"Do you want to attack all the troops, including the Imperial Praetorian Guard?" When the Imperial Ink Officer's order arrived, General Cezes asked the anxious Emperor the same. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the entire battlefield has been dyed with blood red in the dusk, and the emperor saw that in front of the enemy fortress on the opposite side, the soldiers on both sides were still shooting at each other with firearms, but it was obvious that his decisive offensive had completely failed, and the soldiers in the large army formation he had lined up no longer had the strength and courage to attack, "Your Majesty, there are still 20,000 soldiers waiting to be sent in our fortress, do you want to press them all up and prepare for a night battle?" Many of the guards were holding the reins of the emperor and asked anxiously.

Just before Alexios could give the order, the horn of "Woo Woo" sounded, "Your Majesty, the right flank of our army!" ”

In the twilight, the emperor's right flank began to move, but not against the Gawain line, but against the southwest side of the Philomeron Lakeside, "Tetisius, Yasen, they actually want to run away by themselves, shame, bastard!" The emperor lost his temper, and he shouted in despair in front of all the generals and guards, and his voice changed.

However, this is an almost unchangeable fact, Tetisius has always been the emperor's most trusted general, and he believes that this Turkic slave-born man will never rebel against him: so even if he throws the captor Theognes on the plateau to guard the border fortress, and sends Tetisius back to the prince with peace of mind, who would have thought that a loyal and strict person would stab a dagger into his abdomen, and the wound would be deeper and more deadly?

The chariot base on the emperor's right flank and the soldiers on the "Camp of Brenus" saw with their own eyes the thousands of cavalry under Tetisius suddenly flee without a fight, and their mood and fighting spirit were greatly shaken. Soon, more than 1,000 new Thessali troops who remained in the base also crossed over one after another, following their generals away from the battlefield.

Then, many of the requisitioned military servants in the emperor's chariot also began to flee, leading all kinds of cattle, pack beasts, and cart baggage, and the court officials could not stop it......

"Muzafi Adin, have you seen it?" Seeing this scene, Gawain, who was on the wooden tower of the camp city of Jimaggis, slowly stood up, "The secret that Anna told me earlier is indeed true, the emperor was betrayed by the people closest to him, and now this person's henchmen have fled directly on the battlefield without a fight. ”

The Turkic servants also looked at the enemy right-wing soldiers running in groups under the inky sky with almost disbelief, "Master, then we ......"

"Don't hesitate to let Dim and Billel be on standby with all the elite armorers. In addition, Gregor was asked to replace Leotius in the command position, followed by Nexus and Stalianus, and the three fire cannons and all the guns cast in the previous stage were concentrated in one section. Then Gao Wen, who was in the strong wind, stretched out his right hand wrapped in iron armor from the black cloak, and waved it with all his might, his voice with irrepressible excitement and heroism, "Shoot out all the iron projectiles, followed by stone pills, and concentrate on bombarding the vacant lot on the right flank of the emperor's chariot base and the imperial camp, and then the elite armor of our army rushed forward with the bombardment." Bombardment, slamming, and then calling all the soldiers of the detachment of the Red Hand Brigade and the Gemagis Brigade who still had the strength to fight, and all the border people's troops, the people's army, and even the logistical servants and peasants, rushed over, remember—bombardment, assault! ”

Soon, the area on the edge of the camp of Gimmagis and the barricade, which had not been fought for a day, had been unusually silent, and this silence had now been broken by Gawain's orders. At intervals of a hundred feet, there was a large movable compartment that was pushed open and supported, and the three fiery bear cannons that had been ambushed in the shallow pit behind them, the bulging and fat charge chamber, the thick muzzles, and the sturdy hoop iron, finally revealed their hideous and fiery faces.

Not only the fire cannon, but also about seven or eight light cannons that had been temporarily cast in the camp by the firethrowers were pushed over by the firefighters, and the fireworks that the emperor had seen on Posta had come out of the casting furnace. The guns were mounted on a long, narrow gun carriage with wheels underneath for movement. Half of it is an enhanced version of the "perfume bottle", with a longer barrel and a larger caliber, and the range and destructive power are naturally enhanced; The other four were stubby barrels with black cast-iron bodies, and were distinctly "top-heavy" on the gun carriage and wheels, so in order to prevent them from falling forward, several grenadiers followed them, carrying brackets, which they held up when they fired.

There were many more cannons made entirely of hoop iron, between the guns and the long-barreled cannons, about twenty or so, without brackets or gun carriages, with a handle ring cast from it, and an iron fork like a shrimp's whisker below, which two or three men could move away and shoot, and now lay there in rows.

Nexus and Stalianus, a newly appointed grenadier commander and a young officer of the Gemagis Brigade (who had also made it out of Marash safely), stood on either side of the artillery corps ready to fire, and under their supervision, many of the pyrophers and craftsmen were busy around the fixed and wheeled, heavy and light guns, many of them sweaty, simply taking off their armor, covering their cloaks and sweatshirts, and began to load the barrels with Khitan snow.

Behind the sub-walls on both sides of the heavy gate and the corset wall of the camp, rows of soldiers had already lurked behind them, accompanied by fallen horses, about 800 people, of which 400 were selected from the Red Hand Brigade and the Gemagis Brigade, 200 were the reserve training team and the Gawain Forbidden Army, and 200 were the archers selected by the Oghuz Volunteers.

All the soldiers wore three layers of armor: the inner layer was pierced armor, the middle layer was sandwiched with half-body chain mail, the outermost layer was long linen iron sheet armor, the back shield held a battle axe, a sickle, a tribulus hammer, and a helmet covered with anti-arrow visor, and the whole body was iron black, revealing only a pair of eyes, which was the "infantry" version of the equipped warrior. And the two hundred Oghhuz archers, all covered with chain mail, carried twenty heavy horse arrows, a recurve bow, a Turkic scimitar, and a Persian axe.

On the evening of 18 May, the officers and men of the "Armored Assault Army" endured the scorching heat in the armor, and allowed the rest of the fortress front to fight endlessly, staying in the position behind the sub-wall in silence and spending most of the day.

They were waiting for the fighters, and they were also waiting for the order of the great guarantor to give the order for a swift raid.

Now the opportunity has come - General Tetisius and Yasin Khan, who have no hope of victory, suddenly turn their backs on the emperor's imperial camp, retreat without a fight with the right-wing army, and completely open the emperor's chariot in front to the Tarsus guards.

"After the triumph, settle accounts with Tetisius, Brenus, you command half of the soldiers of the rearguard line, and hurry to the right flank to fill the gap in the line!" In the central imperial camp, although the emperor was furious, he still gave instructions to save the day at the first time, "The whole army on the front line gave up the offensive and retreated back to their respective bases. ”

But it was too late - in the position under the camp of Gawain's left flank, Nexus had already given the order for the shelling, "Santa Barbara bless us to crush the enemy!" All the pyrinthers standing beside the gun emplacements shouted in unison. (To be continued.) )