Chapter 12: The Fifth Battle of Krakow, Cavalry and Infantry

At this moment, the Battle of Krakow has been fully launched. [.Update[]

Fastest and most stable]:. The result is quite gratifying. Both the front and right wings are all the Celtics have the advantage. The tactics used by the Celtic heavy-armed spearmen on the front are almost no different from those of the Eastern Romans. They are also arranged into shield walls and then piercing the spears. Even said that except for the slightly different hood and the style of equipment, their equipment is even the same - the only difference is the shield.

Shield, the Celtics used an oval, eighty centimeters high, and could protect the upper body. The Eastern Roman army still used the tower shield that was inherited from the ancient Roman Empire. It was very clumsy, and although it looked more neat than the Celtics after joining the formation, it also had a greater defense. However, using such a bulky shield is very unsuitable for tactical actions such as dodge and blocking. Holding such a large shield is also a considerable test for the soldiers' physical strength.

As the war continued, the Celtic soldiers still had the strength to fight, but the heavy infantry in the Eastern Romans, the front row of soldiers who had been fighting continuously, were already out of breath and could not continue.

In addition, the number of Celtic people was also greater, with a total of 15,000 heavy spearmen, plus about 2,000 lightning infantry remaining, to fight against three brigades, which were only half of them, as well as light infantry with lighter and hammers of about 7,000 nails and daggers of soldiers. They could have a very big advantage.

It was like a messenger who reported to His Royal Highness the Princess: "They have more numbers than us! Their equipment is better than us. They are advanced in tactics and are fearless - we are not their opponents!"

Of course, this poor commander who told the truth was immediately cut to death by His Highness Liliannu on the charge of disrupting the morale of the army.

"Damn it - my first war. This is the first war since my official debut - it must not be defeated like this!!" His Highness the Princess thought so furiously, and at the same time looked at the right wing, hoping that the group of Cossacks and the grassland herders could give her some surprises.

The result was very disappointing. There were more than 4,000 Hussars in total, which had completely defeated the nomadic cavalry. Most of the nomadic cavalry either surrendered or fled, and only a small number of people were still struggling to support - most of them were horses killed by the Norman Hussars, so they could not escape. {Please

Remember.} But I didn't want to surrender, so I had to fight on foot with simple weapons, scimitars or spears. This was a very tragic guy with few numbers and no horses, and would be killed soon. Some Hussars who were separated from their respective cavalry battalions and specialized in dealing with these guys laughed and charged towards them in groups. With the help of a speedy saber, they could cut off the other party's head...

The only army that can still fight is still the Cossacks. Although he ate a cavalry battalion of Hussars in the previous cavalry battle, Pugachev could also see that he would lose or lose if he fought. In a word, "Go!" As soon as the horn was blown, the Cossacks left a group of people who dared to fight desperately and retreated.

The group of Cossacks who left wolves howling were really brave. Although they were behind the tactics and were not equipped with equipment, and the number was only three or four hundred, they blocked the Hussacres for nearly twenty minutes. Until the last Cossack, after his arm was cut off by a Hussac, his eyes jumped up and his opponent was directly knocked down, biting his neck, and at the same time, the hussacks, who were also startled, cut his stomach with a knife and died together...

At this moment, the Cossacks had all returned to their own formation. The cavalry quickly jumped off their horses and squeezed into the shield spear with their spears. The number of Cossacks, who used scimitars, directly made the war horses squat down as a cover. The shields were as tall as a tree, and then they called the archers who were walking on the same walk to stand behind, and a line of defense was done.

The Hussars ran around the position for a while. General Qi Teng snorted coldly: "Go around! Punch his ass!" The remaining ten cavalry battalions immediately divided the work and left two cavalry battalions to rush forward to restrain the enemy's attention. The remaining eight were divided into two routes, four left wings and four right wings, hiding outside the range of the enemy's bow and arrows, and went around to the enemy's back and charged towards the archers in the enemy's rear formation.

Pugachev suddenly became anxious and shouted loudly: "Cavals, dispatch some cavalry to stop them!!"

So the Cossack cavalry were tortured for a long time, and thousands of cavalry stepped on their horses and turned around and rushed towards the Hussaches behind to cover the archers. However, the Hussaches' tactics changed again. The four cavalry battalions on the left and right were divided into two, rushing towards the two wings of the Cossack army, whose formation was chaotic because of the division of some cavalry.

