rise of empire total war

Chapter 96 The Battle of Luwen Plain (Cavalry's Death)
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On the battlefield of the Luwen River Plain, the Ramirez heavy cavalry of the brigade rode their horses and galloped straight to the Ravana light infantry a hundred meters in front of them.

At the same time, the black rain of arrows streaked across the sky, falling into the running cavalry brigade with a shrill scream that tore through the air.

In the next second, the horses turned on their backs, and the horses neighed. Many knights were pierced by the armor-piercing crossbow bolts, fell off the horses screaming, and were trampled into a lump of flesh by the horses, a disgusting mixture of flesh and steel. .

"Speed ​​up! Rush over!"

The cavalry commander Ramirez shouted loudly that the rain of arrows shot by the crossbow militia did not shake their desire to charge. In the cavalry commander's shout, all the knights desperately lowered their bodies and urged their horses to go faster. Rush into the enemy's light infantry formation.

But how could Richard let them get what they wanted? After the crossbow militiamen fired the next salvo, they immediately retreated in an orderly manner according to the designated route, no matter how much damage they would cause to the enemy.

Seeing that the enemy who had killed and wounded his subordinates just now turned around and fled back to the heavy infantry's line of defense after his side approached, the commander of the heavy cavalry Ramirez cursed almost angrily, his rough face with beards swelled with anger It was flushed red, and the hair on his body seemed to explode because of it, like an angry lion!

"Charge! Crush them!" The cavalry commander shouted loudly, and put down the lance he was holding first. "Put down the lance! For the king!"

"For the king!!!"

All the cavalry also shouted loudly, put down their lances and speed up their horses, and attack the enemy's defense line in the best condition!
However, the next second, the moment the front hooves of the horse hit the ground under the cavalry commander who was charging at the front, the ground collapsed directly. The horse immediately lost its balance and fell forward with a neigh. The cavalry commander was also caught off guard and was thrown off the horse's back, and then He fell hard to the ground - his chin was the first to hit the ground. The huge impact caused the cavalry commander's jaw and neck to break immediately, and his whole head drooped to the ground in the most bizarre posture.

Not only the cavalry commander who took the lead fell off his horse on the spot, but the huge cavalry team following him also carried them one after another into the trench dug overnight by the Ravana peasants and soldiers.The scene was chaotic, the screams of people mixed with the neighing of war horses, hovering over the trench.

The tragic situation of the comrades-in-arms in the front made the cavalry who charged behind them terrified. The skilled riders quickly steered their horses across the terrible ditch, and then continued to charge forward.However, just a few meters away, the knights only felt the horse step on the air, and then there was the crisp sound of bones breaking, and the whole person fell to the ground along with the horse along with the inertia.

This is the backhand prepared by Kondra himself, a kind of trap that is called a horse trap in China!

The Ramirez knights who were thrown to the ground quickly got up, and then sadly found that their horses basically died in the enemy's trap, not to mention what would happen if they stepped on the air and fell heavily to the ground while running at high speed Injuries, those insidious horse traps alone are enough to scrap a large number of war horses.

Those horses that jumped over the trenches but fell into the horse traps basically had a leg broken. Their horses stepped into the horse traps on the ground while running at high speed, and they were stuck there immediately and could not be pulled out, but their bodies were still in the trap. In the state of running, the bones of the stuck horse's leg were broken.

The Ramirez knights, who had lost their horses, only had time to get up, and the crossbow-bearing militiamen who hid behind the heavy infantry defense line made another effort and gave them deadly crossbow bolts as gifts.The crossbow bolt with armor-piercing effect is more powerful when shot at close range, and can easily penetrate the armor of the Ramirez knights and shoot the enemy.

It is precisely because of the power of the crossbow that the Holy See in history banned the use of crossbows in the Christian world-in their view, lowly farmers equipped with crossbows in war can easily shoot nobles It's not fair, my lord knight.

However, here, the prohibition order of the Holy See is invalid (of course, even if it is effective, Richard, the new Caesar who inherited the tradition of several generations of Caesars in the Holy Roman Empire who despised the Pope, would not abide by it), and Richard can be unscrupulous Use the most cost-effective crossbow militia he can currently recruit.

Seeing that his own cavalry suffered heavy losses without even touching the enemy's clothes, King Oweko could no longer sit idly by, and quickly ordered the buglers to sound the retreat horn to get those precious heavy cavalry to withdraw.At the same time, the eager infantry also received an order to attack!
"Men of Ramirez, go forward!"

Accompanied by dull horns, the flag bearers raised the Ramirez flag and marched together with the large infantry formation.

Looking at the enemy infantry slowly approaching like a rainbow, Richard knew that the most difficult moment was coming soon. The game between the infantry was not as simple as dealing with the enemy cavalry. Richard could only rely on his infantry ...and those heavy cavalry who have been hidden and have not been dispatched so far.

Thinking of the heavy cavalry, Richard not only turned his attention to a forest in the southwest, which was where all the heavy cavalry in the entire army was located, and was also Richard's trump card for victory.

"Load the crossbow and prepare to shoot!"

While Richard was distracted, the crossbow militiamen walked out of the safe defense line of heavily armored soldiers under the command of the commander, and trotted all the way to the back of the trench where a large number of enemy cavalry had been damaged. Crossbow arrows, stringing the crossbow machine, from the corner of the eye drifted to the closer and closer enemies from time to time.

Finally, the Ramirez infantry entered the furthest range of the crossbow machine, but the commander of the crossbow militia did not give the order to shoot. He stared at the front of the enemy with his sharp eyes while estimating the distance.

Although the crossbow can also be thrown like a bow and arrow, the accuracy of the shot will be greatly reduced, and it can almost be said to hit by chance.

Therefore, the commander of the crossbow militia did not intend to order the soldiers to projectile, but just like fighting against the cavalry, wait for the enemy to approach before launching a wave of deadly straight salvo!

Richard did not continue to pay attention to what was happening on the front battlefield. He knew very well what would happen next.

Looking at the position of the king's flag behind Ramirez's army, Richard suddenly had a plan, and quickly called the orderly, and ordered: "The orderly, go and inform Sir Frank that he and the cavalry should Always ready to fight."

"Yes, Your Majesty Caesar!" The orderly immediately led away.

Just after the messengers galloped to the southwest, fighting began on the frontal battlefield.The crossbow-wielding militiamen, under orders from their commanders, fired at the enemy's vanguard (i.e., light infantry), who then counterattacked after being attacked.

This scene is actually similar to the battle a day ago!
(End of this chapter)