- Absolutely. It's all a lie. The legendary heavy cavalry is carrying a phalanx of super-long spears or something. No fool would actually do that. Moreover, the spear array was not just for cavalry - it was also very useful against infantry. You can imagine that when the two armies face each other, a large group of people standing in front of you rush towards you in a rectangular array - you can't even see what the other person's body looks like, only a dense pile of spear heads like hedgehogs.

Speaking of which, everyone has a little bit of a phobia or something. Especially when dealing with dense stuff that can stab you to death.

Of course. The Macedonian phalanx, which represented the surname of the ancient Greek period, did have a fatal weakness. That is, the flanks. After the flank was breached, the tragedies armed with super-long guns were naturally unable to fight the enemy with short weapons at close range - so the flank was important - but then again. All formations, flanks are important, and if they are broken, they will have a very bad effect. It's just that the influence of the phalanx is a little greater.

- So, in the late Middle Ages, the battlefield was dominated by the phalanx soldiers, the lovely Spanish phalanx of spears + swords and shields + arquebuses. Its combat power is still strong to the point of a pillbox. And because of the deployment of sword and shield men on the flanks, as well as long-range arquebusiers. has made the entire phalanx an all-round player who can be far and near, chopping, stabbing and spraying.

-- But the question is: where are your sister's laborers going to find arquebuses? But a longbow or a pulley crossbow can be used instead - is it really a substitute?

So, it's all about the flanks. Flanks, flanks...... What if you put two columns on either side of the phalanx with big shields that look like Roman legionnaires, and then have them put up a tortoiseshell-like defense?

Well, it looks like there's something tricky. Use strong legionary infantry to defend both flanks of the phalanx.

But speaking of which, it's better to use cavalry. Garrison the two flanks of the phalanx with cavalry or something—why do you have to get along with the two wings and the phalanx? Projecting an array of skirmishers of infantry is actually pretty good, isn't it?

Well, that's the phalanx. Phalanx + Legion. With a little innovation, it's called the Viking phalanx.

At this moment, Egil finally escaped from his delusions, and then smiled at the other two allies, and said: "So, the cavalry, the heavy cavalry, is the strongest and seriously ill, and the phalanx can only be passively defended. After that, go on the defensive counter-attacking flow. I don't really like that. Isn't it, Lord Wallace?"

William Wallace thought for a moment, then smiled and didn't speak. But Walder could not sit still: "What cavalry is the strongest—I don't like to hear it." If you have the ability, let's take the army to the Scandinavian mountains, and you will meet our dwarves in the mountains!"

Indeed, in mountain warfare, the dwarven hoplites were almost invincible.

"Ah, why do you say that? we're allies, and it's not going to happen to kill each other or anything, don't you think, Lord Wallace?" said Egil, after snorting.

"Of course, the friendship between the dwarves, the Scots, and the Norwegians endures. That's it. Wallace said the same.

Next. They exchanged war letters with the English, and agreed to meet in the suburbs of York City in half a month. After that, Egil took a slight look through his binoculars, and the vast expanse of cultivated land on the outskirts of Yorktown was mostly plain. It was perfect for a large-scale battle - and there were only two things to note, first, the two monasteries in the middle of the battlefield - the clergy had all been evacuated and were now empty.

Speaking of which, a medieval monastery is actually no different from a castle or something. At most, it's a little more religious. In Egil's eyes, the two monasteries were two small fortified fortresses that could hold hundreds of people - the walls were more than two meters high, and the minarets and bell towers could also be used as arrow towers. In other words, if you can capture these two monasteries in battle, you will be able to get two strong enough support points, which will be very advantageous for the battle.

On top of that, there was a large mess of houses in the north of the battlefield, as well as mills and pigsties. The peasants who had lived here were either drafted as peasant soldiers or fled farther into the mountains. The cattle and everything were all snatched back by the soldiers on both sides, and the stew and stew went into the stomach. This messy place is more suitable for guerrilla warfare in a straggler array - of course, Egil thought a little, and there seemed to be less convenient units in his own army, which were specially suited to street fighting. Professional Viking warriors are barely half. However, because the armor on the body is a little thicker, and the weapons equipped are a little more, the mobility is insufficient.

Therefore, in this area, it is necessary to beware of the sneak attack of the stragglers of England on the other side. As well as ambushes and so on.

Other than that, there is nothing.

