Chapter 42: Enemy Attack!
The horses that had taken steps were like bursts of rolling thunder, and a whole heavy cavalry brigade swept the entire camp in an instant. The first light infantry camp www.biquge.info to be attacked was strewn across the field, and the whistling cavalry rushed to the second camp without hindrance. However, at this moment, the war horse that rushed to the front suddenly weakened under his feet, and the knight who reacted quickly immediately turned over and dismounted, but the heavy cavalry weighing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor could not maintain physical balance at all, and for a while the person turned on his back. The knights of the second echelon tried their best to turn around and avoid their teammates in front, but the ensuing rain of arrows directly took their lives.
No one could have imagined that Maxim would actually dig a two-meter-wide gap between the two camps. No one could have imagined that Maxim, in order to lead the heavy cavalry into the encirclement, would actually use an entire squadron of light infantry as bait. However, 1,000 light infantry for 10,000 heavy cavalry, which is not so easy to change on the battlefield.
"Retreat! Retreat! There is an ambush!" Boywin, who reacted, immediately began to organize the cavalry to retreat, as long as they rushed out of the camp, even if the other side sent cavalry to chase them, they would not be able to keep them.
Unfortunately, Maxim would not spare the opportunity of a thousand soldiers, and as soon as the knights turned around, they found that a group of heavy infantry armed to the teeth had completely blocked the entrance to the camp. The nearly three-meter-long spear was carried by two people and placed on the shoulders of the heavy infantry in front, and a man-high steel shield was smashed into the ground with great force.
"Raise the shield!" At this time, the second round of arrow rain had already fallen, and the knight's shield was not too big to completely cover his body, let alone this kind of arrow that was shot from all directions. At a distance of forty or fifty meters, even human longbowmen on the right track shot through the plate armor of heavy cavalry. Knights were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground, and 10,000 cavalry were crammed into the narrow camp, which became a target that would not move. And the tent they had lit just a few minutes earlier had caused them a huge mess at this time. Any animal, even a mounted horse that has been domesticated by humans since childhood, is afraid of fire, and the knight on the horse constantly soothes the heart of his faithful companion who cannot speak.
"Knights of the Empire! Victory or defeat is here! Each captain leads his team members and takes the squad as the battle sequence. The first squad starts, rush with me!" In the confusion, Baldwin tried his best to calm the soldiers. If they can't break through the heavy infantry defenses, they will all die here.
The strongest knightly order in the Oslan Empire, it embodies a very high standard. While covering the rain of arrows while organizing the formation, all the knights were ready to charge after only one round of arrow rain.
"For the glory of the Empire, for the 100-year undefeated record of the Red Panther Knights!Brothers!!" Birdwin's hoarse voice behind his heavy mask was shouted with all his might.
"Rush!" the iron-blooded man shouted the same slogan.
The war of steel against steel, the battle for blood and blood. The strongest combat power and the strongest defense on the battlefield clashed in the dark, and the first knights to charge had only one end, but even the youngest knight's eyes did not shine with tears of fear.
"Throw!" the commander of the hoplite phalanx shouted a syllable the moment the hoplites took off. The second group of heavy infantry took a few steps back, and the one-meter-seven-long steel spear in their hands disappeared into the darkness.
"Raise your shield, raise your shield!" Birdwin saw the hoplites in action, and hid himself behind the knight's shield.
The heavy infantry stepped forward a few times, and threw the steel spear in his hand hard, and the soldiers who could be incorporated into the heavy infantry phalanx were very strong, and the steel spear weighing more than ten kilometers flashed a strange light across the sky in the dark night, and was illuminated by the fire out of its original appearance.
The distance of forty meters was crossed in an instant, and the steel spear driven by the huge throwing force tore through the knight's shield like a piece of paper, and the knight who rushed to the first row fell more than half of them in a round of throwing. The knight, who had narrowly escaped death's pursuit, struck his horse with his spurs, and the fallen knight was drowned in a torrent of steel. The vacant gap was filled by the cavalry of the second column, and even in the face of the phalanx of heavy infantry, the heavy cavalry did not show a trace of fear.
As a commander, the most feared encounter is an enemy who is not afraid of life and death. The phalanx of the heavy infantry appeared to be a little commotional, and the squadron leader shouted at the soldiers to maintain order.
Only the First Elite Knights of the Empire can accelerate to the fastest speed at a distance of forty meters, and only the First Brigade of the Elite Knights can face the rain of bullets and arrows without wavering.
The sound of steel colliding mingled with the sound of spears slicing through flesh. The first wave of knights who hit the steel shield were knocked out by the force of the impact, and the neck of the steed beneath them made a bone breaking sound. With the exception of the crack torn by the center Berdwin with a heavy sword, the rest of the knights lay at the feet of the heavy infantry.
The death of the robe did not bring any scruples to the heavy cavalry, and the second wave of knights struck the steel shield again after a few breaths, and the armor and mounts on the knights' bodies weighed at least three or four hundred pounds. Coupled with the speed of the impact, it was as if the weight of thousands of catties was constantly hitting the heavy infantry. Under the second round of impact, many of the heavy infantrymen's shield-holding hands were already broken, and a considerable number of knights survived this round of impact.
