When the sky was a little brighter, the drizzle had already started to fall. Therefore, it had a little impact on the large number of Norman crossbow troops under Egil. Looking at the sky, Egil estimated that the rain would get heavier over time - but from another perspective, this rain was even more a disaster for the Lithuanians who had relied on their archers. The damage to them should be much greater than that of themselves.

After thinking about this a little, Egil felt balanced. He murmured in a low voice: "Well, yes, after all, it's a little fair, although it's a war."

So the war officially began.

Egil made an agreement with the girls in the house that they would go back within two hours. So they had to work extra hard. So at the beginning, the Norman army began a total attack, with a total of 70,000 troops divided into three routes, with 30,000 troops arranged on the front and 20,000 troops arranged on both sides to attack.[]

Although Egil hopes to fight quickly, but think about it again, this is also a good opportunity to train troops. The effect of one's own military reform can be reflected in this war. Therefore, although a wave of cavalry can completely defeat the opponent. However, Egil still chose a more accurate, standard, or more troublesome general array.

The three crossbowmen were in front, and the square formation formed by Norman infantry and Norman assault infantry formed three lines, while the longbowmen were interspersed between the second and first formations, and the heavy cavalry and light cavalry formations were scattered on both wings - a standard combat formation. It was fancy, clear intent, simple, and highly versatile.

At the end, the last array was formed by Norman's Imperial Guards, just like a reduced main array. The Imperial Guard heavy infantry formed four 500-man square formations, while the Imperial Guard assault infantry and the Imperial Guard super-length spearmen formed a five-array of 200 people wide, with a total of 500 assault infantry deployed in it. The other 500 were deployed on the wings of the phalanx, with the Imperial Guards interspersed among them, and the Imperial Guards deployed the two wings of the infantry. Of course, in fact, Egil did not have the idea of ​​this army going forward to fight. They were the general reserve team and the final reserve team, and the final and most reliable force to lay the victory or save the situation at the most critical moment.

And in this war with the Lithuanians, Egir could not see any need for them at all.

Immediately afterwards, in the solemn atmosphere, in the drizzle, Egil, who was standing on the watchtower, waved, and then the ten guard knights beside him began to blow the trumpet. Long-lasting syllables that blow out the entire breath of his lungs. Then forty guard knights deployed around the watchtower, front, back, left and right, and slightly farther away, also began to blow the trumpeter. Then twenty-five guard knights deployed on the left and right wings of the army...

A total of one hundred guard knights sounded the trumpet, with only one long syllable and one meaning - a full-scale attack.

With such a sound, the weak Norman army surrounded by only more than 10,000 people on three sides began to advance. The Lithuanians on the opposite side looked as if they were ashen. Seeing the other party taking uniform steps, the square formations were moving forward like tofu pieces cut by a knife. And these tens of thousands of troops, coupled with the fact that the sun was cloudy and the light was not good, could not see too far in advance. The 70,000 troops surrounded by three sides looked like endless. The Lithuanians felt extremely heartbroken. Many Lithuanians subconsciously wanted to retreat. The formation became a little messy in an instant.

"Stay! They don't seem to have so many people! They are just bluffing! Stay stable! Only by staying stable can they survive!!!" Lithuanian Grand Duke Vitath shouted at the top of his lungs - although it was already a dead end. It was very difficult to make such a hero admit defeat. Until now, Vitath still believes that he has the ability to resist the attack of the Norman army.

However, not many Lithuanians believed in the shouts of Vitautas. After all, people would rather believe in their eyes. And their eyes told them that the Norman army was huge and could not see at first sight. In this way, what Vitautas said was 80% like the middle-aged man who was pressing the little loli on the wall, wearing sunglasses and drooling naked on the upper body and drooling, saying, "Don't be afraid, uncle is a good person." The credibility is quite low.

But maybe it was to comfort yourself and encourage yourself. After Vitautas shouted like this, the other Lithuanians also shouted to each other: "They are not many! They just pretend to look a lot! Don't be afraid!!" In this way, they used a method similar to self-hypnosis to relieve themselves.

