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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 25 The Victory of Speed

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    Those Italian heavy cavalry and knights still use traditional knight weapons, long swords.  This classic weapon can be used for both slashing and stabbing. Its biggest weakness is its poor armor-piercing ability.  But now, in this era where armor is developing faster and faster.  This shortcoming is fatal.

    In comparison, let¡¯s not mention the classic weapon of the Norman knights: the tomahawk.  The hussars are equipped with weapons that are quite aimed at heavily armored knights.  Although the range of the light cavalry crossbow is not as good as the compound bow and the heavy crossbow used by the infantry.  But its lethality at close range is extremely astonishing. It can penetrate two millimeters of breastplate armor within ten meters!

    At this moment, the cavalry on both sides were entangled and all lost their speed.  No time to wind it though.  But when used as a disposable weapon, it can work wonders.

    In addition to cavalry crossbows, the melee weapons equipped by hussars are also war hammers, maces, bolas, multi-headed flails and other items with armor-piercing bonuses.  Swing it with great force.  In exchange for killing the Italians and calling them mother-in-law - although the defense is slightly inferior.  But relatively speaking: the defense of hard leather armor against long swords is slightly higher than the defense against armor-piercing weapons by plate and chain composite armor.

    In addition, because of the lighter armor, the Norman hussars are also more flexible in their movements. Whether it is dodging, blocking or attacking, they are all half a beat faster than the Italians // Shumilou's fastest text update without ads //  .  Heavy weapons such as war hammers and maces can also take advantage when fighting against long swords.  The combination of various advantages allowed the Norman hussars to achieve an absolute victory in the battle against the Italian heavy cavalry.

    Not to mention, their number is much greater than the Italian heavy cavalry.

    By now, the Norman Empire had gained an absolute advantage.  On the front, heavy infantry were killing enemy soldiers.  On the flanks, Norman knights and hussars were killing Italian heavy cavalry.  At the same time, the longbowmen and crossbowmen following behind also entered the shooting range and began to throw arrows, scattering arrows over the heads of the Italians.  This further increased Italian casualties.

    This moment.  Even the enemy's main ace, the well-equipped Venetian hoplites, completely lost confidence.  The routs began to increase

    Sure enough, I will be defeated without any doubt

    The two Dukes, Francisco and Werther, looked at each other and saw the deep fear and despair in each other's eyes.

    Sure enough, fighting the Normans is not an interesting thing let alone power and status now.  I can't even save my life.

    At this moment, more violent cheers erupted from the front line - seeing that the situation was ripe.  General Wende smiled ferociously and blessed his soldiers with the Nordic Wolf skill.  The Norman army's combat power increased greatly and its morale was like a rainbow.  Launched a more violent attack.  The Italian army could no longer sustain itself under such a fierce attack.  Helplessly collapsed

    "In order not to be insulted, I have made a decision." Werther sighed softly.  Seeing the soldiers running wildly and crying in front of them, he said these words.  Then he gritted his teeth and without hesitation, he pulled out the sword from his waist and cut his neck violently, and the blood from the artery spurted into Francisco's face.

    "Duke!!" Seeing Werther doing this, the knights next to him either cried and followed him, or roared like moths to the flame.  He rushed towards the surging Norman army.  Only Duke Francisco and a group of knights under his command were left, looking at each other.  do not know what to do.

    Unlike the young and tough-tempered Werther, Duke Francisco did not have the courage to die.  The body that had just been unable to move due to despair and fear, was stimulated by Werther's blood, and in turn improved

    "Me. Let's retreat - go back to Milan! Quick!!" Duke Francisco shouted impatiently, then got on his horse and quickly fled to the north.  A group of knights also ran afterward.  The brocade robe, the golden crown, the gold-plated armor, the sword studded with precious stones Everything that would affect the speed was thrown away by Francisco.  His knights also followed suit, removing their armor to increase their speed.

    The original shining Duke.  There were also a group of heavily armored and formidable knights who, in a very short period of time, became like refugees.  It's really disgusting.

    On the other side, the battle is coming to an end.  The Norman army continued to attack, completely defeating the last group of enemies who were still resisting.  Take prisoners.  Loot the loot.  And took advantage of the situation to occupy Genoa.  The blue snake flag representing Milan was thrown to the ground, and then the four-winged white phoenix flag representing the great Norman Empire was raised.

