Eagle Byzantium

So several rows of immortal soldiers carried muskets and hooks, reorganized their formation, and continued to march in front of the outer palace guards and imperial infantry, shouting and advancing towards the moat and wooden fence in front of the "convex" chariot barrier.

At this moment, long arrows whistled out from the smoke, and the neck of the first immortal soldier was pierced through immediately, his eyeballs popped out, and he turned around twice and fell to the ground dead. Another was hit in the chest by an arrow, and he stuck the hook into the ground to support himself, but the second and third arrows followed and shot into his forehead and side waist, blood splashed out, and he curled up and died while holding the hook.

More and more terrifying long arrows flew out, causing severe damage to the bodies and morale of the immortals. They were horrified to see that the strength and penetration of these long arrows were very large, almost equivalent to lightweight javelins. All of them were shot by the Oghuz volunteers squatting behind the chariots and earth basket walls. They were extremely fierce and good at riding and shooting. Behind the entire chariot line, the fire throwers, Oghuz volunteers (abandoning horses), border troops, and civilian troops were all stationed here. This was all the defensive force that Gawain relied on. The Oghuz soldiers were responsible for using bows and arrows to accurately strike the emperor's attacking team after the Khitan fire volleys. What they used was the reserved bamboo arrows. This type of arrow was introduced into the military system of Tarsus after the religious army defeated the holy warriors on the plateau.

In front of the flying bamboo arrows, General Celilarus, who continued to advance at risk, saw clearly: on the car and earth baskets, the high-pitched fire-throwing soldiers holding long iron guns took off the gun barrels and wooden supports (integrated) from the fork frame after firing a round, took out the cartridges on the shoulder straps directly, and poured Khitan snow into them. Then an assistant next to him was responsible for reloading the projectiles and tamping them with a stick, and another helped to turn the extinguished matchlock over and clamp the burning other end between the dog-head hooks of the long guns. Three people formed a group, and the speed and efficiency were much faster than the fire-gun arrows.

And when the Immortal Army advanced to 120 feet away from the "convex" car, this row of long guns and the rest of the fire-gun arrows were stretched out and set up again, aiming at Celilarus and his soldiers again.

Celilarus was stunned.

He was brave and smart, and soon thought of such a cruel answer:

Miss Plani, who was highly valued by the emperor, deceived the entire empire when she came to Lesbos to hand over the formula...

And she deceived very cleverly.

Agnes gave the formula and the blueprint, and the emperor also asked the craftsmen to build fire guns, which could shoot powerful fire arrows and build fire arrow carts.

But when Alexius imitated Gawain to form the "New Immortal Army" and let them use fire guns to fight like today, Celilaluus understood the viciousness of Agnes Plani, no, it was Gawain behind her.

The formula is right, the structure of the fire gun is right, the shooting principle and regulations are right, everything is right - but there is a biggest misunderstanding, this formula Khitan Snow has a low saltpeter content, and the effective range of the fire arrow is only sixty to eighty feet!

And this little Prani had already left a more powerful formula in Tarsus. Now Gawain's long gun and fire arrows can shoot 120 to 150 feet, which is a clear proof. The range is longer, the power is greater, and the firing is faster!

In the firearms shooting, the difference of dozens of feet is the difference between life and death, victory and defeat.

What the empire lost is not only time, but also the advancement of weapons.

With a flash of sparks, Celilarus saw the dog-head hook of the long gun held by the opposite Gawain soldier, with the fuse clamped by the mechanism, and the fire port was ignited. Then lightning flashed in front of his eyes, thunder roared, and his whole body was pushed to the ground by a powerful force, followed by a heart-piercing pain. Several officers helped him up from his back. Celilarus, the most loyal and brave young general of the emperor, found that his legs had lost consciousness, and his abdomen under the armor seemed to be stirred by a dagger.

Several lead bullets shot from the long gun hit the commander's legs and abdomen.

Now Celilarus could only lie on a stretcher and be dragged away.

On the stretcher, he saw that all the outer palace guards on the left wing had launched a brave charge against Gawain's chariot, and leather leggings were moving everywhere, but his immortal army was destined to be useless: the shooters were killed and injured, the formation could not be reorganized, and now even he, the commander, was injured in the battle...

"Hateful, hateful!" Celilarus kept shaking his head secretly.

After noon, after suffering from the volley damage, the indomitable emperor's army broke out in fierce offensive and defensive battles with Gawain's chariot defenders on all fronts. Arrows and javelins flew in the air, muskets kept spewing smoke, and hand-to-hand combat began on the board and wheel sides, with iron forks, battle axes, scimitars, and spears stabbing and slashing each other. After the close combat, only one third of the fire-throwers stayed behind the boards to continue shooting, and the rest also started to fight hand-to-hand with their weapons, not to mention the border residents and the Oghuz volunteers.

Gawain had previously made a promise to the volunteers: if the battle is victorious, the Philomelon and Afyon regions will give you additional fiefdoms, which will be the same as the "Yinzi Land" of the Holy Benevolent Cavalry.

Even the staff of the Six Departments calculated the fiefdoms and fields in advance and put them in the account book, so that all the Oghuz soldiers who came to join the army would know.

Therefore, in the bloody battle that day, one fiefdom and field changed four owners in one day.

Behind the Oghuz volunteers, the border residents held up spears and axes as the rear guard. Once the emperor's soldiers climbed over, they would be ruthlessly stabbed and chopped into meat sauce.

The sun slowly shifted, and the two sides fought bloody battles and advanced and retreated in turn. Sometimes the emperor's soldiers had already stood by the chariot tower and raised the military flag, but in an instant they were shot down and chopped down by the additional soldiers of the Guards, and the military flag was thrown into the trench outside the chariot.

The emperor and Gawain, although they were in different positions, were watching quietly.

Because in such a battlefield situation, the supreme commander can only do two things: stand with his own flag, look at the soldiers, and be watched by the soldiers.

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Of course, the final decision of victory or defeat is still the reserve.

What the lookout on Posta wanted to report to the emperor just now was: in Gawain's chariot, large groups of enemy soldiers magically emerged from the Gimges camp, and began to continuously support the chariot battle line in the fierce battle.

Where were these enemy soldiers originally hiding?

The emperor seemed to be thinking about this question in front of the imperial camp. Everyone saw that his face was getting uglier and uglier. The commander of the Immortal Army was injured, and the army was fired at by Gawain's hidden firepower. The outer palace guards and the Pronian cavalry were known for their bravery and strength, but they could not make any progress in the bloody battle in front of the chariots. They were deadlocked.

But the soldiers had already sacrificed their lives!

The sun gradually circled the emperor's head and back. The afternoon came in the cruel and indecisive fighting. Alexius looked at the anxious situation in front of him and the explosion of the fireballs (the emperor's army and the religious army were throwing each other), and the sweat on his cheeks slowly flowed down. (To be continued ~^~)