Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

The street was very quiet.

Only the billowing smoke and dust on the endless wheat field about two kilometers away told Bernhard that this tense battle was still going on.

"Dismount! The attendants take care of the horses. The longbowmen set aside the horses! Knights, take out your weapons and prepare to fight!"

Bernhard decided to stage an ambush in the town to prevent the French from advancing to Pontoise.Even if you haven't done your best, you must kill the enemy as much as possible and share the pressure for Talbot.

With the complex urban terrain and the superior firepower of longbowmen, he believes that this is not difficult to achieve.

But just as he gave the order, after the cavalry dismounted, a French cavalry suddenly rushed out from a fork in the road not far ahead.

The distance between the two sides is so close that they can see the sweat beads on the tip of each other's noses——wearing iron cans to fight on a hot day, every soldier is enduring unbelievable sweltering heat.

Especially when Bernhard saw the knight headed by the other party, with a white eagle painted on the shield with a red background, his blood surged even more, causing his forehead to cheeks to glow a layer of blood red.

"Poles! It's Zbysko! Mount, mount! Ready for battle!"

The English cavalry were overwhelmed by the sudden change of order.When the knights in the front followed Bernhard and remounted their horses and replaced their long swords with lances, there were still many people behind who didn't know what happened and were in a mess.

Uh...

Uh...

The two charge horns sounded almost simultaneously.

After a brief acceleration, the cavalry of the British and French collided together on the narrow street.

In an instant, the armor collided and the spear broke.The neighing of war horses was mixed with the roar of warriors, and blood was sprinkled all over the peaceful streets where pilgrims once gathered.

On the English side, the Teutonic knights headed by Bernhard who took the lead in the charge were all professionals who had awakened extraordinary power.Even if the level is not high, the combat effectiveness is better than the French cavalry.

But after suffering heavy casualties at the beginning, the French stabilized the situation with better riding skills and experience.Especially when the Teutonic knights exhausted their strength and their weapons no longer shone with extraordinary light, they gradually showed signs of decline.

Only Bernhard, whose strength was obviously higher than the others, was still fighting furiously.

"Zpisko!" He shouted the opponent's name, with a long sword burning with white flames in his hand, flying across the battlefield like a dragon, unstoppable.

The experienced Polish knight, on the other hand, used the newly purchased pure gold shield that Ma Youfu bought for him to deal with the opponent.

"If it's an ordinary steel shield, it can't stop the enemy's blazing attacks. I used to rely on my youth and strength to attack those Teutonic knights over the age of 45. According to the Marquis of La Manche, this is called" Don't talk about Wude', well, I don't know if the pronunciation of this sentence is correct in Cyres. Now that the retribution is coming, I, an old guy, have to bear the anger of young people..." Zbysko laughed at himself.

He and Bernhard are both middle-level knights at the 10th level, but due to their age, their physical functions have begun to decline, so they are gradually losing.

The "body function" referred to here is not only physical indicators such as strength, agility, and physique, but also the body's ability to absorb, store, and use free magic power.

Not only physics professionals, but even spellcasters will face the dilemma of declining strength due to brain failure when they get older.

Unless one can reach the level of a hero and cross the physical limit of a mortal, even an extraordinary person cannot overcome time and time.

"This is my vengeful rage!" bellowed Bernhard. "Taste it, Pole!"

Bang!

The fine gold shield narrowly and narrowly blocked the blow, but the impact still made Zbysko feel uncomfortable.

The arm holding the shield was sore and numb, and he almost had to grit his teeth to hold it in front of his chest.

He breathed heavily, the smell of rust mixed with sweat filled the helmet.But the Poles are still fighting high.

"Teutonic Knight, if you only have this ability, you will only be captured by me again today!" Zbysko roared, "Look at this trick, Grachi!"

"Grache" is Zbysko's battle cry, which means hail.Whenever the Polish knight yelled out the word, the enemy would be defeated with a dense and violent attack like a hailstorm.

Bernhard was also defeated by this battle cry.

Painful memories of the past came to mind, and the Teutonic knight subconsciously pulled back the distance with his horse's belly, and assumed a defensive posture.

Who knew that what followed would not be a hailstorm of attacks.

After Zpisko drove the enemy back, he whistled and turned his horse's head to retreat.

