"It's the Great Swordsman of Germany, and the Swiss mercenary. With such good equipment, it looks quite good in the Holy See...... Dispatch three thousand assault infantry! Let them know that no one is afraid of Norman warriors when it comes to martial bravery!" Egil sighed in the first half of his sentence, but shouted out loudly in the second half of his sentence. Let the surrounding soldiers be in spirit.

At the sound of the trumpet, three thousand-man Norman assault infantry, through the loose array of longbowmen, entered the front positions. Armed with a long-handled battle axe and wearing full-body plate armor, the assault infantry shouted loudly and fought desperately. Wield the tomahawk in your hand with all your might. Their modified full-body plate armor can completely withstand the opponent's greatsword. And the Swiss, who were armed with halberds, could not do them much harm. Heavy, with a layer of cotton-cushioning helmets wrapped inside, can also protect their most vulnerable heads. And when their tomahawks swung like lightning half-gliding, the other party had no choice......

On the front line, the situation of the war has stabilized again. The commanders of both sides will carefully observe, constantly throwing in reserves one after another, and then withdrawing the exhausted soldiers who have been fighting for a long time. In this way, the battle was carried out to the stage of stalemate. The Norman Emperor had a large number of soldiers, and his losses were not very many, and his soldiers were all recruited by the system, so he was naturally not afraid. However, Harold over there saw his own soldiers die one by one, but he was distressed enough. The battle began at nine o'clock, and it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. His 80,000-strong army lost nearly a third.

The 20,000 cannon fodder Christian crusaders died and died. In any case, there are now countless displaced people throughout Europe who have lost their arable land. The Holy See can recruit 35,000 with a single call. And those mercenaries from Germany and Italy are better dead, they die, and they will not have to pay their commissions after the war - however, what Harold cannot accept is the casualties of the new army of the Holy See.

Under the frenzied blows of the Norman Empire, under the rain of longbows and arrows. Under the heavy cavalry hussars charging in turn, and the Norman infantry garrison counterattacked, 10,000 of the 50,000 new troops of the Holy See had died! This made Harold, who participated in the training of the army and at the same time as the commander of the new army, vaguely regarded this new army as his own capital, uncomfortable to death.

However, no matter how uncomfortable it is, you have to endure it!

Harold reminded himself. Continuing to grit his teeth, he moved a thousand-man Swiss Guard and a thousand-man German greatsword mercenary to the front. This maintains frontal attack power. However, at this time, the Norman Emperor also transferred back the new army regiment that had been fighting for a long time, and replaced it with 8,000 assault infantry to attack against each other. Both sides are elite assault infantry with dual heavy weapons. The lethality is extremely strong, so the battle on the frontal battlefield is also extremely fierce, and the battle damage is quite serious. The Normans were slightly better, with more than 800 killed. The Holy See, on the other hand, was very sad at the loss of nearly 2,000 soldiers. The battle loss ratio between the two sides ranged from 1 to 2 to 1 to 3.

This was also difficult for Harold to accept. Swiss mercenaries are famous all over the world. It is often regarded as the first class of strong soldiers in Europe. The Holy See hires the most elite Swiss mercenaries and issues them the best armor. The best weapons, and train them with new (stolen from Norman) tactics. I thought I could train an invincible army in the world. However, I didn't expect that the end result was like this!

Despite going forward and succeeding, despite fighting very hard. And their coordination and formation have also reached the maximum extent they can. Harold even felt that they were doing even better now than they had done in previous exercises and training.

But it's still not enough. In the eyes of the Normans, these "well-equipped" and "well-trained" soldiers were indeed very good opponents. But it's naïve to try to beat them just because of that. Especially. These Swiss Guards are still outnumbered. Harold in his hands. There are only four thousand Swiss Guards. Therefore, in order to compensate for the lack of the number of your own assault infantry. A large number of hired German swordsmen. Although these great swordsmen are good at swordsmanship, they are even stronger than the Swiss in their own fight. But all year round, they are running orders to do business. The participants were also in skirmishes of 100 and 10 people. Not adapted to large-scale battles. ...,

And the Swiss Guards, too, had a big problem - when training these Swiss Guards, Harold, and the rest of the Holy See higher-ups, were expected to train them as opponents of the long-handled axe warriors and Norman assault infantry. Emphasis is placed on their impact, as well as the idea of wild combat. And did not play to the disciplinary specialties of these Swiss Guards......

Although the halberds in their hands were lighter in weight than the Normans were accustomed to long-handled battle axes, and they could perform more combat maneuvers, although they were light and flexible, the Swiss halberds were no less lethal than the Norman battle axes in terms of lethality and armor-piercing ability. So much so that the Swiss Guards, armed with such weapons, were even better than the Norman assault infantry when they attacked.

