Eagle Byzantium

Then Yesutin heard the continuous trumpet: behind the brigade of Branas, the cavalry line to which Gawain belonged was raising the battle flag and marching, following the rear of the Guardian Brigade.

"This is the enemy's strategy of luring the enemy. Tell Toulon, who is defending the left wing, not to be fooled. Our army must defend the wooden fence line on the hill and use archers and cavalry to repel and consume the enemy." Yesutin quickly issued such a cautious decision.

So in the rolling smoke, all the Roman soldiers kept their posts and watched Branas' brigade, in the form of a marching column, quickly passing through the ground on the other side of the river on their left: Almost at the same time, the Red Hand Brigade on the front of the hill, under the command of the flag signal of the front-line commander Giovanni, also followed their respective positions and collectively advanced forward for about 500 feet, so that they were just out of the range of the Roman Turks' bows and arrows.

Then, the Italian veterans, archers, sailors, and light crossbowmen from various detachments began to file out and form a skirmish line, standing in front of all the infantrymen of various colors holding lances and thorn spears - Greeks, Lombards, and Germans, as if they were about to make a rapid leap forward to attack.

Soon, the Roma soldiers behind the front wooden fence made targeted moves: amid the drums, they led the various Greek, Armenian, and Saracen mercenaries wearing armor and holding shields forward and lined up behind the wooden fence, while the Turkic and Kurdish light soldiers using composite bows and javelins were deployed behind and on both sides, ready to resist the sword and shield assault of Gawain's team first, then use bows and arrows to weaken the team behind him, and then use cavalry to outflank and decide the outcome of the battle.

However, the Red Hand Brigade was extremely patient. After they formed an offensive formation, they instantly fell silent and waited, and the entire battlefield was filled with swirling winds. There was also a silent forest of spears and lances.

"The Guardian Brigade, for the glory of the Princess, turn around collectively!" Finally, Branas raised his sword and issued an order at the designated position. More than 3,000 soldiers, because they had not undergone sufficient flag language and pace training beforehand. Except for the "Grand Duke's Death Soldier" detachment (upgraded) added by Gawain, the rest of the detachments were uneven. It took a long time to complete the order of the brigade commander Temaqi, which made Duolus embarrassed. Then he asked the main flag bearer to raise the red cross sword flag.

"It's the enemy's general flag!" Toulon, who was facing him, was puzzled. With fear, he had seen the power of this flag in the battle of Nicaea, "Could it be that their main attack direction is on our wing?"

However, the main flag bearer then raised the flag high, and then lowered it, repeating it three times.

The whole battlefield fell into a brief silence.

Suddenly. Around all the detachments of the Red Hand Brigade, drums and trumpets suddenly sounded, which could almost break people's eardrums. The Italian veterans put their shields in front of them. They steadily followed the slope of the hill and slowly advanced towards the Roma army position behind the wooden fence.

"Prepare for battle." All the sword and shield soldiers of the Roma army also began to gather together closely, to fight for the honor of the warriors and compete with the elite soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade.

But soon, they saw that behind the enemy veteran company's line. Three infantry detachments, almost all of whom were holding spears, lined up in long horizontal columns, and stepped up to raise a lot of dust. At a very fast speed, they rushed towards the hill-these three detachments. The main components were veterans of the Red Hand Brigade, so the pace was extremely consistent. The sunlight shone through the dense spear tips they held in their hands, casting great terror on the hearts of the Roma soldiers.

The three new recruits on the side also followed the signal and moved in turn.

The terrifying and sharp sound and the vigorous shouts echoed throughout the Zephilim Hills. Soon, the spear detachment of the Red Hand Brigade became the vanguard, while the Italian veterans became the rear guard. "Hold on!" Yesuddin, who was supervising the battle in the rear, shouted.

"Don't retreat!" Gawain, who was commanding under the banner of Saint Theodore, also shouted.

But in fact, the shouts of the two of them could not be heard by the thousands of soldiers fighting together. Many people's ears were covered by helmets and were almost deafened by the trumpets. They could only move forward and backward, and bravely stab the spears in their hands, no matter where the opponent was in the field of vision, and stab him to death wherever the spear tip was!

In the ranks of both sides, there were small teams of loose fire-cup bearers. They were covered in thick felt clothes, and at the moment when the enemy and our lines crossed, they threw the flaming pots to each other. Amid screams, the flames burned along the gaps between the footsteps of the frontline soldiers of both sides, and then followed by the wind, spreading down the hill. The chain mail or leather armor covering the chest and shoulders of the spearmen in the first few rows of the Red Hand Brigade were already burning, but the spearmen at the back were trying their best to squeeze forward. All of them could only endure the burning, howling and leading the way. Facing the flying flames, they bravely rushed through the wall of fire in rows and advanced towards the wooden fence. Many of them had hooks and axes on their spears, and they stabbed and rushed at the sword and shield men of the Roman army lined up in front of them through the wooden fence. Because of the advantage of weapon length and density, they quickly killed and stabbed a large number of enemies. Some of the others grabbed the stabbing spears, bravely drew their swords and approached to swing, but were soon stabbed and injured by the spear points extended from the deep queue behind the enemy; some protected themselves with shields and retreated.

Within a minute of fighting, the Red Hand Brigade's vanguard destroyed several sections of the wooden fence, and the Italian veterans took the opportunity to infiltrate and fight. Everyone rushed forward and attacked upwards, with hundreds of thousands of spears withdrawing and stabbing out like a saw. "Our cavalry on the left wing, charge up and attack the protruding enemy from the side." Following this order, the cavalry on the reserve line of the Roma position rushed down with a bang. They tried to go around the side of the Red Hand Brigade's front troops, throwing javelins, swinging scimitars, and cooperating with their own front to defeat the enemy.

But at the same time, three detachments on the right wing of the brigade rushed in a diagonal line and arrived at the battlefield one after another. Almost half of these people were newly recruited Germans who had not received array training. Many of them gathered together and, under the encouragement of the witches holding the holy goose cage, broke out of the array. Without waiting for the follow-up spearmen, they freely wielded long swords, flails, and iron rods and fought hard with the Roma cavalry. Nearly half of them were killed or wounded in an instant, but they also achieved remarkable results - the Roma cavalry's advance was completely curbed, and the men and horses fell and rolled in the melee. Then the spearmen of the three detachments also bravely lined up in a column, attacked and rushed fiercely, stepping on the wounded or dead bodies of the cavalry and horses, and followed up, and instantly "pierced" the left wing of Yesutin's troops.

"All warriors, follow my flag and fill in the critical left wing!" The brave Emir Yesuddin raised his spear, and seeing that the formation was at a critical juncture, he led dozens of slave soldiers and rode out. (To be continued ~^~)