The Thorn Lance, or Corsesca, had more pronounced and sharper blades on both sides of the spearhead than the Italian spears used by the Biller Company, making it suitable for stabbing and slashing, both against cavalry and infantry.

"Titicaca", the militia from Lombardy fought against the surrounding strong enemies for self-protection, and the proficiency of long-handled weapons was deeper than that of many Greek nobles, and they quickly replaced the spearhead with a new thorn spear, re-tied it with a wrapping cloth, and then faced the cavalry of Tetisius who rushed to defend themselves, and suddenly leveled the spear point.

The cavalry did not dare to come forward and went around, and then Theognes led the infantry array, also holding their spears, and covered them under the fire of bows and arrows.

And the remaining three Greek infantry companies under Gawain, the elite skirmishers also took the lead in rushing out, taking advantage of the opportunity to change the formation of the opposite foot cavalry, wearing chain mail and scale armor, holding two-handed halberds and long cones, and pounced, killing Diognes's infantry team by surprise, snow foam and stumps flew around, and the soldiers personally supervised by the capturing officer were killed scattered, and retreated again and again, "Damn, Gawain's Red Hand Company, when did it have such tactics!" Diognis kept scolding the soldiers forward, feeling that this battle was definitely not so simple.

As the stragglers pounced, the infantry of the entire front lined up with dense and sharp thorn spears and Italian spears, fighting with Diognis's array. On the snow, countless spear tips shuttled between each other, boots stubbornly guarding their positions, mixed with the cries of wounded, and the roar of battle, this battle. It was not like what Gawain had seen before under the city of Purusa, it was a "wave war" between peasants and peasants who did not contribute to their work. It is a duel between regular teams, soldiers who are hungry for honor or defend honor. No one spoke lightly of rout and retreat, and the commanders of both sides, whether it was Diognis or Billel, were armed with their own hands and fought on the front line.

The snowflakes also rolled up one after another with the tug-of-war, some blowing to the Byzantine side, and some to the Dalian team. The whole front was in a stalemate, and Tetisius, who was commanding on the hill, saw this. "Bring up the reserve forces and strike from both flanks to crush the enemy."

On either flank of Gawain's infantry, however, were a firm company of Italian veterans, who were oblivious to the frontal scuffle, but instead stuck their irises and triangular shields in the snow, and bowed their bodies, their swords on their shoulders, their eyes wrapped in chains and turbans. Dead eyes at the rear of the enemy array, watching

At the same time, Gawain rode Quicksilver and rushed to the Red Cross Sword banner like a whirlwind. "Giovanni, give you half of the San Cyril company, stay here as a reserve. The rest followed me. ”

"Which way are you going?" Giovanni held the riding spear. The other hand, pointing to the causeway. He also pointed to the bridge.

"Go to the bridge." Gawain carried the iris shield on his back and said.

"But Godfrey's side."

"He also has three infantry regiments. It's just cut for the time being, I believe Godfrey will react, just don't be overwhelmed by the emperor's momentum. All the brocade fraternities on the battlefield, you go and add some courage to the infantry regiment of Duke Godfrey, I don't need you here! Gawain then shouted loudly, and then Muzafiadin knelt in front of him and raised his spear, but was pushed away by Gawain, "All the cavalry, you don't need to charge with spears in formation, because it's too late, everyone with melee weapons will follow me to attack the river bank and the bridge!" Also, Muzafiadin rode Sabina and followed me! ”

With a roar, as Gawain took the lead, the rest of the cavalry drew their swords, maces and battle axes, and shouted to urge their horses to run in the direction of the river.

On the shore, a group of the Emperor's subordinate soldiers, who had just jumped off the boat, were still regrouping their ranks to cut off Baldwin's retreat. Then, a leading standard-bearer felt a fierce murderous aura rushing from behind, he turned his head to look, only to see a blue lightning flash, and then his head, with a strange flame, his body slashed and flew away, and smashed into the formation of the rest of the soldiers, and then the blue flames continued to rise with the neighing of Quicksilver, and the silver-white war horse, the long sword sprayed with phosphorus fire, and the red feather ornament all announced to the emperor's soldiers: the arrival of the war demon.

What's more, there were some Tekopo people in the team, who had fought with Gawain before, and their only reaction was to shout "Spare your life", and then wade back into the water, scrambling to throw their bows and swords into the water, climbing onto the side of the ship, scolding the captain and the oarsmen, trying to get them back to safety.

Afterwards, more than 700 cavalry bravely broke through and killed and wounded the enemy who came ashore, and the rest followed the Turks who ran away first, and stepped into the water. The Cumans in the cavalry company took out their bows and arrows nearby, and fired indiscriminately, and the corpses of those who were killed, trampled to death, and drowned by arrows suddenly floated all over the river under the bridge. Several Panphillian warships also pulled anchor and fled in terror.

Muzafiadin jumped off his horse, and as Gawain commanded, raised the horn hanging around his neck, puffed out his cheeks, and blew lifelessly on the opposite bank.

