"It's the German great swordsman and Swiss mercenaries. (Download_Loft ww.. Such good equipment seems to be quite pampering in the Holy See... dispatch three assault infantry teams of thousands of people! Let them know that in terms of martial arts, no one is afraid of the Norman soldiers!" Egil sighed in the first half of the sentence, but shouted out loudly, making the spirit of the soldiers around him a formation.

Amid the sound of the trumpet, the three Norman assault infantry of a thousand-man team passed through the loose longbowmen and entered the front line. The assault infantry holding a long-handled handshake and wearing full-body plate armor shouted loudly, desperately wielding the tomahawk in their hands with all their strength. Their improved full-body plate armor can completely resist the opponent's sword. The Swiss holding a long halberd cannot cause too much damage to them. The heavy, covered with a layer of cotton shock-absorbing helmets, can also protect their most fragile heads. When their tomahawk swung like lightning, the other party had no choice...

On the front line, the battle situation stabilized again. The main generals of both sides observed carefully and kept investing reserves, and then withdrew the exhausted soldiers after a long battle. The battle went on to a stalemate stage. The Norman Emperor had many soldiers and a wide range of generals, and the losses were not much. Moreover, his soldiers were recruited by the system for nothing, so he was naturally not afraid. However, Harold was feeling distressed when he saw his soldiers die one by one. The battle started at nine o'clock, and now it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. The 80,000 troops under his command lost nearly one-third.

The Christian Crusaders with 20,000 cannon fodders died. Anyway, there are countless refugees and bandits who have lost their arable land in Europe. The Holy See can recruit 350,000 with just one call. And those mercenaries from Germany and Italy died even better. They died, and they would not have to pay their commissions after the war - however, what Harold couldn't accept was the casualties of the new army of the Holy See.

Under the crazy attack of the Norman Empire, under the strait of the longbow and arrow rain, the heavy cavalry and Hussars charged in turn, and under the garrison of the Norman infantry counterattack, the Vatican's 50,000 new troops had already died! And most of them were elite soldiers who dared to fight. This made Harold, who participated in the military training and as the commander of the new army, vaguely regarded this new army as his capital, felt uncomfortable.

However, no matter how uncomfortable it is, you have to endure it!

Harold reminded himself in this way. He continued to grit his teeth and mobilized a Swiss guard of a thousand-man team and a German sword mercenary of a thousand-man team to maintain the frontal attack power. However, at this moment, Emperor Norman also transferred the new army that had been fighting for a long time, and replaced it with eight thousand-man teams assault infantry to attack and attack. Both sides were elite assault infantry with heavy weapons. They had extremely strong lethality, so the battle on the front battlefield was also extremely fierce, with serious damage to the battle. The Normans were slightly better, and more than 800 people were killed. The Holy See lost nearly 2,000 soldiers very sadly. The battle loss ratio between the two sides was between one-to-two and one-to-three.

This also made Harold feel difficult to accept. Swiss mercenaries are famous all over the world. They are often regarded as the best strong soldiers in the continent. The Holy See hired the most elite Swiss mercenaries and gave them the best armor and the best weapons, and trained them with new tactics (stolen from Norman). I thought I could train the invincible army in the world. However, I did not expect that the end result would be like this!

Despite their efforts and hard work, their cooperation and formation have reached the maximum level of their ability. Harold even felt that what they did now is even better than what they did in previous exercises and training.

But it is still not enough. In the eyes of the Normans, these "well-equipped" and "well-trained" soldiers are indeed very good opponents. But it is a bit naive to defeat them just by relying on this. In particular, these Swiss guards are still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of quantity. Harold has only four Swiss guards with a team of 1,000 people. Therefore, in order to make up for the insufficient number of assault infantry on his side, a large number of German great swordsmen were hired. Although these great swordsmen have good swordsmanship, they are even better than the Swiss. However, they always go to single-handed business to do business. They participate in small-scale battles of hundreds and ten people, which are not suitable for large-scale battles.

The Swiss Guards also had a big problem. When training these Swiss Guards, Harold and other senior officials of the Holy See expected to train them as opponents of the long-handled axe warriors and Norman assault infantry. They emphasized their impact and promoted the concept of wild combat. They did not use the discipline of these Swiss Guards...

Although the long halberds in their hands were lighter than the long-handled battle axes commonly used by the Normans, they could perform more combat movements. Although they were light and flexible, the long halberds were no less powerful than the Norman Tomahawk in terms of lethality and armor-breaking ability. So much so that the Swiss Guards holding this weapon were even better than the Norman Assault Infantry when launching an attack.

