Here, Sil II made a mistake, and he did not ...... like Egil As soon as they came up, they threw all their professional troops into the war. Put all the temporary conscription troops in the reserve positions. Instead, it is a mix of temporarily conscripted troops, as well as professional troops.

Although the Norman heavy cavalry was not as good as the Eastern Roman Empire, and the light cavalry was much less numerically than the other side. But when it comes to heavy infantry, the Viking army under Egil can be said to be the first infantry organization recognized on the European continent. Even the hoplites of the Eastern Romans were inferior. Not to mention these improvised levy legions, with lightly armed macers and daggers as the main force.

Sil II was extremely surprised, seeing that his infantry had only been fighting with the enemy for a moment or three, and he had been forced to the brink of collapse by the other side.

"The elite Norman infantry, see it today. Sil II sighed softly, and then ordered: "Let the three provisional levy legions of the second array retreat, and the three professional legions of the third array advance and take their place." At the same time the four professional regiments of the second array advanced to fill the vacancy. Order the whole army not to retreat, and those who retreat, no matter how big or small their official positions are, and what kind of family they come from, will be beheaded!"

After this adjustment, the Eastern Roman army regained its position in the midst of the tumult, although the battle loss ratio was still slightly higher. But at this rate, there is no way to tell the winner today.

"It's not that simple. Egil snorted lightly, seeing that his own line was firmly in front of the Viking warriors fighting valiantly, and the large reserves behind him were ready to fill the void, and the longbowmen drew their arrows, and the arrows flew like locusts, leaving people with nowhere to hide. I couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

"The heavy cavalry went to the right set to assemble and prepare to charge the front. ”

So, Egil gave such an order. After the previous fierce battle, the heavy cavalry deployed on the right flank of his side lost a lot, but the thousands of heavy cavalry deployed on the left flank did not move, plus the nobles and feudal knights who were temporarily recruited, Egil was still able to make up nearly three thousand heavy cavalry, which is Egil's biggest reliance, and it is also the best weapon for Ran to fight back against the enemy!

However, after giving such an order, Egil turned his gaze to Zuo Quinoa and couldn't help but frown.

On the unnamed heights on the far left, with reinforcements from three thousand-strong professional Vikings, the front was also solidified, with a total of more than 6,000 Norman warriors condescending, making it impossible for the opposing army to succeed with a legion. And the crossbowmen gradually resumed long-range shooting as the line progressed, filling the Norman rain of arrows. This unnamed plateau has become one of the best garrisons of the Norman army.

It's not here that Egil has to worry about. Rather, it was his bury flange ally.

Sir II is a battle-hardened veteran. It had been seen that the Norman army was not easy to mess with. So he devoted his mind to the French. Before, he sent tens of thousands of heavily armed cavalry to charge Lu Feng at one time, and he had two thoughts, if he could rush Lu Feng at one time, it would be best to defeat all the opponents. But if you can't, you can also test the depth of the opponent's army with such a fierce attack.

In the end, the Normans fought valiantly against the Greek cavalry, killing and wounding them, while the French also repelled the Greek cavalry with the help of Swiss pikemen. But the flinching appearance of the peasant soldiers who had been temporarily conscripted in France was also seen by Cyl II.

Therefore, Sil II saw this as a breakthrough. He sent the remaining nearly 4,000 cavalry under his command and rushed towards the other side.

Seeing the opposing cavalry dispatch again. Philip II hurriedly ordered the army to stop advancing. Be defensive. On the other side, Edward of Aquitaine, the duke, who had been given the responsibility of commanding all projectile troops, also ordered the French projectile infantry to prepare for the attack.

Only Duke Charles was not satisfied. But now that the French hoplites had suffered heavy losses and had lost the ability to attack independently, his Swiss mercenaries were better suited to defend against the enemy infantry, although they were able to attack the enemy infantry. The other two French nobles didn't want to move, and Duke Charles naturally couldn't move. ,

However, their opponent this time was not the heavy cavalry, which was known for its forced breakthrough and amazing defense, but the lightweight cavalry, which was faster, more cunning, and at the same time had more diverse attack methods. The Hungarians are fierce and good at fighting, and after the weapons and equipment have been fully enhanced, even compared to the heyday of Hungary itself, those Hungarian cavalry are three points stronger, and they are real killing weapons!

