The sounds of fighting and screams were mixed together, and the blood spurted out and sprinkled on the white ground, as if they were completing a splash-ink painting mainly in red.
As soon as the two sides fought, the Hunter family's farmers and soldiers severely suppressed the opponent's momentum. They were fierce and aggressive. They wanted to gain military exploits, and they were like a group of hungry wild dogs with red eyes that found meat on the battlefield.
Bones, anyone dares to bite them.
Facing this group of Hunter family peasant soldiers, who were not as shrinking and fearful of battle as ordinary peasant soldiers, some of the Will family peasant soldiers quickly started to retreat.
The quasi-knights supervising the battle from the Will family killed several people one after another before they stabilized their position.
The Will family will not just watch the peasants and soldiers collapse.
The quasi-knights of the Will family and their bodyguards tore apart the Hunter family's front line. The leading quasi-knight even used the giant sword in his hand to cut the peasants and soldiers of the Hunter family who were blocking him in two with the spear in his hand.
As a result, the momentum of the Hunter family's peasants and soldiers was stagnant.
The quasi-knights of the Will family may not be excellent commanders, but they are definitely qualified grassroots officers. They were brave and skilled in fighting and charged forward, abruptly stopping the decline of the Will family.
Under the leadership of this group of quasi-knights, the Will family's peasant soldiers finally regained some courage and did not flee. The whole battle entered a white-hot state, and the situation became evenly matched.
"kill"
After killing another peasant soldier of the Hunter family, the quasi-knight of the Will family who was charging forward felt very uncomfortable. The current situation was different from the past, which made him very uncomfortable and even a little uneasy.
According to his idea, when these quasi-knights lead their guards into the formation, these peasant soldiers will soon lose their courage and retreat. If the opponent does not have enough quasi-knights to stop them, then the next battle will become
A simple chase.
But this time, the surrounding peasants and soldiers did not retreat as he imagined, leaving their backs to him. Instead, they held firm and vaguely wanted to encircle and attack him. Their fighting will was much stronger than he imagined.
All this is also due to Richard's management style. In Richard's view, maintaining the combat effectiveness of an army is nothing more than three words: "lure it with profit, teach it with reason, and unite it with punishment."
The so-called inducement for profit is the exchange of military honors for land and opportunities for advancement, thereby stimulating soldiers' enthusiasm for war and fighting bravely to be the first.
Xiao Zhiyi focused on daily education. Here, Richard imitated the Hunan Army's method and tried his best to organize fathers and sons and brothers into the same team so that they would be tied to each other and would not abandon their comrades easily.
Supplemented by the education of loyalty and the ideological propaganda of protecting the hometown, the will to fight can be stabilized, and one will not easily escape even if the wind is against him.
Finally, if there is a unified punishment, the deserters will not only be executed on the spot, but their families will be implicated afterwards. What's more, Richard also stipulated that if there are more than a certain number of deserters among the peasant soldiers in a certain village, then the entire village will be affected in the next year.
punitive tax increases.
In this way, even if these peasants and soldiers have been extinguished by the cruel war and their enthusiasm and will have been shattered, they will still be able to survive because of their fear of harsh military law.
Therefore, even if there was an explosive scene of the Will family's quasi-knights directly cutting people into two parts, it could not scare away the Hunter family's peasant soldiers. In addition, the more powerful city guards responded in time, and the entire battle fell into a trap.
There was a stalemate.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Richard couldn't help but frown. He was obviously dissatisfied with the stalemate in the battle in front of him.
I still underestimated the Will family, Richard thought.
In Richard's opinion, apart from being inferior in equipment and training, the peasant soldiers he created are no weaker than regular professional soldiers in terms of fighting will and discipline. The peasant soldiers who are facing them and will collapse in a single blow should not be able to resist at all.
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But the would-be knights of the Will family taught Richard a lesson with their own martial prowess. These professional warriors, who are four or five times stronger than ordinary people, wear heavy iron armor and hold heavy weapons. Any one of them would have been placed in the previous life.
The ancient battlefields were full of famous generals, who could definitely be called battlefield meat grinders. With more than ten people appearing on the battlefield at the same time like this, the fact that the Hunter family's peasants and soldiers were not directly defeated is considered Richard's.
The army is well managed.
No wonder the lords of this world don't seem to care much about ordinary soldiers. To a certain extent, personal bravery is indeed much more important than the ancient battlefields of previous lives, not to mention that there are even more terrifying knights above these quasi-knights.
If more quasi-knights can be deployed in the team, Richard naturally does not want a group of ordinary soldiers to resist the quasi-knights on the opposite side. Unfortunately, the Will family's background is indeed stronger than that of the Hunter family. Ordinary elite soldiers can be trained in a few years, but
However, there is no way to mass-produce quasi-knights in a short time. Counting the three system swordsmen, in addition to two uncles and two cousins, Richard also has two quasi-knights who have been trained in recent years. There are no more than ten in total.
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The Will family has more than twenty quasi-knights named Will alone, plus the retainers and personal guards accumulated over generations, the Will family has nearly thirty quasi-knights, even though Viscount Will sent nearly ten
The quasi-knights charged into the battle with their bodyguards, and there were still twenty quasi-knights staying with Viscount Will waiting for an opportunity. It is no wonder that the Will family was confident enough to launch a war.
The system's spearmen continue to protect the archers and release cold arrows. This group of system archers' arrow skills are as accurate as cheating. It is not obvious during the opening salvo. In the melee, they can still attack the enemy accurately.
The would-be knights only show their superior skills by causing trouble.
In addition to Richard being dissatisfied with the current battlefield situation, Viscount Will was even more dissatisfied.
From Viscount Will's point of view, his side already has a numerical advantage. Once the quasi-knights press into battle, not to mention overwhelming them, they should take full advantage, instead of creating a balance of power like this.
"Control, control."
The cavalry from both sides failed to find an opportunity to break in after cruising around and testing, and finally returned to their own formations with a tacit understanding.
There is a shortage of horses in the Northland, or the horses in the Northland are concentrated in the hands of the Marquis Mansion of the Northland. The Will family can finally have hundreds of horses through generations of management, and Richard has collected some horses through high-priced purchases.
Pull up nearly a hundred cavalry.
The cavalrymen from both sides gathered around their respective commanders, staring silently at each other a few hundred steps apart. Suddenly, they raised their swords and burst into loud shouts.
No matter what the early calculations were, the key to victory or defeat in this battle finally rested on the Cavaliers.