Chapter 12 Therefore, the professionalization of the army is very important
Three Thousand Heavy Cavalry - although rounded up, the combat effectiveness is absolutely no discount. The large-scale cavalry clouds created by the cavalry do not only cover the super long spear square array in the middle, as well as the heavy infantry defense line on the left wing and the right wing.
Although the professional Viking warriors under Egil's command were extraordinary - after a round of flying axes, the opponent's heavy cavalry suffered heavy casualties. However, the cavalry was cavalry after all. The English knights with a strong spirit shouted the names of God, the Virgin, and King Alfred, and launched a desperate charge towards the heavy infantry array on both wings.
The first thing to be affected was the elite dwarf soldiers standing in the first row. Although they had tried their best to rely on their large shield, stretched out the two-meter-long heavy spear, and fixed the battle axe in their hand to the ground. The handle of the axe supported the shield and made a solid triangle-but this preparation was only a little stronger than the opponent's heavy spearmen.
Seeing the English Iron Cavalry hit the elite dwarf warriors with their shields. Then they stepped on them, and the sound of the shields being broken in their ears. The dwarf king Wald rolled his eyes and almost fainted. This is the most powerful force of their dwarfs. Less than a hundred died in the attack on Hadrian before, which made him feel distressed for a long time. Who would have thought that this time would lead to such a large casualty...
Immediately afterwards, Wald's eyes turned red, and directly took out the battle axe on his waist, and shouted and went down the bell tower. It seemed that he was going to go to the front-line battlefield to fight with the enemy.
Afterwards, Egil heard the gloating voice of the system elves: "You can open the system interface a little and see the battle situation. Something interesting happened."
"Oh?" Egil was a little strange and curious at the same time. So while listening to the system elves, he opened the system interface and found the combat status. When he looked at the attributes of his soldiers, he found some "interesting" things as the system elves said.
All Scottish units on their own side have changed their attribute columns, indicating that "influenced by the attributes of Scottish national heroes, morale +5, against England +3, against cavalry +3, affected by the attributes of infantry commander masters, attack power +2, intimidating the surrounding enemy."
The attribute columns of all dwarf units have also changed, indicating that "influenced by the orthodox dwarf king, morale +3, defense skills +1"
"What's going on?" Egil asked strangely.
"This is the so-called personal skill bonus. It is a skill unique to a special powerful commander. It can provide a very powerful bonus to your own soldiers - look at the attributes of the English again."
Therefore, the attributes of the English unit read "Influenced by the attributes of the English national heroes, morale +5, against Viking +3, influenced by the attributes of the wise ruler, morale +3, defense skills +1."
"This is Alfred's personal skill."
"...It's really, it's targeted - isn't this special code targeting me?! Also, why are the Scots and dwarves all have positive buffs, but only my army doesn't have one?!"
"Because they are not the supreme commander of this coalition. If the army is formed by several countries, the skill bonus of the deputy commander of a single country can only affect the soldiers of their own strength."
"In other words, I can't get the buff with a positive bonus now because I was the fault of being the head coach of the coalition?" Egil asked.
"That's right. That's it." The system elf said gloatingly.
...Okay, it's not an important thing - although on the battlefield, when the English Knights were fighting professional Viking warriors, they did not know why, but their combat effectiveness seemed a little higher, making the Viking Army, which was originally less combat effectiveness than the dwarf heavy infantry, even more casualties - but this is not a big deal, right?!
Egil wants to strangle the system elves at this moment. Why didn’t you say such an important thing about your sister earlier?!
But if you think about it a little more: this is actually nothing - Egil must get the position of the General Commander of the Alliance. This is related to various interests with N-Do N-Do. For example, after defeating the spoils - including the distribution of the entire English country, on the battlefield, Egil can also arrange troops according to his own ideas - and it seems that Egil himself has a command ability that is barely stronger, which is much higher than the other two guys... probably.
However, at this moment, the consequence of the English cavalry flowing was that the entire cavalry camp had lost its impact power - the width of the entire camp of the opposite coalition was much wider than the line composed of three thousand cavalry. In other words...
