When the Normans and their allies saw that the other party was actually rushing towards their fortress on horseback, they were all shocked and said they were incomprehensible. Indeed, the Mongols were riding the best war horse in the world. They were first-class in speed, impact and physical strength. They did not need too much care, or even too good feed. With such amazing strategic resources, the Mongols could not rise.

However, this is a siege, a siege! Although the fortress on the outer defense line of the Norman Empire is civil and wooden structure. After all, the rammed earth is tilted upward at an angle of 75 degrees and is two meters high. On top of the rammed earth, there is a wooden wall of three meters high and two meters wide. With such a posture, even the Mongolian cavalry cannot jump up, right?

Of course, I was surprised and surprised. The soldiers of the Norman Empire, as well as their allies, soldiers from Hungary, Austria and Moscow still set their bows and arrows, and used their crossbows and city defense crossbows in their hands to shoot arrows to kill the Mongolians. And further afield, the main body of this line of defense, on the two large fortresses, after the commissioning of the engineering troops, the twelve-pound long-barrel cannons also began to roar. Twenty cannons fired in a round of volleys, and twenty shots landed on the ground and blossomed bombs hit the Mongolian cavalry group.

Subutai's attack was to fight fast. Therefore, no heavy cavalry was sent to the battle. Now the ones running in the front are all light cavalry wearing leather robes and silk-lined with silk - these cowhide robes with a lot of grease on them have certain defense against light weapons such as swords. The tough silk has a good defense against arrows. If a nomadic cavalry with such equipment encounters ordinary battles, the chance of survival is still good.

However, shells! They are shells! And the most powerful weapon cannon in this era! In the face of the terrifying power of artillery, the defense equipment of the nomadic cavalry was as if it were paper-paste. It had no effect at all. When the flowering bullet exploded among the Mongolian cavalry, it was accompanied by incredible and incredible screams. The broken people and the corpses of war horses were thrown into the high place. Then they fell down. The heat on the body of the cavalry rushing towards them, and the heat on the faces made the corpses emit a burning smell, as if it was a rain of flesh.

The Norman artillery fired a volley of fire, and took away the lives of hundreds of Mongolian cavalry. Generally speaking, this round of bombing was enough to dampen the morale of the enemy - however, I don't know if it was an illusion, or the people on the opposite side were already crazy - the Norman looked over from afar. The Mongolian cavalry, whose flesh and blood were covered with flesh, not only wasn't afraid, but instead showed an excited, joyful and terrifying smile.

"Ah hahahahahaha!!!" Just like the devil in hell. These Mongolians who were stimulated by blood, corpses, and such a curious way of death were not as panicked as the Norman soldiers expected. Instead, they laughed wildly. The speed of charging forward was a little faster!

"What a bunch of animals!" General Sula spat, then slapped him next to him, a Norman militia crossbowman who seemed to be stunned and shouted loudly: "What are you looking at?! Shoot quickly! Do you want the Mongols to rush over and chop you up?"

Around the surroundings, the other Norman Generals and Norman officers also shouted loudly, asking their soldiers to calm down and continue shooting to block the enemy's attack.

Although it is not as thrilling as cannons, nor as eye-catching as city defense crossbows. However, in fact, it is indeed the arrow barrage composed of these single, inconspicuous crossbowmen and archers that are the best means of urban defense in this era.

So, after a brief chaos, thousands of heavy crossbowmen, militia crossbowmen, militia archers, peasant archers and nomads... These soldiers holding short bows, short compound bows, pulley crossbows, and slashed crossbows began to pull the bows and wind the strings desperately. They shot in groups at the dispatch of Norman officers and noble knights from other countries. They threw rain of arrows at the dense array of Mongolian cavalry.

The Mongolians, who were born as masters of riding and shooting, were naturally not to be outdone. Under the dispatch of the other party, the hundreds of Mongolian cavalry in the front row were uniform, and almost at the same time raised the reversal cavalry bow in their hands. An arrow like a locust "buzzed" and returned to the Norman army at the top of the city.

The Mongols now occupy most of Asia. They have countless skilled craftsmen under their command. The bows and arrows are all well-made, and they are not inferior to the Normans' equipment. Moreover, the Mongolian cavalry's shooting speed is extremely fast and accurate. When riding on the horse, they can take a bow and arrow, and it takes five seconds to hit a round. Three bows and arrows can hit at least one. It is even better than the light archers that the Norman Empire is proud of!

