Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 82: Imperial Eagle Flag Legion!

That morning, Duncan led a thousand elite troops across the sea back to the British Isles.

Although the English Channel was in a good location, they still encountered some wind and waves when they set out, and did not arrive near Portsmouth until the next morning. Duncan directly divided his troops into two groups. He led 800 elite troops to rescue Southampton, and Cullin took 200 people to deal with the small group of Saxon pirates who landed on the Isle of Wight.

There was also a military fort there, and the Saxon pirates seemed to be planning to retake the island base.

The army landed.

Upon landing, Duncan discovered two armies engaged in battle in the direction of Southampton: one a Saxon force from the Kingdom of Kent, the other a British militia from Cornwall. To Duncan's surprise, he saw the symbol of Duchess Igraine. Over two thousand British mixed militiamen were coming to the rescue of the besieged Southampton.

what happened? !
Why is Duchess Igrain on the battlefield?
Duncan ordered his army to assemble urgently, summoning his generals and personal guards. Anya's cargo ship also delivered a batch of war horses, but the number was relatively small, consisting of less than a hundred elite heavy cavalry. The war horses and supplies he had captured at the Battle of Chalons had to be transported bit by bit. The Saxon pirates' warships could only carry infantry, so much of the supplies needed to be transported by large cargo ships.

"gather!"

"follow me!"

Duncan no longer cared about the other troops behind him. He directly assembled less than a hundred cavalrymen and quickly rushed towards the battlefield.

Because he saw a small special marked unit.

——Moros, Duchess of Cornwall.

day.

How could a seven or eight-year-old child appear in a battlefield?!

Is Duchess Igraine crazy?
Duncan led the Guards Cavalry and approached quickly. After seeing the situation on the battlefield clearly, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Because the situation was not very bad, perhaps Duncan's previous consecutive victories inspired their fighting spirit, the morale of the British militia in the battle was still good. Although their equipment was relatively simple, they could stabilize their formation with the help of shields and spears, and there was also a group of archers who seemed to have good combat effectiveness, many of whom were from Wales.

"Dragon Flag!"

Duncan shouted loudly and rode forward. The general's guards behind him were in high spirits. They raised the fluttering black dragon flag and then charged directly into the enemy's shaken right wing formation.

——Esk (Prince of Kent) (Leader) (Faction Heir) (2-star gold).

Horse hooves.

The ground trembled slightly.

An elite heavy cavalry appeared on the right wing of the battlefield. As the fluttering black dragon flag emerged, thunderous cheers came from the direction of Southampton. Even the British militia that came to the rescue were in high spirits and dared to launch a counterattack against the Saxon infantry of the Kingdom of Kent with their simple equipment.

——Saxon Spear and Shield Legion (morale shaken) (horrified) (ghosts and gods)!
On the battlefield.

When Duncan appeared, many Saxon soldiers immediately showed expressions of fear. The figure of that man had become like a psychological shadow. His mere appearance on the battlefield was enough to make thousands of people feel terrified.

"Wedge formation!"

Duncan gave the order expressionlessly. The heavy cavalry behind him looked solemn and murderous, with their lances held flat, ready to kill.

They had already fought in the meat grinder of the Battle of Chalons, so everything before them was just a small scene for them.

Behind Duncan, no one felt afraid, and some even felt a little hungry and thirsty.

After the army of the Kingdom of Kent tore up the treaty and failed to capture Portchester Castle, Prince Esk divided his troops into two groups. The main army continued to besiege Portchester Castle, while he led three to four thousand people to attack Southampton, in order to guard against reinforcements from Southampton and to shake the morale of Portchester Castle.

It would be even better if Severus could be forced to take the initiative to fight.

boom.

For a moment, people were on their backs.

Ok.

In fact, only people fell, and no horses fell. Duncan broke through the formation alone and attacked the enemy from behind. Behind him was a mighty force of elite heavy cavalry. In fact, there were no significant casualties at all. This kind of armored heavy cavalry could charge head-on and attack the enemy from behind, just like a dump truck running over them.

None of the nearly 100 cavalrymen led by Duncan fell off their horses. In just a moment of collision, two or three hundred Saxon spearmen and shieldmen collapsed.

