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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 6 Modern War

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    ~Date:~October 28~

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    Although many Balkan mountain people continued to move forward, many more were frightened.  (Title of the book + See Jinghu for the fastest update) He began to flee backwards desperately. As a result, the enemy's already very bad formation became even more messy. Hunyadi felt uneasy.  Originally, the soldiers had high morale and wanted to win.  But before the two sides could fight, one's own troops were beaten to this point by the enemy. How could this be so good?  !

    While he was thinking this, on the front line, the second round of bombardment by the Normans began.  Hundreds of artillery pieces came together again.  In today's era where tight formations rule the roost.  The impact of artillery bombing is much greater than imagined.  With just two rounds of artillery, the Romanian coalition lost more than a thousand troops.

    "It's really boring." He looked at the enemy, jumping up and down like a frightened rabbit, completely losing the arrogant and proactive attitude before.  Egil snorted.  Start ordering your own troops to prepare for battle.  Then, came the third round of bombardment

    The third round of bombardment was like the last straw that crushed the enemy - no, with hundreds of artillery guns coming together, it is really inappropriate to use straw as a metaphor.  But I can't find a more appropriate word to describe it.  So I just had to use straw - it was hundreds of thousands of kilograms heavy and made of 130 lead projectiles. It can be said to be the heaviest straw in the world.

    After this "straw" fell on the heads of the coalition forces, the forward of the army completely collapsed.  No matter how high the morale of the soldiers is, no matter how brave the warriors are.  In the face of intensive artillery Qi.  That moment of earth-shaking power.  They will all become the most timid cowards.  Only regular infantrymen who have undergone modern professional training can withstand such a shock.

    "Attack."

    "Three rounds of artillery have been completed" Emperor Mann immediately issued the order to attack > Mann Knights > Mann Royal Knights, Guards Knights, Cavalry and Eastern European mounted militiamen all mounted their horses.  Raise your lance.  Wielding sabers and warhammers, they launched a charge - this charge, in a sense, is also one that can be recorded in history - because the protagonist of this charge was changed from knights to a larger number of quills.  cavalry¡ª¡ª

    The Norman Empire¡¯s 150,000 troops included knights and royal knights.  There are about five thousand heavily armored cavalry such as the Guards Knights.  (Jinghu Literature Network updates quickly) It also includes a total of four hussar regiments, old and new, totaling 20,000 hussars.  And now, two-thirds of the 150,000 troops, that is, the 100,000 troops that were separated when Egil handed over to his four marshals, include 4,000 heavy knights and 8,000 hussars¡â  As a result, the Norman emperor's headquarters had only a thousand heavy cavalry.  The number of hussars in the emperor's headquarters was twelve times that number!

    Sure enough, the development direction of the world is elite light cavalry.  More flexible, more versatile, and with greater endurance.  In addition, a powerful charge is essential.

    On the high tower, the emperor looked at the galloping horses - a small number of knights were almost invisible in the sea of ??hussars and equally lightly-armed horse militiamen At this point, the emperor already had a plan in mind - in  After this, the system of the knight army was reformed.  Reduce the weight and coverage of the knight's armor and cancel the vest.  Convert these heavy cavalry into standard lancers.

    ¡ª¡ªOne thousand heavy cavalry, 12,000 hussars, and 30,000 mounted militia and nomadic cavalry.  Altogether, there were 43,000 cavalry troops.  When the phalanxes used as cover by the Normans opened up, revealing their true form as heavy cavalry, the coalition forces on the opposite side were stunned for a moment.  Such a chaotic formation and devastated morale.  Under such circumstances, facing a mass charge by a large number of enemy cavalry, defeat seemed so close

    Hunyadi knew that if he did not do something under this situation, the war would really end in failure!

    "Cavalry, charge!!" Hunyadi drew his sword, and at the same time raised his teardrop-shaped shield decorated with the Virgin, Jesus icons and angels. He pointed this shield at his soldiers, and then  Shouting to them: "Look, warriors, we have nothing to fear! Because of our faith, the Virgin, the Son, and the angels like the stars in the sky are all on our side! We are the righteous party, blessed by God."  One side. We will definitely win!!!"

    Under the clever persuasion of the "Emperor", the cavalry under his command - whether it was his direct line of Vadateri horse archers or the Serbian knights who surrendered to him.  Or maybe the Hungarian Hussars.  All were inspired.  They shouted loudly.  Then, under the leadership of Hunyadi, they launched a charge against the Norman cavalry, which was twice as many as them!

