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Chapter 65 Two hours left

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As Egil thought, the more than 20,000 archers sent by Mongolia did not have much impact on the Norman army in the end. When the range of the archers was far from reaching, Norman's strong crossbow could calmly throw arrows at them. When they reached the range, the recurved bows they equipped were not too fatal to Norman soldiers wearing plate armor. Those arrows may cause some casualties, but they are not very large. This is nothing for the Norman army led by the great Emperor Egil.

The light archers that Ogedei was expecting failed again. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Normans once again launched a charge on the right wing of the battlefield. In order to completely defeat the Torrei troops, Egil mobilized more heavy cavalry forces than the last time - the Norman Knights of the two thousand-man teams, the Norman Royal Knights of the ten hundred-man teams, and the Norman Guard Knights of the three hundred-man teams. In addition, the recruitment of heavy cavalry from Eastern Europe, North Saxony and Flanders - a total of five thousand iron cavalry, divided into two routes, one south and one north, rushed towards the weak links of the Mongolian right wing!

"Damn!" Seeing the opponent's heavy knight roaring, Torre shouted in despair. His army was on the verge of collapse the next moment.

"General Zhebee!" Ogedei shouted. As a Mongolian general, Zhebee also said "Yeah!", took a step forward, and used the Khan eagle stunt. The morale of the Mongolian army, which was on the verge of collapse, was fully filled with the morale of the Mongolian army and revitalized its fighting spirit.

"Look at how many more stunts you can have." Seeing the opponent start organizing defense again, although he still retreated step by step, he did not collapse thousands of miles away. Egil snorted coldly, and seemed a little dissatisfied. He ordered the Norman Iron Cavalry to turn, adjust the direction, line up again, and charge again.

"Send reinforcements to the right wing." Ogedei saw the Norman Knights, after hearing a horn sound, abandoned the enemy, turned around and ran for a distance, and began to line up again. He sighed secretly. He then transferred 10,000 Mongolian heavy cavalry to the right wing to help Torre's garrison line.

After this series of fierce battles, Torre's troops also understood how critical his situation was. Seeing that his third brother actually sent reinforcements, Torre felt very moved. He cheered up and decided to re-adjust the situation. He selected the Mongolian vassals who were considered heavy infantrymen of the regular army and formed a new line of defense. He gave up the slave soldiers on the outside.

In this way, the speed of dispatching regular troops alone was indeed much faster. The heavy infantry of more than 30,000 Mongolian vassals, plus 10,000 Mongolian heavy cavalry, the defense line on the right wing of the Mongolian army this time was much smaller, but the defense was several times stronger.

Originally, when the attack was launched, the heavy infantry of the Mongolian Servant Army used to use tomahawks, scimitars, maces and other short weapons suitable for close combat. However, this time, when the defense array, the Mongolians used spears and shields, such standard shield spearmen equipment.

The heavy infantry arranged in dense phalanx according to the most classic practice of fighting with cavalry. They protected the few Mongolian archers in Tolei's troops and crossbowmen who were also part of the Mongolian vassal army and placed them on the second line. Many Mongolian heavy cavalry also dismounted and joined the defense line with spears and shields in hand, making the defense line more stable. Of course, the same also made the Mongols lack more offensive power.

How sad it is, the Mongols who have been attacking, attacking, attacking for decades... actually gave up their offensive power at this moment. They used these elite heavy-armed cavalry as defensive forces. This is simply ridiculous.

"The right wing cannot be broken."

Egil watched the opponent take an absolute defensive attitude to deal with the attack of his heavy cavalry. He then tentatively launched several attacks with band charges - such an attack completely disintegrated the Mongolian slave soldiers. However, when facing the dense array of heavy infantry of the Mongolian vassal army and the dismounted Mongolian heavy cavalry fighting, the effect was not as good as expected.

Although the attack with band-like charge and stormy attacks made the opponent's defense line shaking. At the same time, the Norman army itself also lost a lot of heavy cavalry. Although Egil was sure that if this continued, victory would definitely belong to him. However, losing too many elite knights was really an unacceptable loss.

What the emperor wanted was a great victory with less, not a miserable victory with barely force and loss of many losses.

