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Chapter IX The Battle of Krakow Second, a large-scale cavalry battle

Artoria's move was very dangerous. It directly disrupted the overall layout of His Royal Highness Princess. And with all his strength, the Second Hussar Legion, three garrison legions, and the 500 Hussar Battalion, totaling 5,500 elite cavalry, all led by the veteran general Qi Teng. With each 500 cavalry battalion as a unit, 11 cavalry battalions were arranged in five rows of square formations. The front row of melee Hussars wielded reformed, which was more suitable for chopping and lighter sabers, and the rear row of light archers blew the bow and arrow. The smoke and dust rolled all the way, and rushed towards the right wing of the coalition forces, that is, the left wing of His Royal Highness Princess.

But Artoria also knew that the other side had a large number of cavalry in the coalition, the Cossack light cavalry and the grassland nomadic cavalry combined with more than 20,000, which were from the Fengjian lords and the grassland nomadic noble tribes, the Eastern Roman lancers, the princess' private soldiers, and the heavy cavalry also had more than 2,000. Such a huge number would be a loss if you simply attacked with Hussars.

So in addition, all the elite Celtic cavalry under the Artorian Association were taken out, including one thousand Celtic heavy cavalry and five hundred Celtic knights. The training methods of these heavy cavalry were exactly the same as their counterparts in Norman. Moreover, under the financial situation of the British Empire, the defects of insufficient equipment were compensated. The heavy cavalry were wearing heavy chain armor and light leather armor, while the knights used composite armor on the chain armor, and all the war horses were wearing chain armor and horse felt. They wore green-bottomed red dragon emblem coats representing Britain.

The knights and cavalrymen yelled wildly: "For Britain, Queen Artoria and Emperor Egil!" Such slogans also launched an attack on the enemy's right wing in a band-like charge.

In addition to these Celtic heavy cavalry that are exactly the same as the Norman Heavy Cavalry, there are even more large numbers of Celtic troops, with more than 2,000 special cavalry who are not armed and holding heavy cavalry. They are called light cavalrymen. They use the attack method of heavy cavalry and strong charge to attack the enemy. They are just not resistant to melee combat because of their poor armor. In addition, each of these cavalrymen is equipped with two javelins. They can be used to project attacks, or as hand-to-hand combat when necessary.

Artoria did not send these two thousand cavalry to the battlefield, but kept them as a reserve team. She hoped to give her something ruthless at a critical moment.

"It's so fast!" At this moment, Princess Liliannu was a little lost and panicked. However, the cavalry on the right wing didn't care about so many. The grassland men dared to think and do it, and their brains were simple. Seeing the enemy rushing over, there was no other way. They roared like a wolf howl, and rushed over with a sabre.

"Cossack, move forward!" Pugachev shouted, and rushed towards the Norman cavalry first. At this moment, this guy no longer had the calmness he had when he was deploying troops. He had forgotten all the spears and arrows in the back of his mind. The fast horse, strong bow, scimitar, like the moon - this is the romance of a man!

The light cavalrymen, from Cossacks, Tatars, Kumans, Turks, Lithuanians, Huns, Magyars... The cavalrymen from various tribes of the grassland were roaring wildly, and rushed towards the Norman Hussars at the fastest speed with the usual tactics used by the light cavalry and the scattered array!

Looking from a distance and from above, there are two large areas of smoke and dust. The sword light is fierce and kind, and listening with my ears, countless shouts and killing sounds, horse hooves - tens of thousands of light and heavy cavalry wars started a war on this land! It is not a hundred, one thousand, or a few thousand, but tens of thousands of cavalry clusters that can’t be seen at a glance!!! The war of huge cavalry clusters is almost unique in the entire Europe. This is a grand occasion that can only appear in Eastern Europe, such a rich water and grass and many nomadic people!!!

The battle started with a climax. The Norman Cavalry strictly arranged the array and charged forward in a uniform square array. The nomadic cavalry of the coalition forces was scattered very well. Relying on the number of numbers, they easily rushed to the flank of the Norman Hussars, hoping to defeat them with their advantage in formation. The two sides did not give in to each other. The Norman Light Archers set their bows and arrows and shot at the dense areas of the enemy cavalry. With the large buzzing sound like locusts, the nomadic cavalry screamed endlessly. However, because they did not have any armor and equipment on their bodies, they were shot by the short compound bows on the hands of the light Archers, and suffered heavy losses.

