Chapter 754 Death of an Old Hero Asking for a Monthly Pass
"For freedom! For England!"
The Holy Roman Emperor (elected by three votes), Richard Anjou, Earl of Cornwall, wore the strongest chain mail, held a shield in one hand, drew out his sword in the other, and shouted slogans.
"For freedom! For England!"
More than three thousand knights dressed like him also drew their swords and shouted together.
This scene appeared again and again in patriotic movies and TV series of the Kingdom of England hundreds of years later. Richard Anjou, Earl of Cornwall, became a household name in England.
In later movies, the heroic Earl of Cornwall led 3,600 knights from all over England. On a dark and windy night, they rushed into the camp of 50,000 Chinese invading troops in the dark. The knights were all skilled in martial arts, brave and fearless, and they cut their swords and tear them away, killing the Chinese devils and almost collapsed. The camp was full of Chinese corpses! However, there were too many Chinese, as many as tens of thousands! There were 34 "New World"-class sailing battleships on the Thames.
Finally, Chen Chongguan, the leader of the Chinese invading army who was so angry that he ordered the naval gun to fire like crazy, and indiscriminately killed the English Knights and the Chinese invading army!
Richard Anjou, Earl of Cornwall, was bravely executed in a fire. His fearless spirit always inspired the people of England who were unwilling to become a semi-colonial, and continued to fight the Chinese colonists and the English traitor court. Finally, more than three hundred years later, under the leadership of the English bourgeois revolutionary Cromwell, he ended the dynasty dictatorship, implemented the constitutional monarchy, and got rid of a series of unequal treaties imposed on England by the Ming Empire. Although it was unable to recover Hong Kong, England was still the first among the Europa countries to get rid of semi-colonial (colonial) status and towards complete national independence...
Well, let's go back to the real battlefield hundreds of years ago from later English dramas.
The brave Earl of Cornwall was running on the grass with a strong breath, and the sword turned into a crutch in his hand. He limped forward with it for about ten miles! For a nobleman in his fifties and did not have much exercise, he was exhausted when he walked over, not to mention wearing a chain mail weighing dozens of kilograms. This is also the main reason why Prince Edward placed the camp around 10 miles across the coalition forces. If it was far away, the horseless knight masters could not walk, so why would they fight?
As for why they didn't ride horses, of course they didn't want the enemy to discover that they were going to sneak attack! Of course, they couldn't take a tall horse and went there in a mighty way. Moreover, the camp of the coalition forces was strong, with wooden fences, horse-resisting horses and deer forts. It was impossible to rely on cavalry to rush hard.
"Earl, let me support you." A knight who belonged to the Earl of Cornwall stepped forward to support the panting old man.
"Go to you!" The Count waved his fist and hit him, "I'm not yet able to walk!"
The old Count is almost unable to walk, but it is always unreasonable to support someone on the battlefield. It is also detrimental to see it. The Knights' army is a bit like a bandit bandit who gathered up temporarily, each with its own mountain. It is difficult to use strict discipline to restrict it, and can only rely on the prestige of the big leader. What prestige can the old guy who can't walk on the road? Why can he command more than 3,000 knights?
"How far is it?" the brave old Count asked gasping.
"It's almost here..." the knight replied.
"They didn't find us, did they?"
"Not notice!" said the Knight, "The Cyrius' barracks were pitch black, and it seemed that everyone was sleeping!"
The old Count breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was muttering to himself: "It must be like this... Who would have thought that the English knights would launch an unfamous sneak attack? Only the barbarians in the East would do such things!"
"Here, he's here!" someone shouted in the darkness. "The enemy's refusal is ahead!"
The Count quickly shouted: "Stop moving forward, move away from the horse..."
"Hurry, move away quickly!"
The knights shouted in a mess, and they started to fight in a mess. In the history of the knight era, it was not unreasonable that these Europa masters always liked to fight "pig storm". Rather than soldiers, these masters were athletes and gang leaders. They could do it, and they were very proficient in some projects.
But they are not organized soldiers, and they usually do not form various convenient combat units when fighting. This is a task for mercenaries. The men either line up in a row and charge on horseback. Or they fight alone and compete in martial arts. At night sneak attacks, in the eyes of the knights, they are just fighting in groups. Their friends are very powerful, and they move away from the deer fort and horses with all their strength. They clear out a road to attack and make a lot of noise. However, the camp not far away is still quiet, as if they don't notice it.