However, in terms of arrays, in terms of coordination - in both respects, it was still the Normans who had the absolute advantage. The Norman soldiers and assault infantry mostly understood the way the other side fought after a few moments of fighting. And tactical adjustments were quickly made. Abandon the classic bloody assault tactics that the assault infantry was accustomed to at the beginning. Instead, it was replaced by a dense array and advanced in a neat front. The commanders gave their command, and arranged the soldiers of each of the soldiers under their command into a horizontal line, and the soldiers of each of them advanced and retreated together, and the battle axes in their hands were chopped at the same time. The axe array advanced like a wall.

In this way, rows and rows of tomahawks were chopped down at the same time, and there was a scream, and a burst of flesh and blood flew sideways. The tactics of the Norman assault infantry forced the Swiss Guards, as well as the German mercenaries armed with broadswords, to fight with similar tactics - the phalanx and disciplined Swiss Guards immediately abandoned their wrong tactics and once again changed back to fighting in arrays and formations, while the Germans, who were chaotic and blinded by such battles as the Normans, were quickly and quickly wiped out by the Norman army.

"Damn it......" Harold was furious as he looked at the front line that was gradually crumbling. At the same time, it was a little frustrating. This round of offensive not only failed to succeed, but as he had envisioned, it overwhelmed the opponent's array and directly threatened the Norman Emperor. On the contrary, it seems that your own array is about to be overwhelmed by the other party.

"These useless mercenaries!" Harold looked at the front line, those German mercenaries were in a chaotic formation under the attack of the Normans, and he couldn't help but mumble like this. It's as if he's forgotten that he's also a mercenary.

At this time, on both flanks, the Norman hussars, under the cover of the rain of arrows of the lightly armed archers, had steadily suppressed the opponent's lightly armed cavalry. The armies of six other countries, such as Hesse and Milan, were also gradually brought together under the repeated urging of Egil. The Duke's Guard of Milan, the Black Dragon Order of Brandenburg, the Italian heavy cavalry of Venice, and the Knights of the Ducal Praetorian Guard of Austria, these elite knights, either a thousand, or a hundred. They are all thrown into the fight. Under the command of Ottila, the Hungarian king Attila, the Norman hussar general Qi Teng and others, the Hungarian hussars, who were slightly scattered and could not be arranged in an array, and the Eastern European conscription cavalry, were also squeezed into the gap in the Norman hussar array. Joined the melee.

The cavalry of the Norman army, with a total of nearly 50,000 knights, heavy cavalry, hussars, light cavalry and irregular cavalry, completely crushed the poor thousands of cavalry of the Holy See. On the battlefield, there were swords and swords, screaming again and again, but the vast majority of them were on the side of the Holy See.

"It's a fork!" Seeing that the enemy on both flanks surrounded him, the cavalry he dispatched seemed to be in danger of being completely annihilated immediately. Harold suddenly came to his senses - he had lost the battle. Norman's army defeated the weak with the strong, and it was only right. Although he is a talent, he does not have the ability to change his life against the sky.........

On the frontal battlefield, the Norman army's longbowmen ran out of ammunition and had retreated. The Norman Emperor again sent four thousand Norman assault infantry to the front, and placed ten thousand Norman assault infantry in the second column. Always ready to step forward for reinforcements. The Norman army continued to advance, leaving a trail of severed limbs and severed arms. Harold sent the last of the 1,000-strong Swiss Guards, but he could only delay the defeat slightly.

On both flanks, after another scuffle, the coalition forces divided and surrounded the remaining Papal cavalry. Immediately after that, he continued to attack the defensive array that Harold had set up again, because the soldiers of the nations were crowded together and could not fight on horseback. They all jumped off their horses. The knights fought bravely with weapons such as tomahawks, halberds and hammers. The light cavalry was armed with military pickaxes, armor-piercing hammers, scimitars and other weapons to protect the left and right. Although it is not as strict as the Holy See army. However, the continuous offensive of the coalition forces, which had absolute superiority in numbers, still caused the front of the new army of the Holy See to constantly retreat......

At this moment, the Norman army was surrounded on three sides, constantly squeezing the front of the Holy See army, forcing the other side to retreat. Although the Holy See army resisted hard, it was more than enough to do so. Of the 50,000 new troops of the Holy See, less than 40,000 remain. And the mercenary troops they hired had already seen the wind and fled.

The Norman Emperor is now reorganizing his forces and allowing them to make a wide detour behind each other to block the enemy's escape routes. and ordered the troops on the left and right, and the troops on the southern flank to attack vigorously and narrow the passage for the other side to escape. Under the non-stop onslaught of the coalition forces, the Papal army seemed to be crumbling, and Harold could only continue to shrink and then tighten his own front, in case the front was torn apart by the coalition army, and there was no place for his own death......

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