The reason why Xin Ergier wanted to arrange his army to defend and counterattack like this was because he was also a little afraid of the opponent's cavalry. Although at this moment, Eigeer obtained a lot of land in Bo Melania, and Prussia and Livornia also opened up many new fields, which could supplement and expand his Royal Knights, recruit more heavy cavalry and more other troops. However, the distance cannot quench the near thirst. If these troops want to go south and participate in this battle, even if they advance together on land and land, they will have to go as soon as three months. Eigeer really can't wait.

Since I couldn't wait for this batch of reinforcements, Egil calculated the number of cavalry under his command, including light cavalry and heavy cavalry, and there were only four thousand regular cavalry. Among the temporarily recruited troops, there were some informal horse militias, feudal knights and knight entourages. But the total number of cavalry in the French army should be between one thousand and two thousand. In other words, the entire coalition army's 190,000 army sounded very scary. But if you count carefully, the number of cavalry was only seven or eight thousand. The heavy cavalry was about three thousand.

However, in fact, Egil also has a cavalry unit. In recent times, the Hungarian Rangers selected from various Hungarian nomadic tribes. The total number of these Rangers is about 5,000. However, the equipment is slightly worse. Except for a small number of wealthy heads, there are almost no armor. The weapons and equipment are not very strong. There are no shields in melee combat, only scimitars, and long-range uses horn bows with insufficient range and power, rather than short composite bows with archers and cavalry weapons.

But it's better than nothing.

Let’s look at the Greeks on the other side. Although there were many losses in the war with the Italians before, they were even 20,000 less than the coalition forces in terms of overall number, they could not stand up to more cavalry. The armored paladins suffered repeated fierce battles, but there were more than 3,000 left in the five thousand cavalry.

The guard cavalry legion is even more amazing. Ten thousand guards heavy cavalry lost little in the previous wars, and there were still more than 8,000 cavalry left. The Eastern Roman lances of each legion were also 4,000 to 5,000. To put it bluntly, the Latin cavalry of the Latin legion was severely damaged in the previous wars, but there were nearly 1,000 cavalry left.

The pagan cavalry from Asia Minor, Crimea and even North Africa are almost the same as the number of new Hungarian Vadarel archers is similar to that of Egir's Hungarian Rangers. But they are all equipped with better equipment from the new masters, detailed chain-armored composite bows, round cavalry shields and more sophisticated scimitars. The commanders' scimitars are even inlaid with gems of different sizes. The scabbards are complicated and look more like works of art than weapons.

In other words, the Greeks had a total of 20,000 cavalry, and the heavy cavalry was about 16,000, which was five times that of Egil.

Five times...

What a horrible number...

That's it. Egil hopes to use defensive counterattacks to destroy the opponent's cavalry strength with a solid infantry line and further counterattacks.

Of course, there was a last small link in Egil's strategy before, that was what I said before, on the far left, the only high ground on the battlefield.

"Charge! Seize that highland! Then guard it! Reinforcements will arrive soon!" This was the order issued by Egil to his light cavalry on the left wing. A total of more than 3,000 professional cavalrymen and Finnish light cavalry rushed towards the nameless highland. At the same time, Basil II issued a similar order on the opposite side.

"Snatch up there! Then use this as a springboard to charge or shoot quickly, archers!" So, the total of about 7,000 archers under the opponent's command were divided into half and rushed towards the nameless high ground.

"Kill those gangsters!"

Afterwards, the light cavalry on both sides seemed to be the same, and suddenly turned their horse's head and rushed towards the other side.

Once you seize the high ground, you need to defeat your opponent, then you will charge towards the opponent while the high ground is charging in the opposite direction.

In this way, under such logic, the light cavalry on both sides made the same choice! Kill all the enemies! Let’s talk about other things later!

Such a change was naturally very surprised in the eyes of the commanders on both sides, but the cavalry in the front row, whose eyes were already bloodshot, could not care about so many. They set their bows and arrows. Then they let go, and there was a buzzing sound that made people fight. The double-anti-light cavalry, like locust arrows, each shot at a volley. Then they heard the screams. Some of them were shot to death, fell to the ground, and some of them were still hung in stirrups and dragged all the way.

Of course, they are not the worst ones. The soldiers who were shot and then fell to the ground.

For light cavalry, speed is life! No one will reduce speed in order to aid friendly forces on the ground. This is a battlefield, a cruel battlefield!

The soldiers who fell to the ground were trampled by thousands of horses and were trampled into pieces. The most painful and tragic screams came from their mouths.

