Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 67: Mortal Courage! Odin's Attention
"Raise your shield!"

"Array up!"

Brad roared and stood on the first row of defense. The soldiers on the left and right sides began to change into a dense formation, holding their shields high to resist the enemy's first wave of charge, and then looking for opportunities to assassinate with heavy daggers. This was a classic tactic of the Roman Empire, emphasizing "defense and counterattack". As long as they could withstand the first wave, they would become more and more courageous after the enemy's strength was exhausted.

In the past, the young army took the lead and the middle-aged army decided the outcome of the battlefield. Now, the first row must be elite, otherwise they will not be able to withstand the first wave of the barbarians' attack. If the formation is disrupted at the beginning of the fight, it will be even more difficult to fight later.

After the empire's military reform, the field army was responsible for annihilating the enemy.

Bray was a descendant of the Romans who remained on the British Isles. The early British legions were trained by his father.

They are the only heavily armored infantry and can hold the line at critical moments.

of course.

Not all frontal defenses are fought in this way. There will always be some unexpected events on the battlefield.

For example, the Frankish axe-throwing infantry were a force temporarily recruited by Duncan. There were not many of them, only a few dozen people, and they were mixed with the Frankish infantry. Because of their strong combat effectiveness, they were also placed on the right front line.

call out!
As soon as the Gepids rushed forward, they were met with a barrage of flying Fran axes. Before they could recover from the shock, the other side actually roared, raised their shields, swung their axes, and charged towards them.

This charge was so powerful that the Gallic warriors could not help themselves. They started shouting war cries and launched a counterattack.

As soon as they start their battle cry, a chain reaction will occur, and a defensive battle can be turned into an offensive battle.

The good news is that they simply chopped the Gepids into a trance.

A wave of counterattacks defeated the enemy's front-line troops head-on, and dozens of people were killed in the blink of an eye.

Bad news: a gap had appeared on the right flank. The Gallic warriors had overshot the enemy's line, separating them from the second-tier British garrison, leaving the flanking archers completely exposed. The Hunnic horse archers waited for their opportunity, ready to take down the overrunning soldiers and inflict heavy damage on the British archers within.

Unexpected news.

Because of the war cries of the Gallic warriors, the entire battlefield was filled with their fanatical roars for a while. The chain reaction this triggered not only made their own people excited, but also triggered the reckless state of the enemy troops, the Hun heavy infantry, and the Ostrogoth heavy axemen, marking them as "charging without authorization."

All of a sudden the entire northwest Shanxi was in chaos!
Although the Gallic warriors did not have strong discipline, they were good at dragging the enemy into a melee and finally defeating the enemy with their skilled melee skills.

As long as you rush forward like me, then we are on the same starting line.

They could not improve their own discipline, but they could lower the enemy's discipline. The exciting war roars directly made the nearby barbarian soldiers of both the enemy and our side start to get crazy.

"idiot!"

"idiot!"

In an instant, Duncan and Chalgan started cursing almost at the same time.

The Gallic warriors rushed forward, exposing the second-tier British garrison regiment as a reserve, and also sent the British auxiliary archers into the sight of the enemy cavalry. If they were attacked head-on, the British garrison regiment would not be able to withstand it, and the right wing might fall into a great disadvantage.

However, the enemy was not in a much better situation at this time. The Ostrogothic heavy axemen were also barbarian troops. They also started charging with war cries, turning the right wing into a melee. Because they were the attacking side, their weaknesses were more obvious. The entire right wing began to become disconnected, and a huge strategic gap appeared. If this gap was cut off, all the legions in the front row would be defeated!

With just a battle cry, the right wing instantly became the place that decided the outcome of the entire battlefield.

Duncan now faces a decision.

If he plays conservatively, he will support the right wing defense line, force back the Huns' elite cavalry, save the British archers, let the British garrison regiment hold on, and then gather the troops to defeat the enemy's first wave of offensive.

This is a small victory.

Because the enemy can still gather the defeated soldiers, there will be a second wave of attack soon.

The aggressive style of play is very direct.

Duncan completely ignored the right wing and ordered the British garrison to hold on, while he led the cavalry to charge. Although the Gallic warriors were reckless, they did chop down the enemies in the front row. If Duncan had penetrated and broken through, he could have directly wiped out the Huns' elite Ostrogoth axemen.

At that time, no matter how many infantry the enemy had, the real combat troops had been wiped out.

Once the main combat forces are killed, the other troops will be defeated very quickly.

——Gallic Warriors (One Star) (High Morale) (Rout the Enemy) (From a High Position) (Reckless Charge) (Breathless) (We Are Going to Win)!
This group of reckless men didn't realize they had gone too far.

They were fighting in all directions!

They actually fought back and forth with the surrounded enemy, leading the entire right wing front astray. No matter whether they were their own people or the enemy, some individual combat units even showed the special mark of "headhunter".

"follow me!"

At this moment, Duncan followed his intuition completely. Theoretically, it would be safer for him to support the right wing, but he just wanted to seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy's main infantry in one fell swoop.

Even with so many frontal attacks, the Gallic warriors can still withstand at least two or three waves of attacks.

Don't worry about their discipline, the morale of the Gallic warriors and the sworn warriors is top-notch!

They are good at chaotic fighting.

A burst of galloping horse hooves sounded, and Duncan led the general's guards and cavalry troops to attack the enemy's right flank and rear. This was tantamount to exposing all their weaknesses. They completely ignored it and fought to stab each other to see who could defeat the enemy army first.

