I am Da Song

Chapter 558
As the horse archers withdrew from the battlefield, the main infantry forces of the two sides finally collided.

This is a battle of courage. Soldiers on both sides violently slashed their spears and giant axes at each other.

Life becomes worthless at this moment, blood is bleeding everywhere on the ten-mile-long front, and fresh life dies every moment.

The fighting was extremely fierce, and the fighting on the infantry front lasted for a whole morning. The two sides fought from dawn to midday.

Dense corpses filled the Thracian plain, blood stained the muddy grass, and the pillows of the dead stretched for miles.

The face of French King Louis was extremely pale. Although the French nobles on foot advanced more than three miles and entered the middle of the Red Tide formation, they suffered heavy losses.

At least more than 500 nobles and knights died in direct combat.To make matters worse, hundreds of French troops on the flanks were overwhelmed after defeating the enemy's phalanx, and chased recklessly. Hundreds of people in this phalanx scattered into formation, and all were crushed to pieces by nomadic cavalry, and no one survived.

The death of these hundreds of people had a profound impact on the entire battle. This caused the French army to dare not pursue them with all their strength after defeating their opponents.

The generals commanded by both sides are not military gods. As normal people, they may make mistakes and hesitate.

The hesitation of the French army greatly reduced their impact, and they were unable to form effective and rapid kills on the Qin army.

Although the barbarians could not defeat the heavily armed French foot knights, they could not be defeated either.

The support of Qin's army came so fast, it seemed that Qin's commander-in-chief could command the actions of each phalanx in real time.

Compared with Qin's keen battlefield observation ability, the French army is like an unresponsive bull.

The French nobleman in charge of commanding the cavalry charge was Thibaud II, Duke of Champagne. He was watching the battle from the sidelines, and seeing the clumsy performance of the French army, he was so depressed that he vomited blood.

As a last resort, he rode his horse and ran to King Louis, and asked, "Your Majesty, our infantry is now like a clumsy bear. If we continue to fight like this, even if we fight until night, we will not be able to kill all these barbarians in front of us."

"Let me charge, just one charge can completely change the current anxious situation and crush the enemy."

King Louis lost his composure completely, and could no longer control his anger. He yelled: "If you think you command better, you will be the commander of the army, and the position of king will be given to you! If you don't dare to have this ambition , then you bastard, go back to your position!"

The anxiety of the whole morning made His Holiness feel restless like the scorching sun.

Of course he knew that the Duke of Champagne came here to laugh at himself.

The two had always been at odds because of the failure of the royal family to annex the Duchy of Champagne.Thibaut II, Duke of Champagne, even won the respect of countless French nobles because of his successful resistance, so the knights surrounded him.

King Louis of France believed that this was the key to the unsatisfactory battle. The French army was unbalanced and did not firmly implement his king's orders at all.

Originally, the command and observation ability of the French army was far behind the Red Tide for some unknown reason.

The performance of the King of Fa is simply showing the roots of western aristocrats to the fullest. He can barely pack his words and deeds on weekdays. When he really encountered a challenge, he directly showed his arrogance and vulgarity.

The Duke of Champagne was scolded bloody, and his face was ashen. He didn't scold Louis on the battlefield like a whore, but directly returned to the flank, leading the nobles and knights, big and small, ready to charge directly battlefield.

It is already a tradition in this country for the French nobles to disobey the command and charge without authorization.

The Duke of Champagne intends to rely on the might of his victory to unite with the nobles to send the son of a bitch to the guillotine!
Nearly [-] heavy armored cavalry rode their horses and galloped wildly, and the momentum they set off was earth-shattering.

Such a large-scale heavy cavalry group charging is simply terrifying.The dense formation started, and the iron hooves trampled on it, as if the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking, no one could stop it.

The right-wing French cavalry suddenly attacked on a large scale, which caught both sides by surprise.

Even the generals of the Qin State did not expect that the French army would suddenly throw in the absolute main force and decide the victory in an instant.

The phalanx of the barbarians was crushed and smashed, and tens of thousands of barbarians were crushed by iron hooves without any defense, and the formation was invincible.

The Frankish knights are indeed proud that their lances can penetrate the city walls.

The overwhelming number of knights rode their horses and charged forward in the Qin army's position. In front of their lances, the barbarians fell to the ground one by one like cutting wheat.

The Byzantine Emperor Manuel, who was fighting fiercely, turned his head angrily, looked at the scene of thousands of horses galloping in the distance, and cursed: "The Franks are arrogant and arrogant asses! The red tide is not even tired of the forward, and there is a steady stream Constantly the army did not enter the field, they launched a charge! Are you in a hurry to go to hell!"

"Stubborn donkey! Stupid pig! A whore's dog!" The King of France also looked angrily at the flanks. The huge charge of the Frankish knights seemed to be dying. It can be said that all the knights galloping on the battlefield at this moment are a group of A marching soul is a soldier doomed to die.

If the Red Tide can be defeated with a single charge, then how could the whole world be penetrated by them, from tens of thousands of miles away to the city of Constantinople!
Sure enough, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of allied forces, the galloping knights rushed into the formation of the Qin army, and the phalanxes of the Qin army began to move horizontally one after another.

They have hundreds of phalanxes. Except for the phalanxes fighting on the front line, their main force is recharging their energy behind, and there is no confusion at all.

When the densely packed knights rushed into the depths of the Song Army formation, the phalanx behind them quickly moved from the left and right sides to encircle it.The dense formation blocked the front of the Crusader infantry, completely cutting off the connection between the cavalry and infantry of the coalition forces.

The current battle situation almost repeats the situation of Zhu Di's battle of Jingnan and the battle of Dongdongchang. In this battle, Zhu Di led his army to charge, but the Ming army launched a battle to lure Zhu Di into it, and then encircled him.

If it weren't for Zhu Yunqi's will of "Don't let me have the name of killing my uncle", the generals of the Ming army, large and small, would have died with a hundred lives if they were afraid that Zhu Yunqi would put him in the hat of killing uncles.

You know, in the same battle, Jing Nan's No. 1 general Zhang Yu, who also rushed into the formation to save Zhu Di, did not have such a good life. He was directly trapped in the formation and died of exhaustion from his injuries.

The Duke of Champagne obviously did not have such a good nephew as Zhu Di. Although he entered the battle instead of being lured into it, he still quickly encountered an extremely harsh situation.

(End of this chapter)