Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 65: Shooting the Halberd at the Gate! (+ additional chapters)

What Duncan wanted was not for this French envoy to make the decision.

He wanted to shoot the halberd through the gate and let the Frank leader Merovice make the decision!
There is even a desire to show off one's military strength, asking him to be more humble.

As for Duncan's final idea, he still wanted the Franks to obey his command in the upcoming Battle of Chalons, or at least to cooperate with him in the battle, so that Duncan could indirectly mobilize an elite force of five or six thousand people.

The barbarians of this era highly valued personal bravery, and Duncan's arrow hit the target. Whether it was the protection of the gods or his superb archery skills, it would make Merovingian think carefully.

Because of such archery skills, if you meet Duncan on the battlefield, you may be shot in the head by the time you see him.

Of course, all plans are based on the premise that you can hit the target right now!

If he missed, it would be a loss of face for Duncan.

This is what it means to be a person of great skill and courage!

The Fran envoy was skeptical and couldn't make a decision, but Duncan didn't care. He just wanted him to report everything he saw back to Merovi.

The entire tent was dead silent.

Everyone knows that Duncan is a superb archer and is a top-notch marksman in the British Isles. However, in such weather and at such a long distance, hitting an axe handle that is only two fingers wide is far more difficult than others can imagine.

In fact, Duncan is already very conservative.

For him, if he stood still and shot, the crosshairs would not move at all. The only thing he needed to consider was the wind direction. The Norden bow had some hidden characteristics. The breeze had almost no effect on it. The strong bow was not easy to deviate from the trajectory. In fact, he could do something even more exaggerated when shooting while walking.

The soldiers were ready quickly.

Raven Queen Triss walked to Duncan's right side, glanced at him, and moved her lips slightly. The next second, Duncan discovered a new blessed state from the God's perspective.

——Eagle Eyes (temporary state).

Duncan suddenly discovered that his vision could be zoomed in and out like Hawkeye's. It seemed that the Raven Queen - Triss was worried that he would make a mistake, so she gave him a Diana or Artemis BUFF.

In fact, it is not necessary, Duncan still has a very high confidence.

call out!
Norden's bow was drawn like a full moon, and Duncan didn't hesitate at all. He shot an arrow directly. With a buzzing sound, the arrow pierced the handle of Fran's flying axe.

Suddenly, thunderous cheers rang out throughout the entire tent.

The Fran envoy was dumbfounded. He turned to look at Duncan, then took a few steps forward to look at the flying axes at the entrance of the camp.

But Duncan didn't stop there.

He put the arrow on the bow again and aimed at the arrow he had just shot. Under the shocked and even somewhat dazed gazes of the others around him, the second arrow broke through the air and directly penetrated the first arrow, almost splitting it in two. The arrowheads collided, and the first arrow's arrowhead broke and flew out, while the second arrow was nailed in its original position.

The cheers stopped abruptly!

next second.

Almost boiling shouts resounded through the sky.

Duncan sheathed the Bow of Norden and handed it to the equally shocked Raven Queen, Triss. He patted the Farran envoy on the shoulder and laughed, "It seems Odin is very kind to me."

“He did tell me that this battle will be won!”

The steps have been given to you.

If Merovice was a smart man, he should know what to do next. After all, they are still allies for the time being.

The confused French envoy was sent away.

Duncan began to assemble his army and sent out more than ten scouts to spy on the movements of the Hun raiders.

In this battle, infantry and cavalry were dispatched together, and the Hun raiders also brought a large number of vassal troops. After the rainstorm, the key tough battles had to be fought by the infantry, and the cavalry could only serve as mobile forces on both wings. Duncan also had dozens of Welsh archers under his command, mixed with two or three hundred British auxiliary archers and Saxon archers, so there was no need to worry even if it was an infantry battle.

Duncan was also training the archers' melee combat abilities, of course selecting some elite ones for training.

His ideal infantry was one that had the shooting ability of an English longbowman, and could use a two-handed sword in close combat to chop down the enemy.

That's right.

He wanted a group of elite Battanian Fianna warriors from Mount and Blade.

For the time being, I haven’t mastered it yet.

If they really mastered it, they would most likely become a group of small-sized archers - Zhang Fei.

After all, he is known as the two-handed swordsman of Battania.

Duncan's goal is not big. He just wants to have one or two hundred people who can decide the outcome of the local battlefield at a critical moment. At present, he is still studying the technology tree of the English longbowmen.

The heavy rain stopped.

Duncan gathered his troops and advanced towards Paris. Scouting scouts had already spotted the Huns' movements. The Huns' reconnaissance capabilities were also very strong, and their scouts had also spotted Duncan's troops. The two scouts briefly clashed in the field, but Clegane did not engage them head-on; the Huns' elite archers proved somewhat formidable.

at the same time.

In the direction of Baron, a burly man with a fierce look and a scar on his face was also looking at the mountains in the distance. Beside him was an elite Hun rider who had just returned.

"The enemy is probably only about 2,000 people, most of them are infantry, and their equipment is not very good."

The scout recalled: "They might be reinforcements coming from Britain."

"I saw a black dragon head flag."

"Only Sarmatian cavalry use dragon head banners!"

Sarmatians?

The Huns' westward expedition even wiped out the Sarmatian tribes of the Eurasian steppes, their riders being shot like hedgehogs in the steppe terrain.

Chalgan said in a deep voice: "How many cavalrymen does the enemy have?"

He was the commander of this Hun army and the heir to the chieftainship of a Hun tribe. As the legendary hero of the Hun legend, Chalgan had outstanding military exploits, and the number of German chieftains who died at his hands was almost as many as one hand.

