Although Egil was reluctant, he was helpless. What he had to do next was not to worry about gains and losses, but to adjust as soon as possible and defeat the opponent.

What the cone-array formation, or wedge formation pursues is to break through with a strong army. Whether it is heavy cavalry, Valangi army, or even the Germanic army, these infantry are troops with extremely strong assault capabilities. They just meet this condition. After Egil got angry, he felt a little relieved. Because the deployment in the middle was the 40,000 elite troops under his command, not the garbage from other countries. Otherwise, they might be really broken through by the other party.

And now, Egil had a calculation. As long as he and his two columns of France, Burgundy, and the troops of the Three Kingdoms could resist several rounds of charge from the enemy. Then the coalition forces, whose front array was wider than the enemy, could form a semi-encirclement attitude towards the enemy from the flanks.

After several charges failed and failed, they were surrounded by the enemy. Then 80% of the battle could be won.

After trying to calm down the heart oak, Egil raised his monocular lens and looked towards the center of the battlefield.

The cavalry clusters on both sides were like a huge blue and purple monster, pounced towards the other party, trying to kill the other party with their sharp claws and tear them apart.

Tear it and swallow it completely in your stomach.

The moment the two sides were about to meet, a rain of arrows was handed over. Although the short compound bow in the hands of the professional cavalry lost a lot of attack power due to the wind direction, it was better than nothing. In the first arrow, they basically didn't shoot. However, in the second arrow, they were much better. What Egil didn't expect was that among the two so-called barbarian cavalry sent by the other party, there were actually many riding archers. This scared Egil.

As the name suggests, Egil believed that the other party's Germanic legion should basically be professional mercenaries recruited from Central Europe, Northern Europe and even Western Europe and Britain. However, what Egil did not expect was that this was not the case at all! The mercenaries recruited from these places were from another professional mercenary legion, the Latin legion.

However, this so-called Germanic legion includes barbarian soldiers recruited in Asia Minor, Crimea, Bulgaria, and even North Africa. These include Seljuk Put, Turkic, Tatar, Hungarian and Magyar cavalry, Slavic and light infantry holding tomahawks and round shields, spear infantry from Berber, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and other ethnic groups equipped with javelins, round shields and scimitars, etc.

Egil felt that as one of the branches of the Germans, he seemed to be despised by others. Even if Germans were barbarians, it was true that not all barbarians were Germans!! What's going on?! People in the third world on earth are crying! And you barbarian mercenaries, is Rome that good?! You have forgotten your ancestors!?

However, no matter what, the barbarian cavalry archers who are also equipped with short compound bows are similar to professional cavalrymen, and have no effect at all. In the end, both sides still have to rely on hand-to-hand combat to decide the outcome...

After the first round of heavy cavalry collision, almost losing both sides, the subsequent soldiers of both sides began melee combat. The Norman Cavalry units wielded long swords, battle axes, and maces were fighting with great fighting spirit under the blessing of the hymns recited loudly by the battlefield sect, and soon gained the upper hand in the battle against the Eastern Roman Lancers. Whether it was tomahawks or maces, they could gain the upper hand when fighting against the lancers equipped with light chain armor. However, the long sword in the opponent's hand was difficult to cause effective damage to the heavy chain armor of the Norman Heavy Cavalry and the plate-chain composite armor of the Norman Royal Knights.

After a war, the Norman Cavalry quickly gained the upper hand. However, the maces, flails and axes used by some barbarian cavalry were more harmful to the Norman Cavalry.

At the same time, on the left and right wings of Egil, the feudal knights of France and Burgundy, as well as the knight entourages and other informal cavalry, also gathered together. Two countries with more than a thousand light and heavy cavalry attacked from both wings, which accelerated the retreat of the Eastern Roman cavalry. However, the Pope's army, which also had 600 fully armed Italian heavy cavalry, did not dispatch this unit at the same time. This made Egil a little angry.

"Bishops Hilde. Please order your cavalrymen below to join the battle." Egil turned around and said to the Hildegui in a slightly stiff voice.

"This, this" Hildebrand smiled, but did not agree, of course, nor did he object.

"Our army is fighting heresy! Since your army is standing on this battlefield, it should work with friendly forces!" Egil's tone increased a little more: "Otherwise, as the commander of the coalition, I have the right to kill the commander who disobeys the military order!" Speaking of this, Cardinal Hilde could no longer refuse, and looked at Egil's intimidating eyes. However, he did not dare to try whether what Egil said was true or false.