By the time Bernhard realized he was going, the armies of both sides had disengaged.He didn't expect that the once daring Polish stunned young man would be so cunning after becoming a middle-aged man, and suddenly became frustrated.

"Pursuit, don't let the enemy escape from Saint-Denis!" After Bernhard gave the adjutant an order to outflank, he immediately led the army to chase the French army.

"As long as you pass the next intersection, you can drive the enemy into the encirclement..."

With overdrawn horsepower, it seemed that Bernhard was about to catch up with the enemy, but when he rode his horse and just rushed through an intersection, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a fire at the end of the street on the right from the corner of his eye.

boom!

After hearing the sound of the cannon, Bernhard turned his head immediately, and then saw a very tragic scene: four Teutonic knights riding side by side were directly penetrated by a shell.The knights behind were also stunned by the bloody scene in front of them.

The body of a warrior who has been tempered for thousands of years and the armor that embodies the wisdom and sweat of German craftsmen are powerless in the face of the gunpowder power of the new era.

If the cavalry hadn't been well-trained and controlled the horses in time, the confusion and stampede after the sudden stop would have caused more damage than that shot.

Bernhard, who had been fighting in Eastern Europe for a long time, saw for the first time the power of new weapons on the British and French battlefields where the battle had been fierce for a century.

He stayed for a while, then immediately pulled himself together, and made the most correct choice with his intuition: "The artillery position must be pulled out as soon as possible. Don't worry, the opponent will definitely not be able to fire a second shot before we approach!"

Bernhard was the first to turn around and rushed towards the French artillery positions.

Just as he expected, the French army also knew that this kind of ambush bombardment could only fire one shot and run away.At this time, the artillerymen were humming and humming to hang the artillery on the rack again.

When the enemy was killed, the French artillery showed panic and moved a lot slower. It was not until the English cavalry cleared the roadblocks that they completed the mount and prepared to retreat.

But how can the gunners who are not professional cavalry with six-pound guns outrun the Teutonic knights?

Seeing the two sides getting closer, Bernhard already regarded the French artillery as a trophy that was within reach.

With this gun, over time, England, the Knights, and even the Empire will be able to master this advanced artillery technology.

At this moment, Bernhard suddenly felt a wave of magic power not far away.

Those French artillerymen on horseback were suddenly illuminated by a white light.

A pair of translucent wing decorations appeared on their backs, which seemed to be blessed by some kind of magical effect, and the speed suddenly increased, throwing the British cavalry farther and farther.

Chapter 210 Seventh

Bernhard stood sideways at the exit of Saint-Denis, watching the French riders with light wings on their backs gathered from all over the town, and then quickly evacuated.

He found that hated Polish knight.But the current distance between the two sides and the exhausted horses under their crotches are no longer enough for Bernhard to take revenge, and he can only watch the other party leave.

Bernhard saw a pendant made of some kind of golden hair hanging from Zbysko's chest.Judging from the magical power emanating from it, it was this thing that gave the French cavalry extraordinary mobility.

Unexpectedly, his failure was due to a magic item, Bernhard thumped his thigh violently, feeling extremely annoyed.

Zpisko's magic item was given by Ma Youfu, and it was named "Lexistan Lion's Mane".

The Lion of Lechistan is the title given to the Polish King Jan Sobieski by the Ottomans after being smashed by Polish wing cavalry during the siege of Vienna in 1683.

In the past few months, the system store has been refreshed several times, but Ma Youfu can't find anything usable, and he has accumulated a lot of points but can't use them.It wasn't until last month that the system store launched a new one that Ma Youfu found this usable item.

Name of the magic item: Mane of the Lexistan Lion.

Function: After use, all riders within one kilometer of the opponent will be given a 50% acceleration gain for 3 minutes.

Number of uses: 1/3.

Restrictions: Only used by Polish nobles.

The 50% acceleration can not help but give the cavalry stronger tactical mobility, which also means that they have stronger kinetic energy during impact and greatly increase their lethality.

It can be said that this prop is an artifact of the cavalry unit, and Zpisko is only used to speed up the running, which is actually a bit of a waste.

However, he has already completed the task that Joan of Arc gave, so it is not easy to be harsh.

Bernhard thought that he just missed a chance to defeat the French cavalry, but after the subordinates scattered in the small town of Saint-Denis gathered one after another, he realized that things were far worse than he imagined.

