At this moment, the battle for Krakow was in full swing. [Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable]:. The result was quite encouraging, with both the front and the right wing having the Celtics in the ascendancy. The tactics used by the Celtic hoplites on the front were almost indistinguishable from those of the Eastern Romans. It is also a tactic of arranging into a shield wall, and then piercing with spears. Except for the slight difference in the overcoat and the style of equipment, their equipment was even exactly the same - the only difference was the shield.

The shields, the Celts used oval, eighty centimeters high, large shields that could protect the upper body, while the Eastern Roman army still used the same tower shield as the ancient Roman Empire. Very clumsy, although it looks more neat than the Celtics after taking over. The defense is also a little bigger. But using such a bulky shield is very unsuitable for tactical actions such as dodging and blocking, and holding such a large shield is also a considerable test of a soldier's physical strength.

As the war continued, the Celtic soldiers still had the strength to fight, but the Eastern Roman hoplites, the soldiers in the front row, who had fought non-stop, were out of breath and could not continue.

In addition to this, the Celts were also more numerous, a total of fifteen thousand hoplites, plus about two thousand lightning infantry left, against three brigades, half the number of Eastern Roman heavy infantry, as well as about 5,000 light infantry and about 7,000 mace and daggers. It can take a very big advantage.

It was like a herald's report to Her Highness the Princess: "They are more numerous than we are, and they are better equipped than we are." They are tactically advanced and not afraid of death - we are no match for them!"

Of course, this poor, truth-telling herald was immediately hacked to death by Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu on charges of disturbing the morale of the army.

"Damn it - the first war in the main palace. This is the first war since the official debut of the main palace - it must not be lost like this!!" Her Royal Highness thought angrily, and at the same time looked at the right flank, hoping that the group of Cossacks and the steppe herdsmen would surprise her.

The results were very disappointing. There were more than 4,000 hussars in total, who had completely crushed the nomadic cavalry, and the vast majority of the nomads had either surrendered or fled, and only a small number of them were still struggling to support - most of them were horses that had been killed by the Norman hussars, so they could not run. {Remember Novel.} But they didn't want to surrender, so they had to fight on foot with rudimentary weapons, scimitars or spears, which were scarce and had no horses, and they would soon be tortured and killed. Some of the hussars who had been separated from their respective cavalry battalions to deal with these fellows laughed and charged at them in groups of three or five, and with a wave of their horse-speed swords, they could cut off their heads......

The only army that could still fight, the formed army, was still the Cossacks. Although in the previous cavalry battles ate a cavalry battalion of hussars. However, Pugachev can also see that if he fights hard, he will lose or win. In a word: "Go!" As soon as the horn was blown, the Cossacks left a group of people who dared to break the queen desperately, and then retreated.

The group of Cossacks who left behind wolf howls really dared to fight hard. Although the tactics were backward and the equipment was not good, and the number of people was only three or four hundred, they stubbornly blocked the hussars for nearly twenty minutes. Until the last Cossack, after having his arm cut off by a hussar, jumped up with red eyes, pounced directly on his opponent, opened his mouth and bit his neck, and at the same time was cut in the stomach by the frightened hussar, and died together......

At this moment, the Cossacks had all returned to their positions, and the cavalrymen quickly jumped off their horses, and the ones with spears squeezed into the shield spearmen, and the more numerous, the Cossacks with scimitars, directly let the war horses squat down to make cover, shield a tree, and then called the archers who were also on foot to stand behind, and a line of defense came out in this way.

The hussars ran around the position for a while. General Qi Teng snorted coldly: "Go around! Insert his asshole!" The remaining ten cavalry battalions immediately divided their labor, leaving two cavalry battalions in front of them to pounce and divert the enemy's attention. The remaining eight were divided into two lines, four on the left flank and four on the right flank, hiding out of range of the enemy's bow and arrow, and went around behind the enemy army, and charged at the enemy's infantry archers. ,

Pugachev suddenly became anxious and shouted: "Cavalry, send out part of the cavalry, stop them!!"

So the Cossack cavalry was tossed around, and a thousand more cavalry stepped on horseback, turned around and rushed towards the hussars behind them, to cover the foot archers. However, the tactics of the hussars changed again, and the four cavalry battalions on the left and right, but two of each, rushed towards the two flanks of the Cossack army, which was in a chaotic formation because of the division of part of the cavalry.

"Archer !!"

