Eagle Byzantium

After galloping for a while, Gawain clearly felt that Sabina's legs were weakening. He realized that he was now wearing heavy holy armor, as well as a variety of weapons such as lances, short halberds, phosphorous swords, and kite shields. Sabina, who was originally used by slave soldiers in medium-sized combat, could no longer bear the same weight as the brave and tall stallion.

Gawain patted Sabina's neck, and the other party understood, "Hold on for a while, my beauty."

In the curved bushes that could block his vision, Gawain straightened his lance and held it upright, crouched down and hid, and asked Sabina to rest. Diogenes and Muzafiadin followed. The pirates over there were shouting all over the mountains and chasing the military servants who mixed in with the people, and the people on the watchtower on the top of the mountain were so scared that they hid and trembled.

The guard jumped onto the rock, and Muzafiadin behind him hurriedly presented arrows. Diogenes drew his bow and shot. A pirate who was climbing was hit in the back. He grabbed twice with his hands backwards and rolled down the hillside. Then Muzafiadin shouted, "Believers of the Bible cannot kill believers of the Bible directly. This does not count as killing, not killing." He handed arrows to Diogenes again.

As a result, Diogenes fired eight arrows in a row, killing four pirates and injuring the rest of the people and horses. A leading pirate waved a knife and shouted at the guard who shot arrows at them. Suddenly, a dozen barefoot guys, holding shields to protect themselves, rushed towards Diogenes.

"Sabina, go!" Gawain shouted, then stood up and immediately stirred up a cloud of flying dust from the bushes where he was lying in ambush, like a red lightning splitting the dark clouds, and rushed towards the group of pirates at an angle.

Arrows whizzed past his head and the sides of Sabina's head. Gawain shouted softly, and when he approached the enemy, he flattened the Byzantine lance, and the horse, arm and lance tip formed a straight line, and he plunged into the crowd of pirates without hesitation. "Bang" In a fraction of a second, the lance tip bent and exploded, and the heads, shields, and armor of the three or four Turkic soldiers in front of him also shattered and splashed, forming a straight line, and flew out in the direction of Gawain's attack.

Gawain's men and horses directly broke through a bloody furrow in the small group of pirates, trampled on the corpses, and galloped over like flying. Fortunately, his lance was out of his hand early, and then after rushing a few steps, he pulled out the short halberd, turned Sabina's horse head, and turned around to chop left and right, and immediately several Turks who were at a loss were chopped to the ground.

Then, Gawain jumped off his horse, crouched with his shield, and ran towards the rest of the pirates. The pirates retreated one after another. The leader waved his knife and shouted, asking his subordinates to bravely escort him.

"Help the Earl!" At this time, the military servants who had been fleeing everywhere saw Gawain bravely rushing out, and they mustered up a lot of courage again. They waved their slingshots, stood on the foothills, and fought back, knocking down many pirates who continued to climb up. The pirate leader felt something was wrong, so he led the rest of the people to rush to the cliff by the sea, climbed onto the canoe, and prepared to row away for their lives.

Gawain stood there and saw a towering mast in front of him moving along the reef on the cliff. Then the pirate canoe was smashed into powder by the bow of the Amalfi warship. Gawain saw the Amalfi flag with a white cross on a blue background flying on the mast, and waved his hand to show his salute.

The sailors attached to the mast also waved to Gawain.

This was the only Byzantine warship, which had been hidden in a huge cave on the cliff by the sea in advance. Now, as a key substitute, it also rushed out.

This time, the mast of the Amalfi warship was still tied with a thick crossbar, but this time the crossbar was tied with a huge iron ball with spikes, so more stones and weights were added to the tail end for balance. The sailors kept shouting and cheering, rowing fast. Gawain turned around and watched. The speed of the warship was getting faster and faster. It soon bypassed the beach and hit the pirate fleet lined up in a row.

Then, there was a loud noise that shook the earth. It felt like the mountains on the cape were shaking and trembling. The Amalfi sailor passed by the pirate flagship sideways, swung his knife to cut the rope with weights at the end of the crossbar, and immediately brought the huge iron ball to the head end, whistling and smashing down quickly, smashing the pirate flagship's Cambridge into blood, flesh and wood boards flying everywhere, and huge smoke rose in the shape of a small mushroom cloud.

"Oh oh oh oh!" Then, the Amalfi sailors shouted angrily, holding short blades, small axes, and sickles, and jumped onto the deck of the pirate flagship from the springboards and masts, and started a melee.

"Launch a counterattack!" Gawain rushed back to the camp on the cape, and then he pulled the red hand flag. The thirty most valuable Varangian warriors in the camp immediately rushed out in a line with two-handed axes and Viking swords, injecting supreme power into the Italian soldiers' battle line. The pirates under the front fort could not resist this counterattack, and began to cry and flip from one side of the wooden fence to the other, especially when they saw the mast, bridge, tower and crescent black flag of the flagship were destroyed by the surprise attack.

The remaining six warships weighed anchor one by one and moved away from the coast of Erainus. Many pirates were unable to escape and swam towards the deserted island on the beach holding wooden boards. The Tecopo mercenaries and the Amalfi sailors on the warships took the opportunity to catch up and shoot them with bows and arrows. Soon the tides rolled up the corpses and blood. At this time, the cheers of the people who came to watch and assist in the entire Erainus Mountains and the camp were earth-shaking.

"Gawain, look, they really went upstream into Heliston!" At this time, Diogenes pointed in the direction of the remaining six warships and said.

"The soldiers have been fighting for so long, they need to rest, they can't catch up." Then, Gawain said to himself, "It depends on Francesco and Tetisius, especially the noseless general."

Over there, amid cheers, the Amalfi warships used ropes to pull the broken pirate flagship into the estuary of Erainus, and the dead and wounded of the Turkish pirates were constantly thrown down. Finally, when the bloody body of the commander Emil, smashed by the iron ball, was found and hung on the mast, the whole scene reached the most enthusiastic climax.

"I will chop off this guy's bloody head and send it to the imperial capital! Let the pagans see the consequences of doing this." I don't know which Varangian warrior raised his battle axe and shouted this sentence, and then hundreds of thousands of people echoed it.

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Only Gawain and Diogenes stood side by side on the terrace of the camp, watching the other pirate warships disappearing into the strait. They all understood that the brutal pirates would inevitably attempt to retaliate against other regions.