Chapter 334 6.82 Decisive Battle (4)

When an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent.

The first wave of evacuating the battlefield is naturally the Visigoth pirates who are paid to do things.

"Whoever has milk is the mother" is the survival principle of this group of bulk pirates. And now, of course, the pirates don't know that Ecbert is just in a coma. When the Slavic man lifted his "corpse".

The mother is gone.

Naturally, the "milk" is also cut off.

"Go, go, go! Damn, this trip is in vain!"

"Isn't it? If you have this time, you might as well go to the New World to catch another batch of living sacrifices. Boss, you don't know how much I miss those shiny black women."

"Don't even mention black women. Even if I have to be a monk now, I don't want to fight with these giants who smell like wolves."

"What the hell are you thinking about! Let's go!"

The Visigothic language with different city-state dialects came one after another, spreading like wildfire. The Visigoth pirates, who were very good at "following the wind", neatly laid down their weapons, unloaded all the extra weight, and evacuated the battlefield in an orderly manner.

This is the "survival skill" they have cultivated over the years.

The bulk pirates who went out to sea to plunder in small groups are well versed in the way of escape.

"Never be the first to charge, and never be the last to retreat"

This is the survival principle of all survivors. And in thousands of escapes, it is not difficult to find that only order can bring speed.

No one is more professional than them in evacuation.

**

The second wave of evacuees were the Wessex militiamen who were captured by the conscripted men.

Wessex is a country that develops farming and trade. In this country, as long as you work honestly, although you may not be rich, most people will be able to ensure that they can have a family and a career, and have no worries about food and clothing.

Although the militias that Aikebert summoned have the word "soldier" in their names, most of them have only played with spears for a few days at village gatherings. Compared with killing people, they care more about their wives and children in their hometown and the seedlings that have just been planted in the fields.

Seeing that the king is dead, groups of "allies" are evacuating the battlefield. The militiamen who have little desire to fight are the second wave of people to withdraw from the battlefield.

But they don't have the pirates' deep experience of running away.

The militiamen's rout is like a pile of loose sand.

And it just so happens that 50,000 of the 100,000 troops are composed of militiamen.

The combined armies of Loki and Bakambush are only 6,000 people, while the Wessex coalition has a strength of 100,000. In the Dark Ages when everyone was fighting with steel knives, having more people on the battlefield was a huge advantage.

Even if the militiamen did nothing, they could cause great trouble to the Viking-Slavic coalition by honestly holding up their spears as stakes.

When the militiamen began to throw down their weapons and flee, they would in turn become a disaster for Wessex.

The militiamen holding spears were located in the center of the defensive line. When they began to flee, the first wave of crossbowmen at the back of the battle line was affected.

Although the Viking pirates led by Loki and the beast warriors under Bakambusi formed a pincer attack, their forces were too scarce after all. The total number of Slavic coalition forces was immediately surrounded by 100,000 troops. Even if everyone was a god, it would take a lot of their energy to kill the Wessex coalition forces.

During this period, the 10,000 crossbowmen outside the battle line became the main output.

However, Bakambusi easily caught Ecbert, and when the militia began to flee, the crossbow array was trampled like a tide!

50,000 militiamen scrambled to try to leave the battlefield. They had no organization and no goals.

In the tide of people, everyone had only one goal-don't fall behind!

Follow the buddies in front of you!

The crossbowmen wearing thin leather armor had no way to deal with the impact of the crowd. The centurion roared and asked the militiamen to return to the battlefield, but what greeted him was a huge foot more than 1 foot long.

After falling to the ground, the centurion was trampled by hundreds of big feet rushing over at the same time, and turned into a skin bag in just a few minutes

Then it immediately turned into a pool of meat paste

And this tragedy will immediately spread to all the crossbowmen behind the formation.

It has been proven in real time that archers without melee attack methods are as fragile as babies when facing close-range short-range attacks. The militiamen do not need to hold weapons, they only need to kick them down and trample them, and they can disperse and flatten the 10,000 troops in more than ten minutes.

Several centurions stationed in the rear saw that the rout could not be stopped, so they could only join the running team.

At this point, the original 20:1 force was quickly reduced to 8:1.

If it is said that it would be very difficult to deal with a war of 6,000 against 100,000, 6,000 against 40,000 is not difficult for powerful Viking warriors.

But it must be said that Ecbert is still capable.

These 40,000 professional soldiers of Wessex are the real backbone of Wessex.

**

The dragon knights can fly and hide and are extremely powerful, but this thing is only a deterrent after all. Wessex cannot raise 300 dragons to form the Dragon Knights like the neighboring Duchy of France

The dragon knights are like the jewels on the crown. The jewels will be inlaid in the most dazzling position, but no king will only wear one jewel on his head.

The crown and embellishment used to support the jewels are indispensable.

These 40,000 well-trained troops are the "crown" on Ecbert's head.

Despite the limited combat power of each unit, this army still showed strong resilience in desperate situations. Seeing their king being captured by the enemy general, this army did not flee or panic.

Using heavy spearmen, heavy armored knights and a small number of high-sequence chosen ones wandering in the front, they fought tenaciously with Loki and Bakambush until the last moment.

Leading the army in a tenacious resistance was the 62-year-old Wessex captain "Iron Wolf" Vincent Gobbo. He knew that his majesty was likely to have died, but he still wanted to lead the remnants to attack the Viking pirates.

The veteran knew that the country behind him could no longer squeeze out any troops.

If they lost this battle, the surviving Vikings could gallop across Wessex, enter any city, and kill anyone.

Even if he knew that the outcome of the war might not be in line with his wishes, the old general had to weaken their living strength as much as possible.

If one more pirate died on the battlefield, perhaps a few more Wessex residents would be able to survive this catastrophe.

The last 40,000 Wessex soldiers swore to fight to the death and fought tenaciously until the last man.

When the bright moon rose again, when Loki pulled the hatchet out of Vincent's head, the whole battlefield was already scarlet. The green fields seemed to have turned into a terrible red furnace.

Among them, there were bloody corpses, limbs and broken arms.

He wiped the blood off his face fiercely and began to count the number of people on the battlefield.

After winning this difficult war, there were less than 2,000 of the 6,000 Viking pirates who followed him to sea.

The number of 5,000 beast warriors brought by Bakanbusi from Slavia was even smaller.

There were only 3,000 Slavic Viking coalition forces left.

However, their next stop, the capital of Wessex, "Southampton", had another 100,000 residents!