Chapter 16 The Battle of Bergen Part 1, a wave of cavalry
The second climax of this book is strange, why do you need to use the second?
The first millennium of this world, Scandinavia was still covered in snow in March. At this moment, two armies began to assemble between large farmlands in the suburbs of Bergen, a city in northern Norway.
The number of troops on both sides is roughly equal, and the combat effectiveness is similar. Therefore, the morale of both sides is similar. Both think that they will eventually win...
After a short while of fighting between the scouts of the two sides, the main forces of both sides were assembled and recruited peasant soldiers for the time being, but the array of regular troops still looked decent.
However, it was still in chaos.
The Count Phoenix's direct troops totaled only more than 5,000 people - the remaining more than 22,000 soldiers belonged to his allies, his vassals, his vassals, his vassals, his vassals, his vassals, his vassals, his vassals, his vassals... The final basic combat units are generally like this: a knight in chain armor, two to three knight entourages, plus a vote of recruiting militias...
Well, in the end, the Earl of Phoenix finally divided the army into several parts and appointed a relatively powerful Count as the commander. He also concentrated the military branches to use it. As the powerful Count (?), Egil was also assigned the title of commander, and of course, his commander had not increased a single army except his own.
The battle begins in the early morning, assembles at breakfast, and officially begins when it is approaching lunch.
In the first round, Olaf III was young and energetic. He sent out all the 800 chain armored cavalry under his command, and then arranged them into a long snake formation.
I'll take a break, a wave of flow?!
Seeing that the opposite side was equipped with cavalry as the vanguard, elite Viking soldiers and heavy spearmen in chain armor were the backbone, and the peasant soldiers were recruited as the two wings, a large area rushed over.
There is no reserve team at all, no formation at all, no strategy at all.
Oh my God, this guy has absolutely zero control!
Earl Felix has experienced a long battle formation, and seeing such waves of attacks from the other party, he was speechless.
Although most people now have a sense of superiority in IQ compared to Olaf III - but a wave of flows is not to be powerful. If the preparations are not sufficient and the front is broken by others, then all the conspiracies and tricks are in vain - those recruited militias with IQs will definitely flee as soon as possible. The elite regular army will also be affected and fled. In the end, it will become hopelessly defeated, and the war will fail like this.
"Arrow attack!"
In this era, crossbows have not been popular yet, and the single bow used in Nordic Europe is really not strong in attack power - unless the child who has not reached a certain level and is shot on the face with a "Oh!" sound, he falls off his horse and dies. Other cavalrymen in chain armor can basically defend well. When the 800 cavalry on the opposite side rushed over like this, there were quite a few guys who were densely packed with dozens of arrows but still stand tall.
Seeing the local cavalry getting closer, Felix gritted his teeth and once he insisted, he did not send his own knights to fight. Instead, he chose a more dangerous method.
"Array! Spearmen line up! Raise their guns!"
At this moment, people from the continent are still relatively simple. They have not learned the shameless tricks of a certain island country, nor do they understand the unique skills of a certain East. They don’t know anything about trapping horse pits and resisting horse stakes. If they want to resist cavalry, they have to rely on a dense formation and a hard and thick spear.
At this moment, Egil and his 2,700 tigers were placed on the flanks and stood beside each other. Although Earl Felix once patted his shoulder and said: Please, if you do this, you will not be assured of using your own direct line. Another idea is that Earl Felix does not want Egil to make any contributions in this battle.
After all, after this battle, he would be the Grand Duke of Norway. Rewards in terms of merits and practices are naturally inevitable. In this way, there would be no Egil to divide the territory left by the Olaf III faction. At most, he would reward some saline-alkali land in the corners with symbolic nature. It is a comforting place.
At this moment, a group of professional soldiers wearing heavy chain armor standing in the front row immediately crossed the spears of four meters in their hands. These temporary shoddy spears that were not in line with the mechanical settings and did not match the weight at the tail of the gun were heavy in front and light in the back. It was a little difficult for one person to hold it, so it needed two soldiers to use it together. There were two soldiers behind them who were slightly lucky than them, and they also held four meters of spears. The reason why they were slightly lucky than them was that they had at least two human shields in front of them.
To be honest, even with such equipment, the soldiers standing in the front row were absolutely alive. All the soldiers decided to draw lots at that time, who wanted to do this kind of work, and whoever got this one, the good wine and meat that day was enough - basically the same as the last meal in the prison.
