readx;?“ Phew-ha-" The cotton armor liner wrapped around the head, and all the sweat was absorbed by it, and the smell that lasted for years turned into a black color. www.biquge.info If you are not used to this smell, you may have been affected at this moment and began to lose your cool.

"Phew-ha-" The air flow blew in through the small hole in the visor, and only half of the scene could be seen through the narrow observation slit of the helmet - inhaled deeply, and then exhaled slowly, the moisture in the breath and the sweat emitted from the stuffiness formed a thin layer of mist, and after condensing to a certain extent, it flowed back to the surface of the skin along the curved steel neck guard.

"Huh-ha-" The plate armor weighing more than 30 kilograms made a subtle "clanging" sound as the war horse ran. It is said that when the knight and the horse are truly acquainted with each other, and then charge in a combat state, the whole person even breathes in sync with the horse - every step from the earth to the horseshoe and then through the muscles to the saddle of the knight's power is like a heart beating, although the tight plate armor and close-fitting cotton armor are extremely hot and irritating in this weather, but when a well-trained knight and his horse enter the battle state.

Their highly focused mental state is enough to shield them from any negative distractions.

The three-meter-long wooden lance began to lay flat, and a weapon of this weight and length could hardly be maintained on flat ground without the help of the hook on the cuirass, let alone balance in battle.

They are mostly made of fast-growing softwood, with cones at the front and back, the front one for stabbing and the back for overall balance, and the tip of the spear is a conical tip made of steel, which is specially designed to break through plate armor. It was a terrifying and beautiful weapon, no less expensive to craft than a sword, but it could only be used once, and the deliberately chosen wood that broke easily left the spear in the enemy's chest forever after impact.

The one-ton hoplites charged with all their might and accelerated to the extreme, and the huge cavalry spears sandwiched under their armpits were aimed at the equally menacing enemy knights on the opposite side - they could almost see the white gas emitted from the gaps in the opponent's armor due to breath and heat, the armor on the horses shook because of the violent movements, all the forces were condensed, and the hoplites of up to 2,000 people on both sides spread out in formation.

In the clear air and breeze of the corridors of the Nella Forest, in the shouts of the infantrymen who were also running towards each other, in the screeching of the rain of arrows fired by the archers when their tight bowstrings were released-

They crashed into each other.

"Bang-click-click-click-

"Bang-pop-" The impact of thousands of knights on the field was like thunder, the earth trembled, and the horses were still running after a moment's crossing, but many horses had no owners on their backs, the blood and the fall on the saddle and the vest were extremely dazzling, the grass on the field of the Dordogne turned a deep dark red, and hundreds of knights on both sides died directly in a single encounter, and those who survived by the luck of being hit in the shoulder or other positions discarded the invalid riding spears in their hands, drew out their long swords at their waists and continued to attack forward.

"Kill!" Although they were injured, the presence of plate armor somewhat protected them from completely losing their ability to fight, and many knights were so injured that they couldn't even lift their arms, but they still held their long swords and continued to fight, the existence of war horses made them not need to wield their weapons hard, as long as they could easily knock down the infantry with the help of the horse's running, holding on to the aim, Charles, there were more than 1,700 people left on their side, and after crushing the advance towards the enemy's infantry phalanx, they went back to the base camp from the other direction.

And more than 1,600 coalition knights led by Grand Duke Duran also slaughtered the flanks of the phalanx on this side, they were like unstoppable volcanic lava and easily tore apart the shield wall composed of mercenaries and militia, the heavy war horses easily stepped through the shield and trampled these vulnerable infantry into serious injuries, and the knights who slowed down commanded the horses to kick with strong hooves while raising their long swords to harvest the lives of the infantry again and again, the scene was extremely chaotic and bloody, many people were trampled to the stomach, and the people who did not die screamed and those who wanted to flee made a chaotic noiseBlood and mud mixed together, and some of the spear-wielding infantry finally reacted and began to attack the knights and their horses who had killed the head in the camp.

Dozens of spears stabbed at each knight on horseback, most of them were slid away by the plate armor, but some of the unwanted people rushed over and still managed to insert it through the gap at close range, and the same was true for the horses that were more lacking in protection, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry was amazing, and once they stopped like this, they would start to suffer casualties like beetles besieged by ants. Seeing more and more knights being pulled off their horses to tear off their visors and tear off their helmets, or stab to death from weak spots in their armpits, Grand Duke Duran shouted while waving his golden gauntlet sword, "Evacuate!"

