Chapter 4: Winter

Roland shook his head and gave up on persuasion, "How I hope that after the halo of the sun dissipates today, some of you will survive. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

After saying that, he returned to his camp.

"Ready to fire!" In front of the barricade, the gunners stood in two rows of artillery positions, armed with firing tables and small flags, and in a straight line behind the large perfume bottle guns with wheels, mounds were piled up to counteract the recoil.

Soon the gunners reported the data on the range, angle of fire and charge, and when the gunners were done, they said, "Divide the guns!" The gunnery shouted and waved the flag forward.

"Bang!" The leftmost of the four large perfume cannons were the first to spew fireworks, and the wheels spun back sharply with a screeching sound, retreating halfway up the mound before re-entering.

As the cannonballs whistled out of the gap in the ranks of the Pisidian Frontier Army, they rained down on the front line of the fanatics, and in one fell swoop, knocking over several in one go: the second, third, and fourth guns, one after the other, fired powerful shells that knocked over more fanatics, leaving their front line full of gaps and wounded lying on the ground.

The infantry and cavalry of the frontier people cheered loudly, and the fanatics began to scurry, their ranks bloated together, unable to guard against and evade artillery, or rather, in this battle, the fanatical peasants alone were no match for the Crescent Mujahideen of Sebastian, and were completely confused and confused by the "thunder and lightning and iron balls from the devil's cannon".

"All artillery, one salvo!" After a while, the gunnery commander shouted again.

At this time, the four large perfume bottle cannons, the eight rear-loading perfume bottle rapid-fire cannons in front and the thirty or so shrimp whisker cannons, burst out at the same time with dense lead shots of various colors and cast iron cannonballs, all of which smashed into the flesh and blood of the fanatics, and their icons were shattered, and the dense formation was also flesh and blood.

The trumpets sounded, and in front of the green smoke from the shrimp cannon, General Monomachus took the lead, leading all the cavalry to roar their horses' hooves, swing their shining swords, and noisily pounce on the left flank of the fanatical army.

And the border militia in the center and on the right flank were also armed with spears and ran and stormed up.

At the forefront were six squadrons of the Komaloi Cavalry Regiment, formed in an extremely long horizontal formation, commanded by Gaia. Sanzabal, the cavalrymen wore semicircular red kuman hats on their heads, the ribbons tied around the hats danced in the wind, their legs curled up in the back of the waddling saddle, and in front of them were fork stands, and in the midst of a roaring cry, the cavalrymen of the Comaloy Cavalry Regiment of the six squadrons, all the short guns lit with arquebuses on the forks of the saddles, galloped to a place about twenty or thirty feet in front of the left flank of the fanatics, fired a round like a thunderbolt, and then withdrew the short guns, crouched on the saddle and withdrew from the direction of the two wings. The rest of the Komaloy, Oghuz and Frontier Genat cavalry followed, armed with weapons in a flash of lightning, and burst into the disorganized enemy formation.

One of the first was the one who came yesterday to discuss surrender, and he took off the white flag cloth wrapped around his arm and raised it in his hand. Taking this as a signal, more than 100 Plonian cavalrymen in front of the battle immediately turned back, turned back to their horses, and trampled on "their own people" with the enemy.

Less than half an hour after the battle began, the left flank of the Believers collapsed, and the successful Tarsus cavalry turned back to the front and began to storm the center and rear of the uncovered fanatics, while the rear camp of the fanatics also began to catch fire.

Two hours later, the Nika Brigade also attacked from the north, and the war turned into a slaughter of mountains and valleys, and many "hills" miraculously grew on the mountains of the battlefield, all of which were piled up with the corpses of rebellious believers and farmers, and the soldiers of the Tarsus frontier stepped on the backs or chests of these corpses, fiercely chasing after those who were still alive or on the run.

It is worth mentioning that the soldiers of the Rinika Brigade were particularly brutal in the killing, as most of them were originally Orthodox Christians, but under the lure of the Holy Estate, they did not blink an eye when they killed their fellow believers, and they blocked the other party's retreat, because the new military system had not yet been implemented on a large scale, and they used the traditional swords and bows in their hands to destroy all the rebels.

The positions on the northern front held by the Nika Brigade alone had fallen 6,500 corpses, accounting for nearly seventy percent of the entire number of Death Maniacs.

The monks and peasants who revolted in Lydia paid a terrible price for their short-sightedness and recklessness, and nearly 10,000 were killed and 30,000 taken prisoner on the battlefield of Philadophiam, and according to Roland's proposal, all the captured men were to be escorted to the city of Tarsus to dig the canal, along with the Crescent river slaves.

The first snow of winter began to fall, slowly covering the fields with corpses.

On the edge of the city of Philadofiam, captured Orthodox monks and kulaks were hung from trees on both sides of the road on charges of incitement.

As for the vast majority of the Plonian landlords, they were bought off by the "policy of redemption of the prison lands", including more than 80 people who had not participated in the war before, they also surrendered one after another, and they received the new holy fiefs without any psychological obstacles, and were willing to serve the tiger, becoming the minions of Gawain's suppression of the newly conquered areas, and never mentioning the words "unchanged for fifty years" again.

Gawain's exact words were, "In order to enforce true justice, I will not hesitate to destroy a hundred villages, as long as I can make the other thousand live better in the future." ”

This winter was destined to be bitterly cold: the Orthodox peasants of the Lydian region were all silent, and no one dared to rise up again to resist or make trouble, and they did not dare to attack the conspirators or their fellows on the royal lands, nor to mention the service or donation for the monastery or the lords of Plonia. Bandinelli planned to form a commune and pay a shield tax to feed the people's army.

At the same time, Roland had begun to build the first synagogue town next to the city of Fiam in Philadelphia, starting with a large monastery.

Brenus also appeared at this time as a great herdsman, pacifying and exhorting the people, cleaning up the situation, and assisting Roland in his work.

In the conservatory of the courtyard on the waterfront of Alalmanburg, Gawain held Turianus in the air, the first time he had seen his child, Turianus was energetic and vigorous, as strong as his other children.

Although many gifts were given, the little sunfish was still annoyed and did not go out of the study, and was greeted by her grandfather.

After playing for a while, Turianus's face suddenly turned red, which alerted Gawain and called the servants and nurses.

But Turianus soon giggled again, kicking his feet between his father's raised hands, and the red on his face faded.

"Well, I thought it was ......," Gawain turned his head and said at the same time as the mentor standing nearby.

But before he could finish speaking, the treacherous Turianus burst out a stream of urine, splashing Gawain's head and neck, which was just his delaying tactic.

"When you attack the north right now, you can also use Turianus's strategy." The elder mentor immediately laughed at the scene.