On May 3, Egil calculated that it was less than 60 kilometers away from Naples. A lot of news came from the scouts of the vanguard, and began to exchange fire with the opponent's light infantry scouts. The Eastern Roman Empire used stone-cattering ropes, javelins, and bows and arrows. Although it was just an auxiliary army that was better than nothing in the formal war. However, it was still quite powerful in such a small-scale scouting battle. Except for the Sherwood sharpshooter on Egil, the battlefield assassin and professional Hussars, this combination did not suffer any loss, all the other light infantry scouts suffered varying degrees. Egil thought for a while, and ordered the troops of other countries not to send scouts the next day, and the reconnaissance activities were taken by the Normans.

In this way, the Catholic coalition won a great victory the next day. All the monarchs except Egil were very happy. But they died almost 200 elite troops at once. Egil was very painful.

"Jaberlin is really convenient. You don't need to pull the bow and lift the strings. Just lean back and then throw forward... Well, by the way."

So the next day, the scouts all replaced them with the most common professional Viking warriors in the Norman Kingdom. These guys who weighed the light flying axe in their hands beat the Eastern Roman light infantry in the next small-scale conflict and didn't even know the fuck. The javelin can indeed cause effective damage to the target at close range. However, for the professional Viking warriors wearing heavy chain armor, if they were not hit by the vital force, it would be a medium-level damage at most, and would not be able to kill them. However, the flying axe could cause heavy bleeding no matter where they were hit, and they would be dead.

Because there is no armor.

In this way, at the end of the first round, Egil won. Of course, this was just the beginning.

The next second round was a regular battle. A total of 200,000 troops from both sides gathered in the suburbs of Naples, a land of dozens of kilometers. Then they handed over each other's letter of war and agreed to go to the next day.

Of course, because the number of people on both sides has too many, a battle will determine the outcome, which is unlikely. Therefore, both sides are ready for a long-term battle. The Eastern Rome side did not mention the Catholic coalition, but was continuously transporting the grain and grass pulleys of France and Holy Rome to the front line. It can be said that it is to support this coalition with the power of the entire Europe. Therefore, there is no need to worry about supply issues at all.

On May 8th, 1003, AD, the weather was clear and the wind was strong.

Therefore, it will cause serious damage to the projected weapons. Therefore, it is not very good news for the Catholic coalition, which has a large number of longbowmen, crossbowmen. Especially for the Normans who have been quite used to charging under the cover of the longbow and arrow rain in recent times.

Of course, what is even more sad than the Normans is that the Northern Italian army is that such a wind direction is blindly the huge majority of crossbowmen have lost their combat effectiveness. Although these guys are equipped with the best scale armor or heavy chain armor, it is suitable to be used as heavy infantry.

However, Italians are afraid of death.

That's it. Invisibly, this battle has moved towards a favorable direction for the Greeks from the beginning. However, such things are helpless. Because of the failure caused by the last miracle snowfall incident, if you want to use the system to change the local climate, you need at least 10 billion points to convert according to a little bit of coupon in a second. If you only have more than 30 million points a year, 300 million points a year, 300 million in ten years, and 300 billion in a hundred years... Well, you don't have to calculate it anymore after calculating here. As long as Egil knows one thing, he will definitely not be able to afford the money. That's it.

If you can't take advantage of your chances, then just talk with your strength. Originally, Egil was thinking of asking his 100,000 troops to shout together in front of the two armies: "The dead eunuch who is cuckold!" to hit the morale of the other party. However, this proposal was completely rejected during the military discussion. The reason was that this was really unreasonable. We are the crusaders who uphold justice (at least on the surface). How could we do such shameless actions?

So this wonderful plan that Egil came up with was stranded.

Egil was still standing on the temporarily piled tower to command. He climbed up and looked into the distance, plus the monocular telescope bonus.

The command ability of ordinary commanders is much higher. In addition to Egil, there are his favorite nun Joan of Arc, Archbishop Peter Norman, and Alpha, captain of the Death Knights, as well as Hilde, Brand, and Mayor of Bologna. Although these two guys represent their own interests in the coalition, they are two wastes when it comes to commanding wars. It is impossible to go to the battlefield or something. Therefore, they come to this "safeest place in the entire battlefield."

