Chapter 99: Cavalry Engagement

The feudal knights, the representatives of the heavy cavalry of the mid-Middle Ages, these fanatical knights wearing heavy chain mail and a set of half-body steel armor were destined to become the most formidable heavy cavalry in Sun Lin's hands in the years to come, at least until the Italian heavy cavalry or the Knights Hospitaller came out. Half of the strength of the heavy cavalry depends on the diligence and hard work of these knights from childhood to adulthood, and the other half depends on whether their rulers are willing to spend a lot of money on them, because no one looks at it in any way, heavy cavalry is the most money-burning combat profession in the Middle Ages, and Sun Lin is a reason to burn money to train the rulers of these heavy cavalry.

Don't look at the feudal knights who fought this time There are only more than 2,000 people, but in fact, if you really want to count the heavy cavalry troops, in fact, in the fortress of Nottingham, there are nearly 3,000 knight attendants, and the combat effectiveness of these people is only lower than the combat effectiveness of the heavy sergeants in the hands of Sun Lin at present, but their characteristics are like the feudal knights in the hands of the current Shun Shun, they can be cavalry immediately, and their combat power is the same as that of the Italian cavalry militia, and they also have two attributes: strong physique and good morale. These knight squires can also fight on foot, becoming a spear class between the combat power of hoplites and spearmen, and having the attributes of a feudal knight on foot allows these knights to confront or even defeat the hoplites to a certain extent. This is also the reason why Sun Lin only left 1,000 Yoman longbowmen and 4/3 of the engineers in Nottingham and directly swaggered into battle, and it seems that he is not at all careful that those orcs will sneak attack the Nottingham fortress, because if it really starts, the two districts of the Nottingham fortress can pull up more than 4,000 professional and semi-professional troops in an instant to defend, and if you count those half-orc reserves and inner cities that can be assigned to complete equipment in just 5 minutes, As long as the outer walls of Nottingham do not fall within 10 minutes, the outer walls of Nottingham will immediately have more than 10,000 well-equipped troops.

After seeing that the enemy wolf cavalry and wind raider troops began to accelerate towards the infantry army that had not yet formed their formation, Sun Lin immediately used the flag to inform Bobby, who was outside the formation, to lead about half of the feudal knights and all the Hobila Rangers to intercept (the flag in the tech tree has been developed).

The effect of the flag language made Sun Lin make a total of 2 teams of feudal knights and 2 teams of Hobira Ranger immediately enter a state of rapid march in just a minute or so, and put out two slender 1-word long snake formations, with the feudal knights in front and the Hobyra Ranger in front of them and galloping forward. On the other hand, when the orc cavalry unit saw the wolf warriors marching forward, the unconvinced orc cavalry troops, led by several orc commanders or chiefs, rode the domesticated wolves under their crotches and galloped forward at the same time, and immediately overtook those wolf warriors, and the two legs could not outrun 4 legs. And after seeing that the human army sent nearly 3 times less cavalry than themselves to meet it, these orc cavalry with a tendon in their heads instantly thought that this was those hateful humans who wanted to humiliate them, so these orc warriors hurriedly clamped their legs around the wolf's waist to make it move forward faster in a scattered formation, and drew out their weapons to prepare to meet the enemy, but these orc cavalry did not know what to do, they were already getting closer and closer to the canyon of death.

In the era of cold weapons, a large group of poorly equipped light cavalry was charging at the slender cavalry head and two teams of heavy cavalry wrapped in steel sheets and iron, the most appropriate description was a piece of tofu trying to hit a bullet, and everyone understood that there was no effect at all except that the tofu was cut and the bullet's rotation speed was weakened by one point.

Of course, this can't be said to be ignorant of the orcs, because as early as half a year ago, these orc cavalry had already seen the power of human heavy cavalry, but the problem is that of course Bobby generally only sent a small group of heavy cavalry troops to cooperate with a large number of light cavalry troops to harass, and did not let the heavy cavalry really play its ability to charge, of course, Bobby's designated tactics used light cavalry troops to attract orc wolf cavalry troops to melee with them, and then sent small heavy cavalry troops to join the battlefield, borrowing the advantages of heavy cavalry equipment to kill orc wolf riders one by one, Although this is troublesome, and this requires a good degree of cooperation between the Hobila Ranger and the chainmail cavalry at that time, if it is well coordinated, this aspect can not only minimize the death rate of the chainmail cavalry (anyone who plays Medieval 3 Total War knows that the Hobila Ranger is not as good as other types of early medieval light cavalry in all aspects, but his recruitment and maintenance fees are the cheapest, And the cost of supplementing 5 Hobila Rangers is more than the cost of supplementing a chainmail cavalry), and it can also kill or capture these orcs and their mounts to the maximum, you must know that these domesticated wolves may not be suitable for human riding, but they are suitable for the half-orcs in Sun Lin's hands, and these domesticated wolves have played a great role in cleaning up the battlefield and supplying leather. So from beginning to end, the orcs have never seen the power of these heavy cavalry after launching a charge, they just regard these heavy cavalry as a relatively durable riding class in the human army, so they think that before colliding with the feudal knights, the more than 4,000 wolf riders on their side can definitely use this formation to surround these iron cans in front of them, and then use mobility to trap them inside and wait for the large army to come before eating all these feudal knights, Who would have thought that this heavy cavalry was actually a class that could not be stopped at all when it charged?

As a result, when the feudal knights raised their cavalry guns at the approaching orc wolf cavalry troops and launched a charge, but after the sound of the cavalry guns breaking sounded one after another, the originally huge wolf cavalry troops were instantly hit hard. Due to the scattered formation, all the orcs could not give full play to their numerical advantage and used their numbers to block and surround the feudal knight troops like steel plates, but one after another were picked off the wolf's back and fell to the ground by the feudal knights with the spears in their hands, and some of them were more powerful orcs with stronger fighting instincts and broke the spears of the feudal knights with the weapons in their hands, but then they were knocked off the wolf by the knights who drew the hammer from their waists.

In just 1 minute, the wolf-riding force of the orcs suffered a devastating blow, but at this moment, when the wolf-riding troops of the orcs were about to be half-pierced, the werewolf warriors of the werewolf death squad rushed up from behind the wolf-riding troops.