Now it’s Chalgan’s turn to be in a difficult situation!

Originally, he had the initiative, and could attack the enemy's right flank, or wipe out the Gallic warriors. Any of these actions would be smooth sailing. But now that Duncan had charged, he was caught between a rock and a hard place.

——The dice have been rolled!
The general's guard led by Duncan was like a red-hot hammer, smashing the Huns' vassal army to pieces as long as it fell on the battlefield. The only one who could stop Duncan's charge was Chalgan and his personal guards. He could rescue the vassal army, but this would lose the opportunity to break through the enemy's right wing.

By rescuing the vassal army, you can achieve a small victory and slowly wear down the enemy.

Attacking the right wing can lead to a great victory and directly defeat the enemy's main force.

Chalgan is also a ruthless person!
Like Duncan, he chose to follow his feelings at this moment and directly led the elite Hun cavalry to attack the flaws in the right wing's defense line. If this wave of attack was successful, the enemy's center army would also collapse. At that time, it would be time for the pursuit and encirclement that the Hun cavalry was best at.

Just strangle them all!

At this moment, the battlefield was like two hungry wolves biting each other, you bit yours, I bit mine, tearing their internal organs and intestines out, and it was just a matter of who would succumb first and die.

Duncan is absolutely confident in his own martial arts skills.

Chalgan firmly believed that his elite cavalry could easily defeat these second-rate troops, which were similar to the imperial border guards.

His intuition was correct. The British Sea Guards were indeed a replica of the Imperial Frontier Guards and were a second- or third-rate combat unit. However, he overlooked the amazing morale of the British Sea Guards led by Duncan!
"kill!"

Duncan's figure was as powerful as a thousand horses, and wherever the sword of victory went, heads were chopped off, limbs and arms were scattered all over the sky, shields were split, and sharp blades were cut off. No one could stop him, and he was invincible!
Just the first round of collisions.

Duncan killed more than ten people in one charge, and the general's guards who followed him expanded the victory, killing dozens of people in one breath, and completely killed the two hundred-man teams of Gepid infantry, causing their morale to collapse.

——Ostrogoth Elite Heavy Axeman (one star) (breathless) (encountered a strong enemy) (horrified) (ghosts and gods) (morale shaken)!

On the battlefield.

A black dragon head flag fluttered in the midst of the chaotic army.

"Dragon Flag!"

"It's the dragon flag! The general is coming!"

"Follow me!"

The Gallic warriors who were already out of breath and caught in the chaos of the battle suddenly roared wildly. Even in their "tired" state, they launched a charge and hacked down the Gepids in front of them.

The cavalry led by Duncan was like a hot knife cutting through oil. Under the charge of the sharp sword riders in the front row, they easily cut the enemy in two, then turned their horses' heads to attack the Ostrogoth heavy axemen from the front and back. Duncan's figure directly broke out of the formation, and the sword of the oath of victory flashed a cold light, killing a two-star Ostrogoth elite axeman. Soon the enemy was marked with the "commander killed in battle" and "command chaos".

"not good!"

On the other side of the battlefield, Chalgan's face changed drastically.

too fast!
The enemy is rushing too hard and too fast!
This is simply not a human being!

At this moment, Duncan almost exerted his personal bravery to the limit. He defeated seven or eight hundred people in a row with a wave of charge, turned his horse's head and attacked the elite axemen of the Ostrogoths from the front and back, and directly defeated the main infantry of the Hun army and shook their morale.

When he led his troops to charge, he was basically unstoppable!
Behind him, the general's guards of elite heavy cavalry were like dump trucks rushing across the battlefield, crushing the enemy's lines of defense.

"damn it!"

"Why don't these border guards disband?!"

"what's the situation?"

"An archer dares to draw his weapon and engage us in close combat?!"

Don’t they want to live anymore?

Although Chalgan had fought for so many years, this was the first time he saw archers being approached by cavalry. Instead of running away, they drew their weapons, picked up the shields and spears dropped by their dead companions, and launched a counterattack against the fully armed cavalry.

At this moment, the British naval corps suffered heavy casualties, but they still did not flee. Instead, they formed a dense formation and used spears and short spears to resist the offensive of the Hun cavalry.

The entire right wing battlefield was littered with corpses.

Without any defensive facilities or trenches, the British Garrison Corps used their flesh and blood to block a wave of attacks from the Chalgan Guards Cavalry. This was simply exchanging life for life. Even the most elite Imperial Eagle Flag Field Army could not have such amazing morale.

——British Garrison Corps (suffered heavy casualties) (morale is high) (fight to the death) (the gods promised us a great victory) [Odin is watching]!
This is simply a miracle of the Middle Ages.

As a replica of a low-profile border garrison, the British Sea Guards held off the most elite cavalry of the Huns. Above the battlefield, a Valkyrie with a golden helmet and bird wings appeared. She brought two Valkyries with silver helmets and silently watched the British Sea Guards fighting desperately below.

In this life-and-death battle, never retreat!

Lord Duncan said that the gods promised us a resounding victory!!!

At this moment, the power of mortals' faith is concentrated.

These British garrison regiments, which were regarded as weak and incompetent by the Saxons, fought to the last moment with amazing willpower. Even a hundred-man team of soldiers was killed in battle (annihilated). This not only made the three Valkyries stop and hover above them, but also attracted the attention of the legendary Odin.

Strength is not the only criterion for entering Valhalla.

Courage is it!

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(End of this chapter)