The sound of whining and whining woke Baldwin who was fighting hard - at this time, around the palace of Juquintina, more and more of the emperor's soldiers were regrouped, and they continued to shoot deadly arrows, which he and his brother had thought were no more than a few hundred enemies at most, but now it seems that Alexios had at least a thousand Tekopo mercenaries here, and more warriors were coming from the city to join the battle. It seems that this is the cunning and shrewd Greek emperor, the preset battlefield to encircle and annihilate him.

"Gawain has come to answer." Goldchild took her husband by the hand and asked in a low voice, and she respected his husband's thoughts: if Baldwin had a long-term plan, she would have retreated with him; If Baldwin swore to defend the dignity of the nobility, she would definitely fight to the death with her husband until the last moment.

However, Baldwin was clearly a pragmatic warrior and commander, and he quickly helped his wife to the horse, and then followed him on foot with his shield in his hand, "I will not let you, beautiful, be captured by the Greek cowards. ”

About three minutes later, Baldwin's army, which had been fighting hard for half a day, retreated from the bridge.

More than twenty knights had already been killed, including three of Baldwin's closest migrimage friars from Verdun. The Swabian infantry regiment suffered about 200 casualties, the horses were dead and wounded, most of them came on foot, and they were very tired, most of them were bloodied, covered with cloaks and overcoats, and their morale was low. And in the direction of the Jukuntina Palace, the emperor's detachment of troops and horses was in high spirits, beat the drums of war, marched on foot, and came towards the bridge, as if to take the place completely.

"If the bridge is taken, we will be attacked on three sides." Gawain sighed, and then he looked in the direction of the causeway, and he didn't know if Godfrey's current danger had been resolved, but his cavalry had raided the battlefield in the snow, and now he was also exhausted, so he had to pause for a while.

But the emperor was clearly unwilling to give anyone a chance, "Gawain's cavalry was not afraid, and continued to attack, annihilating Godfrey first." "At this time, the Byzantine infantry brigade that had broken out of the St. Atkins Gate to fight had nearly three thousand men, divided into several regiments, and was constantly approaching Godfrey's location.

And at this moment, Godfrey in the wind, the blood and restlessness in his mind have also cooled down, and the knight circle beside him, after once again repelling the attack organized by Yagfe, Godfrey shouted to everyone with the arrows that kept falling, "Don't dismount and fight on foot, get on your horse and charge in the direction of my infantry regiment with all your strength, and join them together, and I will not be afraid of anything." With that, the Duke of Lower Lorraine was the first to turn on his horse, then drew his sword and charged at the Emperor's cavalry, and the rest of the Frankish knights followed suit.

At this time, about sixty members of the Brotherhood, dressed in the red-handed sword robe, rode heavily armed and hurried to Emicius's banner, and Bramson, who had arrived first, spoke and gestured to the Count of Emicius, in fluent Germanland, "Form a horizontal line to block the enemy attacking from the city gates." Then organize the others, charge diagonally, and lean against each other with the cavalry of His Excellency. ”

"There are too many enemies, the battle line is too long, I can only draw a generous team of 100 people." Emicius replied.

"That's it, I'll rush and try!" With that, Bramson draped his chain turban over his head, and with sixty brocade brotherhoods, swords and horses, he swooped down on the four Byzantine cavalry that had separated them, accompanied by more than a hundred Frankish and Germanic infantry.

The blade broke through the air, and a Cuman mercenary who collided with him, his chest and neck were immediately cut open by Bramsson, and he fell off his horse with blood, and then Bramson gently flicked his wrist on the horse's back, and cut off a Cuman on the left who dismounted and fought on foot, along with the bow: it turned out that Godfrey's infantry team was in a panic because it was suddenly cut off, and once it was fought at close range, the lightly armed Byzantine cavalry was not at all the opponent of the Brotherhood and the Frankish hoplites.

On the other side, Godfrey also led all his cavalry to fight against Bramson, and four teams of Turkic cavalry hired by Byzantium were defeated in a short time, and many fled around the causeway on horseback. The Duke of Lower Lorraine, who was riding on horseback, saw a dark shadow suddenly coming towards him, and then the two blades intersected and splashed fire, "Lord Duke, the road is open." This was a German saying, which made Godfrey feel very affectionate - the one just now put away his long sword, reined in his horse and saluted him, "I am Bramson, the swordsman of the Grand Duke of Gawain's team. Wolfgang, preferring not to be rewarded by the Grand Duke, has come to protect your integrity. ”

Godfrey immediately understood what he meant, and he laughed, took out a bag of broken gold from his belt, and threw it over for Bramson to catch, and the other party immediately smiled.

"Falling short?" Alexios, who was on the corner tower, couldn't help but sigh when he saw the duke escape from the bottom of the causeway and gallop with his men and horses to the line of his own infantry regiment, and then laughed, "I am really happy to fight with heroes like Godfrey and Gawain. (To be continued.) )