However, this did not mean that they could gain the favor of the gods, and after dodging the first row of spears, they immediately crashed into the second row of steel spears.
As if a god was hammering the ground hard, "Boom, boom, boom!" was already the fourth round of impact, and no one in the first row of the heavy infantry could stand up anymore, the angry heavy cavalry threw away the spear in his hand, and the slender knight's saber pierced the body of the heavy infantry who had just fallen to the ground with precision, bringing out a blood-colored trajectory and flying away.
Birdwin rushed through the three layers of heavy infantry defense in one breath, and even the body of the berserker began to get tired, and the speed of the heavy cavalry suddenly slowed down, and at this time, the shouts of killing continued to sound behind him. The Satya soldiers, who had already formed a queue, were constantly rushing towards this side.
"Brothers, join me!" Boywin grabbed a spear in his left hand, and slashed his heavy sword at the head of the heavy infantryman with his right hand. The poor fellow's neck could not withstand such a blow at all, and he let out a scream and lay on the ground motionless.
The spear stabbed from another spot pierced through the chainmail of Birdwin's leg, and a fist-sized wound was stabbed, from which blood continued to flow. Like a berserker who had gone berserker and didn't feel any pain at all, Berdwin slashed off the soldier's head with a backhand.
"Protect the General!" the knights who followed saw the scene, and the knights shook off the heavy infantry and surrounded Berdwin.
"Get out of the way! protect yourselves!" Berdwin pushed away a soldier who stood in his way, his heavy sword parrying off the stabbing spear.
At this time, there were already seven or eight hundred heavy infantry lying at the feet of the knight's charge, in exchange for more than double the heavy cavalry soldiers. Only the steel defensive array of the heavy infantry could gain so much under the charge of the heavy cavalry.
"Long live the Oslan Empire!"
"Long live the Red Panther Knights!"
Bodwin watched as the knights kept falling behind him. A few days ago, he had been drinking with them, and now they were spilling blood for their brother and for themselves.
"Aim! Release!" Another rain of arrows, a distance of a hundred meters, all the longbowmen used the method of flat fire, and only in this way would they not accidentally injure the relatively short heavy infantry. Fortunately, ordinary longbowmen could not penetrate the armor of the heavy cavalry at a distance of 100 meters, but dozens of them were shot and fell to the ground.
After a quarter of an hour of fighting, the heavy cavalry at the front had broken through the phalanx of the heavy infantry, but less than a hundred men were left to rush out, and many more were still surrounded by the heavy infantry in the ranks.
"Brothers, kill me, rescue our brothers!" Birdwin led the line of less than a hundred people to form an arrow, and slaughtered back again.
The heavy infantry did not expect the enemy to come from the back, and all the heavy infantry's plate armor could only protect the front half of the body, and there was only a layer of chain mail behind them.
Fortunately, the heavy cavalry threw away the knight's spear in the charge just now, and the knight's sword in his hand had very limited lethality. But the heavy infantry, who had been stabbed in the spine by the knight's sword, could no longer carry nearly a hundred kilograms of heavy armor and fell to the ground one after another. The pressure on the heavy cavalry in the phalanx dropped sharply.
"Shoot them for me!" the captain of the longbowmen was red-eyed, a large part of the heavy cavalry had already broken out of the encirclement, and the phalanx of the heavy infantry was about to collapse.
Heavy cavalry continued to fall in the pre-dawn darkness, but more heavy cavalry fled, and after a full two hours of fighting, both the knights and the horses were exhausted. But they could not rest, and as soon as they stopped, they would be dumplings by the enemy troops who came later.
The knights of the Nine Dead ran in the direction of Tallinn with the last of their strength, leaving corpses in their wake. Captain Satya longbowmen angrily threw his bow to the ground, apparently not satisfied with such an outcome.
The heavy cavalry showed amazing combat effectiveness in the face of the last battle. The soldiers who consumed five squadrons forced a gap in the ranks of the three heavy infantry squadrons.
In this battle, the first heavy infantry squadron entered the battle was almost completely killed and wounded, and the death toll of the heavy infantry reached 2,350 and the number of wounded reached 535. The light infantry squadron used as a decoy had a whopping 856 dead, only 26 wounded, of which 6 were forced to retire due to fire burns.
Such heavy casualties were exchanged for 5,681 heavy cavalry casualties and 1,850 wounded in the first brigade of the elite knights of the Oslan Empire.
Whether from a night attack or a strategic point of view, the Oslan Empire suffered great losses in this battle, and the first brigade of the "Red Panther Knights" sneaked up on the enemy and was surrounded, and almost even the captain led the horse to explain there. From a strategic point of view, the number of casualties in a night attack launched with a great advantage in defense has exceeded the number of casualties in several days of defense overnight.
This battle was the worst move in the history of the Earl of Hebrew.