Eagle Byzantium

However, in the darkness and firelight, no one answered the emperor's question.

A large number of soldiers continued to flee, and the noble emperor could no longer control the military force even within 500 feet.

Brenus, feeling extremely guilty, rushed back to the camp. There were soldiers from the military region to which he belonged. The staff in the camp and the Plonian knights all grabbed the frightened Penipasibastos. Your Highness, "We cannot continue fighting. General Xhosa asks you to return to Afyon City and make further arguments."

In the firelight, Brenus, who was wearing a gorgeous helmet, hesitated for a moment and said, "Tell General Xhosa that I will set off towards him immediately and ask him to make all preparations."

Under the protection of hundreds of Kallegos party members, Raymond removed the antler wooden fork at the exit behind the vehicle fortress, and then followed the path in the wilderness, heading towards the Laudicia Castle without looking back. "I, I have to go back to defend the castle for His Majesty and to prepare for Gawain's next offensive."

As for General Ceces, who married a girl from the Comnenus family, he left even more smoothly. He was thinking about the manor in Thrace with all his heart - the harvest season was coming soon.

Several of the emperor's guards and orphaned archer officers bravely jumped onto the carriage board behind the chariot barrier, and then they saw that Gawain's chariot barrier was slowly moving towards them.

In the shining fire, through the sand, grass and corpses on the ground, dozens of tanks covered with single-layer sheds formed a rolling mobile front. The soldiers of Gaowen's two main brigades held up A forest of spears followed behind and behind, Singing loudly the hymn "The Lord has chosen me to be his warrior", the fire-throwers were heavily shadowed, pushing light artillery with wooden wheels, Persian perfume bottles, and hoop iron cannons carried by camels and pack horses. A steady stream of people are coming.

"The traitors from Tarsus are coming!" A shrill cry spread throughout the emperor's carriage.

Atretis, who was lying on the ground, could not see his flag officer or any superiors. Only his military boots kept running around. Some were wailing, some were yelling like crazy, and some were crawling silently.

On the Fire Bear Cannon position, Nexus was preparing to direct the second round of volleys. In the rising smoke, the fire throwers exposed their sweaty backs and used long poles wrapped in sponges with their bare upper bodies. The bronze cannon bore was rotated and brushed clean - shredded paper, iron filings, and Khitan snow powder to be completely burned, "this This way the shooting will be smoother! "The other fire throwers who were responsible for loading the polished stone pellets were wrapped and tied with fine deerskin and sheepskin, and they were lifted up and pushed into the muzzle of the Fire Bear Cannon." Cover it one layer, cover it one layer." Everyone smiled obscenely, and then each took a position according to the new military code.

"Hurry up, otherwise it will be bad if our shells fall on our own people's heads." After urging, Nexus waved the small flag.

"Tong-tong-tong", the thunder from the muzzle suddenly burst out, followed by the sharp roar of the burning Khitan snow. Several stone pellets from the Fire Bear Cannon were shot out, and one shot passed over the head of the attacking Tarsus army's front line. Landing just 200 feet away in front of everyone, he first overturned a section of the emperor's wooden fence in front of them, then jumped over the ditch, wedged through two vehicle frames, and smashed them into powder.

The other two shots were not so accurate, and they all landed on the ground outside the emperor's carriage, hitting the soil like water columns.

Another shot also knocked down a piece of antler fence, making a loud noise.

However, after this volley, the emperor's soldiers fled even more, like a returning angry wave. Like a swarm of rats escaping from a collapsing house.

"Shoot, shoot!" At this time, the light artillery of the Tarsus Guards Army were also pushed within the shooting distance. When the fire bear cannons in the rear stopped firing, they acted as the incoming firepower.

Fourteen Persian perfume bottles, three wheeled "long perfume bottles", and four wheeled light short-barreled mortars lined up in a row, continuously shooting red and white fireworks in the direction of the emperor's royal camp, exploding in horror. In the dark night - perfume bottles were fired continuously "bang bang bang", and short-barreled mortars fired fiercely at long intervals, hitting the car barrier in front of them in waves of lead pellets, iron pellets or stone pellets. above.

In the "assault chariot" covered with a single-story wooden tower, there were also fire-throwers crouching. They pushed and fired long blunderbuss and fire blunderbuss arrows through the shooting holes.

The sound of horse hooves passed through like thunder, and the eight hundred "soldiers" who rushed out from the wall of the self-operated city, all riding horses, rushed through the open space and approached the defensive line on the emperor's right side. One section was destroyed by the fire bear cannon. The soldiers of the Thracian Military District and the Thessalian New Army who were supposed to be guarding here had already fled.

Dim and Birrell, who were the first, climbed down from their exhausted mounts, followed by one carrying a caltrop meteor hammer, another holding an iron scythe in one hand and a small curved sickle in the other, and other elite selections with three layers of heavy armor. They formed a dense phalanx, marching forward one after another on foot to attack the car base in front of them.

The last ones to protect this front and the emperor's royal camp were the Immortal Army, the Orphan Archers, and the emperor's Varangian Guards. They were the only ones who had undying loyalty to the emperor. There were two commanders, the Ink Controller Meles and the injured Immortal Army Commander Seliraruus. Even though the emperor did not call their names, these two people bravely climbed onto the chariot barrier. The latter's leg After being penetrated, he almost struggled to climb up, inspiring the only soldiers around him to "set up the fire blunderbuss, coil up the horn bow, and hit hard by the light of the fire!"

In front of them, Gawain's heavy-armored elites had rushed to a distance of more than 60 feet. Many half-knelt Oghuz soldiers bent their bows and shot rows of bamboo arrows.

Many of the emperor's soldiers were shot down amid screams, but more people still held their posts and fired stones and muskets in retaliation.

Many armored soldiers turned out their kite shields, and continued to advance tenaciously in the rain of arrows amid the sound of sparks.

The two Oghuz soldiers in the front covered their wounds with arrows and fell headfirst into the trench. Then they were stepped over by the iron tower-like Dim Goliath. The giant roared and rushed to the chariot, "Hit him!" Right above him was the emperor's imperial ink officer Meles, who was commanding several soldiers.

Two musket arrows and three arrows hit Dim one after another. Star-like fireworks jumped on his armor, and his body shook a few times - but he continued to move forward.

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Several lightly armed military servants who followed him held wooden boards and took the opportunity to put them on the cart. Dim's armor was emitting wisps of flames, and he stepped on the wooden boards and rose in front of Mailais and others.

Then Dim swung his arms, the sound of chains rang, and his eyes flashed in his helmet and visor, "May 18th!"

With this roar, the imperial ink official was hit in the neck and face by the caltrop meteor hammer thrown by Dim in a position that he should not have been in. His helmet and skull were broken and twisted together, bleeding profusely, and then he slid backwards under the wheels of the cart.

In the firelight, the emperor, who was about to flee on his horse, saw the body of his most trusted imperial edict official who had been with him day and night, falling backwards. Tears rolled down his throat and he couldn't help but fall...

On the night sky of the Anatolian Plateau on May 18, on the battlefield of Philomelon where the flames of war were raging, a large number of meteors suddenly fell rapidly towards the west...