Chapter 18 The Battle of Bergen Part 3, Psychological Warfare
The battle situation suddenly changed, and a total of more than 3,000 well-equipped professional soldiers turned against each other, and the reaction was unexpectedly great - the right wing of the Earl of Felix's army was on the verge of collapse. Tomahawks and patrol cavalry protected the two wings, and the tough infantry line composed of Viking soldiers and Viking soldiers maintained the center. The Nordic archers and the rear formation composed of crossbow-holding militias were optionally shot, providing a little long-range attack. At the end, Egil himself was surrounded by two teams of 100 battlefield sects and twenty guard knights.
In the first round, under the attack of long-range crossbows and the flying axes of Viking soldiers and Viking soldiers, hundreds of recruited peasants on the right wing lay down. Then, with the shouts of the Viking soldiers and the war sects shouting: "Law!!!". Amid the shouts of such cries, the peasants on the right wing were like butter cut by a knife, and were broken in a flash. The earl commander next to Egil on the right wing was also chopped off by more than a dozen Viking soldiers.
"That shameless bastard, that bastard, that illegitimate son of Satan..." Earl Felix shouted and cursed, then pulled out his sword (it can be seen that this person is much more particular than Egil), then pointed straight into the sky and shouted: "Everyone, life and death, glory and wealth, let's see this day - God bless the brave!" This short sentence was threatened by life and death, tempted by wealth and benefit, and brainwashed by religion. It can be seen that Earl Felix's verbal skills are not overwhelming. In an instant, hundreds of Viking warriors around him were also rewarded with incentive effect. Roaring wildly, he rushed towards the right wing that was approaching the collapse.
At this moment, the entire battlefield was in chaos. On the left wing, the knights finally realized their mistakes. After turning over and dismounting, they formed a small formation with the knights and entourages around them. Because of their number advantage, they suppressed the left wing again. In the middle lane, the main troops of both sides fought desperately, and the bodies were piled up several layers - the soldiers on both sides continued to fight repeatedly in the sea of corpses and blood, as if they had completely forgotten everything around them, and only the enemy in front of them was left in their eyes.
On the right wing, the Biyad army led by Egil completely suppressed the right wing with a crushing attitude. At the same time, the army deployed by Olaf III on the left wing (our right wing is the enemy's left wing.) also reflected and pushed it over with it. Seeing that it could completely collapse the opponent's right wing front. Earl Felix rushed over with his last little capital, with a total of more than 500 Viking warriors.
This is also the first time that Egil's troops encountered an enemy that could be called an opponent in today's battle.
It was also this time that the first time that Egil's troops had casualties. Although the number of Felix's troops was only one-fifth of that of Egil's troops. However, their combat capabilities were quite strong. Everyone was wearing heavy chain armor, holding tomahawks and vulture shields. Their combat capabilities were even stronger than that of Egil's most common Viking warriors. After the Viking warriors cut the heavy chain armor, they could only cut out a very shallow wound. If they were not cut into a fatal position like their neck or head, they would not hurt at all. However, the double-edged battle axes in the hands of those Viking warriors could easily cut off the chain armor of Egil's troops. In this way, one went long and the other disappeared, and the situation on the right wing stabilized again.
"Damn it."
Egil hesitated for a while, but did not send his general guards to the front line again - after all, the last time he faced only thirty elite soldiers, and the rest were all broken - and this time, he was going to face hundreds of elite Viking warriors. If he didn't do it well, he would suffer heavy losses - even he might be chopped over by an axe and then go to hell.
"The army, disperse and surround." Under Egil's dispatch, the front battlefield was left with the two strongest Viking soldiers, a total of 600 (now missing personnel). The total of 6,800 Viking soldiers, a total of 1,800 Viking soldiers, bit by bit, asked the recruited peasant soldiers around them to leave, then detoured the two wings and the rear - in this way, surrounding the enemy, squeezing the enemy's range of activities bit by bit.
In this way, the troops were surrounded from all directions, and Felix's situation was not good.
Breakthrough? How to break through? There are enemies all around, and the thickness of the enemy's front is not thin. You can't break through at all - this is not the postmodern firearm era. Everyone plays scattered lines, and the army can break through by concentrating firepower. Everyone is crowded on the battlefield of cold weapons. The army barely formed a circular formation, which barely supported it. However, in this way, the only mobility disappeared. The next thing is failure.
