The crimson "iron hammer" with flames, enough to pierce the "iron cone" of the toughest armor, is how the emperor felt when he saw the enemy's mounted cavalry. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he originally had such a strong ironclad cavalry, but unfortunately it was all lost in the Battle of Durazo, and then the emperor for the sake of pragmatism and convenience, never rebuilt it, but relied on the convenient and quick recruitment and training of Varangian guards and archers, in order to be able to form combat effectiveness relatively quickly.

But this group of mounted cavalry ironically appeared in the hands of his daughter, but in fact, Anna relied more on stratagem - she directly deceived the knights and sergeants from the Franks, and appointed Giovanni, the military judge, after the battle of Alamanburg, so that they quickly developed a fighting force, rather than a group of reckless men who could only ride horses and dance swords after being drunk.

The effect of Giovanni's supervision and training was fully demonstrated when the mounted cavalry violently attacked the emperor's left flank troops: the three hundred mounted cavalry were not quite the same as the red hand cavalry, the basic establishment of the red hand cavalry was a squadron, emphasizing that it should not only be able to concentrate on combat, but also be able to search and capture independently; The mounted cavalry is concentrated in a battle, which is a killer weapon, emphasizing that it is necessary to be able to tear and trample the enemy's dense formation at one time, so Giovanni presided over the reform, so that the mounted cavalry used the banner of the Three Holy Apostles as the commander-in-chief, and then it was divided into twelve small flags, each flag with a total of twenty-five horses up and down to fight together - the inside of the single flag is cone-shaped, and the front of the selected front dead man rode alone to hold the flag spear to rush to the front, followed by the three cavalry holding spears for the second layer, and then five horses holding spears for the third layer, these three layers of cavalry are all holding spears and rushing forward, Be sure to break down the enemy's defenses; Then the fourth layer is composed of seven horsemen, and finally the fifth layer is composed of nine horsemen, all of whom are heavily armored and armed with chain hammers, swords or axes, and are responsible for following up and slaughtering the remnants of the enemy. There are dead in the front, and those in the middle of the back row automatically fill in to continue the battle, all the first floor is killed, and all the back are replaced, only the five layers are all killed and wounded, this flag can be regarded as the final defeat, interlocking layer by layer, chain by chain. The entire cavalry regiment has a total of 12 flags, and the overall deployment is in the shape of fish scales during the battle, and in a short time, the enemy formation can break through a gap of hundreds of feet, and the military servants behind them will continue to follow up, responsible for harvesting the heads, executing the enemy's seriously wounded and other duties.

In this way, once the mounted cavalry charged down, the emperor's left-wing team, which was mainly lightly armed, could only see that there were men and horses with armor pieces everywhere in front of them, as well as nine terrifying cavalry spears roaring towards them, and the twelve banners were one hundred and eight cavalry spears in unison.

In the midst of a violent scream, the armored cavalry in the front three layers jumped the horse's hooves, galloped and stabbed with spears, and the "parasite" behind the horse's buttocks, that is, the colored feathers inserted in the vest, swayed slightly very detrimentally, and soon ploughed out a series of "bloody alleys" with blurred casualties in the emperor's left flank array of soldiers and horses; The mounted cavalry in the back danced with chain hammers and axes, slashing the emperor's lightly armed archers and spearmen on both sides of the "bloody alley" left and right, as if entering a no-man's land.

When the mounted cavalry penetrated the entire emperor's left flank almost unscathed, and rushed straight to the straggler line of the big spear array, the emperor's left flank had instantly killed and wounded hundreds of people, and the rest of the remnants were like ants whose nests were burned by fire, scattering in a hurry, fleeing in all directions, and some ran directly to the front of the big spear array to beg for surrender.

Alexios raised his eyes like this, and in a short period of time, he saw his left flank being hit in the back and being destroyed, "What the hell is Brenus doing, I just didn't give him a flag, and it was only half an hour, why did he leave the command post with the cavalry without permission?" The Emperor was annoyed and puzzled, but it didn't take long for this group of mounted cavalry to rush down with the big spear array that had turned around, and rushed down towards his own imperial camp!

Gawain was also surprised by the change in front of him, but by the time he recognized the battle flag of the cavalry regiment, the other party was already about to rush to the edge of the emperor's imperial camp.

And Alexios could only abandon the imperial camp, take the main force of the team, and retreat to his own right flank to reorganize the battle line. The mounted cavalry eventually broke through the Emperor's imperial camp, capturing and dispersing most of the Emperor's and the Plonian cavalry's servants.

"This is the end of the battle...... As fate would have it, it was Anna's mounted cavalry that served as the reserve for deciding the outcome. Gawain rode his horse and looked at the battlefield in front of him, and he actually felt a trace of regret in his heart, because he saw the process of the armored cavalry winning the victory, but he could not exercise command, so it means that the victory of this battle has nothing to do with him.

By the end of the day, the brilliant Alexios, although defeated but not chaotic, was able to reorganize the battle line in a short time, and counted the number of people - no more than a third of his left flank was retracted, and the rest either surrendered or fled, but the loss of the emperor's core elite main force was not large, and his Varangian guard, the orphan army, and the inner guard cavalry were still strong.

But he was still defeated, defeated by the enemy's mounted cavalry, lost the imperial camp, and lost the possibility of taking Fort Antioch Less.

And Gawain obviously didn't give him face as a righteous father-in-law: the other party also reorganized the team, and actually approached the emperor's location again, did he want to start a night battle?

At this moment, in the rear of the Emperor's army, a cavalry team suddenly appeared again, which made the Emperor's subordinates panic, but it was quickly recognized that it was a danger, and Harold had come to meet him with hundreds of cavalry from the camp of Milio Sephalon.

As a result, Gawain, who was also exhausted, saw that the emperor's army had been strengthened again, and withdrew to camp.

And then what really shocked Alexios was that his son-in-law, who was also the left-wing commander Brenus, was missing!

"You can't lose Peni Passer Bastos of the Empire." The emperor shouted angrily, and kept calling the whole camp of court officials around him to search for information, and the five hundred cavalry led by Brenus escaped a lot, but they were gossiping, some said that Penipas Bastos fled on horseback, some said that he was surrounded by enemy infantry and did not know whether he was alive or dead, and some said that he was lost in the chaotic battlefield......

The Emperor's heart was as uncomfortable as if it had been burned by fire, and he sat on his chair with a pale face and a cold sweat, passively waiting for the very chaotic news of the scouts, and he even regretted it a little, why didn't he take Brenus with him in the first place, but entrusted him to command the left wing? Now the left wing has also overturned, and the whereabouts of people are unknown!

He can't explain to Daido when he is dead, but what about being captured by Gawain? It was even more terrifying, and if Brenus got lost on this barren plateau, there was a great possibility that he would be killed by all kinds of defeated soldiers, bandits, or heretics!

The emperor covered his forehead in pain.

The emperor's guesses were correct, but the final result was wrong. (To be continued.) )