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Part 4 Anti-Norman Alliance Chapter 63 Advantages

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    Seeing that our own cavalry unit was stopped by the opponent.  Marshal Erth did not feel disappointed.  All this has long been in his calculations.  Ilhan Hulagu was invincible across Arabia.  How could it be so easy and defeated by such a simple tactic?  If this is really the case, then Marshal Ers will sneer, "There are no heroes, so Zhuzi becomes famous."

    Marshal Naeus no longer paid attention to the battle on both wings.  Instead, he ordered the army to move forward.  The 100,000 troops on the front were divided into three large arrays, and hundreds of small arrays slowly advanced.  The troops on both wings withdrew from the positions that had been prepared with wooden stakes as a means of defense.  The main force in the center also abandoned the artillery that was inconvenient to move.

    Watching the opponent's army advance across the board.  That Hulagu was a little panicked.  The chaos caused by his slave soldiers has not yet subsided.  If the Norman army pressed forward at this time, his end would also be a dead end.

    At this moment, the Great Khan secretly regretted that he should not have thrown these slave soldiers, who were like idiots and had basically zero fighting will, into the battlefield.  This is really a big failure.

    However, it is completely meaningless to worry about this kind of thing at this moment.  Ilhan Hulagu issued the order decisively.  The Persian and Arab heavy cavalry in his front line were asked to advance to counter the attack with attack.  Block the Norman advance.

    This time, it took a long time to pass the order.  Every second, Hulagu felt like the day was like a year.  But in the end, his army moved.  Those are legacies from the Egyptian Empire.  The heavily armored Mamluk, Ghulam.  Kasagi and other heavy cavalry roared and charged towards the Norman army.

    Of course, before that, they had to solve one thing first - the slave soldiers standing in front of them.  This seriously hindered their progress.  It also made it almost impossible for their expensive heavy cavalry to launch a charge.

    Even though he has excellent armor.  Equipped with heavy maces, these Middle Eastern-style heavy cavalry are also quite good in melee combat.  But look at the forest of spears on the opposite side.  I knew that if these people were not fast enough, it would be impossible to break through the Norman's super long gun array.  Unable to break through the opponent's gun array.  Then melee combat is out of the question.

    Under such a proposition.  These heavy cavalry can only give one answer - kill!  Kill all the slaves who are in their way!

    They waved their maces and meteor hammers desperately attacking the heads of the slaves.  The blunt instrument with sharp edges shattered the entire skulls of those miserable slaves.  Brain bursting.  In this way, these heavy cavalry finally opened a way.  Immediately afterwards, they rushed towards the Norman position¡ª¡ª

    What greeted them were the Norman crossbows and muskets that had already stopped moving and were ready.

    When these people are entangled with their slaves.  The Norman array had stopped moving.  And made a defensive posture.  The soldiers at the forefront tightened their grip on the super long guns.  Arranged into a super long spear array.  The shield spearmen on both sides were tightly close together.  Relying on large shields, a dense array of spearmen was formed.  In this situation.  The Ilkhanate's heavy cavalry, which had insufficient impact, had an even lower chance of winning.

    About one hundred and fifty meters.  The best range of the elite repeating crossbows of the Normans was also the death field of the heavy cavalry of the Ilkhanate.

    Marshal Erth's army is quite different from his colleagues.  He inherited the garrison and hussar regiments that had been in the Near East.  In addition, there are the defense forces deployed by the Normans in the Mesopotamia.  At that time, the Norman emperor once wanted to use the Euphrates River as a natural shield to defend against the Mongols' attack.  Although this plan ultimately failed.  But the plan was ultimately not fruitless.

    At that time, a huge investment was invested in the construction of 1,500 Aegir's crossbows.  It was acquired by Marshal Erth who took over the battlefield in the Near East.  In addition to the 10,000 new-style army troops under his headquarters, he has 500 repeating crossbows.  That adds up to two thousand.

    This is the power that Marshal Erth relies on most.  At the same time, it is also the largest continuous-firing crossbow unit in the Norman army so far.  The biggest trump card in this "Battle in the Desert on the outskirts of Jerusalem"!

    The heavy rain fell from the sky, just like Norman's arrow.  The Norman crossbowmen roared the slogan "one arrow per second".  While throwing arrows like locusts at the heavy cavalry of the Ilkhanate.

    Under such a powerful and dense rain of arrows, even the scale armor of the heavy cavalry could not be protected.  Chain armor cannot provide perfect defense.  Especially their horses with larger targets and weaker defenses are easier to shoot.  Some lower-level heavy cavalry without equipment and armor became the first victims of Egil's Wrath crossbows.

