Chapter Seventy-Three: The Madness of the Centaur Warriors
When the group of centaur warriors was still about fifty meters away from the Norman soldiers in full-body plate armor, a crisp, loud, sweet voice: "Fire!" shouted from the mouth of the captain of the musketeers, Asami. Immediately afterward, the Norman soldiers, armed with rudimentary firearms, pulled the trigger, and with a loud noise and the pungent smoke of gunpowder, a large patch of iron sand and iron filings whistled like an iron sieve, and roared towards the centaur spearmen!
On the grasslands, steel is an extremely scarce resource. Even a force as powerful as the Oirat Centaur tribe, under the leadership of Ayuj Khan, had only managed to scrape together nearly two thousand pairs of heavy scale armor. And this group of centaur lancers here - because Printhia is on a mission of harassment and raiding, speed is the first key. So at most, they are equipped with some light leather armor - more centaurs, but they are naked with their upper bodies, and there is no cover at all!
This piece of iron sand hit it, and there was a terrible howl. The centaurs in the front row were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses! The small, slightly blackened hole in the iron sand looked like a hornet's nest. It's terrifying. And the wails of the dying centaur warriors are even more terrifying!
"What kind of weapon is this?!" the centaur soldiers on the opposite side were shocked. Such gunsmoke and invisible weapons are more like legendary magic than means on the battlefield. Rao is a centaur soldier is strong-minded, but he also feels unusually afraid.
"What the hell is going on?!" the centaur lancers stopped in their charging stance, but the Norman musketeers on the opposite side did not stop their attack - it was too much trouble to reload the ammunition. The musketeers dropped the muskets in their hands, and then took the guns from the hands of their companions, the soldiers who were responsible for loading the ammunition, and fired again!
After only a few seconds, another iron sand like an iron net hit it. The centaurs fell again at the time - however, if you look closely, you can see that this time the centaurs lost much less than the previous one because they were far away - but don't expect these ordinary soldiers to analyze this at this time - in fact, most centaurs have been frightened by this scene. Although the Normans also used weapons such as iron artillery during the Battle of Moscow, due to the lack of information, these 5,000 centaurs saw the first time that they had seen the weapons of muskete, and they were more powerful and deterrent than the primitive explosives such as iron artillery.
"Go on, fire!"
On the other side, Asami continued to give the order, and the musketeers she would command took the loaded muskets from the soldiers behind them again, aimed them at the other and pulled the trigger - there was no need to aim, and in fact there was no need to aim. This round of attacks was not very effective, only hitting a few centaurs slightly ahead. At the same time, it was the last time the musketeers did so—two hundred musketeers in all, armed with three hundred early muskets. One hundred men were responsible for shooting, and another hundred were responsible for loading and handing muskets to each other. At this moment, the three hundred guns have been fired. If you want to fill it again, you have to wait at least a few tens of seconds - and a few tens of seconds is enough time for the centaurs to kill this group of soldiers countless times......
At this moment, on another hill nearby, General Joan of Arc frowned—it was the first time she had set up and used this new, supposedly powerful class. The same without any experience. That's why these soldiers were ordered to guard one direction alone. And at this moment, after seeing the power of these firecrackers, Joan of Arc also keenly sensed that something was wrong. Although these firecrackers are indeed shocking, and the scene is even more than imagined - but the power is not flattering.
"Thanks to an ambush behind them. Joan of Arc thought, "Even if the other party defeats this group of musketeers, they will not be able to escape, but they will only fall from one trap into another." ”
And at this moment, the ammunition has been exhausted. The centaur soldiers still had no intention of retreating. Captain Asami laughed angrily, raised her hand and withdrew her command knife, and then took off the flintlock pistol she was carrying behind her back - aimed at a centaur on the opposite side who looked like a leader in light leather armor and a mink hat and pulled the trigger - the rifled flintlock pistol was very different from that of the early firearms, and the rifled flintlock pistol shot an iron projectile that pierced the centaur's head. I only heard a "bang!", and the centaur didn't even scream, half of his head shattered like a watermelon falling from dozens of floors. ...,
"Run! The other party used evil magic, and the pioneer was killed by them!"
With such a frightened cry, the remaining 400 centaurs and lancers suddenly dispersed. No matter what Printhia said, she refused to charge there. And the already demoralized centaur soldiers suffered from this
Later, there was no meaning of resistance. Many people looked at that piece with trepidation, the sparse group of musketeers, and said, "No wonder there are few people there." The people there were all great shamans of the Normans...... Nature keep
Stay!"