Both sides' troops were shocked. The first drop of blood from this battle had already flowed down. Remind the soldiers on both sides that this was the battlefield.

At this moment, the Greek light cavalry on the opposite side was preparing for the second round of shooting, but unexpectedly, in the Norman army on the opposite side, the Finnish light cavalry began to sprint with all their might. These cavalry who are not proficient in cavalry skills are one of the tactics of mixed light cavalry!

The speed will inevitably be reduced when riding and shooting, but it is impossible to draw the sword when halfway through the action of pulling the bow and arrow! Even if you throw the bow and arrow in a hurry and then draw the sword out of the sheath, it will not be too late to block the opponent's Cecia Cavalry and Vadarel Cavalry for granted, and regard the Norman Light Cavalry tactics as yourself. Both sides will shoot two rounds of feather arrows quickly before charging, but they did not expect that the other party would charge suddenly at this time!

In a hurry, the Greek light cavalry didn't care about aiming anymore, and even couldn't pull the bowstring completely, so they shot arrows directly at the Finnish light cavalry that rushed in. The power of such feather arrows is imagined. Some Finnish light cavalry who were not hit by the vital points, even with several arrow shafts on their bodies, as if nothing had happened! The stinging feeling even further the fierceness of these northern cavalry!

At the same time, behind the Finnish light cavalry, the professional cavalry opened their bows, adjusted the angle, and shot the feather arrows out. The feather arrow track was arc-shaped and overturned the heads of the Finnish light cavalry in front, landing from above the Greeks. At the first moment, he gave these barbarian light cavalry who didn't like to wear helmets an unforgettable lesson!

After the second round of feather arrows weakened the enemy's formation again, they wore light leather armor and ship-shaped steel helmets. The scimitar in their hands shone with a shiny cold light and looked extremely ferocious, like an evil ghost. The Norman improved war horse under their crotch was originally a little faster than the average war horse. In addition, they sprinted to the front of the two armies with all their might, but after a few breaths, they arrived in front of them, and then they took the sword and fell down, and the heads fell one by one. The Greek light cavalry was killed and the front formation almost collapsed!

In this way, in the first round of confrontation, during the battle between the light cavalry of both sides, the Normans used a little trick to gain the upper hand. The Finnish light cavalry did not hesitate and continued to penetrate the opponent's array quickly. At the same time, behind them, the professional cavalry also gave up their bows and arrows, drew their scimitars and started charging!

It was like two steel sieves entangled together! The light cavalry on both sides intertwined each other, waving long swords in their hands, blocking, dodging, and killing the enemy! Thousands of cavalry on the two armies killed each other in the enemy array. One was not bad, and the other was quite a lot. When they turned the horse's head, they saw that there was a layer of corpses of people and horses on the ground where both sides were charging, and they were covered with blood and blood.

It makes people feel frightened. In one round! Nearly half of their troops were lost on both sides! The strong smell of blood was disgusting.

However, the light cavalry, all of them from the nomadic tribe, were not afraid at all. They shouted excitedly, saying that they had killed several enemies just now. Some of the cavalry with superb equestrians and agility even took the enemy's heads and hung their hair on their saddles, showing off their military achievements.

"Continue! Keep! Kill them all!!"

With the fanatical roars of the leaders or officers of both sides, the second round began, "These nomadic barbarians." Egil put down the monocular lens in his hand and muttered a little helplessly. Speaking of which, Egil did rely on the strong combat power of these nomadic people. But in his heart, he was also uneasy about their barbaric and bloodthirsty. All civilizations may have similar thoughts when using barbarian mercenaries.

Standing on the observation tower that had been built in the first fifteen days, Egil turned his attention to the front battlefield again. Then he suddenly became solemn: "The whole army is on guard! The heavy Greek cavalry are coming! The crossbowmen are ready to shoot!"

As the conflict broke out between the light cavalry on the leftmost wing of both sides broke out, the heavy cavalry of the Greeks on the opposite side also stole the heavy sound of hooves, shocking the earth and appeared in front of the coalition forces. The first charge,

The Greeks took out nearly 10,000 heavy cavalrymen, and Yi defeated the coalition forces in one fell swoop!

"Try your best and use all your strength to solve them from the beginning! Never give them a chance to fight back!!" Basil II also stood on the tower he built before, shouting at the top of his lungs...

At this moment, the Norman crossbow soldiers standing at the forefront of the coalition were highly nervous. The crossbows in their hands had been pulled apart. With the sound of "Karakera", crossbows with fine iron arrows were raised, and powerful crossbows were raised flat and aimed at the front.
Chapter completed!