章節 427: Chapter 58 Square Formation

How many soldiers are needed to form a square formation?

The more, the better, of course.

Because numbers are courage.

Fifty-seven years ago, at the Battle of Spurs, the army supporting Richard's accession to the throne formed only two square formations but used thirteen thousand musketeers and halberdiers.

Each square formation had more than six thousand men, cumbersome and slow-moving like turtles, but they still won.

Richard's uncle, the Earl of Northumberland Philip, who contested the crown with a large contingent of noble cavalry, suffered a crushing defeat.

After the battle, Philip the Aspirant was beheaded, and the two-year-long war of succession came to an end.

In that battle, Ned of Tormes had just turned nineteen and was an inconspicuous attendant, laughed at by his companions for trembling legs when going into battle, and ran off to the river to cry in secret.

Emperor Richard was a skinny little eleven-year-old called "Little Pea" by his mother.