。 "At that time, I found out that the opposing army completely ignored the defenses of the two flanks, and desperately moved forward regardless of life and death. So I understand—they're coming for me—and that's what I have to remember!"

Egil still dealt with the battle with a half-joking. As he said before, the other party's actions have been seen through by him. And this behavior seems to be very easy to understand. Capture the thief and capture the king first or something. The other party seems to be desperate to gamble these 80,000 lives in exchange for Egil.

"Sure enough, it's better to bully me that I don't have an heir. Egil snorted softly, muttering something in a low voice. And all the knights of the guards around them turned their faces, pretending not to hear.

This sentence is also recorded. Egir, however, was a man of great courage, and dared to make such things public, and turned to Talelang, who was stunned with a quill in his hand, and almost frightened the clerk out of his mind.

And at this moment, the more than 20,000 Christian crusaders, in the longbows, crossbows, fire

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Heavy losses under intensive artillery fire. But he still charged forward desperately, and the corpses on the battlefield were all over the field, which was shocking. Such a situation made the commander of the front line, Ba Asami, a little confused. According to her calculations, under such a dense and concentrated firepower strike, the opposing army should have collapsed a long time ago.

However, the other party is still charging desperately.

"Really...... Are they crazy?"

At a distance of 100 meters, the Emperor's Wrath shoots the best range of the crossbowmen. Asami was immediately startled and annoyed, and with a wave of the command knife in her hand, she shouted, "Shoot the crossbowman, shoot!" and then heard a series of tooth-souring Caracalla. It can fire one crossbow bolt every two to three seconds, and twenty or thirty crossbow arrows per minute, which can be called semi-automatic

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Repeating crossbowmen of the level began to shoot.

A large number of crossbows, extremely dense, almost capable of losing any resistance to the spirit of resistance, frantically rolled towards the charging enemy. At this point, the Norman Empire. With one hundred and sixty guns. Fifteen hundred fires

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Hand. Four thousand heavy crossbowmen, six thousand five hundred longbowmen, and five hundred repeating crossbowmen, a total of thirteen thousand two hundred soldiers. A long-range, medium-range, and short-range full-coverage firepower network has finally taken shape.

Each longbowman can fire an average of ten arrows in one minute, and each crossbowman has three arrows per minute. Every fire

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The hand is four shots (because it is equipped with two fires

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for the sake of the company). And the continuous fire of the crossbow is twenty. This is how it is calculated. A total of 12,000 long-range projection infantry can project about 93,000 rounds of ammunition per minute! The rate of fire of the 12-pounder long-barreled cannon is one round every three minutes. Mortars were shorter, about two and a half minutes, and fired an average of 20 shots per minute and 40 rounds per minute.

This kind of firepower, if all hits, is enough to completely destroy the entire Holy See army once, and it can be somewhat rich. Of course, this is not possible in reality. Arrows and crossbows fired by the soldiers,

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One hit for every ten rounds of shells and shells is a remarkable achievement. And there is also the possibility of a dozen, if not more, projectiles hitting one enemy. But even if that's the case, even if you take into account such variables. The long-range attack power of the Norman defense array is also terrifying enough.

Eventually, more than 20,000 Christian crusaders were wiped out, and only a handful of soldiers rushed to the Norman array—and then they were smashed into meat sauce by the axe-wielding Norman infantry in the front row of the new army regiment—but that was enough. The efforts of more than 20,000 cannon fodder have made the regular army of the Holy See who followed them and used these poor worms as meat shields to eat hundreds of thousands of bows, arrows, and crossbows...,

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Shells. At the same time, they shortened the charging distance to fifty meters.

"Prepare for hand-to-hand combat. Defend the artillery. Don't let the enemy destroy the artillery!" "On the frontal battlefield, looking at each other, those wearing plate chain composite armor and holding cross-shaped, military pickaxes-like crosses

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and the Papal Army with the Oval Shield rushed over. General Asami knew that the war was about to begin in earnest. In the first two rows, the heavily armed crossbowmen, dressed in three-quarter plate armor, lowered their pulleys and crossbows, drew their sabers from their waists, and at the same time took off the round shield from their backs and put it on their left arm. These soldiers were immediately turned into well-armed hoplites. And the thousand Praetorian Guards, also armed with three-quarter plate armor

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Hands, too, abandoned their firearms and became melee infantry similar to the heavy crossbowmen.

On either side of the heavy crossbowmen, the five columns of the new army were extra-long

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The phalanx, the rear three rows of Norman phalanx infantry, will also be their long

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Flat up, will

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The tip is aimed at the enemy, and with a super length

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The length of the cover for the front of the Norman infantry, assault infantry, fire

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Hand and crossbowmen. Further behind them, five columns of the other five new army regiments were laid out to be extra-long

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The phalanx, on the other hand, moved to the four thousand, interspersed behind the crossbowmen of the five new army regiments in the previous array. Wait for these non-regular melee soldiers to come forward to support when they can't do it.

