Chapter 118: The hourglass falls to the ground

Then the follow-up of Gawain, Giovanni, Sven, and Raymond arrived, and took all the Red Hand cavalry with them, and the pilgrims were even more ferocious, so that the first to be routed were the ambushes of Boesas who came out of the Northern Valley, and they numbered only a thousand after all—"Pursue this ambush and drive straight to the jungle of Daphne!" Gawain pulled out the silver horsehead scepter and commanded all the cavalry.

The team that was put into pursuit not only had all the red hand cavalry, hundreds of Danish soldiers armed with tomahawks and swords, but also two infantry banda detachments prepared by the Guardian Brigade, mixed infantry and cavalry, and marched north in separate ways, and the sound of killing was earth-shattering, and the 4,000 troops of Boesas who stayed behind in the camp had just come out, and they were attacked incessantly, and in a panic, they could not resist the offensive of Gawain and Sven at all.

"Damn, it was clear that our side ambushed the pilgrims first, but now that the ambush has been defeated, it has brought down all our camps and fronts!" Boesas was inexplicably resentful, and scolded Kobha for not accepting the right advice in the first place, and for trying to use such a small ambush to deal with so many and such elite pilgrim troops, and after scolding Boesas, he decided not to suffer the immediate loss—he was not prepared to defend Daphne's camp, nor was he ready to move south to close up with the main force of Kobha's camp, but fled in a panic with the remnants of his troops and horses towards Aleppo farther north.

At this time, Kobuha, who was in command of the battalion, did not know that there was a fatal gap in his northern flank because of the flight of Boesas.

The king of Mosul, together with his favored Budakis, waved the order to attack: General Karagdi, who had been ordered, galloped out of the formation with 2,000 cavalry, ready to attack Baldwin's headquarters.

By this time, Gawain and Raymond's follow-up had all crossed the iron bridge, crossed the vital hill, and swooped down on it, and the Guardian Brigade and Baldwin withstood the attacks of countless infantry on Kobha's right flank; The Gimagys Brigade appeared in the wilderness on the right side of the hill, forming a formation, and was inextricably strangled by the rushing Karaghdi cavalry, covering the flanks of the friendly Baldwin, and resolutely preventing the other side from turning around.

Gawain's most elite Red Hand Brigade, under the command of Merlot, six banda in the front three and three in the back, staggered in the rear of the front two brigade lines, erecting countless and dense large infantry spears, are calmly watching the bloody battle ahead, in a state of "accumulation".

"Alternate battles, take possession of that stream, and soon the pilgrims will be scattered by thirst and lack of water." Kobha's death order was to guard the stream that flowed out of the mountain and around the camp in front of the camp, and he knew that the previous battle plan did not serve to defeat the pilgrims, but from the city of Antioch and the iron bridge here, on the vast battlefield in the middle, only this stream could be drunk, and the large number of pilgrims on both wings were heavily armoured, and could not hold on long in this hot and dry weather.

In the midst of the hot air, the two fronts of St. Paul's Gate and Iron Bridge were so dense that they could collide in the air, and the pilgrims and Turkic soldiers were facing each other, tearing and biting together, and the men and horses were sweating like rain. According to Kobuha's allocation, a group of Turkic manpower retreated, and another group came in relay, so that his strength was inexhaustible.

Beneath the heavy and stuffy chain mail, cloaks, and helmets, Baldwin's Foot Knights, Gregor's Gimagis Brigade, and Branas's Defender Brigade swordsmen, although they had slain many enemies, were met by a steady stream of fresh men, and the warriors began to fight with them in a fierce battle, and the warriors were sweating and their lips were so dry that they could not bear it any longer.

But they still did not dare to retreat, because if they did, they would likely be pursued by the Turks and routed (on the other front, the ranks of the lords such as Godfrey and Bohemond were in a slightly better situation - Peter the hermit mobilized many old and weak women and children, and brought water from the Falfa River and the city's wells in buckets to quench the thirst of the warriors).

The Red Hand Brigade was still only a hundred and fifty feet behind, waiting quietly, and Merlot, the head of the camp, who hung the Christfish ornament, frowned and was very nervous, and many of the Dugelius and flag officers beside him came one after another, begging to throw the brigade into battle and take over the comrades in front.

But Merlot followed the Grand Duke's instructions, and was still gritting his teeth and not throwing out the killer weapon of the Red Hand Brigade.

It wasn't until he saw a huge flame suddenly erupt from a striking ridge east of the city of Antioch further behind the Kobuha camp.

As the flames rose and the shouts boiled, all the Turkic and Persian infantry knights who were fighting in front of the Kobuha camp involuntarily looked back, and the prince of Mosul also turned his face briefly, and the red light was slightly imprinted on his stunned face, and they soon understood that the location of the whole army's granary was the location of the flames, which means that all our army rations were burned and finished!

This also means that the tank red raid was successful.

Because in the battle of the narrow road in the mountain pass, Tantarred completely went berserk, and when a large group of enemy troops was approaching behind, he attacked forward with all his might, and finally broke the Turkic soldiers defending the granary mountains, and then swung his sword and rushed up the hillside with Estus and Pak Ade father and son. At the entrance of the granary, the Turks piled up stone ramparts, on which several powerful Persian winch crossbows were laid, and fired large arrows and javelins at Tancred's team, and everyone fell to the ground in terror, but Tancred did not have the slightest fear, took advantage of the gap between the Turks' round of shooting, picked up the shields of his fallen comrades, stepped on the stone barrier more than ten feet high, and slashed all the Turks by the side of a ballista, and the rest of the Armenian and Calabrian soldiers who were inspired and inspired also flocked to follow up, and finally successfully captured the granary, Arson and burning.

The soldiers and horses of Mosul, who had come from all directions to reinforce the granary, were only half a step away from success, and watched the granary fall under the surprise attack of the enemy, followed by a complete collapse of morale, because no matter how many troops and no matter how well equipped they were, they could not fight when all the food was destroyed. So this group of people, the first to flee, abandoned their camps and fortifications along the valleys of the Iron Gate Fortress, and scattered in the direction of the Euphrates, and suddenly disappeared without a trace.

The atmosphere of terror and despair quickly spread towards the large battalion in Kobha, "What the hell are my food, the garrisons and the ambushers doing!" Kobha cried out in pain, it was too late, and when he looked back, he saw that the Khorasan servants and peasants who had been forcibly recruited in the wooden fence of the camp were the first to flee without their lives, even if the slaves guarding the camp were slashing and slashing with their knives, it was to no avail. Soon, there was chaos and commotion in his tent, and some of the boys raised by Kobha, hearing the terrible news outside, screamed and threw down all kinds of cosmetics, trampled on their companions, and fled through the back door of the tent. )