"Then other holy relics, including the Lance of Longinus, should also truly exist."
"It’s indeed better to develop quietly, the depths of the Empire are unfathomable."
Duncan now really wanted to know if those mythical entities could descend to the human world. He knew the church had saints named ’Saint’.
As for the Norse Pantheon, apart from Beowulf, he hadn’t heard of any powerful legendary figures.
"The Great Britain Island is my foothold in this world."
"There is no place more suitable than this."
Since Duncan traversed, he crossed most of the European continent and finally glimpsed a bit of the world’s truth.
The situation was much as Duncan expected; the Duke of Dingtiger’s army quickly collapsed.
His auxiliary troops were too many, too mixed, and too inferior.
The Canti People, still maintaining tribal traditions, were too disorganized. Frightened by the Saxon barbarians, their mere war shouts shook morale. He wasn’t skilled at using a vassal army like the Mongolians, ultimately causing chaos in his formation with his vassal army.
"His only chance was to immediately order the Central Army to hack and slash the routing soldiers during the Canti People’s collapse."
The battlefield situation changes in a blink.
The Central Army must not be in disorder!
No matter who they are, even if they’re his own retreating troops, if they impact the Central Army’s line, they must all be slaughtered.
At that time, if he decisively ordered to kill, there would be a tiny chance, but he actually tried to gather the retreating soldiers.
Now there really was no chance.
The Central Army was in chaos.
The flanks were smashed by elite Saxon axmen; they drove routing soldiers to impact the main line, plunging the Britons’ command into chaos.
A booming shout on the battlefield, the chief’s guard of the Saxon barbarians moved, followed by dozens of barbarian noble knights. Don’t be misled by stories of thousands of troops, on a real battlefield, a charge of nearly a hundred horsemen is already intimidating.
The most spectacular scene in the battle of Gondor from "The Lord of the Rings" actually only involved 6,000 cavalry of the Rohan Kingdom.
If you play any real battlefield-type game, if you have three to four hundred cavalry, that formation is also very intimidating. If you assemble a cavalry regiment of over a thousand people, there are horsemen everywhere on the entire battlefield.
This is why in ancient times, many valorous generals, with merely hundreds of cavalry, routed enemy troops ten times their number into disarray.
At this moment, using a Roman proverb ’The die is cast’.
Whether the Huns Empire or the Mongol Empire, when the final heavy cavalry takes the field, it was already the deciding moment of life and death victory.
The Germanic barbarians were extremely ferocious.
The Goths were a branch of the East Germanic barbarians, many chiefs and kings of the Eastern and Western Gothic kingdoms died on the battlefield during charges.
Currently, among the Germanic barbarians, the Franks and the Saxons were in the first tier.
Sweeping all before them!
The Saxon chief’s guard directly pierced through the Britons’ right flank with a wedge array, this triangular sharp formation, like a dagger, became the last straw that broke the camel’s back.
The battlefield center was crammed with people; it was impossible to see the surroundings. The British Legion could only hear the booming of cavalry, the charge of over a hundred heavy cavalry, like an overturned boiling cauldron of oil.
On the entire battlefield, perhaps only the Duke of Dingtiger’s Personal Guard and the British Legion, mimicking the Imperial Field Army, could barely withstand.
Except for the elite heavy infantry, no other infantry regiment could resist!
Spearmen supposedly restrain cavalry, but they actually couldn’t block; lacking mobility, on a real battlefield, only heavy infantry can withstand a charge. Whether they’re spearmen isn’t as important; spearmen are just more damaging on the first wave.
Were spearmen really able to restrain cavalry, the Central Plains dynasties could easily field tens of thousands of spearmen. (Those capable of combating cavalry were all top-notch heavy infantry, like the Han Xianzhen Armored Soldiers, Tang Mo Blade Soldiers, Song Beiwei Army, etc.)
Once heavy cavalry charges, it is like a rampaging bulldozer.
——Saxon Chief’s Guard (Heavy Cavalry) (High Morale) (Victory Moment)!
The Duke of Dingtiger hesitated; he did not lead the Personal Guard to charge and meet the enemy immediately. By the time he reacted, the battlefield had already taken a one-sided situation.
Heavy cavalry will only charge directly in certain battlefield situations.
Both sides have been engaged for a long time.
The infantry’s physical strength and energy are largely exhausted (fatigued).
The enemy line shows significant vulnerabilities, and the heavy cavalry, using high mobility, seizes the fleeting opportunity for a decisive blow!
Once this hammer strikes down, the entire battlefield is shattered to pieces.
Heavy cavalry has always been the deciding factor in local battles; their exorbitant cost makes any commander hesitant to deploy them lightly.
Losing thousands of heavy cavalry in a single battle could nearly collapse a regional power.
During the Mongol Empire’s conquest sweeping through Europe and Asia, whenever the Mongol heavy cavalry took the field, it was roughly the final decisive move to settle the battlefield.
No regrets till death!
The Saxon Chief’s Guard directly penetrated the battlefield from the flank, more than ten cavalrymen fiercely protected the commander, ready to die on the battlefield for them at any moment.
The barbarians’ chief’s personal guard were true death-defiers!
Not only these men, during the battle with the Exile Rebel Army, even the barbarian rebel army inspired by Duncan protected him tightly on both sides with their bodies.