"I understand, right away." Cardinal Hilde said that, he gave a look at one of his guards. The knight nodded and ran down from the tower. Then he stepped onto the horse and ran towards the army formation of the Pope.

Afterwards, soon, the six hundred heavy Italian cavalry from the Pope also rushed towards the cavalry cluster in the center of the battlefield.

At the same time, on both wings, the small countries that were not worth mentioning among the coalition forces (Venice, Genoa, Bologna), and the mobs who volunteered to participate in this jihad, hoping to use this to cleanse their sins to go to heaven, have achieved some results.

Because the commander of the Eastern Romans, Narcis, concentrated all his cavalry in the middle, resulting in no cavalry guards on both wings. In this way, the cavalry of small countries and mobs could devote all their strength to the attack on the opponent's flanks.

However, although the heavy infantry formation in Eastern Rome was slightly worse in melee combat, the Italian heavy cavalry, as well as the Rangers cavalry, who also had his advantages, failed to gain much advantage after rushing over. After being weakened by the opponent's crossbowmen, stone casters and javelins, they killed a lot of heavy infantry on the first floor. Then they drew their swords and fought, but the opponent was defeated step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by step by the opponent's crossbowmen, stone casters, and jailboats were weakened by the opponent's numerical advantage.

Of course, the results of the battle I mentioned do not refer to the cavalry that hit the most flank, but also the last array of Eastern Roman phalanx. Instead, the infantry that hit the second array, whose formations were messy and equipped with lightweight equipment and did not have too many means of fighting against the cavalry were hit by an extremely serious blow in an instant, and the second array of Eastern Roman corps was in chaos.

"The seventeenth, eighteenth, twenty, and twenty-one legions advance, and the formation unfolds. Cover the first and second legions of Germans." Narcis ordered.

Afterwards, except for the 19th Legion where Narcis was located, the other four Eastern Roman heavy-armed legions began to move in an orderly manner towards the northwest and northeast directions of the two wings, and while unfolding the formation, they helped the two Germanic legions to reorganize the formation.

"The formation has been unfolded..." As the opponent's army began to advance, the front line suddenly grew a lot. Although it was still a little different from the one-line snake of the coalition army. But it couldn't be found much. This kind of development was a little different from what Egil had imagined before.

"Army, advance."

So Egil also issued such an order.

Accompanied by the heavy horn sound, nearly 100,000 troops shouted loudly, and the coalition forces began to advance towards the center of the battlefield little by little.

"Valangi Legion, advance. Replace the lances on the front line, and retreat." Narcis immediately issued such an order as the opponent approached the entire line.

The Valangi people, who were also from Scandinavian, rushed over after receiving the order. The warriors wearing scale armor or heavy chain armor, carrying round shields, carrying spare hand axes on their waists, and holding long-handed axes in their hands, were extremely lethal to the cavalry that had lost their impact.

"The front line, the Vikings kill the warriors charge! The cavalry retreated!"

So Egil made almost the same adjustments.

Originally, it was actually difficult to separate the entangled cavalry units. However, the commanders of both sides issued the same order to retreat, and the cavalry of both sides were well-trained professional units. However, Norman and the cavalry of Eastern Rome could be separated quickly. However, the cavalry of France, Burgundy and the Pope were not so easy to accept the order to retreat.

"We are about to defeat them! We should take advantage of the victory to pursue them! Why do we need to retreat?!" The arrogant knights under the feudal system protested loudly. These guys who had no idea of ​​the overall situation seemed to think that defeating the lancers on the other side would be considered a victory.

After receiving such news from his messenger, Egil rolled his eyes and did not care about the life or death of these scumbags. As the opponent's lancers were about to retreat and the knights were about to pursue, they found that there were a bunch of fierce enemies in front of them, with big beards and long-handed axes in front of them, and they waved the battle axes without saying anything, and chopped them with all their strength. Whether it was using weapons to parry or using shields to block, it was completely useless for them. The heavy battle axe and the fierce Warangel warriors concentrated all their strength to chop, the sword was broken, the shield was broken, and the cavalry was chopped up and the horse was chopped down. It was extremely fierce.
Chapter completed!