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The next morning, a pontoon bridge across the Hillspes River was completed!

Other craftsmen and coolies began to frantically build another bridge. The artillery on the ramparts and floating rafts began to be ready to go. The first to cross the bridge was the Red Hand Brigade's first detachment, with 300 shooting soldiers. The soldiers wore the most beautiful feathers, held fluttering battle flags and blew trumpets as they crossed over.

The unwilling Israel ordered all the Gurkha soldiers in the camp to serve as the vanguard out of the camp. He rode on a sedan chair despite his injured foot (he no longer dared to ride an elephant, but left the war elephants in the camp and grazing pastures to avoid negative effects) and commanded 1,500 Ghazni Iqta cavalry to serve as the second line.

Yelu Dashi led 3,000 cavalrymen to take charge of the left wing and personally charged to force Gao Wen's army to occupy the landing site; another Kara Khitan general, Uyashu, led 1,500 lightly armed Hun army cavalrymen and 500 Shushan infantrymen carrying gunpowder arrows to attack from the right wing.

Soldiers from the entire Ghazni camp rushed out like a flood.

At this moment, the Gao Wen artillery forts on the shore began to fire together.

The Red Hand infantrymen who arrived on the other side first were caught between the artillery fire and the enemy's advance, but they were not panicked. They were all veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time. The spearmen in the front team half-knelt down and stretched out their spears uniformly without asking. The back row wore solid breastplates, stood up and stretched out their spears horizontally, forming a square porcupine formation. Under the cover of the scattered formation of the shooting army gunners, they fought desperately against the opponent's wave-like charge.

In this battle, "the shells almost brushed over our heads and spear blades, and then some broke the trees in front of us, and some hit the array of Gurkha soldiers who rushed up. We could see with our own eyes how their flesh and blood were smashed into powder, and fragments were flying everywhere. First, there was the deafening bombardment of heavy artillery, followed by the side shooting of light artillery on the raft. After the sound of the artillery died down, the enemy's raiders rushed out from the smoke. Their shooting skills were extremely skilled, and their arrows were very rhythmic and accurate. Three shooting soldiers were killed at the post in front of me, and their bodies lay at my feet. Many of my comrades were also shot in the feet. The enemy's cavalry galloped outside the shaking spear blades and feathers, and the arrows shot by the Barbarian Recurve Bows poured down like a rainstorm. If it weren't for the excellent armor of our army, I don't know how heavy the sacrifices would be." Colonna, the chief senior centurion of the Red Hand Brigade, recorded the thrilling battle in his diary after the war.

After the arrows attacked, the Gurkhas wielding scimitars arrived in an instant, stinging like mad bees. They fought bloody battles with the red-handed spearmen in the front row. The shrill whistles and the stabbing sounds of spears, as well as the roar of fighting back and forth, almost broke people's eardrums and stimulated everyone's spirit.

At the critical moment, the two perfume bottle cannons brought by the first wave of red-handed soldiers played a magical effect. They were arranged on the two wings of the square formation. The gunners were ready to die and kept letting them quickly fire deadly projectiles. The hot and smoking sub-guns were thrown on the ground with a clang, almost burning the grass, and then new sub-guns were constantly filled in.

As a result, not long after the battle began, one of Israel's most trusted ghazi commanders was hit by a perfume bottle cannon and fell off his horse and died on the spot because he rushed to the front of the formation. "Nardin's soul has ascended to heaven, all believers avenge him!" Israel lay on the golden-roofed sedan chair, waving his baton and roaring like an enraged lion. All the Ghazni warriors raised their weapons and gathered like a manic wave to keep rushing.

The Red Hand First Detachment and the attached shooting army continued to hold their posts very calmly, forming a bull horn formation to cover the firing of the perfume bottle cannon. Some soldiers of the shooting army did not have time to reload, so they simply drew their sabers and fought hand-to-hand with the Gurkhas who rushed over. As a result, many people found that when their sabers chopped over, these warriors who claimed to be the best in swordsmanship would also be injured and fall down.

Soon, the artillery in the fortress on the opposite bank began to fire again. When the soldiers who crossed the river watched the black shells flying over the river and smashing into the enemy's airtight rear formation, they couldn't help but cheer while fighting.

The first to bear the brunt were Yelu Dashi's left-wing cavalry. He originally wanted to attack the perfume bottle cannon on the opposite side that kept firing projectiles, but the denser and larger shells from the emperor's ramparts fell from above his head, and the rising smoke and flying dust were filled with the groans and screams of people and horses.

Dashi, who could not bear it, ordered a slight retreat.

As a result, at this time, two more detachments of red-handed soldiers rushed over on the bridge.

At the same time, the 2,000 Gur and Sistan cavalry who had swam across the river downstream also rushed to the battlefield at full speed after they were ready. The timing of their appearance was simply perfect - it could be said to be the most important factor in changing the situation - Gur King Iz, wearing fine armor, holding a sharp scimitar, with flying ribbons wrapped around his head, and with great hatred for all his people, attacked the right wing that Wuya Sihu was trying to encircle like the wind.

The Gur cavalry that suddenly appeared tore through the line of Wuyashu in one go, and defeated Yisler's right wing amid thunderous cheers and iron hoofbeats. Wuyashu and his Gurkhas fled backwards, and the 500 Shushan soldiers who stayed behind him set up infantry shields (i.e. shields) and lit fire balls and threw them into the air one after another - the fire balls exploded in the air, and countless iron caltrops fell to block the Gur cavalry from further advancing.

Yizi and Taji did not rush forward either. They turned their horses around and slashed the Gurkha infantry at the front of the enemy line with scimitars and battle axes from the side like raindrops.

"Iz. Aladdin, you bastard who disobeyed the faith, I should have reunited you with your father in the hell!" Islael on the sedan chair ordered all the cavalry to rush to the rescue front, and shouted angrily to the young King Gur in the battle array.

"Despicable Islael, shameful murderer, today I will avenge my father!" Iz was also extremely jealous, swinging a scimitar, commanding his tribesmen to charge and kill desperately, and all parties were in a melee.

Yelu Dashi, who retreated slightly, saw that his right wing was broken through and defeated, so he changed to a warhorse with spare power, and hurriedly reorganized the left wing and filled the gap on the right wing: there were only 500 Shushan soldiers still guarding the side card.

But at the same time, Gawain had 600 cavalrymen attached to the brigade. They swam with the Gur people and also advanced to the front line. They cooperated with the fifth detachment of the Red Hand Brigade to swarm towards the right wing where Yelu Dashi was.

After a fierce battle for half a day, Israel's message came in a hurry, "Another large number of enemy troops rushed over from the upstream ferry and are about to bypass the back of our camp!"

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"What?" Israel was shocked.

In the fortress, Gawain, who was supervising the battle, also received a message from Multan City, "Your Majesty, the soldiers in Multan City launched a surprise attack, our siege position was broken, and the group of Rajput soldiers retreated across the board."

"The fighting power of these Indians is not reliable at all!" Gawain was also shocked and angry.