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Artoria's hand is dangerous. directly disrupted the overall layout of Her Royal Highness the Princess. And as soon as the shot was full force, the second hussar corps, three garrison legions, and a hussar battalion of five hundred people, adding up to five thousand five hundred elite cavalry, all led by the old general Qi Teng, with a cavalry battalion of five hundred people as a unit, eleven cavalry battalions were arranged into five columns, and the front row of melee hussars wielded reformed, more suitable for chopping, lighter sabers, and the rear row of lightly armed cavalry stretched bows and arrows. Smoke and dust billowed all the way, and they rushed towards the right flank of the coalition army, that is, the left flank of Her Royal Highness the Princess.

It's just that Artoria also knows - the other party, there are a large number of cavalry in the coalition army, Cossack light cavalry, steppe nomadic cavalry add up to more than 20,000, from the feudal lords, as well as the steppe nomadic nobles of the heavy cavalry, Eastern Roman lancers, the princess's private soldiers, and the hoplites also exceeded 2,000. With such a huge number, if you simply use hussars to attack, you can't say that you will suffer.

So in addition to this, all the elite Celtic cavalry under the Artorian Guild were also taken out, including 1,000 Celtic heavy cavalry, and 500 Celtic knights—these heavy cavalry were trained in the same way as their Norman counterparts. And, with the financial abundance of the British Empire, the shortcomings of the original equipment were compensated. The hoplites wore heavy chain mail and light leather armor, while the knights wore composite armor with plates and chains, and their horses were all covered with chain mail and horse felt. Wearing a red dragon coat of arms on a green background representing Britain.

The knights and cavalry shouted wildly, "For Britain, Queen Artoria and Emperor Egil!" and the slogan "For Britain, Queen Artoria and Emperor Egil!" also charged in waves, attacking the enemy's right flank.

In addition to these Celtic heavy cavalry, which were identical to the Norman heavy cavalry, there were even more numerous Celtic troops, totaling more than 2,000 special cavalrymen with no armor and heavy cavalry spears. They were called light lancers. Use the heavy cavalry attack style and powerful charge to attack the enemy. It's just that it's not resistant to melee combat because the armor is poor. And in addition to this, these cavalrymen were each armed with two javelins. It can be used to project attacks, or to use it in hand-to-hand combat if necessary.

Artoria did not send these two thousand cavalry into battle. Instead, it was kept and used as a reserve. I hope to be able to surprise her at a critical moment.

"It's coming so fast!" At this moment, Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu was a little distracted and flustered. But the cavalrymen on the right flank didn't care about that. The prairie men dare to think and do, and their brains are simple. Seeing that the enemy was rushing over, where else could there be any other minister, he howled like a wolf, and rushed over with his saber.

"Cossacks, advance!" Pugachev shouted, and rushed towards the Norman cavalry. At this moment, this guy has long lost the calmness he had when he was arranging his troops, and he forgot all about the spears and bows and arrows of the gods. Fast horses, strong bows, scimitars like the moon - this is the romance of men!

Hussars, from Cossacks, Tatars, Cumans, Turkic, Lithuanian, Huns, Magyars...... The cavalry from all the people's tribes of the steppe roared wildly, and rushed towards the Norman hussars as fast as they could, with the tactics used by the light cavalry, and with scattered arrays!

Looking at the past from a distance, looking at the past from a high distance, there are two large patches of smoke and dust, and when you listen to the fierce and kind ears of the sword, there are countless shouts of killing, the sound of horses' hooves -- tens of thousands of light and heavy cavalry have started a great battle in this land! Not a hundred, a thousand, a thousand, but tens of thousands, a war of cavalry clusters that cannot be seen at a glance!! huge cavalry clusters. It is almost unique in the whole of Europe, and it is a spectacle that can only occur in Eastern Europe, where there are so many nomadic people!!

The campaign has been at a high point since it began. The Norman cavalry were strictly arrayed, charging forward in a uniform phalanx, while the nomadic cavalry of the coalition army was very scattered and, relying on numbers, easily rushed to the flank of the Norman hussars, hoping to defeat them by virtue of their superiority in formation. The Norman lightly armed archers opened their bows and arrows and fired at the dense area of the enemy cavalry, and the screams of the nomadic cavalry were heard incessantly as a large number of buzzing locusts. However, because he did not have any armor and equipment, he was shot by the short compound bow in the hands of the lightly armed archers, and suffered heavy losses. ,

The archers fired a volley, but the Normans did not take advantage of them as they always did - the Cossack archers who had outflanked them attacked their flanks fiercely. Although the Cossack cavalry with special wolf-tooth arrows was not as strong as the light cavalry in terms of bow strength, there was not much difference in attack power! In the final analysis, both the melee hussars and the lightly armed archers were just light cavalry equipped with leather armor. Although the defense is much better than that of the average light cavalry, it is still vulnerable.

