"There's an enemy attack?" Xhosa and all the Imperial commanders turned their heads in astonishment, looking at the rolling hills and woods, the footsteps hidden behind the bushes and tree trunks becoming more and more regular and rhythmic, the birds were startled, and finally in the mountains between the two woods, Xhosa saw with his own eyes in horror, several rows of sergeants formed a long rectangular horizontal formation, a small red flag, and they were collectively holding the iconic huge spears, trotting by, the dust was raised in clumps, and then dissipated in the wind, and was coming in the direction where they were, But it quickly disappeared into the nearest woods. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon, among the hillsides, woods and bushes on the left flank of the entire Imperial Army, the helmets, epaulettes and spear blades of strange soldiers continued to flicker with terrifying points of light, gathering more and more, gathering more and more densely, the smoke and dust became bigger and bigger, and the footsteps became more and more vibrating, "We don't know, how did this group of monster sergeants under the command of Gawain, who was more than ten feet long, gather from such a rugged and broken mountain forest to form an attacking group? The mountain roads and the divided hills did not seem to hinder them at all—they were scattered in our eyes at first, but it seemed that for a short time of our astonishment, they gathered from different directions and paths, from small groups into large groups, and then into solid groups, and with countless spears, forming the dense tusks of the mouths of bloodthirsty monsters, and began to tear our flesh and blood......"

This was the diary of a Kosa officer, which later provided valuable first-hand records for the compilation of historical sources.

When the dust of the hill rolled up, when the reflection of the spear blade could no longer be blocked, Xhosa already knew the fate of his army in advance: Mellot, a subordinate of Gawain, led all the officers and soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade yesterday night, everyone lined up in a long column, from the small town by the Alarman River, towards the hill here, the elite soldiers looked around to maintain it, most of the officers and soldiers carried infantry spears, pulled each other back and forth, trekked through rapids and dense forests, and reached the back of the deep hillside, and then when Merlot grasped the time and direction from the astrolabe, Seeing that two-thirds of the sergeants of the brigade were gathered around him, he no longer hesitated, and without waiting for all the follow-up troops to arrive, he launched a "Duanping spear, assault down the hillside!" ".

The woods shook and shook, and rows of red-handed infantry, spear-raised, broke through the branches in unison, and charged down the hillside to the heart-pounding beat of drums and trumpets.

At the same moment, the red-handed cavalry in front of them raced with thousands of horses, raising their flags, and also launched a rapid assault.

The Xhosa army, which was rampant by the spears of the infantry, immediately retreated, and the soldiers in front of them were in a daze and despair, and watched countless tall horses rushing towards them, and among the dust flying behind them, the monsters with large spears rushed down the hillside, cutting off their way back; The soldiers in the rear, knowing each other, discarded any heavy weapons and baggage, and followed suit when they saw their general Xhosa fleeing.

The whole battle on the seashore was over in half an hour: Xhosa and most of the fleeing soldiers fled back to Fort Alanya, forgetting to close the gates in a panic, and watching Gawain's pursuing cavalry circle and return: more than 500 heads were cut off, almost all the servants were captured, and Xhosa lost more than half of his army.

On the edge of the soft and silted mudflats, Gawain pulled the reins and watched the stacks of Imperial corpses lying in the mud, floating back and forth under the washing of the sea, and sighed, "Gather and bury the enemy dead, and then let Gregor lead two detachments of the Gimagis Brigade to defend Alamanburg with the garrison, presumably the frightened General Xhosa will not dare to attack again." ”

After a day's rest of the soldiers, the soldiers withdrew from camp the next day, and then quickly returned to the valley of the Mut River, where they ran towards the camp of Milio Sefalon.

The camping at this moment is the Seleucian side, which is "pressed and beaten" by the emperor's military horses.

When Alexios's advance saw Gawain's army and Paul's followers building a camp on the horizontal boulder and cutting off their approach, they went to the Emperor to ask for advice, and the Emperor, after observing the horses, issued an order, "Set up camp on the hill opposite the enemy's camp, and my Imperial Ink Officer, Myles, will lead one-third of the troops and horses on it, and bombard them daily with ballistas and catapults, and use elite troops to harass them constantly; I led all the elite archers on the left flank, waiting for an opportunity to seize the hill on their right flank and destroy their defensive walls; Yagfei led my inner and outer palace guards to set up camp around the five mountains on the right to protect my supply routes and wait for an opportunity to infiltrate and cut off the enemy's return route to camp. ”

"Launch." At the position of the Imperial ballista cannon on the mountain, after the bowstring was fully drawn with the trigger, with a loud sound, sharp projectiles roared, and smashed on the boulder under the dogfoot wood of the Gedier camp, the gravel mixed with the dogfoot wood rampage, and several Nationalist soldiers guarding behind it lay down in horror, "Hey. As they pulled an immobile companion, they found that the other's head had been cut off by the flying stone chips and died.

A whole sixteen powerful ballistas bombarded fiercely in turn under the command of Myles: the front of the camping was all leaning on the stone pile, and it was difficult for the dog's foot wood to be erected, and once the projectile hit, the scattered gravel could cause serious damage to the fortifications and personnel of the camp, and cause a lot of torture to the morale of the camp.

At least Cabeamia's caution began to loosen again, and she asked the elders Luchios and Philus more than once, "Do you want to choose the elite and go out to camp and fight with the emperor's military horses?" It is too unbearable to be hit by the opponent's artillery for a long time. ”

In fact, it was the female consul who was particularly afraid of the lethal weapons that fell from the sky, such as throwing stones, bows and arrows, etc.

Lucios was noncommittal, and Philus seemed eager to take the plunge.

But on the contrary, it was the armored boar and the commander of the people's army, Biller, who insisted on defending it, and the chief engineer Gedier's idea was the same, "Strengthen the camp on the hill on our right to guard against enemy attacks." It was not enough to renovate and strengthen the defensive wall connecting the two camps—preferably with a double sandwich wall, with soldiers inside, but also to mobilize 20,000 men and dig fences and trenches around the sides and rear of our camp, enclose us, and build a rectangular sub-city. ”

In short, the idea of this crazy engineer was to dig as many trenches as possible without intermittently, to reinforce the elevated sub-cities and defensive walls as high as possible, and ......

"The people have already fled halfway, and they are afraid of this terrible artillery attack, so the Emperor has set up a wooden platform under the ballista so that they can easily shoot at our camp behind the rocks." Kabeamia was a little anxious. (To be continued.) )