Seeing the army gradually stabilized, Vitautas breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought: "It would be great if you can hold on to one battle. At that time, the Slavs who are still in a wait-and-see state and those Cossack refugees will see the Normans. At that time, when the two countries join the war, my situation will be much easier."

After hypnotizing himself like this, Vitautas cheered up again: "Lithuanians! Get up!!"

At this moment, those who were still willing to follow Vitaus, either his confidants, or they had determined Vitaus's minds, or they were just a guy who had a grudge against the Norman Empire. These people originally wanted to meet with the Norman Empire. Although their morale was a little weak and they were scared by the terrifying number of the Norman army. However, after Vitaus' voice spread to hundreds, hundreds of thousands, and thousands of thousands... After this spread throughout the entire army, the Lithuanians also roared in order to encourage themselves and dissipate their fear.

Tens of thousands of Lithuanians were yelling loudly, while the Norman army was silent, still slowly, orderly, and leisurely moving forward. Such a scene was like a mouse with teeth and claws provoking towards a cat lying on the ground. It made people feel a little funny.

However, no matter what, the morale of the Lithuanians was slightly boosted and gradually they became determined to resist. Even the Normans' silence was misunderstood by the other party for fear. Some of the optimistic Lithuanians laughed out loud.

"The Norman Empire, but that's it-"

However, immediately afterwards, they couldn't laugh after just a moment.

The overwhelming bows and crossbows, like storms, shot towards the Lithuanians. It was the result of the joint efforts of the six thousand long bowmen and four thousand crossbowmen. A total of ten thousand projectors held strong bows and hard crossbows with good shooting range and good lethality, continuously firing arrows towards the Lithuanians' positions. The Lithuanians suffered heavy losses in surprise.

"Their range - why is it so far?!"

The range of the Norman army's longbow and strong crossbow was at least 15 times that of the Lithuanians. The lethality of the Norman projection troops was indeed reduced a little at such a long distance. However, facing the Lithuanians, such a half-toned army was enough.

Lithuanians rarely wear armor, and not even wear large shields. Most of the Lithuanian army was temporarily recruited, with peasant soldiers with all kinds of messy weapons. The most common ones in regular troops were short spearmen holding spears in both hands. They even formed a shield wall to defend against arrow rain. And a small number of shields can only protect a small round shield that is better than nothing. Large shields are like tower shields, kite-shaped shields, zither-shaped shields and other shields, which are equipped with only a very small number of mercenaries or professional warriors.

Therefore, under this rain of arrows, the Lithuanians suffered heavy losses. Among Norman's 10,000 projection troops, the longbowmen pulled their bows fifteen times in a row and shot 90,000 light arrows - because it was too wasteful to use armor-breaking arrows. The giant shield crossbowmen were wound on average five times and shot 20,000 crossbow arrows. In the first round, the nearly massacre performance of the 10,000 projection troops was over. Look at the Lithuanian camp - the outermost circle of their straits, at least three thousand, or one-third to one-quarter of the army, died in this deadly rain.

When the Norman projection troops fired arrows, the people of Lithuania seemed to see hell. The sky was like endless arrows, and the screams of their comrades who were caught to the end. They could not tell the difference between the south, west, north, north, front, back, left and right - even if they were alive. When this nightmare finally stopped, there were a large number of people around them, like hedgehogs, all over their arrows, and corpses that were dying with their eyes closed...

The little morale that Lithuanians had just raised was like snow burning in the red furnace and soon disappeared.

The Norman army led the formation of the longbow and heavy crossbow, and taught the Lithuanians a lesson. Then the highlight knights charged - the Norman Knights equipped with heavy rifles, a full set of vests and full armor. The Norman Royal Knights formed attack sequences one by one, including a team of 100 people, fifty people in a row, and a two-character cross-formed cross-formation. This improved band-formation charge. The two wings on the front and the two wings on the two wings, a total of 3,000 heavy knights (according to the military reform regulations, it should be 4,000, but in fact it was only equipped with 3,000, and some unreformed Norman heavy cavalry) formed a thirty hundred-man formation. They took turns to attack the Lithuanian formation...
Chapter completed!