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In this way, the two armies began to contact one. In the previous rain of bows and crossbows, the Swiss lost nearly one-twentieth, or about five hundred soldiers. Such losses had nothing to do with the Swiss. These guys were arranged in groups of three hundred or five hundred, forming rectangular square arrays, and several small square arrays formed a relatively large square array. In this way, dozens of square arrays formed a prism formation. The middle was thicker and the two wings were thinner.

When they took the enemy, the Swiss did not charge. Of course, the spears of two-meter-four meters in their hands were not very suitable for charge. In fact, they did not even need to charge because they had a better way to kill people.

The terrain of the mountains is not suitable for cavalry development. Therefore, the Italian heavy cavalry actually dismounted and fought. In this way, Venice had a total of 5,500 heavy infantry equipped with plate chain composite armor. In addition, the 3,500 projection infantry were actually equipped with melee weapons and chain armor. Put down the crossbow and draw out the long sword and are standard infantry. In other words,

In fact, Venice owns nine thousand fully armed infantry soldiers. Such a terrifying armored rate is simply incredible to the various Catholic kingdoms of Europe.

The Duke of Charles, who stood on the hill and looked down, was also very surprised by this. It was the first time he saw such a scene. Italy was not a Norman, nor an Eastern Roman, nor a Norman, or the Eastern Roman so much arable land and population. Not that there was such a vast territory. However, the Venetians had surpassed these two powerful kingdoms in terms of equipment! This is the economic strength that the Venetian city-state is proud of! The miracle created by navigation and commerce!

However, in the age of cold weapons, equipment is certainly part of the real strength. But what is more important than equipment, and even more important than the so-called level of training and the so-called organization, is morale.

The Venetians are very rich.

Therefore, the Venetians are afraid of death.

Or it is precisely because of the wealth of the Venetians that the Venetians are afraid of death. As the saying goes, the biggest tragedy in the world is that people die but the money is not over. Although it is unlikely that the Venetians have heard of this, the truth is the same. What they have at home are real estate goods, wives, children, gold and silver, and merchant shipping shares. Wouldn't it be cheaper for others if they die?

So you must never die.

So when facing the extremely wealthy Swiss spearmen, they looked at the Swiss who were dressed in a ragged manner, but their eyes were filled with greed and terrifying light.

The Venetians were timid.

Seeing that his army was cowardly before fighting, Venetian army commander Little Dandoro was extremely anxious, but he had no choice but to say that this guy was good at naval warfare. After decades of storm experiences since he started running on a boat at the age of fourteen, he commanded the navy to fight like an arm and finger. He was even better than the governor of Renaya. However, he was a little hard-working for the army. He was not as good as Andrew in sea and land. If it weren't for the fact that there was no one under the old Dandoro, he wouldn't have driven the ducks to put them on the shelves and shot his son. After all, if Little Dandoro died, the Dandoro family would be defeated...

The troops mentioned here are really no one under their command. It does not mean that there is no military general in the Republic of Venice who can conquer and fight well. Instead, these military generals who can conquer and fight well are unreliable.

Because they are all Catholics.

As for soldiers, their political vision is generally low, with developed limbs and simple minds. They cannot understand that the old Dandoro had converted to Orthodox religion and surrendered to Eastern Rome. Such a shameful and ungodly method was out of consideration for harmony. They only knew one thing.

"Oh, this is so embarrassing. Why don't this old bastard die even when he is eighty? Look at his old fool..." Therefore, Old Dandoro is very sure that if these guys were allowed to control the army, then with his toes, he could guess what they would do. He must first cut himself down, and then announce that Venice will reconvert to Catholicism and then announce that everything that enters Venice's territory is the enemy. He ordered the army of Eastern Rome and Norman to be all Loukai, otherwise he would go to war with it.

There is no after after that. At least Venice has no after and small

Dandoro has followed his father for so long, but he has learned a lot of political power and tricks. He knows the meaning of the old father and is also very knowledgeable about the natural blood connection, so he can't make the decision to betray his father.

So, although it is not certain that Little Dandoro can win, at least he can be sure that he will not rebel. For this reason, Old Dandoro decided to let his son go to war as the head coach of the Venetian army.

