?The four armies of the Norman Empire were dispatched together. The remaining three armies will not be mentioned for the time being. The last time I said that General Wende raided Bologna and deceived the two dukes of Northern Italy. The three armies fled overnight. However, General Wende continued to chase after him with a light horse, but he thought about it at the three forks of road, which further led to changes in the situation.

From Bologna to Venice, from Venice to Genoa, there was another Venetian massacre. General Winder knew at this moment that the cavalry alone would not be able to do anything. He also waited for the infantry to march slowly together. In this way, the Northern Italian coalition forces were given more than ten days of preparation time.

And in these ten days, Duke Francisco of Milan used his connections he had accumulated when he was a mercenary and spent a lot of money to recruit mercenaries.

He made connections, Duke Witt paid and hired and armed eight thousand Italian mercenaries, which further expanded the Northern Italian army to the level of 24,000. During the days when Renaya was staying, the two dukes even paid for supplies, rewarded the three armies with wine and meat, new clothes and boots, and even invited the officers to visit the brothels. After all, the general's morale was restored.

In this way, the Northern Italian army's strength and morale were all recovered well. The two dukes were ready to fight for life and death with the Normans!

On January 19, 1013, Norman's 30,000 troops and 24,000 northern Italian troops set up a formation on the outskirts of Renaya. The battle that ultimately determined the fate of northern Italy and the fate of Europa started.

General Wender learned from Emperor Egil's style and built a watchtower tower in advance. He asked his guards to guard the army. The general's formation was extremely obvious. He divided all the cavalry into the left wing and arranged it into a cavalry formation. On the front, the first army was assault infantry as the mouth, not the Norman army's first formation, which was guarded with crossbows. At the same time, the general had no intention of arranging artillery. He arranged the new army on both wings of the assault infantry to prevent the opponent's cavalry from assaulting.

The remaining troops were arranged in dense arrays in units of thousands of people to serve as reserves.

On the opposite side, the Northern Italian coalition completely arranged the defensive formation. They hid a small number of Italian heavy cavalry, as well as the Duke of Milan's ace, and the Duke's guard knights on both sides of the array. A large number of shield spearmen and crossbowmen, including those mercenaries, and their army was basically composed of these two types of soldiers, with few other troops.

In General Winder's observation, only two thousand men needed to pay special attention to them holding the Venetian Wing Lion flag, holding a warhammer and an oval shield, wearing a steel helmet, and equipped with the best armor they could obtain. The worst soldiers were also equipped with a plate chain composite armor.

"That is probably the Venetian heavy infantry. It looks good. I just don't know how much worse it is compared to our Norman infantry." General Wender snorted and thought of this. He was too lazy to use the word "who is stronger and who is weak" and directly used "how much worse" to describe the opponent's trump card main force. That was so majestic.

The Norman army was trained under General Wind, who had just entered the battlefield. Seeing that the Northern Italian coalition had not yet formed a formation, the general began to attack. Three thousand cavalry on the left wing rushed towards the Northern Italian coalition right wing!

The Norman army made great progress after fighting against the ancients. The cavalry under its command upgraded their war horses and obtained the riding skills of the ancients from the ancient prisoners. Therefore, the dart cavalry that could only be considered better than those of professional heavy cavalry, and the power of the charge was no less than that of the heavy cavalry of ordinary countries. Not to mention the Norman Knights with excellent armor.

"Bridge! Shoot, shield spearmen are arranged in dense arrays!" The right wing unit was the Venetian army. Duke Witt was frightened and his face was pale. At the same time, his nobles and mercenary commanders were also shouting, asking the soldiers to rise up and resist.

Northern Italy is known for its powerful crossbows. Whether it is a regular army or the giant shield crossbow soldiers at the mouth of mercenaries, they are indispensable troops. Although at present, the title of "strong crossbow" has long been replaced by heavy crossbowmen of the Norman Empire and the terrifying continuous crossbows. However, this does not mean that Northern Italian crossbowmen have retreated.

Hearing the commanders' roars, the giant shield crossbowmen immediately reacted and pulled the strings one by one to shoot arrows. Although the power of the crossbow machine could not penetrate the plate armor of the Norman Knight, it was enough to deal with the leather armor of the fat cavalry. For a moment, the Norman Knights who rushed in the front were slapped and screamed. However, this small problem was that the Norman Knights fell down. The fat cavalry behind them were still howling wildly, charging forward, stepping over their robes that fell to the ground, and the speed was three points faster!

