Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 73 Bloody battle!
Catalonia Plain.

This time, Duncan witnessed a truly massive army. His Imperial armored cavalry, positioned behind the Visigothic cavalry, occupied the right flank, awaiting the opportune moment to enter the fray. From his position, he couldn't see the end of the battlefield; he could only observe the situation through the strategic map's bird's-eye view.

The strength of the Huns' troops is still unclear, but it is estimated to be more than 100,000, of which the main Hun cavalry and nomads number 50,000 to 60,000. The Hun cavalry that looted the entire Gaul region were almost all concentrated in the Chalons area.

"This battle is not easy to fight!"

Duncan looked at the front line of the battlefield and the central army that was leading the army forward, and once again foresaw the scene of the central army being broken through.

As the mighty Hun army gradually approached, the imperial coalition forces also began to move. The first to start jogging were the Alans. After their country was destroyed, the exiled monarch, Sangis, led the remaining Alans to flee into the empire.

In this battle, about 10,000 Alans and Sarmatians were mixed into a legion. The Alans, as the core of the central army, also had several thousand cavalry, among whom the heavy cavalry were all Alan nobles who had been exiled at that time.

——Sangis (exiled monarch) (king) (abandoned by the gods) (lost destiny) [three stars blank]!
——Alan Noble Heavy Cavalry (Powerful Charge) (One Star).

——Alan Shock Troopers (Fast Movement).

The exiled Alans first defected to the Sarmatians, and then the Sarmatians were also destroyed by the Huns. Finally, they fled together to the Roman Empire. There were more Sarmatians in the Eastern Empire, while the Western Empire allied with the exiled Sanghis.

"Abandoned by the gods? Lost destiny?"

"There are such marks?"

Duncan observed directly from a God's perspective and saw the exiled King Alan, a burly middle-aged man with a weathered face and eyes full of vengeful anger. He was encouraging the soldiers around him with an impassioned voice, probably meaning that the time had come to take revenge on the Huns.

This was the only three-star combat unit in the center camp. Behind the Alans were a variety of mixed Germanic legions. They were not trusted by Aetius and were concentrated in the center.

The Burgundians and Saxons were in the center, and together they had more than ten thousand infantry.

Aetius only deployed the Franks and British legions on the left wing, forming a solid line of defense with the other Roman legions.

The central army had a strength of less than 30,000. The front row was the vengeful Alan cavalry, and the back row was a mixed Germanic barbarian force. The empire's formation was a "convex" character, and the bar on top was the elite Alan cavalry. They were also the first troops to fight against the Hun army.

The sound of horse hooves that shook the earth rang out!

The mighty Hun light cavalry began to accelerate, tens of thousands of horses galloped at the same time, and strange howlings resounded through the sky. That was a common tactic used by the Huns. They would scare the enemy with strange shouts.

"dispersion!"

"Circular Cavalry Archery Formation!"

A Hun hero marked with three silver-grey stars led his army to gallop in front of the battlefield. Unlike the Alans' cavalry, the Hun horse archers accelerated from the beginning and directly let their horses run. More than 10,000 Hun horse archers were divided into two, and then slowly formed an arc-shaped cavalry archery formation while running.

As the Hun's cavalry archers started running, the entire center of the battlefield was filled with the sound of galloping horses' hooves. It was almost difficult to give orders. Several elite riders shot whistling arrows into the sky. Suddenly, a sharp whistling sound was heard. The surrounding Hun archers almost instinctively began to disperse and surround the enemy in a cavalry archer formation.

The Hun army fought all year round and sometimes did not need any command. They knew what to do with just one signal.

Horseback archery and harassment are their specialty.

"The enemy's riding skills are clearly superior."

From Duncan's God's perspective, the elite cavalry of the Alans also began to accelerate slowly. Sangis ran slowly to the front of all the cavalry. The exiled monarch led forty or fifty guards and commanded his subordinates to issue orders.

"Wedge formation!"

Thousands of cavalrymen began to form a wedge formation. They also accelerated little by little following the king's footsteps, but did not gallop directly. Instead, they moved forward steadily, from jogging to trotting, and from trotting to galloping.

The distance is getting closer and closer.

Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters.

Sangis could already see the Hun horse archers surrounding him. He raised his lance high and shouted to the cavalry behind him: "Warriors of Alan!"

"The time for revenge has come!"

"The ancestors and the gods are watching us!"

boom!
A shout like a landslide and tsunami rang out.

Sangis slowly lowered his visor, holding his lance horizontally under his armpit. Thousands of cavalrymen behind him accelerated at the same time. The thousands of galloping horses seemed like a torrent. The heavy cavalry led the way in the front, and on both sides were the Alan assault light cavalry. The long spears flashed coldly in the sun, and the raised spears were laid down one by one.

"charge!"

"Lance charge!"

Led by Sangis, the Alan cavalry launched a thunderous charge.

But what greeted the Alani cavalry was a rain of arrows. Countless arrows fell from the sky. Tens of thousands of Hun horse archers galloped in a circular formation. While moving at high speed, they kept shooting in one direction. They avoided the edge of the Alani heavy cavalry while keeping their distance to harass the enemy. Thousands of war horses were like a surging storm.