These Seris slept so hard! Some knights felt something was wrong. But they didn't know who to tell them? Most of them were in a hurry. Seeing that the obstacles were almost cleared, they pulled out their swords and shouted, rushing, and were about to rush into a shallow trench ahead.
And at this moment, countless flames suddenly flashed in the vast night opposite. Was it discovered? This flame is...
The Chinese commands that the knights could not understand were heard one after another: "Rifle shooting!"
The lingering sound of the command was still echoing, and behind the fence of the coalition troops in front, two rows of large and small flashes, one high and one low! The knights who were charging in front of the head were suddenly struck by lightning, shaking and falling down a large area. The screams were heard uncontrollably. On the battlefield, there were knights falling head-on everywhere. However, these knights also had a sense of ruthlessness. Although they found something wrong, no one turned around and ran away, and they still shouted Meng Chong!
So what if you are discovered? You have already rushed to the enemy's camp. Just rush another shot and you will be able to win!
"Boom boom boom..."
Suddenly, several dazzling flames appeared in front of him, and then there was a roar that almost made the earth tremble.
These are six 3-inch field cannons firing! What was blasting out was a terrible shotgun! Hundreds of steel balls, driven by the thrust of the H-drug, seemed to hundreds of flying death scythes, covering the charge of the English Knights like raindrops. They were cut down like wheat, one by one!
The old hero Earl Cornwall took the lead in charge. Although he was not in the first row, he was still far ahead. The volleyball shot just now did not hit him, and someone was a meat shield in front of him. But this time the shotgun bombardment hit him right away! A steel ball swept through his shoulder, not a hole, but a large piece of limb, including flesh and bones, and chain mail, were broken!
"God! What did I do?"
The old hero fell on the grass soaked in blood, dying, and the pain came. His life had come to an end, but he still looked ahead unwillingly. There were no knights standing there, and the human body was lying all over the ground, and most of them were still rolling in pools of blood, screaming in despair.
At this time, the shouts of killing sounded, and the old hero could barely understand that it was German in this era without German in the sense of later generations, but only a dialect from somewhere in Germany. The old hero distinguished the Black Forest and Swiss accents.
That was a different scene that was often seen in movies of the Black Forest and Swiss mercenaries and later generations of the People's Republic of England. In the 13th century, there was never a tide of Ming army pouring from the Atlantic Ocean to conquer England. There were too few Ming troops in this era, and they needed to occupy too many places to conquer, and they could not control England at all.
In fact, the battle against England was completely carried out under the auspices of the Atlantic Governor's Office. The Fourth Army of the Ming Dynasty did not learn about the outbreak and end of the war until a few months later.
On the battlefield on the Thames, all the Chinese were added together, with less than 200 people, only a few officers and a company of artillery soldiers. The Aztecs just now fired, and now the Swiss and Black Forest mercenaries are charged.
"I am your emperor!" The old hero looked at the mercenaries coming like a tide, and shouted desperately with all his last strength. Although there were only three votes to support him, he was once crowned as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and Switzerland and the Black Forest were both part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Unfortunately, the mercenaries only knew that there was Mark but not the emperor (the Holy Roman Empire had no emperor for more than ten years). A former farmer from the mountains of Switzerland discovered the "three-seventh emperor" who fell to the ground, and without thinking, he stabbed it with the spear in his hand.
"Finally dead..." The severe pain came from his heart. The old hero knew that he was going to die. When all his strength disappeared and his body was obviously cold, his last thought in his heart was: "I am a sinner in England! My recklessness ruined a total of 3,600 knights. They are the best knights! Now I can only count on Edward to create a miracle..."
"Prince! The Earl of Cornwall seems to have been defeated!"
"Prince! How about this now?"
"The shouts and torches are getting closer. Should we retreat?"
On the plain not far from the battlefield, Prince Edward of England was riding on a tall war horse, dressed neatly, holding his head and chest out. In front of him, a total of 5,000 longbowmen from rural England and Wales and the same number of slingers had already been deployed. The longbows were in front and the spears were behind.
Chapter completed!