The Chinese army's war horse flag was erected, and one hundred and ten heavy cavalry slowly walked out of the military formation. Their cavalry had thick steel armor and lances that were more than ten feet long. Even the tall and strong war horses underneath them were wearing thick horse armor.
Horse-armored heavy cavalry are like a steel city wall to the infantry. The heavy cavalry’s hooves are covered in mud and blood, and the cavalry’s spears crack their skulls and bones.
Generally speaking, a heavy cavalry team cannot be entirely true heavy cavalry. In many cases, a so-called heavy cavalry team only has about one-fifth of the heavy cavalry, plus the accompanying light cavalry and servant cavalry accompanying the heavy cavalry. These light cavalry are also called companion cavalry.
However, the heavy cavalry in Randy's hands is all heavy cavalry, which is also the strength he relies on most. In the national war three years ago, he relied on such a heavy cavalry to charge into battle, and was invincible under the iron hoof.
Randy cherishes the edge very much, which is why he asked his minions to test the front several times. He cannot let the heavy cavalry he relies on suffer huge losses.
One hundred and one steel monsters slowly accelerated and charged from the gentle slope. The roar of the iron hooves on the ground was accompanied by the shaking of the earth. This scene was enough to scare the bravest warriors.
The eighty-year-old dead waiter at the front of the battle formation is suffering from this physical and mental shock at the moment.
Deadpool is not a dead person, it is an instinctive reaction to fear the powerful, let alone a group of prisoners who have just been taken out of prison.
However, it was not the Deadpool team in the front row who could not bear the sense of oppression first. When they saw that Art and Odo, the two legion commanders, were motionless and immediately stepped forward, they felt that there was still a little resistance in their hearts. Moreover, they were indeed more courageous.
On the other hand, the few prisoner recruits who were on the edge of the third row on the left rear wing of the Deadpool team collapsed. Seeing the steel monster getting closer and closer, two prisoners were frightened on the spot. They stepped back with trembling legs and were about to run away, but before the supervising team could wait, The two frightened guys were punished severely, and a squad leader in black robes drove them to the back, slashed them in the back, and left them limp and bleeding on the ground...
"The enemy collapsed in front of them, kill them on the spot!" Odo heard the movement behind him, immediately turned his horse's head and shouted.
"What are you afraid of! The enemy cavalry can't charge over!!" Odo immediately calmed down his troops.
Not afraid? It would be strange if you are not afraid!
The sharp steel spikes on the top of the head of a tall war horse with shoulders higher than a human being, a heavy breastplate on the chest, and solid leg armor on the legs, plus the lance poking straight at the forehead and the fully armored iron man on the horse, are all symbols of death and destruction.
More than a hundred Swabian heavy cavalry began to kick their horses to speed up. They charged directly at Art's army in a wall-charging formation. It was obvious that the Swabians planned to rely on the heavy cavalry to crush Art's fragile defense line in one fell swoop, so that this army that was nervously staring at the front would be crushed into powder by the iron hooves of the war horses like grains of wheat under a stone mill.
The cavalry iron wall is getting closer and closer. After the distance reaches a hundred steps, the cavalry begins to shrink slightly because the gentle slope suddenly closes.
However, just as the Burgundian prisoner soldiers under the iron hooves were gasping for breath and waiting for the final collapse of their nerves, an accident occurred - the leading heavy cavalry suddenly stumbled, and his front hooves instantly hit the air, followed by a crisp crack of the tibia. Before the war horse could cry out, the cavalry on the horse had been thrown out of the saddle and fell hard to the ground.
The two heavy cavalrymen who passed behind had no time to react or sympathize, because the ground under their horses' hooves suddenly collapsed the moment the horses' hooves stepped on them, and the men and horses were directly smashed in under the action of inertia.
If the first cavalryman was unlucky, the two cavalrymen who fell into the pit were cruel. When he followed the horse and fell into the ten-foot-deep pit, he was thrown to the wall of the pit by the force of inertia. The wall of the pit was not made of soft or slippery clay, but was filled with spikes...
Then came the fourth and fifth cavalry. It was not until the sixth heavy cavalry reined in the horses going down the slope at fifty paces that the heavy cavalry behind them noticed something unusual in this area.
It turns out that Art, who has always been resourceful (full of scheming), has adjusted the battlefield layout according to the temperament of the enemy commander. He covered all the horse traps and trench traps dug in front of the gap to prevent or kill the enemy's horsemen with thin wooden boards. The top of the wooden castle was not only covered with The old soil was dug out from afar and planted with turf similar to the gentle slope. Such thin wooden boards could fully bear the trampling of infantry and even lightly-armed sentry cavalry. The tall war horses and heavy armors had to carry a fully armored rider. Such a weight was concentrated on the iron hooves of the war horses, and the thin wooden boards could not bear it.
Hundreds of soldiers from the 1st Infantry Regiment of Jonah Border Guard Corps, cavalry, heavy armored infantry, baggage corps and even crossbow corps wielded hoes, picks, axes and saws on this battlefield day and night for two full days and nights. This place is no longer what it was originally.
