Chapter 37: The Battle of Versigenia

"Holy my majesty!" All the forbidden troops of the Imperial Tomb responded in unison, surrounding the emperor with his battle axe held high, looking at the fluttering banner in front of him and marching quickly, the pierced armor made a roaring sound, they had suffered the humiliating accusation of "disobeying orders and charging by themselves" in the previous battle, not only nine banner officers were executed, but the chief officer Mikhail was also sent back to the imperial capital for reflection. The Emperor himself www.biquge.info the Emperor himself drove them into the guards, and promised everyone that "if they perform well in this battle, the casualties will receive double pensions, and the meritorious ones will receive special districts in Meisembria and other places." "So everyone is fighting together.

Elsewhere, in the camp of Versigenia, four thousand Mosian cavalry swarmed down the frontal slopes and the gaps in the carts like a flood that burst the embankment, and then converged into a terrifying rush towards the central front, which Gawain was also advancing.

"Kill the tyrant!" Kaddam's hooves flew, and the general's body stood bravely in the saddle, and with a metallic sound, he drew his saber and raised it between his eyebrows.

The flag fluttered, and the rest of the Mosian cavalry also drew their swords and maces one after another, and held aloft the long-handled tribulus hammer and hexagonal hammer, and for a while, the sound of the weapon unsheathed and the ring was resounding, piercing the heavy clouds covering the sky, and then "Kill the tyrant!" The sound of the fight burst out, the clouds were torn apart, and a little golden sunlight penetrated down, shining on the armor of the soldiers on both sides, reflecting a thrilling color.

"Shoot!" Atami on the left flank took the lead on his horse, slashing his sword, and the Paulineans who knelt down in front of him and on either side of him lightly put down the spikes on their backs, and then raised their long guns, which were unanimously and slightly upward, and suddenly fired a volley at the command of the commander.

At about the same time, the front of the two brigades on the right flank also half-knelt down, and the upright rear row stretched out their long guns, and then the trigger was pinched, and a wave of blazing bullets was also fired.

In front of the camp, thousands of lead pellets shot diagonally from the two wings, with billowing smoke and dust, whistling and dragging countless meteor-like trajectories, intertwined, like twill jacquard on a loom, swept through the bodies and gaps of the four thousand Mosia cavalry.

Then came the screams of men and horses, and the sound of projectiles piercing and stirring armor fragments and flesh, and many cavalrymen fell from their horses, some spears and broadswords were bent and broken, but more cavalry continued to rush forward like madness.

The chariot of the Gawain side, which was rolling rapidly, also thundered with guns and cannons in the carriage, and in the middle and behind it was accompanied by an army of Pauline believers armed with iron forks, who had been trained to fight cavalry under the leadership of Atami, and whose combat effectiveness was incomparable to that before. After the convoy and the Mosian cavalry were together, the cavalry who rushed into the gap between the carriages were smashed by the warriors in the carriage with slingstones, flails and pikes, some were held back by iron forks and hooks and could not move, and then they were pierced into the ribs of the men and horses by the spears that came from behind and died.

The entire convoy was a melee, and the firing teams on the left and right flanks of Gawain did not care about the situation at all, and took turns to reload and move forward, constantly crossing the bullets to give the rear of the Moses cavalry a lethal and deterrent. When the enemy's cavalry attacked the front and rear, the soldiers in front of them would stick their long guns and take out the secondary weapons they were carrying—shotguns, wood-handled iron firearms, light shrimp cannons, and so on.

When the cavalry approached with a burst of gunsmoke, the archers drew their long knives and iron rods from their belts and belts, and fought with them.

The bravest Mosian cavalry were wounded and killed, because they were all in the first line, and were the most severely wounded by the bullets, and the cavalry of the second and third lines were also disrupted by the dead and wounded in front of them and the horses scurrying around—a narrow area of 1,500 feet wide and 800 feet long in front of Versiginia, where many Mosian cavalry were congested, and the slope caused them to advance and retreat, and they could only rely on their indomitable momentum and the crushing advantage of the cavalry over the infantry in the age of cold weapons. Break through the past in one go.

But the combination of chariots, trained Paulicians and archers, and firearms that could inflict heavy casualties on men and horses made the Mosian cavalry boil like boiling food in a hot pot, countless helmets and flags huddled together, horses' hooves staggered, corpses tumbling, and the sound of firing from the muskets and cannons, making a terrifying and sharp sound, and the three fronts were torn like sharp teeth.

Soon Gawain and the Imperial Tomb Forbidden Army arrived at the battle line, and all the Alemanni, Danish, Varyag, and Saxon soldiers were close together, all of them stretched out their sharp long axes, and advanced on foot like a wall, they gave up their original loose tactics and gave full play to the original formation advantage in the British Isles, so that the tall Forbidden Army soldiers could completely compete with the cavalry.

With the swing of the long axe and the churning of blood, the Moses cavalry were no match for the Imperial Tomb Forbidden Army in close combat, especially in this narrow area, where even the men and horses were cut down by stubble - but the army trained by Gawain, as long as it was not overwhelmed by the cavalry at the first time, could effectively launch a powerful counterattack against the cavalry, and even slaughter.

Khadam lost the war completely, and he originally hoped to use the stronghold of Versigenia to harass and destroy Gawain's defense line in Thrace for a long time, but he believed that relying on the speed and combat power of the cavalry, he could gallop freely, which caused great difficulties for Gawain. But what he didn't expect was that in the winter environment of lack of food, Gawain could quickly gather supplies, reorganize the team, and take the initiative to raid and pull out the nail of Versiginia.

This is a replica of the tactics of John I who attacked and invaded the Imperial Rus' many years ago (the Battle of Fort Sillistra, known in Russia as the Battle of Dorostol), but Gawain was better than John I. Jimmyski was superior because his army could project a rain of fire that caused death and panic, crushing the formidable Northern cavalry head-on, and gaining a longer logistical advantage with more powerful and newer vehicles.

At dusk, the corpses of the Mosian cavalry killed by the Imperial Tomb Forbidden Army covered the entire battlefield and filled the ditch on the camp slope, and then the soldiers of the Praetorian Army with axes and the Paulists and brigade archers swarmed on the corpses of the enemy and attacked the car formation of the camp in Versiginia, and at the same time, the "horn" gates at both ends of the camp were also broken and destroyed by the two brigades on the left and right, and the camp of Versigenia collapsed under the heavy hammer on three sides, and countless people died.

To the northwest and due north, the two Mosian cavalry armies that had returned were also routed, and the cavalry of Diognes and Hajib turned around, blocking the entire road to the left and right of the Denja River, searching everywhere for fish that had slipped through the net.

Both Kadam and Akrida were killed in battle, the former falling to the front along with the bodies of many of his comrades, and the latter, despite being a clergyman, held out until his last breath until he was killed by three Paulicians who rushed closely.