Two teams of fat cavalry, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiched the Norman Knights in the middle. The three teams of 3,000 teams used five-row arrays and had six hundred cavalry in the front row. The Bo-segment charge created by Emperor Norman was perfectly interpreted here! The Northern Italian coalition had only two rounds of volleys, killing less than two hundred cavalry. The nearly six hundred cavalry in the first section of the bo-segment suddenly hit the Italians' right wing. This time, it was the Italians' turn to scream!

Although their shields and spearmen were waiting for the array, although they had made their formation thicker as much as possible, everything was futile in front of the unparalleled charge of the Norman Cavalry! It was as if they were smashing tofu with a hammer. The right wing of the Northern Italian coalition was easily broken, and the formation was smashed to pieces! Wailings, screams, and terrifying screams mixed together! The sound of armor and human bodies breaking, as well as the cheers and screams of the Normans, made the Northern Italian soldiers go crazy!

"Crash! Continue to charge!! Assault infantry charge me too!!"

Seeing his cavalry making achievements, General Wende shouted excitedly that he didn't want to be entangled with the Northern Italians, these incompetent opponents for too long. "Solve the battle as fast as possible!" This is what the general thought from the time he fought against the Italians!

So, on the front, the Norman assault infantry of a total of five thousand-man teams rushed towards the Northern Italian army like a tsunami! These elite soldiers equipped with full-body armor would probably be killed if they were shot with Norman pulley crossbows. However, when facing the simple and primitive crossbows of Northern Italy, there was no need to be afraid at all.

Those who were shot by crossbow arrows would only take two steps back at most. The soldiers in front of and behind them could ensure that they would not fall. The crossbow arrow would at most leave a dent on the armor. If you want to kill Norman soldiers, you must shoot them in the head!

Although Northern Italians are experts in crossbows, there are not many soldiers with such accurate shooting skills. Especially after a certain number of Normans were hit and fell to the ground, the Norman soldiers also knew that they were powerful and pulled down their armor for defense. Although this obstructed their vision, they could ensure that they would not be shot. Anyway, just rush forward with a strong force!

On the right wing, another charge of the Norman Cavalry came, making the flanks of the coalition more chaotic. On the front, the Norman assault infantry also began to fight with the coalition vanguard. The shield spearmen in Northern Italy were soon torn apart by the assault infantry. The long-handled battle axe caused a bloody storm... The Italians could not stop the Normans from advancing!

"Detect heavy cavalry! Draw heavy cavalry quickly!"

"Venetian heavy infantry advance! Stabilize the formation!!"

At this moment, as the battle situation slipped towards hell, the two dukes shouted anxiously and took out the army that was under his chest.

The Italian heavy cavalry on both wings and the Duke Knight Guard rushed to the battlefield! At the same time, the Venetian heavy infantry also launched a counterattack against the Norman assault infantry! The elites of Northern Italy emerged. However, the battle situation did not improve slightly as the two dukes imagined.

On the front, although the heavy infantry has stabilized the battle situation slightly, compared to ordinary Italian shield spearmen, it is just a difference between "the dead is ugly" and "the dead is slightly better". Norman assault infantry is still attacking, and the battle axe they hold can easily tear the so-called "heavy infantry" composite armor that has failed steel and is not perfect in armor design. Of course, even if it cannot be broken, the axe is swung and smashed, the heavy force can break the opponent's ribs, muscles, internal organs, etc. This is the charm of the so-called heavy weapon...

On the flank, the Italian heavy cavalry holding sharp swords and the Duke of Milan guards also suffered quite heavy blows. After a group of Italian heavy cavalry on the left wing were shot by muskets and crossbows, they were then blocked by Norman phalanx infantry. They were somewhat stupid and rushed directly into the super-speckle array and stabbed into a sieve. Those who were hesitant must continue to withstand long-range strikes.

Afterwards, some heavy cavalry decided to dismount and fight on foot. They waved their long swords and drove the super spear and took the opportunity to advance. While thinking in their hearts, "The short-soldier handover, the super spear cannot exert its power, let's see what you do." While preparing to enjoy the fun of massacre.

Then these stupidities were chopped off by the assault infantry in the super spear quadron. In this way, the Italians tried to attack the Norman flanks and changed the situation, and completely failed.

At the same time, when the Italian cavalry on the left wing declared failure, the Italian cavalry fighting the Norman cavalry on the right wing also suffered huge casualties...,!.

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