As if a knife had been cut through a layer again, the two rows of cavalry on the westernmost side fell down like wheat at once. Puff p

"Flank, turn, rush!"

In the first round, the coalition forces took advantage of the numerical and formation advantage. However, the Norman hussars were a battle-hardened and professionally trained steel division, and it was impossible for them to bow their heads and admit defeat because of such a setback. The four cavalry battalions on the flanks quickly turned their horses' heads and adjusted their formations with great speed, before charging towards the enemy troops on the western flank.

This is the advantage of a small light cavalry unit, which can adjust its formation very quickly and flexibly. to achieve the corresponding purpose.

"Kill them, kill them!!"

The hussars charged at the enemy cavalry with red eyes. The kind of dense array of cluster charges, that kind of uniform posture, that kind of discipline and training, is something that the nomadic cavalry of the steppe cannot achieve in any way, or even unimaginable. Even the Cossack hussars, the best equipped of these nomadic cavalry and most like a regular army, were not enough to look at against the Norman hussars.

The Cossack warriors did not have an advantage in horsemanship or swordsmanship—the hussars, also from the steppe nomadic tribes, possessed both. And in terms of organization, the hussars, who were arranged in dense arrays, coordinated seamlessly, and in local battles were often able to fight two or three people against one Cossack. Hence the advantage. The cavalry went extremely smoothly, and like an unstoppable torrent, penetrated into the Cossack array. Wielding a saber, he chopped off countless arms and heads!

It was just a face-to-face - all the points lost in the cavalry were regained! The Norman cavalry of the iron wall broke the line of the nomadic cavalry with extraordinary ease, as easily as cutting butter with the sharpest saber. Invincible!

On the other side, the nomadic cavalry from other tribes also suffered heavy losses - these fellows, who were worse than the Cossacks in terms of armament and organization, naturally performed worse under the charge of the Norman hussars - after the Norman hussars rushed to the front of one of the cavalry battalions, cutting through the formation of the opposing side by nearly half, many of the nomadic cavalry were terrified, wailing and began to flee.

At this moment, Pugachev had mixed feelings in his heart. I don't have the confidence I had before. Just now, he himself took a group of guards under his command, a group of warriors who were also armed with composite leather armor, and armed with scimitars forged by the most skilled blacksmiths, and the best horses, and he led them from the flanks to attack a Norman cavalry battalion. Immediately afterward, the two sides fell into a scuffle. The Norman hussars were cut in two by a sudden blow, and they lost the strength to continue charging forward.

Pugachev suddenly shouted excitedly. More Cossack cavalry was gathered to engage it. The entire cavalry battalion was suddenly encircled. Pugachev himself went to the battlefield and engaged the hussars with long knives. Hussar officers dressed in the skins of precious lions, bears, tigers and leopards were selected to fight. The long knife in his hand is like a living thing, and there is no one under him!

"Hahahaha...... Kill, kill them, kill these damned Normans, Cossack warriors, no one can enslave us, no one can force us to bow down, absolutely no !!"

Pugachev fought with a hussar officer and traded a wound in the arm for his life. Seeing that the other party was unwilling to stare at him, blood poured out, flowing down the blade to his arm, and then fell off the horse with a "poof". He rode forward, trampled the corpse to pieces with his horse's hooves, and then roared wildly as he had his attendants bandage him.

The Cossacks next to them heard the voice of their leader, and roared like wolves, and the Cossacks beside them also howled as wolves—and the whole steppe burst into a wolf howl—and in this way, the Cossacks had the greatest victory since the beginning of the war! They threw in at least 3,000 men, and finally suffered nearly 800 casualties, and completely annihilated a Norman cavalry battalion!

But that was the end of it - in this respect, the Cossacks, led by Pugachev himself, achieved such results. On other fronts, however, the other three Norman cavalry battalions were unusually successful in breaking through the Cossack formation! The Cossack cavalry, which had 12,000 men, was thus successfully chiseled by less than one-sixth of their own, but only 2,000 Norman hussars!