"I should be a deserter."
Seeing the whistling cavalry and the cavalry's rifle clamped under their armpits, the last glimmer of hope of the soldiers standing in the first row was shattered, many people had such thoughts.
Of course, more people are just shocked.
The chain armored cavalry immediately came into contact with the super spear - and then the speeding war horse whined and was stabbed hard in the chest - some were cavalry - under the action of huge inertia, even the heavy chain armor worn could not avoid their fate of being poked out - however, the super spear soldiers on the opposite side were also uncomfortable, and their hands and arms were absolutely broken, dislocated, twisted and deformed - under the medieval medical treatment, the possibility of them becoming wasteful people is quite high...
Of course, in the end, most of them did not become useless people. Instead, they became dead people.
How could the war horses under the action of inertia be stopped so simply? Although they paused and slightly slowed down - however, the chain armored cavalry in the front row still resolutely plunged into the Earl of Felix's front line, whether they were alive or dead.
Under the same inertia, the cavalry's rifle in their hands stabbed through them, and usually two soldiers, who were holding super spears in the front row, were pierced through them at once. Then they broke with a "click".
However, even so, these chain-armored cavalry attacks have killed more than one more enemy - those who are pierced into candied haws by a cavalry, and those who are trampled by horses and trampled to death by horses. And those behind are overwhelmed by horses and human corpses - on the battlefield, falling to the ground is basically equal to death. No one will be kind enough to wait for you to get up. Whether it is an enemy or your own people, they will rush to step on, step on... until you step on the meat paste.
The first strike of the eight hundred chain-armored cavalry sent at least 3,000 soldiers from Earl Felix's side to heaven... or hell. Ranran, this is not the most terrifying. The most terrifying thing is the huge panic caused by this group of cavalry. Seeing that the first strike had such a huge lethality, even those professional soldiers changed their faces. The recruitment of militias was even more like fighting and wanting to run.
The real battle begins after this.
After the first attack, the chain armored cavalry built by Olaf III was almost completely lost. Any monarch who had such a loss had to be heartbroken. However, Olaf III had no such mood and time at all - more than 20,000 soldiers under his command rushed over again after a few minutes.
"Charge." At this moment, Earl Felix's face was thrusting with discomfort. Such a large-scale cavalry charge actually had such powerful power. It was the first time that the Earl himself had seen it.
"Is it possible that I lost this battle like this?" The count felt the urge to die when he thought of this.
At this moment, Egil, who was standing next to him, discovered that a cavalry team with a total of more than 800 people slipped away quietly from his eyes.
...This is half of the number of almost all the knights of the Felix power, plus their knight entourages, and light cavalry.
Is the other half on the other side? Is the side charge? Cut. A trick.
Egil thought so sadly as he looked at the cavalry forward.
"But, you need to pay a little attention."
Egil waved his hand and two teams of four hundred crossbow-carrying militias, three teams of three hundred Viking soldiers, one team of three hundred Viking soldiers, and one team of fifty battlefield sects followed quietly...
At this moment, the battle on the front battlefield became fierce - Earl Felix, whose morale dropped due to a round of charge and lost a lot of professional soldiers, was in a very bad situation at this moment. There were alarms everywhere on the entire front, and there were even a small group of retreats in several places - and then they were suppressed by the Viking Warrior Supervisor Team sent by the cold-blooded Earl.
However, this is not a solution. The Count stood on a high ground, and hundreds of Viking warriors holding axe shields stood tall. This was the last unit that the Count could mobilize.
On the front battlefield, Earl Felix's side was suppressed layer by layer, and seeing a complete collapse was not a dream. However, the Earl's face was still as iron as iron, and his eyes were cold and he stared at the battlefield.
"here we go."
Finally, the corner of the earl's mouth curled up, and an extremely hideous smile appeared - looking at the battlefield, Olaf III's army was in a big uproar, and it was actually attacked by a large number of cavalrymen. The recruited peasant soldiers were suddenly dispersed and fled without a life. Behind them, knights, knight entourages and light cavalrymen were chasing and massacres.
The battle situation changed immediately, and Olaf III's army was shaken! However, Earl Felix was not happy at all - instead, he was even more surprised than when he was suppressed before, and could not help blurting out.
Chapter completed!