Eagle Byzantium

At this time, the three horizontal detachments attacking from the front had already wedged themselves deeply into the Roma formation. Then, Banda, the "Bloody Mouth of Hell" on the far right, continued to advance bravely when he saw the black dog teeth. His subordinate Yesuding and dozens of slave soldiers were riding horses and shouting beside him. Whistling past, the detachment flag officer Decius Moss, a small landowner squire from Naples, shouted to the unstable mood of the tribesmen, "Speed ​​up, ignore this group of cavalry, the right side is diagonal The rest of the banda will hold back, and we will continue to charge forward!"

"Oh oh oh oh." The spearmen of the detachment in the front and back rows held various spears in their hands, carried their shields behind their backs, and continued to lean together. Except for the one on the rightmost column who deflected the spear tips, everyone else continued Following the flag officer's sword, he continued to rush towards the core of the Roma army camp. Now the Turkic soldiers faced an extremely dangerous situation. They were stabbed to pieces by the swift and unstoppable spear attack. Most of their spears were at the spear level, and the bows and arrows in their hands were useless in the face of the rapidly approaching spear forest. They could only retreat and retreat again. Many people had already run down the hill over there and began to disperse towards Zephyrim Castle.

Soon, the three "Bandas" in the lead, waving battle flags and fighting under the cover of Italian veterans and elite skirmishers, quickly arrived at the place where Yesudin's original command flag was, and the multiple columns of the Roma army were The battle line was torn into pieces. In the smoke and dust, Gawain's soldiers shouted for fierce fighting, and almost came into battle with Toulon's troops.

"Send out fast horses and tell Branas and Dorus to join Andreev and Zalguba's troops and attack the top of the mountain from there. They must not hesitate. If one of them hesitates, both of them will be dismissed at the same time. "Gawain said to the Turkic military servants beside him, and then muttered in English, "Look Look, this is the embarrassing new brigade. Anna, this little girl, wants me to pay for her actions. She was originally planning to stabilize and then train the armed group, but now she has no choice but to throw the cat into the water, what kind of guardian brigade-- Isn't it the 'Watch' brigade, which gives my red hands a good look?"

But before Muzafi'adin arrived, his "active consciousness" was extremely strong. In other words, Branas, who was eager to gain a foothold in Gawain's faction, took several bandas and attacked bravely. The "Konama Vixen" who followed behind also came up with the help of the believer army.

So Toulon was unable to resist, especially when faced with enemies attacking from both directions. He brought a small number of followers with him. Abandoning their posts and battle lines, they also fled towards Zephyrim City.

"All soldiers, don't stay. Pounce, all pounce! Don't give the enemy a chance to breathe." Halfway up the hill, Giovanni raised his spear and encouraged him loudly. Soldiers of the Marine Corps. They also swarmed up the mountain.

"Agnes, our army has won." On the high hill opposite, where the carriage and the flag of Saint Theodore were located, Anna in the carriage looked at the battlefield with surging flames on the opposite side. Speaking softly, she seemed to have seen the legendary white harbor wall of Seleucia, smiling and waving to her.

What was tragic in the end was Emil Yesuddin who bravely rushed to the front line to fight. The shirt he was wrapped in was completely stained with blood, the spear in his hand was bent, and his horse was killed by the spear points of many soldiers and fell to the ground. In the end, about seven or eight spear shafts pierced the emir's body from all directions at the same time. His heart burst and blood flowed from the orifices in his head. He was forced to move backwards several feet before lying on the ground. His left leg was bent and bent, and fragments of his armor were scattered on the ground. All his slave soldiers were killed in the battle, and they were surrounded by his body.

Half an hour later, Gawain personally jumped onto the miserable hill battlefield. He hardly used cavalry in this battle, but still relied on the infantry's spear charge to win. The corpse of the heroic Emile on the enemy side was easily identified. After coming out, Gawain ordered it to be cut off, carried on the flagpole, and went to threaten the city of Zephyrim.

Originally, the fireworks thrown by the fire throwers from both sides were enough to burn all the hills with lush vegetation in summer, but they were suppressed by the advancing soldiers and the fallen wounded, and the smoke curled up. , bloody corpses and mutilated weapons were lying everywhere, especially in the area where Emil died in battle, the corpses of men and horses were piled up to a terrifying density. After the battle, the soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade were sitting on the hill with long and short weapons, covered in soot and blood, panting and resting. When they saw His Excellency General Stratigos riding a horse, they could only Gawain gave a low salute or cheer, raised his hand, and silently paid tribute to this group of nameless infantry soldiers.

Two hours later, the city of Zephyrim surrendered, but this time Gawain did not allow any Roma soldiers to retreat. He disarmed all the remaining nearly 3,000 people, regardless of armor, weapons or horses, and then escorted the people to Tarsu. He was detained in Si City - he was for the immediate capture of Seleucia City, so he could be more relaxed.

Only Toulon, with more than two hundred cavalry, fled to the Taurus mountains north of Zephyrim.

In this battle, the Red Hand Brigade suffered nearly 500 casualties, the Guardian Brigade suffered more than 200 casualties, and Kabeamia and Andreev's troops suffered fewer casualties, killing and wounding more than 1,500 Roma soldiers and taking prisoners. Three thousand. "The main reason is that the newly recruited Germans suffered more casualties." After the war, this was the report submitted by Giovanni and Bramson to Gawain.

"Then we need to strengthen the formation and flag signal training for these new recruits and teach them to fight together." This is what Gawain answered, but he also knew in his heart that if it weren't for this group of fanatical and reckless cannon fodder soldiers, holding long swords, not only blocked the enemy's cavalry, but also opened a gap in their left wing front, the casualties would be even greater. How to play to the strengths and avoid the weaknesses of this group of German soldiers in the future still needs to be considered.

However, for this battle, as long as we win, all sacrifices are acceptable.

The following time is completely the moment when the Bow Division sweeps across the entire Sicilichia Plain, the town castles surrendered one after another, and under the red hand cross sword battle flag fluttering, this division advanced by land and water, and the small castles such as Lamas and Curicus that blocked the city of Seleucia opened their gates one after another. Five days later, the front of Gawain's division had advanced to three miles outside Seleucia, and it was only separated from the military capital of the former empire by a river.

"Send a message to the Turks guarding Seleucia and the former officers and soldiers of the Imperial Military District (after Manzikert, many soldiers from the Byzantine Military Districts switched to serve under Roma), asking them to give up resistance and surrender the castle, otherwise the Emir's head will be their example!" It was raining heavily outside. Gawain, who was in the scarf tent, took out a letter of persuasion and said to the messenger. (To be continued ~^~)