The response of the Swabian heavy cavalry was not too slow. Under the command of a leading baron, the heavy cavalry who had stopped kicking fifty steps were quickly divided into two teams, running towards the left and right wings respectively. They attempted to bypass the trap area in front, insert themselves diagonally from the flanks into the middle of the gap, and cut into pieces the defenders of the gap.
The idea is good, but the cavalry baron may have underestimated the enemy's ability to dig holes. If they knew that most of the soldiers digging these traps and holes were from farmers, they might not continue to advance, because the peasant soldiers who were accustomed to using hoes and shovels were not satisfied after digging the front full of holes. There were all such hole traps under the turf on the left and right sides of the gap and the front wings.
Horses were thrown onto their backs, and there was a burst of war horses neighing and wounded soldiers wailing. Seven or eight heavy cavalry on each side fell into a pit full of spikes, piercing their heart and lungs, or they were trapped in a horse pit and broke their horse's legs. The riders on the horses were also thrown to the ground.
Swabian army commander Randy's heart was bleeding on the gentle slope. He did not expect that the enemy would actually set up a trap area with a weight limit. No wonder he sent at least two waves of people to go into the trap without triggering it.
Swabia lost nearly twenty heavy cavalry in just one charge. Count Randy's eyes almost burst, and he immediately asked the messenger to blow the retreat trumpet.
The Swabian heavy cavalry, which was submerged in the inverted triangle trap area, had no choice but to follow the order and retreat back to the original route.
The more than five hundred Burgundian soldiers in the gap at the foot of the gentle slope finally breathed a sigh of relief, followed by shouts and cheers that spread throughout the dense forest hills.
The Swabians on the top of the gentle slope stopped their attack, temporarily.
·Army commander Earl Randy summoned the commanders of each army to his side for an emergency military meeting. A group of people gathered around Randy and argued for a long time before dispersing.
After a while, two armies wearing various clothes and holding short spears, hand axes and sickles and flails slowly moved to the front of the Swabian army formation. As the horns of the Swabian central army sounded, nearly two hundred Swabian soldiers in a messy group began to march down the gentle slope. Behind these two hundred people were eighty or ninety crossbowmen with quivers on their waists and holding crossbows.
· Odo spat a big mouthful of phlegm in the direction of Count Randy on the gentle slope, and cursed: "Bah! These Swabians are so shameless! The cavalry can't rush over and they don't want to risk the elite infantry, so they let a group of miscellaneous soldiers fill the death pit."
· As he spoke, about two hundred miscellaneous soldiers had been pushed back to a distance of fifty steps, and Art did not order the crossbow team to shoot them.
The Swabian soldiers began to work. They stopped at the place where the heavy cavalry had been ambushed. After pulling out a few heavy cavalry riders who were stiff or still twitching, they began to look around. Of course, what they were looking for were traps and holes hidden under the turf.
They hit the ground with their weapons or stamped the ground with their heels. If there was a sound, they immediately bent down to grab the turf and lift it. Sure enough, there was a layer of unevenly thick wooden boards covering these fatal potholes.
"Hey! Sir, those soldiers are starting to open our trap! Should we let the crossbowmen shoot? Or just let people go up and hack them to death." Odo found the Swabian soldiers who were opening the trap and was very excited.
Matt didn't care at all, "Let them open it, open it to their heart's content. It's best to send more people to fill the holes in the trap one by one. I see how many people and time he has to spend with me!"
Matt just stood on his horse. On his back, I watched the Swabian soldiers groping from fifty steps to twenty steps. In this short thirty-step distance, the Swabian soldiers actually found fifty or sixty pitfalls. The largest hole could knock over two horses, and the smallest hole could just fit into a horse's hoof.
亚特见时候差不多了，也不能让施瓦本人真的跑到眼皮底下拆陷阱，「行了，都到眼皮底下了，该让施瓦本杂兵兄弟们回去歇歇了。」
「传令，弓弩队阵前二十步至三十步，从左至右覆盖射击！四轮！」
may be covered with crossbows and then go out to drive away the enemy soldiers!" The crossbow flag representing the crossbow team was raised. After the crossbow team in the back formation responded to the flag, it circled around twice and waved up and down twice, and once forward. Finally, the flag was waved once from left to right and four times left and right.
After waving the flag, the messenger turned his head and glanced at the flag of the rear crossbow team. Just like the previous action, a circle means taking "ten steps" as a unit, shaking it up and down twice means the two "ten steps" in front of the formation, leaning forward and shaking once means covering another "ten steps" forward, and shaking it left and right four times means four rounds of ejection.
This kind of military order transmission is very complicated, but every orderer must remember it.
"Twenty to thirty steps in front of the formation, covering and shooting from left to right, four rounds!" The voice of Smith, the deputy captain of the crossbow team, sounded from the rear formation. In order to overcome the stuttering problem, Smith could only speak one word at a time.
In a moment, the first round of thirty-odd arrows hit the left wing in front of the military formation, knocking down three Swabian soldiers; There were also screams on the right side of the formation;
When the last round of bows and arrows were fired, there was no need for the soldiers of the first and second flags to drive them away. The Swabian soldiers had already turned around and fled. The crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time in the rear formation also began to fight back. Although most of the formation behind Art was covered by shields, there were also a few casualties.