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Tried to charge again, and again ended in a losing arm. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There are not a few more heavy cavalry left in the Info coalition army. Nearly four thousand elite, shiny armor, well-trained knights and knightly squires had lost most of them in just half an hour. And the number of Normans killed by them was not even half of the number of heavy cavalry killed. Such a result is really unacceptable for Frederick, who has always regarded himself very highly and thinks that his black dragon knight is unparalleled in the world.

"If our strongest army, the proud elite and the final hole card, are no different from a joke in the eyes of the other party. Is there any need for this battle to continue?!" At that time, Duke Frederick's heart tightened suddenly. The pain was so intense that he almost fainted.

It's just, it's just...... Unreasonable...... Such an army as strong as a ghost crawling out of hell is really too foul! Coach, there are people here to hang up!

Frédéric, who completely ignored Brandenburg, was at this moment in a hysterical and schizophrenic howl. The war continues. And it was to continue, in a direction favorable to the Normans.

After the heavy cavalry charge failed, the coalition forces had no choice but to continue to charge forward and be fired at by the Normans in a rain of arrows. Fortunately, in order to fight against the heavy cavalry, General Walter ordered that half of the forward heavy crossbowmen be dispatched. Only half remained, and the Norman new army was mixed. This indirectly weakened the ranged attacks of the Normans. So that the coalition side was able to take two fewer arrows.

In this way, after losing nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses, the coalition army finally rushed to the front of the Norman army. Ready to engage the Normans. At this moment, the two dukes finally breathed a sigh of relief, especially Lucidwede, Duke of Hesse. I felt that the infantry under my command was not much worse than the Normans. Even if there is a slight gap, it can be made up for with his superb and excellent command ability.

But in fact, that's not the case at all.

Just now, in order to fight the rain of arrows of the Norman army, the coalition army used heavy shield spearmen as shields. And at this moment, the armies of the two sides came into contact. The heavily armed shield spearmen of the Hessian legion immediately formed a dense phalanx, raised their shields and leveled their spears, and charged at the Norman army. Seeing that his army was well-trained, Lucived nodded secretly. I thought: It's finally not in vain. It is worthy of Lao Tzu's army.

However, here comes a very simple mathematical problem - the allied heavy shield spearmen, who use spears with a length of two meters and three. A standard one-handed weapon for elite shield spearmen. On the Norman side, the length of the spears used by their phalanx infantry was ...... Four to six meters. The length gradually increases as the arrangement progresses. In this way, five columns of super-long spears are stacked. Even so that the front-line enemy can not see the figure, only the effect of the spear.

So, the problem is that when using a stabbing weapon with only one point of attack surface, and the length of the weapon is at least half that of the opponent. How can you attack your opponent?

Bypassing? Fighting with the so-called flexible surname?

Just kidding, this is the battlefield, the battlefield where people are crowded with people. It is completely impossible to move a millimeter in any other direction than to move forward. Tossing and turning or something only exists in delusion. Unless you have the Norman Emperor, a thousand force points, plus a set of external armor and external weapons. We can't forget the nearly 100 elite knights and more than 4,000 berserkers who sacrificed their lives and forgot their lives...... And was there such a presence in the two countries of the Coalition, Hesse, Brandenburg?

Not at all.

So, when they rushed to the front line, launched a charge, and then saw the dense barrels of guns in front of them. All that can be done is regret. At this time, it is impossible for the soldiers of the vanguard to stop, even if they want to. The soldiers behind him would push him forward like the kind of person who pushed him down a river full of crocodiles. And the Norman Empire's phalanx infantry will also see the opportunity, and when the opponent reaches the attack range, they will roar angrily and stab forward with all their strength.

The shield spearman in the front row, or use the spear in his hand to block a few extra-long spears. Or use the kite-shaped shield in your other hand to block a few extra-long spears. However, there will always be a few super spears that will be able to pierce his shield and dodge his blocking moves. Then slammed into his heavy chain mail, which was very good for slashing and smashing. But for the thorns, it's quite powerless. The gaps in the iron rings, and the gaps between the iron rings, can all become flaws pierced by the super long spear.

Of course, that's not the most important thing - in fact, there are still a handful of people in the phalanx who actually use the spear to kill and wound the enemy. The role of the super long spear is largely used to block the enemy's advance in order to keep a distance. And at this distance of three to five meters. The Norman musketeers and repeaters could shoot at will. to kill and injure enemies.

