Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 63 Fight to feed war!

One fight down.

The number of cavalry troops under Duncan's command increased with the battle.

Not only that, his infantry had also grown by two to three hundred, including over a dozen one-star 'Franken Elite Axemen'—frontline heavy infantrymen who launched a wave of Franken axes before battle. Franken axemen were even stronger than Saxon axemen, for only the defeated would go to sea. Over the centuries, the Gallic rooster had absorbed the legacy of both the Empire and the barbarians. Their heavy infantry was top-tier, and their Franken Paladins were top-tier heavy cavalry.

The real Franks have never been afraid of fighting a tough battle. Not to mention Napoleon the Great, the French army was also very brave during the First World War.

As for now, the Franks are the first-tier barbarians, second only to the powerful Goths.

"Recruit them!"

Duncan directly recruited the defeated Frankish soldiers. Since it was their hometown, the defeated soldiers did not rob everywhere. Instead, they gathered together to protect the nearby towns and continued to fight against the Hun plunderers who were looting the entire Gaul.

At this time, the overall military quality of the Franks was very high. Ordinary peasants could be recruited and trained and directly become the Frankish militia auxiliary corps, completely skipping the stage of mixed peasant formation.

They will also bring their own equipment. Because of the barbarians' warlike tradition, ordinary people also have shields, battle axes, daggers and other weapons at home. Rich people with good family backgrounds can also afford leather armor, inlaid armor, studded armor, etc., which means that after recruitment, they are at the level of light infantry.

Exiles were considered rogues in ancient times, people without property or land, while the common people of the Franks mostly owned land and property, and were considered good family men in ancient times.

As a result, Duncan's strength increased even faster, and the number of troops in a battle increased to about 2,500, but the number of combat soldiers was still only about 1,200 to 1,300.

Teams of infantry carried back the captured spoils.

Edmundson rode behind on horseback, with a look of shock still in his eyes. Looking at the bloody heroic figure in front of him, he lowered his head in awe.

He even suspected that the man didn't need any troops at all, and could defeat all the enemies by himself!
In the battle just now, he killed three enemies, all of whom were armored soldiers.

In the past, Edmundson would have definitely boasted about this, even if it was in his hometown tavern, when he was drunk in the poet's box, he would have boasted about it and asked the bard to spread his bravery.

But now, he is just an ordinary member of the general's guard.

no way.

There were too many fierce men in the general's guards. Clegane charged with his lance, hacking left and right, killing five or six people in a row. The Sarmatian riders broke through the enemy formation, which reminded people of the era when the dragon head flag fluttered on the battlefields of Britain. Even the young man behind Clegane, a little guy who was only sixteen years old and didn't even have a full beard, stabbed and hacked to death one person.

To be honest, Edmundson's record of killing three soldiers is really not worth boasting about.

Not to mention that he was a small lord with better equipment and weapons.

He was loyal to King Uther of the Kingdom of Camelot. He was the descendant of a Roman officer and an indigenous person. His mother also had some Sarmatian blood, so he stayed there and became a member of the British aristocracy.

"If King Uther and Lord Duncan become enemies in the future and I encounter him on the battlefield, what should I do?"

This is what Edmundson is most worried about now.

It's like a ghost descending to earth!

Invincible!

Edmundson was also famous in his hometown and was known as a "bear" warrior. He couldn't imagine himself meeting Duncan on the battlefield. Facing this fierce man who was like a king leading the cavalry to charge, he didn't dare to draw his weapon to fight.

It can’t be stopped. It can’t be stopped at all!

I'm afraid that even the elite knights under King Uther, the predecessor of the Knights of the Round Table, the heavy knights of Ragnar with the dragon head flag, cannot stop this fierce man who is like a god descended from heaven.

Edmondson was not the only one who thought so; other British noble riders had similar thoughts.

Everyone looked at each other, and seemed to have formed a tacit understanding in their hearts.

"If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have been so eager to pledge my loyalty to King Uther."

With Duncan's powerful strength, it would not be difficult to unify the British Isles after this battle. If any conflict broke out, King Uther would not be able to stop him on the front battlefield.

By then, I guess Liu Bang will look at Xiang Yu with the same expression - is he still a human being?

Why not vote for it?

When they arrived, these British noble knights were still a little arrogant. They felt that although Duncan had a great reputation, they were also excellent knights and lords with their own troops, so they had to give them a little respect.

To be honest, when Edmundson thinks about it now, he feels that Duncan had given them a lot of face at that time.

These British noble knights also have about a thousand people under their command. Now most of them have changed their minds, and some are even ready to change their allegiance.

To conquer the enemy without fighting.

At least half of the thousand people were ready to join Duncan.

Finally, I must mention that it was so cool to see Edmundson following that adult and charging into battle!
He had never killed so happily before.

No matter whether they are light infantry or heavy infantry, they can all cut through the enemy directly like cutting tofu, and they will not lose their way. After breaking through the enemy formation, they can take a breath, turn their horses around, and follow the adult to change their posture and charge again!
This is simply a natural cavalry commander. Edmundson could only think of one historical figure at this time, that is Alexander the Great and his fellow cavalrymen.

Duncan's horseback figure was at the front of the team.

He has taken off his cloak. No wonder generals like cloaks. This thing is actually used to wipe blood, just like the red tassel on the red tassel spear, to prevent blood from remaining and making it difficult to hold the spear.

