Knowing of the urgent military situation on the Northern Front, Gawain did not dare to slack off, and he commanded the most elite Janissaries and cavalry troops, always stationed in Adrianople, "just waiting for the opportunity to fight the Bolgar cavalry, whose men and horses are said to be able to meet together, to avoid any arrow, to cross any obstacle, to gallop on the plains or in the mountains." One of the valuable lessons of the previous Roman generals was www.biquge.info never fight Moses in any area that favored the galloping cavalry of Mosya. ”

But this made Gawain's blood boil even more.

Truth be told, in his letter to Branas, Gawain divided the enemy into four heavy groups, but what he valued most was "the enemy army of Mosya"—"as long as this road of men and horses is defeated, the rest of Berdin and his ilk have nothing to fear." ”

Because Anna repeatedly told her husband before the expedition, "For four hundred years the Roman army has been invincible to the Scythian barbarians of Mosia." Their nobles were skilled in horsemanship, archery, swords and spears, while the infantry was played by cunning Slavs, who were constantly absorbing defectors from our country to increase the strength of their armies. When the Romans surpassed them in quality, they won by quantity; And the Romans surpassed them in numbers, and they won by quality. They were skilled in cavalry, mountain warfare, ambush warfare, and raiding warfare, and God arranged them to live in the northern part of the Roman Empire in order to remind all Romans not to forget the horror of barbarian invasions. Oh, forget that you are also a big barbarian...... "Emperor Vasily a hundred years ago, the little Vasily, poured all his strength into the country, and Bulgaria . After more than twenty years of fierce warfare and brutal punishments, the Macedonian rebels finally turned the region into a province of the Empire, and now they disobey their new masters and collude with many rebellious Pronian nobles to launch a furious rebellion.

"Not only to strike at them, but also to annihilate their living force. In this way, in the future conquest war, our side can gain an overwhelming advantage. In the palace, Gawain looked at the map of Bulgaria, which stretched and was full of treacherous mountains, and made such a determination, "I will soon go east to reinforce Vikron Fort, and now my plan is as follows......"

As a result, before the emperor could finish his words, several heralds entered the palace in a panic, and they brought the bad news of the Viklon front: "The bandit armies of Mosya, Bolgar, and Wallachia have routed the Alemanni brigade in the field, and three detachments of the brigade have been chased and intercepted by the opposing cavalry and lost, and the rest have abandoned Fort Vilon, crossed the Vileka River in a hurry, and fled towards Fort Vesee!" ”

Gawain felt like he had been slapped on the cheek by a barbarian whip, and he was very annoyed and asked the herald what was going on.

The heralds were scattered, but they could only give a general idea: it turned out that Gawain had previously ordered this newly formed poor Han army, which lacked a shooting team and had not been trained in spears, to hold Fort Vylon, stock up on supplies for the decisive battle, and wait until I rushed here with the main force to fight the enemy.

As a result, when the Alemanni brigade first arrived on this battlefield, most of the people had no discipline at all, and they were originally besieging the city on the eastern front, and they were still capable of fighting and fighting, but here it showed its original form: Kadam sent light cavalry to plunder and provoke under the city, and this group of impatient Germans raised their weapons and lined up out of the city in a noisy, and were lured to a wasteland without danger - Kadam led more than 10,000 elite cavalry to attack and kill on several sides, and half of the three detachments in the front of the Alemani brigade escaped, and the rest ran wildly and fled, even the castle did not dare to return, and discarded a large number of materials and equipment to the enemy.

Khadam then swept across the entire north of the Villeka River, capturing a large amount of supplies at Fort Vikron, before heading south.

The "Bulgarian Brigade" stationed in Vizeh (the second line of defense) was based on the Plonian soldiers who had been reorganized in Thrace, and had a deep understanding of this group of wolves from the north, so they rode horses and constantly counterattacked the southward front of the Kadam army, trying to push them back to the north of the river, but they lost more than won several battles.

It turned out that the Moses also set up a barricade, and they imitated the Alans and Pechenegs, forming large carts in a circle, and letting the Slavic servants and infantry erect "pedal Rus cannons" inside, flying stones and arrows, to protect their baggage camps, and the cavalry was outflanking outside the barricade - the "Bulgarian brigade" was repeatedly defeated, and many even fled with horses and weapons, or defected to the enemy.

The imperial capital of Constantinople was only about a hundred miles away from Vizeburg, so it was a scene of panic and great disaster, and even many peasants in the suburbs were instigated by the lurking rebel nobles and clergy to burn down the holy farms and kill officials loyal to the new country, and the remaining Barcelissa declared martial law in the whole city, canceled any entertainment and competitive activities, and sent a garrison, a fire brigade, a post agent, and an inner palace guard, wearing a sharp sword everywhere to arrest the agitators, The imperial tomb and the columns of the city's Constantine Square were covered with executed corpses.

But Anna was also a little frightened, and she wrote a top-secret letter to Gawain, quoting the ancient historian, "When the light of the Phaethon (the god of the sun) is dwindled on the earth, the spears of the Romans can match the arrows of the Mosian barbarians." ”

When the letter was delivered to the Adrianople Palace, Gawain felt a stomach ache, but still insisted on looking at the map table, and the little sunfish who had been in charge of taking care of (supervising) his daily life sat on a stool, and handed him spices and herbs to eat. Then the Emperor pointed his finger at Vizeburg, and said to all the officers waiting at the foot of the steps, "Gather a great army, and I will kill all these northern bandits in the glaciers of the Vileka River." ”

A few days later, a steady stream of horses began to converge on Thrace.

First of all, the 4,000 Paulese soldiers sent by Kabeamia, most of them armed with advanced firearms, were painstakingly trained by the female consul with a large amount of money, and the commander was an Armenian named Atami, who was also promoted from the bottom by the female consul to lead the army.

Four thousand believers, armed with guns and caravans, disembarked from the port of Medea. They landed on Thracian land one after another, along with 5,000 Confederate servants sent by Haddadi and Sylván, mostly Kurds.

At the same time, 5,000 frontier people from the districts of Dollilaem and Pisidia, also disembarked from Gallipoli, passed through the capital, and rushed to Vizeburg, overseered by the two generals Marinus and Monomachus, who also had firearms, chariots, and cavalry.

At this moment, the garrison force in the area of Fort Wisee instantly swelled to more than 18,000 people, and this speed made Kadam feel astonished, as if the soldiers had emerged from the ground and the sea overnight.