Chapter Twenty-Three: The Battle of the Nameless Heights II, Retreat
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Seeing this, Artoria secretly screamed in her heart, "It's not good." "Manipulating the horse to make the horse go backwards - but the horse under the crotch was foaming at the mouth because of the sudden halt of the previous fast gallop, and he was tired to death. In addition, they were intimidated by the enemy's flying arrows, and some did not obey the call. I can't do such a difficult move as going backwards. As Artoria gritted her teeth and prepared to dismount, she saw another round of bows and arrows coming from the opposite side......
At this moment, there was not a single soldier standing beside Artoria, and the light cavalry behind her, though they tried to get over, were a step too late because of the distance. And the speed of the horses could not keep up with the arrows in any case. In this way, hundreds of Cossack archers fired arrows aimed at Artoria.
"Don't kill her! Catch her alive!!" he watched as a large number of arrows shot at him. Lilianu, on the other hand, was a little anxious - the living were worth more than the dead. She had tried to capture the captives, and then she had threatened Egil.
However, it was still a step slow. How can the arrow from the string be controlled again? At this moment, the soldiers on both sides almost all thought that Her Majesty the Norman Empress was going to be shot into a hedgehog. It is impossible to say that there are some soldiers with more delicate hearts, who have expressed the emotion that famous generals have been like beauties since ancient times, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world. (Again, the common European aesthetic does not consider the queen to be a beauty.) But the queen is indeed a famous general. Hence this feeling).
But Artoria, after all, is Artoria. His pupils shrank, and with a swing of the long sword in his hand, he only heard the crackling sound of arrow shafts cracking around him. The sword of victory and oath was like an impenetrable barrier, and the Cossack cavalry was completely unmoved by the fierce bows and arrows. However,
Artoria was holding his breath and swinging his sword to protect his body, but he heard a wail from his crotch, dozens of arrows had been hit in his chest, and his front hooves were about to fall to the ground as soon as he was weak - the Cossack cavalry saw that Altoria's sword was well protected, and heard the order of his own crown prince to catch it alive, so he aimed at Altoria's war horse......
"Damn it. Seeing that the war horse lost its balance, his body also fell forward with the war horse. As soon as Artoria gritted his teeth, his legs immediately broke away from the stirrups, and with a lift upwards, he stepped on the horse's back and did a backflip, and then the Cossacks saw the opportunity, and a small number of horsemen forgot the order of their crown prince and shot with their bows and arrows.
"Don't let the arrows go!!!"
So Lilianu was furious, drew her sword, and shouted, "Whoever kills that woman, this palace will kill whoever kills!"
However, this round of bows and arrows was not useless - Altoria's back, which had no time to block in mid-air, was hit by an arrow in the calf of her left leg, which made her tremble when she landed, and she almost didn't stand. However, as soon as the queen gritted her teeth, she took two steps back to the exclamation of our soldiers, and with a wild roar of "Ah!" she grabbed the half-dead horse on the ground with one hand with her left hand, and protected her body like a shield. After that, he dragged his injured calf back and forth.
"Protect Her Highness!"
"Protect the Queen!"
Seeing this, the Norman hussars and Celtic hussars were stunned for a moment before shouting like this, and rode forward with their shields in hand, ready to come to the aid of Artoria. The Cossack cavalry on the other side also rushed - the first few did not use their usual scimitars, but rope nooses. This is a tool used to harness horses or to capture humans.
"Catch her!
Seeing Artoria retreat towards her camp, Lilianu seemed to watch the crown of the Eastern Roman Empire grow farther and farther away from her. couldn't help but shout: "Whoever can catch that woman, this palace promises him to become a great nobleman of the Eastern Roman Empire, or you don't want to go to Eastern Rome, in Eastern Europe, this palace promises you a big tribe of 10,000 tents!"
Under such a heavy reward, the eyes of the Cossack cavalry suddenly lit up, a total of more than 300 Cossack light cavalry, and no longer took care of the Norman and Celtic light cavalry in front. Instead, they all rushed towards Artoria, which was in the middle. Even several Cossack cavalrymen closest to Artoria fought with each other. A Cossack cavalryman saw that his position was not good, and he was afraid that he would not be able to come out on top, so he took out his scimitar and stabbed another Cossack cavalryman next to him in the stomach, and then aimed at Artoria, who was holding a dead horse, and threw a noose!,
Artoria gritted her teeth, and then threw the horse corpse in her hand fiercely, and at this moment she also heard that the other party did not seem to want to kill her, and the bow and arrow would not be used. In this case, this horse meat shield is not needed.
