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Chapter 281 The Great War Is Coming

At this time, a personal guard issued a warning: "Captain, there are many cavalrymen coming to us in the enemy camp."

Roger stopped showing off his power now.

Even krypton players are not omnipotent.

Roger didn't want to end up with the Kurdish Javelin in front of him in a blink of an eye.

He stopped staying and immediately turned around and ran towards his troops.

But the moment he turned and left, he glanced at a strange group of infantry walking out from the corner of the enemy camp.

The infantry were wearing half-leather armor, holding a clay pot in one hand and burning straw rope in the other.

They didn't actually carry weapons.

Roger is very surprised that soldiers don’t take weapons, so how can they fight?

But now is not the time to think about this issue.

He retreated quickly to the valley.

Then, Roger began to mobilize his troops and arrange troops.

The army of 100,000 people began to slowly circum and shrink, changing from a marching state to an attack formation.

This simple tactical maneuver took nearly a morning.

Under Roger's command, the soldiers formed a simple formation.

Roger arranged William and William's nearly 5,000 cavalry and cavalrymen on the right wing of the formation.

Due to the limitations of the valley terrain, Roger asked William's cavalry to first arrange it in a column and wait until it leaves the valley before it unfolds.

On the other hand, he asked Odin to take more than a thousand Norman cavalry to rank on the left wing of the formation.

It is also arranged in a column.

Roger himself stood at the forefront of the formation with his personal guards.

Behind him were 1,000 shield-held crossbowmen loosely lined up in a row.

Behind the crossbowmen are 1,000 archers, also loosely arranged in a row.

These two rows of long-range troops stood almost three meters apart, pulling from the right wing to the left wing, pulling out two side-by-side, three-kilometer-long "dashed lines".

Then, Roger asked Sicilian spearmen and javelin soldiers led by Zarro to command nearly 90,000 Germans, like mercury, to fill the concave frame composed of cavalry on both sides and crossbowmen in front.

The Sicilian soldiers restrained these unorganized and undisciplined Germans, and did not allow them to cross the cavalry on the left and right wings, nor allowed them to surpass the two long-range troops in front.

Finally, Roger asked Danny to lead the officers' regiment to line up behind the formation, like a lid, pressing the Germanic "cannon fodder" in the "frame".

He ordered: "Whoever runs behind the officers' regiment will be executed as deserters!"

So these German "cannon fodder" were crowded and formed a thick center.

Roger was very satisfied. This simple method could only be used to deal with these Germanic "cannon fodder" who had not received systematic training.

He knew that these "cannon fodder" could only be directed with the simplest commands, such as "leave, stop, and rush".

Any complicated order will cause them to lose their composure and eventually lead to catastrophic consequences.

Roger didn't want his own people to be in a mess before the fight started.

He selectively ignored the German "cannon fodder" and kept complaining because it was too crowded.

After Roger basically formed the formation, he ordered: "The whole army advances."

Then the guards held up the flag and followed Roger, who was leading the way, and walked slowly forward.

So the 100,000 army surged forward like a black cloud.

Roger, who was leading the way, was not excited at all to lead the team.

He actually didn't want to stand at the forefront of the formation so flirtatiously.

When commanding the Sicilian army, he usually stayed behind the formation, the safest place.

But he knew that he couldn't do it now.

He knew that in this era, whether Sicilian or Germanic, they admired the warriors.

The Sicilians can use discipline to restrain them so that they will not be willing to fight because they are behind the formation.

But these 90,000 Germans don't care about that many.

If they see themselves huddling behind the formation, their morale that has finally been inspired by themselves will dissipate.

These Germanic soldiers will not fight to the death for a commander who is greedy for life and fear of death.

Therefore, Roger could only learn from Xiang Yu who must first fight in every battle, and use his own actions to strengthen the warriors' belief in fighting to the death.

When Roger led a hundred thousand troops to slowly advance, he was still some distance from the valley entrance.

The cavalry who served as scouts rewarded: "The regiment commander, the Roma occupied the valley entrance and could not get out!"

Roger quickly asked the army to stop, and he led his personal guards to visit the enemy situation with the scout.

He saw that at the entrance of the valley about three kilometers wide, there were about 30,000 Roma people who had already formed a formation and were waiting there.

Roger thought that the geographical advantage was still occupied by the Roma people who were familiar with the terrain.

There are steep slopes on both sides of this valley, which is even steeper than the slope you climbed after you left the valley.

The bare sandstone was washed by rain like a cement-patterned wall, and there was no place to grasp the climb.

Roger saw that there were no enemy soldiers on the steep slope. He thought that since the Roma who were familiar with the terrain could not climb up, he would not consider whether there was any other way to climb up.

Roger stopped when he walked to an arrow from the Roma, which was about 200 meters away.

He saw that the opponent was posing a defensive formation.

The Roma placed all the town militia mixed with javelins directly in front of them, forming a thin line of defense about three kilometers long, pulling from the steep slope on one side of the valley to the steep slope on the other side.

Roger felt that this line of defense would definitely not stop the charge of his troops, and at most he would cause a little blocking effect.

But after this line of defense, Roger saw a large number of archers and archers riding on horseback.

These people were lined up in four rows, including Turkic infantry, in the front and archers behind.

They line up closely without affecting the shooting of the bow.

Roger calmly estimated.

He saw that the total number of opponents was about 30,000, and those holding bows and arrows accounted for about 80%, which was 24,000 bows.

The number of bows and arrows was so high that Roger's scalp was numb.

He thought, this was simply a hornet's nest.

Roger continued to observe and saw a green-bottomed white star-moon flag erected at the end of the enemy formation.

In front of the flagpole, there is a chain mail with gold inlaid, riding a handsome tall horse.

Roger knew that it was the enemy's leader, Rom Sultan Masood.

On the edge of Masoud were the 60-man heavy cavalry guards who were closely guarding him.

On both sides of the heavy cavalry palace guards are four teams with a total of 240 people, a Sipasi Lancers with leather helmets and armor, and a cavalry.

Roger thought, it seemed that the opponent had no intention of hedging the cavalry with him at all.
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