Eagle Flag of Epirus

When the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed, an era that belonged to the Roman Empire came to an end. There was also an emperor’s attempt to save the empire’s decline, causing the eagle flag to fly between the Pillar of Hercules and Anatolia. That was Justinian I, the last emperor of the empire in the true sense. At the call of his grand aspiration, the famous generals Belisarius and Narcis wiped out the Vandals and the Goths, making the empire The western half returned to the embrace of Rome.

What a glory it is! Recalling its past, even though more than a dozen generations have passed hundreds of years, the Romans still yearn for it.

Because of the conflict between the Western army and the Roman army, the empire achieved an unquestionable victory. At that time, the Westerners had just broken free from the ignorance of the barbarians and converted to God, and faced the overweight cavalry of the Roman Empire, Bailey. Sariu wiped out the Vandals in just one battle, and approached Italy, killing the courage of the Westerners. Even afterwards, the wise king Charlemagne was born with the intention of getting involved in Italy, but in the end he was helpless against the Roman navy under the city of Venice and could only ask for a truce. The empire agreed to the truce, but its attitude was extremely arrogant. On the surface, it recognized the orthodoxy of the Western Emperor Charlemagne, but in fact it did not call it [Augustus], but adopted [Vasily] used by an alien king.

However, time has moved, unconsciously, with the reduction of influence on the West, the prestige of the Roman Empire has disappeared. Even the emperors of Constantinople are accustomed to calling themselves [Barcelius] and giving up [Australia] Gusto], and the kings of the West no longer lower their breath to call the old empire in the east as the great Rome, but call it the Kingdom of Greece contemptuously.

This was the greatest humiliation of the West to the Roman Empire, and it eventually pushed it to the top when the Crusaders who nominally attacked the pagans pointed their swords at the fellow Gods, first sacked Zara, and then defiled New Rome.

The empire was in decline and could no longer wait for the rejuvenation of the Mingjun. It fell into decline until the roar of cannons awakened everyone in 1453-the death of Rome.

In order to avoid this fate from coming back, Justinian led the heavy armored cavalry behind him who was angry at the Latins and launched a charge. They have accumulated strength and resentment for too long, and now they can finally make the Latins pay their debts. They are confident that they can be ashamed.

The Romans had realized that their meaningless internal friction was causing themselves to sink, and now they were trying hard to catch up.

In the first wave of attack, the Roman heavy cavalry broke through the Latin defense line outside the city of Argos, and defeated the German knights who were trying to block. The knights fighting in front of the disciplined imperial cavalry could not break the Byzantine wall at all. The charge, a one-sided massacre unfolded in the depression outside the city of Argos, and soon the muddy land was stained red with the blood of the Latins.

After the elimination of this Latin army, the Roman cavalry regiment did not rest for a while. They immediately removed their heavy horse armor and rushed south towards the main Latin force that was fighting.

On the other side, Alexander commanded the army to overwhelm the inferior Roman army. During this period, he also tried to make the troops retreat briefly and lure the Greeks to attack rashly. However, the commander on the opposite side adopted the tactics of shrinking completely and was not in a hurry. Break through, but just stand in stalemate with myself.

What are they doing, aren't they going to rescue Argos City?

Seeing the number of casualties rising every second, the war has gone to this point and has completely exceeded Alexander's expectations. The resilience of the Greek army is so strong. I have seen Moria's new army under Justinian in the city of Thessaloniki, but they are elite after all, but now in Moria, it should be the old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Your Majesty, if we continue to attack, I am afraid that the casualties will be too great, and the other nobles will not be able to bear it." Aside, Count Senna said softly.

This time, the coalition mobilized a total of 30,000 people, of which 10,000 were the Latin Crusaders at the beginning, and the continued war of attrition will sooner or later reach the limit and cause dissatisfaction among the nobles.

But at this time, King Alexander couldn't listen to the reminders around him at all, "The same goes for the Greeks. As long as they persist for a while, the Greeks will not be able to sustain it."

Although the battle between the two sides on the battlefield has been stalemate for several times, and the Roman army has shown resilience not inferior to that of any Western army, Alexander Ning Yuan believes that the Greeks on the opposite side have reached the end of the crossbow, and sooner or later the coalition forces can completely break through their defenses.

