Eagle Byzantium

"Please hold on - you must wait until the news from Seleucia City and Apulia comes, then you can make a decision, and then you can roll the dice of your own victory and strike later!" Next to him, Maglendiu S.Plani's head was covered with falling dust, and he pressed the patron's arm and kept reminding him.

Gawain nodded with difficulty, staring at the letter on the low table in front of him, always waiting for the opportunity to send it out.

But at this moment, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly sounded at the city gate, and his heart rose to his throat again.

In the dim light of the cave, a messenger cavalry wearing chainmail stood there among the flying dust, holding a scroll with his waist bent, shouting the name of the great patron, "from the battle of Seleucia." According to the news, our county magistrate Andodat Nicetas has achieved a considerable victory and killed Musetto, the son-in-law of the bandit leader Zahas. Now he tells me that his army has advanced to Zahas. The back area of ​​the siege team!"

Gawain jumped up, hurriedly pulled over the letter, and read it word by word with the help of the light coming from outside and the lantern hanging inside.

Andodat, who only led 800 civilian infantrymen, was still cautious and hesitant when he advanced to Zephyrim City: should he go through the Kole Adio Mountains in a roundabout way, or go directly from the Lamas City Shore Road? Fight it?

After all, it was the first time to lead troops independently, and with so few, it was normal for him to lack confidence.

However, the initiative of the Ramas Garrison People's Army helped him a lot, and also allowed this young man with a background as a heraldry confidential officer to gain his own glory on the battlefield for the first time.

Because Musetto, with 500 pirates, was preparing to set up an ambush in front of the beach road in Lamas to intercept the reinforcements coming from the east. But just as Grandpa Little Sunfish expected, no matter how ferocious and brave the pirates are, they are still a "rabble". A small group of pirates coveted the wealth of the farms outside Lamas City, so they fled to burn the village, but were defeated by the civilian army who defended the city wall. The soldiers beat him hard - the other pirates were furious, "hijacked" Musetto and ran to attack Lamas City.

At this time, the ambush battle originally agreed upon was temporarily transformed into an "attack battle."

Andodat then fought an "ambush battle":

When the messenger of the Lamas Civilian Army ran to the Andeo Date Horse and sent a letter for help, Sheriff Mushroom Head immediately led the team to find the local farmer guide, bypassing Gao Wen's citrus orchards and new rice experimental farms, and followed the Along the mountain paths, they quietly set up a position on a south-facing hill on the north side of Ramas City. Subsequently, Andodat imitated the tactics of the great patron and sent thirty cavalrymen to lure the enemy on the ground, while fighting and retreating. Sure enough, the pirates who besieged the city "worked hard" and killed more than 200 people. They chased the cavalry to the area surrounded by hills. Andodat ordered the ambushed infantry to charge forward with volleys from three sides, killing more than 50 pirates. , almost annihilating them all.

Then the civilian army cavalry stormed the Museto camp still under the city. Except for a small number of pirates who escaped barefoot and jumped onto the ships on the seaside to escape, the rest were either killed or captured. Museto himself was unable to escape and was killed by a man named Alep's civilian army double-paid sergeant was killed on the spot.

After the victory, Andodat ordered that no prisoners of the pirates should be kept. "Even just cutting off their right hands and cutting off their breasts would be too merciful." So the Lamas civilian army captured nearly 200 pirates. All the owl leaders, Mu Seto's body was skinned by the leather craftsmen in the city. The skinless and bloody body was tied to a wooden frame and carried by several soldiers at the front of the team. It quickly approached the bridge of the Sarlev River. Behind Zahas' siege camp.

Seeing that his son-in-law had become a bloody "human stick" and his corpse was so humiliated, Zahas almost fainted with grief, and then became extremely panic-at the critical moment, Apsomates suddenly jumped on his ship , withdrew all the guards and sailed away towards the island of Cyprus, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I betrayed you again! What a pity, I hope this is the last time."

At this time, reinforcements gathered around the city of Seleucia from all directions, and the situation in the city became stronger. Regardless of her pregnancy, Anna personally led the guards to patrol the city. The female officers mended the soldiers' clothes and armor and delivered medicine and hot food. The troops shared the same hatred and died. The military port, Acropolis and East City were defended to the death.

"I didn't know that the grass-headed king Gawain and the civilian soldiers and farmers below were so stubborn and cruel and so difficult to deal with!" Zahas was surrounded by enemies from both sides and was immediately in a dilemma.

At the same time, Agnes and Alamein's 300 civilian troops, as well as the full set of "Fire Bear Cannon" equipment pulled by fifty pack horses, also climbed onto the hill on the north side of Akum Market. Looking at each other across the road in the hotel area from the Great Hospital Hill and Seleucia New City Wall.

Half a day later, the Fire Bear Cannon was buried in the dug shallow pit. It roared and spewed fire every hour. The sound was loud and powerful, and it shot out heavy stone pellets. Although there were no precise shooting tools and angle instruments, it was still possible because of the command. The author was Agnes Plani, so this artillery still exerted unexpected power: a Among the rumbling shots in the sky, three of them hit the pirate camp on the seaside, killing more than ten people, and one hit the ship of Assasidus, the commander-in-chief of the emperor's navy (thankfully, Assasidus (Going ashore to command the siege), all its masts were broken, and the sailors on the deck were stained with blood and flesh, which was too horrible to look at.

Under the gun muzzle, Agnes saw through the earthen barrier that many pirates abandoned their camp tents in despair and rushed onto the ships to escape this hopeless battlefield.

Seeing all of this, Gawain excitedly held the letter in his hand and walked out of the soldier cave in the city wall where he was. The entire center of the camp was full of forging fires, and Gawain's face and pupils were flickering in the constant clanging of forging. There were craftsmen carrying wooden frames and wheels walking around. A guard from Gawain's Farof detachment was standing not far from a furnace, and several craftsmen were putting on a suitable armor on him.

"It's all right, it's all right. Alexius Komnenos - the time for Gawain's counterattack will come soon, are you ready?" In the firelight, Gawain held the letter tightly and slowly in his hand, and then said to the messenger riding on the horse behind him, "Pass my series of orders from the Shanglu to the Angras Fort. Diogenes, your life is spared by me Gawain again."

"Hah!" The messenger reached out to take the leather tube thrown to him, slung it over his shoulder, and then swung his horse's tail, rushing out of the gate of the Gimages camp like a sharp sword, turning around the corset wall, and running towards the distant Iconium City.

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On the battlements above, the Gimages soldiers were still looking at the Posta in the emperor's camp. They couldn't get tired of looking at it and started discussing whether it would be destroyed by the Great Plane Cannon. "How is it possible? Even if we shoot a hundred stone bullets, it may not hit this slender, tall and beautiful tower." Two Gimages soldiers looked envious. They had fallen in love with Alexios' military building, which was like a work of art. (To be continued ~^~)