The morale of the Saxon pirates was suppressed by Duncan alone!
The elite heavy cavalry behind him are the general's personal guards with double life in Total War. They can charge back and forth on a regular battlefield without suffering too many casualties. Many of these people have fought against the Hun Khan's personal guards, and even killed the Hun's top cavalry.

This is simply beating a child.

Among the Saxon troops of three to four thousand, only the elite heavy axemen could break through the defense because they had the "armor-piercing" attribute. Those whose weapons and equipment did not have armor-piercing properties would not even dare to dream of relying on conventional light infantry to severely damage the elite cavalry.

Duncan did not take any risks. Behind him were his core guards. After he broke through the two lines of defense on the enemy's right wing, he directly took over the command of the British militia and ordered them to follow the heavy cavalry in the counterattack.

In the direction of Southampton, after Duncan's general guards appeared, bursts of shouts were heard from the city wall.

"Open the city gate!"

"British garrison navy, advance!"

"The Governor is back!"

"Archers support, javelin throwers suppress, British Legion infantry follow me!"

"charge!"

"Kick them to death!"

In the direction of Southampton, five or six British legion commanders directly opened the city gates and launched a counterattack. The high morale made the Saxon pirates stunned.

A siege turned into a counter-siege.

Behind enemy lines, Prince Esk of Kent wore a look of fear. A man's reputation is like a tree's shadow, and Duncan's reputation was truly terrifying in Britain. His father and uncle had both died at his hands. The Kingdom of Kent also considered Duncan a serious threat; otherwise, they would not have taken advantage of Duncan's sea rescue mission to break the treaty and invade Southampton.

This time he wants to steal the home base!

But Eske hadn't anticipated the enemy's tenacity. Not only were the original British Legionnaires, but even the militias composed of the native British people possessed far greater fighting courage than before. They resorted to almost every underhanded tactic, even secretly sending envoys to bribe Duncan's reorganized barbarian foreign legionnaires, promising them wealth and status. Unexpectedly, the envoys were beheaded by the foreign legionnaires' commander.

Facing such a powerful enemy, if we don’t take advantage of it now, we will have no chance of winning in the future!
Everything was going smoothly, but then an accident happened unexpectedly.

After learning that the Kingdom of Kent had broken the treaty and invaded again, Duchess Igrain actually summoned those who had been loyal to the Duke of Tintagel, and recruited a militia of more than 2,000 people from Cornwall, and quickly rushed to support.

Perhaps it was because of Duncan's prestige that Igraine actually recruited a lot of British people in the name of the Duchess of Cornwall.

Today, the British are full of confidence and fighting spirit, no longer the weak and vulnerable people they once were. This is how people's morale is gradually boosted!

As for why Duchess Igraine took such a risk, the main reason was Anya. She and Anya had become quite close recently, like close friends. Anya had recruited a learned scholar from Greece, the librarian with the golden star.

His appearance attracted many local nobles, and Igrain also hoped that his daughter could become a learned person.

So, with the help of Anya's relationship, the nobles in Cornwall all wanted to send their children here to learn advanced knowledge. The Duchess of Cornwall was a lord, and if she didn't learn knowledge, how would she manage the territory in the future? So she lived in Southampton for a long time.

In the future, a school may be built here.

Once Southampton was under siege, many people were restless. The fact that Duchess Igraine, a woman, dared to lead an army to rescue the city, and that she was pregnant, was truly remarkable. Perhaps it was because of her tragic past that the Duchess's temperament changed, and she was no longer the delicate and frail person she once was.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield has been turned upside down.

If Duncan leading the general's personal guards to emergency rescue caused the situation on the battlefield to continue to tilt, then by the time hundreds of elite heavy infantry appeared on the battlefield, the Saxons of the Kingdom of Kent were already a little uneasy.

"It's the eagle flag of the Imperial Legion!"

"sky!"

"It's the real British Imperial Legion!!!"

"They're back!"

"They're back!"

On the city wall of Southampton, a Sarmatian's eyes filled with tears. After nearly twenty years, he finally saw the eagle flag of the Imperial British Legion again. In front of the fluttering Imperial eagle flags, the burly flag-bearer in the front row, with his head held high and his chest puffed out, was holding high a 'Legion Eagle Flag' made of pure gold.