Then there is a conventional call. The general situation is as follows: "We represent justice"

“We represent justice!!”

"Our faith is correct, you are heresy!" "Our faith is correct! You are heresy!!"

This way.

And while this period of time, the commanders of both sides also began to encourage their subordinates to their final morale. Usually it is like this: "Money, beauty, glory and faith." Above.

If you still find it too troublesome, you can simplify it and turn it into two words: fame and profit. This will make you clear and understand.

Then, the war officially began. With the shocking shouts of killing, all the wild animals within a radius of dozens of kilometers were scared and trembled. The two cavalry units in front rushed to the front began to strangle.

Before this, Narcis had studied Western heavy cavalry tactics, and also heard that, and carefully deduced the bo-segment charge method used by Egil. He knew in his heart that he had encountered such an expert in using cavalry. His own infantry array was not enough to see. The only way to fight against it was to use cavalry against cavalry.

However, during this battle, there were not only the Norman army.

The 100,000 coalition forces were arranged in the following formation by Egil: the center was Egil's headquarters, with a total of 40,000 Norman elite troops, while Egil's left wing was 20,000 Burgundian troops. The right wing was 10,000 French troops and 10,000 Popes, the left wing of Burgundian troops was 5,000 soldiers from Genoa, and the right wing of the Popes was 7,000 troops from Venice and Bologna. The rest, the unemployed vagrants, knights and others who participated in the Crusade in their personal name, were deployed on the edge.

That's it, the strategy of defending the Central Committee with the most elite troops, the Central Committee is strong and the two wings are weak.

The formation of Narcis on the opposite side was different from that of Egil. A total of five regular Roman legions were lined up in a row, and they were still standard square formations of three formations and twenty-five rows. The two Germanic legions and one Valangi legion were deployed at the forefront, in the shape of a font. The two wings were two garrison legions, each with thousands of people. This looked like a slightly improved conical formation.

As mentioned before, Narcis knew that if he wanted to fight against the Norman Iron Cavalry, he had to use cavalry to fight against the cavalry. Only in this way could he win.

Therefore, Narcis concentrated five Roman legions, a total of 2,500 Roman lances, and a total of 1,000 barbarian cavalry from two German legions, and a total of 3,500 lightweight heavy-duty cavalry. This was used as the acup tip of this huge, nearly 100,000 conical cone formation.

Egil sighed softly as he saw the army opposite him set up in such a formation, and then frowned.

Standing next to him, Joan of Arc, wearing a generous nun suit and a brother-in-law hat, sighed softly, then walked over and held Egil's slightly cold hands.

"They died for Jesus Christ." Joan of Arc comforted him.

"Fuck them, they died for Yu Zhan!!!" Egil almost couldn't help but say this. Finally, he just sighed. He slowly pulled out his command knife, and a terrifying light burst out in his eyes as if the lame old wolf who had been hungry in the vast forest for a few days encountered his prey.

No matter what it is, whether it is a bear, a tiger, or a human, it is the same for a hungry wolf.

"All cavalry, charge!!!!" Egil roared.

The heavy horn sounded, and then, the 4,300 elite Norman cavalry rushed towards the Eastern Roman cavalry...

"What's wrong with His Majesty Egil? Why did he get so angry as soon as the war started?" Cardinal Heard, standing diagonally behind Egil, grabbed a guard knight and asked in a low voice.

"We don't know much about this," the guard knight replied strangely.

In the end, a paladin beside the Cardinal whispered to him: "Look, the enemy is now deploying a cone formation, and he has taken out a large number of elite heavy cavalry. It seems that this posture is to attack the middle of our army. In the middle is His Majesty Egil, King of Norman.

Therefore, regardless of the outcome of this battle, His Majesty Egil's army will suffer heavy losses. This is what Sister Joan of Ar before said. She wanted to make His Majesty Egil a little more at ease. But it didn't seem to be effective. His Majesty Egil was still very angry." "So that's it." Cardinal Hilde nodded, indicating that he understood.
Chapter completed!