A battlefield strewn with corpses. There was a huge deep pit in the center of the battlefield, as if a meteorite suddenly fell from the sky and hit the ground when the two armies were fighting. There were countless charred corpses in the pit, and in their centers was the Spear of Longinus.
Berengar galloped into the pit, pulled out the Spear of Longinus, and then quickly jumped out of the pit, using the Spear of Longinus to pierce the fleeing enemy lord.
With no other enemies in sight, Berengar stopped his horse and looked around the entire battlefield: the battle was coming to an end, and the Praetorian Guards were making final finishing touches. They checked the enemy corpses one after another on the ground. When they encountered those who were not completely dead, they stepped on them and stabbed them to ensure that no enemy could escape back to Alemany alive.
This was a battlefield in Thessaly. An Alemannic coalition of about a thousand people landed here and ran into a thousand Praetorian Guards led by Berengar himself.
As soon as the two armies came into contact, the Alemannic coalition began to retreat. Outflanked by Berengar's cavalry, their retreat was quickly cut off. The Alemanni lord who led the army decided to fight in despair. But even so, they failed to cause too many casualties to the Praetorian Guards. In the end, this force that recklessly entered the interior of the Qiqiu Empire ended up being completely wiped out.
Berengar rode around the battlefield. He came here urgently with a small team after hearing reports from nearby towns that there was an enemy army here and looting the village. However, the report stated that the flags of the enemy who landed were blue and yellow, and he traveled throughout the battlefield and did not see any flags of this color.
"There is another enemy army!" Berengar shouted, "The scouts quickly go to investigate. The remaining people must clean up the battlefield!"
The main force of the Guards has not yet arrived. There are only a thousand soldiers around Berengar now, and they have just fought with an enemy army of similar numbers, which consumes a lot of energy. The number of enemy troops with blue and yellow flags in the intelligence is still unknown. Logically speaking, we should not take the initiative to start a second war now. But to Berengar and his Praetorian Guards, it didn't matter how many there were - they just wanted to know where they were.
After they finished cleaning the battlefield, the scouts ran back and reported that they had discovered the rumored enemy army, numbering about two thousand in number, and that they were coming in this direction.
"Just in time!"
Berengar gave the order, and the Guards immediately rushed in the direction of the enemy.
This unit has cavalry and infantry. But except for the scouts who were scouting in front, the remaining cavalry did not ride on their horses. Instead, they pulled the horses with reins and marched on their legs like infantry. On the march, the infantry and cavalry also took out strips of coarse cloth. , wrapping his armor and weapons in a circle.
The cavalry walked on foot to conserve horse power; the reason why the cavalry was covered in armor was to conceal their whereabouts and reduce the enemy's vigilance.
Although they haven't seen the enemy yet, Berengar's soldiers are already in a state of war.
Compared with the Praetorian Guards, the Alemannic Federation's army looks very comfortable. The combined force landed in Thessaly with three thousand men, composed of soldiers from the five lords. The thousand men under two of the lords had been wiped out by Berengar just now. The remaining three lords were completely unaware of this. They just heard the fighting over there and came slowly to support them.
On the way, the three lords were still joking and laughing:
"I wonder if those two old guys cried after being beaten."
"Don't underestimate them, don't think they are old. Go listen outside their tent at night. The girls inside are screaming louder than the other."
They laughed all the way until they discovered that their scout was lying dead on the roadside. Almost at the same time, the Imperial Guard appeared in their sight.
"Where did the enemy come from?" The three lords panicked and quickly began to adjust their formation. During the troop mobilization, the soldiers of the three lords were huddled together in chaos.
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The Spear of Longinus mercilessly hit the densest place where the crowd was, raising a cloud of dust. One of the lords was the first to react, and before the dust had settled, he shouted loudly, "Don't be dazed! Those who are still alive should get into formation immediately!"
The sound of hundreds of arrows piercing the air came towards the face, and in the dust came the screams of soldiers after being hit by arrows. Following the sound of arrows, the sound of horse hooves came closer and closer.
"Horsers?"
The lords were all shocked. To hit an enemy with an arrow on horseback requires both riding and archery skills. This kind of army can basically only be formed by nomadic countries on the prairie like the Khazar Khanate. Is it possible that the Khazar Khanate has reached an alliance with the Seven Hills Empire?
"I have heard that the Khazar Khanate's cavalry would use a circular cavalry formation to harass their opponents. In front of the formation, the cavalry running continuously formed multiple circular formations connected end to end, shooting arrows into the In the enemy's formation." One of the lords wrote to the other two lords, "This is mainly a formation for harassment. Now we should withdraw the spearmen and put the soldiers with shields in front, wait for the smoke to dissipate. Go and send our cavalry to drive them away!"
"Invasion?" Another lord pointed at the front line and yelled, "Listen to the sound of the horses' hooves, they are almost rushing in front of us!"
The screams of soldiers came one after another in the dust. When the smoke dissipated, Berengar had already rushed in front of the lords with his cavalry!
What a troop that is! They were dressed in horse and horse gear, with two layers of mail hanging from the iron helmets of the soldiers, covering their entire faces and necks, hanging down to the top of their chests, leaving only their two eyes exposed; they wore them on the inside of their bodies. A layer of mail, and a layer of zhao on top of the mail. Two layers of armor encircled their entire bodies like iron barrels; the horses under their crotches were also covered in armor like their masters. , only the eyes are exposed. They had quivers hanging on their waists, bows on their backs, and the weapons they were holding were shields and war hammers. They fired the rain of arrows just now, and now they rushed into the enemy's formation without hesitation, smashing the Alemanni coalition into pieces!
Armored Holy Cavalry!
After Ayla left the Seven Hills Empire, Berengar further improved this cavalry team, making them more powerful than when they fought against Hestein.
But this cavalry is not yet Berengar's trump card. Some light cavalry archers cooperated on both wings of the armored paladin, and the infantry of the Imperial Guard pressed in closely following the steps of the armored paladin. There are also the guns of Longinus that are constantly smashing down from the sky - to Berengar, even the armored holy cavalry is just a small speck in the war machine of the Praetorian Guards. Just a small gear.
