Eagle Byzantium

According to the prior deployment, the Emperor's camp sent the infantry teams left by the three large brigades of Mosia, Serbia and Epirus, and the two field brigades of Midgard and Philomelon as the vanguards to quickly arrive at the city of Nishapur and fight back against the barbarian siege camp.

Among them, the Epirus Brigade directly reinforced the city of Nishapur. These were tough mountain people who volunteered to join the army. They thought that their Orthodox faith was stronger than anyone else. They rushed into Nishapur from the stone bridge at the west gate of the city amid the cheers of the city soldiers. Then the soldiers of the brigade were divided into several columns. Most of them carried light weapons, such as swords, bows, and small axes. In front of the burning Camel Gate, the Eastern Barbarian soldiers had climbed up the city walls and towers along many ladders and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Seljuk guards. The scimitars were like the wind and the spears were like lightning. There were black figures fighting everywhere. On the tallest Koroes corner tower, ropes and flying stones kept raining down from below the city, and the sound of the city walls breaking was deafening.

The Epirus Brigade didn't have time to think about it, and they just stepped on the steps and the ladders of the battle sheds, and climbed up the top of the city in teams. The reinforcements of the Seljuk soldiers fought with the barbarians who kept pouring up behind the narrow battlements. The winding east wall of Nishapur was full of black masses of enemy and friendly soldiers who were killing each other bloodily.

At this time, the Epirocan soldiers fighting on the battlements heard the deafening but uniform and terrifying hymns from below the city: countless catapults in the siege positions, with their arms and catapults flying up and down, and in front of them, among the thousands of torches, many priest-like people wearing gold-embroidered white clothes, guarding twelve wooden crosses with the bases in the shape of blooming lotus flowers. They did not avoid flying stones and flowing arrows, but held scriptures in their mouths, and the sound of their poems resounded through the sky, and along with the stones and bullets, they smashed towards Nishapur, which was a wonderful scene. God Attack Cannon:

"Salute to the great and kind father Arhat, whose face is as bright as the sun and the moon, whose virtues are beyond the ordinary saints, whose voice and meaning are like a golden bowl, whose Dharma light is spread to millions of people, whose power is beyond the sea of ​​Dharma, which makes me worship with a peaceful heart. All good people must worship and return to the Dharma and the heavenly wheel together!

Salute!

Salute, salute!"

In such hymns, many barbarian soldiers became even more crazy, with their hair disheveled, shouting the battle cry of "terrifying all things and subduing the devil", climbing forward with knives in their hands, covered in blood.

Several artillery explosions, whistling shells whirled, and fireworks shot through the crowds, hitting the cluster of Nestorians singing hymns. The "salute" was immediately replaced by a cry of pain. The densely packed Nestorians were pierced through several bloody alleys, many were blown away, and several crosses were smashed and fell down. On the hills in the south of the city, several fire bear cannons were emitting smoke, and the gunners and imperial guards in the artillery forts were in strict formation, with their helmets and medals shining.

Who is this person, and why is the speed of building the fort so fast?

Then the barbarian army besieging the city saw that countless enemies suddenly appeared behind the hill where the shells were flying. They held spears and long guns, and formed a chain-linked bull-horn-shaped horizontal formation in the front. The flags were embroidered with various golden rings of human figures. Several large columns in the back were rushing down the plains from various mountain roads with smoke and dust flying. The sound of boots shook the earth and attacked them.

"Jing for Shengjing, Jing for Dajing, Jing for Daguangming, Jing for Dari**!" In an instant, many Nestorians gathered again in the mess of casualties after the bombardment. Many of them had blood-stained white robes, but they were still fearless. They held rosaries and shook like sieves in the rain. "Kill all the devils who worship idols!" Then they pointed at the countless holy flags in front of the imperial army and shouted.

"Intimidate everything, subdue the devil" such battle cries shook the earth, and countless barbarians poured out from the mountain camps opposite Nishapur like a sea of ​​sand. Their cavalry rode one horse and led another, and the infantry hung large bags full of iron arrowheads, holding sharpened wooden spears, wielding sharp scimitars and swords, and bravely counterattacked the front-line troops of the empire from all directions.

In front of the artillery fort, under the umbrella of An Tian, ​​Gawain rode on the back of Agrus, surrounded by generals and guards, and then the emperor waved his arm, and several guards immediately placed a short and thick cylinder with a pivot in front of the umbrella.

The emperor and several generals dismounted and peeked at the front-line battle behind the cylinder one by one. There were highly polished Tripoli glass pieces in the front, back and middle of the cylinder, which eliminated color difference to the greatest extent. The formations and figures in the distance passed through it, enough to be magnified several times in the eyes of the peekers, which was telescopic.

Several thunders like thunders sounded, which were the firing volleys of long guns by the shooting corps of the brigades in front, and then white and gray smoke rose instantly, and nothing could be seen in the cylindrical lens, only many blurry shadows could be seen.

The emperor and generals holding scepters gathered together, and finally Gawain concluded: "The tens of thousands of barbarian troops besieging Nishapur, although they have the blessing of Nestorian chanting in their fighting spirit, have no superior firearms. It seems that they were really sent by the Song Dynasty to be cannon fodder?" Then Gawain gently hit his palm with the head of the scepter, "This great fair king is really interesting, is he playing tricks on me? Could it be that the elite of the Song Dynasty expeditionary corps also secretly sneaked into the area of ​​​​Mofu City, and wanted to send a shock to me later!"

"Your Majesty, no matter what, the priority is to defeat the lawless barbarians in front of you." General Branas said, meaning that the emperor should not think too far for the time being.

"That's right, raise the signal flag, order the cavalry on the other side of the wooden fence to attack, and order the special forces on the top of the Nishapur Acropolis to attack!" The emperor turned around and raised his hand to order the messenger.

The sound of killing shook the sky. The Seljuk cavalry, who were originally lined up in the wooden fence camp outside the city, along with thousands of cavalry affiliated with the brigade of the New Roman Empire and border cavalry, also rushed out bravely. Along with the cavalry's charge, countless light shrimp whisker cannons stuck in the ground and the Seljuk imitation "Persian stirrup cannons" (meaning that this kind of small cannon can be easily dragged by one or two horses) flew dense lead bullets. Inside the small city gate of Nishapur, many small groups of elite infantry also attacked with fire balls and fierce rockets, relying on the brave momentum of the emperor and the Sultan's army to come to the rescue, and burned the equipment of the besiegers everywhere.

After several attacks, the barbarian army could not maintain its position and turned its back to the mountains and collapsed.

Gawain rotated the telescope and looked at the barbarian camps in the valley opposite Nishapur, which were as dense as stars. Then he shouted, "All the brigades in the second line, keep up, go all out, and eliminate these camps one by one for me!"

Until dusk, in the valley east of Nishapur, groups of people were fighting and setting fires on the mountain roads and valleys. In the end, the barbarians failed to attack the city. After returning to the camp, they were attacked by Gawain's reserve army. Unable to stop, they rode all kinds of horses and fled from all the paths. Countless people fell into the valley and died in panic.

A correct version in 16-9 Book Bar!

Fifty thousand barbarian troops came like a flood and fled like a flood. Their siege equipment and camps were all captured and destroyed by Gawain's side.