In the end, at the cost of losing nearly a quarter of the heavy cavalry, including nearly a hundred precious iron-armored paladins, and more than eighty European monsters, the Roman vanguard, who was reaped by Lili Annu, finally arrived in front of the Celtic formation and launched a charge within a range of nearly fifty meters!

Then, they got a deadly round of musket volleys.

After continuous improvement, the Normans' hand cannons, which were originally simple, rough and recoil-intensive, were completely improved. Things about range, power and accuracy are secondary. The key is that the shape of the new musket has undergone a complete change.

This new type of musket has cancelled the bracket used to stabilize and reduce recoil, and has changed to a barb that can hook the user's shoulders. Although the shoulder pressure is very high, it has a great advantage, that is, the mobility is much better. There is a little bit of the prototype of the Spanish large array musket soldiers who were rampant in Europe in later generations. The Man Empire is still making progress. Although the protagonists are now playing artillery and crossbows. But the muskets as supporting roles are also constantly increasing. I believe that in a while, the more practical lightweight musket can be studied and completed.

At a close distance of fifty meters, the power of the early muskets was still very good - although they were a little pressure to face the defense of the iron-armored paladins. However, it was enough to penetrate the ordinary heavy scale armor and the hou skin of the monster - and the lethality of the lead projectile was even more terrifying than the crossbow arrows with a triangular edge. The human soldiers who were hit would soon die. The monsters could not ignore these attacks as before.

In this way, the Romans, who were just about to launch a charge, lost nearly one-third of the strength of the assault troops again. What's worse is that their horses were frightened after hearing such a loud noise. Some knights were thrown off the horse's back and were trampled to death by horse hooves. The knights with better horses also had to hold the reins tightly and try to comfort the horses. Only a very small number of heavy cavalry maintained their charge posture-and then hit the Celtic gun array. The huge inertia made the super spear stab into the body. The human and the horse were stabbed into a sieve. Similarly, the Celtic soldiers on the opposite side also dislocated their arms. While shouting in pain, they fell to the ground...

Such a result is no good at all. The assault troops that were expected by the Romans were easily blocked by the Celtic army.

"Damn it!" After watching this scene with a telescope, Lili Annu shouted in anger. Her bad mood even worsened after observing the super-long spear phalanx used by the Celtics.

The Celtic soldiers were wearing heavy armor and held strong super spears to form dense square formations to block the charge of the Roman heavy cavalry. After suffering several rounds of killings from heavy pulley crossbows and muskets, and frustrated their spirits, some Roman heavy cavalry could no longer break through the Celtic defense line. They either flinched and chose to retreat under the sharp spear tip of the Celtic soldiers. Or they tried their best to urge the war horse to move forward, but were blocked by the spear. The sharp tip of the blade rubbed against each other, making an extremely harsh sound. This illustrates the helplessness of both sides.

The super-length spearmen have slightly insufficient lethality, and it is difficult to break the armor defense of heavy cavalry. However, it is better to stop the cavalry from advancing. However, for those European monsters, the super-length spear array is not impeccable.

The monsters roared angrily, waving the two-handed double-blade battle axe that weighed nearly fifty kilograms in their hands. They easily cut off the spearheads of the row of super spearmen in the front, or they pushed the spear away. There were probably no creatures in the world who could compete with these monsters. If they persisted too much and held the spear tightly and did not let go, they would probably be swept down by the monsters, and even some monsters with longer arms. They used their strength to sweep away, and even chopped off the hands of the Celtic super spearmen. In this case, the Celtic super spear square array was shaken helplessly.

"What a group of monsters..." Seeing the dense defense array that was almost impeccable in his eyes, it was torn apart by hundreds of monsters. Artoria sighed like this.

On the front line, after the spear was broken, the Celtic soldiers still did not retreat, and pulled out the hand axes and scimitars from their waists to continue fighting with the Ou monsters. However, their attacks were as insignificant as tickling for the Minotaus. They could ignore these attacks and look ferocious. They waved the battle axe to cut the Celtic soldiers and their armor together - or smashed them into pieces.

The only ones who could barely deal with these monsters were the Celtic Thunder Warriors holding two-handed flame swords. Some soldiers who waved the great swords of the best steel forging waterline operations were desperate, and they ignored the defensive force and attacked the fierce attack. They held up the sword with all their strength and stabbed towards the monster's torso. They fought to die together and wanted to kill them.