During the Hun army's westward expedition, he could sometimes destroy one of the small Germanic tribes in just one or two days.

The Hun scout said, "There are only about two hundred cavalrymen."

The infantry of each side was not much different. The Huns' vassal army had a certain numerical advantage, while their cavalry had a big advantage. Several groups of Huns' cavalry combined together had one or two thousand people, and they could harass and attack the enemy's two wing defense lines at any time.

Duncan's army consisted of about 2,500 people, including about 2,300 infantry, which was smaller than the Huns' vassal army.

This wave of advantage is mine!

Can fight!

The cavalry units had such an advantage that they could fight and retreat as they pleased, and the initiative of the war was completely in their hands.

Of course, Chalgan had heard of Duncan's reputation, especially from the defeated Hun riders, but no matter how strong Duncan was, he was just one person. When the time came, he would concentrate his elite troops, shoot thousands of arrows at once, and directly shoot the man to death. Even if that didn't work, he also had a well-equipped heavy cavalry under his command, which could concentrate troops to encircle and kill the powerful enemy.

What kind of monsters and demons hadn’t the Hun army seen during their westward expedition?

They have the protection of all spirits, and the ancient shamanism is passed down in their tribe. Apart from the dragons in Norse mythology, the occasional supernatural monsters and the weird things created by Germanic priests, all are trampled into mud by their cavalry.

When the Hun army destroyed the Sarmatian sanctuary, they even encountered a monster rushing out of flames. In the end, they were shot into hedgehogs by arrows and fled all the way to Thrace.

As for the barbarian warriors with extraordinary strength, there are many Slavic barbarians in Eastern Europe and Germanic barbarians in Western Europe who possess the legendary giant strength, and the heroes of The Legend of the Condor Heroes have killed many of them!

The Wanling Shamanism believed by the Huns had a great relationship with the Eternal Heaven believed by the Mongols later.

All spirits guide them in their westward expedition!

They marched all the way across Europe and conquered the powerful Roman Empire. First, they forced the Eastern Empire to surrender and pay tribute, and then they broke through the Gaul gateway of the Western Empire. From then on, the whole of Europe became their galloping pasture.

In the name of God, destroy Europe!

Although the Hunnic Empire was not as powerful as the Mongol Empire, it could reach further. As long as it broke through the gateway to Gaul, it could reach the Spanish region.

Chalgan was protected by all spirits, and he killed many Germanic priests on his westward expedition.

As long as the gods don't come to the earth in person, they will dare to kill their way through Europe!
"Order the Alan vassal army to form a battle line in front of the central army."

Chalgan was ready to have a fair fight with the rumored Duncan. He placed the Alans vassal army in the front of the center to consume the enemy, with the Ostrogothic heavy infantry and Gepid spearmen on both wings. The Ostrogoths, because of their warlike bravery, played an important role in the infantry of the Hun army, and could get a share of the looted spoils before other vassals.

As for the Hun cavalry, he personally led the heavy cavalry and elite riders to guard the right wing, looking for the enemy's weaknesses and defeating them in one fell swoop. On the left wing, he let his deputy general lead the Hun nomads, Hun cavalry archers, Hun rangers, etc. to harass the enemy.

In fact, these troops are all horse archers.

The only difference was the quality of their armor and their ability to charge into close combat. The Huns were far inferior to the later Mongol cavalry. Their nomads wore almost no armor, their mounted archers wore only leather armor, their rangers were equipped with studded and studded armor, and only the elite riders had iron armor, which could be considered true heavy cavalry.

The Scourge of God - Attila led a large army on a westward expedition. Among the 20,000 to 30,000 Hun cavalry, the vast majority were nomads, that is, troops wearing fur coats. They were equivalent to the empire's peasant militia formations.

Light cavalry is mainly equipped with archery skills, but can also fight in close combat.

As for the real elite cavalry, Attila only had four or five thousand men under his command.

This was after defeating the Eastern Empire, looting the wealth accumulated in the Balkans, and robbing countless barbarian tribes.

Therefore, the final tough battle of the Battle of Chalons was also a battle between the elite riders of the Visigothic Kingdom and the steppe armored cavalry of the Hun Empire.

From a distance, Chalgan saw the enemy's advancing troops.

He found that the enemy had temporarily stopped to rest and began to deploy their troops. There was a small river nearby, which was wadable but affected the mobility of the cavalry, so he moved the Gepids to the left wing.

Dimensional space, from God's perspective.

Duncan has already started to deploy his troops. His projection screen directly displays symbols similar to those of Total War. The formation orders issued are determined by the training level of the army. For example, the British Legion, the central army, can form three good formations, while the formations of other auxiliary legions are crooked, and it is obvious at a glance that they are unqualified and not well trained.

Outside the battlefield.

In the north of the strategic map from a God's perspective, a cavalry unit marked in blue has appeared.

——Frankish shock cavalry.

——Frankish Chieftain Guard (two stars).

——Frankish Noble Rider (one star).

——Frankish Paladin (one star).

Britain's top heavy cavalry are the Raguel Knights, while the Franks are the Frankish Paladins trained with the help of the monastic order.

An all-cavalry unit.

There were nearly a thousand people, and in the distance there was a Frankish infantry corps on its way.

——Merovice (Frankish leader) (Chief) (Hero’s luck) (Odin’s attention) (three stars silver-gray)!

This should be Merovingian, who was deified in later generations and was said to be the son of the sea god.

Ok.

It must be a rumor. There are no demigods anymore.

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(End of this chapter)