At that time, at the beginning, the other envoy thought it was Emperor Norman who was not convinced and was about to remind him, but the trained guard knight covered his mouth with one hand and dragged it outward.

"That man slandered me, but I am not the tyrant who holds hatred for others - just pull it down and just give it a few hundred whips." Egil shook his hand and gave this indifferent order.

So, three days later, on April 9, 1008, on the vast plain about thirty kilometers away from Bologna, when the soldiers of the Norman Empire Army were almost rested. The preliminary preparations - those artillery, fortifications, and the watchtower for Egil and a group of monarchs and nobles, were all arranged in place. Looking at the twelve-pound cannons that had reached sixty times and hundreds of mortar cannons cast in recent times, Egil seemed to have understood why the other party took the initiative to attack.

"In contemporary wars, the party with a far-reaching firepower covers should have the initiative. His enemies will be forced to move forward under the firepower cover and attack. Even if he is the weak side, it can only be done. When he does not even have enough ability to attack, the outcome of the war has been determined - write down this passage carefully, my biography, daily life notes and chronicles of the Norman Empire will all be written!" Egil stood on the watchtower and looked into the distance, while instructing the clerk Talleyrand beside him.

"Yes, Lord." The clerk twitched his lips, but he was still completely afraid to ask any questions about what Egil said. After remembering it carefully, he bowed and ran down the stairs of the tower.

Egil's side had artillery, which could attack large artillery calmly in places where the opponent had no power to fight back. With such powerful weapons, Egil would be the one who could defend calmly. And his enemies would be forced to attack the solid positions arranged by Egil with weak forces. This is the situation of this war. The engineers of the Norman Empire installed wooden stakes in front of their artillery, and dug a trench of half a meter wide and three meters deep one meter in front of the stake. In this way, the opponent's cavalry rushed over and jumped over the trench and would just hit the wooden stakes in the stake. This result could be imagined without saying.

On that day, Norman's 100,000 main force dispatched 50,000. The front was lined up with 10,000 people from the new army, and two rows of five super-long spear standard square arrays were arranged. In the middle of each regiment of the new army, a total of 4,000 heavy crossbow soldiers and 1,000 guard musketeers were arranged. Behind the two super-long spear square arrays were the 6,000 longbowmen who were proud of the Norman Empire, including 500 Sherwood sharpshooters. These longbowmen were lined up in a narrow and loose array, and each carried three pots, a total of 60 feather arrows. They placed the quiver on the ground and could draw arrows at any time.

Behind them were a huge square formation composed of soldiers of the signature guards. They were arranged into a complete defensive formation to protect the towering and solid watchtower among them, and the Norman Emperor above the watchtower. On both sides of this large square formation were large numbers of Norman infantry, and smaller square formations composed of Norman assault infantry. Their flag bearers held high flags marked with Roman numerals and representing their thousand-man team numbers so that the emperor could issue orders at any time and send them into the battlefield. These infantry formed the Norman army, and were also the backbone and defender of the coalition.

On both sides of this huge, huge square formation consisting of 80,000 people are the great Norman knights and the brave and warlike Hussars.

The heavy cavalry were closer to the Norman army. Egil checked the terrain three days before the war. He felt that his right wing was more empty and flat, suitable for cavalry charges. So he deployed 1,500 Norman Royal Knights and two Norman Knights of Thousand People teams on the right wing. In addition, the 350 heavy cavalry of the Battlefield Clan deployed among these thousand-person teams, the number of elite heavy cavalry on the right wing reached nearly 4,000. On the left wing, Egil also arranged a Norman Knight of Thousand People teams and a hundred heavy cavalry of the Battlefield Clan.

On the other side of the heavy cavalry are the Hussars, which have a larger number of Norman troops.

The First Hussar Legion and the Second Hussar Legion commanded by General Qi Teng were respectively on the left and right wings. Tens of thousands of elite rangers in Hungary were strengthened on the left wing, together with the First Hussar Legion. The Emperor's Hussar Legion, as well as the Hussar Legion assigned to several other local garrison legions, and many other informal cavalry provided by other countries were strengthened on the right wing, together with the Second Hussar Legion. This made Egel's left wing and right wing have about 15,000 elite Hussars.

These Hussars were also arranged in a square formation in a thousand-man team - I mean the Normans, while those Hungarians and light cavalry from other countries still appeared in scattered shapes.

