"Decius's raid worked!" Gao Wen on the gate tower raised his arms and shouted.

Then Giovanni took the opportunity to put up the flags one by one, and between the entire city gate and the sub-wall, the ranks of the infantry of the rest of the brigade heard the signal, and each fought bravely, and fought in columns.

In a short but fierce battle, Gawain's infantry had the upper hand. Because the cavalry of Mosul did not develop a rifle-mounted charge tactic similar to that of the Normans or Franks, they still used bows and arrows at a distance and javelins or sabers at close range. As a result, in the Gao Cultural Tourism Regiment, the sword and shield hands in the front line were close to the feet of the horses, and the soldiers in the back used long hooks to restrain the horses, and then waved big sticks or axes and spears, cutting the cavalry up and down the heads of the horses, and the cavalry in the rear team was frightened and frightened, and they turned around and fled in the direction of Atta City.

Half an hour later, the infantry drove the Turkic cavalry and horses thousands of feet away, and Decius, with his bloody sword, stepped on the body of a hacked war horse with one foot, and looked at the corpses around him. The subordinate comrades in front of them shouted, holding the armor, horse harness, archery and tooth flags of the captured Turks, and leading more than a dozen good horses from the captives, and in the earth-shattering cheers, they successively triumphed in the direction of the camp.

"Retreat, retreat." After saying that, Decius and all the swordsmen rearranged their line, but this time they turned their backs to the camp and retreated step by step.

In the direction of Atta City, the angry Mosul general Amasa, riding his own steed, his black beard fluttering violently, the tip of his nose flushed with anger, rushed to the retreating cavalry with his banner, raised his hands, and drove a flock of sheep, "Shameful man, have you been so frightened by the enemy's infantry in such a way that you have shown the supreme commander your frightened face, and not your back to break through the enemy's formations and strongholds!" ”

The Mosul cavalry, feeling humiliated by this, shouted at their partners in twos and threes, swore to each other that they would not retreat before Allah, turned back to organize their positions, and rushed towards the Orontes camp again.

However, Amasa's encouragement and scolding did not play a big role in the battle: in front of the defensive line of the rear barracks, Gawain's infantry continued to maintain their original tactics, and fought with the Mosul cavalry for more than ten rounds, but still killed the sudden cavalry to no one.

At the same time, the two lords of Godfrey of the West Fort and Raymond of the Bayou Fortress, seeing that Gawain was fighting in front of the fortress, each sent more than 100 elite cavalry out of the fortress, facing the two flanks of the Turks, fiercely holding the spears and galloping - attacked on three sides, Amasa suffered a miserable defeat, and could only retreat again and again, until the support of the follow-up infantry of the brigade, before gaining a firm foothold, "erect a wooden fence, set up a barracks, let the Persians make catapults, siege vehicles, tomorrow our infantry and cavalry will advance together, and when we have a firm foothold, we will move the camp forward, In this way, you can concentrate your weapons on the siege! ”

In the evening, the king of Aleppo, Khan Dewan, and his palace minister Garrahad. Daura, commanding tens of thousands of soldiers as agreed, came to reinforce Amasa's troops.

In this way, the rejuvenated Amasa followed the established policy, and began to circle the entire city of Ata, the valley of the Akutar River, the valley of the Blood, and the area of the Rose Ridge and the Orontes River, facing the fortress of Gawain, and also dug up the earth and erected fences, and built a fortress like a mountain to confront it, and after nightfall the bonfires covered the ground, and the sound of songs and dances was incessant.

About the third hour of the night, suddenly a camp burst into red flames - the surprise cavalry sent by Gawain, under the guidance of Bramson, by rolling dice, determined a certain target camp for the attack, set off from the secret gate of their own camp, galloped to the other side, slashed and killed the opponent's patrol, went straight to the opponent's wooden fence and trench, lit the torch and threw it wildly, and shot arrows like rain.

The soldiers in the camp were disturbed and came to the rescue, armed with weapons and buckets of fire, and ran along the established road during the day, towards the attacked camp where the fireworks were rising.

At this moment, on the right side of the road, a group of cloaked cavalry hurried closer, and the leading officers, masked and in pointed Persian helmets, stopped at a distance of about sixty feet and shouted to them in fluent Turkic, "Where is the enemy?" What are you running around? Where are your Bey commanders? ”

"I'm here, there's an enemy attack there!" Bey, who was headed by the rescuers, subconsciously pointed to the burning camp in front of him and shouted.

As soon as the words fell, the masked "Turkic officer" on the opposite side followed the sound and flew an arrow at the answering Bey like lightning, and the Bey was caught off guard, and the front door was immediately shot through and killed, and the soldiers around him screamed in amazement, and then scattered like birds and beasts.

"Forgive me Allah!" After speaking, Muzafi Addin, who was disguised as a Turkic officer in his veil, plunged his bow into the hanging bag, then drew his saber, loosened the reins and opened his mount, the reflection of the blade in the night gave him a good guide to his goal - the blade light swept by, an enemy soldier who was fleeing, slashed in the back, muffled, his legs fell weakly to his knees, his body fell under the hooves of his horse, and behind him the red hands or jinat cavalry, all carrying the Turkic dogtooth banner captured by the day, with white ribbons tied to their shoulder armor, also shouting "Allah is great" The slogan broke into the ranks of the other party's rescuers who were in a mess, the swords were scorching, and the heads were rolling.

The rescuers who had rushed out of the other camps, seeing the scene of the scuffle, could not distinguish friend or foe from the banners and slogans, and in fright, they took up their weapons and began to trample each other, and the clamor and shouts of killing resounded throughout the banks of the Orontes River.

It turned out that this was also Gawain's strategy: to hold the fortress during the day and consume the enemy's morale and energy; At night, he sent 300 elite cavalry, 100 to Bramson, seized the gap between the two armies of Mosul and Aleppo, and first attacked a random infidel camp, and Muzafi Adin led 200 men to ambush on the side of the road in this camp, taking the opportunity to fight the enemy who came to the rescue.

In this way, the camp of Amasa and Ridwan "fought chaotically" all night, and the next morning Amasa patrolled the camp with a blue face, watching the "results of the night" of his soldiers: nearly 1,000 people were killed and wounded, dozens were captured, and six camps were burned to the ground (five were the achievements of his own people)

In front of the Orontes camp, the prisoners of war who were pulled back by the cavalry were stopped by Gawain and his guards in front of the "chest and belt wall" that was being built, and they did not even see the appearance of the city gate.

"You don't have to take them inside, so you don't have to leak the inside of the fortress." After the Grand Duke on his horse finished speaking, he turned to the guards and samurai with sharp axes in hand, and said, "Cut off the right hands of these prisoners of war, and then release them back!" (To be continued.) )