These cavalry cavalry advanced at full speed, and the Hungarian horses themselves were very capable, and almost in the blink of an eye, they were within the range of the compound lead. Immediately afterwards, these cavalry were aimed at the French, and the French army itself did not have a very high armor rate, and only about a quarter of the Swiss pikemen were equipped with plate and chain composite armor that had been looted from the Venetians. And the rest were four thousand to five thousand, heavily armed sergeants in France, wearing chain mail. All that remained were wealthy nobles, or merchants, who could own a heavy or ordinary chainmail. The rest of the levies, not even equipped with leather armor are not many!

Such a defense, under the opponent's powerful long-range attack, naturally suffered heavy losses.

Although the French projection troops, under the command of Edward, also fought back, they could not resist the dexterity and erratity of these leading cavalry. And the French projection troops are not very many, and the equipment is not very good. Less than eight hundred men were armed with longbows. So it's hard to resist.

"Let's take the initiative to attack! These cavalry leaders are not strong in impact, even if the super-long spear phalanx wavers a little in the process of marching, they will not be able to break through the phalanx. ”

Seeing that he couldn't fight back after being beaten like this, Duke Charles couldn't help but open his mouth and suggested.

"No, look" At this time, Philip II did not care about the feud with Burgundy, and pointed his hand at Duke Charles to look over, but found that in the corner of the enemy army, I don't know when a vote of Eastern Roman lancers had been gathered......

"See, if we attack at this time, then this heavy cavalry will be the next to charge at us. Perhaps these light cavalry were not powerful enough to break through the phalanx, but these lancers were not. ”

"What are you going to do, are you going to be beaten like this?" asked Duke Charlie reluctantly.

"Bear with me, anyway, these cavalry can only play a harassing role, not decide the outcome of the battle. After Philip II said this, he wanted to add: it is up to the Normans to decide the victory. But thinking about the character of Duke Charlie, he finally swallowed this sentence into his stomach.

At this time, Egir also sensed the plight of his allies, and gave orders for the Norman crossbowmen of the nameless heights to come to the aid of the attack and help the French drive away the pesky flies.

As a result, the Norman crossbowmen concentrated their firepower and condescendingly aimed at the opponent's cavalry to throw a rain of arrows. The power of the crossbow was much stronger than that of the French shortbow and the shoddy hunting crossbow. The cavalry soon suffered heavy casualties.

"Order the cavalry to retreat and send another professional regiment to that high ground. Also, the Trebizon archers, prepare rockets, shoot them. ”

Seeing that his calculations had been cracked, he frowned and sent a large number of troops into the battlefield.

Watch another legion enter the Nameless Heights. The pressure on the Norman army increased suddenly. The Norman crossbowmen then gave up their reinforcements to attack the French army and concentrated on helping their own Norman army garrison.

At the same time, the Trabizond archers, contaminated with Greek fire fuel, fired a large number of rockets, albeit with very limited direct damage. But as the flames spread. The crisis of the Norman soldiers began.

"Hussars ready. Hungarian Rangers, send three thousand troops to the aid of the Nameless Heights, two thousand troops with light cavalry and ......" Egil sighed softly, and then ordered the light cavalry that had been staying next to the French army to prepare. At the same time, the last light cavalry force in his hand was thrown into the battlefield.

With both sides once again throwing in large numbers of troops, the entire battlefield turned to the left, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides around this unnamed height. With the hatred of destroying their homes and destroying their country, the Hungarian rangers, who had been patient for a long time, exerted all their strength as soon as they entered the battle, leading the cavalry of Vadariel who had rushed back again, and the flanks of the Eastern Roman professional legions......

Vadariel led the cavalry to see the cavalry rushing towards them in the traditional costumes of the Huns or Magyars, holding rudimentary equipment, shouting the local dialect of all over Hungary. Before he could fight, his momentum weakened by three points, and when he officially engaged the other party, he saw that this group of people had red eyes, with anger, or even crying, and a voice that changed his tone, and completely left no room for attack, almost ending up in the same end. The momentum was three points weaker.

In the end, when the light cavalry on both sides was halfway through, one of the Vadariel cavalry was stunned for a few seconds, but he saw that on the other side, one of them turned out to be his younger brother who had disappeared for a while. I was stunned for a moment. Immediately afterwards, his brother rushed forward. Seeing his brother's cry of "wow", he knew that his brother also recognized him. The scimitar that kills people will not be able to cut it down in any way......

(To be continued)