Archers at Agincourt were stuck in a tight line behind a bank of rough earth and a hedge, so they could’t get out to shoot. The French knights had to charge up that slope, which slowed them and let the English longbows rain arrows. The English even set up a second line behind the first so if the front got swarmed, the second could keep firing. It was a low‑profile, high‑fire strategy that turned the French charge into a bullet‑filled pit. You could almost hear the whisper of wind through the trees and the steady thrum of the bowstrings—quiet but deadly.