The knights on the side of the prince's coalition were slightly inferior in numbers, and Edward's side was entangled at the moment and suffered a lot of losses, they turned their heads and ran to the left with the smell of blood, intending to attack the archers' position, while the militia array on the other side, which was attacked by Charles, was forced by the Marquis of Dordogne to kill again in a chaotic formation.

As soon as the cavalry left, the infantry under Edward's command didn't even have time to catch their breath when the opposing infantry collided again.

"Poke, stab, poke!!!" But the Edward Army, which had two experienced men as advisers, Henry and Lesky, had a huge gap with the other side, and the contradictory combination of the main battle weapons equipped by the infantry in the forward camp played an excellent role when reaching the number of 10,000 people, and the dense hedgehog-like spear tips caused great practical and psychological pressure on the militiamen who only had farm tools.

Many people began to want to run behind them, but how could this be possible with tens of thousands of people crowded, not to mention the Marquis of Dordogne and his knights and sergeants behind them, forcing the militia forward. The chaos spread, and the skewed but barely able to form shield wall array collapsed completely after many people dropped their shields and turned their backs to try to escape into the crowd, and all the shield bearers in the first array, served by mercenaries and inexperienced militiamen, had to do was hold on to their shields and let the spearmen in the second row stab.

Simple defenses and the action of stabbing forward became highly effective killing machines due to the magnification of numbers, and those who turned their backs were the first to be stabbed to death, and by discarding their shields, they not only killed themselves but also made those next to them vulnerable. But this was only the beginning, and when the two armies were entangled in close proximity, the longbowmen, who were quickly in a state of preoccupation under the command of the officer, distanced themselves from the infantry in front of them, drew their bows and arrows, and then began to shoot.

They crossed the part where the vanguard of the two armies in front of them engaged in a direct attack, and the rear was still a little overwhelmed, and they could only hear the confusion and did not know what was happening in front of them, and they could not react to the enemy army. The densely populated and unprotected infantry were almost the easiest targets to kill, and with the exception of some of the arrows that landed on the periphery and were only stuck in the dirt, almost all the other arrows that landed in the crowd hit someone in the face, head, chest, or shoulder, causing great damage.

"Fight back! Fight back for me!" The militiamen, who had no way to see the battle and did not understand what was happening, began to panic, many of them tried to escape, but they were immediately slashed by the Marquis of Dordogne, he ran back and forth on horseback, and some arrows also fell in his area, but the marquis did not suffer much damage because of the plate armor, he roared loudly in Sivalier through the visor, but the militiamen could not understand what he was saying.

But the advantage of the Edward army ends here, the rats will bite people if they are forced to hurry, not to mention the tens of thousands of militiamen, there are spears piercing in front, bows and arrows falling in the middle, and there are lords in the rear to prevent anyone from escaping. Either way, they were dead, and many of the enchanted infantry of the Southern peasants rushed towards the vanguard shield wall - at least the spears here could only kill one person at a time. Thinking like this, they rushed forward frantically, and the first to die were some of the junior mercenaries, whose shields were ripped off by the militia and then slashed their necks and heads with scythes and axes.

The people who formed the shield wall were already at a similar level to the other party, but at this moment, once there was a loophole, the entire forward began to collapse, and at the same time, some coalition archers in the rear also began to send out sparse arrows. The fact that Edward's army was only a ragtag army at the moment was also exposed, and some people left the shield wall without discipline and raised their shields to try to fend off the arrows, and when these loopholes became more and more common, the coalition militia entered into hand-to-hand combat, and the battle entered the most bloody and barbaric scene.

They attack each other with their weapons, and when they are damaged or knocked down, they attack each other with their fists, arms, feet, stones on the ground, and even their own teeth. Behind the scenes of this unruly and untactical, Henry and Lesky had already anticipated, and the tactical response they quickly made after the scouts discovered the coalition forces was mature and reliable, and while the battle-damaged cavalry led by Charles returned to this side, the three thousand cavalry were divided into two groups, and the remaining 1,000 men detoured from the forest on the other side to the back of the coalition infantry.

"Kill, ahhhh

The Edwards' cavalry rushed from behind and ran over the defenseless coalition infantry, screaming and dying under the iron hooves of their horses and cavalry guns, and the rout began to spread, and the Archduke Duran, who was heading for the phalanx of Edward's archers on the left flank, did not realize that it was a ploy to divert the tiger from the mountain.