Although the Ou Monster's skin is said to be "stronger than steel", even if it is really iron, it cannot stop this attack! Whether it is the kidneys, liver, spleen, as long as it is broken, it will definitely die! Even monsters like Minotaus are no exception!

"I can't break through?!" Seeing the opponent resisting hard, Lei Tingjiao fought to the death. She actually stuck the attack of the monsters. Lili Annu felt a little uneasy. Then he turned his eyes and snorted, looking at Minotaurus, the leader of the monsters standing not far beside her.

Seeing the Roman Queen smiling, she looked at herself with a sarcastic expression on her face. She kept boasting that her tribe was invincible. The leader of the Ou Monster, who could not break through the array of Minotaus, couldn't hold back. It didn't care about the body that was already a little old and had countless hidden dangers... She roared, waved his battle axe, which was one size bigger than the ordinary Ou Monster, and walked towards the battlefield with great strides.

"Although this monster has declined in recent years, it is still a world-class expert. When he was fighting against the Mongols, he couldn't even hold it. He wanted to see what kind of ability the other party had and could stop this guy!"

In this way, Lili Annuluo used a trick and forced Minotaurus, who had not taken action for a while, to the battlefield. The one-eyed monster with resentment was like a huge road roller. It rushed towards the Celtic army with an unparalleled sense of oppression. But in front of him, the main force of the Roman Empire was moving faster.

When the assault troops of the Roman army were blocked, Artoria's eyes were aimed at these larger main forces. The queen ordered the longbowers under her to throw arrows at the Roman infantry. Then she ordered the heavy crossbowers on the front line to take care of the enemy's infantry. The strong and powerful blocking of the longbow and arrow rain and heavy crossbows made the Roman army difficult to walk. She had to abandon the previous calm and pedaling method and instead trot all the way - because running with all your strength consumed too much energy.

It has to be said that compared with other countries, the combat quality of the Romans, which was more "civilized" in comparison to the armies of other countries, would probably have dispersed the formation. However, the Romans' army still maintained a certain level of formation. And while the advance was moving, the heavy infantry holding the Roman shield was deployed in the front row to block the Celtic shooting as much as possible.

These hardwoods are based on cowhide and are covered with iron-edged large shields. Although they cannot stop the frontal shooting of strong crossbows, they are enough for longbows with more and faster shooting speeds. It is just a pity. I said before that the three-row array of the Romans are four regular legions, as well as eleven garrisons and temporary recruitment legions. The heavy infantry of the regular army is naturally fine. The listed half-tongued shell formation can even help the surrounding bows, javelins and stone throwers. But those soldiers who belong to militia armed cannot do it.

They were equipped with leather armor, and the better was the light chain armor shirt. The helmets they wore were all kinds of. Roman, Gothic, Turkish and even Norman. As for the shield, it was naturally not classic - but the Roman shield that seemed a bit outdated was a big Roman shield. It was a wooden shield or leather shield. And it was also very small, and it could not stop the powerful longbow shooting of the Celtic army.

At 180 meters, the casualties of the Roman army began to increase. At 130 meters, the maximum value of ≤2,000 Celtic long archers were divided into ten groups, shooting alternately to suppress the advance of the Roman army. Each round of volleys could take the lives of the hundreds of Romans! Fortunately, within this distance, the Trabisson archers and Seljuk archers holding compound bows could effectively shoot ≤1,700 Trabisson archers and nearly 2,000 Seljuk archers. The number was almost twice as many as the Celtics! However, their shooting effect was not ideal.

Although both units are well-known elites. Oriental-style composite bows can be regarded as weapons in this era. However, the Celtic equipment is really desperate.

Ordinary Celtic infantry is equipped with three-quarter plate armor of two millimeters. It seems that elite troops like Thunder Goryeo are equipped with full-body plate armor. The Celtic Royal Knights are even equipped with three millimeters of heavy full-body plate armor. Some well-made plate armors have only two ends when the bows and arrows are shot on them - they are broken or bounced open. The gap makes the Roman archers unable to compete with them even if they are twice as many as the Celtics. And the Normans' advantage has been maintained until the two armies are connected and formally confronted...

"It's approaching, it's approaching! Throwing javelins and launching stone projectiles!!!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!