Duncan killed so many people that his body was soaked in blood. He felt uncomfortable after the blood coagulated.

He played normally in this battle. The Sword of Promised Victory feels very good, worthy of the labels of holy sword and divine weapon. How can I describe the feeling when Duncan wields it? It's probably like Dugu Qiubai holding the Heavenly Sword.

With his strength, he could kill people with a wooden sword, so holding the Sword of Promised Victory would be like him dancing with all his might.

If we want to kill Duncan now, we can only shoot him to death with a volley of arrows.

Otherwise, it would be large-scale engineering weapons such as ballistae, crossbows, and catapults. In this battle, Duncan was hit by five arrows, but it didn't hurt, just a superficial wound, and the bleeding stopped immediately. Because of the scabbard of Avalon, even if Duncan was cut into a blood vessel, the bleeding would stop quickly. It's not that he wouldn't bleed, but the wound would stop bleeding immediately.

When he injured an artery, the bleeding only spurted briefly and stopped after a while.

Duncan didn't care about the British noble rider's reaction at this moment. He looked at the young boy Carl in front of him, patted him on the shoulder, and praised him, "Well done!"

A sixteen-year-old boy killed two soldiers in battle and can be trained as a priority.

The young man looked at Duncan's excited expression. He didn't understand why his brother charged into the battlefield without fear. Now he understood. At that moment, he had no thoughts in his mind and just followed the adult to charge into the enemy.

By the time he reacted, two rounds of fighting had already ended and all the enemies were defeated.

Morale is too high.

The Huns only saw a group of people rushing towards them with murderous intent, as if they didn't want to die at all. They were already frightened before the fight even started.

Duncan is now looking at his combat gains, which include two combat skills.

He said that he wanted to kill some strong Huns, and he was killing Germanic barbarians every day, and he was almost turning him into a berserker.

——"Dual-Weapon Combat Mastery: Only a very few warriors are good at fighting with their left hands. Their left hands are as flexible as other people's right hands. You can now use dual weapons to fight without feeling any inconvenience affecting your combat skills. You can use your left hand to perform the combat moves you have mastered."

It seems that one of the enemy infantry commanders was holding a battle axe in his left hand and a shield in his right hand. After Duncan seized it, he transformed it into a dual-weapon combat master.

At this moment, in Duncan's palm, the Fran throwing axe was spinning at high speed, just like playing with a pen.

This fighting skill is great!

It turns out that you still need to kill different enemies to expand the breadth of your combat skills.

——"Consecutive Arrows [Combat Skill]: You can fire arrows continuously at an astonishing rate, up to five arrows simultaneously, while significantly consuming stamina. This is a combat technique used by the Hun eagle archers. It requires a strong physique to perform, and continuous use may lead to fatigue. It can be performed while mounted, but the accuracy will be significantly reduced."

Duncan's current state is about three arrows per second. If it is faster, the accuracy will not be much, and the bow itself has an upper limit on the shooting speed.

This combat skill consumes a lot of stamina. Continuously shooting the bow will make the muscles feel a little sore. The more you shoot, the more stamina you consume, just like sprinting 100 meters continuously.

"Sacrificing some accuracy in exchange for extreme rate of fire."

"acceptable."

The initial shooting speed of a bow and arrow is not fast, so rapid shooting is described as continuous arrows.

With Duncan's current stamina, he can probably shoot about ten arrows in a row. Only the Norden bow can do this. Other bows will probably break directly.

The exile camp is already a little overwhelmed.

Duncan had to build another small military camp near the bandits' stronghold. He deployed hundreds of troops there so that if the Huns looted the area around Paris, he could always rob them again.

Fight to feed war!

Now the Huns are looting Gaul. He led his troops to rob the Huns, but he would definitely not return the looted items to the Gauls, as they were also obtained at the cost of his life.

The day passed quickly.

On the morning of the next day, the reconnaissance scouts left by Duncan sent back a message that after the Hun raiders were defeated yesterday, more than 20 fleeing cavalrymen found Hun troops in other places. Then the three groups of Hun raiders joined together, and together with the vassal army, there were estimated to be three to four thousand people, and they were ready to strangle Duncan's troops near Paris.

This was a common tactic used by the Hun raiders. If they suffered a loss, they would immediately dispatch troops to encircle and suppress the enemy. Their army was highly mobile.

"How many cavalrymen do we have now?"

Duncan pondered for a moment and looked at Clegane beside him.

Clegane was busy with his men. He had a mountain woman make him a black dragon-headed banner. The Great Dragon, Uther, wore a red dragon banner. Following Duncan's orders, he used black banners and black armor as his mark. He looked up and said, "We have about two hundred cavalrymen capable of fighting, primarily Sarmatian riders."

"There are only fifty or sixty mounted infantrymen."

"If we had more horses, we should be able to form an elite mounted infantry."

Mounted infantry, as the name suggests, rode horses to the battlefield and dismounted to fight as infantry. This was quite common during the Han and Tang dynasties.

Duncan pondered for a moment, then suddenly stood up and said, "Gather the troops."

Can fight!

This isn't the first time he's managed to win with fewer players.

If this battle is won, the enemy's plan to harass the area around Paris will fail.

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(End of this chapter)