The Cossack officers on both flanks shouted hoarsely, and the horses they had forced to the ground neighed uneasily—and then they fired another round of bows and arrows at each other. The battlefield that had just stopped for a while was again filled with screams - but the Cossack soldiers, covered by their horses and supported by the powerful compound bows of the foot archers, were at a disadvantage to the Norman cavalry.

Soon, however, the hussars began to charge and attacked the Cossack line. The melee hussars, wielding sabers and roaring with the support of the bows and arrows of the archers, rushed towards the Cossack camp like a torrent.

At this moment, in the rear of the Cossack position, a total of four hussar battalions, nearly 2,000 hussars completely suppressed more than 1,000 Cossack cavalry, and it seemed that victory was a matter of time.

Pugachev gave the order, moved the pikemen in front to the back of the position, and gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and ordered four hundred Cossack heavy cavalry to attack and assist the Cossack light cavalry in the rear - at this moment, the two hussar battalions in front saw the opportunity and also launched a charge! The Cossack army was in a storm, and it seemed that an accident was about to befall it!

This is the case on the right flank, which, it seems, is even worse than the frontal battlefield. The Norman hussars were prodigiously powerful and their tactics were erratic. The Cossacks were completely passive. Therefore, cavalry fighting infantry is like this, especially in the plain terrain, cavalry can fight and go wherever they want, and fight wherever they want. If the infantry wants to fight against the cavalry, they can only rely on the formation and terrain.

However, the uneducated Cossacks did not know these truths. They are all from cavalry, and they play cavalry battles quite well. As for fighting in arrays, I learned it from the second-rate infantry state of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which used infantry phalanxes to abuse it several times. It has never stood the test of real combat. So it's just a matter of learning to look like it. The teachers themselves are second-rate, and the students are also second-rate, so what they learn is third-rate...... How could a third-rate infantry phalanx be able to hold off a super-first-class hussar?

Failure is only a matter of time.

Her Royal Highness the princess sent and returned, and then brought such depressing news, and the right flank could not rely on it, the light cavalry was like this, and the heavy cavalry was the same, if the attack of the Norman hussars was like a flash flood, then the offensive of the Celtic knights and heavy cavalry was like a mudslide, although it was a little slow, but it was more powerful, more indestructible, and unstoppable. And chain mail and plate chain composite armor are indeed more defensive than traditional scale armor, and are lighter.

The Celtic heavy cavalry also had a very large advantage in the battle with the steppe heavy cavalry. During the first round of charges, most of the systematically trained Celtic knights dodged the enemy's spears with ease, just like the Norman knights, and stabbed the enemy to death with their own cavalry guns. Immediately after that, he pulled out his tomahawk and slashed left and right

- After a series of tests, Artoria discovered that although the mace's armor-piercing ability was superior to that of the tomahawk, it did not deal as much damage as the tomahawk. Especially the scale armor and chain armor that are commonly equipped by the army today have the effect of shock absorption to a certain extent, so unless the Tianling cover is shattered all at once, otherwise, the mace can only seriously injure people at most.

However, the tomahawk is different, there are no antibiotics these days, not even a standard professional medical system (Egil's is cheating, so it doesn't count), the tomahawk cuts out a wound, so tetanus, change infections, bacteria, ** and so on...... Even if the other party can go back alive, he will have to die in a few months. Also, when it comes to fighting enemies equipped with light leather armor, or even no armor, the mace is not very effective...... Although Celtic's economic situation was rich, it was still inferior to Norman, and the strategy of equipping the heavy cavalry with both broadswords and maces, and rotating them according to the different enemies, was finally rejected by Artoria. Eventually, the Norman Tomahawk was adopted as standard......

And the practical results also proved that the ability of the tomahawk was indeed quite good, and the Celtic knights equipped with the tomahawk did not suffer when fighting the steppe heavy cavalry armed with mace - on the contrary, they had to take advantage of it. A tomahawk would kill a man, but a mace would only injure him, not even - as long as the shield was blocked in time - but if it was a tomahawk, then all at once, the cavalry shield of the steppe heavy cavalry would be shattered.

The Celtic heavy cavalry had an advantage against the nomadic heavy cavalry, however, the heavy cavalry of the coalition army was not only the cavalry of these steppe nomads, although it was well-equipped, but it was not fully trained, and the cavalry with backward tactics was among them, there were also elite heavy cavalry formed by the Eastern Roman ironclad holy cavalry and trained by Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu......