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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 34 The Collision of Steel

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    Another attempt was made to charge, and again ended in loss of troops and generals1,.  There were not many heavy cavalry left in the coalition forces.  Most of the nearly four thousand elite knights and knights squires with shining armor and well-trained knights were lost in just half an hour.  The number of Normans killed by them was not even half of the number of heavy cavalry killed.  Such a result is really hard to accept for Frederick, who always thinks highly of himself and thinks that his Black Dragon Knight is unparalleled in the world.

    "If our strongest army, our proud elite and our final trump card are nothing more than a joke in the eyes of the other party, then is there any need to continue this battle?!" At that time, Frederic  Duke Ke's heart suddenly tightened.  The severe pain made him almost faint.  .

    This is simply, simply unreasonable Such an army that is as strong as ghosts crawling out of hell is really foul!  Coach, someone is cheating here!

    Frederick, who completely ignored Brandenburg, was hysterical and schizophrenic in his heart at this moment.  The war is still going on.  And it continued in a direction favorable to the Normans.

    After the heavy cavalry charge failed, the coalition forces had no choice but to continue charging forward and be unilaterally shot by the Norman arrows.  Fortunately, in order to fight against the heavy cavalry, General Walter ordered to dispatch half of the forward heavy crossbowmen.  Only half was left, a new Norman Army mix.  This indirectly weakened the Normans' long-range attacks.  As a result, the coalition forces received two fewer arrows.

    Just like this, the coalition forces rushed to the front of the Norman army after losing nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses.  Prepare for a close encounter with the Normans.  At this moment, the two Dukes finally breathed a sigh of relief, especially Lucivid, Duke of Hesse.  He felt that the infantry under his command were not much worse than the Normans.  Even if there is a slight gap, it can be made up for by his superb and excellent command ability.

    ¡°But the fact is, that¡¯s not the case at all.

    Just now, in order to resist the rain of arrows from the Norman army, the coalition forces used heavily armored spearmen as shields.  And this moment.  The armies of both sides are in contact.  The heavily armored spearmen, who were proud of the Hessian Legion, formed a dense square formation on their horses, erecting their shields and leveling their spears.  Charged against the Norman army.  Seeing how well-trained his army was, Lucivid nodded secretly.  I thought: Finally my efforts were not in vain.  It is indeed my army.

    However, a very simple mathematical problem must be used here - the coalition forces heavily equipped the shield spearmen, and the spear length used was two meters and three meters.  Updated standard one-handed weapon for elite spearmen.  And on the Norman side.  The length of the super long guns used by their phalanx infantry is four to six meters.  As the arrangement proceeds, the length gradually increases.  Create five rows of super long spears and stack them up.  Even the enemy on the front line can't see the figure, and can only see the effect of the spear.

    So, the problem is, using a stabbing weapon with only one point of attack 1,.  And the length of the weapon is at least half shorter than the opponent's.  How can you attack your opponent?

    Go around?  Using so-called flexibility to fight?

    ¡°Just kidding, this is a battlefield, a battlefield where people are crowded against each other.  It is completely impossible to move a millimeter in any direction other than forward.  Tossing and turning and so on only exist in delusions.  Unless you have the strength of a knight like the Norman Emperor, one horse can equal a thousand, plus a body of external armor and external weapons.  We must not forget the nearly one hundred elite knights who fought for a hundred, and the more than four thousand berserker warriors who risked their lives

    And the coalition forces, Hessen.  Is there such a thing in the two countries of Brandenburg?

    Absolutely not.

    so.  When they rushed to the front line, launched a charge, and then saw densely packed gun barrels in front of them.  All I can do is regret.  At this time, it was impossible for the soldiers in the van to stop even if they wanted to.  The soldiers behind him would push him forward with all their strength, just like someone pushing him into a river full of crocodiles.  And the phalanx infantry of the Norman Empire.  He will also spot the opportunity and wait until the opponent reaches the attack range.  He let out an angry roar and thrust forward with all his strength.

    The spearman in the front row.  Or use the spear in your hand to block several super long guns.  Or use the kite-shaped shield in the other hand to block several super long guns.  However, there are always a few super long spears that can pierce his shield and avoid his blocking moves.  Then it stabbed into his heavy chain armor - this kind of chain armor had very good defense against being slashed and smashed.  But for thorns, it is quite powerless.  The gaps between the iron rings and the gaps between the iron rings can all become flaws for the super long spear to penetrate.

    Of course, this is not the most important thing - the fact is that in the super long gun phalanx, there are still only a few people who actually use super long guns to kill the enemy.  The role of the super long gun is largely to block the enemy's advance to maintain distance.?.  And within this distance of three to five meters.  Norman's musketeers and crossbowmen can shoot at will.  To kill the enemy.

    Under the cover of the super spearmen, they maintained a distance from being attacked by the opponent's shield spearmen.  And calmly fired bullets and crossbow arrows.  At such a close range, there is almost no problem of missing the target.  Even a primitive musket without rifling can easily smash the enemy's head like a watermelon1,.  The continuous shooting of the crossbowmen caused heavy losses to the coalition forces.

    These remote troops smiled, calmly, and caused people to die.  However, the coalition soldiers were helpless against them.  It's like someone is constantly taunting you, giving you the middle finger, and making faces.  He laughed and said, "Hit me if you can, you idiot." But you really can't beat him to make him so depressed.

    Just like that, the infantry sequences of both sides collided violently, and each thousand-man team fought desperately.  And the results were surprising.  Under General Walter, the Norman infantry phalanx was almost completely victorious.  Completely relying on the advantages of formation and equipment, they are killing the coalition forwards.

    "The spearmen retreat! We want the Hessian Guards to attack!" Duke Lucivid opened his mouth, originally intending to say something like this.  But in the end, the Duke made a completely different decision.

    "Hold the front line, Frederick, please dispatch Brandenburg soldiers to fill the array. And the Praetorian Guard soldiers, spread out to the two wings! Expand the array and attack the opponent's flanks!"

    "Understood." Hearing what Lucivid said, Frederic nodded immediately and ordered the shield spearmen under his command who were slightly lower in combat effectiveness but better than nothing to fill the vacancies of the Hessian infantry.  At the same time, the Hessian Guards holding long-handled battle axes obeyed the order and quickly changed direction.  Moved towards the two wings of the battlefield.

    "Poor tactics." General Walter snorted: "On both wings, the knights can move out."

    With General Walter¡¯s order, the Norman knights roared out.  Although General Walter had only a thousand knights under his command, there were only five Centuries deployed on each wing.  But its power was no less powerful than the coalition's four thousand heavy cavalry before.  A total of five centurions lined up in five rows and charged in a standard band style. They continuously launched five charges towards the Hessian guards on both wings who had just moved into position.  These arrogant elite infantrymen lost more than one-third of their troops in one fell swoop.

    "Damn it!" Seeing that one's own tactics were countered again.  Duke Frederick issued an order on horseback, asking the remnants of his own heavy cavalry to stop the Norman knights.  The coalition knights, who had just fought a fierce battle and whose morale had not yet recovered, had no choice but to return to the battlefield after receiving the order.  After a small victory, the Norman knights with high morale fought fiercely on both sides of the battlefield.

    In this way, the battle situation between the two sides once again fell into balance.  However, the balance was completely different for these two armies. The Normans had the upper hand and had quite a bit of room to spare.  At the same time, he still has many trump cards that have not been used.  But for the coalition forces, they could barely support themselves and went all out.  You can be crushed at any time.

    "The hussars move out, go around to the back, and attack the opponent's rear."

    ? Observed the battlefield again.  General Walter felt that the other party seemed to have no possibility of reversal.  So he ordered.  Two thousand-man hussars, in a war involving tens of thousands of people, can definitely determine the outcome.

    With General Walter¡¯s order, the two hussars also followed, one on the left and one on the right.  Bypassing the heavy cavalry battlefield where the fierce battle was taking place.  When passing the opponent's flank, the attached light horse archers fired a hail of arrows - and then the Norman hussars encountered the Brandenburg skeleton hussars that had been scorned by General Walter.

    Although the number is only half of the other party.  But to deal with this extremely fast light cavalry, the only way to counter it is with light cavalry.  The two dukes of the coalition did not expect these skeleton hussars to be able to defy the odds.  I just hope that they can delay for a certain period of time, allowing them to complete the arrangement and form a complete defensive formation with shield spearmen and giant shield crossbowmen.  This made it impossible for the Norman hussars to break through their rear.

    Then there was a massacre.  The Norman hussars held their sabers high.  The howling wolves charged in a frenzied but highly disciplined group, tearing apart the dense array of skeleton hussars that were twice as many as they were, and the ridiculously dense array of hussars that were poorly modeled after the Normans.  And kill it.

    After this charge.  The two thousand hussars on either flank were not eager to fight.  Only half of the hussars were left behind to continue ravaging the Brandenburgers.  The remaining ten centurions continued to move quickly towards the rear of the coalition forces.  At this time, the hedgehog formations at the rear of the coalition forces were not yet fully formed.

    "But that's enough. After all, the opponent is not a heavy cavalry, so it doesn't have much impact" Seeing the Norman hussars roaring away?, the two dukes of the coalition comforted themselves To be continued.  .

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