Eagle Byzantium

With the howling of the local king and the crazy beating of countless gongs, several infantry phalanxes sandwiched in the middle of the "War Elephant Tower" immediately shouted, holding the long bamboo spears and machetes in their hands, "Gundam selection, the god of war is with us, prepare to charge the enemy's center!"

It turned out that the vanguard warriors raised by the princes of the Sindh state were named "Gundam".

After hearing the signal of attack, the Sindh archers in the back also inserted the bottom of their longbows into the ground and pulled the bowstrings. After a series of buzzing sounds, countless arrows as big as small darts flew off the strings, swaying their torsos slightly in the air, and under the action of mechanics, they passed over the heads of their own soldiers and began to fall and stab the spearmen in the central phalanx of the Romans.

Three phalanxes of nine hundred elite Sind Gundams marched barefoot, flying through the sandy land in front of the river, as if they were racing with the arrows flying down from their side, rushing towards the central front of the Romans like a raging wave.

Ural led all the Samila cavalry, making way for the central front, taking precedence over their right wing army, and attacking the Roman left wing skirmishers.

The Samila cavalry passed through the border area between the river and the Sind River. Although the soil was soft and there was a lot of groundwater, the Samila cavalry riding on docile mares did not encounter much hindrance. Their horses' hooves burst out with clouds of smoke, and they shouted and raised their sharp spears. While their horses' heads shook violently and panted, they roughly aimed at the enemy skirmishers in front of them.

Amid the sound of rapid whistles, the front row of the Roman left wing gathered slightly, and did not panic in front of the galloping Samilian cavalry formation - the skirmishers shouted, and inserted their kite shields and thorny stakes one by one into the soft ground, quickly forming a temporary "half-wall of chevaux de frise", and then they all bent their waists and retreated - the shooting soldiers of the two brigades came forward, with densely packed paper tubes hanging on their shoulder straps, which were filled with tinder, lead bullets, a certain amount of Khitan snow and other things, some half-knelt, some stood upright, and every twenty or so people, several people shook umbrella-shaped feathers, brought out the large muskets, and placed them on the birch fork.

On the galloping horse, Ural was swinging his sword repeatedly to chop and chop. Seeing this scene of the enemy, he was slightly stunned. However, the speed of the horse's hooves was always much faster than the speed of thinking. He was surrounded by Samila warriors holding fluttering battle flags, with flying hooves, spears and sabers like snow. They were all descendants of the oldest Gulai clan, and it was impossible for them to retreat before winning.

"We are the Samila Gulai family who didn't even lose a shield in Ghazni and Persia!" This is the common belief of all cavalrymen in their hearts that accompanies life and death!

The sound of gunfire rang out, sparse at first, and soon became more and more dense and fierce!

Hundreds of Roman shooting soldiers, behind the temporary barricades, turned into a "machine" that went back and forth in a horizontal formation as the shooting rhythm became more even, without any pause. Rows of gun muzzles emitted terrible flames and dense white mist, which soon drifted eastward in blocks and clumps with the wind, covering the vast surface of the Sindh River.

Ural saw that the flag bearer of his family in front of him on the left was pierced through the chest by several lead bullets the size of black pearls, and blood spurted out from his back. At the moment of death on horseback, the flag bearer instinctively spread his stiff arms, and the flag of the Gulai family left his hand and fluttered up. Ural shouted and reached out to pull it over.

But soon, more fierce and dense lead bullets hit him and his mount one after another. "The enemy has a squad that specializes in shooting flag bearers!" Ural suddenly realized. With his sharp eyes, he saw that in front of the smoke and fire of the opposite wall of chevaux de frise, Samilai cavalrymen kept screaming, and both men and horses were hit and fell to the ground. The sand and soil kicked up by the horses' hooves flew up, and some enemies wearing black felt hats were in the queue. Under the command of the officers, they crouched and kept moving their black muzzles, aiming everywhere, and then squeezed the trigger.

A lead bullet brushed past Ural's ear. He was in so much pain that he could hardly hold himself back and almost fell off his horse. Maybe his ear was torn? "Retreat, retreat!" The Samilai chief, who felt bad, slapped the rear of his mount with his big knife, raised the flag high, and shouted in the chaotic cavalry.

On the central front, the nine hundred Gundam vanguards who were walking on the sandy ground saw a surprising scene when they were about two stadia away from the enemy's defensive phalanx:

The enemy's front-line spearmen had fallen arrows stuck in their feet, and some of them were still stuck in their ring armor, but even so, most of them were not injured, and there was no shaking at all. They were almost an unshakable iron wall, which instantly discouraged the charging Gundam.

Then, the spearmen on the first front of Rome moved their feet horizontally and gathered together to form a small phalanx. In the middle of the small phalanx, many "devices" with wheels were pushed out.

Among them was the "Constantinople Organ" that was famous in later generations. This was the first time it was put into actual combat. Like the previous telescope, it was the killer that Emperor Gawain told Anna before he joined the Oxus River battlefield on the eastern front.

The wheelbarrow is made of wood, with an iron thorn for self-defense in front, like a thorn. The interlayer is filled with ten copper cannon barrels lined up side by side, shining beautifully in the sun. This appearance is also the origin of its nickname...

The sharp bombardment sounded suddenly, like the grand music of the organ in the cathedral, accompanied by the gorgeous fire arrows shot by the fire barrel arrows and the flying fire copper clam, instantly forming a thick death barrage hundreds of feet away. The Sindh Gundams who bravely rushed into it were torn apart, shot off their heads, and their weapons were broken in half. They kept charging in rows and fell within the range of the "Constantinople Organ".

The subsequent Gundams, after all, were flesh and blood, and they were also people with thoughts and fears. They turned around and wanted to retreat, but all the Sindh soldiers who had crossed the river, accompanied by the roaring war elephants, were also heading in this direction one after another, like endless waves. The two princes, Rana and Malwa, waved their scepters and loudly encouraged the soldiers, and kept throwing burning javelins from the sedan chair, as if to scare the soldiers of both sides.

In this way, the Gundams were like a lone boat caught in two angry waves, swaying between the fireworks, miserable.

On the other side, the frustrated and retreating Samilai cavalrymen were blocked by the right wing of the Sindhi princely army that collectively charged from the rear: several war elephants roared, they were stuck in the sand on the river bank, and under the whip and scolding of the elephant drivers, they approached the Roman left wing army that was constantly shooting with difficulty.

In the 16-9 book, the correct version!

"I understand, when the enemy uses war elephants to launch a decisive attack in this place, it is often the key moment for us to reverse the situation." In the right wing cavalry column, Gawain, who had been watching the battle, smiled slightly and judged so.