The archers on both sides fired in a volley, but the Normans did not take advantage as usual - the Cossack archers who were circumventing from beside them attacked their flanks fiercely. Although the Cossack archers who used the special wolf-toothed arrows were not as strong as the light archers in terms of bow strength, there was not much difference in attack power! After all, whether it was melee Hussar or light archers, they were just light archers equipped with leather armor. Although their defense was much better than ordinary light archers, they were still easily damaged.

It was as if they had cut a layer with a knife, and the two rows of cavalry on the west side fell down a large area in one go, just like cutting wheat.

"Flank, turn, rush over!"

In the first round, the coalition took advantage of the number and formation advantages. However, the Norman Hussars were a steel division with many battles and professional training. It was impossible for them to bow their heads and admit defeat because of such a little setback. The four cavalry battalions on the flank quickly turned their horses and adjusted the formation at an extremely fast speed. Then they rushed towards the enemy on the west side.

This is the advantage of the light cavalry unit compiled by the editor, which can adjust its own formation very quickly and flexibly to achieve corresponding goals.

"Kill them, kill them!!"

The Hussars launched a charge towards the enemy cavalry with red eyes. The densely arranged cluster charge, the uniform posture, the discipline and training degree were impossible to achieve by the nomadic cavalry on the grassland, and even unimaginable. Even the Cossack light cavalry, which were the best equipped and most like regular troops, was still not enough to compete against the Norman Hussars.

The Cossacks did not have an advantage in equestrian and sword skills - the Hussacs, who also came from the nomadic tribe of the grassland, also had these two specialties. In terms of organization, the Hussacs, who were arranged in dense arrays, cooperated without interruption, and often had two to three people against one of the Cossacks in local battles. Therefore, they had the advantage. The cavalry were extremely smooth, and like an unstoppable mountain torrent, they penetrated into the Cossacks array. They waved their sabers and cut off countless arms and heads!

Just a meeting - all the points lost during riding and shooting were found to be made up! The Normans, like an iron wall, broke the nomadic cavalry's front very smoothly, as simple as using the sharpest saber to cut butter. The blockers were invincible!

On the other side, the nomadic cavalry from other tribes also suffered heavy damage. These guys who were worse than the Cossacks in terms of armed and organization performed naturally worse under the charge of the Norman Hussars. After the Norman Hussars rushed to a cavalry battalion in the front and drilled out nearly half of the opponent's formation, many nomadic cavalry were shattered and began to flee.

At this moment, Pugachev was mixed with emotion. He had long lost his previous confidence. Just now, he personally led a group of guards he had arrived, a group of soldiers who were also equipped with compound leather armor, holding the most brilliant blacksmith forged scimitars, and the best warriors. He led them to attack a Norman cavalry battalion from the flank. Then, the Shuangyi fell into a melee. Due to the sudden attack, the Norman Hussars cut the entire square into two sections, losing the power to continue charging forward.

Pugachev suddenly shouted excitedly, gathering more Cossack cavalry to fight with it. The entire cavalry battalion was immediately trapped in a siege. Pugachev personally came to the battlefield and fought with the Hussars with a long sword in his hand. He specially selected those Hussar officers dressed in the leather of the precious lion, bear, tiger and leopard to fight. The sword in his hand was like a living thing, and there was no one in his hand!

"Hahahaha... Kill! Kill them! Kill these damn Normans! Cossacks, no one can enslave us, no one can force us to bow our heads, absolutely nothing!!!"

Pugachev fought with a Hussar officer, and exchanged his life with a wound on his arm. Seeing the other party staring at him unwillingly, blood rolled out, flowing down the blade to his arm, and then fell off the horse with a "thump". He walked forward and stomped the other party's body into pieces with his horse's hooves. Then he roared like this while asking the followers to bandage him.

The Cossacks next to them heard the voice of their leaders and roared like a wolf. The Cossacks beside them also howled wolves - the entire grassland suddenly sounded wolves - In this way, the Cossacks achieved the greatest result since the war started! They invested at least 3,000 people, and eventually nearly 800 casualties were killed and killed, and annihilated a cavalry battalion of Norman!
Chapter completed!
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