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At this point in the war, there is actually no suspense anymore. The retreating Eastern Roman army, although still barely supported the front with elite hoplites. But defeat is only a matter of time. The Roman legionnaires, armed with spears and shields, could only draw their short swords to engage the Norman legions in hand-to-hand combat after the line was broken. However, such a thing as a dagger could not be an opponent of a tomahawk in any way. The large shields of the Eastern Roman legions were indeed very useful when maintaining formation and defending against arrows. But in the melee, it seems to be too much of a hindrance. Let the Roman legionnaires cry bitterly.

In fact, the Eastern Roman generals had already noticed this before this. The traditional Roman hoplites were no longer able to keep up with the pace of warfare in the new era. It should be phased out and improved. Some of the Eastern Roman generals also put forward specific suggestions for improvement. Unfortunately, when the vote was held in the Roman Senate, it was strongly opposed by the old-fashioned senators. Perhaps in their eyes, the so-called traditional glory of Rome was more important than a million Roman soldiers. In fact, that's what they did.

So, with the exception of a few of the most elite Janissaries, who were strongly urged by Basil II to replace them with better and modernized equipment, the rest of the Roman legions remained the same. Except for the replacement of bronze with steel, the rest is set in stone.

The soldiers of the Middle Ages were a little more vulnerable to the modernized Norman professional Viking warriors with better armor, sharper weapons, better organization, and more reasonable tactics.

Of course, these guys performed a little better than the rabble of peasant soldiers, and the most mainstream spear soldiers in Western Europe.

In Egil's opinion, if there were no accidents, the more than 30,000 Greeks should have been able to resist for five or six hours. After that, because the center was torn apart, it was divided and surrounded, and then it collapsed.

Of course, everything is under the best assumptions. Maybe the other party ate the gold carat in an instant, one can top two hits, and then push the Normans back.

If you think about it this way, then your previous arrangement is not something that should not be done.

On the left flank, in the bushes and bushes, Egil's newly organized battlefield Assassin force carefully avoided several groups of stragglers from the Eastern Romans and slowly advanced.

Dressed in camouflage and weed, armed with short swords and daggers, and armed with poison-hardened knives, these elite assassins were hunched on tiptoe, making no sound as they advanced. From a distance, you can't notice anything wrong.

Each team of battlefield assassins, in addition to thirty elite killers in full armor, also included five Sherwood marksmen armed with purple wooden longbows and arrows, and five daredevils armed with two-handed flaming swords. Such a configuration ensures the ranged and melee strength of the battlefield assassins. Diversify the means of assassination.

This is one of the newest units under Egil's command, an elite unit of dead soldiers capable of assassinating enemy generals in the army of 10,000 horses.

Of course, it's just an idle move. If Egil was the kind of person who relied on the methods of the Assassins wholeheartedly, and had no other skills, Norman didn't know how many times he had lost his country...... Of course, Egil himself thinks so, but that doesn't mean he won't cheer on those Assassins, saying that the rise and fall of the Catholic world is all on your shoulders, and you must do it. That's it. The Assassins were moved and decided to kill Shengren.

With such a sense of mission, and Egil's promise that if things go well, he will have a settling-in allowance of eighty gold coins in life and death. Under the temptation of such heavy profits, a total of three battlefield assassin regiments, one hundred and twenty assassins, slowly took advantage of the battlefield terrain to cover up, and approached the enemy commander little by little.

It's just that it's still a little farther away.

"And ...... Pretty much seen. In the center of the enemy formation. The longbow couldn't shoot him in this position. Need to get a little closer. ”

Seeing that a group of people were about to emerge from the woods. The sharpshooter with the best eyes narrowed his eyes and then said.

“...... A little further along. The captain of the Battlefield Assassin was silent for two seconds before ordering, "It's okay. Now that our army has the upper hand, the enemy's army formation is in disarray. Wait a little longer, and when the opponent's formation is more chaotic, we'll rush over. Kill a way, and then snipe the sharpshooter to kill that guy!"

In this way, the Assassins of the battlefield are still lurking...... At this moment, on the right flank of the battlefield, the Venetian army was somewhat unable to support it.

Although in the beginning, because of the slaughter and robbery of tombs like this. The Venetians showed a little bit of a victory for their soldiers, and with 10,000 troops they did not fall behind against the 25,000 Burgundian army. However, after a long time, the tenacious surname of the Swiss mercenary was revealed, which made the Venetians feel helpless.

