Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Bloody War

The tower that Skampide had come up was overpowered by a rain of arrows from the Imperial crossbowmen, and there was no support.

The Turks were divided.

Seeing that there was an opportunity, the soldiers of the Imperial Army on both sides stepped forward one after another, and the pikemen were in a column of three and slowly advanced.

The faces of the Ghulam guards were covered in iron armor, and they could not see clearly.

But there was no fear, a mysterious pressure on the soldiers of the Imperial Army.

On the small tower, the soldiers of the Imperial Army fought against the foreign soldiers, and the eyes were full of blood.

This is hell on earth, and the souls of the dead return to heaven.

Roma's warriors use scimitars to pick open the tip of their spears, and their martial arts are astounding.

Skampade's comrades bent their bodies to dodge the stabs of the Imperial spearmen, their shiny knives smoothing and carrying a little bit of blood.

The three Imperial soldiers in the front row, with a cut in their chests, hissed, and the wounded had to retreat from the battlefield.

The commander of the Guards, who was old enough to fight in battle, had long since discovered the weakness of the soldiers of the First Legion of the Imperial Army.

These warriors do not lack training, but they lack the courage to fight for their lives.

Are they killing for the first time?

"It's boring!"

Skampid was not interested in dealing with such an enemy.

This alien general was born as a slave and had experienced inhuman torture.

To this day, his mind has been twisted!

Blood is his favorite!

Skampid's attention had long since turned to the Imperial crossbowmen, who were the real rivals of the Ghulam Guard.

Relying on the cover of the Imperial Army's spearmen, the crossbowmen squandered the Empire's weapons with impunity.

The flying arrows took the lives of the guards, and took most of the joy of Skamped's capture of the tower.

Very tenacious!

Although they were caught off guard, the Imperial soldiers who reacted launched a counterattack under the leadership of an experienced commander.

The battle is fierce!

Drawing his spear from the ground, Skamped stared indifferently at the Imperial line.

Not far away, an Imperial officer supervised the battle behind the crossbowmen.

"Very well, that's you!"

The flying spear was as fast as lightning, and in an instant it sank into the throat of the Imperial Army officer, and came out of his body, lifeless.

The Imperial crossbowmen were stunned, and in an instant, the commander was killed.

Limited experience, so that they are not enough to react.

"Kill it!"

Once again, the Ghulam guards showed their prowes and bravery, and the slave soldiers from Albania, Persia, Serbia, and Arabia were like mad tigers.

The Imperial spearmen were retreating, and the crossbowmen did not come to their aid in time!

Emperor Alexios had been keeping an eye on the place, and he was secretly amazed by the extraordinary combat skills of the alien general.

The battle was defeated, but it had not yet exceeded the psychological limits of the Supreme of the Empire.

The Emperor was waiting for the warriors of Rome to appear, and Edmund was already approaching.

The northern warriors separated the soldiers who stood in the way, striding forward, and the dazzling armor attracted the attention of the Ghulam guards.

"A general of the Imperial Army?"

Edmund's axe blade slashed through the armor of several Roma soldiers, reverberating with such force that they all descended from the tower.

Very good!

It's powerful!

Skamped was excited, and that was the fight he craved.

Jumping off the city tower and coming to the city wall, the two met their eyes and communicated silently.

Evenly matched opponents, none of them have the upper hand in terms of momentum.

"Turkic warriors, show all your strength, or my battle axe will split you in two!" It's been a long time since Edmund has fought so freely.

The emperor, out of fear of the Eastern Turkic monarchs, did not levy the imperial army of Anatolia into the western provinces, even at the most critical moments.

It's been almost a year since I killed anyone, and I hope this opponent won't let me down!

"That's what I want to say, and I'm Albanian, not Turkic!"

Skamped's arrogant eyes, and at the same time stubbornly said that he belonged to the motherland, he was not a slave, he was a warrior!

Between the lightning and flint, the knives and axes intersected, sparks emerged, slashed vigorously, and the two fought back and forth.

The soldiers around them all retreated, this was not a battle situation they could meddle in.

"You're good!"

"You're not bad either!"

The two of them had excellent combat skills, and in an instant, the battlefield entered the city tower, which was filled with the corpses of Imperial soldiers.

It's small, but it's unobstructed, and they can play freely and roar to their heart's content.

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Emperor Alexios watched for a long time, until the two disappeared, and the tower fell into a stalemate again.

"Nils, go ahead!"

The Emperor's former chief of guard was reinstated, and the man served the Supreme as always.

The Emperor's chief of guard led the sword and shield soldiers of the Imperial Army up, and the soldiers here suffered heavy casualties, and the Ghulam Guards were superior in martial arts, easily harvesting the lives of the Imperial soldiers.

"Shoot!"

When it was confirmed that the Imperial soldiers on both sides had retreated, the archers in the city were full of bowstrings.

As soon as the order arrived, the curved arrow was bent and thrown high, hitting the human body, and the guards of Gulam, who were still standing in the city tower, were hit by arrows one after another.

The sword and shield soldiers of the Imperial Army protected their bodies with tortoiseshell formations, and they were unharmed.

Now the Imperial Army is back in the upper hand!

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"Kerose!"

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"Kerose!"

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The resourceful Imperial Army officers had already spotted the warplane, and the Turkic tower was now unguarded, and the Roma soldiers below were still climbing the tower.

The oil in the pottery was thrown onto the tower, and the Imperial archers behind it had already set it on fire.

An arrow was fired, hitting the tower, and the fire broke out.

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"Ahh

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"Ahh

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"Ahh

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The screams of the Roma soldiers echoed in the ears of the Imperial soldiers on the towers.

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"Bang!"

Edmund's majestic body was thrown out, and several wounds were cut on his armor.

The once mighty Imperial Army General is now exhausted and has no power to fight back, so he can only wait quietly for death!

Skamped came out of it, his sword raised high, just waiting to take off the enemy's head, and he couldn't wait to reap the joy of victory!

"Your Excellency!"

"Let's go!"

The shouts came from the Ghulam guards, and Skamped looked back blankly.

The tower was on fire, and his subordinates wrapped their hands in cotton cloth and slid down the tower.

The alien warrior's face turned ugly in an instant, and Skampid followed suit, sliding down the tower.

The city is ruined!

At the end of the battle, Edmund was rescued by Imperial soldiers and sent to the rear for medical treatment.

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"Sultan!"

"I've let you down!"

Skampid returned to the camp and apologized to his king.

"No need to apologize!"

Although he lost hundreds of Ghulam's guards, Arslan's army was still strong.

It's just a temptation!

The quality of the imperial army, the Sultan had already seen, it was strong, but it was also reckless and inexperienced.

It's time for dinner!

Arslan didn't have any look of frustration, and behind him, a huge trebuchet slowly advanced.

This is his real backhand!

In Anatolia, the Seljuks encouraged trade by establishing caravanserai inns, which could easily transport goods from Persia and Central Asia to ports.

Prosperous maritime trade increased the Sultan's wealth and established solid trade relations with the Genoese.

The sophisticated mechanical drawings of the Westerners were sent to the Sultan, and Roma grew in strength with the naked eye of the empire.

The craftsmen of the Sudan did their best to restore the powerful trebuchet, and combined with the skills of their own country, they took the trebuchet one step further.

Although the Roma version of the trebuchet had half the range of the Imperial Army's trebuchet, the Sultan spent ten days building twenty transport fronts.

That's a huge amount of money to set the stage for the win!

Arslan wanted to see how the Roman emperor on the other side could resolve the crisis.