    First of all, it was because of the slave riots.  Then he just took a charging stance.  ??He came under heavy fire from the opponent's crossbowmen.  Whether it's heavy-armed crossbowmen who line up in four rows and take turns firing, or repeating crossbowmen who hold repeating crossbows and fire continuously.  For Ilhan's heavy cavalry, they are extremely deadly.

    They were going crazy.  No contact with the enemy yet.  So many troops were lost at once.  This is simply incomprehensible to the proud and brave Arab warriors.  Their defeat in the Fourth Crusade is even more difficult to comprehend than it had been.

    Back then, under the command of Saladin, they had a fierce battle with the Crusaders commanded by the Norman Emperor and were immediately defeated.  But at that time, the Norman Emperor's crossbowmen had not yet developed to the terrifying level they are now.  These heavy cavalry were defeated in battle with the Norman knights and royal knights who were built with a lot of money by the Norman emperor and belonged to the same heavy cavalry sequence.  Although that also stung the pride of these elite warriors.  But it's still barely acceptable.  After all, they were fighting head-on, and were killed by the opponent's powerful charge and the sharp ax in their hands.

    But this time, what is going on?  !  They didn't even touch the enemy's face, and suffered numerous casualties during the charge.  This is simply a foul weapon.  The other side uses this immoral weapon to massacre its own warriors!  How can such behavior be forgiven?  !

    If Marshal Erth hears what the other party is saying.  I'm afraid I'll scoff at it.  This is the victory of technology and civilization.  The so-called personal bravery can no longer have a foothold in this society.  Just be obedient and become the garbage of the new era!  If you don¡¯t want to withdraw from the stage of history, I don¡¯t mind giving you a ride.

    That¡¯s it, Marshal Erth gathered a large number of continuous-firing crossbowmen.  Easily defeated the enemy's first wave of attacks.  It severely damaged the enemy's second wave of attacks and seriously demoralized the third wave of enemies¡ª¡ª

    after this.  There are less than two thousand Ilkhanate heavy cavalry remaining.  Finally crossed the line of death.  Rushed in front of the Norman array.  These remaining heavy cavalry roared excitedly and urged their horses to charge.

    However, what greeted them was not the glorious victory, honor and reward.  But the cold tip of the Norman's spear.  The soldiers in the first five rows of the super long gun array all grasped their long guns.  It formed a wall of shining cold light.  And between them, there is a distance of fifty meters.  The Norman musketeers opened fire.

    The loud noise frightened the charging horses.  Therefore, a charge that was not very good in the first place turned into a one-way ticket to hell.  The Ilkhanate's heavy cavalry howled sadly and crashed into the Norman gun array.  Crush the first few rows of phalanx infantry.  But that's all.  Just like that, their impact was exhausted.  The heavy cavalry who lost their last mobility were quickly killed by the Norman assault infantry, wielding long-handled battle axes.

    In this way, the Normans only paid the price of hundreds of phalanx infantry and wiped out more than 4,000 Ilkhanate heavy cavalry.  Although these foreign heavy cavalry are not direct descendants of Xulegu's confidants.  However, they are an elite force after all.  Hulagu watched these elite warriors being slaughtered by the enemy on the charge route as if they were child's play.  It also feels bad in my heart.

    "Does it mean that the era of cavalry dominating the battlefield is over?! Where will our Mongolian warriors go from here?" However, this thought was forgotten by him in just one thought.  Because his opponent, Marshal Erth, one of the Norman Emperor's eagle dogs, had told him clearly.  The cavalry of this era are still the most destructive battlefield heroes.

    "On both wings, one-third of the cavalry will assemble towards the center. Charge."

    At this moment, the Norman army only dispatched one-third of its cavalry force to lure the Ilkhanate's light cavalry on both wings to fully dispatch.  Marshal Erth pushed the front forward again, forcing Hulagu to put all the heavy cavalry in his first array in front of the Norman gun array.  In both encounters, Marshal Erth had the upper hand.  The advantage continues to expand in his hands, so this time, it is his turn to take action!

    "Cavalry!"

    The main force of the Ilkhanate, the Arab levy troops who were large in number but not very effective in combat, saw a large number of Norman hussars, knights and heavy cavalry beginning to gather in front of them.  I couldn't help but panic.  Their officers shouted, trying to keep the men calm and organize them into tighter formations.  It was hoped that this would stop the Norman cavalry charge.

    These officers were all from Arab aristocrats, well-educated, and had participated in many wars, so they were rich in experience.  It would have been a real problem for the Normans if their men had been able to follow their orders - but, unfortunately, they were unable to follow these orders because they lacked one very important thing, the infantry.  What is necessary in a battle against cavalry is sufficient morale.  (To be continued)!  ~!

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