Under the cover of the pikemen, they kept a distance from the opposing shield spearmen. And calmly fire bullets and crossbow arrows. At such close distances, the problem of missing shots is almost non-existent. Even primitive muskets without rifling can easily smash an enemy's head like a watermelon. And the continuous firing of the crossbowmen caused heavy losses to the coalition forces.

These ranged troops are smiling and behaving calmly, killing people. On the contrary, the coalition soldiers were helpless against them. It's like a person who keeps provoking you, giving you the middle finger and making faces. Haha smiled and said, "Beat me, you have the ability to beat me, stupid." "And you really can't hit him so depressed.

In this way, the infantry sequences of the two sides collided violently, and each thousand-man team fought desperately. And the results were shocking. Under General Walter, the Norman infantry phalanx was almost completely victorious. Completely relying on the advantages of formation and equipment, he is abusing the strikers of the coalition forces.

"Shield-spearmen stand back! Ask the Hessian Janissaries to attack!" Duke Lucived opened his mouth, intending to say something like this. But in the end, the duke made a completely different decision.

"Hold the front, my friend Frederick, please send Brandenburg soldiers to fill the display. And the Praetorian Guards, scatter to the two flanks, expand the array and attack the opponent's flanks!"

"Understood. Hearing Lucived say this, Frederick immediately nodded and ordered his shield spearmen, who were slightly less powerful but better than nothing, to step forward and fill the gap in the Hessian infantry. At the same time, the Hessian Janissaries, armed with long-handled battle axes, obeyed the order and quickly turned around. Moved towards both flanks of the battlefield.

"Poor tactics. General Walter snorted lightly: "Two wings, the knight can be dispatched." ”

With General Walter's order, the Norman knights roared out. Although General Walter was under the command of only a thousand knights, there were only five hundred-man troops deployed on each flank. But its power is not inferior to the previous one, the coalition army of 4,000 heavy cavalry. A total of five hundred-men lined up in five rows, charging in a standard band pattern, and launched five charges in succession towards the two flanks, and the Hessian Janissaries, who had just moved to their positions. Let these arrogant elite infantry lose more than a third of their troops in one fell swoop.

"Damn!" saw that his tactics were once again countered. Duke Frederick immediately ordered the remnants of his heavy cavalry to come forward and stop the Norman knights. The knights of the coalition army, who had just fought a fierce battle and had not yet recovered their morale, had no choice but to go to the battlefield again after receiving the order. With a small victory, the Norman knights with high morale fought fiercely on both flanks of the battlefield.

In this way, the battle between the two sides once again fell into equilibrium. However, this balance was completely different for the two armies, and the Normans had the upper hand and had quite a lot of reserves. At the same time, he also has a lot of hole cards that are not played. And for the coalition forces, it is barely supported and goes all out. It can be crushed at any moment.

"The hussars went out and went around the rear to attack the enemy's rear. ”

I looked at the battlefield again. General Walter felt that the other party seemed to have no possibility of reversing. So it was ordered. Two hussar teams of 1,000 people, in such a war of tens of thousands of people, are definitely a force that can decide the outcome of the battle.

With General Walter's order, the two hussars were also on the left and on the right. Bypassed the heavy cavalry battlefield that was in fierce battle. As they passed the flank, the lightly armed cavalry also threw a rain of arrows - and then the Norman hussars encountered the Brandenburg skeleton hussars, whom General Walter had previously scoffed at.

Although the number is only half that of the other side. But to deal with this extremely fast light cavalry, you can only use light cavalry to counter. The two dukes of the coalition army did not expect these skeleton hussars to be able to defy the sky. I just hope that they will be able to delay a certain amount of time for them to complete the setup and form a thorough defensive formation with shield spearmen and giant shield crossbowmen. So that the Norman hussars could not break through their rear.

Then there was a massacre. Norman hussars held their sabers aloft. The wolf howls in a frenzied, but highly disciplined swarm, and tore through a dense array of skeleton hussars twice as many as them, a ridiculous dense array of hussars that were inferior to the Normans. And kill it.

After this charge. The two hussar thousand-man detachments on both flanks did not love to fight. Only half of the hussars were left behind, and they continued to ravage the Brandenburgers. The remaining ten centurians continued to move rapidly towards the rear of the coalition forces. At this time, several hedgehog circles behind the coalition palace had not yet been completely listed.

"But that's pretty much it, after all, the other side is not a heavy cavalry, and it doesn't have much impact......" Seeing the Norman hussars roaring towards them, the two dukes of the coalition army comforted themselves......

(To be continued)