The flat wilderness is full of western wolves riding flags and powerful cavalry stepping out of the dust on the ground, just like several tornadoes blowing through the trembling earth and groaning unbearable.
They frantically rushed to win in the plain wilderness, but they shouted loudly, and the huge array was endless, and the wheat waves stretched into the distance layer by layer.
The butcher Lilong looked at the so-called first prosperous city in Guanlan Mainland and Pearl Mainland, showing greed in his eyes, just like a wolf seeing fresh flesh and blood. He licked his dry lips and squeezed out a strange laugh with a hoarse voice.
All grassland warriors are full of expectations for the coming blood shed. They are eager to kill and plunder, and they are eager to enter the richest area of the continent and become the masters of the mainland from now on.
The huge grassland army array corresponds to the large phalanx of St. Will’s heavy infantry
St. Will’s heavy infantry phalanx is a kind of offensive and defensive phalanx tactics.
It evolved from the earliest gun shield phalanx foundation. The phalanx infantry is equipped with inlaid breastplate, auxiliary infantry shield in the left hand and spear in the right hand, in addition to a javelin that can be thrown.
Compared with St. Will’s heavy infantry phalanx, the gun shield phalanx is loosely arranged with soldiers about 2 meters apart. On the one hand, this is enough to give full play to the strong close combat ability of heavy infantry. On the other hand, this loose formation has low requirements for terrain, and most complex terrain can move, and its formation transformation is very easy. In addition, the ability to avoid fire damage in trebuchets and the like is obviously enhanced, but the disadvantage is that the density is not enough to resist the impact of cavalry
However, the people of St. Will ingeniously arranged a certain number of templars in the gap between the heavy infantry of St. Will.
These templars can be said to be the real top strength of the United Kingdom of Saint-Will. The templar equipment was the best in mainland China at that time. The breastplate of Segmonta was made of multiple layers of iron plates, which had a strong defensive ability. The disadvantage was that it was heavy, which was not conducive to the impact of templars. Usually, they were a heavy knight with four retinues called "companion warriors". When attacking, the retinue warriors would follow the templars to protect their left and right, while attacking enemy cavalry from the Ministry regardless of their own danger.
The whole St. Will infantry phalanx can be said to be the main fighting force of the heavy infantry main templar, which constitutes the whole phalanx. It is arranged in three rows and progressively has strong continuous fighting ability.
However, this kind of infantry phalanx is still lacking in the defense against cavalry’s impact. When fighting against this tactic, cavalry will often become stereotyped. First, a small amount of javelins will be equipped, and the light cavalry with bows and arrows will wander outside the phalanx to meet the enemy first and try their best to interfere with the regularity of the enemy phalanx. When the two phalanxes are close enough, spears will poke each other. When the other formation is scattered, the elite cavalry will form a sharp knife formation and insert it from the other side. Once the infantry phalanx is cut, its basic combat ability will be paralyzed.
Therefore, such a heavy infantry phalanx usually has "flank phobia" and "cavalry phobia"
Later, it was Mambafest the Great who refused to take the place of the heavy infantry front line to solve the cavalry impact problem, but then the heavy infantry’s mobile attack ability became weaker, which shows that St. Will was naturally good at defending and not good at attacking.
However, in any case, in terms of pure arms and positional warfare in the mainland today, people can be stronger than St. Will’s military.
Since there is no Yugoslav capital to rely on at the root of the city of Mitterrand, the hope that St. Will can stop the fighters of Xiguo now lies in their pride in the heavy infantry phalanx.
It is a great test for Xiguo people whether they can break this iron weapon surrounded by layers of armor.
One hundred thousand St. Wilhelm soldiers, fifteen thousand templars and sixty thousand retinues outside the city of Mitterrand have constituted the last defense force of Mitterrand.
Once the prairie people beat this team for such a short time, St. Will will have no decent resistance unless Spokane can fly back to Mitterrand from Basra with wings.
"Emperor, please bless your people". Alexandria, the city behind the battlefield? Pope Albright sincerely prayed to the sky, and the huge and spectacular army array scared him to tremble. Unfortunately, the Pope had to come out to inspire everyone to boost morale. His eyes were full of smoke and his ears were full of terror, and his feet were rumbling and trembling. Although others were too scared to even look at the battlefield, they could kneel down and pray. Unfortunately, this time the emperor’s old man was still unmoved.
Different from the professional soldiers in the farming world, the nomadic people in the west wind prairie implement the tribal soldier system as the main unit of the tribe, even if the soldiers of the same tribe are divided into the same tribe, all the 15-year-old and 70-year-old men will fight as horses, horses, livestock and horses.
When fighting, the team establishment base is also organized according to the system of animal husbandry, family, tribe, etc. Around the bloody battlefield, soldiers who love their relatives or neighbors and friends are particularly brave and cooperate with each other as well as trained troops.
