Moe Cultivation Diary

Chapter 847 The Strongest Cavalry in the Middle Ages - France
"The whole army is on alert, change the shield wall array!"

The ground was trembling, the familiar sound of hooves, none of the three armies besieging Orléans was more familiar with this movement, the French cavalry.

It has only been half a month since the siege, with France's mobility, how could it be possible to arrive at the Orleans battlefield so quickly.

"Damn it, Charles VII is still hiding heavy cavalry," the Burgundy commander gritted his teeth, the dust was flying, and in a blink of an eye the cavalry unit led by Earl Dunoy had appeared in sight, which was even bigger than the Burgundy commander had imagined. as bad.

If it is an ordinary cavalry, he will not have any fear. The light cavalry collides with the infantry, and the advantage it has is not as great as imagined, especially the infantry phalanx that is in a good formation. It is difficult for the light cavalry to disturb the formation. die.

The problem arises...the French heavy cavalry, the ace of the cavalry, has long since become the tears of the times, and the shield wall array is like thin paper in front of them.

The prevalence of cavalry in France is far beyond the imagination of normal people. Don't think that the King of Knights comes from England, but think that England is the place with the strongest cavalry.

As a Frenchman, after seeing the English cavalry, he can despise the English cavalry very mockingly. In terms of cavalry, no one in the current era can compare to France.

The main force of the war was the cavalry, and no matter how they failed, they never gave up the cavalry.

In the Battle of Crecy a hundred years ago, less than [-] English invaders successfully killed nearly [-] French heavy and light mixed cavalry, and there were more than [-] recruits.

The failure couldn't help but not make France regret it. On the contrary, it deepened the research on armor and transformed it into a full-body armor, which is the peak heavy cavalry.

Choose high-quality war horses, only riders who meet the standard of stature and strength are allowed to wear them, the peak of cavalry, heavy cavalry.

A high-quality war horse can carry the armor of itself and the rider without losing speed. The double load makes the heavy cavalry have no lasting combat effectiveness, but the impact has reached its peak.

Only the French understand the horror of the heavy cavalry. No arm can confront the French heavy cavalry head-on on the battlefield, and the light infantry can't even withstand the opponent's round of charge.

The decline of the French cavalry also began with the heavy cavalry.

In the Battle of Agincourt nearly 20 years ago, [-] remnant archers killed more than [-] French heavy cavalry and more than [-] light cavalry.

He still doesn't understand how to do it. The heavy cavalry wears full body armor, and even the horses are covered with battle armor. The defense that even armor-piercing arrows can hardly penetrate is the pinnacle of French cavalry.

Although England's longbowmen have excellent range, they are unlikely to cause too much damage.

It was also from that battle that France began to gradually abandon heavy cavalry in the country, and even the tactics of cavalry began to change.

The failure made France discover that cavalry is not a panacea, but more importantly, it is costly. The time and money consumed by heavy cavalry are unimaginable figures.

The war between the two countries lasted for a hundred years, and the shameful treaty signed by Charles VI was a large amount of compensation, which made it difficult for France to afford the heavy cavalry.

Now nearly half of the territory is lost, and the country is even more turbulent, let alone supporting the heavy cavalry.

In the past ten years, there have been almost no heavy cavalry, and there will be light cavalry and simplified heavy cavalry, but I didn't expect one to appear here.

This can be regarded as the bottom of the chest of Charles VII. The French royal family is not rich in money, and even some nobles are not inferior to him.

Only 2000 heavy cavalry made Charles VII think hard, preparing to counterattack England as the finale, but the matter of Orleans is too important.

Once Orleans is breached, no matter how heavy the cavalry is, it will be useless. He himself has to consider fleeing to a foreign country for refuge, so it doesn't make sense to keep it.

"Cavalrymen, let the enemy see how powerful we are!" The roar sounded, and the heavy cavalry was close in the blink of an eye.

"Archers, shoot!" The commander-in-chief of Burgundy also ordered through gritted teeth. Their troops did not have too many archers, and the bows and arrows they shot were relatively sparse. what personal injury.

Not only the whole body of the heavy cavalry, but even the face is covered by the mask. It cannot be said that there are no dead ends, but it is enough to prevent most bow and arrow attacks.

The shaking of the ground became more and more obvious, and the faces of the Burgundian soldiers standing in the front row gradually turned pale. Facing the heavily armed heavy cavalry, no one could keep their faces unchanged.

"Kill!" roared loudly, the figure of the frontmost man and the horse under him were a circle larger than the other cavalry, the most obvious was that the knight without a helmet rushed into the camp of the Burgundian soldiers first.

The large heavy hammer was swung out, and in an instant, more than a dozen figures were blown away, and blood splashed on the faces of other soldiers.

"Count Dunoit" the Burgundy commander whispered, his brutal fighting style, the knight who rushed to the forefront, would never be the commander in other periods, but in the current era, he is the most suitable The commander-in-chief's candidate.

Unexpectedly, he who disappeared would reappear on the battlefield.

"Hold it! As long as you stand up to the first wave, the heavy cavalry is nothing to fear!"

The commander-in-chief of Burgundy was shouting that the danger of heavy cavalry is the impact force. As long as they lose their speed, it is much easier to deal with them.

It can be seen at a glance that the opponent's number is less than half of his own. Withstanding the impact and surrounding the opponent, it may not be impossible to annihilate the opponent.

But morale is an indescribable weapon on the battlefield. Once touched, the Burgundy team tends to collapse.

The horse's back is close to two meters high, and the rider, horse, and armor weigh more than a thousand kilograms. What kind of terrifying impact will it achieve at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour?

As soon as the two armies came into contact, Burgundy's shield wall was immediately destroyed. In the face of the heavily armored cavalry, it was difficult for them to effectively stop them.

Blood splashes on the battlefield all the time, and knights in full-body armor can ignore the surrounding attacks and slash wantonly, but it is not absolute.

Except for Count Dunoy, even Demes and Bertrand would not understand the power of the heavy cavalry. When they appeared on the battlefield, the heavy cavalry had already disappeared for various reasons.

If Joan of Arc understood the power of heavy cavalry, instead of asking Count Dunoy to bring reinforcements to support, she would try her best to hold back the reinforcements.

Under the leadership of Count Dunoy, shortly after the battle began, the front phalanx of the Burgundian army was about to be pierced by heavy cavalry.

There is a reason for the impact of the heavy cavalry, and there is another part of the reason. Most of the siege troops are light infantry, and it is difficult to effectively block the heavy cavalry.

　Although it is a bit exaggerated, there is no doubt that France, the strongest cavalry country in the Middle Ages, was an era of cavalry before the Hundred Years War

　　
　
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