Chapter 17: The Battle of Bergen II
The cavalry on the right flank. In the woods, of course, it was dragged out by the superior forces sent by Egil. The most rudimentary flying prop, the Flying Axe, which cost three hundred gold coins, worked well in this complex jungle terrain - and the cavalry was a little tragic. Obviously, it is an extremely strong existence in the plain terrain. But because he had to sneak, he sneaked into the woods and lost his kinetic impact, which was very tragic.
In this way, after re-merging and reorganizing, a group of Viking soldiers with a total of 300 soldiers (a battalion?), and a team of 300 Viking warriors, also with a new weapon, the throwing axe. Flying axes, which are slightly smaller than hand axes, are equipped with three handles per person. Although the range is much worse than that of the javelin - it cannot be compared with the bow and crossbow. But it's very powerful, and it also has an armor-piercing surname?!
And just like that—a total of 1,200 throwing axes flew out in circles with a scalp-deaking sound.
"Huh, what's that?"
To train a knight, you need to start at the age of fourteen, as a knight's squire and follow other knights, as an apprentice, without a salary, and you have to serve your teacher like three grandchildren every day. You also have to train in swordsmanship, spearmanship, horsemanship, etc...... It was not possible to be canonized as a knight until the age of twenty-one. If you want to really get ahead, you have to continue to fight, fight for a few years, survive, and finally get at least one knight's medal. That's how you got out......
It takes ten years to make a qualified knight. Then, killing a knight requires ......
Five seconds?
A knight with good motor nerves and a very quick reaction heard the sound of the air breaking - and then turned his head sharply, and saw an axe slashing at his head in a circle. Then, before he could make a sound, he was struck in the middle left of his head, and his cheeks, eyes, and skull all clicked. Directly burst the brain.
There was a great confusion among the knights, and I really didn't know how the enemy had come around behind him - behind him should be his own line, and those cowards from Biard were right?
As a result, the fool knights, who couldn't turn their brains, didn't know how they died in the end.
This round of flying axes directly killed more than 200 cavalrymen. After that, the crossbow-wielding militia also fired a volley, and the crossbow arrows were slightly less armor-piercing, but they still killed nearly a hundred cavalrymen. Later, after greatly weakening the enemy's numbers, and causing them to be confused and weakened, thousands of Viking warriors rushed out and fought bravely.
In the woods, the cavalry's superiority was completely unplayable - and because of the height, they were often hung in the face by branches or something. Combat effectiveness was greatly limited. Coupled with the previous two rounds of flying prop attacks, the enemy has become a frightened bird. In this way, the Viking warriors cut down this large group of cavalry one by one with little effort. Only a small number of cavalry saw that the situation in front of them was not right, decisively abandoned the war horse, rolled and climbed, and ran towards the depths of the woods in a panic.
Rewind time to three days ago, the seat of Olaf III, Bergen. After learning that Lord Biard was finally forced to submit by Count Felix. Olaf III was in a terrible mood - however, when he saw the secret letter that Egir had written to him, his mood suddenly became very confused.
The letter reads as follows: His Majesty Egil Skadergrímsson pays homage to Lord Olaf III. His Majesty adheres to the teachings of Catholicism and knows the way of loyalty. As the eldest son of the previous Grand Duke, the sovereign should inherit the position of the Grand Duke, which is the right principle of heaven and earth and cannot be questioned.
The subordinates want to vote for the heart of the lord and the king, like the hope of the great drought, and the hope of a child. However, Count Felix was a petty man and suppressed his subordinates by force. The army of 30,000 soldiers came to the city, and his subordinates had no choice but to make a false deal with it.
However, it was a great rebellion to fight the king, and his subordinates had already decided to defect at the time of the decisive battle. Make an agreement with the sovereign to wave the gray flag three times as a signal. At that time, his subordinates will inevitably turn against each other and fight Felix endlessly......
“...... Is it really fake?" Olaf III put the letter away in disbelief. He naturally knew that if this force defected at a critical moment in the battle, then his chances of victory would be greatly increased. It doesn't hurt anyway......
Thus, in the course of the war, the attack on Egil's side was pitiful. Olaf III still has in his heart what if, thinking that he is the true son of heaven and that all the people will return to their hearts.
Virtue.
Egil shook his neck, and then asked the knight of the guard beside him, "How many times has the gray flag on the other side been shaken?"
