Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

While Jeanna was in danger, a spear was thrown from behind the Wessex army and hit Jeanna's enemy's right shoulder from hundreds of meters away.

Jeanna seized the opportunity when the opponent felt pain, stretched out the spear from the gap left by the opponent's right arm, and hit the enemy's heart, completing a standard harvest.

Pulling the spear out of the opponent's body, Jeanna looked in the direction where the spear came from. Cu Chulainn maintained the throwing posture and stood in place, giving Jeanna a gesture, indicating that she should continue fighting and not think too much.

Jeanna understood, picked up her weapon and joined the melee again.

In fact, it was not just the Welsh Celts led by Boudica, even the more than 100 Irish Celts led by Cu Chulainn did not obey Orwell's orders. After seizing the city wall, they did not rush into the city to consume their already small number of troops, but they did not stand on the city wall obediently to defend.

After the Roman army came up, they gave up their duty of guarding the city wall and prepared to retreat to the barracks to rest. In their opinion, their tasks had been completed, and they did not intend to do more.

This became Orwell's life-saving straw. Cu Chulainn, who was about to return to the barracks, happened to run into the besieged Orwell headquarters. He came to help without thinking much, so there was the following scene.

Although there were only a small force of about a hundred people, the addition of reinforcements at a critical moment boosted the morale of the Romans. On the contrary, the generals were killed and attacked from all sides, and the morale of the Wessex people suddenly reached a low point.

Being attacked from both sides, the Wessex people did not retreat, but continued to break through in the direction of Orwell's central position.

In this situation, Orwell was also a little bitter in his heart-the other party seemed to be against him, thinking that killing him would end the war, so he wanted to trade with him N for one, and risked the annihilation of the army to kill him.

He looked at the direction of the city anxiously, hoping that the army over there could move faster and quickly come back to support his central position.

It was also his own misjudgment that he pushed all the main infantry forces near the city and dispersed the cavalry around Winchester to guard against the Vikings, which resulted in him being exploited and causing such a troublesome situation now.

Now the defenders on the other side of the city wall have discovered the abnormality of the central position and want to come back to support, but they are dragged by the Wessex army in the city. They launched a desperate charge and pressed most of the troops who wanted to leave in place.

At this time, Orville had no choice but to pray silently in his heart, and by the way, shout various war slogans loudly to boost the morale of the Roman army, and fight head-on with the other side to see who can't stand the rout first.

However, Cu Chulainn, who was transferred as a guest general, has a back-up plan. He has a very eye-catching talent.

All the muscles in his body began to swell and wriggle, as if they were about to burst out of his body; one eye sunken deep into the eye socket, and the other eye bulged outward as if it was about to bulge out; the lips contracted violently backwards, so that the outline of Cu Chulainn's throat could be vaguely seen.

From the calves to the shoulders, all the joints in Cu Chulainn's body were shaking like trees in a flood or reeds in a stream. His body twitched violently under the skin, his feet, shins and knees turned behind him, but his ankles turned to the front.

This painful and intense transformation lasted for about two minutes, after which Cu Chulainn became a behemoth nearly two meters and three meters tall, with red skin and a trace of heat all over his body, looking as terrifying and breathtaking as the giants in myths.

"Roar!!" A thunderous war cry squeezed out of his throat, resounding throughout the small battlefield.

Orville witnessed the whole process on the high ground, and his first thought was also very simple, just two words.

[Fuck! 】

This is the ability that Cu Chulainn showed in the epic story, which is the so-called frenzy. It is obvious that Cu Chulainn's combat power has increased by several levels now.

On the whole, it seems that the more civilized the place, the more difficult it is to produce powerful talents, and the less civilized the place, the easier it is to produce talents. It is probably a weird balance compensation mechanism. After all, the productivity gap in this world is greater than that in the original world. The average level of the Roman Empire's technology tree is far higher than that of the same period in history, while many barbarians are still tribal societies, and the difference is probably a thousand years.

If there were no such powerful talents, I am afraid that the large Roman Empire with a crushing level of technology would flatten all the barbarians around it. After having these talents, the two sides have reached a delicate balance similar to the previous life.

It is precisely because of the existence of such people that the Roman Empire in this time and space failed to conquer Britain a hundred years ago, so that this task was pushed to the era of Orwell before it began to advance again.

As a gifted person with a rare second-stage mode, it is obvious that Cu Chulainn's combat ability is worthy of his appearance. His original combat power level was very strong, but it was further improved. Like a charging elephant, he rampaged through the Wessex army. The infantry, who had no spear formation and lacked space for projection, could not deal with this kind of character that only appeared in heroic epics. Orville was fortunate to witness what the heroes of the mythological era were like.

This caused the morale of the Wessex people to reach a low point. Seeing the risk of morale collapse, Alfred, who was charging at the front, had to turn his spearhead and deal with the frenzied Cu Chulainn himself.

The actual combat capabilities of the two sides were obviously unequal, but Alfred had his own soldiers to assist him, so although he was at a disadvantage, he was still able to hold on and was not killed on the spot by Cu Chulainn.

He had to put his hope on his soldiers, hoping that they could break through the Roman soldiers' defense line on their own, but this hope was dashed.

The battle was already tense when Alfred assisted in the battle, but now that there was no help from the gifted, the morale of his side was also hit, and it was even more difficult to break through the defense. On the contrary, the morale and confidence of the Roman soldiers increased greatly, and there were signs of counter-attack. The two sides went back and forth, and the situation of the battle became balanced for a while.

Time during the war was undoubtedly very precious. The ten minutes of stalemate between the two sides were enough for the Romans to return to the commander-in-chief of the command headquarters.

The light cavalry scattered around the headquarters, Belisarius's army near Orville, and Stilicho's army all rushed back to support, completely surrounding Alfred's soldiers.

At this point in the war, the outcome was basically decided. Alfred's desperate attempt to reverse the situation failed, and the fall of Winchester became a matter of time.