Turn on one's back

This term cannot be more appropriate at this time.

When the two heavily loaded cavalry units sprint together, as long as the cavalry with a huge impact hits the opponent, no matter how thick the opponent's armor is, the lightest will be severely injured and fall off the horse. Horses wearing blindfolds can move forward under the rider's control, but once the rider has a problem, they lose control and ram into other horses.

After the lance charged, some of the riders relied on the lance to kill their enemies, and drove through the enemy line and rushed out. But more cavalry was caught in a melee, and a large number of cavalry gathered together. They put away their lances and took out their melee weapons to start fighting.

Soon, a group of cavalry were shot down and a few unlucky guys were trampled to death by horses. However, the cavalry on both sides still separated, leaving dozens of corpses and many horses that had lost their owners. When the cavalry units from both sides regrouped, the cavalry on the side of Count Matthias showed a decline. In the charge just now, they lost almost 30 people, while the other side had less than 10 people. If they came back twice under this situation, their troops would have to collapse.

Fatis moved his somewhat numb arm. Although there was no blood stained on the lance in his hand, in that charge, the lance had already shot down the two rival hired riders. There was no need to pierce them. The opponent's thick chain armor and plate armor had already broken their ribs and injured their spine with the huge impact, causing the opponent to lose combat effectiveness.

Count Matt Ass did not expect that his mercenary cavalry team was so far behind the opponent, and after a few minutes, the morale was unstable and began to retreat. As a last resort, he could only use a banner to send a message to the cavalry troops to let them hold the opponent, and some of the infantry troops abandon their current positions and began to move in the direction of Earl Leyland.

Count Matthias did this because of pressure. Byron’s mixed infantry was too strong. The Rhodok infantry, who thought they could last for a long time, suffered from the Nord Shield Wall and the Vicky Archers on the swamp. Constantly squeezed and the formation continued to shrink, the lancers were defeated. They could only compress the troops close to the horse convoy, relying on the elite force composed of a few sergeants and senior lancers to resist the front line, and use crossbow arrows as the main firepower for output.

This tactic looks good. The Nords and Vekias who attacked them were blocked in front of the spear phalanx, and one after another was sniped with heavy crossbows. As long as they exposed their bodies, they would not be able to escape a steel crossbow, and a layer of chain armor could not protect them at all. However, the Rhodok troops did not gain an advantage because of this. When they planned to spread the troops to encircle the opponent's troops, they discovered that Byron's engineers had pushed the catapult forward for tens of meters, taking advantage of their crossbowmen. When he was busy shooting the approaching Nord infantry, he kept throwing stones at them, and the casualties of the densely arranged Rhodok army increased rapidly. For this reason, Earl Matt Ass mobilized troops to rush over to support him. Earl Leyland is old and more cautious. If the pressure and loss are too great, he is likely to take the initiative to retreat and retreat to Fort Kulmar to defend, then this battle will be equal to a failure.

Byron did not miss this opportunity to attack. After confirming that Fatis' heavy cavalry units were sufficient to deal with the cavalry units of Count Matt Ass, his reserve teams were sent to the front in waves. First, the infantry of Swadia and Peony mercenaries, then the mountain infantry and mercenary halberds, then the female barracks of Jamila, and then Rolf’s light cavalry troops were also dispatched and surrounded quite far away. Earl Leyland's formation is round, ready to attack at any time.

At this time, Byron was surrounded by only some elite infantry and a small number of cavalry. These troops were to prevent Count Matt Ass from flanking. After all, Byron's troops were at a disadvantage. The formation could not be too long. It is easy to be surrounded by another Rhodok army. Although the number of this reserve team is less than a hundred people, it is of sufficient quality, and the heavy cavalry with Fatis is enough to repel one-third of Count Matt's troops. And Rolf's light cavalry is also constantly wandering, ready to support.

After a while, more than three hundred mercenaries of Count Matt Ass arrived on the flank of the Earl of Leyland’s army. Their support was very timely. At this time, Earl of Leyland’s army was suppressed by Byron. The few people withdrew to the rear of the army. The soldiers in the battle were only half of the army, and even the number advantage was gone. The soldiers of Nord scattered to the sides of the army and broke through the two wings of the Rodok phalanx. The Chinese army was replaced by the newly arrived Swadia infantry and mercenary infantry. With the mercenary halberds behind them, the sergeants and veteran spearmen who controlled Rodok prevented them from being transferred to other positions for defense. If Earl Matt Ass’s troops come back later, Earl Leyland will probably order a retreat.

The mercenaries began to attack the left flank of Nord's forces, and, in cooperation with Rodok's spearmen, quickly pushed back the Nord's infantry. However, partial victory did not affect the situation of the entire war. Earl Leyland's troops were already in decline, and Rolf, a rogue aristocrat who liked to take advantage of the fire, also seized the opportunity to attack.

Rolf knew very well the power of the Rodok spear phalanx, even if it impacted their flanks or rear, as long as the opponent slowed down and set up the spear, his light cavalry would definitely suffer heavy casualties. He took orders from Byron, but he didn't want to waste the lives of his soldiers unless it was in his favor. After getting the troops around Rhodok, he focused on a relatively weaker target, that is, the Rhodok spearmen who had just retreated to the rear of the phalanx with low morale and were very exhausted. The Earl of Leyland had planned to fix them in the center of the army, but Byron's infantry attack speed was too fast~lightnovelpub.net~ The position in the center of the army became a forward, and the phalanx was also elongated. After a long line, these recruits can only withdraw to the rear of the troops. Rolf estimates that if these undertrained soldiers were attacked by a large number of cavalry at this time, they would definitely be defeated because of panic.

He thought so and did the same. The horse archers took the lead to approach each other. The temporarily recruited pikemen were really panicked when they saw this. The phalanx was very loose and the number of shields was not enough. There was chaos in the spear formation, and Rolf's cavalry unit followed, and a round of lance charge and spear thrust, Earl Leyland's troops were directly stabbed in the rear.

The heavy cavalry forces of Count Matt Asth couldn’t hold on at this time either. Their horses were not as strong as Byron’s Swadia, and their endurance was not as good as those of Cogit’s steppe war horses, even though Byron himself was in the south. Found a good horse Thunder, but Rodok's horse is indeed not suitable for cavalry combat. Among the horses of Earl Matthias, more than half of the horses are local horses (this mercenary team is mainly Rhodok, mainly for the Rhodok nobles who lack cavalry, and more horses are purchased for saving money. local). After a long battle, their horses were exhausted, and they were overwhelmed by the heavy cavalry of the Swadia cavalry and the Peony mercenary.

By this time, although Earl Leyland's troops still had a lot of combat power, and although Earl Matt Asth's troops still had half of them not put into battle, Byron could already confirm his victory. After winning the battle of the heavy cavalry, Rodok's infantry can only be restrained by the Byron infantry while being reaped by the heavy cavalry in rounds. Their morale will eventually be unsustainable, and huge losses will force them to withdraw their troops. The next thing Byron has to do is to constantly pressurize and turn his expectations into reality.