A total of 1,000 elite heavy cavalry platforms in heavy armor. (Please remember ww.xiaza when reading novels

Their movements were impeccable, and even when they were running forward, they tried hard to maintain the basic neat and consistent pace of the front. It can be said that such an elite army was a well-known elite army on the medieval battlefield. Compared with the Black Dragon Knights of Brandenburg, the Duke Guard Knights of Swabian, and the Golden Wool Knights of Burgundy were only strong and not weak. Even compared with the classic heavy cavalry kings and the iron armored paladins of Eastern Rome, it is not much different. It can be imagined that the Roman Catholic really invested a lot of money in training this new army.

However, such an army was completely unable to defend against the new army of Emperor Norman. On their way to charge, General Bamamei concentrated more than 20 mortar cannons and used flowering bullets to bomb. Although the artillery of this era was very accurate, it might not necessarily hit a dozen shots, and the heavy cavalry of the Holy See were only arranged in three rows of one-line arrays, with large spaces between them. Therefore, after several rounds of artillery went down, one heavy cavalry was not killed.

A few were scared to death.

Several shells hit the cavalry, and the loud roar suddenly shocked the war horses. After this year and month were not as popular as gunpowder weapons, the war horses used to ride were professionally trained to make them not afraid of the sound of artillery. Therefore, the war horse was frightened by the front hoof, and threw the cavalry down. The war horse sprinted with all its strength, with a speed of almost fifty kilometers per hour. Even if it was not dead, it would be left with half a life. It would be said that it would be the shocked horse or the cavalry that came from behind who were catching up. This is what it means to explain here.

"So, the current gunpowder weapons are OK to use to siege cities or bomb the dense array of enemy troops. But this kind of attack... is not enough." Egil shook his head and thought to himself. With this effort, the opponent's cavalry arrived in front of the Norman formation! At that moment, the first thousand heavy-mounted crossbow soldiers in the front row were volleys, and then quickly squatted down. The well-trained comrade behind him was another one."... Four consecutive times, a total of four rows of four thousand heavy-mounted crossbow soldiers carried out one round of shooting, and a large number of heavy-mounted crossbow soldiers fell down at that time!

"How could it be?! Why is the crossbow in the other party's hand so powerful?!" At that time, Harold was also holding a monocular telescope (smuggled from Norman, two thousand Florinians, one that you like to buy or not.) Looking at Harold was surprised. The Italian giant shield crossbow soldiers were famous all over the world and were originally the place where elite crossbow soldiers were produced. The Italians spared no effort in researching crossbows. Harold was confident that other troops might not be as good as the Normans, but the giant crossbows would definitely surpass the other party. However, he did not expect that the opponent's crossbow soldiers could penetrate heavy armor in such a long distance in one round of shooting!

Before Harold was surprised, the scene that appeared in the Battle of the Danube reappeared. Norman's long-barrel cannon was loaded with shotguns. After calculation, it was within the range. Sixty cannons shot in one round, and the large pieces of iron sand, iron sheets, and iron marbles were whimpering. The Holy See's heavy cavalry who broke through the Norman crossbow formation screamed and the mounts under their crotch. The blood mist on their bodies, faces, and limbs all over their bodies exploded, and they were extremely tragic.

After this round of shotgun, the Holy See's heavy cavalry was no less than 200. The nearest range of fire was ready. This thousand fire was equipped with two thousand large muskets. One lead bullet was fired out, and the gun chamber was not cleaned. He threw it away. He grabbed another musket on the ground and prepared to continue shooting. At this moment, the heavy crossbowman had already loaded up again. As soon as the fire in front of them fell down, another round of crossbow arrows like locusts was shot. The heavy crossbow that could shoot through the plate chain composite armor at a distance could penetrate gold and stone at a close range! The remaining less than 200 cavalrymen died under the crossbow arrow of the Norman pulley crossbow...

This round of temptation made the Holy See feel like falling into an ice cellar. A total of 1,000 cavalrymen were unable to pass through the opponent's firepower net and reach the touchdown.

"If this happens, can we really win?"

"The opponent's firepower is so strong.

I'm afraid we'll be killed before we can rush forward?!"

