"What happened the next day... Before I received the news from the Italian coalition, Egil made the most of his plan. After contacting the French army again, Egil decisively ordered a 140,000 army to go south to meet the Northern Italian army.

It’s not that Egil is really concerned about the life and death of the Northern Italian merchants. Instead, if one of his troops is really defeated, Egil is a little unbearable. However, Egil has a little thought, and the other party must have a spy intelligence network, right? There must be some? Otherwise, why would he directly choose the weakest Italian army among the three armies? The army composed of merchants, small citizens, and mob pilgrims will probably be defeated in two seconds.

Of course, things weren't as bad as Egil thought.

Although the Northern Italian coalition is a coward who dares not fight to the death, it also depends on when. The merchants dare to sell Jesus Christ for the sake of benefit. Fighting hardship is naturally no problem. Now, the entire Eastern Mediterranean trade, due to the defeat of the Venetian and Genoa naval navals, has almost been taken over by the Eastern Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire has made a fortune by making money with its monopoly in trade. However, due to trade blockades, many of the city-states in Northern Italy have committed suicide by jumping into the Mediterranean.

So, it is hard to say that the bitterness and hatred of Renaya, Venice, Bologna, and the Pope, not to mention that others are just for money, or for life, and killing Rome.

In this case, there is an open terrain four hundred kilometers away from Budapest.

The 50,000 Northern Italy and the Crusaders all had their eyes red when facing the Greek heresy army. Their posture was not much different from the bulls. Then, after the coalition forces rested for a day and were strictly guarding the camp and guarding against the opponent's disturbance, the next day, they ignored the fact that their army was only one-quarter or even one-fifth of the opponent's army, and such a huge amount of material, they took the initiative to attack.

To be honest, the Greek army did not expect the fact that the Northern Italian army was taking the lead in attacking. Almost everyone believed that the other party was just a lamb to be slaughtered. They would only shrank in their own camp and shivered.

Later, it was killed without any suspense by the great Eastern Roman army.

But the fact is the fact. The coalition not only took the initiative to attack, but also had a very fierce offensive. A total of 1,500 Italian heavy cavalry were equipped with composite armor, horse chain armor and horse felt, these heavy equipment, and the best war horses that merchants could get from Hungary, from Bolan Lithuania, and from Arabia. These cavalry were the essence of the Italian army, the strongest and sharpest spearheads, and most of them came from wealthy merchant families and aristocratic classes. The 1,500 heavy cavalry were just comparable to the Greek Iron Armored Paladin.

Except for weapons.

Seeing the Italian heavy cavalry swarming, the Greek army was in amazement. In the end, Basil II was still under the prestige. Seeing that the enemy was not good, the heavy infantry formation in the East Rome quickly sent three armoured paladins to dispatch.

The repeated hard battles, especially in the past few days, were as damaged as the time of the Holy Roman Liao army. The cavalry, which was originally composed of five regiments and more than 5,000 cavalry, is now only more than 4,600. The three regiments are more than 2,800 cavalry than the Italian army. At the same time, the three regiments attacked three sides. At the same time, the charge of the Italian heavy cavalry on both sides of the wings, stopped the charge of the Italian heavy cavalry.

Afterwards, the double convenience began a fierce battle between Ran.

It has been said before that the Italian heavy cavalry is not inferior to the Greeks' armored paladins in terms of impact, morale, and defensive equipment. Although the discipline and training are slightly worse, the difference is not much. What really decides is still weapons and equipment. After a round of cavalry and rifles collided with each other, the knights in the first row of both sides died. The howlings of the knights and war horses were endless. Then the knights in the second row were a little slower, and they were going to challenge riding and rifle skills.

In a very short period of time, adjust the angle of the rifle in your hand and pick the opponent, and avoid the rifle of the opponent, or block with the shield in your hand.

Of course, the shield will then break, and if you are in the wrong posture, the same will be true with your left hand. At this time, you can see that the gap between the two sides is coming. The training level of the Italian heavy cavalry is obviously not as good as that of the Iron Armored Paladin. There are heavy casualties in this process.

