Chapter 255: Impact
"This is the army of the Marquis of Lothar!"
"This is the legendary hussar!"
Fulke looked at the cavalry team wearing bright plate armor and feathers on their backs, and his heart was a little excited.
The hussars of Lothar, for their distinctive ornaments and their brilliant exploits, had long been praised in Christendom, and when he left Hebron, he regretted not being able to see them charge with his own eyes.
But soon, Fulk realized that in this battle, although he saw the hussars, what could be worse than the spears of the hussars pointed at him?
Ivan tightened his grip on the reins.
He was a brave warrior by nature, but he had to admit that he still felt a little nervous in his heart when he looked at the figure wearing a golden mask and riding a giant horse like a nightmare.
He touched Fulk with his knee.
Facing the other party's puzzled eyes, he spoke, "What's the use of the feather decoration on their backs?" ”
This time he asked Fulker to stop.
"Probably decoration."
"In other words, it's just a good thing."
Ivan scoffed, his voice a little deliberate.
"Brothers, I have good news for you - the enemy is well armed."
Facing the puzzled eyes of everyone, he smiled and said: "Because they will soon become our trophies, you know, in the market of Aleppo, a pair of such armor can be exchanged for a large mansion with stables, gardens, and courtyards!" ”
But it seems that such lectures have not yielded much fruit.
Only the soldiers who were closer responded with a strong smile.
Can such a terrifying enemy really be defeated by himself?
"Lothar."
Saladin muttered to himself.
When he first learned that Lothar had crossed the border with a Kurdish cavalry into the territory of the Sassanid king, and had succeeded in breaking through the local lord's wooden fort with a small number of enemies, he blamed himself for the incident.
He had a premonition that this person might become his confidant in the future.
But he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.
As if a tiger was napping in the mountains, the puppy had become the wolf king who commanded the wolves.
"Master Shermel, I remember you said that this Lothar is friends with Anna of the Empire, or an important member of the Levantine Wizarding Society?"
"That's right."
Saladin frowned and said, "Why do people like him still covet worldly power, aren't all sorcerers all Ulema (scholars) who spend their days buried in literature and classics?" ”
Shermel smiled and asked, "Aren't Mudrygui and I also serving you for the sake of worldly power?" Couldn't the Frankish emperor still build a huge wizard's meeting house? ”
Saladin was slightly stunned.
He smiled helplessly: "Two masters, when are you going to make a move?" In the face of such an extraordinary-involved enemy, my soldiers will probably suffer heavy casualties. ”
"The right time."
The taciturn Master Mudrygi stared at the imposing Crusader cavalry with a thoughtful look.
"That's right, as Master Mudrygui said, when the time is right, we'll do it."
Master Shermel looked calm: "Although we can't fight to the death for you like Master Salman, I guarantee with my credibility that you will definitely get the price you pay worth." ”
Saladin was silent.
He felt a little angry, but more helpless.
He has a cooperative relationship with these spellcasters, and has never been above them, so what can he do.
"I believe in the credibility of both."
In the end, he could only bow his head slightly and turn away.
The hussars lined up in the tightest formation, and in their hands they were holding specially made hollow cavalry spears that were at least three meters long and even close to four meters long, and although they were easy to break, they also gave them an advantage when hedging against the cavalry.
As the cavalry on the hillside rushed down, a large number of cavalry, like peacocks opening the screen, gradually lined up, changing thickness into width to maximize the impact that the Crusaders were proud of.
Jeanne's "Flower of Knights" grants each knight a 20% increase in all directions.
Lothar's "charge" gave every soldier infinite courage.
There are also mounted cavalry spears, which have a terrifying increase of 20% of the defense power of their own cavalry, and the triple blessing has made the knights fighting at the moment soar by at least twice their combat effectiveness, and the cavalry has also increased by nearly half.
"Charge!"
"Kill all the damned infidels."
Behind the hussars, even the mounted archers wrapped in horse armor, with their bows and arrows in front of them, were aimed at two rounds of projectiles, two rounds of arrows, leaving room for them to change their weapons.
They put on two-handed spears, relied on solid armor, and did not need to carry shields at all, and followed the hussars in close quarters.
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"It has been more than a hundred years since Goodes fell to the barbaric Franks, who have brought plagues, plagues, and deaths, and they have wantonly slaughtered one massacre after another, and now it is time for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. ”
His fat body was huddled on the back of a horse from Tianzhu, and the riding spear he carried in his hand was raised high: "The holy flame is eternal, supreme and great!" ”
"The flame is forever burning, supreme and great!"
In the roar that shook the sky, there was a cowardice that could not be concealed.
The terrifying effect attached to the golden mask helmet was draped in a dragon's head cloak, dressed in bright plate armor, and rushed to the front, deliberately attracting everyone's attention, and Lothar played it perfectly at this moment.
The Mamluk cavalry rushed towards the opposite crusaders like a black wave.
Cavalry hedging was a very luxurious thing.
It was a great loss for Saladin's heavily cultivated Casaji guards, who were like the cavalry mounted with archers under Lothar, who were more suitable for guerrilla warfare with archers, pulling the enemy's infantry phalanx, and waiting until the enemy's formation was loosely harassed or the soldiers were exhausted, and then switched to heavy weapons such as war hammers and flails to charge directly into battle.
But the Saracens had no choice.
Someone had to contain the opposing cavalry, and there was no room for the Mamluks and light cavalry to rely on their cavalry bows to carry out guerrilla attacks, or to use other clever tactics.
If they had not entangled the Crusader cavalry, they could have turned their horses and charged the flanks and rear of their infantry phalanx, and even separated the thousands of soldiers who had now rushed into the Crusader camp from the rear waiting to go to battle.
It's equivalent to cutting off the head of a snake stuck out of a rat hole!
On the premise that each side has a strong cavalry, there is only one frontal battle.
Bang!
Two torrents collided together.
The spear in Lothar's hand pierced through the enemy's body, and at the same time, he unloaded the force in a posture of dragging the spear, and by the way, he pulled out the spear, a set of movements, flowing smoothly, as perfect as a textbook.
Hot blood splashed on his robe.
The eclipse sniffed the blood excitedly, and after knocking down an enemy rider with a ramming angle, he opened his big mouth full of hideous fangs and gnawed on the head of the opposite knight, and with a terrifying bite, he directly crushed the sturdy helmet into a discus.
It threw its head up and swallowed its mouth full of blood and iron into its stomach, and the nightmare beast from hell, provoked by the aura of the battlefield, finally revealed its bloodthirsty nature.
Having no time to care about the eclipse and violating his repeated orders, Lothar raised his spear and swept the enemy off his mount.
Behind him, many cavalrymen were either pierced through their mounts, or pushed down their horses by their spears, or simply pierced through their bodies by the enemy's rifles.
At this time, it is time to embody the cavalry's individual martial arts.
Many experienced knights, when they kill an enemy, are often able to retreat with their whole body intact, even with their weapons intact, and take advantage of the situation to kill the second enemy. ‘
And some knights or squires who are not skilled in martial arts, it is common for them to lose their lives at a glance, and at least they end up with a mounted spear and can only draw their armed swords and fight the enemy in close combat.
The exception was the hussars, whose spears were guaranteed to hit the enemy first, but at the same time they lost their tenacity and broke at the moment of contact.
However, it was clear that the Crusader cavalry had the upper hand.