Although he did not really say such words, the Holy See soldiers subconsciously turned their heads and looked at their comrades beside them, and they could clearly see such Yi Enlai from the other party's eyes. At this moment, the Norman Empire artillery fired again. The shells of the mortar cannon drew a high parabola and directly hit the array of the Holy See army. If a flowering bullet was down and the Holy See army arranged in dense arrays would suffer dozens of casualties, or even hundreds of soldiers!

"It's really hard to deal with." Harold looked at this situation and sighed in this way. In order to avoid being beaten passively, he had to bite the bullet and charge forward! As long as there is enough force to cross the opponent's firepower network and enter the hand-to-hand combat stage of close combat, at that time, the enemy's long-range advantage will be weakened! After Harold figured out this, he immediately ordered "All Crusaders to charge! Defend the glory of God and maintain the sacred order!" However, this cunning and cruel commander decided to use the soldiers recruited by the Holy See in the name of the Crusaders as cannon fodder, and use them to attract the Norman firepower!

Harold shouted loudly. And beside him, an archbishop sent by the Holy See also, cheering for the Crusaders: "God promises us, devout believers, listen! This is God's will! All men, all those who die in this glorious and holy war, will be washed away by the sins of their souls, and will ascend to heaven after death!"

Under such encouragement, the Roman Catholic army fell back into madness. A total of 20,000 temporary signs, voluntarily joined the Christian Crusader, these soldiers wearing rags and simple weapons, shouted wildly, as pioneers and cannon fodders, rushed towards the Norman Empire's defense line.

These soldiers have scattered formations, fanatical and unshakable. Although they are simple in equipment, they have excellent momentum. They are the most crazy army in the world. In this era, the so-called madness is morale from another perspective. In addition, there is another statement that is likely to be a fact. In the era of cold weapons, the most important thing for the army of both sides to compete is morale! The high morale side will win!

"Of course, morale is indeed a very important factor, but it is not absolute. Believing that victory can be achieved by virtue of morale, such people either have no way out and are self-ansthesia or are still living in the Middle Ages. Today's era is a competition of training, regularization and tactics. In this war, it is a competition of firepower concentration and personnel concentration. One side charges, the other side insists on it. If the number of soldiers used by the other side to charge with bows and arrows exceeds the number of long-range attack muskets, crossbows, longbows and artillery that we can project, they will win."

At this moment, Egil couldn't help but sneer when he saw the other party's charge so enthusiastically, and said such words one by one, then turned around and said to Talleyran, who had just returned with a quill, ink bottle and notebook in his hand: "Write this paragraph of mine as well."

The guards around him felt speechless when they saw Egil's attitude. It seemed that the emperor did not take the other party at all. While pretending to be a biography, he was commanding the battle.

Of course, in fact, it is not Egil who is commanding the battle now, but the one who is in the forefront, managing the firearms troops, and it is said that he will change his post recently and become the commander of the Imperial Guard Corps. Egil handed over all the artillery, the Imperial Guard Fire, the crossbowman, and the command of the 10,000 new army to her. The work she has to do is very simple. Just see the opportunity and say this word: "Shooting Shooting Shooting Shooting!!!"

At that time, the charge of thousands of heavy cavalry had not yet made the Norman army go all out. Five hundred consecutive crossbowmen holding Egil's wrath, and five hundred fire-boos holding early muskets, as well as the six thousand longbowmen and five hundred Sherwood sharpshooters who were waiting in the second row. These soldiers who could project a large amount of firepower in a short period of time had never moved in the previous firepower coverage.

That is to say...

"Okay, let them see what high technology is." When a group of enthusiastic, distorted believers, the Crusaders braved the artillery fire, ignored the companions who were shot through the body by the crossbow and nailed to the ground, and rushed to the range of the long bow, Egil sent such a faint command. With a few long and short horns, the 6,500 long bowmen in the second row set out their bows and arrows, and the bow arrows fell like raindrops...

"Rise the shield!" The pulley crossbow can only shoot two or three arrows in one minute, while the longbow can shoot more than twelve arrows in one minute, six times that of the former.

For the Christian Crusaders who had almost no armor, there was almost no difference between the two, one was something that would die if they hit the place. The only difference was that they fantasized that the shoddy rattan cards, wooden shields and skinned shields in their hands could withstand the longbow and arrow rain that was a headache for those who held compound shields and formed the Roman tortoise shell formation...

The final result is naturally like this:

Screams, screams, and even more miserable screams came one after another, and the Norman army was finally a purgatory on earth before... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!