Small-scale routs began......

Narcissus understood that the tragedy of defeat was about to happen, and the sharp voice of the eunuch, who had been hiding as much as possible, was revealed at this moment, and he roared in a tone many decibels higher than normal: "Don't run, don't run, all those who run away will be executed for treason, kill those cowards who escaped, kill them." ”

With the order of Narciss, the soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire, who were still gritting their teeth and fighting, with cruel blame, anger, and hatred, aimed their weapons at their siblings and robes, and killed them.

The Eastern Roman army was further disorganized, and Narsis's iron-blooded methods were not without effect, and in the midst of coercion, fear, and crazy roars, the tendency to flee was suppressed, and the soldiers who originally wanted to flee could only summon up the last bit of courage and stay on the battlefield for fear of being killed.

But before Narsis could wipe the cold sweat off his forehead, another thing happened that made him desperate.

"Retreat! Fall back!! ”

The Varangian mercenaries abandoned their opponents and rudely pushed away the other Eastern Roman soldiers behind them, while fleeing towards the outer city of Naples, and with the collapse of the Varangian mercenaries in the middle of the battlefield, there was no way to stop the collapse of the entire Eastern Roman army.

Harold didn't want to take the blame for the defeat on his own, and as soon as he rolled his eyes, another idea came to mind.

"Narsis slaughtered his subordinates, and we will flee...... Shout! You shout the same thing! ”

"The responsibility for the defeat is all because of the mediocrity of Narsis, who would not have been the marshal of the 100,000-strong army of the Eastern Romans at all, and Narsis was a traitor."

After two seconds of stunnedness, the Varangian mercenaries also learned the words of their leader and shouted like this.

After hearing such words, the Eastern Roman soldiers, who were already dissatisfied with the iron wrist of Narsis, accelerated their pace of escape, and the collapse of the Eastern Roman army accelerated even faster.

"Harold! You despicable villain, I'm going to kill you. Narsis, his face flushed, shouted at the direction of the Varangians, wielding his sword to slash the two routers who had just passed.

"Don't run! For the glory of Rome, for the sake of Emperor Basil, I command you to keep fighting, keep fighting," Narcis didn't hold back, and tears actually burst out.

The knights of the guards beside Narsis glanced at each other, spurred forward, grabbed Narcis's arms, and fled with him.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to rebel? Let go of me, I'm going to fight the Normans to the death, I'm going to cut off the heads of all of you! My God, why do you do this to me? Kill me, let me die! Let me die! ”

Narsis kicked and beaten, cried and shouted, and was led away by his own men.

It's useless for Narsis to cry, the army of 100,000 is wiped out in a blink of an eye, even if he can successfully escape from the battlefield, after returning to Eastern Rome, what awaits him will be the wrath of Basil II, 10,000 steps back, even if Basil II spares Narciss's life, Narsis will not want to step on the officialdom again in this life, power, status, glory, he will not be able to achieve it in this life, he will become a poor worm that everyone can step on and insult wantonly, which is more cruel than death.

But whether he wanted to or not, Narciss, under the coercion of the guards, successfully escaped, and the entire battlefield, the Eastern Roman army completely collapsed! Tens of thousands of troops fled in disarray, like prey to be slaughtered, wantonly hunted and killed by the Catholic coalition forces, whether it was the Eastern Roman soldiers, the equipment was much better than that of ordinary soldiers, or the ransom they represented, all of which were pursued by the coalition soldiers, compared to those barbarian mercenaries, it seemed very hard.

Because the allied soldiers knew that the Eastern Roman Empire would never pay a ransom for a group of barbarians, these poor barbarian mercenaries were usually used to vent their desire to kill.

The soldiers pursued all the people, both nobles and commoners, and they were extremely excited, as if all the physical strength lost after a day of fierce fighting had returned, and ran as fast as they could, picking up the armor and baggage left by the Eastern Romans, and capturing those who had lost their arms.

There were also some Eastern Roman soldiers who had fallen into despair and became delirious, or simply did not want to be captured, and would try their best to resist when they were overtaken, and at such times the allied soldiers would let him go, but not to let him go, but to let him go to heaven sooner rather than later, so that he would not suffer in this world.