Next, the cavalry of both sides were basically entangled. It was very difficult to charge again and was easily chased by the enemy. Therefore, the cavalry of both sides abandoned their cavalry and did not use them, and they drew out their sub-weapons to start fighting.

This is what I said before, the gap in weapons.

Knights in the East like to use long swords as their secondary weapons. In fact, long swords are not as practical as scimitars when slashing cavalry. The armor-breaking ability is not as easy as heavy weapons such as battle axes, armor-breaking hammers, maces, and flails. Although the knight's practical swordsmanship has been widely circulated for a long time, and practical knight shaking tactics such as shamans can also effectively kill the opponent, but the same thing is said, it is too difficult to stab the opponent with a one-meter-two-meter-two-meter-two-meter-two-digit long sword. Only a few elite knights can complete this well.

In fact, the Italian heavy cavalry adhered to the pragmatism of merchants and used weapons not long swords, but wide-blade swords with thicker blades, larger swords, and more suitable for chopping. Therefore, compared to ordinary knights, it is still a little cheaper to touch.

But compared to the maces of the Iron Paladin, it is still a little bit tragic.

No, it should be said to be very tragic.

In terms of quantity, weapons and equipment, or organization and training, they are not as good as the armored paladins. Therefore, there is nothing else in the Italian heavy cavalry that can describe these guys well except tragedy.

However, even so, such an ending still cannot satisfy Basil II. Because under the desperate resistance of the Italian heavy cavalry, the losses of the armored paladins were also huge.

Although the visual inspection of the past is not very accurate, it can also be seen that about three to four heavy cavalry will be killed in the battle, and the life of an iron-armored paladin will be exchanged for each time.

"Detective archers and two regiments of guard cavalry, and the heavy cavalry of the Latin Legion were also dispatched." So Basil II continued to order.

This is the benefit of being a big family and having a big business. Look at the Italians on the opposite side who had only 1,500 cavalrymen. However, this time Basil II ordered that one archer and one legion of cavalry, two guards and two Latin mercenaries, a total of 14,000 light and heavy cavalry. Such a terrifying number has even exceeded the number of troops of ordinary small countries..................

"Cabinet! It's the Greek cavalry!!!" Seeing the opponent's cavalry swarming like a tide, the Italians felt like a small boat in the storm, and there was a possibility of overturning at any time.

However, as mentioned before, money can burn people's courage. In such adversity, merchants and citizens roared wildly as Italian elite spear militias, as well as militias of other levels, closely arranged together to form a solid shield wall. Behind them, heavy giant shield crossbowmen from Renaya, Bologna, and Venetian, pulled their bows and stormed their lives. Venetian archers who used oriental-style compound bows to shoot the special rockets coated with tinder oil were shot out. The dense arrows formed a fire net in the sky, shooting a large number of Greek cavalry.

However, then, the Sesian archers from Asia Minor and the newly formed Vadatari archers from Hungary also opened their compound bows in their hands and began to shoot. The rain of arrows quickly overshadowed the long-range attack of the Italian coalition. At the same time, several gaps were torn open to the Italian formation.

After that, heavy cavalry in scales, guard cavalry in two regiments, and Latin cavalry in heavy chain armor rushed towards the Italian army.

"It's over!" some Italians shouted in despair.

However, at this moment, a crazy roar broke out among the coalition forces: "Charge! For the glory of the Lord Christ!!!"

Immediately afterwards, those pilgrimage groups who were originally looked down upon by Italian soldiers and were ridiculed as serfs, dirty mud, and maggot-like creatures shouted slogans frantically, waving the oak sticks in their hands, big wooden crosses, daggers, daggers, daggers, and even other rough and simple weapons, rushed towards the speeding cavalry in a fanatical and even twisted manner. They fought the Greeks' iron armored heavy cavalry with their flesh and blood head-on! They were crushed, kicked, smashed, and pierced! However, they were still crazy, fanatical, extreme and endless!
Chapter completed!