Eagle Byzantium

After Red Hand and the Royal Armored Cavalry Brigade captured the barbarian camp, Melo saw hundreds of barbarian cavalry fleeing towards Tus City like a swarm of locusts, so he asked to blow the horn and raise the Christ Fish Banner. The Oghuz Cavalry and Komaloy Cavalry, which had been gathering strength, totaled about 2,500 sharp cavalry. Under the command of the commanders Hajib and Gaia Sansavall, they raised their flags and rushed into the pursuit like a whirlwind. This was Melo's tactical plan, "Use heavy armored cavalry to attack the enemy's supply camp, and then use light cavalry to pursue the enemy who was also retreating at a fast speed."

Because for nomads, feigning defeat and turning back to ambush are their forte. They are good at endless archery harassment, light cavalry wandering, and then seize the opportunity when your men and horses are tired, and then suddenly attack from all directions to surround, cut, and annihilate you.

Therefore, the reason why Melo used two royal cavalry archers to pursue was to catch the enemy faster and not give the barbarians any chance to regroup.

As expected, this tactic was a great success. From Khusistan to the city of Tus in the northeast corner of the plateau, the Oghuz and Cuman cavalry archers of the New Roman Empire howled like wild beasts, with wolf heads or horse god flags wrapped around their bodies, and drums hanging on the saddles beating heart-stirringly. They kept shooting arrows on the galloping horses, and the group of river barbarians were shot down one after another. More than 500 riders were panicked and mistakenly entered a river swamp under the bright moonlight. They were in chaos and had no way to retreat. They were intercepted by the Komaloy cavalry archers who surrounded them. Except for the twelve injured and captured, the rest were all killed by the sabers of the Cuman cavalry.

In the early morning, the light cavalry of the Horse Archery Regiment wore red felt hats or chainmail turbans, carried sharp scimitars, and bloody heads hung on their spears. They returned with prisoners singing triumphant songs.

After returning to Khusistan, they learned that yesterday, Tabo's 5,000 Seljuk cavalry went south along this camp again, intercepted and killed the main force of the barbarian cavalry retreating from Nishapur City, and killed more than 3,000 people happily. At this point, the 80,000 vanguard barbarian army that had originally attacked Nishapur City retreated back to Mov City. Gawain and the Seljuk side killed more than 10,000 prisoners and seized countless war horses, pack animals and tents. The Seljuk army gained confidence and no longer had a panic atmosphere when facing the enemy. In particular, the residents of Nishapur climbed up the city walls and cheered, thanking the emperor's army for saving their lives, and sent countless food, coins and wine out of the city gate to reward the soldiers for free. Many beautiful girls, wearing veils covering their faces, came to the camp to offer themselves to express gratitude without being blamed by their parents and relatives.

That night, many young soldiers of the New Roman Empire grew up a lot.

The Persian bards in the city even danced and sang in the blazing bonfire:

"Khorasan's states are as numerous as stars, and Nishapur is the brightest Venus among them;

The land of Khorasan is as beautiful as a smile, and Nishapur is the deepest eyes in its delicate features;

Thanks to the righteous and generous Great Roman Emperor, he used his scepter to restrain the Venus that was sliding into the abyss, and he used his big hands to wipe away the tears from the eyes of the girl Khorasan."

The soldiers who cheered at the banquet once again lifted the emperor on the shield and strongly demanded that the Imperial Senate confer him the title of "Guardian of Khorasan and the Oxus River".

"The fast horse who requested this title should wait until I lead you to complete victory before sending it out!" Amid the waves of enthusiastic requests, Gawain on the shield was very modest and cautious.

There was a constant stream of people coming to Gawain's camp to express their gratitude and gifts, and the emperor also thanked them enthusiastically and distributed all the gifts to his subordinates. The emperor was concerned about other aspects: the confidential personnel and merchants around him signed business contracts continuously, with porcelain, raw silk, gems, blankets, melon and fruit seeds, etc.

"I hope that Nishapur City and some cities on the border of my empire will establish friendly and mutually beneficial trade." This is the emperor's voice.

On the one hand, Gawain hoped to relieve the fatigue of the soldiers' expedition and prepare for future battles; on the other hand, he deliberately waited for the actions of the King of Song Dynasty so as to strike back.

Therefore, the emperor moved the camp across the mountains in front of Nishapur and settled on the flat land facing the main traffic route of Mofu City, making a posture of attacking and defending with the mountains behind and the river in front.

But a few days later, there was no news about the Great King Gong. His people might stay in Bukhara or go south to the city of Balakt. Gawain kept sending small groups of scouts and intelligence personnel. This group of people shouldered the most dangerous mission to find out all kinds of true and false news. If they didn't find it, they would be dead.

"Maybe this Great King Gong is gathering the defeated soldiers on the front line and taking the opportunity of my paralysis to fight me; maybe he is waiting for stronger reinforcements from the country?" In the imperial camp, the emperor listened to the laughter outside with some distress, staring at the map sand table. The drunken Saint Sister had a blushing face. She was sitting on the couch behind him, massaging Gawain's shoulders to relieve the emperor's tension and distress.

"Just follow your previous deployment plan. If the great righteous King Tian Zhao is really waiting for reinforcements from the country, according to the map you drew earlier, it would take at least three months for the troops to arrive from the Song Dynasty. This is enough time for you to go south to Herat and deal with Ghazni Khan."

Gawain frowned, mumbled a few times, twirled a small flag, raised his hand and hesitated for a while, then landed on the sand table "Herat", "Holy sister, I still have to give it a try no matter what. I will take the lead. As the army marches south, it is not a big problem to defeat Ghaznavids, but King Da Ping of the Song Dynasty may also take advantage of the emptiness in front of me and take advantage of it. Jixi comes in to defeat my remaining team. This is a serious 50-50 situation. If it is the latter..." Gawain laughed and pointed to the sand table and said to Cabea Amiya, " My elite army and I were afraid that we would be cut off from our return, so we had no choice but to head south and cross the Indus River (Indus River, Shen River) goes straight into Tianzhu..."

Who would have thought that Kabeamiya's slightly dark and blushing face would actually be filled with light, "Then I'll go with you... No, it's best not to let this happen. I have to pray to the God of Light." prayer."

Three more days passed, and there was still no military news worth mentioning from the Oxus River. However, there was news from the northeast, that is, the surviving people in the city of Tus received tribal soldiers loyal to the Seljuqs. With the help of the emperor, they killed the barbarian cavalry guarding them and captured the general judge named Ye Dechen who was sent to Tusi by the Song Dynasty.

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Mero on the northern route sent cavalry to seize Tus in a hurry in order to surround the city of Mofu on the flanks. In addition, it could also unblock the waterway of the Khazar Sea to meet the Diogenes army who was still fighting in North Shirvan. Send Ye Tongpan to the emperor's imperial camp for personal interrogation by the emperor.