Eagle Byzantium

Of course, at the same time, on the caravan and camp fronts, the Guardsmen soldiers rushed to their respective posts to guard against possible attacks by the Emperor or Breanus on their side.

But the emperor did not do so in the end, and he did not seem to have the idea of ​​entering Brenus's camp. Instead, he started to build a camping camp beside it, like Gawain.

Alexios was a shrewd and sophisticated man. His camping abandoned the tradition of "Byzantine camp" and actually imitated Gawain's chariot.

The emperor carried more carriages. Although they were all simple models without carriage boards, he pushed them all to the front line. Then he asked the soldiers and beasts of burden to dig out the soil to bury the wheels, and used forks between the vehicles. The emperor was stuffed with wood and antlers, and asked the Cumans and Pechenegs to stand behind with bows and arrows on guard. In about two days, the emperor's half-moon-shaped chariot fortress, which stretched for nearly three kilometers, was also completed in front of Gawain's eyes. .

Then, Alexios handed over the chariot camp to the two newly promoted guards, and he took the royal camp into Brenus's camp, and announced, "Out of love and cherishment for General Xosa, I From now on, he does not need to appear on the battlefield, but goes to Afyon to sit there and transport food to me and my army. "

After a few words, Xhosa could only hand over all his seals, documents, officials and staff, and ran back to Afyon.

Then the emperor summed up his military strength, plus the strength of Brenus, Cosa and Raymond, he had fifty-two thousand soldiers (seven or eight thousand had gone to resist Theodorus), and after counting In addition to the old and weak left behind, at least 44,000 people can be used on the front line. "This is all the result of the careful management of the imperial capital and various military regions by me and you during this year." The emperor was very pleased to have such strength. When he Knowing that the opposite party Gawain With only about 14,000 troops, he issued an order, "Our army has an absolute advantage in Philomelon. Send soldiers to stretch my 'left arm' - constantly building fortresses to extend the siege, and separate Gawain and Divide the city of Iconium and press it here. If Gawain comes to attack, hold on and force it back. If Gawain sits on the defensive, block it with all your strength and defend it while fighting. Repair the union!”

In the following days, at the second hour of every morning, 2,000 lightly-armed archers and 500 immortal gunners would emerge from the emperor's huge chariot base, facing the forefront of Gawain's chariot base. Then, there were 400 Cuman cavalry on the left and right wings to hold down the formation. Finally, there were 300 Plonian heavy cavalry and 800 heavy armored cavalry serving as the second line of preparatory formation.

After the cover of this group of soldiers, the emperor sent out four thousand infantry and military servants in turn, began to pull more carriages towards the east-north axis, and then dug trenches and mounds of soil, and cut down many surrounding areas. Miscellaneous trees are arranged in wooden fences and filled in between, In this way, he "expanded and extended" his own vehicle base very quickly - these vehicles were all recruited by the emperor from within his own jurisdiction, and he strictly ordered them to be processed in Philadolphiam, Atalia, Afyon and other cities. Rushing to produce, it costs a lot of money.

In one day, the emperor's chariot "grew" three-quarters of a mile, like a giant beast stretching out its tentacles, stretching towards the area between Gawain's position and the city of Iconium.

"Oh my, my father-in-law is really good at adapting. I misunderstood him a little before." I saw the emperor's car rampart and flag miraculously standing on the makeshift wooden watchtower like an outstretched centipede. Gawain said in a rather admiring tone.

The generals nearby said, "The emperor is going to cut us apart from Iconium. Once this chariot barrier reaches there, the emperor will definitely build a new camp city at the end point, and Brenus The camps are connected by corridors formed by chariots, and a large number of cavalry are stationed in them, so that our food routes to Iconium and Miliocephalon will be threatened. "

"Oh?" Gawain put his hand on his chin beard and looked at the emperor's dense formation directly opposite and the fortifications being built in full swing. "How to destroy it?"

Before he could think about the result for a while, Gawain suddenly saw a few black spots rising up from the formation of the emperor's thousands of elite soldiers, spinning rapidly in the air and getting bigger and bigger.

"The enemy's trebuchet!" There were exclamations everywhere. Gawain and his generals ran out of the watchtower with quick eyesight and quick hands. Then there were several loud noises that penetrated the wood. Half of the watchtower was smashed and fell. The fallen wood fell to Gawain who was coughing on the ground. Dim and Muzafiadin defended him tightly.

The rest of the stone bullets were also thrown into the chariot fortifications. A total of four custodians were killed in this attack, and a centurion jumped from the watchtower and broke a leg.

"Long live, long live!" The soldiers in the emperor's army shouted in unison - behind their two wings of cavalry, four trebuchets were quickly set up, two on each side, with long and narrow elastic swing arms going up and down. , plus five rope buckles for pulling, were pulled and fired collectively by the gunners. Every time they cheered, a wave of stone bullets was thrown out, drawing arcs in the air.

Among them, several hollow lead pellets were also fired into Gawain's position. After being broken into pieces, there were all surrender letters written in Greek, German and Oui, calling on all Tarsus soldiers to know the general situation as soon as possible. , "Across from you is the invincible Roman Emperor and his 80,000 elite troops. There is no future for resistance. Iconium, Seleucia and Tarsus, as the abyss and lair of evil, will be completely destroyed." ..."

At the bottom of each letter of persuasion, a ferocious wooden donkey was painted in simple light colors, with sharp thorns on the saddle, and it was written "Stephen Gawain will be nailed here to receive his coronation. This is his throne. The crown is made of iron and burned red with fire."

Gawain, who was a little embarrassed, was furious, "The enemy's stone bullets are definitely not as far as our religious army's catapults. Set up a large plani gun behind the car barrier to fight back, and push all the Persian perfume bottles here. I will show them some power tomorrow!"

Soon in the night, hundreds of craftsmen from the two brigades also set up two counterweight "large plani guns" with all their strength, and set up about 30 perfume bottle light cannons of the entire army behind the carriages and earth basket walls, marked the approximate shooting distance, and quietly waited for the sun to rise tomorrow.

The next day, the emperor's camp once again emerged in the same formation as yesterday, standing in front of Gawain's car barrier, showing off their power, and began to set up catapults again.

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Just as the emperor's craftsmen began to set up the horizontal axis, a sharp whistle exploded in the air. They watched as thicker, blacker and larger stone balls were thrown up on top of the Gawain chariot, getting bigger and bigger. Amid the soldiers hiding and screaming, the craftsmen had no time to protect the trebuchets, and they scattered and ran away. With a few loud bangs, the stone balls accurately shot from the large Plane gun smashed a huge dust on the ground, instantly blasting the emperor's two half-built trebuchets into powder, and the other trebuchets' brackets were also abandoned, and the formation was in chaos. (To be continued ~^~)