Chapter 24: Theodorus Sanctifies

A Trabzonnong banner officer was covered with heavy elite armor, roaring angrily, taking advantage of the opportunity of the four corners of the spearmen phalanx to change ammunition, holding an oak cavalry spear to rush, but against the column of Leggimeggis soldiers in front of him The round helmets of the Leggim Maggis soldiers flashed in the sun, gritted their teeth and stretched out the spears like branches of a dense forest, the war horse of the peasant cavalry banner officer roared in fear, and ran back and forth with his master to dodge, so the flag officer simply threw the oak spear into the spear array, and was dropped in mid-air by several large infantry spears. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He drew the four-foot-long broadsword he wore on his waist, and prepared to slash the unprotected firecrackers on his horse.

As he was doing this, his eyes, which were hidden between the brim of the iron helmet and his visor, clearly saw that the group of firecrackers had brought out a large firecracker, its Khitan snow consumption was nearly ten times that of ordinary long firearms, and the lead shot was much heavier, pre-loaded, carried by two strong shooters, and now mounted on a birch fork.

The flag officer rushed with his sword raised, and the hook of the large fire gun was also wrenched.

Fifteen feet away, a cloud of smoke exploded, and the armor on the banner officer's chest was shattered, even the broadsword was broken, and heavy lead pellets burst out of his shoulder blades, carrying scattered blood and broken armor, and then the banner officer leaned forward and closed, lying on the saddle, as if he was still struggling to continue the battle.

Three shooters rushed up, dragged him off his horse, pulled out his dagger and dagger to uncover his armor, and stabbed him in the exposed neck and genitals.

In the midst of the bloody battle, the rest of the detachments of the second large phalanx also formed a hollow phalanx one after another, and let go of the large infantry spears like porcupines to resist the attack of the Trabzon peasant cavalry, mixed with small squads of archers and skirmishers, fiercely opposing the peasant cavalry. The smoke of countless spears, war horses, and firearms was sometimes mixed, sometimes colliding, sometimes scattered......

Theodoro, under the banner of the Black Madonna on the high rock, saw that his peasant cavalry team had been scattered, and could no longer form a wedge of onslaught, and was met with strong resistance, and failed to break through the opponent's formation with a blitzkrieg, he couldn't help but look at the direction of the faint Chakmak Mountain, and his tone was desperate and complaining, "I concentrated all the elites and rushed here from Amasya and Cheng Beidao to contain Gawain's main force, but what is that Kutaisi kid doing?" In the face of Gawain's small number of left-behind troops, there are 20,000 people, 20,000 people, but they have not broken through the cathedral over there until now! ”

Before Theodorus could comprehend, all the spear men of the three detachments of the Gimagis Brigade of the Tarsus side near the stream, after the commander Gregor raised the silver tassel banner on his horse, shouted together with General Count Parni, "Glorious Syrian warriors of Christ, hold on your spears and rush forward!" ”

"For São Paulo!" All the soldiers lowered their spears in unison, and the blades of the spears were slightly tilted towards the ground, forming a sharp formation like "boar heads", and began to rush in a sea of mountains.

On the other hand, the third large phalanx finally successfully advanced to its destination, and then spread out along the axis of the street, also advancing rapidly.

The second phalanx sandwiched in the center soon began to do the same.

Under the cover of firearms and bows and arrows, thousands of elite spearmen with unstoppable momentum crossed the three guri line between Chakmak Creek and the Muha hills, and roared forward with spears and pushed flat!

Many of the soldiers of the Red Hand Brigade were holding their breath before the battle, they had experienced the bullying and fighting at the beginning of the battle at the time of the Trabzon peasant army, especially the cavalry team, in Paphragonia, who would have thought that in a few years they would repay it with ten times the arrogance of Kars!

The Trabzon peasant army followed, which can be described as "falling apart".

The Rus mercenary team, which has always been known for its strength and bravery, was crushed by the spear array!

The peasant cavalry, which had always regarded itself as the "Flower of the Sea of Youkexing", was overthrown and killed by the spear array, and some of them had begun to retreat and flee;

Trabzon's archers, known for their hunting skills and precision in archery, began to flee with mountains and valleys abandoning their lines.

"Gawain, Gawain...... David, David! "The old general under the banner of the Black Lady was bleeding from his eyes when he saw his troops attacked by a frenzy of spears, with heavy casualties and retreating, and he could not help but shout Gawain's name and then anger at the incompetence of the army of the builder David.

The whole skyrim is in Theodoro. Gabuyas's eyes swirled mournfully, and the smoke of Mount Chakmak, the heights of Sanukh, the hills of Muha, and the trembling and trembling main fort of Kars all swirled.

Then a beautiful smile appeared in front of his eyes, his wife Marianne, "It's all over, I have been running Trabzon for decades, and the elite of my majestic division is really like a late summer tussy, about to be dissipated." Goodbye, Marianne. I am about to become a saint here to guard the black sea of Trabzon. ”

At the last moment of his life, Theodoro never understood that with nearly 20,000 elite infantry in Georgia, he could not break through the small barricades of the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles, and there were only five detachments formed by Gawain from various brigades, "David, a young man with no beard on his mouth, has failed me." ”

According to the reports of the soldiers of the 1st phalanx of the Gimagis Brigade who witnessed the battle, when they rushed to a high ground at the end of the position with the banner of the Black Virgin fluttering at the end of the position, they found that it was originally a swampy sandbar washed and irrigated by overflowing streams, but now it was covered with the corpses of Trabzon peasant soldiers, and their boots were not wet at all, so they stepped on it in groups.

The old general attacked quickly, and he kept his promise to the builder David, because when he led 6,000 elite soldiers to Cals, he actually had no supply and grain supply at all, and it can be said that he mustered the courage to fight against the water.

Theodoro had broken his covenant many times before but survived, and this time he kept it, only to end up with the destruction of his entire army.

The soldiers of Jimagis, who had stormed the banner heights, were met with a desperate resistance from a group of enemies, including young military musicians, standard-bearers, and monks who accompanied the emperor on his expedition, all of whom were finally killed in front of the vertical and horizontal spear blades, and none of them flinched.

On the rocks higher on the side, a group of dismounted warriors of the Komaloy Cavalry Archery Regiment occupied the place with long and short guns (holding long guns with two short guns hanging from their shoulder straps), and condescendingly fired at the place where the Black Madonna was located, "The last general with the golden crown there was almost broken to pieces before he could rush in front of our spear formation, and he was covered with ornaments symbolizing his status and martial honors, and later we identified the corpse, and learned that it was the great General Theodoro, and that no soldiers had robbed him of his relics and armor - Because this hero was simply ashamed to flee, and his team was the same, and there were no more than a thousand people who fled. ”