On the left bank of the Harris River, in a cordon of forks and sentry horses, the great emir with his saddle on his head bent his feet and rested quietly and comfortably, surrounded by a scattered blue fireworks, as if covering the stars with a veil of till. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Merrick was different from the giliki who kept his promise of black felt, even when he occupied the Sivas Plateau, he always lived the traditional "Gazi life", riding and shooting, herding cattle and spending a considerable amount of time in tents, rather than the palaces of Amasya and Sivas, although the Persian craftsmen also built these mansions very luxuriously, Merrick never lived long, except for calling important military councils, he was afraid that city life would degrade him.

Merrick thus entrusted all the plateau territories to the Persian and Saracen tax collectors, who collected only a fixed amount for the mobilization of the various tribes of Danishmund, or the more brutal mercenaries of Greater Armenia, such as the Kurds and Sagetus.

"I've always been a Gazi warrior in the wilderness." Leaders like Merrick draw strength from old traditions.

At dawn, when the Harris River was still in darkness, the whistle horses blew their horns, and Merrick got up with astonishment, put on his saddle, and turned on his horse's back, "What's the matter! ”

"The cavalry on the opposite side has already pulled out of camp and advanced!" Several sentry horses rushed to report the news, and the surface of the Harris River trembled, and sure enough, as the sentry horses said, the red hand cavalry on the other side began to run in formation again.

"Keep up with me, we must muster up our spirits on this day, and block the enemy first, and occupy Fort Germanico on our backs, then the enemy will be defeated!" The Great Emir raised his whip aloof, and the slaves and Gazi all around him drew their horses in unison.

Just as everyone was shouldering their sabers, bows and arrows on their backs, in the middle of the flying smoke and dawn, the sentry horses on the other side hurried over, and shouted the second enemy movement of the day with a look of surprise, "Great Emir, our army, a large number of enemies have appeared on the south side of our army, and they are approaching here. ”

"What!" Merrick almost fell off the saddle, and at this moment Gawain's cavalry on the other side of the river had already rushed towards the river in front of him, about half a day's journey, and at the same time, the sentry horse in the south actually said that Gawain's large number of troops were killing themselves on this bank?

What the hell is going on? Merrick's eyes were black, but he still used the pine light and morning light to clearly see the red hand banner of Gawain on the other side, so how did the so-called "large number of people" on this side cross over?

By the time Merrick had hurried his horse to the south of the sentry horse, his heavy men and horses had begun to stir in terror through the scattered array of forks, and Gawain's procession, under the cover of the previous night, had approached a thousand feet away, and the flashes of countless weapons and armor met the eyes of the great emir......

This team, the brigade of the defenders of Branas, and the great detachment of the pyrinologists of Leotius, had quietly hidden in the deep grass and valleys of the shore during the competition of the previous day, and while Merrick and his army were all focused on the great spears of the infantry of the Red Hand Brigade and the lightning gallop of the Red Hand Cavalry, Branas stopped with a convoy of baggage wagons, and they began to cross the river in the evening: first using the boats, rafts, and pontoons they carried, and the hundreds on whom Branas relied the most. The German Guards "gave the pass."

Then, under the leadership of their respective flag officers, the guards set up a temporary riverbank position, on the one hand, on the one hand, on the outside, on the other hand, they used the wooden handle sickle they carried to remove the weeds and rocks that interfered with the view on the shore, and then erected a striking crimson flag, and under this guidance, the second part of the crossing was the Khitan snow, which was enclosed and packed in a rectangular wooden box, which was sealed, and then matched with the body of the "Glamorgan Horseback Car", under which were erected two light long logs that could float in the waterClay pots and leather bags were tied to the wood, and the soldiers were dragged into the water with ropes, while the German Guards on the other side hooked them and slowly pulled them across the river one by one.

Among these Khitan snow carriages, two-thirds are mixed in advance, stuffed into paper tube rockets, iron fire shells and arranged in layers, which can be directly taken out and loaded and launched; The other third, for the sake of safety, Leotius requested that they be transported separately and that they be mixed before and after the battle to supplement and prepare their firepower.

The third part of the river was crossed by the grenadiers with light archery wagons, and finally by Branas and the rest of his brigade infantry.

After crossing the river, and only resting for an hour, Branath ordered everyone to begin to line up, and set up and control the shooting cart, and then leaned against the river and the mountain (which hardly required a guide), and followed the corridor for ten gulli in front of dawn, approaching Merrick's rear.

At this moment, under the morning light and flying flotsam, at the forefront was the center of the German Guards of Branas, flanked by the infantry of the two Banda detachments, the former was full of armor and carried a double-sword sword, and had been quite skilled since the Battle of Antioch, needless to say; The latter formed a dense and deep phalanx, and the soldiers in the front two rows were also unusually well-armed: all wore semicircular iron helmets with Komnenian rings, long armor mixed with linen and iron sheets, and scythes in both hands...... But not the scythe, but Agnes. Plani's small scythe, created for the Seleucian and Tarsus farms, was originally used to quickly cut fine grass or crops, but now it was fastened to the five-and-a-half-foot-long wooden handle of the brigade soldiers with sleeves and pins, and was wielded vigorously. The soldiers in the back row are holding relatively traditional axes and spears and halberds, while the three parallel detachments in the second line are relatively uniform light spears, and some are equipped with Persian machetes - because unlike the unified military weapons of the Red Hand Brigade, Branas's brigades have always been based on "flower miscellaneous".

In the first and second lines, hundreds of "logisticians", that is, Armenian light cavalry, carrying pike darts and small shields, were quietly lined up in a queue.

In Merrick's eyes, the rows of long-handled scythes and double-handled swords flashed on the opposite side, and the commanders around him were anxiously asking the Great Emir, "Now that our army has enemies on both sides, what should we do?" ”

Merrick gritted his teeth and looked at the enemy cavalry on the other side that was already running towards Germanico: Gawain's move was very risky and effective, if he divided his troops with Gawain's move, he might not have an advantage on either side, Gawain could do both. Merrick then bent his horsewhip and said, "Concentrate your forces and destroy the enemy in front of you first!" ”

He did not believe that if he concentrated his forces, he would not be able to defeat the crowd of men in front of him. (To be continued.) )