    "The right choice." On the opposite side, holding a monocularEgil with the telescope nodded, secretly praising his opponent's decision-in this case, the chaotic infantry unit could not maintain it.  The infantry, which had lost its morale and formation, and was ill-equipped, could never stop the charge of so many cavalry.  At this time, a desperate cavalry charge was the only effective way to respond.

    "'It's just that I still take it too much for granted. The soldiers under my command are completely different from the scumbags like you" Egil chuckled and said such contemptuous words.

    Indeed, the Hungarians, the former king of nomads, the Dateri horse archers, combined the technology of the Romans with the fierce elite warriors of the Hungarians.  The Serbian knights are also an elite force in the Balkans.  But it's not enough.  Far from enough.  Far from enough - if they can be compared with anyone in Egil's army, it is only those irregular Eastern European horse-riding militia -

    No, in fact, Egil felt that they were not even comparable to their own mounted militia.  After all, our own mounted militia and nomadic cavalry have all undergone reserve training.  Even semi-professional soldiers who had been on the battlefield and fought against the Mongols.  Especially after the implementation of autumn training in recent years, the combat effectiveness of these reserve units has increased a lot.  They are completely comparable to the professional troops of ordinary countries.

    So, two cavalry units, one strong and one weak, collided violently.  It was as if two torrents suddenly collided with each other.  The weaker party was instantly dispersed.  Just like the cavalry of Italy and Yugoslavia now.  Their front row of knights and cavalry launched a countercharge under the cover of the horse archers.  Against the enemy, the knights and hussars and mounted militiamen were protected by the compound bows of light-armed archers and the barrage of hussars equipped with cavalry crossbows. The final result ended in the complete defeat of the Hungarian and Slavs.

    Being overwhelmed, being overwhelmed, the front line was torn, and large and small holes were forcibly cut.  Then they were forcibly penetrated by Norman hussars, knights and royal knights.  The screams of the cavalry and the whine of the war horses kept coming and going.  However, on the battlefield, the loudest and loudest voices are not the screams of the dying.  But it comes from the roar of the Normans!

    "For the great Egil Skadra Grimsson! For the Holy Norman Empire!!"

    Similar roars can be heard endlessly.  Knights and hussars charged repeatedly, using lances and battle axes, sabers and armor-piercing hammers to play a horrific symphony called war.  Each cavalryman can be regarded as a note, and all Normans are powerful and highest notes.

    At this point in the war, there is no suspense.

    There is almost no strategy, no plot.  No calculation, no thinking, no command art, no, no, no, no just a very simple charge, a very, very simple tactic.  Even a barbarian who can't read a word can do the job - just say the word: "Charge."  You don¡¯t have to worry about it after that. The torrent of cavalry composed of Mann¡¯s elite soldiers will automatically help him take care of everything.

    Seeing the opponent's tens of thousands of troops, most of them were taken down by our own army with a single charge.  Egil found it interesting at first.  But when I think about it again, I feel a little bored.  Later, Egil thought for a while, and then he remembered that he could still issue such an order: "Attack the entire army."

    ¡­Okay, this one seems to be an enhanced version of the previous one in terms of boredom.  Hungary, which had already been beaten to pieces, and the Yugoslav coalition forces were no longer able to resist after being attacked again by the Norman infantry group.  After a complete collapse, thousands of troops fled in panic, but less than 3,000 people finally managed to escape back to Budapest.  The rest of the army was either captured, killed, or fled to unknown places.  And their "emperor" Hunyadi died in the rebellion.

    "The loss of the Norman army was less than a thousand people.  Among them, more than 200 were killed (including non-combat attrition), and more than 500 were seriously injured and could not be recovered. This was not a problem at all for the Norman Emperor with an army of 150,000.  In other words, his army still possesses extremely strong combat effectiveness.  You can continue fighting.

    In this way, the war ended with a complete victory of the Normans.  The Kingdom of Romania, which was just established, perished, and the Kingdom of Hungary, which had been inherited for a long time and was known as the Holy Shield of Christ, perished.

    Hunyadi, this man with the ambition of an eagle, ultimately did not escape the claws of the Nordic Wolf King.  Although this "emperor" also has two sons.  But none of them have reached adulthood.  It is absolutely impossible to maintain Hunyadi's advantage in such a war.  In this way, the country founded by this generation of heroes began to rise and fall.  It just set off a wave in the historical wave, and then disappeared (To be continued

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