Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War.

Chapter 169 Madness
While Jeanne was in danger, a spear was thrown from the rear of the Wessex army and hit Jeanne's enemy's right shoulder from hundreds of meters away.

The moment the opponent felt pain, Jeanna seized the opportunity, stretched out her spear from the gap left by the opponent's broken right arm, and hit the enemy right in the heart, completing a standard harvest.

Pulling the spear out of the opponent's body, Jeanna looked in the direction where the spear came from. Cu Chulainn stood there maintaining the throwing posture and made a gesture to Jeanna, indicating that she should continue fighting and not think too much.

Jeanne understood, picked up her weapon and joined the melee again.

In fact, it was not just the Welsh Celts led by Boudica. Even the more than one hundred Irish Celts led by Cuchulain did not obey Orwell's orders. After capturing the city wall, they did not rush into the city to consume their already small number of troops, but they did not obediently stand on the city wall to defend it.

After the Roman army arrived, they gave up their duty of guarding the city walls and prepared to retreat to the barracks to rest. In their opinion, they had already completed all their tasks, and they did not intend to do any more.

This actually became Orville's life-saving straw. Cu Chulainn, who was about to return to the barracks, happened to run into the besieged Orville headquarters. He came over to help without thinking much, and the following scene happened.

Although it was a small force of only about a hundred people, the arrival of reinforcements at the critical moment boosted the morale of the Romans. On the contrary, the morale of the Wessex people fell to the lowest point due to the killing of their generals and the attacks from all sides.

Although they were attacked from both sides, the Wessex people did not retreat, but continued to break through in the direction of Orville's central position.

In this situation, Orville felt a little miserable in his heart - the other party seemed to be against him, thinking that killing him would end the war, so he wanted to exchange N with him, and he was determined to kill him even at the risk of the army being wiped out.

He looked towards the city anxiously, hoping that the army there could move faster and quickly return to support his central position.

It was also his own misjudgment that he pushed all the main infantry forces near the city and dispersed the cavalry around Winchester to guard against the Vikings. As a result, he was taken advantage of and is now in this troublesome situation.

Now the defenders on the other side of the city wall discovered the abnormality in the central position and wanted to return to provide support, but they were held back by the Wessex army in the city. They launched a desperate charge and pinned most of the troops who wanted to leave where they were, unable to move.

At this time, Orville had no choice but to pray silently in his heart and shout various war slogans to boost the morale of the Roman army. He wanted to fight the enemy head-on to see who would collapse first.

However, Cu Chulainn, who was transferred here as a guest general, did have a trick up his sleeve. He possessed a very eye-catching talent.

All the muscles in his body began to swell and wriggle, as if they were about to burst out of his body; one eye sunken deep into the eye socket, while the other eye bulged out as if it was about to burst out; his lips contracted violently backwards, so that the outline of Cu Chulainn's throat could be vaguely seen.

From his calves to his shoulders, every joint in Cuchulain's body shook like a tree in a flood or a reed in a stream. His body convulsed violently under his skin, his feet, shins, and knees turned behind him, while his ankles turned in front.

This painful and intense transformation lasted for about two minutes, after which Cu Chulainn became a giant nearly two meters and three meters tall, with red skin and a slight heat rising from his body. He looked as terrifying and breathtaking as the giants in mythology. "Roar!" A thunderous war cry came out of his throat, resounding throughout the small battlefield.

Orville witnessed the entire process from the high ground, and his first thought was very simple: just two words.

【Fuck! 】

This is the ability that Cu Chulainn displayed in the epic story, also known as berserk. It is obvious that Cu Chulainn's combat effectiveness has now increased by several levels.

Generally speaking, it seems that the more civilized a place is, the harder it is to produce powerful talents, and the less civilized a place is, the easier it is to produce talents. This is probably a weird balance compensation mechanism. After all, the productivity gap in this world is greater than that in the original world. The average level of the Roman Empire's technology tree far exceeds that of the same period in history, while many barbarians are still tribal societies, and the gap is probably a thousand years.

If these powerful talents did not exist, the Roman Empire, with its overwhelming technological level, would probably have crushed all the barbarians it encountered around it. But with the advent of these talents, the two sides reached a delicate balance similar to that of their previous life.

It is precisely because of the existence of such people that the Roman Empire in this time and space failed to conquer Britain a hundred years ago, and this task was pushed back to Orwell's era before it began to move forward again.

As a gifted person with a rare second-stage mode, it is obvious that Cu Chulainn's combat ability is worthy of his appearance. His original combat power level was very strong, but it was further improved. Like a charging elephant, he rampaged through the Wessex army. The infantry, who had no spear formation and lacked space for projection, could not deal with this kind of character that only appeared in heroic epics. Orville was fortunate to witness what the heroes of the mythological era were like.

This brought the morale of the Wessex people to a low point, and they were in danger of morale collapse. Seeing this situation, Alfred, who was charging at the front, had to turn around and deal with the frenzied Cu Chulainn himself.

The combat capabilities of the two sides were obviously unequal, but Alfred had his own soldiers to assist him, so although he was at a disadvantage, he was still able to hold on and was not killed on the spot by Cu Chulainn.

He had no choice but to place his hope on his own soldiers, hoping that they could break through the Roman defenses on their own, but this hope was dashed.

The battle was already tense when Alfred was assisting, but now without the help of the gifted, their morale was also hit, making it even harder to break through the defense. The Roman soldiers, on the other hand, were more motivated and confident, showing signs of a counterattack. The two sides fought back and forth, and the battle became evenly matched.

Time is undoubtedly very precious during wartime, and the dozen minutes of stalemate between the two sides were enough for the Romans to return to the headquarters to support their commander-in-chief.

The light cavalry scattered around the headquarters, Belisarius' army near Orville, and Stilicho's army all rushed back to support, completely surrounding Alfred's soldiers.

At this point in the war, the outcome was basically decided. Alfred's desperate attempt to reverse the situation failed, and the fall of Winchester became a matter of time.

(End of this chapter)