Chapter 286 Living to Death(1/2)
Roger knew that those who fell, whether they were shot by arrows or not, were now dead.
They will be trampled into mud by their fellow citizens.
But no one cares.
Those Germans who escaped the disaster continued to run forward, shouting, "Praise God" and "God's will".
Roger was very happy. As he had expected in advance, a rain of arrows was not enough to make these Germans, who had been inspired to fight to the death, collapsed.
He believed that these Germans could withstand the rain of arrows like this, for another, or even two more times.
But no matter how many...
Roger put aside this idea and it was meaningless to consider it now.
Even if wrong orders are issued on the battlefield, soldiers must be required to continue to implement them firmly.
Changing orders every day and being hesitant is a taboo on the battlefield.
The God of War hates hesitant people.
What's more, Roger thinks his plan is correct.
As long as the enemy archers' salvo fires are disrupted, the cannon fodder can be sent into the enemy's formation.
He firmly believed that as long as the German infantry rushed into the enemy's formation, the battle would be won.
William couldn't count on it anymore, Roger looked to the left.
He hoped that Odin could disrupt the enemy archers' camp.
Roger saw that the Norman cavalry led by Odin plunged into the enemy's right wing.
It was like a red-hot knife inserted into butter.
Amid the bursting of the lances, about a thousand people on the right wing of the enemy troops disappeared and turned into wreckage all over the ground.
Then Roger saw that Odin and his cavalry continued to rush forward without stopping, passing through the enemy formation and rushed over.
This is a standard cavalry chiseling tactical action.
Roger knew that Odin would turn around and rush back after rushing for a while.
This repeatedly drills through and impacts repeatedly.
This attack method can maximize the power of the cavalry.
Especially when dealing with linear formations like the enemy, this is a very effective cavalry tactic.
Roger felt that Odin was qualified as a cavalry general.
He strictly abides by the principle of cavalry combat: when in contact with the enemy, never lose speed.
But this also means that Roger's hope was shattered.
Roger sighed, thinking that sometimes it is so strange on the battlefield, that commanders can only win if they violate the principles.
He thought that William's more and less fights, Odin's cavalry was drilled through, and that they were all correct in their fighting style.
But if you put it in the entire battlefield, doing so is wrong.
He thought, this is what Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, soldiers are indefinitely powerful, and they will win because of the enemy.
Roger stopped thinking, now he had no way to order Odin to change his tactics.
The two of them were too far apart, and the battlefield was so noisy that no matter how they shouted, the other party could not hear it.
At this time, Roger heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind him.
He turned his head and looked back. It was the officers' regiment. They gathered and stayed behind Roger.
Danny saluted Roger and asked:
"The regiment commander, the Germanic infantry rushed forward, what should we do next?"
Before Roger could figure out what the officers should do, he heard the sound of horns sounding in the enemy's camp.
Roger, who was worried that the situation of the war would change, had no time to answer the officer's questions.
He waved his hand and told the officers to follow him.
Then he turned his eyes to the enemy camp.
Roger saw that as the Norman cavalry cut through the enemy's formation and left, hundreds of Ajinki light cavalry chased out on the enemy's right wing.
They chased the Norman cavalry and shot arrows.
Several Norman cavalry running at the end fell from their horses.
Ajinji light cavalry rushed up and slashed into the dead with a scimitar.
The horns in the enemy camp were heard one after another.
Based on the information collected in advance, Roger judged that the horn sound should be to ask the soldiers to hold their positions.
Obviously, the horn was urging the Ajinji light cavalry who had attacked without authorization to go back.
However, these hundreds of Ajinji light cavalry seemed to have been so shocked by the blood on the battlefield that they did not act according to the command of the horn.
After they killed the landed Norman cavalry, they did not pursue Odin's cavalry. Instead, they turned their heads and rushed around the edge of the battlefield, rushing to the Sicilian archers who were shooting arrows desperately at the enemy's formation.
At this time, the ninth black cloud rose in the enemy camp.
Roger was delighted to find that the enemy's volley was "late" again.
The Ajinji light cavalry's own actions and the enemy's commander's horns wanted to recall them, obviously interfered with the unified volley of the entire enemy's army.
But this time the black clouds were relatively dense, and it gathered into a thick black line in the air.
Then this thick line flew towards the Germanic infantry who had already run through the center of the battlefield and nearly ran to 120 meters.
This evil black line with the breath of death made a whistle of a ghost and smashed its head towards the front of the German "Hong Kong Peak".
Roger saw that the Germanic infantry who had already run to 120 meters at the front of the "Hongfeng", suddenly fell down.
"Hongfeng" seemed to have been cut off by a paper cutter.
That area instantly became an unmanned land.
Only corpses were twitching and twitching, and blood spreading rapidly.
The huge Germanic infantry formation seemed to be shocked.
The Germanic infantry behind this death zone couldn't help but stop and were in chaos, not daring to step into this flesh-and-blood swamp.
But they were still crowded by the dense crowd, pushed by the Germans who kept rushing up behind them, step by step into the blood stain.
So they stopped shouting and fighting, but just moved forward numbly.
Roger understood that although this time the fire-raising attack of the bow and arrows actually killed much fewer people than the previous scattered attacks.
But it creates a stunning visual effect.
No matter who sees his living companions, they will instantly become a large body, and will be frightened to their legs and feet.
Roger could clearly feel that the morale of the German infantry was hit hard.
Roger was silent. He thought that these Germanic infantry were probably not as tenacious as he thought.
He watched as the Germanic infantry had half the distance left.
This distance is enough for enemy archers, and there will be another 2 to 3 volleys.
Roger was very worried.
He felt that these Germanic infantry might not be able to withstand these 2 to 3 volleys.
However, what made Roger happy was that after a brief silence, these northern barbarians seemed to be provoked to have blood.
They let out a horrifying howl:
"Born to death!" "Born to death!"
So the "Hongfeng" continued to move forward, and the momentum seemed to be more intense than before.
Roger turned his eyes to the left-wing battlefield again.
He saw that the Ajinji light cavalry were approaching, Sicilian archers in loose formations.
The Sicilian archers are still shooting archery tenaciously.
The remaining giant shield crossbow soldiers were also stubbornly firing crossbow arrows.
Arrows rushed towards the enemy's huge camp of archers with their anger.
These archers and crossbowmen seemed to be completely unwilling to care. They were rushing towards them, and they were aggressively Ajinji Light Cavalry.
Roger couldn't bear to watch his long-range troops be slaughtered, but he had no extra troops to send.
Moreover, he is 1,500 meters away from the left edge of the battlefield. Even if his horse is fast, it will take three minutes to rush over.
In any case, he could not stop the Ajinji light cavalry from slashing the archers and crossbowmen on the far left.
"Go ahead!"
Roger drove his horse to the left.
He thought that if he could save one, he could not watch Ajinji light cavalry sweep all the way and cut down the archers and crossbowmen in loose formations.
Roger heard that the cavalry behind him all ran with him.
The sound of horse hooves is very messy.
To be continued...