This is the storm of arrows launched by the Hun horse archers!

Thump, thump, thump.

From Duncan's God's perspective, he saw hundreds of Alan cavalrymen falling off their horses, and a rain of arrows covering the sky and the sun coming down. The cavalry in the front row were almost shot into hedgehogs. Only the elite heavy cavalry led by King Sangis, whose horses were even covered with iron armor, could survive this terrifying rain of arrows.

Sangis was hit by three arrows in a row. He roared, charged forward with his lance, and directly pierced a Hun horse archer who had no time to turn his horse to avoid it, piercing him through with his armor.

Within the range covered by the rain of arrows, the Alan rider who fell off his horse was trampled to death by his companions behind him!

Before they even came into direct contact with the enemy, the Alan riders suffered heavy losses.

But they were not at all panicked at this moment. The king's bravery inspired their fighting spirit. In the rage of revenge, they began to sprint under the rain of arrows. The Alan assault cavalry on both wings suddenly surpassed the elite heavy cavalry in the front row. After the heavy cavalry resisted and attracted a wave of enemy arrows, two or three thousand assault light cavalry were like a sharp knife, directly chiseling into the formation of the Hun archers.

For a moment, the sound of killing was deafening!
The formation of the Hun horse archers suddenly became chaotic, and in an instant it seemed as if they were being trampled. Hundreds of Hun horse archers were killed on the spot by the lance charge.

Sangis led the elite heavy cavalry, drew their melee weapons and slashed wildly, rushing in one direction, forcing the surrounding Hun horse archers to avoid. The flowing circular storm also came to an abrupt halt, and the chaos was like a tide hitting the reef, and the torrent began to roll back.

The Hun horse archers who were shooting at the running horses and avoiding the enemy collided with each other. In an instant, their formation was in chaos. They could no longer harass the enemy on horseback and could only draw out their melee weapons to fight the enemy head-on.

"This Sanjis is not simple either!..."

Duncan looked quite shocked. In the past, he had only seen small groups of cavalry fighting. This was the first time he had seen a battle between tens of thousands of cavalry. The formation was really in chaos, the horses were running wildly, and he didn't even know where he was rushing to.

The brave Alan Avengers withstood several waves of arrow rain, no one retreated, and despite casualties, they charged into the enemy's formation.

On the grass where they ran, there were hundreds of corpses trampled beyond recognition by their own people.

There were still nearly a hundred wounded war horses neighing, some of whom had already died here with their knights.

"We won this battle?!"

Duncan's expression was quite surprised. Sangis was extremely brave. He led his cavalry guards and charged straight in, actually breaking through the archer formation. Then he took advantage of the chaos to expand the victory. Once they got into close combat, the archers could no longer ride and shoot, and could only assist their companions in hand-to-hand combat.

A bloody strangulation continues.

The number of assault cavalry led by Sangis was greatly reduced, but the Hun archers suffered greater casualties. The light cavalry obviously restrained them after getting close, and their line was almost unstoppable.

——The Hun nomads (morale is shaken) (formation is in chaos)!

——Hun cavalry archers (morale shaken) (leader killed in battle)!

Thousands of assault cavalry made the Hun archers stagger, and it might only take a moment for the enemy's morale to collapse.

The Imperial Alliance won the first battle, and cheers broke out on both wings.

But the next second.

Their cheers came to an abrupt end as the sound of galloping horses rang out from the direction of the Hun army. The central guards of the Scourge of God - Alati moved, and a mighty force of thousands of elite cavalrymen rushed towards the battlefield. From Duncan's God's perspective, it was a densely packed combat unit marked with asterisks.

——The Hun Khan’s personal guard (two stars)!
——Hungarian armored cavalry (one star)!

——Elite Hun rider (one star)!

It’s over.

Duncan instantly turned his head to look in Aetius' direction. He saw that his expression was extremely solemn. He silently watched the Hunnic armored cavalry joining the battlefield. His palms, covered with age spots, trembled slightly, as if he was trying to make a decision. In the end, he just shouted, "Shield Wall!"

"Hold the line! Archers, get ready!"

"The javelin thrower steps forward."

At this time, the left wing had already started fighting. Attila, the Scourge of God, placed the Germanic vassal army on the right wing. A large number of Gepid infantry formed a loose phalanx and emitted terrifying roars. These Germanic barbarians with broken hair and tattoos were extremely brave. With a rough formation and relying on human wave tactics, they launched a terrifying charge.

A brutal hand-to-hand fight broke out in an instant.

Under the rain of arrows, the Gepids raised their shields and charged forward, brandishing their battle axes and bearing the javelins and arrows, they slammed heavily into the shield wall defense line of the Imperial Field Legion.

At the moment of collision, the shield wall even caved in, leaving a gap covered with blood, flesh and limbs, but it was quickly filled by the second echelon of heavy infantry.

A round of confrontation.

The Empire's left wing defense line was already littered with corpses. The first wave of collisions killed and wounded thousands of people. In front of the shield wall line, nearly 20,000 Gepid infantrymen were still surging in waves like a tide.

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(End of this chapter)