Eagle Byzantium

Yes, in this big melee, how could both sides have arranged their reserve troops in advance?

The emperor could only angrily demand that all the retreating infantry and cavalry redeploy their battle lines. On both sides of him, the red-handed spear formation and the imperial heavy spearmen temporarily staggered their spear blades like reeds - both sides were exhausted and retreated to reorganize their formations.

Even the left-wing light archers commanded by Brennus were completely exhausted after shooting a lot of arrows. They also temporarily stopped shooting, and the men and horses crowded together to recover their strength and repair the damaged archery equipment.

Under the flag, His Royal Highness Penipasebastos of the Empire was sweating profusely, looking at the endless procession in front of him and the terrible battlefield below. Just a few hundred feet away from him, he saw the armored swordsmen of the Gaowen Brigade crouching behind their shields and resting quietly. The shields in their hands were pierced with arrow feathers as dense as cow hair, like a white porcupine or a hedgehog. Just now, only more than a hundred such swordsmen formed an insurmountable line of defense, blocking the rear of the spear formation.

"The entire battlefield is in a stalemate. At this time, whoever has a strong reserve, even if it is only 300 or 500 cavalry, can win the entire victory." Brenus made such a decisive judgment. If his father-in-law was by his side, he would definitely praise him for being right.

But the problem is that neither side has a reliable reserve now.

So Brenus saw that on the battlefield below, the emperor's soldiers were moving towards the imperial camp. It seemed that the emperor had abandoned the plan to annihilate Gawain's troops and began to turn to a more stable route: guard the imperial camp, reorganize the formation, and then look for opportunities to defeat the enemy.

Over there, Gawain's central army, with only about 800 people still capable of fighting, retreated to the temporary camp by the river, and was also regrouping.

"These people, so few people." Brenus kept staring at the flag of Gawain's camp and thinking, and then he suddenly shouted to his guards, "Can we withdraw 500 cavalry from our wing? We can try to bypass the spear formation in front of us and launch a fierce raid on the enemy camp directly."

It was the first time that all the guards heard such a crazy request from His Highness Penipasebastos, and they were stunned.

Then Brenus brought it up again, and they woke up from their dream. They blew the horn and gathered around His Highness Penipasebastos bravely, raising the flag of attack. Soon, 500 cavalrymen were selected and formed a battle line behind the lord.

The red-handed infantrymen in front of them were very puzzled and whispered to each other, "What on earth are they going to do?" Many infantrymen stood up vigilantly and raised their large infantry spears diagonally, although it was obvious that Brenus and his cavalrymen were not targeting them, but rather regarded their battle line as the edge of the corridor.

Over there, Gawain's scouts also saw Brenus's left wing in the distance, "What is this guy going to do? That flag should belong to Brenus, right? Is this guy going to rush to my front?" The patron holding the reins asked several "Is it possible" questions in a row, because Brenus's behavior was too strange and did not match Gawain's impression of him.

But it must be admitted that no matter what Brennus did, once he rushed with his cavalry, Gawain was really helpless: most of the war horses were exhausted, and there were only three or four hundred Armenian logistics soldiers who were still alive and kicking in the entire camp.

Pragit, Parni and Muzafiadin were all lying on the carriage, and the military doctors were surrounding them, performing simple nursing and treatment operations. On the baggage carts farther away, there were densely packed corpses - more than 180 elite Red Hand cavalrymen who had fought hundreds of battles had died, and the emperor's casualties were even heavier, with nearly 500 soldiers killed, not including the same number of armed serfs, who were not included in the pension list.

The sky was beginning to gather with clouds. Gawain looked at the cavalrymen of Brenus who were running on the mountain over there, and he didn't know how to react. "Gawain, Gawain, are you going to die at Brenus' hands? What a big irony, is it an April Fool's joke played by Ajeh?"

"Charge bravely!" Over there, Brenus, who was leading the cavalry to pass between the two arrays, felt great. In front of the jumping horse's head was an endless wilderness. Gawain's camp was within his sight. "After all, I am the third glory of the empire. I have to have impressive military exploits while having prestige."

Suddenly, Brenus heard more intense horse hoof sounds. He heard them very clearly, and it was obviously not from his team. Then he heard the endless shouts of the left wing team - Brenus hurriedly reined in his horse and turned his head to look - a long row of cavalrymen holding lances suddenly appeared on the ridge of the hillside where the left wing team of the empire was located.

This is coming from the direction of Antiochus Minor, definitely not the Empire's army!

In front of this group of cavalry, the holy flags of Saint Michael, Saint Theodore, Saint Nicholas and other apostles were flying. All the people were in the sun, and the strong armor of the horses and horses was heavy and shocking. Their faces could not be seen at all, because they were all covered by chain mail, armor and helmets. The horses' heads and helmets were fluttering with colorful feathers, and they appeared just behind Brennus's left wing team.

"The purple princess's armored cavalry!" Further down, the entire right wing red hand spear formation saw this scene and began to cheer.

That's right. After learning about the battle in Miliocephalon, 300 armored cavalrymen rushed from Cappadocia with horse-riding servants and baggage vehicles equipped with weapons and armor. After arriving at Antioch Minor last night, the commander Walter asked for the key of the castle, and then sent scouts to follow the Roman light cavalry in the castle to investigate: when Gawain and the emperor began to fight in the fog, the scouts brought the news back to the fortress.

"The whole army is in armor and on horseback, rushing to the battlefield to reinforce us." Walter shouted in an old voice, leading this cavalry corps, becoming the fourth and last team to appear on the battlefield.

Somehow, it also became Gawain's reserve and trump card.

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"Protect the Church and the Emperor!" Ironically, Walter brandished his sword and shouted this sentence as he charged down. The rest of the Sanzaval brothers, Gotti and Sigma, as well as the military supervisor Giovanni, and three hundred heavily armored monsters also echoed the slogan of "Protect the Church and the Emperor", holding terrifying lances and rushing down the hillside in a cloud of dust.

The emperor's left wing troops were trampled to pieces by this extremely heavily armored cavalry team that swore to "Protect the Church and the Emperor", and they fled in disarray within half a minute. (To be continued ~^~)