Eagle Byzantium

But even so, Taticius reorganized his team very quickly, side by side with Matthew, and pressed closer again, with the momentum of not letting go and ready to outflank at any time.

In the queue, General Matthew found him, "General, when you charged with the right wing just now, you were shot with weapons by the Tarsus rebels on the right side and then collapsed, right?"

In the wind, Titicius wrinkled his forehead, and then replied vaguely, "Yes, the opponent's fire blunderbuss and arrows are too dense, and my cavalry cannot withstand the blow of such smoke and arrows."

Matthew said regretfully, "I see, but His Majesty's army is coming soon. When it comes to shooting with guns and fire, the Immortal Army will never be inferior to the enemy!"

"Yes, we are just waiting for His Majesty's arrival. Before that, we have to hold on to Gawain's team - oh, it definitely doesn't look that easy. He is too good at choosing the terrain." Taticius sighed while holding the reins. Standing, in front of the two of them, on the broad land between the valleys There are traces of messy battles, and in the distance is an increasingly narrow passage. On both sides of the passage, the Red Hand Brigade has deployed a caravan, surrounding the hills to form a mobile position to deal with one's own side. There are also buried in the middle facing the outside. Picked up pickets and antlers to guard against cavalry raids.

"Has your Majesty ever encountered such an enemy before?" Matthew asked, looking at the red-handed soldiers arrayed neatly across the mountain.

"Encountered Robert Guiscat... Now on his epitaph is still engraved the sentence 'He was never defeated by the emperor, but died of illness'. But Gawain is counting After destroying this tombstone in Aversa, Italy, Gawain secretly replaced Guiscat as the emperor's most dangerous enemy. "

After nightfall, the fighting broke out again - the Red Hand Brigade quickly advanced with the convoy and camel caravan along the pass towards the Philomelon area, leaving a detachment equipped with fire throwers to hold the rear at the mountain pass.

This time the emperor's army was no longer hesitant and weak. Titicius and Matthew, who had a keen sense of smell, rushed over like ferocious hounds, and had a fierce fight with the rear army of the Red Hand Brigade inside and outside the caravan position. The battle continued until dawn the next day, with the sound of trumpets and conch shells sounding like a sea: Emperor Alexios's entire royal camp and praetorian guards, along with thousands of local troops and mercenaries, appeared all over the mountains and plains where Titicius had previously On the hillside where it is located.

The emperor stared at the battle in the distance and immediately judged that Gawain would continue to flee to the southwest to join Philomelon with his other brigade. He pointed to the other guard, Selilaruus, who was next to him. The terrain says, "Over there There is a high hill that is high enough to suppress the enemy's position at the mountain pass - I will command the infantry to attack head-on. You can lead the immortal army to occupy that place in a roundabout way, annihilate the enemy from a high position, and defeat the enemy's rear team. Then you can capture and defeat Gawain. "

Half an hour later, Selira Ruus followed the secret mountain path and climbed up the high hill with hundreds of immortal troops. They came to the front slope and lined up, thundering towards the small caravan city below. Fierce shooting with muskets, arrows and stone pellets soon Seliraruus saw the soldiers at the rear of the Red Hand Brigade dragging the corpses of their companions, driving the caravans and pack animals in the rear, throwing down their spears and iron blunderbuss, carrying small shields and swords, and walked from Smoke and flames rushed out and fled towards the pass. "The enemy has been routed and has raised a signal flag towards His Majesty. Our army is in full pursuit!" Celi Laruus shouted excitedly.

Seeing the flag raised on the high hill, the emperor nodded with satisfaction, then issued an order for a full-scale pursuit, and then walked down the hillside.

The emperor's soldiers climbed up the valley like ants densely and rushed into the camp of the caravan, shouting and shouting. But soon, a huge flame suddenly shot up from the ground, causing the surrounding hills to roar and sway up and down. Even Alexios and the guards under the royal banner were frightened by the oncoming waves of air and were forced to turn back. Turn around.

Behind the rows of spears and battle flags, the emperor's soldiers were horrified to see that after the flames burst out, two smoke pillars as high as the walls of Constantinople rose up. "What's going on?" the emperor asked hurriedly. explain.

It turned out that after the soldiers at the rear of the Red Hand Palace were defeated, more than a dozen seriously wounded soldiers stayed behind and stayed in the tent of the flag truck, surrounded by piles of Khitan snow barrels, and inserted wooden match ropes with calculated burning speed. , until many of the emperor's soldiers pulled back the antlers After rushing in, the match ignited all the Khitan snow and blew everything within dozens of feet around the tent into pieces. The chaotic air waves killed all the war horses a hundred feet away. The gravel was shaken and rolled down.

More than thirty of the emperor's brave soldiers and more than a dozen red-handed wounded soldiers were all killed, and nearly a hundred others were injured.

Looking at the huge blood pit exploded by the Khitan snow from a distance and the pungent smell, Alexios felt half hatred and half fear in his heart - it took a long time for the other soldiers to remove the messy ruins and rubble in the pass. Cleaned up.

"Tatisius, Matthew, don't be affected in any way. This is a manifestation of the enemy's extreme madness. Let me pursue you with all your might." The emperor's voice was trembling.

As a result, two hours later, on the hillside at the other end of the pass, the second detachment of red-handed soldiers at the rear actually made seven companies turn around again, arrayed at the bottom of the mountain with spears and swords, and lined up light weapons in front of their feet. They resisted the horse and fought fiercely with the emperor's cavalry that was driving down the hillside quickly. Then, the three companies and attached fire throwers that had been ambushed in the dense forest on the side suddenly shot out and defeated the emperor's leading cavalry, killing them. Dozens of people died.

But Titius led the following cavalry to charge, and the rear guard detachment was defeated and continued to retreat. The troops in the dense forest were also driven out by Titius's arson, and more than 30 red-handed soldiers were captured.

In the twilight, the emperor rode to the pass. Looking far away, the whole open field was full of ruts and footprints. "Taitisius, why don't you continue to pursue?"

"Gawain's large army just walked out of here. I'm afraid he will ambush."

When the captured red-handed soldiers were sent to the emperor's horse, Alexius said with a pleasant face, "Even if your traitor leader Gawain can escape to Philomelon and join another group of rebels, it is equivalent to gathering together and there is no way to retreat. I will annihilate and kill you all there, and pile up your bodies and heads into a Jingguan, and display them here forever until they turn into a pile of bones."

"The loser is always arrogant. Those who don't know would think that we were defeated by you." A red-handed sergeant tied with his hands behind his back said to the emperor with a smile.

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"Isn't this the situation now!" The emperor was angry.

"Comnenus' victory only exists in the scroll." At this, all the captured red-handed soldiers burst into laughter.

The emperor then ordered that all the captured soldiers be beheaded, "These people holding red-handed flags are all diehards of the traitors. In the future, if we meet them, we don't need to interrogate or persuade them, we will all be executed on the spot." (To be continued ~^~)