"God, is this woman really human?!" saw the horse's corpse break the noose, and then grow bigger and bigger - the Cossack cavalryman was for a moment so surprised that he could not even escape, and could not help but shout. Immediately after that, he was smashed by a horse that fell from the sky, weighing hundreds of kilograms, and the war horse under his crotch screamed, unable to withstand such a great force, and the entire spine was broken in half with a "snap", and the Cossack cavalry was even worse, half of his head was shattered, and his cervical vertebrae were also broken into several sections with a "snap", and he swallowed his breath on the spot.
Seeing that his queen is so brave, seriously injured, and still able to do such an inhuman thing. The morale of the Norman and Celtic cavalry was greatly boosted, while the Cossack cavalry, on the other hand, was really frightened. Immediately afterwards, he was slashed by the oncoming melee hussars. After that, he ate a round of javelins from the Celtic light cavalry, lost a lot of men, and then retreated.
"Damn! what a waste!!" Lilian slammed her crotch into her crotch, thinking: sure enough, she can only rely on her own Eastern Roman army.
"Infantry advance! Archer cover!"
Immediately afterwards, the Eastern Roman army, consisting of 4,000 men, the regular heavy infantry, the hammer and the daggers, and the mixed army of the Guards and the Royal Guards, advanced in a glaive formation, forming a semi-encirclement trend, and rushed towards the Normans and Celts.
Artoria gritted her teeth and ordered a Norman melee hussar to swing her sword, cutting off the shaft of the arrow behind her back, and then swinging her own sword to cut off the shaft of the arrow in her calf. Turned over a war horse that had just been left behind by the Cossacks.
If Artoria, who had not been nurtured by Egil before, would have suffered such a big loss, he would have been furious, and directly commanded the army to attack, fighting to the death with the enemy. At this moment, however, Artoria has grown a lot. Although he was not angry, he knew that the number of enemies at this moment was more than ten times that of his own, and he was not in good health, and he did not have time to put on his armor, and he was hit by two arrows, and his physical condition was not good. And after several days of hurrying, the physical condition of our light cavalry was not very good.
"Don't fight for a short time. You know, retreat is also an art. Egil's voice rang in Artoria's head again. Her Royal Highness gritted her teeth and shouted, "Retreat! Retreat for the time being!"
Norman and Celtic hussars responded with a bang, and then turned their horses and prepared to retreat. However, Lilianu was such a figure, so calculating, how could there be no backhand, a total of thousands of nomadic cavalry from Eastern Europe had already blocked Artoria's retreat. This group of cavalry and the Eastern Romans were not of the same mind, and did not follow the orders of Her Royal Highness Princess Lilianu and capture Artoria alive. There is no political mind to take the Norman queen as a hostage and negotiate conditions with the Norman Empire. They just think: this is the damn bastard who beat us before!
In this way, the nomadic cavalry rushed forward with a wild shout, and on the two flanks and behind Altoria, thousands of Eastern Roman troops, as well as hundreds of Cossack cavalry regrouped, gradually drew closer and closer, totaling nearly 5,000 troops, encircling the Altolian light cavalry force, which was less than 500 men. Seeing that the encirclement is getting smaller and denser......
"Breakout!" Altoria snorted, and then took the lead, turning and rushing towards the right flank, that is, to the north, where the enemy was more sparsely numerous.
Immediately afterwards, the Norman and Celtic light cavalry also rushed after their own queen - the Roman soldiers in that place did not have a formation of super-long spears and shields to resist the cavalry charge, and there were not many of them. Seeing hundreds of cavalry rushing over, I was a little dazed. The lightly armed javelinmen, the slingers, had the courage to launch a round of projectile attacks, leaving the hussars lying down a few, but it did not change the form at all. Artoria, who rushed to the front, and was in a terrible mood to the extreme, slashed at it with a sword, and the sword of victory and oath went straight down from his neck and shoulder blades, splitting the man diagonally into two parts, and all the organs flowed to the ground, and the light cavalry also fought bravely to be the first, and rushed out with a single assault.
"Catch up!"
Seeing that the boiled duck was about to fly, Lilian was so angry that she shouted like this, and then the coalition army, led by the light cavalry, followed by the infantry, chased after her lifelessly. The Celtic and Norman light cavalry fought and retreated, and after killing a group of enemies, they were caught up again before they could take a few steps. This is always not fast, and Artoria is seriously injured, and she is also dizzy for a while. Seeing that the number of his subordinates was getting smaller and smaller, and the wounds on his body were getting more and more painful, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "Is it going to be like this......