Eagle Byzantium

Adsonius chopped down with both hands, and the arrows he organized were fired at the same time. Countless arrows swayed slightly in the air, and the tail feathers kept their direction, and then whistled into the side and rear of the large infantry spear forest. Ding ding dong dong, the running Italian veterans raised their shields in their hands to block the arrows, but the soldiers in the back row of the spear forest square had no other protection except helmets, spears, swords and thin cloth and leather armor. Under the arrows shot by this small recurve bow, they fell down intermittently, and screamed everywhere.

However, the Turks and Kurds had an amazing firing rate. They soon fired another wave of arrows. This time, because they adjusted the direction and distance, they shot directly above the spear formation. With a crackling sound, the entire Red Hand Brigade, which was surging forward, suddenly stagnated. Some soldiers fell down, but more soldiers recovered from the brief panic. They saw through the edge of the helmet and the forest of infantry spears that their comrades were still stubbornly and densely around them.

Then many tall soldiers in the front row felt that some chain mail pieces had fallen off their boots. They soon realized that the Turks had exchanged soft bows for firing speed, but ignored the protective ability of their chain mail. These shots did not effectively stop the pace of the entire brigade.

The flag officer at the front raised his halberd and small flag, and the surviving drummer beat the drum again. "Hallelujah!" The infantry banda began to shout. The four detachments formed a formation of three in front and one in the back, holding up the shaking spear tips and heading towards the core of Adsonius's line.

On the other side, several slave soldiers riding camels also followed the instructions of the Emir, beat the drums quickly, and raised the signal flag. Adsonius himself climbed onto the saddle of the warhorse and raised the spear with the flag of glory. In this era, as the commander of a large team, he is not only the core and the brain, but also often has to be the warrior who rushes to the front.

On the plain under the hill, the cavalry of each front reserved by the Turks rushed out with a drum at the signal. They all rode excellent and fast war horses, and from all directions, they issued terrifying shouts and shot arrows to crush the four banda detachments of the Red Hand Brigade.

At this moment, the flag officers of each team raised the whistle hanging in front of their necks, which sounded "toot toot toot", and then pointed their thumbs down and waved their arms rapidly, "Defend, defend!" With these responses, the soldiers of the Third Bandar Detachment on the far left skillfully turned their bodies sideways one by one to face the Turkish cavalry head-on, and then the front row, one after another, half-knelt down, raised their infantry spears diagonally, and held them with one arm and knee, while the other arm tightly grasped the hilt of the sword in the sheath. The second row held the back half of the large infantry spears with both hands, held them horizontally and extended the spear tips, and placed them on the shoulders of the first row of soldiers. The third row did the same with their infantry spears, and soon a wall of spear tips to resist the cavalry's sudden attack was formed.

At the same time, the First Bandar Detachment on the right also turned slightly to defend the Turkish cavalry rushing from that side; the Sixth Detachment in the center and the Second Detachment behind it stopped on the central axis, forming a gap of about 100 feet with the left and right sides.

The sound of whistles, drums, and flutes, the infantry battle line of the entire brigade was gathered into a huge porcupine with thorns, or a giant hard walnut with thorns, accompanied by the sound of Turkish cavalry horns and trumpets, the shouts of soldiers, the vibration of horse hooves, the rolling smoke and dust, and the flying clouds, almost breaking people's eardrums. There were figures of close combat between people and horses everywhere. Some reckless or brave Turkish cavalry fell on the neat spear tips and were pierced and torn, but their Death did not play a role in guiding the assault. The following war horses were instinctively afraid and could only run around in front of the rows of telescopic spear tips, looking for gaps. The Turkic infantry following behind them crouched down and drilled into the lower part of the spear forest with swords. So the soldiers in the first row drew their swords and fought hand-to-hand with them: once the Turkic infantry was repelled and raised their heads, they were pierced back and forth by three or four spear tips at the same time, and fell down with twitching bodies and died.

Soon, the concave formed by the three spear detachments that were not in sync was discovered by the Turks. They were excellent and decisive warriors. Many of them rode on horses, or ran on foot with round shields and scimitars, shouting the slogan of Allah is great, like a "hammer" composed of a dense crowd, fiercely wedged into the concave area, trying to cut down and tear the flanks and rear of the detachments on the left and right sides!

Amid the sharp whistle, the soldiers in the first and third teams, the three rows behind, quickly discarded their infantry spears after receiving the order, turned around and drew their long swords, and fought with the Turkish soldiers who broke in. Now it was the Crescent Cult's troops, and they were forced to split into two sides to meet the enemy.

Gawain, with a falcon on his arm, stared at the chaos on the battle line and shouted to Titius and Diogenes, "Colleagues of the Roman Empire, work harder. You two go to the front-line troops to supervise the battle and open up the situation on the right side of our army as soon as possible. Defeat this group of pagans and unbelievers, and the gate of Antioch will be opened to His Majesty the Emperor!"

The two did not resist or hesitate, just like Gawain's real subordinates (although the chief of the Privy Council was General Titius), and hurriedly rode to the back of their own team and encouraged them loudly.

Then, Giovanni flew the colorful flag of assault below!

The flag bearers of the second and sixth detachments, located in the center of the rear of the front, turned back one by one and saw the military judge and spear instructor giving a signal. Then the drummers' beating suddenly became more intense, drowning out other sounds on the battlefield. All the soldiers of the second and sixth detachments clenched their spears and looked at the enemies trapped in the recess. Then, under the guidance of the flag bearers, they launched a fierce attack on them, accompanied by the cover of many vanguard halberd bearers and Italian veterans.

Earlier, when crossing the nameless "double eye" hill, the infantry of the Red Hand Brigade rushed to the plain, which was equivalent to carrying armor and heavy weapons to make a charge, and their physical strength was exhausted to the limit; but the soldiers of the 2nd and 6th Bandar detachments who stopped, took the opportunity to recover their physical strength while fighting on both sides, so when they collectively charged with spears, they had the upper hand over the physical strength of the Turks, and killed them in one go, and soon the original "concave" became "convex". Then the first and third detachments also began to turn defense into offense, killing the Turks and losing them. They attacked alternately and advanced about 600 feet. Many soldiers could already see the bright flags of the other emir and the colorful camels used for command in their feathers and helmet brims.

"Kill!" Shouts came one after another! (To be continued ~^~)