"Don't talk nonsense, disturb the morale of the army!" the county lord of Printhia next to him was furious, and with a wave of his scimitar, he slashed the head of the babbling centaur. And then unwillingly
Look at the Norman musketeers. Just now, she also saw what those musketeers were doing. The lethality of the other party is actually not very strong. It's just that the means are novel enough to effectively cause people to panic
In fact, it was still the weakest link in the Norman garrison. At that time, if the remaining centaur lancers were willing to continue to charge forward, the army would have rushed out by this moment.
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And things have come to this point that the centaur soldiers don't seem to dare to attack there anymore. Printhia didn't even use threats and temptations. The centaurs insisted, "If you are killed by those shamans."
words, the soul will be sucked away. You can't go to heaven, and you have to suffer when you die. "So I refused to go anyway. In desperation, Printhia chose another place to order the centaurs to break out again.
The centaur soldiers probed for a moment, and saw that they could only use bows, crossbows, javelins, and wood and stones. Immediately, his spirits were lifted, and he rushed towards the hillside. However, things are not like these simple-minded centaurs
It was as simple as imagination - seeing the centaur soldiers attacking, the Norman soldiers on that side of the hill suddenly changed their tactics, took out the more powerful heavenly fire canisters and iron cannons, and surged towards the centaurs
Fierce throwing. Suddenly, the sound of violent explosions and boiling flames and oil spread wildly among the centaur soldiers.
"Attack, soldiers, let's attack! Also, the centaur lord must be caught alive. Whoever can catch her will be rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor, but whoever dares to hurt a hair of her will wait to bear the fiercest wrath of His Majesty the Emperor!"
Seeing the centaur soldiers fall into chaos again. Joan of Arc immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the Norman army to carry out a general attack. Suddenly, the trumpet sounded loudly on the hill. An army of nearly 50,000 was in chaos from all sides
The centaur army rushed over. Even the Norman soldiers in front of the centaurs, the savage warriors from the Rus' race, did not wait for the flames to be extinguished, and then braved the flames and launched a fierce charge towards the centaurs
Front.
For a while, the centaurs, who were originally in a state of attack, encountered an even more terrifying attack from the Normans!
Luo with a long-handled tomahawk and a two-handed tomahawk
Soldiers. Poles with scimitar shields. Javelin-bearers from Prussia, two-handed swordsmen from Germanic peoples. Not to mention, those who are equipped with heavy chain mail and are trained professional Viking warriors. Plain one is self-sufficient
The centaurs, who boasted of being warriors, were soon divided and surrounded by these fierce human warriors. Little by little, some of the soldiers who were worried about the ransom chose to be captured alive, but many more soldiers wanted to show off their martial arts
Yong and military merit, chose to kill - but the centaurs were only a few thousand. There is simply not enough for these fighters to distribute...... So, such a scene appeared on the battlefield.
Centaur battles huddled together
The soldiers braved the sky to fall shoulder to shoulder, and the arrows and javelins that fell on their heads fought desperately. But from time to time, a group of human warriors will kill a gap. In order to compete for glory, the overly excited Norman soldiers,
would often use all kinds of weapons to cut the poor man into eight pieces. They were robbed of their ornaments, their heads held high, and even their torsos, hooves, blood-drenched internal organs, and other organs, and roared in exuberance
Make move. Centaurs that fall into the hands of human soldiers often die horribly. The body is mutilated......
It's just that if such an encounter is against some peasant soldiers temporarily recruited by the peasant people,
Naturally, it was an excellent deterrent - but now the Norman soldiers were facing centaurs from the steppes - and saw their own corpses being treated like this. The centaur soldiers were immediately indignant. Neither
The desperate one gave up his defensive position and attacked the Norman soldiers in a frenzied manner.
"Break through!" saw that the situation had changed. Printhia's eyes lit up, and she took the lead with her two-handed sword
Rushed over from a weakly defended spot. The centaur soldiers who followed her also charged violently, and slammed their bodies into a blood-stained path—the centaur warriors behind Printhia shouted:
"County Lord, I'll wait for the queen of the palace, leave us alone, leave quickly!" he turned around and forcibly blocked the Norman soldiers who were dozens or hundreds of times more than them......
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