So, after seeing the opponent's right wing's strong defense, Egil changed his tactics again. He took back his treasured heavy cavalry and retracted the attacking infantry on the right wing, allowing them to accumulate strength or wait for other fighter jets. He once again placed the Norman new army under his command in the first row. He once again used the tactic of slowly crushing the super spear phalanx to gradually erode the Mongolian right wing army.

"I finally defended..." Although I was still at an absolute disadvantage, I finally defended it. Torre also breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he felt a little crying. He originally had an army of more than 200,000 under his command. However, under the continuous fierce attacks of the Norman army, most of the slave troops fled, were killed, or surrendered. When they collapsed, they almost led their main forces to collapse together.

Despite this, although the slave soldiers seemed to be ineffective, they were still a group of soldiers - and a very large group of soldiers! Now, Torre has only 50,000 or 60,000 troops - one-fifth of them were assisted by his elder brother Ogedei.

On the other hand, Torre was crying without tears. On the other hand, Chagatai felt so uncomfortable that his neck was strangled. On the left-wing battlefield where he belonged, Torre launched two attacks in total, one with heavy cavalry and the other with light cavalry. The final result of these two attacks ended in failure. Despite this, these two attacks also made Chagatai's situation much better. The Norman troops on the left had to draw more troops to deal with the cavalry sent by the Mongols, which weakened their offensive power.

However, at this moment, the Normans repelled two consecutive flank attacks organized by Ogedei, which made the Mongolian regent no longer have the courage and insufficient capital to continue organizing the attack. So next, Chagatai's good luck was used up.

His troops were even less powerful than Toreido. The main Persian army under his command was not as good as the Han army. After Egil was frustrated in the attack on the right wing, he naturally thought of the left wing... In this way, although he would not do this for the time being, he would not do it. However, Egil could still strengthen the troops on the left wing to launch a larger offensive.

For a time, the Norman Empire's offensive power became much stronger. The Persian army retreated step by step, just as the ones suffered by Tolei's troops before!

The war has been going on for six hours, and the Mongolians' attitude has also undergone a major change of 180 degrees. From the moment when the war started, they were ready to defeat the Normans, and now they have suffered continuous losses. They were suppressed by the Norman team, and turned into "End this war quickly." This is so fast that it is shocking. A total of more than 700,000 Mongolian troops were killed in this large-scale battle of about 50,000, while more than 200,000 were defeated. If it weren't for the Mongol generals who used the Khan Eagle skills one after another, the entire army would have retreated long ago.

"Father Khan, was he fighting against such an enemy before. He could maintain an offensive posture... It was incredible!" After continuously deploying troops, adjusting the frontline posture, and filling the loopholes caused by the fierce offensive of the Norman army, Ogedei sighed in his heart that his command skills were completely incomparable to Egil. Often Egil was able to issue more than three orders, but Ogedei could only issue one - their judgment and analysis ability were not at the same level at all.

In this battle, Egil could seize all opportunities and organize tricky and vicious attacks, and at the same time, the defense was not leaked. However, Ogedei was restricted, the attack was powerless, and the defense was full of loopholes. Although the army in his hand was twice as many as Egil, it was completely unable to control it. Instead, because of too many, it could not control it, and many flaws were revealed.

In comparison, the Mongolian army was like a bloated fat man. More troops did not bring them more strength, but became a burden like excess fat. The Norman army was a well-proportioned and normal figure. They could exercise every muscle on their body without any delay. As for the brains of both sides, if Egil was the latest quad-core processor, then Ogedei was the Pentium Four, which had long been eliminated, and the two sides were comparable.

Ogedei’s biggest wish now is to end this day quickly. The two sides ended in a "draw" attitude. After that, they would find a way - whether it was a peace talk or a foothold. In short, they would never be able to fight the Normans any longer.

However, when he thought so, Egil was not at all. As time disappeared little by little, at four o'clock in the afternoon, almost five o'clock - when the sky was gradually getting dark, the Norman Emperor could not wait - his desire for victory made the emperor start to attack without regard for defense. This naturally made the Mongols feel even more unbearable.

"It's about two hours before dark, and the battle will end in two hours." Egil thought so, and showed a hideous smile, turned around and said to the bored Artoria, "Hani, you, and your Celtic army, can be dispatched now..."

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