King’s Kingdom

Duke Brando clearly knew that these peasants and soldiers whose hearts were occupied by fear were like runaway cattle, and it was impossible to constrain them to form an array again.

When they arrived at the point of disintegration, nearly 2,000 troops had already plunged into the third thousand-man phalanx, so it became inevitable to prevent the chain reaction from happening. The regular army under his command used spears and swords and shields. , slaughter these runaway peasants and soldiers like crazy.

Of course, their purpose was not to kill all the deserters. In fact, what Duke Brando wanted was to prevent the rout soldiers from attacking other phalanxes, and disrupting the formation would lead to the rout of more people.

In Duke Brando's view, the defeat of 3,000 people is nothing but a mustard disease. Preventing more people from escaping and preventing the collapse of the entire line is the most important thing.

Under the slaughter of the regular army, these scattered peasants and soldiers were full of thirst for life, and turned around and ran to the rear.

This kind of situation made the Lanyin heavy cavalry who drove the peasants and soldiers very unhappy. The situation was very good, maybe they could make great achievements, but now they are disturbed by this group of people, and the expected achievements and glory have all changed. became a fantasy.

The angry knights immediately increased the speed of their horses and ran towards the 500 regular troops driving away the peasants and soldiers...

"The rotten maggots in the stinky ditch! Damn it!" Duke Brando has been paying attention to the situation here, and when he saw Lan Yin's heavy riding increase the horse's speed, he immediately understood their intention.

Because the mission was to suppress deserters, the five hundred regular troops did not list a complete formation, and their weapons were of different lengths, and they had no ability to counter cavalry at all.

Just listening to the sound of the horse's hooves getting more and more rapid, if you have a good eye, you can even see the white smoke spewing from the nostrils of the iron-boned horse. With an unmatched speed, the Lanyin heavy riding headed by the iron-clad paladin seems to be a sharp shot. Like a spear, it easily pierced through the 500 regular soldiers.

Although they were wearing open armor, after all, they only had one layer, and they were not the kind of armor that defied the sky. In fact, even if they were wearing chest plate armor, they faced high-speed cavalry charges with such sharp lances.

There was no suspense, and no accident happened. More than half of the 500 regular troops lost their ability to fight under a single charge of the Lanyin Heavy Cavalry.

Not only the cunning lances of the Lanyin heavy riders, but also the warhorses under their crotch brought huge damage to this group of warriors.

In particular, the iron-boned horses ridden by the iron-clad paladins were just like high-speed cars. Everyone in front of them was knocked away a few meters away. All of them were broken bones, and many people were killed directly. exist.

Theodosius looked at it, this is good!

I didn't expect this group of people to be so good!

I thought it was a king, but it was actually bronze!

Immediately, the little nervousness in his heart disappeared, and it was replaced by something relaxed and happy. The 50,000-strong army sounded quite intimidating.

Without any hesitation, Theodosius immediately asked Critidos to come forward with a prairie hussar to harass him continuously.

Critidos herself also has high attainments in tactics. She understands Theodosius' ideas very well, and takes the steppe hussars to make a charge, but she is round and round before hitting the opponent. Turn around and do not engage in head-on conflict with enemy forces.

Under such a series of harassment, several phalanx formations broke out, and the regular army supervising the battle tried their best to keep the formation from collapsing.

Of course, Theodosius would not give up such a great opportunity.

"The Varangian Guard, launch an attack on the enemy's right side!"

Hearing Ivar's roar, the commanders of each wing team also gave orders at the same time to maintain a loose battle formation. These strong and sturdy warriors charged towards the enemy with two-handed swords.

The deterrent force brought by such burly men is second only to the charge of the cavalry. When they slowly advance forward, the sense of oppression they bring is completely different from that of the cavalry.

Kritidos also paid great attention to the cooperation between the arms. When she saw the Varangian Guards charging towards the enemy formation on the far right, she immediately made another charge to deter the soldiers before they arrived, rubbing their square. The formation took away the lives of more than a dozen peasants and soldiers.

Ivar was immediately overjoyed when he saw this. It was a very comfortable thing to have friendly troops on the battlefield who judged the situation extremely correctly.

Looking at the chaotic phalanx in front of them, the Varangian warriors strode in, swung their two-handed swords and rushed in.

In the absence of excellent armor, the two-handed sword is the best harvesting weapon. The shortest among the Varangian warriors is close to 1.9 meters in height, and their tall stature makes them look as terrifying as beasts.

The two-handed sword flew up and down, and not even a single peasant soldier dared to resist. The **** smell spread out in an instant, and more than a hundred peasant and soldiers were brutally cut off as soon as they met...

The collapse happened almost instantly. Seeing that the comrades in the front row were killed neatly, driven by fear, the soldiers in the back row immediately dropped their weapons and ran away.

The hussars cruising around the grasslands like sharks have a role to play. If they rush directly into the formation as light cavalry, they will inevitably suffer casualties. Then you can just die.

Kritidos is indeed a commander with excellent tactician qualities. When she led the soldiers to pursue the pursuit, she kept driving them towards the position of the rebel army.

Ivar also kept in mind Theodosius' warning before the war that the purpose of this war was not to mass-kill the enemy's forces, but to destroy their organization and make them lose their courage to fight.

Destroying the regular army was Theodosius' goal. After all, once this group of peasants and soldiers broke up, they would immediately choose to flee home instead of returning to the castles of these lords.

Of course, the most important thing is to capture the lords who started the rebellion alive. Theodosius must let everyone see the fate of the rebels.

So, Ivar issued a new order to give up chasing the enemies in front of him, try to drive them to other phalanxes, and launch attacks on other phalanxes at the same time.

Theodosius watched the other party's increasingly chaotic situation, and did not intend to wait any longer, and directly ordered the entire army to attack.

The 1,200 system-augmented Lanyin warriors who were deployed in the front row trotted, holding the spears in their hands and advancing. Although Theodosius gave the order to attack, they did not spread out and remained in formation. Queue, after all, in order to exert the greatest power and minimize losses at the same time.

When the peasants and soldiers saw the enemy army advancing across the board, and heard the screams in their ears, they were suddenly helpless. No matter how difficult life was, they still wanted to live.

A larger collapse begins.

Like sewing needles, the iron-clad paladins interspersed back and forth in the array that the rebels had dispersed, trying to create greater chaos.

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