Apocalyptic Dragonborn Lord

Chapter 377 The Knight in the Mud
But Stannis called to him, "Brother Charlie, you don't seem to be taken seriously by your big cousin, have you considered changing jobs?"

Facing this kind of blatant poaching, Charlie didn't show anything, but it was what Stannis wanted to be able to harass the enemy's military spirit before the war.

Watching the other party's negotiator leave with the white flag again, Stannis took a deep breath, and the enemy's attack wave will soon begin.

"Xiaona, hasn't your grandpa come back yet?"

The old man Romon has set off with absolute secrecy for 3 days, but there is still no news.

Xiaona shook her head worriedly, and Stannis knew this was the answer, because what he had told the old man before was to keep it absolutely confidential, and the fact that a traitor had appeared among his own made him uneasy.

"Well, then we can only hope that they have received the news and are ready, let it begin now!"

After Charlie returned to the southern coalition army, a loud horn sounded throughout the battlefield, and the enemy launched an attack as Stannis expected.

And the sequence of battles that followed was exactly as Stannis had imagined. The three rows of archers in the front of the Southern Alliance Army began to step forward in unison, preparing to fire a few rounds of volleys to weaken their own combat power.

They seem to have insufficient control over Stannis' current intelligence. They don't even know that Qiweini's archers have already been replaced with 500-pound strong bows with a limit range of 180 meters. They originally wanted to go to the best of 200 meters. They shot at Evelyn's army from a distance, but they were hit by a rain of arrows like a hailstorm 400 meters away, and suffered heavy losses, because archers are a kind of dispensable auxiliary soldiers in the eyes of the Tanis nobles. So the equipment is poor, and they have no armor under the powerful arrows like javelins. As long as they are hit by the arrows, they will either die or be injured. Soon the archers in the southern border fell into chaos and dispersed.

But these escaped archers did not end up much better than their dead companions. At this time, the impatient knights in the rear had already launched a charge without restraint. They led their respective followers and began to charge in a wedge formation. Most of the archers who came back were trampled into the mud by horseshoes before they could dodge in time. These noble gentlemen really didn't care about the lives of their subordinates.

Even if the charge of hundreds of cavalry looks very imposing, let alone the formation of 1500 cavalry charging, these decisive arms with men and horses like iron towers are like monsters in the eyes of ordinary people.

In history, there are very few infantry who are unwavering before intensive charges, and fear is often the biggest weapon for cavalry to tear apart the infantry phalanx.

Stannis has already noticed that most of his subordinates are beginning to panic instinctively. Although there is still a distance of 500 meters between the two sides, a strong earthquake-like shaking has already been felt in the distance.

"Hold on everyone, we can win!"

Regardless of Xiaona's obstruction, Stannis got off his horse and went to the front of the army in person. He wanted to let everyone see his figure, knowing that even the lord would always fight side by side with them.

This act of Stannis gave Qiwei Ni great courage to promote the army. The archers whose morale had been shaken were revived under the leadership of their respective officers. Round after round of salvos.

The sea of ​​bows and arrows covering the sky and the sun fell on the heads of the heavy cavalry uniformly, but they did not cause any damage as Stannis expected. Although the knights' shields were full of bows and arrows, they caused very few casualties. Some bows and arrows fell on the armor and were also bounced off the smooth armor surface.

Sure enough, in the face of excellent armor, even a heavy bow and arrow cannot cause powerful casualties.

After the enemy had already crossed the 200-meter ruler, Stannis found that only ten figures were shot off his horse.

However, he did not panic. The historical Battle of Agincourt was not achieved with bows and arrows. Most of the arrow rain was used to break up the opponent's formation.

Sure enough, as he thought, the original tight formation of the cavalry became loose because of avoiding bows and arrows. At the same time, the muddy ground and horse repelling posts in front of the formation began to play a role, preventing them from advancing.

It was less than 100 meters away, and the longbowmen gave up projectiles and started to shoot directly. Their precise shots can often be shot through the gaps in the armor, and there can cause considerable damage.

As the horses were injured by the arrows one after another, the cavalry either actively or passively jumped off the horses to avoid the arrows. They had lost their biggest weapons-impact power and war horses, and now they were no different from elite heavy infantry.

Now they are wearing what looks like very heavy armor and are sunken deep in the mud in front of the horse-rejecting post. If the battle happened like it did in history, they would soon exhaust their energy from being sunk in the mud like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Usually lying on the ground.

Stannis had already begun to laugh triumphantly. It seemed that no matter where the knights were playing the buffoons in classic battles, "Haha, all the longbowmen are ready with daggers and short sticks, and go to capture prisoners with me immediately!"

But it didn't happen as the lord expected his subordinates to greet the victory with joy. On the contrary, more people's faces showed a dark color of fear.

"What's going on..." Stannis turned around feeling strange, but found an incredible scene. The knights who were supposed to be stuck in the mud not only showed no signs of struggling, but were even walking like flying on the mud. A few brave knights have already started to move the stakes!

"This is not a routine! Shouldn't they be rolling in the mud!" Stannis was about to go crazy. Who could tell him why the knights in the Westland ran faster than rabbits in iron shells? Are you taking hormones?

But Korodov on the side said to Stannis earnestly: "My lord, do you want to use the mud to trap the knights and then use their exhaustion to crush them?"

"That's right!" Stannis didn't expect that the foolish knight commander also knew his tactics.

"This trick was used at the Battle of Crecy 100 years ago. Do you think it will still work?"

"What, you also have Cressy here!" Stannis no longer cared about thinking so much, "Then someone will explain to me why dismounted knights are more agile than mounted horses!"

At this time, it was time for Xiaona Cope. She raised her fingers and said persuasively: "Since that battle, the knights deeply felt their limitations on the battlefield, so they practiced hard on the ability to run in the mud, and at the same time used The design of the dwarves has greatly reduced the weight of the armor, so do you think they can overcome the troubles of the mud now?"

(End of this chapter)