~Date: ~October 17th~

,nbsp; March 20, 1013 AD was part of the anti-Norman Union War, or known as the Norman Unity War. In the Central European Mountains, a large-scale war broke out between the Swiss army and General Farr of the Norman Empire.

The Swiss spent all their property and supplies farewell to their wives, and their son left their mother. The young, young, and even the family of three generations were all armed and rushed to the battlefield. As their speaker said: This war is a war between the Swiss people and the whole nation. Our Switzerland will continue to exist gloriously, and failure is the demise of our entire Swiss nation.

Under such circumstances, Switzerland organized an army of more than 60,000 people, which was twice as many as General Farr's troops. About 10,000 of them were strong professional troops. From various places, countries, professional soldiers who participated in a large number of wars as mercenaries, some of them had very good equipment based on their gains from plundering on the battlefield, or relying on their years of savings as mercenaries. Their combat effectiveness and experience were also the best.

In comparison, there are 20,000 Swiss mercenaries, which are slightly worse. They are not as experienced, combat power or equipment as compared to the ten thousand elite heavy-armored Swiss mercenaries. They are relatively younger. They are also equipped with hard leather armor, light chain armor, and even armor. Instead, they use weapons, which are super long spears that the Swiss have always used. Of course, there are other weapons such as swords, shields, axes, bows and crossbows.

The worst is the temporary recruitment of about 30,000. They are either too old or too young. Although they have had a brilliant history of mercenaries, they are old and weak after all. And some are too young, and even some have never been to the battlefield. Although they are much stronger than ordinary cannon fodder, they can only be crushed when facing the Norman professional troops.

When the Swiss were in full swing and the news came out that they wanted to fight to the death with the Normans, General Fal did not feel panic at all. On the contrary, this warlike and martial general felt very excited.

"Ah, are you sure. Is it true that they have more than 50,000 troops?" He repeatedly asked the Norman spy who brought the news several times. After receiving the affirmative reply, the general's smile could not be taken back.

"This is how the war is interesting. If you pass the orders on, the three armies are on guard. We are going to massacre an enemy twice as many as ours!" General Fal's declaration was so optimistic and even a bit arrogant. The morale of the Norman army further increased. Compared with the slightly tragic atmosphere of the Swiss, the Norman army was so happy that it seemed to be attending some party. They did not stay where they were. Instead, they advanced towards the Swiss mountains under General Fal.

Along the way, they burned the villages and died all the Swiss who dared to resist. They announced that the area had been owned by the Emperor Norman. Although the mountainous areas limited their speed, Norman's speed still seemed very fast with the support of high morale. Within ten days, General Farr's troops advanced nearly eighty kilometers, and were about to reach Bern. At this time, there were a small number of Swiss recruits from remote areas and did not reach the capital.

But we can no longer wait for them. If a while later, the Norman army would come to Bern. The Swiss would be passive. Therefore, the Swiss parliament made a quick decision and sent out all the troops that had gathered in Bern. For this reason, the number of Swiss troops fighting the Normans did not reach 60,000 as expected.

Some of them were killed during the marching of the Norman army. Some of them still did not reach Bern☆At the end of the day, the Swiss only concentrated about 50,000 troops. However, most of the Swiss were already very satisfied with this number. At least there were more than the Normans. Moreover, their elite troops were not lost.

So, on March 20, the Swiss army and the Normans met in the Swiss mountains, only ten kilometers away from Bern. A fierce battle broke out.

The vanguard, a team of Norman infantry who was exploring the way, met a group of heavy Swiss mercenaries. Both sides were stunned and then a roar broke out. At the first time, a few soldiers were ordered to go back to the main force to report the message. Then the battle began - the Norman infantry had a flying axe and killed more than a dozen Swiss mercenaries who were preparing to arrange a dense array of spearmen. Immediately afterwards, the Norman infantry of the 100-man team roared and launched a charge.

