Eagle Flag of Epirus

Baron Louis, who "smashed" his life with an arrow, fell from the horse until the moment the man died, his eyes were still wide open, and he was full of consternation. He never thought that he would die so ridiculously.

"Master Louis!"

"Lord Louis!"

The guards all around were shocked, they dismounted in exclamation, but the life of their commander could not be returned.

In an instant, the death of the commander-in-chief of the entire army plunged the entire army into a huge panic. In the face of the Byzantine and Turkic attack, the Achaean army finally fell apart.

Just like the decisive battle between William the Conqueror and King Harold of England in Hastings when Normandy attacked Britain, a stream of arrows killed Harold and completely changed the course of the battle.

Justinian looked at the defeated Achaian army and sighed. It seems that the life and death of a person determines the outcome of a war. It seems casual, but this is the real medieval war. William the Conqueror wanted to let the army know that he was not killed in battle. Du took off his helmet, and now he was sitting in the Chinese army commanding the whole army with an unfalling battle flag and could not charge himself at will.

The death of Baron Louis was certainly not a so-called accident. The cold arrow came from the Italian mercenaries under Justinian. The Italian who Stinney inserted in secretly didn't notice it. As a result, in this crucial battle, the spies lurking in the Achaian army took the life of the Latin commander with a crossbow.

Baron Louis was killed in battle, and the backbone knights around him were also ambushing the whole army in the roundabout outflanking the Byzantine army, leaving only a few nobles who could not grasp the overall situation. For a time, the militiamen without a leader fled the battlefield one after another, and this also infected other armies. Even if someone blocked it, they could not reverse the rout. When Justinian sent a war elephant to join the fourth attack, the Latins' shield formation The smoke disappeared. Finally, the formation of the Achaean army was completely disintegrated, and the front line showed a trend of defeat, and then the Byzantine army began to pursue the victory, capture and kill the fleeing enemy. The fighting between the two sides continued until dusk, and the Achaean army was almost completely wiped out. In this way, the battle of the Alfios River ended in Justinian's victory.

The main force of the Latins in the southern Peloponnese was annihilated, and Justinian also paid a great price, with more than 700 casualties, which left him severely injured, but it was all worth it. After this battle, no one can threaten his plans in Peloponnese.

As the night darkened, Justinian did not return to the camp, but walked along the Alfios River, which had been filled with dead Latin soldiers. The body was temporarily placed here to prevent the plague from happening for a few days. They must be incinerated. Looking at the desolate hillsides after the war from far and near, Justinian also feels grief. This is the biggest war he has ever experienced so far. Even though he was lucky to win under his command, Justinian has lingering fears. . If you are not careful, the fate of the two parties may be exchanged. By his side, soldiers were picking up various trophies-horses, weapons, shields, armors, etc. These trophies are the most important thing. Justinian allowed the soldiers to keep a part of the trophies, and the rest still had to be handed in, but even this was enough to make them excited for a while.

Justinian had walked a long distance along the river bank, and Captain Leo by his side was already a little worried. It was far away from the barracks, but Justinian had no intention of going back at all.

"Master Justinian, it's too dangerous here, let's go back! Even if the Latins are wiped out, we don't want to see if something happens!" Leo finally couldn't help but persuade. .

And just relaxing the feeling of fighting just now, Justinian also nodded: "You are right, then let's go back." Justinian knows that he is now the veritable center of the entire army. Victory, I'm afraid no one will question him publicly anymore, so his every move cannot be as arbitrary as before.

Suddenly Justinian got up and looked at the deep night sky. He suddenly looked at Leo beside him and asked, "Leo, are you afraid of death?"

Captain Leo, who was not prepared to ask such a question, was obviously taken aback. He subconsciously stunned. He hurriedly pulled on the reins, stopped his mount, and stammered: "You... you ask me. What...what is this?"

If Justinian asked him if he was afraid of death, of course he would answer "not afraid" without hesitation, but at this time the young man in front of him behaved like a philosopher, making him a man of professional background hesitate to answer. .

And Justinian showed a wry smile on his face at this time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ waved his hand and did not let Leo answer. After witnessing everything after the killing, he was indeed a little excited, that's why he asked such a question. This was the first time he experienced a **** and cruel war, a war in the true sense, and there was a tremor in his heart, fear of this cruel death.

Of course Justinian is not afraid of death, he himself has experienced death again and again, but the depression caused by the killing caused by a battle makes him fearful. One time is okay, how about ten battles? What about a year's battle? How about decades of fighting? Justinian could not imagine that he thought it was enough to drive people crazy. Of course, the fighting in the ancient Middle Ages has not been so tragic until the Thirty Years' War, but Justinian has somewhat felt the feeling of people's war exhaustion in the late World War I and World War II.

"Maybe my mission in this world is to end the war-torn destiny of this country!" Justinian muttered to himself, if everything I did before was an agreement with the ark, then Now Justinian's motivation seems to be mixed with some other emotions.

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On the walls of Tripolis, the capital of Southern Peloponnese, a row of heavily armored cavalry soldiers are solemn. I saw feathers on their Persian-style helmets floating in the wind, and I saw the Byzantine soldiers buzzing. After the heavy horn sound, the heavy and rough sound suddenly spread throughout the city. In the welcome of the Byzantine Greek people in the city, Justinian led a large army to occupy the city without blood. And just as a stone was thrown into the lake water and a thousand layers of waves were agitated in an instant, the situation in the entire Moria region has undergone earth-shaking changes from this day.

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