thus the French army was placed on the right flank, where the terrain was most flat. There is no need to attack, as long as you hold on to it to the death, it is a victory.

And the center and left flank were all given to the Norman army. ”

The French army held its position at the behest of Egier, and a total of more than 17,000 Swiss pikemen and Swiss halberders stood proudly on the front, although the right flank was the flattest place. However, Duke Charles still made a slight use of a few not-so-steep slopes to increase the defense of the phalanx of spears.

And behind the phalanx of super-pikes, the army of Philip II of France was divided into loose formations of several hundred men, under the command of a group of knights and nobles, ready to fill the formation.

In the gaps between these reserves were ranged attack groups of archers from France and Burgundy, as well as longbowmen trained by Aquitaine, who were responsible for long-range support.

Heavy knights, as well as some irregular cavalry, guarded the far right flank of the army to prevent enemy cavalry from attacking the flanks of the array, and the garrison on one flank and the other flank was reliant on the Norman soldiers, so there was no need to think about it.

Such a simple defensive formation looks very solid. The morale of the soldiers is high, and the Swiss mercenaries on the front line are very strong. So it's not really about how to defend that the French have to think about. It's about how to control the hot-headed noble knights to prevent them from charging without permission, disrupting the formation and giving the enemy a chance.

In front of Egil, close to the French, were the large Norman heavy cavalry, the royal knights, and the lightly armed professional cavalry, the light cavalry, which, while helping to defend the flanks of friendly troops, also had to strike if necessary to engage the enemy's cavalry.

And further to the left, there are neat teams of 1000 people with knives and axes, 100 times 10.

The backbone of Egil's army, the professional Vikings are ready to charge and break through enemy lines, or form a steely line to hold back any enemy.

In the middle of these phalanxes were the elite of the Norman infantry, the strongest assault warriors armed with two-handed battle axes, and the Viking Death Chargers. Egil wanted to use this to increase the overall attack power of the infantry line.

More than 20,000 hoplites were divided into three arrays, and in the middle of the second and third arrays, the Norman longbowmen lined up one by one. While carrying the fifteen arrows in his quiver, he also carried two additional pots of standard arrows and placed them on the ground next to him as a backup.

In front of the Norman infantry phalanx, there were some soldiers, a Norman crossbowman who was armed with a crossbow and arranged in three formations of crossbowmen.

On the far left flank of the Norman formation. Wearing plate chain composite armor and holding super-long spears, they are the most standard, textbook-like super-long spear formations, and they are the dwarven room guards. A total of 4,000 dwarven chamber guards formed a compact, not too long formation to guard the left flank of the Norman formation.

Further to the left, there is a large number of Norman cavalry that has not been grouped into any of the arrays, with Viscount Alpha, the captain of the Death Knights, serving as the temporary cavalry commander. They were responsible for intercepting the opposing cavalry units and attacking the weak points of the opposing infantry line. At the same time, Egil hopes that they can seize the commanding heights on the battlefield as soon as possible. On the left flank, the only high ground on the entire plain, ............!.