Immediately afterwards, Nordic archers of two hundred men drew out rockets and roared at the Vikings who were besieged in the middle. The crossbow-holding militia also aimed at the sky at an angle of 45 degrees, and according to their feelings, they shot at the Vikings. These attacks were not powerful, and at most they could only reduce morale and cause small-scale chaos. The Vikings wore horn helmets, which were made of iron, were very strong.
"So, the Viking soldiers in the second row, Viking soldiers, are ready for flying axes." Egil ordered with a chuckling.
All Viking warriors and Viking soldiers obtained a flying axe after upgrading their flying axe skills. Let's calculate, use one when killing cavalry, and one when breaking through the right wing - indeed, there is another one now.
So, under the desperate eyes of the Viking warriors, thousands of flying axes rushed towards them like locusts.
"Rise the shield!!!" Felix shouted loudly at the top of his lungs. The role of such a dense formation was also shown - the Viking warriors squeezed in the middle only needed to lift the shield and protect the top of their heads, and basically had more than 80% chance of being completely defended.
"Damn it, forget this." Shield, this kind of process that makes simple and dysfunctional things really work at critical moments.
However, despite this, there were still some tricky flying axes that were successfully shot through the gap in the shield - after all, in such a short time, the Vikings could not achieve perfect cooperation in any case. After that, after a few muffled groans, I don’t know how many Vikings were killed because of this.
So the attack continued, and both sides tried their best to attack. At this time, both Oslo and Bergen, the commanders of both sides had already personally gone to the front line, and the command systems of both sides were completely paralyzed. Naturally, there was nothing to do with Egil's side - he worked alone from the beginning. Olaf III also didn't care - his dominance index was zero. However, Earl Felix was completely in a passive state this time. Fortunately, he appointed many deputy commanders before this. In this way, everyone fought alone and could barely work.
The battle continues to be stalemate.
The battle continues to develop.
The battle has entered a white-hot heat.
The day in March is still very short - it is even more obvious in high-latitude areas like Scandinavia. At this moment, five or six hours have passed since the war started, that is, five or six o'clock in the afternoon. The sky is almost completely dark. Most soldiers are exhausted after fighting for five or six hours like this. Moreover, most people in this era usually cannot eat any vegetables, lack of vitamin A, night blindness, etc. At night, they become blind.
Usually under such circumstances, the commanders of both sides should order a retreat - but at this time, the commanders of both sides were in trouble - Olaf III was already red in his eyes at this moment, and he swung a big wheel axe in his hand for several hours without feeling tired. Such physical fitness is truly admirable... And Earl Felix wanted to retreat. But was the question he retreated? The warriors of Biyad are all products of the system, and there is no saying that vitamins are not vitamins at all. Night battles are completely good-level - and look, today's moon is big and round, how could it be invisible?
In this way, Earl Felix's defense finally showed a direction of collapse - no matter how brave the Vikings were, they could not see anyone. They could only try their best to swing randomly with their axes. However, after several hours of fighting, how could they bear such physical troubles? In this way, in a short while, the Vikings fell nearly two hundred people, which was more than the combined results of the battles that had been fought for several hours before.
"Win...huh."
However, at this moment, a shout came from a distance: "Olaf III is dead! Surrender quickly!!" The sound was getting closer and closer, and it became louder and louder. After hearing this news, the army of Olaf III, who had been exhausted, was still persevering, except for a few Viking soldiers who were still loyal to each other, whether they were recruiting peasant soldiers or professional soldiers, all left their weapons, and turned around and fled like a headless fly.
"What?! Olaf III is dead?!" After hearing such a shout, Egil was stunned for a moment. He didn't really feel sorry for his cheap lord, and even wanted him to die mentally. However, he could die any time, but he couldn't die at this time! Then Egil took out his monocular lens and picked it up and looked forward. Olaf III's body was naturally invisible. However, the collapse of his own (tentative) army was really seen.
"Damn it." Seeing that his army was about to win, Egil was almost angry to death after all. Seeing that his subordinates also had a hesitation look on their faces, he knew that if this continued, if the enemy recovered, even if his three thousand troops could keep him safe, what's next? Do you really have to spend a year and a half of a lifetime of life-threatening soldiers as the system elves said?!
Egil could not accept it decisively.
Immediately afterwards, Egil came up with this idea: "Hurry up! Hurry up and shout with me! Just say Count Felix is dead!" Egil said to his guards in a low voice.
"Hey? But isn't he dead yet?" the guard knight asked in such a strange way.
Chapter completed!