But it really doesn't work.

If Egil is here at this time, you can see it by expanding the character genitals of Little Dandoro. This guy only has one qualified general and one from a military academy. There are a total of two frontal genitals, and the command points are only two.

He is a real rookie monster. He is not the opponent of Duke Charlie who is good at fighting.

The Duke of Charles's special stunt Death Assault can increase the attack frequency and attack power. Such powerful and practical stunts have also increased the attack power of the Swiss mercenaries to a higher level.

The soldiers on both sides were in a mountainous terrain. The Venetians occupied several continuous mountains and hoped to play their condescending advantages. However, because the Venetians were very afraid of death, they did not dare to charge. Therefore, they could not shake the formation of the Swiss spearmen.

With the advantage of the super spear, Swiss spearmen can calmly assassinate the opponent with spears outside the Venetian attack range.

Although the Venetians are well-armed and the composite shield is also very strong. With the blessing of Duke Charles' stunts, the attack power of the Swiss mercenaries has been greatly improved. Even if they cannot be stabbed to death at one time, ten times, one hundred times, one plate chain composite armor is not a real plate armor after all, and the joints of the armor pieces are flaws. The Swiss mercenaries aimed at these places and constantly assassinated the Venetians.

"Damn it! Go forward! Go forward! Go forward! Think about the consequences of failure! Behind you is Venice! That's your wife and children! What kind of consequences will be there after the city of Venice is broken? Can I tell you?,, seeing the soldiers on the side wearing heavy armor and still dodging, Xiao Dandoro was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He drew out his long sword and waved it to the sky, and shouted like this.

Inspired by this, imagined the miserable state after Popo, the Venetians finally plucked up the courage to forcefully squeeze out the Swiss mercenaries' guns with their heavy armor, and finally entered the combat radius.

However, before these Venetian heavy infantry had time to be happy, they saw the Swiss man holding a long halberd holding his hands high, and the Swiss halberd with a cold light suddenly fell down. The Venetian heavy infantry was shocked and quickly raised his shield to block it. With a "click", the Swiss halberd soldiers who had enough strength cut the shield with iron edges in half.

Then before the Venetian heavy infantry could react, they raised their long halberd and chopped them down, followed the other party's peeping down, and cut the Venetian heavy infantry's helmet. They took away a layer of scalp, and embedded the halberd blade into the skull, then slid down, cutting the nose into two halberd.

"Ah!!!!" The Venetian heavy infantry let out a scream that was not like a human, and then covered her head and fell down...

In this way, the spearmen were used as the backbone, and the halberds were assisted to increase lethality, and used for melee combat. The Swiss phalanx was well-known. With its absolute combat power, it had an overwhelming advantage over the Venetians.

On the right wing, the Venetians looked even more dangerous than the Romans on the front battlefield.

At this moment, on the front battlefield. With the longbow ejected auxiliary attack like heavy rain, the Roman heavy infantry can enjoy the greater benefits of the shield this time. On the front, the Eastern Roman heavy infantry fighting with the death warriors swinging axe with both hands and professional Viking soldiers swinging axe with tomahawk. Not to mention the Eastern Roman soldiers in the back rows had to lift the boat high and protect their heads to resist the longbow ejection like hail and thunderstorm.

Even so, many Eastern Roman heavy infantry were still shot to death by longbow feather arrows. The feather arrows as powerful as hail were crackling on the surface of the shield. Although the large shield of Ping Horse was in a certain arc and painted on the surface, it could bounce the feather arrows to a large extent. However, under such a heavy infantry attack like a rainstorm, it was difficult for the heavy infantry to raise their shields well. After a while, they would feel sore wrists were sore.

After that, one of them was not lifted. If the shield was slightly tilted, it would be shot by the leaked arrow and then died. The defense line also had gaps, and the loopholes became more and more, and they became bigger little by little...

But Egil was very heartbroken. The arrows shot out were all money!

The longbowmen's archery scrubbers' special codes, the worn-out bowstrings are all money!!! Even if they can recover some of the iron arrows after the war, it is not very cost-effective! To put it bluntly, longbow soldiers are actually a very expensive army. Although they are really useful.
Chapter completed!