"You go to mobilize the cavalry, order them to charge again, and defeat the Greeks in one fell swoop!" Alexander said to the Count Senna beside him. This man has chosen to make a desperate move, and sooner or later he will not be able to sustain his empty army without a chassis. He must rebuild the kingdom-Moriah is determined to win. If he fails this time, it will not only mean that he has lost a foothold, it will also greatly dampen his prestige among the many Latin nobles. Therefore, Alexander absolutely does not allow failure.

He put all his hopes on the cavalry under the command of Maximilian in the rear, trying to get them to join the battlefield to give a final word.

Count Senna said nothing. He did not refute or express anything. Instead, he nodded and turned away. Alexander thought he was sending someone to mobilize Maximilian’s German cavalry to participate in the exhibition, but he did not notice the other party at all. The strange look in his eyes that disappeared just now.

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At this moment, the Roman army is indeed close to the end of the world, as Alexander expected. The casualties are already high, and morale will collapse sooner or later if this continues. Neusky could quell Moria’s nobles, but he could not stop the fear of the cowardly in the army. He had beheaded several Agunttoplai officers who had fled, but he still could not stop the Roman army. Retreat, after all, everything is still grass-roots creation, and it is not easy to be able to withstand the battle-tested Latins.

"Your Excellency Neusky, if we continue to do this, our soldiers will not be able to sustain it." Focas of the Papadolos reminded him that he had done a great job in assassinating the leader of the thieves when suppressing the Leosgres rebellion. , Married Alexia and became Papadoulos’s current patron, and also one of the few die-hard Justinian supporters among Moria’s old nobles. He was in charge of garrisoning the Yadong Fortress to guard against the Venetians, and this time he also led his own troops to participate in the war. He saw the crisis of the situation and advised Nie Usky.

And what Focas said, Nie Wusky didn't know, but now he is already on a tiger.

"We have to buy time for Lord Justinian. Once we retreat, there will be great chaos. Now we can only stand fast, not retreat." Niewuski knows nothing more about Moria’s nobles’ pro-army, and the spoiled noble armed forces are completely The flowers in the greenhouse, once they retreat, they will never obey orders, but will run away and completely disrupt the formation.

Focas shook his head: "I'm not going to retreat, Your Excellency Neusky, remember the battle of Tripolis? Our army is also far inferior to the Latins, but Justin How did Master Nepal do it?"

This sentence suddenly reminded Neusky that the Varangian man immediately ordered the messenger next to him to give his instructions-I saw the new army of Mystras, who was sitting in the middle army, slowly backwards and orderly. After retreating, it formed a crescent-shaped formation with the field troops and garrisons on the left and right wings. But this gave the Latins a wrong signal. They thought that the Greeks finally could not support it, and desperately stormed the center of the Roman army. On the left and right wings, although the Moria nobles' armies were worried about the sudden retreat of the new Mystras army, they immediately found that the pressure in front of them was much smaller.

The Latin army, who only cared about advancing Zhutu, thought that they could defeat the Roman army immediately, but when they plunged into the formation of the Roman army like a wedge, the retreating Mystras new army suddenly stopped and went to Niewu instead. Under the leadership of Skye suddenly turned around and beat the Latin by surprise. Although one of his arms was broken, Nevsky’s body was still dripping with Varangian blood. The prosthetic leg was tied to the broken arm and a small shield was placed on it. The Varangian man with a hatchet slammed. Knocked down the latin who rushed up.

"Dedicated courage and loyalty to Lord Justinian!" Nyeowski yelled, and the passionate soldiers filed forward to counterattack. But the Latin who thought he had won was suddenly stunned by a head-on blow, and could not resist for a while and retired in embarrassment.

Watching this scene, Alexander finally couldn't bear his anxiety. How could the Cavalry of Maximilian not be there? ! Looking to his side subconsciously, Alexander suddenly found that Earl Senna, who was following him, had disappeared at some point.

Did he go to transfer troops himself? King Alexander turned his head suspiciously and looked behind him, but he was stunned by what he saw and completely gave up thinking.