The engineers who operated the long-barreled guns at the front of the array, which were fired horizontally, retreated. These technical personnel who can handle artillery are quite valuable resources. As for the artillery they left behind on the battlefield, Egil believed that these hard-to-move lumps of steel would be of no use other than to be used as barricades. Although Asami Basumi said to "protect the artillery." "But Egil really didn't think there was anything to protect these things.

"It's finally getting started. Egir sighed softly, took the monoculars handed by the knight of the guards next to him, and looked at the enemy on the other side—the heavy crosses in their hands

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The sturdy oval shield wrapped in iron sheets, and the soldiers wearing the finest plate-chain composite armor that an Italian craftsman could make, were the product of the previous military reforms carried out by the Holy See. Known as the elite hoplites of the Papal Guard. Their predecessors were the elite infantry of the Papal States, who had inflicted considerable trauma on the Eastern Roman army during the First Battle of Budapest. At the time, these well-armed and high-morale armies even held back the charge of the Minotaur on the Eastern Roman side.

And this time, these elite, religious soldiers were used for attack, but they were no worse - their armor completely withstood a Norman fire

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And with the dual effect of shield and armor, Norman's pulley crossbow could not kill them in one sitting. Some of the soldiers had their chest armor dented by the projectiles, possibly even wounding their ribs, and some had several crossbows or bows stuck in their bodies, but even so, they still roared feverishly and rushed towards the Norman array.

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"The regimental commanders of the new army roared loudly, and the company commanders under them also shouted the same words. At a distance of five meters, the hand-held is extra-long

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The Norman phalanx infantry was like one, and each company, even each team, and even the five teams in the front row, a total of 3,000 phalanx infantry, roared almost at the same time, and with their roar, they were full of anger, and their incomparable worship and loyalty to the Norman Emperor, accompanied by this...,

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The front foot lunges, the back foot supports the ground, the waist exerts force, the left hand is in front and the right hand is behind-stab!

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In an instant, it stretched out neatly for nearly half a meter! Like an iron wall, it forcibly blocked the charge of the arrogant heavy infantry of the Holy See Guard!

With bursts of gold and iron resonating, Norman's super long

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Pierced the papal hoplites in the front row. Three rows of extra long lengths of varying lengths

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, the third column of the thorn abdomen, the fourth column of the thorn ribcage, the fifth column of the thorn neck. Although the soldiers of the Holy See were wearing armor, they could not withstand the thrusts of such strength, or they were punctured by the arteries in their necks, and blood gushed out, and they were killed on the spot, or they were killed

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Pierced in the chest and abdomen - although it was protected by a piece of armor, because of this strength, it was concussed with severe pain, and even some people were directly crushed to death by their kidneys!

And in the extra-long

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Under the escort of the soldiers, the fire of the new army

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The crossbowmen were still firing desperately, sending a few more crossbow projectiles to the enemy they had been stabbed in front of them. At such a close distance, shoot crossbowmen and fire in a row

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The hands directly aimed at the opponent's face and hit it, and the Holy See soldier who was shot through the cheekbone and then hit the brain naturally did not survive.

And just like that, the Papal soldiers who rushed to the front - with crossbowmen and Praetorian guards

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Hands face to face, unfolded the battle to the cross

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and sharper combinations like the Oval Shield have some upper hand. However, towards the Normans grows

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The papal soldiers who rushed past the phalanx suffered heavy casualties.

"Stop! with a shield and a cross

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will be their long

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Push it away, and then rush over again!" The enemy on the opposite side was not stupid, and immediately an officer shouted like this. And the second wave of Papal soldiers, who rushed over, also slowed down and used crosses

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The sprigs on both sides hooked the Norman phalanx infantry

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rod, and the shield of the other hand retreated, and then the Norman

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The array is a little apart. to be able to move on. Then come across the extra-long next column

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, and they are ready to do the same. Extra-long

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If the soldiers do not have the advantage of distance, they will definitely suffer a great loss in battle with the opponent's heavy infantry.

"Infantry, assault infantry, step forward!" and the new Norman army side also had a way, the Norman assault infantry with a long-handled battle axe quickly stepped forward, the battle axe in his hand was raised high, and the opponent's head and helmet were split in half at once. The Norman infantry also stepped forward and fought the Papal Guard on the front line. The other side had to brace themselves and engage the Norman infantry and assault infantry, and there was no time to crack the length of the Norman phalanx infantry

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The phalanx is ...... (To be continued)