Chapter 104: Poor militia

At the moment, Claire left Norman in the camp and attacked with Marlon and Barth, along with two other barons and their knights.

Given that the purpose of this battle was only to attract the attention of the enemy, Claire did not gather too many troops, but instead brought two hundred elite cavalry.

Most of these cavalrymen have been knights and servants, and they are skilled in riding, and their combat effectiveness is far higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

Attacking with such an elite force will not only put tremendous pressure on the enemy, but also ensure mobility, and if the timing is not right, you can slip away.

Soon, the gates of the central camp were wide open, and Claire rushed out with two hundred cavalry.

Judging from the ancient combat experience of Blue Star, the momentum of two hundred heavily armored cavalry charges is enough to disperse an infantry force of several thousand people.

Although the cavalry brought out by Claire did not meet the standard of full heavy cavalry, at least everyone was wearing armor, and many of the armor on the leading nobles, knights and professionals was glowing, and it was not ordinary at first glance.

With such arrows to lead, plus a mounted spear in hand, Claire was confident that she would break up the nearly 1,000 enemy troops besieging the central camp in one fell swoop.

The army besieging the central camp was not a main force, and although Walter had not heard any stories of horse racing, he was also proficient in warfare and familiar with it.

The central camp is generally a place where the most elite troops of the army are stationed. In such a place, it is not appropriate to be with the opponent's elite against the elite, with his offensive posture.

Therefore, most of the people besieging the central camp were those conscripted militias with low combat effectiveness.

These men, under the command of a small number of knights, armed with spears and bows and arrows, surrounded the camp from a distance, and from time to time they shot some weak arrows into the camp as if they had completed a task.

When he saw the gate of the central camp open and a group of cavalry rushed out, the knight in charge of commanding the militia here sighed in his heart, and the most feared thing appeared.

However, for the possible elite cavalry assault in the central camp, Walter also had a plan.

The knight sent messengers like Walter, who commanded in the rear, and shouted loudly, trying to control the militiamen, who were trembling with fear.

"Formation! Raise your spear! ”

"Don't be afraid, as you usually train, as long as you hold your ground, there's nothing to fear."

With his words, the originally scattered militia formed three spear phalanxes not far apart, with half-human shields and spears nearly two meters long in the front row.

Since ancient times, if the infantry of the Cold Weapon Age wants to fight against the cavalry, they can generally only rely on the formation of formations, using thick phalanxes to hinder the momentum of the cavalry. Once the cavalry could not break through the infantry phalanx, it would often face weapons attacks from all sides, thus ensuring the integrity of the formation and the defeat of the local cavalry.

Using human flesh as a shield is not the most ideal choice, the ideal choice is to rely on a variety of vehicles, horses and other relatively strong facilities, and the phalanx is equipped with powerful bows and crossbows.

Such a phalanx, even in the face of heavy cavalry, has the power to fight.

It's a pity that these militiamen in front of them do not have strong chariots and horses as the first line of defense, only their flesh and blood. There was no strong crossbow behind him, only a fluffy short bow and arrow.

Those arrows fell on the front row knights led by Claire, and they didn't even have the qualifications to scratch a scar on the armor, so they were easily bounced away.

Originally, the distance between the gate of the camp and the militia was not far, only less than 200 steps.

By the time the knights under his command were barely lined up, the cavalry led by Claire was already able to collide with the other party.

At such a close distance, Claire, who had good eyesight, could easily see the frightened look on the faces of the soldiers in the front row of the other party, and could see that the hands of the other party holding the weapons were trembling slightly.

If it were normal, maybe Claire would have moved some compassion, but now it is in a state of war, war, it is so cruel, and kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.

"Kill!" Claire drank heavily, put away the careful thoughts that should not have been, straightened up her spear, clamped the belly of her horse, and rushed into the spear phalanx first.

From a distance, the scene looks like an arrow stabbing at a shield.

So, will the arrow break, or will the shield break?

The next moment, as the sound of wailing was heard, Claire took the lead and rushed out of the infantry phalanx.

This impact completely chiseled through the opponent's infantry phalanx.

The cavalry behind him lost only a dozen horses.

Such a result did not surprise Claire. From the moment she saw the appearance of the opposing soldier, Claire already knew the result.

A group of militiamen in leather armor, armed with improvised spears and shields, tried to block the charge of their "quasi-heavy cavalry", which was a joke. What's more, this infantry phalanx is not quite thick.

"Over there!" Claire pointed her spear at the other infantry phalanx on the left, and as for the infantry phalanx that had just been chiseled, he had no interest in looking at it.

The infantry phalanx that was scattered by the cavalry, even if it did not collapse instantly, could not have the slightest combat effectiveness. There is no need to waste time on soldiers who have lost their combat effectiveness, and there is a need to gain more results before the enemy cavalry reacts.

At the same time, Walter also received a report that Claire had pierced through the infantry phalanx and was leading the cavalry to turn around and charge another phalanx.

"It's kind of interesting, using elite cavalry to charge and kill the militia, tsk, it's really overkill."

"Your Excellency, I'll take the cavalry to stop him!" On the side, a baron couldn't see Claire's actions and immediately asked for battle.

"No!" Walter refused categorically. "Don't worry about him, see what he can do after eating these militiamen."

"But—" The baron on the side looked unwilling, and wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Walter again.

"Don't you know what's going on over there in the western camp?"

"I don't know, but I saw hundreds of enemy troops in the central camp set off for the western camp." One of the knights replied immediately.

"I see." Hearing this, Walter shook his head and smiled, and stretched out his hand to point to Claire's position. "Thank you to this valiant knight for letting us know about the western camp.

It seems that something must have gone wrong with the enemy's western camp. ”

Immediately, the smile on Walter's face disappeared in an instant, and his face became serious.

"Pass the order, let Baron Shure take the main infantry and immediately attack the western camp, so that Baron Rhona's cavalry can prepare to intercept possible enemy reinforcements in the southern and eastern camps."

"Hehe, is it just to deal with some militias, can you use elite cavalry? Isn't the purpose of the enemy's elite cavalry to attract my main cavalry? Isn't it so afraid of my cavalry to appear?

Moore, your command level is nothing more than that. ”