Because prairie people have always been accustomed to the war, once married with children fails, not only will it be difficult to protect itself, but also their family members will suffer. Therefore, prairie people can often exert great fighting power to defeat their opponents in a desperate battle. In addition, as early as Chi Di’s grandfather’s administration, he introduced the reward and punishment system into the war, and at the same time, he introduced the lianzuo system into the battlefield cowardice. Not only will people be severely punished, but their families, relatives and even neighbors will be implicated, which makes the soldiers of Xiguo more fierce and brave in wartime.
On the one hand, it is the core of the will of the family and tribe, and on the other hand, it is religious and afraid to devote itself to the original ecology. Superstition anesthesia is about to have the strongest collision.
On one side, if the storm is raging, the passion will come and go like fire; If one side is frozen, gloomy, calm and motionless, it will be like a mountain.
Several flags, large and small, are painted with totem signs of various families and tribes. At first glance, the grassland soldiers are far from the St. Will’s army
However, at the moment when the attack whistle sounded, it was overwhelming to flock to the west, and the cavalry brought people the fury of death
Grassland cavalry have their own unique ways to attack in positions. They are famous for their lax military discipline in the military discipline array and arms. They are lax and indulgent in the pursuit of unity and coordination, and emphasize the impact more. The arms are also free to play the front row and charge to the grassland cavalry. There are all kinds of weapons in their hands, spears, steel knives, maces, hammers and all kinds of light and heavy weapons, depending on their personal preferences.
Compared with the rigorous thinking and scientific division of labor, the division of labor of regular army grassland nomads in the literary world is so inconspicuous that their cavalry combined with archers has a long impact, and they can still bend their bows and shoot the moon on Mercedes-Benz horseback with great accuracy.
People who have abandoned regional shooting with too many waves and arrows have always been good at precision shooting.
At the same time, I heard several bowstrings ringing in unison, and sharp arrows flew fiercely to the large phalanx of St. Will’s heavy infantry
With a sharp arrow piercing the sky with the roar of death, the situation staggered into a sky, and the rain fell fiercely on the chest of St. Will’s soldiers, with arms and shields
Their arrows are fierce, overbearing and strong, and even heavy armor is hard to resist. With the arrows, the rain falls on them, and the clouds of blood explode in the heavy infantry phalanx. One after another, it seems that people are the most beautiful and piercing flowers.
It is difficult to be a marksman in a fixed land, but it is twice as difficult to shoot an arrow in a high-speed sports horse. However, after being trained from birth, grassland soldiers have come to this point. This unique skill is the terrible thing of nomadic cavalry, which is the important reason why they are invincible in the battlefield. It is far away to shoot an arrow with a bow, and it is as fast as the army meets them. It can be seen that the division of labor does not necessarily mean that scientific integration is sometimes more important.
Compared with having a good formation and the best armor defense, the St. Will infantry phalanx has a deficiency in long-range shooting, and they lack enough shooters to confront the enemy
However, the people of St. Will have their own ways to deal with this situation.
"Close formation and shield lifting!" A St. Will infantry commander shouted at the top of his lungs. As soon as he shouted, hundreds of middle and grass-roots commanders sent their orders to the whole huge army, which ran like a precision machine.
A large number of soldiers moved according to the pre-trained process. Instead of charging forward, they immediately changed from a scattered infantry phalanx to a dense phalanx. At the same time, all shields were assembled together. Hula, a large infantry shield was lifted at the same time, covering the infantry soldiers behind the shield with almost no gap. This is the famous formation of the Saint-Will people. The Iron Tortoise Array passed through the formation when the grain protection team was rescued in shallow water.
Iron turtle array is a magic weapon of St. Will’s housekeeping, but it is only learned by the wind.
Give full play to its own advantage of reloading armor and thick shield. The Saint Wilhelm’s army will give full play to its defensive advantage. The bow and arrow damage of grassland cavalry will become smaller in an instant, and a few arrows can shoot through the gap, but the soldiers in the shield array are very important.
But grassland cavalry is not a horse archery skill.
They also have their own unique means to deal with the heavy armor iron turtle array.
The first wave of 3,000 prairie cavalry suddenly flashed several swinging javelins from behind after riding near St. Will. This javelin handle is short and sharp, and its throwing power is quite amazing. Because of the momentum brought by the galloping of the war horse and the throwing power of the pitcher, the weight and lethality of the pike itself are quite amazing.
One by one, throwing guns at St. Will crazily, the heavy infantry penetrated their shields and nailed them firmly to the ground.
However, at this moment, the St. Will people are also fighting back. They also throw guns. Although the throwing strength is not as good as that of the other side, the grassland cavalry’s defense means are relatively weak
The two sides almost exchanged lives at equal value, and each threw spears first to show a middle-distance war. A group of grassland cavalry were shot down and the horses ran wildly. However, most of the grassland cavalry were still close to the heavy infantry phalanx.