The coalition pursued the north with no intention of stopping, but in the end they still chose to stop, not because of physical exhaustion or lack of interest, but because of the obstacles in front of them.

Originally, the semi-permanent building that Narcis had built improvised before this, the huge Neapolitan Outer Fort built of wood and stone, Narcisse finally breathed a sigh of relief after escaping here, knowing that he could not die next, and since he could not die, he tried to live.

The city of Naples is high and deep, the grain and grass can be supported for half a year, and the west side is close to the coast, which can continuously transport supplies and reinforcements by sea, and it will not be able to attack for a while and a half.

Unless......

Thinking of this, Narcisse broke out in a cold sweat and immediately ran towards the city wall, running to the city wall in three steps and two steps, only to see a large number of human heads below.

Closer are your own soldiers, and farther are the wolf-like savages.

"Close the gates!"

Narcissus could immediately see that if this continued, his fears would most likely come true, and that the Catholic coalition would most likely rush in after the rout, and that the frightened Eastern Roman army would definitely not be their opponent, and there would really be no way back.

"But there are brothers outside the city who haven't come in, General, and they'll be killed by the barbarians." An adjutant next to Narsis, who had not even lost his helmet, said.

"No, if you don't close the city gates, it's really over, you idiot, the barbarians want a ransom, they won't kill them easily, at most they will suffer, if they don't close the city gates in time, the barbarians will rush in, and the entire city of Naples will be slaughtered and sacked by them."

The adjutant was stunned for a moment, knowing in his heart that what Narcis said was reasonable, so he no longer hesitated and ran down from the city wall to carry out the order.

"Don't be stunned, quickly, organize the soldiers to guard the city wall as much as possible, the other party will definitely not be so willing to retreat, but take advantage of the situation to attack the city." Narsis calmed down completely, gave orders to the other guards, adjutants, and heralds, then turned around and snatched a javelin from a light infantryman, aimed it at a nobleman in a splendid overcoat and chain mail who was rushing forward, and threw it at the target, killing him!

"Hahaha...... It's not over yet! You damned barbarians. Narsis roared wildly and snatched another javelin, and by this time Narcis's lieutenant had run under the walls and called a group of Roman soldiers to close the gates.

"What? We still have quite a few brothers who didn't come in? How can you be so cruel? "An axe was cut off on the arm, and the flesh turned out, and the doctor had just scalded it with a red-hot Luo Tie, and the guy who stopped the bleeding said in a loud voice after hearing the adjutant's order.

"That's right, you can't give such an order!" Other Eastern Roman soldiers were also agitated and joined together to resist loudly.

"Are you going to disobey orders? This is the order of Narsis! ”

The adjutant was in an irritable mood, and he didn't want to explain too much to the guys, so he carried out Narsis directly, and if under normal circumstances, things came to this point, and those soldiers would obey the order even if they were reluctant, but ......

The wounded soldier's tone was extremely sad and indignant: "He lost the battle, isn't it enough to kill so many robes?" Does he want to kill us all? Did he take advantage of the enemy and want to be a traitor to the Eastern Roman Empire? ”

"That's right! That coward! Dead eunuchs! Traitor of Eastern Rome!! The wounded soldier scolded angrily, and several soldiers around him echoed his words.

"That's right, go to him and settle accounts and ask him to give a reasonable explanation, otherwise we won't carry out the order."

"Let's go and ask him for an explanation."

Blindly agitated, the angry soldiers swung their swords like this, spears, fists, and wounded soldiers carried on improvised stretchers rushed towards the city wall, and at this moment it was too late for the adjutant to explain, and the angry soldiers could not listen to what they said, and directly pushed them away and ignored them.

The soldiers rushed in the direction of the city walls, shouting bad things about Narciss, especially the old soldier lying on the stretcher, waving his intact arms and shouting:

"Asia Minor, Crimea, Syria, the Balkans, I have participated in countless battles, I have left countless blood for Eastern Rome, I have served under many generals, and even under the command of His Majesty the Emperor, but I have never seen such a vile and shameless and obscene guy as Narciss, and if such people are not removed, they will sooner or later destroy the empire."