The arrows fired by these longbowmen who seemed to occupy the commanding heights and were to be used as a terrible firepower to shoot arrows were actually sparse, they were only mountain hunters recruited in the later period, not those professional longbowmen in this formation, plus the melee between the two armies, these people were actually not able to cause much damage to the infantry of the coalition army, but they were really conspicuous in the high places, and launched a wave of attacks at the beginning, so that people didn't want to notice.

Therefore, after the confrontation with Charles's hoplites, the Grand Duke of Duran led a group of knights to kill in this direction, trying to destroy this force and create an advantage for his own infantry, they galloped wildly, and the other side lacked command like an ordinary infantry phalanx, and could not effectively evacuate - until the knights entered a distance of tens of meters and passed in the blink of an eye, leveled their swords and prepared to attack, these archers scattered in an instant and hid in the forest.

-- This is not a skill that ordinary militiamen can have, and the most important thing for infantry to deal with cavalry is to seize the timing. If you dodge too early, the knight can easily change direction and continue to catch up, and a man can never outrun, so the correct thing to do is to disperse quickly until the opponent is too close to accelerate and cannot change direction.

"Ahhhh

"Turn your head! turn your head! those cunning fellows!" the always silent man was even more terrible when he was angry, and Grand Duke Duran roared and led the entire cavalry team back to kill back violently, trying to keep his militia from collapsing, but the distance of just over two hundred meters became incomparably long at this moment, and the more than a thousand knights of the Edward's army left decisively without a battle after a shock. The Marquis of Dordogne ran away, and the negativity that had accumulated before the noble lord pressed there exploded instantly, and the coalition infantry in the rear first broke out one by two, and then a large number of people turned around and began to flee towards the city wall.

"Chase, chase, chase!" "Chase, chase!" The white mustache under Grand Duke Duran's face armor was so angry that he locked his anger on the knights of the Edward Army who had nowhere to vent, and he didn't care that the beloved war horses under him had begun to pant one after another, and the knights of the Grand Duke of the Grand Duke of more than 1,500 people chased desperately forward, and the knights of the Edward Army turned back and rushed towards the infantry of the coalition army.

“...... Hmph!" In the eyes of Grand Duke Duran, it was obvious that he was panicking because of his lack of experience and disadvantage in numbers, but at the moment when they chased after them, the knights of the Edward's army turned back again, using the infantry in front of them as a barrier, clearly to make a detour to their flank.

“...... Rush over!" In front of the battlefield was the coalition infantry that was in the process of dispersing, and Grand Duke Duran raised his sword without much hesitation and gave the order, but his approach of attacking with his own army was not only a further blow to morale, but the war horse, which had already consumed a lot of physical strength, was obviously powerless to cut through the crowd again.

“...... Get out of the way!" The knights on the coalition side vented their dissatisfaction and shouted loudly for their infantry to give way, but the peasants in a mess could not understand the Sivalier language, they had lost their minds in fear and excitement, and now they saw these knights of their own side suddenly rushing towards them, and many people even launched an attack on Duke Duran's cavalry like this.

"Stop! stop!" the knights shouted and waved their swords, and after several deaths in succession, the peasants, who realized that the people behind had already fled, suddenly came to their senses and turned around and ran towards the city wall, and the front of the Grand Duke of Duran was once again unimpeded, but before he could prompt the tired horses to pull away again and charge again, the militia forwards of the Edward Army quickly rushed over and blocked the front.

“...... Turn!" The Grand Duke led a group of tired men and horses in another direction, but the previous thousand-man cavalry came around from a distance this time to intercept their way. The knights of the Duke's family grabbed the reins and turned their horses' heads in another direction, and at this time, Charles, who had returned from the previous shock to resupply, led more than 1,700 cavalry with replacement cavalry spears to block this direction.

“...... Ah!" surrounded by a flank attack on three sides, the survival range of the knights of the Grand Duke was suppressed to a very small distance, and the heavy cavalry that was led away one after another and consumed a lot of physical strength could not break through the encirclement, and there was no way to accelerate up to charge.

"Hah!" the Grand Duke angrily waved his golden gauntlet sword, and Henry, who was hundreds of meters away, looked at the scene here, and said in a calm tone as always:

"It's over. He said this, and Edward, who was next to him, let out a long sigh.

"It's finally over......"

Corpses were strewn all over the field, the corpses of men and horses were mixed, and the ground was full of dead people, and the blood began to dry and solidify and turn dark red. And as Grand Duke Duran looked around left and right to confirm that his qi was exhausted, he finally reluctantly dropped his long sword and raised his hands to signal surrender, and this fierce and barbaric battle also came to an end. (To be continued.) )