At this time, the three horizontal detachments attacking from the front had been deeply wedged into the Roma army array, and then the "Hell Blood" Banda on the far right, as he continued to advance bravely, saw Yesuding under the black dogtooth and dozens of slave soldiers, whizzing past on horseback. Moss, a small landowner squire from Naples, shouted to the unstable minions, "Speed up, leave this group of cavalry alone, the rest of the Banda diagonal on the right will resist, and we will continue to charge straight!" ”

"Oooooooooo The spearmen of the detachment in the front and rear rows, holding spears of various colors, carried their shields behind their backs, and continued to close together, except for the rightmost column that turned the tip of the spear, everyone else continued to follow the sword of the flag officer, and continued to rush towards the middle core of the Roma army camp, this time the Turkic soldiers were stabbed into pieces in the face of an extremely fast and unsolvable spear assault, most of their spears were at the level of shuttle darts, and the bows and arrows in their hands were useless in front of the rapidly approaching spear forest, so they could only retreat and retreat again, Many of them had already run down the hill and began to break up in the direction of Zefelim Castle.

Soon, the three "bandas" in the first place, waving battle flags, under the cover of Italian veterans and elite skirmishers, soon broke through to the place where the original banner of the Roma army was, and the multiple lines of the Roma army were torn to pieces, and in the smoke and dust, Gawain's soldiers shouted fierce battles, almost engaged with the Toulon department.

"Send out fast horses, and tell Branas and Dorus, that they will join Andreev and Jalguba's troops, and attack the hill from that side, without hesitation. As long as one hesitates, both are removed at the same time. Gawain said to the Turkic servants beside him. Then he muttered in English, "Look at this embarrassing new brigade." Anna, this little girl's behavior, still wants me to pay for her, I was going to stabilize and then train the armed regiment, but now I have to send the cat into the water, what kind of guardian brigade - isn't it the 'watch' brigade, to my red hand to line the façade. ”

But before Muzafiadin arrived, Branas, who had a strong sense of "initiative" or was eager to gain a foothold in Gawain's faction, took a few bandars with him. He also attacked bravely. The "Konama Female Fox" who followed behind also led the Believer Army to help him.

So Toulon could not resist, especially in the face of an enemy attacking from both directions, and with a small retinue, he abandoned his post and battle line, and also fled towards the city of Zefelim.

"Don't linger all the soldiers, pounce on them, pounce on them! Don't give your enemies a chance to breathe. Halfway up the hill, Giovanni held a riding spear. With loud encouragement, even the soldiers of the sailor company behind him, who were responsible for covering, swarmed up the hill.

"Agnes, our army has been victorious." On the opposite high hill. Anna in the shoulder and the banner of St. Theodore in the shoulder looked at the battlefield with fire surging on the opposite side, and said softly. She seemed to have seen the legendary white harbor walls of Seleucia. He was smiling and waving to himself.

In the end, it was the emir who bravely rushed to the front to fight, and the robe he was wrapped in was completely stained with blood. The spear in his hand was bent, and the horse was also killed by the spear tips of many soldiers and fell to the ground, and finally about seven or eight spear shafts pierced the emir's body from all directions at the same time, and his heart burst open, and the holes in his head were bleeding, and he was pushed backwards for several feet before he fell to the ground, his left leg was bent and his armor was scattered all over the ground, and all his slaves were killed, and they surrounded his corpse horizontally.

Half an hour later, Gawain himself jumped into the miserable hill battlefield, where he had barely committed cavalry, but still won with the spears of his infantry, and the body of the heroic emir on the enemy side was easily identified, and Gawain ordered it to be cut off, picked on the flagpole, and intimidated in front of the city of Zefelim.

Originally, the flamethrowers on both sides threw out canisters and set off fireworks, which were enough to burn all the hills with lush vegetation in summer, but they were crushed by the advancing soldiers and the wounded and dead who fell, and in the green smoke, there were bloody corpses and mutilated weapons lying everywhere, especially in the area where the emir died in battle, and the corpses of men and horses were piled up to a terrifying intensity. After the battle, the soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade, all with long and short weapons, sat on the hill, covered in soot and blood, gasping for rest, and when they saw His Excellency General Stratigues on horseback, they could only give a low salute or cheer, and Gawain raised his hand and silently saluted this group of nameless infantry soldiers.

Two hours later, the city of Zephelim surrendered, but this time Gawain did not allow any of the Roma soldiers to retreat, disarmed the remaining nearly 3,000 men, whether armor, weapons, or horses, and then escorted them to the city of Tarsus and detained them - he would make it easier for him to attack Seleucia immediately.

Only that Toulon, with more than 200 horsemen, fled to the mountains of Taurus, north of the city of Zephelim.

In this battle, the Red Hand Brigade suffered nearly 500 casualties, the Defender Brigade suffered more than 200 casualties, and the Kabeamiya and Andreev units suffered fewer casualties, killing and wounding more than 1,500 Roma soldiers and taking 3,000 prisoners. "The main reason is that the newly recruited Germans have more casualties." After the war, Giovanni and Bramson presented Gawain with their report, was the case.

"Then we need to strengthen the training of queues and flags for these recruits, and teach them to fight together." Gawain replied so, but he also knew in his heart that if it weren't for this group of fanatical and reckless cannon fodder soldiers, armed with long swords, not only blocking the enemy's cavalry, but also opening a gap on their left flank front, I am afraid that the casualties would be even greater, and how to use the strengths and avoid the weaknesses of this group of German soldiers in the future will have to be considered.

However, for this battle, as long as it is won, all sacrifices are acceptable.

The following time is completely the moment when the archers swept away, the entire West Cilician Plain, the market town castles fell one after another, the red hand cross sword battle flag fluttered, this division advanced by land and water, blocking the Seleucian city in front of the small castles such as Ramas and Curicus successively opened the city gates, five days later, the advance of the Gauwen division had advanced to three ancient miles outside Seleucia, from the former imperial military capital, only a river apart.

"Send a message to the Turks and former officers and soldiers of the Imperial Military District who were defending the Seleucian city (after Manzikt, the troops of the various Byzantine military districts, many of whom have been transferred to serve under the Roma tent), telling them to abandon their resistance and surrender the castle, otherwise the head of the emir will be their example!" It was raining heavily outside, and Gawain, who was in the tent, took out a letter of persuasion and spoke to the messenger. (To be continued.) )