Chapter 47: Wright's eyes
"There's no way, let's protect ourselves first." Branas, who was shouting, could not understand the subtlety of his noble brother at this moment, so he rode his horse, stepped on the shallow water that rushed rapidly on both sides of the riverbank, and rushed over with more than 30 remnants of his subordinates.
In fact, Gawain's four companies, because the coordination was not pure enough, until half an hour later, could not completely close and seal the Plivensus River outside the castle, and many of the scattered Byzantine cavalry became fish that slipped through the net.
Isaac, who was running in the opposite direction, was soon noticed by the soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade, who had occupied the tower last night, because there were as many as two or three hundred cavalry around him, and several of them raised the banner of urgency.
The first to get the signal and rush to the battlefield was the nearest "New Baptist Cavalry Company", which still followed the battle formation of the codex: the archers covered the advance on the perimeter, and the Lombard cavalry in armor and spears lined up to attack. Soon, more than 100 Magyar cavalry of the Saint-Cyril cavalry company arrived and began to fire fierce bows and arrows on the flanks at Isaac's breakout team.
Arrows rained down on Isaac's cavalry from two directions, and the generals around the emperor's brother were constantly wounded and fell, and the blood flying from everywhere splashed Sebastoprat's gorgeous cloak and armor dirty, "Isn't this strategy of mine good enough?" Why do enemies react so fast! Isaac, who was lying in the saddle, had no way out, and could not help but fall into the fiasco of the Nicaean Gorge three years ago, the same arrows shot from all over the sky, the same surrounded by iron walls, the difference. This time, the opponent is a galloping cavalry, and the efficiency of encirclement and annihilation is even higher.
"Hey. Where are you going? The Emperor's mournful voice rang outβand his servants began to turn their horses' heads and flee in all directions.
As soon as the words fell. An arrow with a strong wind pierced his mount's neck, and the Second Glory of the Empire cried out and fell into the grass
Then, with swords and lassoes, several Magyar horsemen came to the place where the nobleman had fallen off his horse, only to find that there was only the beautifully decorated corpse of the horse, and the person was nowhere to be found, but that was no longer a concern. Several people immediately jumped down and began to take off the gold saddle and halter.
"The enemy began to break through indiscriminately, and most of them were annihilated by us!" By noon, the desperate town had opened its doors and surrendered, and Godfrey and Baldwin were so satisfied with the rush of prisoners of war that they spoke to Gawain.
But the Grand Duke of Barry held the horse's head scepter and looked at the small town of Sophia with its smoke and fire, and the mountains of loot. Thoughtful look.
"Quick, quick, send these baggage to the other side of the city, tonight the Grand Duke will give the order. Occupy the east side of Fort Sophia and camp along the banks of the Plivensus River. "In the meadow outside the city, Wright, who had always been unlucky before and was not a member of the Brotherhood, was a camp officer. Bozia was wielding a medium-length sword. In the middle of two Greek soldiers, he commanded dozens of military servants carrying slings and axes. Pushing the cart, we walked along the roads and forests along the city walls.
on the entire border. There are poplars flying everywhere, and the corpses of men and horses falling in the grass, some of the wounded were captured by the Dalian team to the back to rescue, some of the dead have not had time to converge, most of them are from the Byzantine army, among which there are many Greek military nobles, who died under the arrows in this shocking "reverse assault", which can't help but make Wright from Sicily quite sad, not so much that he is a soldier in the army, rather than a sentimental poet who loves life, What's more, he thought that the mistake of the camping plan had caused the Grand Duke to lose face and was fined several months.
But what are those little silver coins compared to these miserable corpses?
Just when Wright was actively thinking about the meaning of life, a few poplars burrowed into his nostrils raised at a forty-five degree angle, and then it was as numb as a dozen small worms swimming in it, no matter how deep a person is, he will also sneeze, and Wright is certainly no exception.
"Ahββββββh Wright's head was flung from top to bottom, and the whole grass and bushes in front of him were shaking violently up and down, left and right, and his eyes were about to pop out, he thought so rubbing his nose, but the visual capture of that moment just now made it clear to him that about twenty feet away, there was a dark shadow wriggling! Wright was confident in his eyesight, and in the dark of night, with a little star-sized light from the famous Norman lord's castle, he was able to row across the dark waters, climb the stone wall and climb into it to have an affair with the lord's wife.
Frightened, Wright stepped back, and then he locked on again, and sure enough, there was a dark shadow, crawling there, as if he also sensed that he might be seen through, and was getting out, "In the name of Christ, come out and surrender!" Wright mustered up his courage and shouted, and then drew his saber sharply, but found that his hand was held backwards, so he hurriedly shook it a few times, regained its grip, and walked over, and the two Greek soldiers beside him were also startled, and then one left and one right, seven or eight feet next to Wright, with the cat holding a spear at the waist, clattered along the grass, and forced over with Wright.
The rest of the servants also made a noise, some of them hid behind the baggage vehicles, and took daggers and axes to protect themselves, and some of the bold ones waved their slings and surrounded them.
Just as the shadow jumped again, Wright shouted at the top of his voice, "Don't move, I've found you!" Then he jumped and raised his sword heavily, imitating the tone of Grand Duke Gawain, and shouted to the servants behind him, "Shoot, shoot all."
More than a dozen slings roared and smashed over, fluttering and breaking the grass, and the black shadow seemed to have been hit twice, and cried in a low voice, stumbling to the ground, and could no longer lurk, so he covered his hands in pain and stood up, and the soldiers coaxed, and they were all frightened and retreated, including the battalion officer Wright.
The man was dressed in beautiful armor, and a cloak rimmed with silk and gold, and with an animal skin quiver, and the diamonds on the hilt and blade of the sword glittered in the sun, and Wright and everyone were stunned, and they all knew that the Magyars or Cumans in the cavalry company alone could make a small fortune by collecting the ornaments from the dead bodies of the Greek nobles, not to mention this fellow who looked like a "big fish" at first sight.
"Damn it, despicable one." The man cursed loudly in Greek, then got up, drew his bowstring, and aimed an arrow at Wright, who was in the lead, but because his hand was wounded by a stone, the arrow had no strength and fell a few feet to the left of Wright.
Wright laughed, and then shouted with several soldiers and servants, forming a simple formation in front and back, some with swords, some holding Italian spears (the hooks on both sides of the blades were short and rounded), and ran towards the target.
Then the man angrily swung his bow down, drew his sword in his left hand, leaned his back against a low tree, and made a gesture of swearing to defend to the end! (To be continued.) )