Although the rugged mountain road reduced the power of the Normans' charge a little. However, this rush, coupled with the previous killing of the flying axes, still destroyed the Swiss formation a lot. In the absence of maintaining the super-spray array, the Swiss mercenaries in the front row roared, pulled out their swords, battle axes and other short weapons, and fought with the Norman infantry. The remaining Swiss in the back row still worked hard to maintain their formation.

"Attack! Tear their defense!!" The centurion wearing plate armor roared angrily. Beside him, the flag bearer holding the flag of infantry tomahawk flags also raised the horn hanging on his chest, and used all his strength to blow it to the inspiration of the Norman soldiers, roaring and continuing to attack. The Swiss weapons could not break their plate armor. However, their tomahawk could cut the Swiss in half directly. In this case, the Swiss forward scout soon failed. Without any suspense.

Next, other troops on both sides also encountered each other on the mountain roads and hills, and a war broke out soon. "The Norman troops, equipped with longbows, heavy crossbows, crossbows and other weapons, had an absolute advantage from the beginning.) The Mans followed General Farr's orders at the first time, desperately relying on their long-range firepower to pour arrows and guns and bullets towards the Swiss. After the opponent approached, they further weakened the enemy with flying axes. Then the infantry and assault infantry clusters charged △ to defeat the Swiss for the last straw that broke the camel.

General Farr used such tactics to fully make up for the Normans' lack of being good at mountain combat. He fully utilized the advantages of long-range firepower and also made up for the number of Norman troops. In this way, with the advantages of materials and equipment, the Mans suppressed their opponents at the first time and began to move forward continuously.

The Swiss seemed to want to rely on their numerical advantage to surround the Norman army from both sides to gain advantage in formation. However, it was too difficult to do this in this broken mountainous land. Because the mountains were difficult to move. What tactics they had to make, they would be discovered by the Normans before the tactics worked. Then there was a dense coverage of long-range firepower.

Before this, the Normans were fully prepared. General Fal took out half of all the bows and arrows in his army and crossbows. When handing them over to the Norman longbowmen and crossbowmen, in order to prevent their weapons from being damaged and the breaking of bowstrings, General Fal also specially dispatched a group of engineers, carrying various parts and several bags of heavy crossbows to follow the crossbow troops. If they were broken, replace them and repair them to maintain the Norman long-range strike.

Each longbowman sent three arrow bags and sixty feather arrows. There were more crossbowmans, and each heavy crossbowman got eighty crossbowman - because their shooting did not require human power to shoot the bow like the longbowman. So in theory, when the longbowman was exhausted, they could still shoot arrows without limit.

The one who obtained the most materials was the 250 crossbowmen. What they held was the improved second-generation Egil's Wrath ≤ a total of twelve crossbow strings, which could ensure that they fired twelve consecutive times. As a pulley with a labor-saving structure, it was replaced with a more useful gear. The range of the crossbows was increased again, and the crossbow arrows in the arrow box also had many more. A box of crossbow arrows was thirty-six crossbow arrows, which could allow crossbowmen to fire three times in a row...

There was an engineer next to each crossbowman who carried crossbow boxes, parts and spare crossbows for them. In the previous battle, after seeing the power of crossbowmen, General Far fell in love with this army. When he mobilized his supplies, he also tilted towards these crossbowmen. On average, those engineers carried more than ten crossbow boxes. They could allow crossbowmen to shoot at their heart and shoot all the Swiss into sieves.

General Farr's arrangement ultimately ensured the victory of the Normans. Man's army gained an advantage from the beginning and maintained this advantage.

From the scouts from both sides to the main forces of both sides fighting in the fragmented mountains, to the Swiss contraction and the Norman army attacking in full swing. Although General Farr could not observe the entire battlefield due to terrain, he had always mastered the rhythm of war. Just like the commander of everything, he knew when to advance, when to retreat. When should he stand firm, and when should he attack. Although the war continued, the Norman victory was inevitable.

At around 4:00 p.m. on March 20, the Swiss army was divided into three pieces. The troops on both sides were firmly suppressed by a small number of Norman long-range troops and artillery troops coming to support. They had no ability to resist. Only in the middle, the group of Swiss people with the most troops and the best fighting were still fighting hard...

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