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Chapter 9 Outpost

Of course, in addition to such a tragic so-called Highland militia holding a big stick, Scotland actually has some good military branches.

The Highland Swordsman held the legendary Scottish sword with both hands. According to no name, he had seen several Highland Swordsman training. The logs as thick as a bowl were in half after one sword. I guess the scene would be better when chopping people's heads on the battlefield.

Highland Axe soldiers are more brutal than Highland Swordsmen, and do not require stronger skills. They just need to slash hard after they are strong. Although the attack speed of the Highland Axe soldiers is slightly worse due to the weight of the axe.

The highland spearmen, William Wallace became famous back then because of the fact that these bunkers did not even wear a piece of leather armor, and the mountain people who took a long pole and went to the battlefield, formed a super spear square formation that directly defeated the feat of the "Iron Cavalry" in England. So, Egil used his brain: even such a tragic spear square formation could defeat the so-called "Iron Cavalry". Then, if the square formation soldiers of the bunkers in the Greek period were successfully cloned and copied, then...

Highland archers, so, people with insufficient strength really cannot get crossbows - and Highlanders seem to have no intersection with longbows. Therefore, the equipment in the hands of Highland archers is similar to that of Nordic archers - they just don't have defensive armor like helmet chain armor, and melee weapons like excellent hand axes.

After looking at this, although the Scottish troops were a little bit rustic, their combat effectiveness was still considerable. But this number... is really a little worse - no, it should be said that it is more than a little worse.

After the Battle of Hadrian's Great Wall, and the group of Scottish regular troops transported to the country to the front, the total was only 3,000. This was Wallace's heart. It was not that easy to cheat.

The three-nation coalition forces totaled more than 50,000, and the regular army exceeded 60% of them. The dwarf infantry in the bunkers and the Viking warriors recruited like Egil were much stronger than the regular army of ordinary countries. After a while, the actual combat capability of these 50,000 troops was much higher than that of the 50,000 people in the general sense.

Although their opponent, the English, was also a 50,000 army in number, had a little more water. According to preliminary statistics from spies, more than 80,000 army in England were temporarily recruited and mobs supported by local nobles. The real regular army was definitely no more than 10,000.

So, based on your strength, you will win.

But who knows the final result?

Eventually, as the two armies got closer, the battle between the rangers of the two armies became more and more intense.

Which one is stronger, the English Hobira Rangers or the Norwegian Patrol Cavalry?

The answer is that neither of them is strong.

So, such a problem does not matter at all. For Egil, the light cavalry, such as the patrol cavalry, who helped her a lot in the early stage, was completely out of date, useless, outdated, and tragic.

He could no longer tolerate these light cavalry with weak combat power - he could not equip the bows and arrows, sabers and shields, and he could not equip the heavier armor than the hard leather armor. This is a complete tragedy for you.

In Egil's understanding, the light cavalry should be the kind of man who comes and goes like the wind, can cut and shoot from far and near. It's nothing if it's a little weak in defense. However, the mobility and attack power must be strong, and it must be a bunker. This is the only way.

So, the patrol cavalry, Egil is ready to abandon it.

For a soldier that was outdated and useless, it was almost labeled as a waste. Egil would naturally not be too polite to use. Before the war began, a total of 500 patrol cavalry were thrown out by Egil, exploring the way, stepping on traps, and fighting with the opponent's Hobira Rangers. This made the other two guys who had no cavalry at all.

Things that I don't have must be good - under such a strange mind, two guys who are completely out of the way of cavalry subconsciously treat the patrol cavalry as a powerful group of troops. Seeing that two patrol cavalry under Egil died today and two tomorrow, I felt embarrassed.

Especially William Wallace - after Egil gave up Newcastle Castle without any conditions at all, Wallace had equated the four words Egil and the selflessness. After seeing Egil's actions as a way to clean up garbage, he could not find any other adjectives except to be moved.