However, in terms of arrays and cooperation - in these two aspects, the Normans still had an absolute advantage. After fighting with the opponent for a while, the Norman soldiers and assault infantry mostly understood the opponent's fighting style. They quickly made tactical adjustments. They abandoned the classic passion-blooded assault tactics commonly used by the assault infantry at the beginning. Instead, they changed to dense arrays and advanced with neat lines. The chiefs issued commanders, arranged each of the soldiers they commanded into a row of horizontal lines, and each soldier advanced and retreated together, and the battle axe in their hands also chopped the axe formation at the same time.

In this way, rows of battle axes were cut down at the same time, and there was a scream and a bloody flying. The Norman assault infantry tactics forced the Swiss guards, as well as the German mercenaries holding big swords, to fight with similar tactics. The Swiss guards, who were particular about phalanx and discipline, immediately abandoned their wrong tactics and changed their combat modes again. The chaotic Germans who were fooled by the Norman battles were quickly and quickly eliminated by the Norman army.

"It's really damn..." Looking at the front line that was gradually collapsed, Harold was furious and a little depressed. Not only did this round of offensive fail, but it was as if he had imagined that it would destroy the opponent's array and directly threaten the Norman Emperor. Instead, it seemed that his own array was about to be destroyed by the opponent.

"These useless mercenaries!" Harold looked at the front line. Under the attack of the Normans, the German mercenaries had a messy formation and looked in a mess. He couldn't help but mutter in a low voice. He seemed to have forgotten that he was also a mercenary.

At this time, under the cover of light archers and cavalry arrows, the Norman Hussars had steadily suppressed the opponent's light cavalry. The armies of other six countries such as Hesse and Milan gradually gathered together under the repeated urging of Egir. The Duke Guards of Milan, the Black Dragon Knights of Brandenburg, the Italian heavy cavalry in Venice, and the Duke Guards of Austria, these elite knights, either one thousand or hundreds, were all involved in the battle. Under the dispatch of Hungarian King Attila, the Norman Hussar General Qi Teng and others, the slightly scattered Hungarian Hussars who could not be arranged in arrays, and the Eastern European cavalry recruited cavalry, also squeezed into the gaps in the Norman Hussar array and joined the melee.

The cavalry units of the Norman Union Army, totaling nearly 50,000 knights, heavy cavalry, hussar, light cavalry and informal cavalry, completely defeated the poor thousands of cavalry of the Holy See. On the battlefield, the swords and swords were shining and screaming, but most of them were on the side of the Holy See.

"It's a mess!" Seeing the enemies on both sides surrounding him, the cavalry he dispatched seemed to be in danger of being wiped out immediately. Harold suddenly realized that he lost this battle. It is natural for the Norman United to defeat the weak with strong. Although he is considered a talent, he does not have the ability to change his fate...

On the front battlefield, the longbowmen of the Norman army had exhausted its ammunition and had retreated. The Norman Emperor once again sent four thousand-man Norman assault infantry to the front line, and placed ten thousand-man Norman assault infantry in the second row. He was ready to step forward to reinforce at any time. The Norman army continued to advance, and wherever he passed was a broken limb and broken arm. Harold sent the last thousand-man Swiss guard up, but he could only delay the defeat a little.

On the two wings, after another melee, the coalition forces divided the remaining Holy See cavalry and surrounded them. Then they continued to move forward and launched an attack on the defensive array arranged by Harold again. Because the soldiers of the countries were crowded together, they could not perform horseback. They all jumped off the horseback. The knights fought bravely with weapons such as long-handled battle axes, long-handled halberds and long-handled warhammers. The light cavalry held military pickaxes, armor-breaking hammers, and scimitars to guard the left and right. Although they were not as strict as the Holy See army, the coalition forces, which had an absolute advantage in number, continued to attack, and the new Holy See army's front continued to retreat...

At this moment, the Norman Union encircled three sides, constantly squeezing the Holy See's front and forcing the other side to retreat. Although the Holy See's army struggled to resist, it was too willing but not enough. The Holy See's new army was only less than 40,000 left. The mercenary troops they hired had long changed their minds and fled.

Emperor Norman is now reorganizing his troops to allow them to detour behind the other side on a large scale and block the enemy's escape route. He also ordered the troops on both sides of the left and right, and the troops on the flanks on the southern end to attack to narrow the opponent's escape route. Under the uninterrupted attack of the coalition forces, the Holy See's army seemed to be crumbling, and Harold could only continue to tighten and tighten his own front to prevent the front from being torn apart by the coalition forces and he would not have a place to die...
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