"Fetyas!" Gawain also shouted, but the Turkic cavalry opposite him put on a second arrow again, and this one, perhaps too "liked" Gawain's scarlet eye-catching cloak, wanted to pin this love on the cluster of arrows, and flew over again.

Gawain could not dodge, because this was a strict requirement in the code, and all the heavily armed warriors behind the shield wall had to lean on each other, stand like a wall, and advance like a wall.

"Snort", Gawain's ears were slashed by a swift air current, and then an arrow fired by his own side directly hit the forehead of the Turkic cavalryman who was still pulling the strings, and the opponent fell to the ground from the back on his back.

This arrow was fired by Theognes under the imperial flag, and then he was lightning faster than the most skilled Turks, and soon shot a second arrow, another Turkic soldier with a charge tooth banner, shot in the ribs, and rolled off his horse with the banner.

At this time, the Benevento light troops on both sides of the hillside array stood up from behind the shields in the front, and they were armed with lever-shaped crossbows.

The crossbow was the first standard weapon discovered in the Roman Empire, but at the moment in Byzantium, the army and generals forgot about this weapon. After Paralogus brought Italian veterans to the imperial capital, Emperor Alexios, who was inspecting, specifically asked what kind of "new weapon" it was.

The crossbow arrows that flew out from both sides just instantly weaved a crossfire net of death, and the Turkic cavalry that followed, men and horses fell to the scene one after another, "Charge, charge!" Farov raised the Red Flag, and the whole guard was in a roar, and then he raised his battle axe and bravely arrived.

"Come!" Gawain gritted his teeth, threw down the battle axe, lifted the wounded and wailing Fetyas with one hand, and then put his wounded hand on his left shoulder, put his right hand around his waist, and ran forward with him, this is simply not a thing to do - all the people and war horses in front of and behind are pressing past with the flag, and Fetyas, who remains in place, is likely to be trampled to death by his own people, "Eriksen, protect our flanks." ”

"Good Ratcha!" Erikson was not ambiguous, so he put on the fur as armor and rushed forward with his spear.

Musetto was stunned - the surging Varangian guards were unable to contain the charge, and the Turks who were shot over were chopped to pieces in the moment before they died, and their bodies were trampled at the feet of the emperor's guards. The rest were only on horseback, and continued to wield maces and scimitars, but they were far from being the match for the fierce foot warriors in the melee.

Soon in the chaotic battle, Gawain's small team also entangled the famous slave knights, the other party was definitely the number one warrior under Zahaas, the scales and armor were shiny, the tassels were fluttering, and he held a three-and-a-half-foot mace in his hand, and smashed it on the shield raised by Gawain, and under the extreme shock, Gawain's arm could not protect Fetyas at all, so he could only throw the child aside.

Then the slave turned his horse's head, picked up the mace in his hand again, and prepared to smash Gawain's shield and smash his head flat, and the horse's hooves flew and neighed, forcing Fityas, whose face turned pale, and kept holding himself on with one hand, and fell backwards.

As a result, Erikson jumped over, and at the moment of Gawain's embarrassment, he exhaled, and swept the tail of the spear upside down, and swept it to the breastplate vacated by the slave soldier, with great force, and swept the slave soldier off his horse at once, and then Erikson shook his hand very skillfully, stepped on an arrow, changed from the tail of the spear to the tip of the spear, stabbed down diagonally, and pierced into the unsuspecting throat of the slave soldier, the guy snorted, and grabbed the shaft of the submerged spear with both hands, and died in less than a second.

This stunned Gawain, this red-haired little guy is really unseemly, it seems that he was also born in a fighting race, and unlike Fetyas, he is an "old soldier".

At this moment of fright, the Red Guards had already swooped down in front of the army of the Emir of Smyrna, and Musetto's personal troops who were blocking the front were cut down one after another. After a few mournful hugs, Musetto, with his slave guards, rode his horses without hesitation, and fled in the direction of the valley.

In the end, George scattered his reserves, the few cavalrymen, all Turkmen under the command of Tetisius, who had come to their aid, as the final hammer that would decide the outcome of the battle.

The cheers of the Byzantine army resounded through the meadows and river valleys, Gawain looked down, they had unknowingly seized the enemy's command position, the cannon fodder strong men who had been temporarily pulled by Musetto were fleeing everywhere, the most pitiful thing was this group, the rest of the Turks ran away on horseback, whether they could survive or not depended on the mood of the victors.

"Don't kill my compatriots, they were all coerced into battle." In the end, it was the Warden George who gave such a magnanimous order.

The Byzantine army won the first battle, not only capturing the meadows that were large enough to store war horses and pack horses, but also capturing a large amount of Musetto's supplies and baggage, including many oxen, horses, mules, and vehicles, which greatly boosted morale, and not only strengthened the city of Abydos, but also had the capital to further advance into the interior.

"My hand is fine, and the doctor said it didn't hurt my bones." On the hillside, after Fithias bandaged his arm, he said to Gawain, who was holding the black Sabina.

"Very well, we must all be safe and sound, every part of our bodies, until the time is time to recover Nicaea." Gawain said with relief, and then he looked at the green meadow below, on which many of the military servants had begun to carry the timber and build some makeshift corrals.

Looking at all this, Gawain suddenly remembered the small village where he had stayed with Peter, and what had happened to Zahaas since his army had invaded the western coast of Asia Minor, was it really as Peter had said, like a grit in an ocean, submerged without a trace, and completely destroyed?

Thinking of this, although Gawain was a man with no scriptures and no faith, he still twisted the rosary that Peter gave him before leaving, and asked all the gods to take good care of the villagers there.

That night, George and the chief of staff, after consulting with Theognes, immediately decided on the next step, "to advance the recovery of Prussa, to divide the army of Zahas from his old nest of Nicaea, and then to take the opportunity to eliminate this group of Turkic bandits, and remove the great danger for His Majesty the Emperor." ”

At this time, the cavalry general Tetisius, who had been slashed, had a different opinion, and he suppressed his voice and asked the warden general, "Is this expedition to the warden to defeat the Turks and revive the empire, or to fulfill the important task entrusted by His Majesty the Emperor?" ”