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Suddenly, a loud horn sounded from behind the Latin army, but it was not the Latin sounded, and the crusaders who were fighting to death all looked to their rear in unison. And behind their position was an empty space, but at this time, only a row of dark shadow arrays entered the Latin people's field of vision.

The battlefield suddenly became quiet, and Nevsky could even hear a panicking bird chirping.

what happened? Why did the Latins suddenly stop attacking!

Just as Nevsky guessed what was going on, the Latins suddenly rioted.

"It must be Lord Justinian! Only he can make Latins so scared!" Focas suddenly said loudly, and the news was quickly heard by the surrounding soldiers, spreading from ten to ten. The morale of the Roman army immediately rose.

Looking at the cheers of the Greeks, the hesitating Latins became even more panicked at this time.

The sound of heavy horse hooves made them shiver. The last Latin army was looking behind them. At this moment, the galloping horses of the Roman cavalry were crushing across the muddy grass and marching side by side towards the battlefield. They charged under the red black fox flag. For a moment, in the eyes of the Latins, the flag was so big that it simply obscured the sky.

It's Justinian! Why did Justinian appear there? Alexander finally reacted, seeing the black fox with its fierce claws on the banner, his heart trembled, and the memory of reluctant to look back under the city of Thessaloniki once again surfaced in his mind. This Moriah's little fox was still as difficult to predict his every move as before, because the other party had already guessed that his arrangement had set this trap. In this way, the army led by Maximilian was lonely and afraid that it had been wiped out by Justinian. At this time, the opponent launched a surprise attack while he was in a fierce battle, and there was no way to stop it.

After abandoning the heavy equipment, the Roman cavalry were all naked horses and even the riders removed the outer cotton armor to reduce weight. As the super-heavy cavalry of the Roman Empire, they actually abandoned themselves. Advantages of the game, pack lightly. Alexander was surprised to see this scene, but he immediately realized the real purpose of the other party!

As the head of the coalition forces!

Alexander realized this, and suddenly his hands and feet were cold. Indeed, after such a cavalry unit wiped out the army outside the city of Argos, it would inevitably consume a lot of physical strength. At this time, it is impossible to defeat tens of thousands of troops, so it can only be decapitated.

After grasping Justinian's intentions, Alexander calmed down with a sneer on his face.

Since you want to die, come on!

While sending his own guards to appease the military's mind~www.wuxiaspot.com~, Alexander ordered the archers to prepare in one fell swoop to eliminate the cavalry who rushed towards him.

The distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer at this moment, and the crazy Roman riders are shooting their bows and arrows on the horses, and the bows and arrows rushing away are like a dense rain. These Moria cavalry were not only proficient in their archery skills in hand-to-hand combat, but the arrow rain immediately caused damage to the Latins, and most of the Latins who were shot were bleeding in their throats or chests.

The king’s guard, who did not dare to neglect, also established a line of defense at this time. Although the number of people was superior, the Latins did not dare to slacken, because the cavalry in front of him was a dangerous sharp knife, and the force on the front line was too late. The opponent cut their defenses and dragged King Alexander out and beheaded, which would seriously affect the morale of the coalition forces.

The Roman cavalry rushed into the battle with a rain of arrows. At high speeds, even if they were forced into battle, the power of the charge was overwhelming, especially when the Latins had no cavalry to counteract. I saw that the mercenary defense line of the first layer was torn in an instant, and it was as vulnerable as a bubble. The energetic Roman cavalry swarmed in an attempt to complete their decapitation. But the next moment, the formation of the phalanx was slowly unfolding at the moment guarding an infantry brigade in the Latin Central Army. They did not hold their spears to form a hedgehog formation to resist, but they held something else in their hands.

It's a crossbow! The archer who had been equipped with crossbow arrows pointed the sight of the long crossbow at the incoming Roman cavalry, and the next second a dense rain of arrows covered them. The Roman cavalry with arrows in the chest seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer in the sky. Overturned and dropped the horse like that. The cavalry screamed unwillingly. They almost succeeded, but they were completely destroyed by the sudden appearance of strong crossbowmen.