"The flanks, the decisive soldiers and the dwarfs of long-handled axe warriors were dispatched." After Egil gave such an order, thousands of heavy-handled axe warriors deployed on the flanks instantly moved the warriors who were wielding the long-handled axe. Although the impact force of these warriors who were not as perverted as heavy-handled cavalry, they were quite impressive. The sharp long-handled axe in their hands did have a certain effect on cavalry with a slightly higher position.
In addition, it is the wing charge. The wings, wings, wings, and wings - the wings are very important. If the wings are impacted by others, it will cause great damage to morale. Is it true that your sister's damage even greater if it is impacted?!
——Because it’s very difficult, bastard! Where do you get so many opportunities on the battlefield to make you hit the flank? Either because you have more people, you can arrange a wider line than the opponent. Therefore, you can double-team the two wings. Or you can use the legendary fast cavalry, circling and circling, and then you will reach the flank.
However, there is a slight problem here - if you have cavalry, do they not have one? If you want to attack the enemy's flanks, do they not want to attack yours?!
So the frequent consequence is that both cavalry that wanted to attack the opponent's flanks and launched a fire on the flanks. Then the frontal battlefield infantry continued to charge, and the cavalry on both sides launched an extremely harmonious and loving war against the cavalry, infantry against the infantry.
Of course, this is not the case now. After the English heavy cavalry failed to attack for a forced attack, some knights and entourages seemed to turn their horses' heads and rush again - but more knights had their eyes red, and they were silently chanting in their hearts such as God, human heads, God, human heads, celestial beings, pig heads..., even if you pull him, he will not go back.
One of the major drawbacks of the legendary knight - being too brave. In other words, putting personal honor on the so-called victory.
They are not afraid of death. They are really not afraid of death. In other words, they think it is better to die - 95% of deaths caused by fighting can go to heaven. How good is heaven. There are beauties and food and nothing to do. Just eat and sleep every day and eat when you are full. The special codes are all white bread! And in the mortal world, you can also leave a reputation for fighting bravely.
Of course, some knights who don’t want to die—but they still looked red and tried their best to cut and chop with long swords—because military merits are honor, honor is reputation, reputation is the envy, jealousy and hatred of others, the charming eyes of ladies and ladies, the praise of the lord, the knight medal, and the increase in territory... Of course, if you find it troublesome, you can convert these things into another noun, which is very simple. One word is money, two word hole square, three word Adu, and four word outside the body - so why do you need to see that heavy, knights.
In short, compared with professional cavalry like Egil and the National Knights, the traditional feudal knight tragedy, tragedy, and tragedy characteristics quickly appeared. One on the left of the status bar shouted and the other on the right charged, causing Emperor Alfred to be in trouble.
Seeing that the knights on their side had caused great casualties to the enemy, they were now besieged by the enemy's heavy infantry, and were already at a disadvantage. At this moment, at least 50% of the nobles in England were in the cavalry array in front. If they were all dead, England would be in a state of chaos and anarchy in an instant.
——Without serfs without their masters, distant relatives who want to steal inheritance, sons who are rushing to inherit the title—and illegitimate children, who are not willing to do anything to do, and then there is no need to fight this battle. Because these people will not care who is the one who decides England. Even if this land is called England in the future, they will not care too much. Change a king or a different mood, maybe it will be more interesting. Anyway, no matter who governs the country, they need to rely on their nobles. Everyone is the same...
Of course, Egil may be different. But they don't know.
So they seem to be in a tragedy.
"The whole army charges." At this moment, the only way Alfred could think of to change the situation was this - before that, he had never thought about it, and he would just meet the difference today. So he just formed an army of about 7,000 or 8,000 into two groups. In other words, Emperor Alfred expected that he could fight almost 7,000 or 8,000 (dead) people today. However, the final result was still beyond the emperor's expectations - his two arrays were quickly destroyed in half a day.
Later, the emperor felt that he could not bear the weight, so he ordered the cavalry to charge.
Of course, after this, the Emperor still had no intention of starting a full war. He just wanted to use a large number of cavalry to see if he could eat up the hundreds of improved tomahawk cavalry of Egil, that's all.
However, Egil ordered his cavalry to run back without any moral integrity.
So, the English Knights who were moving forward, as if the brakes failed, hit the tightly arranged coalition infantry line, and were about to be wiped out...
In such a situation, what else can Emperor Alfred do?
Can't do anything.
Chapter completed!