So, at the next routine meeting, Egil raised it as if nothing had happened: Oh, the current situation is a little bit subtle. The armies of our three families are not subordinate to each other, and it seems very bad if they fight like this. Should we choose a supreme commander?

In this way, after that, Wald and Wallace followed suit and let Egil be the commander-in-chief.

"Uh? Isn't this good, right?" Egil opened his eyes wide in surprise and said afterwards.

"No, no, no, that's great." The very honest Dwarf King and the Scottish Marshal said quickly, shaking their arms.

In this way, Egil became the commander of this army of more than 50,000 people at least nominally.

On the fourth day of the army's march - overcoming the heat, mosquito bites, and various road conditions that were extremely bad - the road that barely could walk, stone slabs and other grass had grown half a man tall, was actually built during the Roman Empire's rule. It has been hundreds of years now - these damn barbarians on the British Isles did not have any sense of maintenance - in short, after this, the Three Kingdoms finally arrived at the outskirts of York City. From York City, this sad city that was about to be broken twice within a month was only less than twenty miles away.

Speaking of which, Emperor Alfred was indeed not an extraordinary tactician. When he was commanding in front of the battlefield, he was at a medium level - but his theory and knowledge level were quite high. He had long explored the terrain outside York City and made accurate judgments. He set up levels where the Three Kingdoms coalition was preparing to pass, and arranged hundreds of defenders to defend this place to block the coalition's attack and delay the enemy's speed.

However, such a temporary camp is a little too simple...

Egil still thought without any moral integrity, climbed to a small hill opposite, holding the other two commanders in his hand, Wald and Wallace, looking at the camp opposite.

"Well, um..." Egil looked at the other party's typical medieval style of dirty and messy, and even the illegal buildings in later generations were not as good as the camp plate - it didn't look like it could be occupied at all. It was as scattered as the same kind of tricks as the East and the guards were very strict, and some of the bunkers even had some formations that could not match.

As a result, the two people next to Egil - because the dwarfs themselves are just here to avenge, while Wallace is a grassroots class who is born in a mud-legged manner. Therefore, together with the three, Egil is the commander-in-chief of the coalition. Therefore, since he is the commander-in-chief, he must stand in the middle.

The two people next to him listened to him "yes" several times and turned their heads curiously, as if they wanted Egil to explain something.

"This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, but it is an excellent place to bury bones." As a result, Egil laughed and said such words - followed by a command of "Castial Charge!". The guards quickly blew the horns. The messages had already been received behind the army, and the equipment was picked out from the caravan in the reserve. The equipped improved tomahawks quickly attacked and rushed directly to the opposite camp.

It was completely effortless. Before the other party could react, the tomahawk cavalry had already rushed to the other party's camp. The tomahawk in his hand cut open the thin wooden boards that the other party had pieced together. Then, the war horses covered with heavy felt blankets hit hard and directly broke the gap. The tomahawk cavalry rushed in and slashed for a long time.

Less than two hours later, Alfred's mind "can stop the opponent for one to two days" became ruins. Egil also took the opportunity to show off the powerful combat power of his cavalry. The two infantry sequences of earthbows drooled.

Immediately afterwards, the coalition did not stop too much, and there was no spoil worth searching in this small village. After directly transforming it slightly and treating it as a foothold for one of its own, Egil ordered the entire army to continue moving forward.

"At least the suburbs of York City before evening," Egil ordered.

Immediately afterwards, on the road, the other two local buns ran to Egil and wanted him to talk about the cavalry - the dwarves were limited to race and could not develop cavalry, so they were just a little curious. However, Wallace was thinking of coming to learn from the scriptures - before, Scotland did not develop cavalry armed forces due to terrain and limited national strength. However, in this case, after the acquisition of Hadrian's Great Wall, Northumberland and Cumbria, two territories, the territory expanded and the strength became stronger, Wallace was also thinking whether he could support a group of cavalry.

Egil seemed to have no secrets at all, and took out all his experience in commanding cavalry warfare several times and shared it with Wald and Wallace.
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