Egir discussed these two things with Wald and Wallace, and then Wallace patted his chest and said that he would just clean up the large residential area. The two monasteries required faster cavalry to grab them. This can only fall on Egil's shoulders anyway.

After three days, the sky was clear, and the armies on both sides were cloudless, because there were too many troops, so it was not necessary to line up or something, and even in such a battle, it was impossible for the two sides to divide the victory or defeat in one day.

The first battle was won by the Norwegians. Norway's last two hundred or so cavalry patrols quickly rushed towards the two monasteries in the middle of the battlefield, which the English did not seem to be interested in. The first formation of a large number of conscripted peasants, hooked and sickle peasants, and spear sergeants, formed a chaotic array, slowly moving towards the center of the battlefield under the shouts of the knights and their subordinates. England's proud longbowmen, on the other hand, were placed in the second formation, closely behind the vanguard cannon fodder of about 3,000 men. And behind those English longbowmen, in addition to the longbow, there were two sharpened wooden stakes. Looks like it was used against cavalry.

It seems that the battle in which Egil easily broke the English outpost the other day made a deep impression on Alfred. Such a configuration, with the addition of horse stakes and cannon fodder, was prepared to counter the frontal charge of the cavalry.

However, a little different from what he had imagined, the Norwegians did not initially use the Tomahawk cavalry, which was armed with heavy armor and weapons. Instead, they used lightly armed rangers to snatch the two monasteries in the center of the battlefield, and then the trotting Norwegian crossbowmen and dwarven crossbowmen quickly armed the two monasteries. When the English on the opposite side were alarmed, a large number of Scottish Highland pikemen, as well as the dwarven chamber guards, had already crowded densely in the middle of the two monasteries, forming a very dense phalanx of spears. Behind them, a formation of thousands of Norse archers and Scottish Highland archers was ready to shoot.

In this way, the two wings of the house are the monastery of the legendary large stone buildings. You [***] rush me to take a look. The flanks are gone, gone, bastard!

That's it.

Then, under the command of Egil, next to the two monasteries, a large number of dwarven hoplites, professional Viking warriors, as well as duel warriors and dwarven assault warriors armed with long-handled battle axes, formed a solid infantry line, and the dwarven elite infantry raised their shields in their hands and formed a shield wall in the first line. Provide assistance to the comrades in the back.

So, fully prepared, just waited for the English to attack.

Seeing the garrison formation of the coalition forces on the opposite side, the English cannon fodder in the first formation on the opposite side couldn't even cry. Even in this case, even in the face of an extremely tight enemy force in a defensive formation, at this time, you can only charge.

So, the first array of England began to charge. The vast majority were armed only with shields and short spears. The tragic soldiers, who were not equipped with any armor - first hung up by long-range crossbow shots, and then crashed headlong into the thick phalanx of spears, one by one stabbed into a sieve. Those who hit the wings were startled by the flying axes in the sky, and then they were beaten by the counter-charge of the Viking death warriors and the dwarven long-handled axe warriors. It was the dozens of knights and their followers in the first formation who caused a little small loss to the coalition forces. Seeing the opportunity, he launched a charge, knocking over a lot of assault troops, but then the dwarves and Vikings who reacted to it chopped up meat pieces with large axes.

Although knowing that the first round of attacks was just a temptation. But seeing that the other party was very good, it took almost no effort to disperse thousands of his own soldiers. On the other side, Alfred the Great also felt a chill. I thought to myself: "It seems that there is no chance of winning a head-to-hand combat - to rush into the opponent's well-guarded defense line is something that only a brain-dead can do."

However, the English did not need to do this at all—it was almost noon after the rout had been gathered. Because the two sides have not yet invested the main forces for a decisive battle. So the soldiers on both sides are still relatively idle. Some of them found the black bread they were carrying, and ate their lunch with the water in a small river nearby.

At this moment, the second array of England advanced—an array of three thousand longbowmen, two thousand heavily armed spearmen—and came to a halt directly within longbow range—followed by a rain of bows and arrows.

"Cut, do you think that's all you need?!Heavy spearmen are about the same as ordinary cavalry, but they are still far from being able to compete with my heavy cavalry!" Standing on the bell tower of the monastery on the left wing, Egil snorted coldly, and then the bell behind him was struck five times, three long and two short--, and then the Norwegian knights, who had long been unable to hold back, and the improved tomahawk cavalry stood out from the coalition array and rushed towards the second formation of the English......

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