The knight of the guard, who had been cared for before the battle, replied, "Four times." At the beginning of the battle, once after the cavalry charge, the flanks were attacked once. Plus the one that is shaking now, for a total of four. ”
"Oh...... Felix's cavalry on the flanks, done?"
"Well, the news that just came out is almost gone. In the end, a few escaped, but it looks like they fled in the direction of the forest, so it should be fine. ”
"That's fine. ”
In such a short time, the tide of battle changed again, and after Olaf III charged on the flank of Count Felix, the left flank had a tendency to rout in an instant. However, this guy is really a bear child. Without saying a word, he directly led more than thirty Viking berserkers to the top - this is a real Viking berserker. It's not as tough as the red-haired berserker that Egil had calculated to die before this - but if it's bad, it's not too bad. And this is another trump card in the hands of Olaf III. The legacy left to him by his dead ghost Archduke's father.
More than thirty berserkers under the leadership of Olaf III rushed directly into the left flank army, at this moment the knights had lost their impact, and the cavalry spears in their hands were broken into two, even if they were not broken, they also played a role in such a chaotic army, and the knights all threw away their guns, drew their long swords at their waists, and slashed condescendingly. The conscripted peasants have a short gun in their hands and a skin shield, the gun is broken, the shield is broken, and there is no props on the body that can defend themselves, and they are accurate when they cut it, so although the knights (and their servants + light cavalry do not pull or pull) have lost their speed advantage, they can still crush the posture and press tens of thousands of people with more than 800 people......
However, after the arrival of the Viking Berserkers, this is a different story.
First of all, the berserkers have to have enough attack power, and they will be cut down with an axe, and if you don't die, I will have your surname. Secondly, although the berserkers may seem brutal, they are actually much faster and more agile than knights on horses and without touching the ground. In addition, there were a group of miscellaneous peasant soldiers around him, so the berserker quickly cut down dozens of cavalry, and then called on the peasant soldiers to rush up, pulling the originally high knight lord (in all senses) off the horse, several people pressed their arms and legs, and then stripped off the knight's helmet and chain armor, and then the sharp and blunt weapon in his hand greeted him vigorously......
Slightly oozing this.
In this way, the front was temporarily stabilized. However, Olaf III's side was once again faced with another problem. They don't have a commander-in-chief anymore.
...... Well, such a commander-in-chief, basically with and without the same.
The main infantry lines of both sides had already begun to fight, and the Viking warriors, also armed with chain mail, armed with axes, shields, and long-handled battle axes, roared and slashed at the neck. At this moment, nearly half of the Viking warriors in all of Scandinavia gathered here. They may have gathered under a single banner, plundering and fighting side by side as Vikings - but now they are enemies, enemies, and, enemies.
In addition, the shield spearmen, who wore leather armor and also held short contradictory cards - but had been in the army for a longer time and were more numerous than Viking warriors formed the backbone of the professional army, and the spears in their hands stabbed were not as shocking as the axes of Viking warriors, but they would die if they were stabbed in the heart, they would die if they were stabbed in the lungs, they would die if they were stabbed in the stomach (they would die of starvation, they would be skinny when they died, and they would be miserable), and they would die if they were stabbed in the spleen, and they would die if they were stabbed in the kidneys, and they would die if they were stabbed in the neck......
Well, stabbed in the intestines, decisively will not die. Sure enough, it occupies the whole stomach.,The organ dedicated to holding excrement is very powerful.,It's very survivable, bastard.。
However, this is also enough. There are so many vital parts on the human body, and a short gun can cause so much damage!
Of course, this is also the reason why the soldiers were issued with a zither-shaped shield that could almost cover more than 70% of their bodies.
The battle was fierce. After the collapse of the left was suppressed, the two sides again entered the phase of a bitter war of attrition. Batches of cannon fodder, cannon fodder, and high-grade cannon fodder were killed, and the corpses were chopped to pieces. After that, he was trampled on by the enemy and his own people, and even his mother couldn't recognize him when he came......
"Damn, if both wings had been charged at the same time, I should have won by this time - what the hell happened over there - no- that bastard named Egil !!!"
After a long period of busyness and a series of orders to completely stabilize the line, Count Felix's head eased up, and he clearly figured out something--after that, the Count only felt the world spinning, and almost fainted in the darkness before his eyes--and when he looked at his right flank, he found that Egil seemed to have noticed his sight as well. The ** was slightly surprised for two seconds, and then the corners of his mouth grinned, and he saluted him again, and at the same time, Biard's three thousand armorers turned around and launched an offensive against Felix's army......
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