Eagle Byzantium

"Nikitas Party!" This group of people announced their origins and rode to the wooden fence and road outside the market town. When everyone, including those on the top of Afyon City, thought that they would charge in, they did not expect that the Nicetas Party suddenly stopped their horses and jumped off their horses. Then the first two rows of people held strange weapons with long poles, and the second row of people in the back waved sabers and rushed towards the formation of the Calegos Party.

Soon the fight between the two sides entered the stage of foot-to-foot.

In the open space beside the Afyon Fortress market town, the Calegos Party and the Niketas Party, two or three hundred people from each side, fought together.

The Calegos party had originally formed a formation to deal with the cavalry's surprise attack, but now the Niketas party suddenly abandoned the cavalry and attacked on foot. They didn't react for a while and still formed a dense circular formation: the Niketas party, who were originally bandits, were more flexible and quickly split into two groups on the left and right, rushing and killing the Calegos party.

"Kill them!" The front team soldiers of Calegos raised the small cranked battle axes they carried and threw them one after another. The battle axes rotated and hit several Nikitas party members who failed to dodge. The other party's heads immediately splattered with blood and fell to the ground. Then the vanguard of Niketas' party, separated by a distance of dozens of feet, split into the left and right wings, and threw the oak darts in their hands back, like the upper and lower fangs of a shark's mouth, piercing into the dense camp of Calegos. One leader was still shouting the command "disband and fight", and was pierced from the mouth to the neck by a dart. Blood flowed all over the armor on the front of the chest, and he fell to the ground with a hoarse cry.

Then the two sides continued to enter the stage of long-weapon fighting. The speed and fierceness of the battle surprised even Tekpo, who was watching the battle on the top of the city: this group of irregular guerrillas fought, although they lacked the atmosphere of a grand battle, but they were far more fierce and brutal.

Niketas took off the rope buckle from the back and thrust out the long and extremely tough spears made of eucalyptus wood. It was an order of magnitude shorter than the large infantry spears and was more suitable for fighting between scattered soldiers. The tail and middle of the spear were wrapped with linen, which made it easy to hold with both hands. The head was an extremely narrow and flat blade tip, called "wheat spike", and there was a barb at each of the two sections behind the blade tip, called "inverted spike".

A series of angry shouts rang out, and the spearmen in the front row of Niketas tilted the "wheat spike" by about 20 to 30 degrees and stabbed at the Calegos. The opponent's waist and side neck were stabbed one by one. Many people were like fish caught by iron hooks, shaking and screaming when they were about to fall. The shrill sound exploded, making the Tekobo people on the tower of the city wall tremble.

Then Niketas did not show any mercy and pulled out the stabbed wheat spike backwards: in this way, the "inverted spike" hooked out the intestines, internal organs, and neck tendons of the stabbed person along the original wound. The scene was extremely bloody, and the Calegos in the back row were so scared that they dropped their weapons and fell to the ground, raising their hands and dared not fight again.

At this time, Niketas shouted "Ferna's revenge" angrily, and the soldiers in the back row raised their sharp sabers and rushed forward. In the flashes of the swords, the heads of the Calegos rolled all over the ground like apples and pears spilled from a box overturned.

The other half of the Calegos party had already lost their courage. They were in a panic, constantly jumping on their horses and rushing towards the city of Afyon.

The Tekopo soldiers on the tower saw with their own eyes that a Calegos party leader was about to escape on horseback by a clump of lime trees, but was chopped off the horse's head by a mountain bandit who ran out from the side with a curved saber. The leader's breastplate and bridle were all chopped off and fell in a bloody light.

Then the bandit howled and stepped on the dying leader's chest, pulled out the hammer he was wearing, and chopped down again and again, just like slaughtering an animal, and chopped the leader into pieces in front of the soldiers and civilians of the city.

The other victorious so-called Niketas party immediately looted the entire market town under the city. They were completely lawless. After robbing all the captured men and women and their property, they dragged the tax collectors out and tied them to wooden stakes, wrapped them with hay, shot saltpeter with a flare tube, and burned them alive. They also lassoed several merchants in the market town, tied them in their hands, and rode out on horseback, dragging them to death along the way.

The hundreds of garrisons in the city did not dare to fight at all. They waited until the entire Niketas party had gone far away before opening the city gates. At this time, several market towns had been burned to ruins.

When the news reached Philadelphia, Brennus was furious and ordered the officers of the Pronian army to go and wipe out Niketas' party. He and Dido knew that these bandits were definitely released by Gawain, so Dido wrote a letter to Iconium to express strong protest.

But the news sent to Philadelphia was even less optimistic: Niketas' party was unclear about how many people there were, and their deployment and direction were unclear. It was only known that they were divided into more than ten teams, riding horses and mules from Afyon to the Phrygian mountains, and they could get help from the Isaurians everywhere. They crossed mountains and ridges, and plundered many small towns like a whirlwind, and refugees everywhere were running wild. Brenus's defenses and clearing operations were completely useless. There were gaps between the castles, and Niketas' party was familiar with the countryside. They came and went easily, burning and killing everywhere. Many people also cursed the emperor and claimed that they were vengeful ghosts from hell. This cruel guerrilla sabotage tactic made Brenus extremely anxious to deal with.

In addition, the reply from the county governor of Gawain was also very blunt, "Your accusations are groundless, because there has never been a Niketas party, just like there is no Calegos party."

So Dido wrote another letter, "The Calegos party was instructed by others and has nothing to do with us. The entire Pamphylia region is innocent."

Giovanni wrote again, "Since the Calegos bandits can pass through Pamphylia, who can guarantee that there are no other bandits in Pamphylia?"

Just as the two sides were fiercely engaged in a literary lawsuit, Raymond of Laodicea was furious when he learned that the "Calegos party" he sent out had suffered such damage, so he organized more desperate people to join them, traveled through the Pamphylia region, and went to Iconium to plunder and destroy - and Giovanni also instructed quite a number of people from the "appointed Ogus family" to ride horses with the Niketas party to Pamphylia to rob and guerrilla everywhere.

Soon, the rich Pamphylia region was in flames: Calegos would definitely fight to the death when he met Niketas, but Calegos had to rob the local area for supplies, so Niketas also robbed the local area to cut off the supply line of the opponent.

Killing after killing, more than 20 towns in Brennus's jurisdiction were burned down within a month. This small-scale, indecisive armed guerrilla war was more devastating to the economy and people's livelihood than a large-scale decisive battle.

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"Kill after killing, why are we always unlucky?" Dido was furious, (To be continued ~^~)