Because the scale of this battle was too large, Egil delegated the command of the two-wing Hussars and handed over to Attila and Ziteng, allowing them to make their own judgments and decide how to act - of course, this is only possible after Egil gave a counterattack order.

This is the army lineup of the Norman Empire deployed on the front with a total of more than 200,000. On the two wings of the battlefield, the left wing was the 50,000 troops of Hesse, Bavaria and Milan. On the right wing, there were 40,000 troops of Brandenburg, Austria and Venice. This is the force used by Egil in this battle, including iron walls and iron walls, encirclement on three sides, occupying the plains on the front, and occupying the woods, hills and some streams on both sides. Three days not only allowed the coalition soldiers to rest, but also gave them enough time to be mobilized by Egil to the position they should have arrived.

Several other local legions, as well as reserve militias mobilized from the local area, and a small number of wandering knights and mercenaries who spontaneously joined the Egil camp, are still within the camp more than ten kilometers away and have not joined the battlefield. The number of these soldiers exceeds 50,000. At the necessary moments (although Egil finds that something incredible and unimaginable) they can also be mobilized and joined the battlefield.

This battle was the same as the previous coalition operations. Egil had the only command of the front battlefield, which belonged to the 100,000 troops of the Norman Empire. Although he had the right to command the troops on both wings, he could only order the commanders of those countries to attack, defend, advance, and retreat. The specific way to act was to master and dispatch the monarchs of other countries or military commanders.

"As for 200,000 troops, it's a considerable number.

"Egil stood on the watchtower and looked down. He saw a gun like an iron forest, an axe like a mountain, a rigorous military force, and boundless. He couldn't help but say such words. Around him, a group of guard knights held a horn in one hand and a sword hilt in the other, waiting to convey the emperor's orders-Egil now has three hundred guard knights, divided into three hundred teams, one of which was in the center, and the other two were arranged in two wings, conveying messages to each other with the sound of the horns and communicating the entire battlefield. For Egil to command and give orders.

Opposite Egil, the 80,000 troops belonging to the Roman Catholic Church have now been formed in a formation. On the southern line of the plain in the middle section of the battlefield, three standard arrays were formed under the dispatch of commander Harold. Although their movements were equally neat and their military appearance was better than any country except the Normans. However, compared with the coalition forces that were divided into three arrays of arrays two or three times more than them, it seemed a bit pitiful.

Judging from the comparison of the forces between the two sides, the Norman Union had an absolute advantage. From both sides - I mean, the two Norman Emperor Egil and the Roman Holy See Harold, the commander of the Roman Catholic Church, compare their results. The Norman Emperor is an unfamiliar general, while Harold is just an unknown person. No one would be optimistic about this poor guy. Even in some underground casinos, the opening gambles about the winning or losing of this battle. The odds of both sides are 1 to 150. Even with such exaggerated odds, few fools would bet on the Holy See. The opening gangsters (many of them are peripheral relations of the Norman spy organization) were also very distressed that there were too few people who bet. Even with such exaggerated odds, they would not make much money in this game...

Of course, these are not the key points. The key points are the mentality of the soldiers on both sides, and the soldiers on both sides think so. The Norman United Army determined that they would win, while on the side of the Holy See, many soldiers with devout faith were ready to die in battle.

Because the troops of both sides were ready three days before the war started, the battle began very early. At nine o'clock in the morning, when the opponent, the Holy See's army, began to move, Egil gave the order, and at the front battlefield, one hundred and sixty artillery fired one after another, firing powerful shells at the Holy See's army!!

"Start up! The first row of cavalry starts to charge!" As Egil said before, when smoke, loud noises, and unbearable lethality spread among the Holy See's army, taking away a lot of life, causing broken limbs, broken arms, corpses and broken equipment to spread all over the ground, the other party could no longer bear it and could only attack as soon as possible. Under Harold's dispatch, the first row, a total of one thousand horses wearing composite armor, riding chain armor, and elite heavy cavalry holding heavy guns roared and rushed towards the Norman army!

"It's like bullying a child." Egil sighed, and General Bamamei, who was on the front line, also raised his command knife in his hand and roared: "Replace cannons with shotguns! Shoot heavy crossbows, prepare muskets!"
Chapter completed!