Eagle Byzantium

Seeing this, Tong Guan could only look away sadly and said with a choked voice, "It's not the soldiers who failed me, it's me who failed the soldiers."

At the end of the second hour of the afternoon, the sky began to get dark. Evening in winter always comes very early, not to mention such bad weather.

The only hope for the tens of thousands of Song troops to reverse the situation and win is the 2,500 soldiers who are rushing towards Guo Cheng's camp for reinforcements.

However, at this time, the bicycles and artillery carts in the chariot camp had been basically captured and destroyed, and Liu Guangshi's surprise attack tactics also failed. Guo Zude led the cavalry army and the other barbarian cavalry. Although Guo Cheng was rescued, the Song army's chariot camp was Cannons and crossbows and stone-shooting machines were all lost. Not only that - nearly half of the cavalry's horses were also wounded and killed. Many cavalry could only fight on draft horses, and the effectiveness of archery breakthroughs was greatly reduced. They could only hold the same hatred and attack the fortress. The direction is lost.

The Roman side also paid a heavy price. The border warrior Zhigata who launched the charge at the critical moment was killed in a bloody battle in the Song Army's car camp: at that time, he held up a short blunderbuss and knocked down two Song soldiers guarding the artillery. The soldiers shouted happily and rushed to the still hot barrel to seize it. As a result, more than a dozen ambush soldiers of the Song Army armed with long knives were suddenly killed. Coming to seize the cannon, Zhigata called his companions, but there was no one around him. The Song Army cut off his arm that was pressing on the cannon with the first knife, and then cut his neck with the second and third knife. and thighs, the blood in Zigata's veins splashed loudly, and he collapsed beside the gun barrel, his shoulders stuck to it, with smoke curling all over his body, and blood flowing out from his feet, and he died in battle like this.

As soon as Zhijiata died, dozens of imperial soldiers rushed towards them and chopped all the Song army ambush soldiers with long axes. Finally, the single-column chariot with broken wheels and the bronze cannon rolled on the ground. Beside the pipe, nearly twenty corpses were lying in various directions...

Old Walter's vehicle base was replaced by the victor. He ordered all his own vehicles and the Song army's vehicles to be mixed together, allowing the gunmen and archers of the border people to stand on it to provide support, and Dorus Lambert and Mikhail Eustace commanded other border residents and Imperial Guardsmen to surround the vehicle barrier and form a double-line deep formation, with all weapons aimed at the sweeping heavy armored cavalry.

Thousands of Seljuk cavalry stood on the side.

When they saw the heavily armored soldiers of the Song army forming a black cloud-like formation, approaching like a whirlwind, many brave Seljuqs were also frightened to the point of fighting.

At this time, Zangji was galloping in front of the formation, raising his hands and shouting to all the Roman infantry and Seljuk cavalry, "His Majesty the Roman Emperor has told you, when you encounter this group of cavalry, don't shrink back and hesitate, go forward and fight them!" "

This scene was also captured in the cylindrical field of view of the telescope. Gao Wen, who had said this himself, was not absolutely certain in his heart, because this judgment came from Yaoshi Guo.

Although Guo Yaoshi had no way of knowing the details of the Sixth Army of the Imperial Song Dynasty, he was born in Han Dynasty in Liaodong and was very familiar with the business of horse herding and cavalry. After his long-term careful observation, "Tong Guan's cavalry's combat power lies entirely in the martial arts." The Cavalry Army and the Jingxi Army, Dian Si Cong Ma Zhi, are all fake."

Anyway, Pharmacist Guo came to such a strange conclusion, which left Gao Wen puzzled. Why did the Song army spend so much money on war horses and armor to create a "shelf" like Cong Ma Zhi? And why did Tong Guan rely so much on this team? Could it be that he didn't know the combat power of this heavy cavalry team, or was he blinded by something that made Guo Yaoshi see it, but Tong Guan himself couldn't?

Just when Gawain was still swaying and thinking, a sudden roar of volleys of firecrackers awakened his nerves. He hurriedly narrowed his eyes again and clenched the short barrel with both hands. As a result, he saw the border civilians on the battlefield on his left flank. After the smoke from the shooting dissipated, the Song army in front jumped straight from the horse to the cavalry. They fell off their horses one after another, and then those who did not leave their mounts turned back in panic, and collided with the comrades pushing behind them. "Can these cavalrymen only be able to run ahead while sitting on the saddle?" Guo really was shocked. The medicine man was right, and Gawain couldn't help but click his tongue in surprise.

After another volley of volleys, even the Roman border residents who were a hundred feet away from the enemy's heavy cavalry in the smoke couldn't believe their eyes. They saw such a well-equipped heavy cavalry team. How can a person fall on his back and collapse at the first touch—— Many cavalrymen even threw their weapons on the ground in panic. They could only hold on to the reins and try hard to prevent themselves from falling off the saddle. They did not have the fearless and sacrificial spirit of normal heavy cavalrymen who lined up in formation and charged forward. They could only rush around in panic. Running around.

This time, not only Gawain was surprised (although it was expected), but even Tong Guan, who was supervising the battle, was stunned (actually it was unexpected).

However, after the bloody battle, the cavalry officers who temporarily retreated towards the fortress front line were covered in blood and wounds. When they turned around and saw such a humiliating scene from their side, many people were shocked at first and then burst into tears. Guo Zude and Guo Cheng bloody battle He gnashed his teeth and said, "Sure enough, they are all mere showpieces. Zhao Liangsi and Ma Renfan, these bastards, have forgotten what they did to the group of shepherds during the Western Expedition. They spent a lot of money on Cima Zhi and were ruined by them again." What does it look like?”

Liu Guangshi, who was injured and lying on a stretcher, was even more sad and angry. He turned his back to the sky and kept knocking the armrest with the back of his head. With tears streaming down his face, he shouted "Hateful, hateful".

Under the green umbrella, Tong Guan's hands trembled and his face was ashen. He looked at the cavalry from the horse, which he had relied on as an elite killer, and was chased by the Turkic light cavalry and fled in the wild. He couldn't say a word. He felt ashamed and felt a kind of aggrieved being deceived.

Lu Yihao beside him whispered and firmly advised him, "After the battle today, if Zhao Liangsi and Ma Renfan who harmed Ma Zheng are not killed, the army will collapse completely."

"Why didn't you say it earlier? Yuan Zhi misled me!" Tong Guan was heartbroken and blamed Lu Yihao for not reminding him earlier.

"The house is full of evil people, and I am honest and upright." Lu Yihao sneered and said this answer directly, which made Tong Guan almost ashamed.

Tong Guan didn't have time to think about these things, and Gao Wen's general attack had already begun.

After this tragic battle, the Roman army began to advance forward with three wings on the left, center and right for the first time.

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Amid cheers, the reserve forces of the Philomelon Brigade and the Yefanduni Brigade formed a column formation and arrived at the left and right of the central front. Then, they spent half an hour changing into a horizontal formation, connecting the three Roman armies like a chain into a whole.

In the twilight, a total of twelve long cannons pulled by many oxen and packhorses, as well as the light field cannons of the five brigades, also came to the front line firing position. They were deployed very close to each other, almost in line with the spear blades of all the spearmen, and the muzzles of the rotating cannons were facing the Tiger Wing Left and Right Army and the Control Crane Army that were slowly retreating...