As the Mongolian cavalry charges, more and more Mongolian cavalry enter the range. They set their bows and arrows, and each shot can bring down the Norman United troops on the top of the city to fall down! If it is a regular army wearing plate armor, or a militia commander and nobleman wearing plate chain composite armor, they can achieve complete defense against such arrows.

However, if it is a chain armor - even if it is a heavy chain armor, those elite recruits wearing heavy chain armor will still be greatly damaged after being hit by the Mongolian bow and arrow! As long as the Mongolian arrow with barbed hits the key, it will be enough to make a strong soldier lose his combat effectiveness. Not to mention those ordinary soldiers equipped with light chain armor or leather armor, and even those peasant soldiers who cannot afford to even have armor, are forced to recruit by other countries.

However, it still suffers.

Although the Mongolian cavalry's cavalry skills were unparalleled in the world. Their allies, the light cavalry of other nomadic peoples, also reached the level of cavalry. However, they still suffered a loss when facing the Norman army based on wooden walled scepters.

From the opposite side, the place where the Mongolian cavalry began to charge to the bottom of the fortress, at a distance of 800 meters. The guns were bombarded, and the torsional catapults could be smashed, and the city defense crossbow could also be shot. However, ordinary crossbows could not reach the strength.

When the opponent was three hundred meters away from the city tower, the Norman heavy crossbowman holding a pulley crossbow on the city wall shot the first round of arrows.

At 200 meters, Eastern European nomads holding compound bows recruited soldiers, and light cavalry from Moscow, Hungary and Austrians, as well as militia crossbowmen holding crossbows, also began to shoot.

Be closer, the recruiting archers, hunters, and poachers holding short bows and hunting bows began to shoot.

In this way, about 5,000 crossbowmen, 120 city-defense crossbows, and twenty artillery pieces were divided into several waves. The closer they got, the more people were shooting. When the opponent approached less than fifty meters away from the city wall, some Norman recruited militias equipped with javelins and flying axes, or javelins from Livornia and Eastern Europe, the javelin cavalry also joined the ranks of shooting. The real thing was as dense as raindrops.

The recurved bows equipped by the Mongolian cavalry are close to the shooting distance of the Norman United Army's composite bow. That is to say, before they even entered the range, they were shot by various firepower from the Norman Army...

At a distance of 800 meters, the Mongolian cavalry quickly whipped the horse and could run away in less than a minute. In just this minute, more than 5,000 crossbowmen, along with infantry, artillery, city defense crossbows and catapults equipped with javelin flying axes, shot desperately. They called the Mongolians all over... The Mongolian Pioneer Army, this time, the 5,000 light cavalry sent by the vanguard, suddenly one-third of the casualties! The battlefield was covered with Mongols and their war horses, and the closer they were to the Normans, the more defense lines they were!

However, under such a violent blow, the other party still maintained a high morale. When they got closer, the Normans discovered that the people were carrying a sack full of sand and soil.

The Mongolian cavalry, who were extremely skilled in riding, stopped in front of the Norman fortress. They forced the firepower at the top of the city and threw the bag of sand and soil under the base of the city wall. Then they continued to draw out bows and arrows and shoot with the Normans at the top of the city. Some couldn't wait to hold sabers and try to climb up to the top of the city with bare hands. However, few of them were either shot to death or hit by the stones thrown from the city. Even if they successfully climbed up, they were rushed up by the Normans around them, cut into several sections of swords and threw them down.

Thousands of Mongolian soldiers did not disperse and attacked the twenty or so fortresses at the same time, but focused their targets on the three fortresses on the southernmost side. They used sand, soil, other dead Mongolians, and their war horses - some of them were still alive and killed by the Mongols themselves - they used these things as materials to lay a slope under the Norman wooden fort. Such a project consumed about one-third of their troops. Now the vanguard, or the most vanguard of the suicide squad, is only more than a thousand left.

However, the more than a thousand Mongolians still excitedly waved their scimitars, held their shields high, and launched a charge towards the Norman Empire fortress along the ramp paved with the bodies of soil, people and war horses! On the top of the city, the Norman soldiers were roaring loudly, and the brave Norman professional soldiers and some recruited soldiers, and the fierce nomads in turn launched a counterattack towards the Mongols along this slope.

In this way, the two armies collided together. Although the Mongols whose combat effectiveness dropped sharply after getting off the horse still maintained their fierce nature, they were still not opponents of the well-equipped Norman army. Their formation was quickly broken by the Norman battle axe. And at the top of the city, with the long-range support of other Norman soldiers, the Mongols' vanguards were suppressed tightly - at this moment, the second group of Mongolian cavalry, who were also five thousand men, rushed towards this battlefield...
Chapter completed!