Not far ahead, a bridge loomed, and a number of unarmed Viking soldiers were running from there.

Wait a minute, a bridge? Does that mean there's a river ahead?

"Do these cowards still look like men?" The sturdy officer jumped like thunder. "These cowards!"

The tomahawk in his hand trembled slightly.

"My lord, do you need to use them to correct the hearts of the army?" One of the soldiers closest to him saw that the sturdy officer had the idea of killing the deserter, and hurriedly said.

The heart of the army... Do you want to kill all these deserters to boost morale... Qian Yu frowned.

"There's no need for that," said the sturdy officer's expression, which immediately calmed down from his furious state. "They really can't be blamed."

"It's the villain who is abrupt." The soldier bowed his head and apologized.

“。。。” Qian Yu looked at the soldier - did he really instigate the able-bodied officers to kill the deserters, or did he take advantage of the sturdy officers' character in order to protect the deserters from being beheaded?

When the group came to the bridge, they saw that there was indeed a river under the bridge, the width was four or five meters wide, and the depth definitely exceeded the limit of wading. In other words, if Harold II's troops wanted to cross the river, they had to go only from the bridge.

Only one heavily armed soldier could pass through that bridge, and if the Vikings had the brave warriors on their side to defend the bridge,

"And even if I put them back together, it won't help, I can stand up to those enemies alone." The able-bodied officer pointed to the bridge. "As long as I hold this bridge, I can kill the weak chickens on the opposite side one by one like chopping melons and vegetables."

At this moment, a British soldier rushed onto the bridge with a sword, and the sturdy officer immediately rushed to the bridgehead and cleanly cut off the sword-holding hand of the British soldier who rushed from the bridge with a battle axe.

The British soldier wailed with a broken arm, and was kicked off the bridge by a sturdy officer.

The chain mail of the sturdy officer shone brightly in the light of the rising sun.

If it's just an ordinary chain mail like yourself, it's impossible to emit such a dazzling light...

The essence of chain mail is very simple, it is a kind of armor formed by a large number of iron rings that are stacked on top of each other, if the enemy's sword is split, then the iron ring that is split will disperse the power of the chop to other iron rings through its own stacking structure - this design can effectively resist those light weapons that are good at chopping, and the more iron rings, the stronger the defense of the chain mail.

That's it! Qian Yu suddenly came back to his senses and realized why the chain mail of a sturdy officer was so dazzling. His chain mail is each ring and four iron rings on the upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right, and if the sturdy officer wears more complex chain mail (such as two parallel iron rings covering eight iron rings in four directions, or each ring and eight iron rings in eight directions, etc.), then his chain mail will definitely be more dazzling than his own.

At this moment, the other soldiers around him exclaimed in unison.

On the bridge, a relatively sturdy (but still somewhat short of able-bodied officer) British soldier had just stabbed the able-bodied officer with a spear in his hand.

Chain mail is not a panacea, and even useless when faced with some weapons.

The chain mail's defense unit is an iron ring, so if you stab the center of the iron ring with a sharp weapon, the chain mail has no good defense.

The sturdy officer deftly dodged the spearhead, then grabbed the spear and pulled the British soldier in front of him.

Tomahawks tasted the blood belonging to the Anglo-Saxons for the second time.

Even if you use a style of play that can break the chain mail, if your own force is not enough to fight against the person wearing the chain mail, you can't defeat him...

Of course, in this case, shooting at a distance with its practical bow and arrow was a measure that could be considered, but Harold II himself sealed this possibility.

In 1065, Edward the Confessor turned against the northern princes, but was unable to bring them to their knees. This led to the refusal of the northern princes to support Harold II's 1066 conscription against foreign invasions—cavalry not found elsewhere and archers that were scarce in other regions.

What's more, the bow and arrow power of this era was very weak, and the world's first English longbow still needed to wait for at least eighty years to be introduced, and it would take more than two hundred years for it to flourish with the support of the monarch of England. (So what a bad thing it was for Harald to die with a bow and arrow...) ）

Tomahawks are as agile as knives as the wind, and one after another British soldiers challenging sturdy officers are cut down bridges in a variety of poses.

But if that's the case, what are you doing here? Theater-watching?

Just as Qianyu was thinking about this, a sudden change occurred in front of him.

The sturdy officer, who had just hammered a British soldier into the chains of the bridge, causing his body to be strangled by the chains, suddenly froze.

Everyone looked at the sturdy officer in amazement, and several awake soldiers ran to the bridge to check on the officer's appearance, including Chiba.

Then they were dumbfounded.

They saw that the able-bodied officer was pierced with a spear.

If that's all it takes, it wouldn't surprise them too much, because chain mail really doesn't do much against spears.

They were surprised at the place where the spear appeared - in the planks of the bridge.

Qian Yu reacted immediately and looked under the bridge.

A bloodied British soldier floated in the water, clutching half of a plank with one hand and piercing the bridge with a spear with the other, stabbing the able-bodied officer from below.

This British soldier is a little familiar... It seems to be one of the soldiers who was just dropped by a sturdy officer... I didn't expect it to be dead.,And this one.。。。

But there's no time to think about it now... Qian Yu looked at the British soldiers who rushed to the bridge cheering, pursed his lips, and entered the battle state.

Come on, let me see how powerful you computer-controlled guys are!

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(What is the concept of how strong is the longbow?) The English longbow is the only known projectile weapon that can deform a soldier's skeleton by training alone, and is also the upper limit of a single-man projectile weapon recognized by scholars. Any cold weapon recorded in ancient texts that has a range that exceeds that of a modern imitation of the English longbow would be considered a fallacy. This terrifying weapon, which is 1.5 or even 2 meters long, can throw bows and arrows up to 400 yards away. If you compare him to Temujin's Mongol archers... The longbowmen beat the Mamluks, who defeated the Mongol archers. And from the theory of war, the foot bow is a heavenly gram against the riding bow. ）