More than six hundred men were killed in ambushes by French artillery—four hundred of them cavalry, the rest longbowmen.It even included fourteen knights with the strength of professionals.

The rest, too, were exhausted and out of horsepower, and could hardly harass the French.It is even questionable whether the longbowmen can be escorted to Pontoise.

Worse things are yet to come.

When Bernhard ordered the whole army to rest, not long after, several wounded English knights ran out from the woods northwest of Saint-Denis.

"St. George, please help us! Lord Talbot is injured!" the leading knight shouted.

"What?" Bernhard was shocked.

At the beginning, when the Duke of Bedford confirmed his plan to protect Pontoise to death, the British army could have sent reinforcements to the fortress overnight to strengthen the defense.There is no need to wait until the next day to play a "race" with Joan's siege army.

But some people think that this is too conservative and too passive, and they can only wait for the French to hit the door, and then be bombed by the opponent's superior artillery, so they came up with a new method.

The two thousand cavalry in Paris, plus Talbot stationed in Pontoise, can also make up one thousand cavalry, which adds up to three thousand.

The Duke of Bedford was surprised to find that he actually had the cavalry advantage when fighting the French for the first time.

This is related to Ma Youfu's idea of ​​building an army.

In the late Middle Ages, represented by the English longbowman, the infantry revolution was changing the form of warfare more and more profoundly.The peasant cannon fodder soldiers who used to wear commoner clothes and hold pitchforks and rakes have become well-equipped professional soldiers.There are more and more examples of infantry defeating cavalry and pulling down the high-ranking knight lord from the altar.

Moreover, gunpowder weapons appeared again.

As a traverser who has no feelings for chivalry, Ma Youfu's army is naturally centered on the new technical weapon of artillery, supplemented by a solid infantry line and flexible and multi-purpose cavalry to form a balanced and powerful force. .

Influenced by his thinking, as well as actual battle examples—such as the Battle of Chalons where the artillery was powerful, and the Battle of Agincourt where the infantry dominated the roost, the French generals who united with Joan of Arc also began to make changes.While ensuring the stock—that is, the traditional elite cavalry in France, all the increments will be placed on infantry and artillery.

So in the army of over [-] under the command of Ma Youfu, the number of cavalry is actually close to [-].

Joan of Arc went to attack Pontoise, and the cavalry was not of much use, so she only brought [-] to cover the flanks and defend against the harassment of the enemy's cavalry.

The Duke of Bedford was very grateful to the French tradition of internal strife, so that the Duke of Orleans would not support Ma Youfu.

Because the [-] troops under the command of Charles VII's cousin are still the most traditional French style-more than half are knights and heavy cavalry, and the rest are composed of miscellaneous elements such as mercenary crossbowmen, urban militias, and rural levies. .

The [-] cavalry from Pontoise and the [-] cavalry from Bernhard, as long as they seize the opportunity, can form a double-sided situation against Joan of Arc's army, causing heavy damage to the enemy with superior mobile forces. It is even possible to directly defeat it.

Therefore, England gave up the stability plan of sending reinforcements to Pontoise in the dark.

Because if Pontoise's defense force is too strong, the enemy may rush out, then England's cavalry advantage will be lost, and it will not be able to kill the French army in the field, which will make a good start for the defense of Paris.

It was not until the next morning that Bernhard led his army out of Paris after seeing Joan of Arc's battle flag coming out of the camp.At the same time, Talbot, who got the news through a magic message, also rushed out of Pontoise.

It's a pity that although the Duke of Bedford had a good calculation, he didn't know that the French army had hot air balloons, which could improve the battlefield awareness to a higher level.

The movements of the two cavalrymen, Talbot and Bernhard, were under Joan's control.

She dispatched the experienced and slick Zpischko to lead [-] cavalry and [-] cavalry cannons, relying on the mobility advantage brought by the magic item "Lexistan Lion's Mane", to enter Saint-Denis first and fight An ambush prevented Bernhard from rendezvous with Talbot, and he retreated unscathed.

On the other side, the elite heavy cavalry led by two brave generals, Lahaire and Santleyer, intercepted and killed Talbot.

The final result was that Bernhard's troops were reduced by more than [-], and Talbot was even worse. His thousand cavalry were rushed by the top two warriors in France, and they fled to death. In the end, only a few to five hundred.

And Talbot himself was wounded.