The Burgundians initially recruited an army of 30,000, 20,000 of whom were Swiss mercenaries hired at high prices. Five thousand Burgundian troops were left in Marseille. As a result, there were more Swiss mercenaries.

These Swiss mercenaries obeyed Charlie's orders directly. But it was a few of the most qualified mercenary leaders and a dozen or twenty mercenary leaders who actually commanded the battle. Charlie issued the order. How to execute it depends on these guys.

In fact, it is these Swiss mercenaries who sing the leading role on the right-wing battlefield.

The mercenaries, dressed in rudimentary armor, marched in phalanx with a mix of pikemen and halberders. The soldiers swung their spears up and down in an attempt to remove the arrows from their crossbows and crossbows. At the same time, with a slow and steady pace, he moved forward unhurriedly, putting great pressure on the enemy while maintaining his own formation.

This made the Venetians feel incredible. As if they didn't know what fear was, the Swiss completely ignored their comrades who had fallen to the ground from the arrows next to them, and only adjusted their formation a little as they saw it. After that, he continued to move forward like no one else.

The attitude of not taking life and death seriously is really scary.

Venice is a country that attaches great importance to long-range weapons, because it is very afraid of death. Very rich at the same time. So it's great to be able to kill and injure the other party without contact, so Venice's long-range strike force is quite good. In addition to the iconic giant shield crossbowmen throughout Northern Italy, there were also Venetian archers armed with powerful compound bows in the Oriental style. The entire Venetian army consisted of more than 2,000 crossbowmen and more than 1,500 Venetian archers. These crossbowmen wore chain mail, long swords, and iron helmets, and their equipment would definitely make many soldiers in the rest of Western Europe envious and jealous.

Of course, if this is the case, other people will scold a few times at most and will not care too much. The reputation of Venice's local tyrants could not have spread so widely. These four thousand heavily armed projection infantry is not the point yet. The focus is on the Venetian hoplites, which Venice is proud of and claims to be one of the strongest heavy infantry in Europe.

A total of 4,000 Venetian hoplites, all dressed in expensive plate-chain composite armor from northern Italy. That's not all, it's lined with a layer of leather armor. He wears a steel helmet and wields a large shield with a warhammer. It can be said that it is armed to the teeth. Venice is not as convenient as Egil, there are dwarven blacksmiths in the empire, and there are system blessings. The price of plate chain composite armor is unimaginably low. This Venetian plate chain composite armor is produced in Venice, and each set is around a thousand florins. The gold content of the florin coin is about 98 percent. The portion was also about three or four grams heavier than the generic gold coin used by Egil. So the actual price of this set of armor should be 1,200 gold coins. These 4,000 sets of plate chain composite armor are 4.8 million gold coins. Plus other gear. These 4,000 hoplites were the total tax revenue of the Upper Norman Kingdom for a year, and there was still a surplus.

Well, if that doesn't frighten you, then let's look at the remaining 2,500 cavalry units of the Venetian army.

The Venetians traveled from south to north and from south to the Mediterranean. So there was a lot of time to deal with the infidels. He was particularly interested in the archers' cavalry tactics of the pagan nomads. To confront it, Venice trained a crossbow cavalry unit. These crossbow cavalry were armed with the finest fast horses, the finest light chain mail, iron helmets, and light bows, a thousand crossbow cavalry troops, unique in all of Western Europe. Combat effectiveness and not mentioned. The creativity is pretty good.

After that, there were the Italian heavy cavalry, which were also equipped with plate chain composite armor and horse chain armor.

If the other troops of Egil could not care, this 1,500 over-heavy Italian heavy cavalry, even the well-informed Norman emperor would vomit blood - he worked hard to form the Knights. Until now, there are only eight hundred royal knights, and this kind of equipment is just that. The remaining 2,000 Norman heavy cavalry were still equipped with traditional heavy chain mail. It's a notch worse than the royal knights.

So, look at how far the Venetians scratch their bags. This army of 10,000 people was completely created with mountains of gold and silver. Where is the equipment on them - it's all money, it's money, bastards!

In this way, it is not difficult to understand the heartfelt hatred of these Swiss people who came out of the mountains after seeing the Venetians.

Everyone has a hatred of the rich. And the poverty index is directly proportional to the hatred index. It's like a poor "beep" from a ravine like the Swiss, when he sees a rich second generation like Venice, even in peacetime, he has to pick up thousands of bricks and bricks. Not to mention that it is now an enemy country. Then the Swiss naturally had more reason to kill......

(To be continued)