In the early days of the empire, only a legion of ten thousand people had a pure gold eagle flag.

After the military reform, the Imperial Legion was reduced to a thousand people, and most of them no longer had the legion eagle flag. This pure gold eagle flag was only possessed by the old imperial troops and was considered a heritage designation. At that time, the entire British Imperial Legion only had a few pure gold flags.

One after another, highly disciplined imperial legions entered the battlefield. They marched forward in formation, with neat steps, without a trace of panic. They were calm and composed, with firm gazes. From a distance, one could tell that they were a battle-hardened army.

"This is our first battle since returning to the British Province!"

"We must make the Imperial Legion famous!"

"Don't let those people underestimate us."

Barton stood in front of the Imperial Legion formation, with a golden shining eagle flag at his side. The front echelon was composed entirely of one-star silver-gray elite units, some of whom were veterans in their forties, all of them murderous. They had settled in this land for hundreds of years and had long regarded it as their hometown. Now that they had returned to their homeland, they only wanted to fight to show their strength and take back everything they had lost!
According to the tradition of the empire at that time, these veterans in their forties should have retired long ago, but the situation of the empire is now difficult, and they can only fight again and again until the moment they die on the battlefield.

On the battlefield.

Densely packed one- and two-star units emerged, all of them wearing heavy imperial scale armor and standard elite field army equipment. Just taking a step forward put great pressure on the Saxons, as if they remembered the horror of the barbarians being slaughtered by the imperial legions back then.

"javelin!"

Barton threw his javelin with all his might, and a rain of javelins came down. The farthest one could be thrown seventy or eighty meters away, which was close to the level of the previous Olympic Games. The javelins fell from the sky, and the Saxon infantry was defeated in an instant.

"Array up!"

"Shield wall!"

"Just defeat them!"

The British Imperial Legion took the initiative to attack, forming a wall with heavy iron shields. Relying on their strong physique and teamwork, they directly used the shield wall to squeeze the Saxon infantry in the front row together.

"Listen to my orders!"

"One, two, three! Harder! Push!"

"prick!"

The discipline of the most elite heavy infantry of this era was fully displayed at this moment. The one-star silver-grey elite units in the front row shouted at the same time. At the moment of pushing the enemy away, gaps appeared in the shield wall, and then the heavy daggers stabbed out like lightning. When the shield wall closed again, the front of the line was already littered with barbarian corpses.

The rain of arrows from the Saxon hunters had little effect on them.

Crush!

These British Imperial legions that fought in the Battle of Chalons gained an overwhelming advantage over the enemy.

This is also the moment.

Duncan on the battlefield suddenly moved. He led the general's guards and rushed straight towards Prince Esk of Kent. In the panic-stricken eyes of the other party, nearly a hundred heavy cavalrymen rushed straight in, crushing a bloody path and rushing in front of him.

"Oh no! Retreat!" Esk was so scared that he led the chief's guards to escape.

——Consecutive arrows.

Duncan shot three arrows in a row, and Esker was shot and fell off his horse. Without waiting for him to swing his sword to behead him, the heavy armored cavalry following him trampled him into a pulp.

Prince Esk, the heir to the Kingdom of Kent, was trampled to death by heavy cavalry.

The family must be neat and tidy.

In the blink of an eye.

The troops of the Kingdom of Kent that surrounded Southampton began to flee on a large scale, but this time it was different. Duncan had cavalry troops under his command, and these people could not escape. The enemies on the battlefield were constantly pursued and killed, and the remaining ones could not escape and could only kneel down and surrender.

When Duncan led his army back to Southampton, cheers that resounded through the sky came from the city walls.

Duchess Igraine stared at Duncan's tall back and the British militia beside him who were also cheering thunderously. There was a gleam in her eyes. At this moment, she deeply realized that the foundation of Cornwall could only survive by relying on this man.

He could almost decide their life or death with a single word. The so-called Duchess of Cornwall only counted if she was recognized by Duncan, otherwise she was nothing.

The army regrouped.

After defeating Prince Esk, Duncan led his army to Portchester Castle.

In this battle, he aimed to destroy the country!

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(End of this chapter)