At first, Narsis thought that this was a group of soldiers who had come to defend the city according to his orders, but when they got closer and closer, Narsis realized that something was wrong and mutinied!

Damn it! It's actually at a time like this, and the enemy outside is about to come in, what do you idiots think?

Although Narsis wanted to say this, he also knew that the atmosphere of these guys was like a small, closed room full of gas, and the slightest flame would cause an explosion, so he had to stabilize these guys first.

"Whatever it is!"

"You see, is now the time to say such things?"

Narcis pointed his finger out of the city: "I understand, you are very uncomfortable because of today's defeat, and I am the same, I know that as the commander of this army, I have a great responsibility, but now is not the time for infighting, we must unite, unite, Eastern Romans, please listen to my orders, even if it is the last time, what the barbarians want to capture the Eastern Roman soldiers is ransom, and the captives will be fine, so I Narsis uses his personality to guarantee that even if the Eastern Roman Empire is financially tight, it will not be able to take this ransom, I will personally take responsibility for the redemption of these soldiers, even if I have lost all my possessions. ”

Narciss's words made the Eastern Roman soldiers feel a little embarrassed, and just as Narsis wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and put down the mutiny as soon as possible, he heard the old soldier lying on the stretcher in the middle of the soldiers shouting again.

"General, what you said makes sense, but there is still a question here, I want to ask you, I don't know if it's okay?"

"Please as soon as possible!" Narsis nodded as he watched several Roman soldiers squeeze out of the crowd carrying a veteran who looked to be in his 40s and was almost crippled in his right hand.

The old soldier, who was out of breath and looked like he was about to die, was carried to Narsis little by little, and the guards of Narsis watched vigilantly at the soldiers who carried him in, and finally the soldiers left after putting down the stretcher, and the guards finally breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the pale, terrifying, and even almost unconscious veteran, and their spirits gradually relaxed.

The old soldier opened his mouth and slurred a few syllables, but Narciss, who did not understand, frowned and bowed down.

Narcissus thought suspiciously, and bent down pretendingly, "Please be louder. ”

Narcis finally heard what the soldier said, "Great General Narciss, Greetings to Your Majesty Randy!" ”

Narciss's heart beat violently when he heard this guy's calm, like a healthy normal person's heartbeat, and he immediately fell backwards, so shocked that both Narcis's guards and the Eastern Roman soldiers who were preparing to mutiny screamed in shock.

When he looked over again, the assassin was stunned for a moment, although he pulled out a dagger that glowed with blue light and was suspected to be quenched poison.

"I haven't killed him yet, why did he fall on his own?"

At this moment, he wondered for a second, and the well-trained guards of Narcis had already reacted and shouted, "Assassin! ”

After that, he rushed towards the old soldier, who was actually an elite assassin of the Norman Kingdom, and at this time he also understood that the other party was actually playing dead.

Annoyed and angry, he didn't care about his own life or death, ignored the guards who rushed towards him, and threw himself directly at Narciss.

Narciss, who was now faceless, saw the Assassin pounce and roll on the ground, safely dodging one of the Assassin's attacks, when the guards rushed up to separate the Assassin from Narciss.

Seeing that the assassination was almost in vain, the Norman Assassin Dugu unanimously threw the dagger in his hand at Narsis, the dagger was quenched with poison, and the blood sealed his throat, and the middle one was killed instantly, this was his last chance.

"Danger!"

Seeing the trajectory of the dagger, it was able to fly through the gap of several guards, and one of the guards shouted, Narsis heard that he wanted to dodge, but it had reached a critical moment, and one of the guards played extraordinarily, instantly exerting his dynamic vision to the extreme, and quickly swinging his long sword, pushing the dagger over there, slightly changing the trajectory of that dagger.

Unfortunately, the dagger eventually broke the thumb of Narcis's right foot.

Seeing that the dagger had wounded Nalciss, the Assassin knew that his opponent's life was short, and was chopped to pulp by angry Eastern Roman soldiers in the midst of a long roar in the sky.

"Chop off my toes!"

Although it was only a slight cut of flesh, the toe turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Narciss, knowing that if he waited any longer, the toxin would spread, and he would be doomed, at this time Narcisse relented and ordered one of the guards.

(End of chapter)