Eagle Byzantium

The Vadaritai and Tekopo cavalry followed the brave General Mashu, flicking their tongues and making rapid vibrating battle sounds, their horses' heads slammed down, and they stood on their short stirrups and straightened their bodies, holding light and sharp lances in their arms, and rushed down the hillside in an overwhelming manner.

Then Taitius also drew his saber: the Cuman cavalry on both wings of the semicircular formation also let out earth-shaking howls, and the dense hair of the grassland ponies under their crotch began to spread out layer by layer, running quickly, the reins were loosened and fluttering, and the half-moon-shaped sabers spun rapidly above their heads, dazzling people's eyes.

In this way, the six thousand emperor cavalry rushed to the open land in the valley in front of Gawain with the madness of a storm. At the front was a group of Oghuz Volunteer Cavalry vanguards. They were very smart and leaned sideways before the large group of Emperor Cavalry rushed down, as if hanging on the side of the saddle, and turned around and quickly got away. The arrows whizzed and the tail feathers passed over them with a clear trajectory. Then the Oghuz Volunteer Cavalry quickly moved on the saddle and shot a wave of arrows.

Gawain, who was supervising the battle on the hill, saw that many of the Emperor Tekopo cavalry and horses that were in the front were shot by arrows and lost their front hooves. The horses rolled to the ground, and the people fell to the ground and were trampled by the horses behind them.

Then the Oghuz Volunteer Cavalry drove their beloved "Helan" warhorses, drew out longer and sharper sabers and Persian cavalry one-handed hook axes, and charged forward with round shields tied to their arms. Their warhorses were more majestic and powerful, and their weapons had a more bloody effect. In Gawain's eyes, the two cavalrymen collided fiercely, and then it was like a Khitan fireball explosion, with large clouds of smoke and dust rising, blood bursting and splashing, scimitars slashing each other everywhere, warhorses colliding with each other, cavalrymen in various costumes and armors fighting, and thousands of people and horses in the whole open land roared like a whirlpool.

Soon, Taitius led his right wing and began to deploy. He didn't care about the position that the Red Hand Brigade was building on the side, but began to surround the Oghuz Volunteer Cavalry, who were outnumbered. General Nose-nosed, who rushed over quickly, seemed to be looking at Gawain's eyes on the hill from a distance on his horseback.

"We have to fight to the end, Taitsius (Gawain)." They both silently said in their hearts.

"Toot, toot!", "Bang, bang, bang!", Amid the sound of trumpets and muskets, the Red Hand Brigade's fire throwers and archers formed a battle line and half-knelt, firing a wave of fire at the emperor's right-wing cavalry that rushed in front of them. Many Cuman cavalry hired by the emperor rolled off their horses, and smoke rose up. Gawain waved his hands, trying to make his vision clearer. Then he saw Taitsius was still advancing bravely, and he quickly realized that if he did not repel Taitsius's right wing that quickly cut in, this group of Oghuz volunteer cavalry would be cut off and isolated, suffering heavy losses.

Gawain turned and raised his hand, and the flag bearer next to him raised a special sawtooth flag in the sound of the trumpet.

With this as a sign, a team of camels led by soldiers came over from behind the fire-throwing formation. Then everyone wrapped their headscarves or wore helmets, lifted the eight iron-banded bronze cannons on the camels, and quickly installed them on the pivot frame, and then sealed and inserted the cannon tails with wooden handles. Then two fire-throwing sergeants came over, holding a simple wooden pole quadrant in their hands, inserted it into the muzzle of the "Persian perfume bottle" to measure, raised the shooting table made by the small sunfish to calculate, and then loudly reported the amount of medicine used and the approximate angle (the mil position has not been adopted yet, nonsense).

After hearing this, the pyrotechnics next to the gun barrel first put the pre-loaded musket into the barrel, no matter what, "Fire a round first!"

"Shoot!"

"Shoot!"

The officers and ordinary pyrotechnics responded in turn, and the statue of the Virgin Mary and the small gospel were placed on the gun again. "Bang, bang, bang", the rapid shooting sounded, and the eight perfume bottles lined up in a row began to shoot out flames, and the handles on the muskets shook violently.

In the extremely fast burning spray of Khitan snow, the rows of lead bullets that were fired rubbed and turned in the air, whistling through the half-kneeling pyrotechnic array on the front line, passing through the still diffused smoke and smoke, and rushing towards the right wing cavalry column of Taitisius that was rushing.

Taitisius, who waved his sword to encourage the surroundings and leaned over to drive his horse, only heard a terrifying sizzling sound in the air, which was the unique sound of lead bullets. He raised his eyes quickly, but saw a black object, which drilled through the gap several feet behind his back at a speed that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, and his waist was suddenly lifted up. A Cuman cavalryman jumped over and was hit by the object. His body suddenly twisted strangely, his bones burst with a shattering sound, his armor and reins exploded, and then the man and the horse were entangled together, like a fragile wheat cake being flipped sideways on the ground. The lead bullet spun rapidly on his body for a few times, and then in the form of Brownian motion, it was like a ball rolling around in an iron plate with edges in the dense cavalry group, violently cutting off the hands and feet of the man and the horse.

After the perfume bottle roared, although Titius' horse was still running, he looked back in horror and saw that the arrows shot by the enemy just now were by no means as low-level as muskets. They smashed the ground and caused waves of rolling and splashing mud, like a rainstorm. The formation of the rear team was in chaos. Some Cuman cavalry fell dead or injured on the ground, and some war horses were frightened and carried their masters around.

And in Gawain's vision, the right-wing cavalry formation of Titishius was like a wall hit by a hammer, "collapsed" crookedly.

But this was not the end. For the "Persian perfume bottle", its biggest advantage was that the barrel could fit with the breech opening, so that it could not only fire in turns, but also prevent the barrel from overheating and bursting. When the reserve fire throwers quickly delivered the new barrel with a range of powder (because the quantitative paper tube was used, the replacement of ammunition was very convenient), the eight "Persian perfume bottles" quickly fired another round, and the distance was adjusted. The accuracy was fierce and sharp, knocking dozens of Cuman cavalry to the ground, bloody and flesh...

After a layer of smoke, Titishius's right-wing cavalry collapsed. This general of Turkic descent was a flexible person who did not like to make unnecessary sacrifices: when the threat on his left side was eliminated by the rapid artillery fire of the fire throwers, the two thousand Oghuz Volunteer Cavalry showed their power and drove back the cavalry led by Ma Xiu in front of them, and safely evacuated the broad battlefield and retreated to the position formed by the Red Hand Brigade with baggage carts and camels.

In this battle, 150 "Oghuz Volunteer Cavalry" were killed or injured, and then Gawain looked down at the bodies of people and horses lying everywhere on the broad ground, and felt that the emperor's cavalry casualties should have reached 300 to 400. (To be continued ~^~)