"Arrowman!!!"

The Cossack officers on both wings shouted at the top of their lungs, and the war horses that were forcibly pressed to the ground neighed uneasyly - and then the two men shot each other with bows and arrows. The battlefield that had just stopped for a while, screams came again - but the Cossack soldiers used the war horses as cover and had the powerful compound bows of the archers, so shooting in this way would be a disadvantage for the Norman cavalry.

But soon, the Hussars began to charge and attack the Cossack defense line. The melee Hussars waved their sabers and roared with the support of the archers' bows and arrows, and rushed towards the Cossack camp like a torrent.

At this moment, behind the Cossack position, there were a total of four Hussar battalions, and nearly two thousand Hussars completely suppressed more than a thousand Cossack cavalry. It seemed that it was a matter of time before victory was achieved.

Pugachev issued an order to move the front spearmen to the back of the position, and gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, ordering 400 Cossack heavy cavalry to attack to assist the Cossack light cavalry in the back formation. At this moment, the two Hussar battalions on the front saw the opportunity and launched a charge! The Cossack army was in a storm and was about to suffer an unexpected disaster!

This is the case on the right wing, which seems to be even worse than the front battlefield. The Norman Hussars have amazing combat power and erratic tactics. The Cossacks are all passive and passive. Therefore, this is how cavalry fights infantry, especially in plain terrain, where cavalry fights as much as they want, and wherever they want. Infantry wants to fight against cavalry, they can only rely on formation and terrain.

However, the Cossacks who are not well educated do not know these truths. They are all from cavalry and they play very well in cavalry combat. As for array combat, they learned from the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which used infantry phalanxes to abuse them several times. They have never been tested by actual combat. Therefore, they just learned a good look. The teacher is second-rate and the students are second-rate, so what they learned is third-rate... How can a third-rate infantry phalanx stop the top-notch Hussar?

It's just a matter of time before failure.

The Princess's messenger returned, and then brought such frustrating news. The right wing could not rely on saying that the light cavalry is like a mountain torrent, and the heavy cavalry is like a mudslide. Although it is a little slow, it is more powerful, more indestructible and unstoppable. The chain armor and the composite armor of the chain armor are indeed stronger and lighter than the traditional scale armor.

The Celtic heavy cavalry also had a great advantage when fighting against the grassland heavy cavalry. During the first round of charge, most of the Celtic knights who had been systematically trained easily avoided the enemy's spear like the Norman Knights, and stabbed the enemy to death with their own spears. Then they pulled out the battle axe and killed them left and right.

——After a series of tests, Artoria discovered that although the armor-breaking ability of the mace is above the tomahawk, the damage it causes is not as great as the tomahawk. Especially the scale armor and chain armor commonly equipped by the army now have shock absorption to a certain extent, so unless the sky spirit cover is broken, the mace will only cause serious injuries at most.

However, the tomahawk is different. There are no antibiotics these days, and there is not even a standard and professional medical system (Egil is cheating, so it doesn't count). The tomahawk cuts out a wound, so tetanus, infection, bacteria, ** and so on... Even if the opponent can go back alive, he will die in a few months. Moreover, when fighting enemies equipped with light leather armor, even without armor, the mace seems not very good... Although Celtic's economic situation is rich, it is still not as good as Norman. He equips heavy cavalry with two weapons, broadsword and mace, and the strategies of rotation of the enemy were eventually rejected by Artoria. The Norman-style tomahawk was finally used as the standard equipment...

The results of practice have also proved that the ability of the tomahawk is indeed quite excellent. The Celtic Knights equipped with the tomahawk are not at a disadvantage when fighting against the prairie heavy cavalry equipped with the maces - on the contrary, they have to take advantage. The tomahawk will kill people when they chopped over, but the maces will only be injured, and they will not even be injured - as long as the shield is blocked in time - but if it is a tomahawk, the cavalry shield of the prairie heavy cavalry will be shattered in an instant.

The Celtic heavy cavalry had the advantage when fighting against the nomadic heavy cavalry. However, the heavy cavalry of the coalition forces was not only the grassland nomads. Although the equipment was well-equipped, the training was not sufficient. Among them, there were also elite heavy cavalry trained by His Royal Highness Liliannu, who were fully imitated by the Eastern Roman armored paladins.

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