    "Victory! Victory belongs to my lord, the great Norman Emperor, to the great empire founded by the great Aegir, and to us, the most loyal and brave warriors of the empire!!!" General Wind shouted loudly from the top of the city:  "TodayThis victory means that the empire has taken control of Italy, and this peninsula is now completely owned by the Norman Empire!  Its territory, people, and wealth all belong to the great Emperor Egil!  !  !  "

    This victory was followed by the fall of Genoa, one of the most important cities in Northern Italy.  The vast majority of resistance forces in northern Italy collapsed.  General Wende took advantage of the victory to pursue.  They attack everywhere with light and fast horses.  Informed the villages and towns in northern Italy to obey the laws and rule of the Norman Empire.  At the same time, the main force continued northward, heading straight for Milan, the last important town in northern Italy.

    As long as Milan, the last bastion of resistance in northern Italy, is defeated, then this peninsula with a strong commercial atmosphere will truly belong to the Norman Empire!  !

    At the same time, General Winder was winning continuously in northern Italy.  When adding territory to the empire, the other three armies also made progress.  Not to mention the other two routes, just look at General Farr's route. This fiery and hot-tempered general, although angry, is still helpless - for various reasons, his army's progress is the slowest.

    Because we still need to continue to eliminate the remaining Burgundian parties, we need to dispatch troops to monitor Spain.  Therefore, General Fall's army is the weakest among the Fourth Route Army.  The other armies all have 30,000 troops, but General Fall only has 20,000 troops. Of course, this is not the point. If the troops are insufficient, tactics and command will make up for it.  As a guy with twenty points of full control, I still have this idea.  But these were not the only difficulties he encountered.

    General Walter in the north has to face the coalition forces of Hesse and Brandenburg, while General Erth in the east has to face the so-called "Holy Roman Emperor" who rules Austria and Bohemia.  General Wende in the south had to deal with the Northern Italian coalition.  Only General Farr - in expectation, what this general wants to deal with, or simply say, wants to occupy, is the weakest among the Holy Roman Kingdoms, and now it is not clear whether it can be called a country.  Waben.

    Since the oldest Duke of Swabia, Henry, the son of Frederick the Redbeard, was killed in battle, Swabia had no successor and fell into chaos.  This area is getting worse and worse, with no signs of improvement at all.  With the failure of the Second Anti-Norman War, then falling into civil strife, and then encountering the Black Death Such successive blows turned this duchy that was originally developing well into one of the most barren and desolate areas in Europe.  one.

    General Fall found it boring to deal with this kind of opponent.  He felt that this kind of opponent did not even need to send out troops, but sent a few hundred soldiers and horses to capture the Swabian city, and then they could declare victory and send officials¡ª¡ªif there were still people there for them to manage.

    The mistake happened like this.

    Although General Fall is an extremely good general, commander and strategist.  But when it comes to politics, he is as idiotic as a baby.  This is one of the reasons why this guy is so loyal but has zero ambition.  Egil is also quite satisfied with this setting.  Because in this way there is no need to worry about soldiers interfering in politics.

    However, it was also because of this reason that General Fall's army encountered a crisis.

    An enemy that was not supposed to appear in the original plan appeared.  On the way to Swabia, we encountered a large number of attacks, some by a few people, some by dozens of people, or even small groups of hundreds or hundreds of people.  They used the mountainous terrain of South Germany to conduct guerrilla warfare.  They are well-trained, tough, and would rather die than surrender - they are from Switzerland.

    General Fall encountered a Swiss attack.  Originally Egil thought that after the death of their Duke William, they would not have the power to take action. After providing mercenaries to Burgundy and failing, they finally couldn't help but stood up directly and stood on the Norman side.  The antithesis of empire.

    It took a while for Egil to learn the news - Switzerland, which he originally regarded as useless, so he wanted to postpone the attack for a while, although he did not join the anti-Norman alliance, had a close relationship with the Norman Empire.  Fight!

    They abandoned the feudal system and replaced it with a "parliament" composed of civilian leaders.  and proclaimed the formation of a republic.

    At the same time, because Switzerland is a mountainous area, the population is scattered.  Therefore, during the spread of the Black Death, the losses suffered by Switzerland were not very high.  In addition, Swiss folk customs are tough, and most men learn mercenary skills, so this time they are fierce, and they can bring out an army of thirty to forty thousand people in one go.  They attacked by day and by night, but refused to fight the Normans decisively.  The Norman army was overwhelmed.  However, because he was unfamiliar with the terrain and was not good at mountain warfare, General Fall suffered losses more than once.  This made him extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do.

    "The mountainous terrain makes it very difficult to transport supplies. People's livelihood in Swabia is poor, and they cannot provide much help."  General Fall made an accident, and that's it??Fell into a dilemma.

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