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It turned out that after the secret meeting at Fort Maidens, Gawain personally handed out a delicate silver plate to Branass and Merlo, and strictly stipulated the time for assembling and marching, because the military operations of the two brigades were carried out separately, so the precise coordination of time was extremely important, even if most of the generals in this era could not realize the importance of this, but Gawain was different, "From now on, the silver plate in your hands represents my order!" ”

Therefore, during the covert march, the 4,000 men of the Guardian Brigade all sailed from the harbor of the Syrian Gate, on the fleets of Winmoha and Andreev, plus several large sailing merchant ships of Amalfi, and quickly crossed the Gulf of Issus, and disembarked in the port of Malrus in the Earl of Adana, and then marched quickly to the city of Mamistra, where the Earl of Gauwin had reached a secret treaty, and under the advance planning of Countess Goldchild, a large number of light ships were assembled at the mouth of the lower Feramis, Cargo ships were even rented from the local church, and the whole brigade boarded the ships, and many people from the two sides of the river were hired to pull the boats with ropes, so that they could successfully swim up the river and attack the river in the southeast of the city of Castabara.

On the other hand, the Red Hand Brigade under the command of Merlot, took the land pass of the Syrian Gate, advanced directly to the city of Issus for supplies, and then reached the southwest corner of the city of Kastabara.

When Prince Ruben got the news, the two brigades were already like iron pincers, less than twenty guilla miles away from the castle, and they quickly caught it!

"Gawain lied to me." Ruben wailed angrily.

The whole camp of the council was suddenly in chaos, and some nobles were keenly aware that this was a plan of siege and annihilation carefully planned by the pilgrim group, and now "there was a large number of Norman troops in front of them, and Gawain and his men and horses were coming along Kastabara, and while the situation of outflanking had not yet been formed, Your Royal Highness the Prince, you immediately withdrew the cavalry of Saliki in front, and turned it into our vanguard, and advanced towards Kastabara while attacking, and our infantry and civilian army battalions cooperated with the rear to prevent the Normans from pursuing." As long as we can rendezvous with General Mamykonian in the castle and fight each other, then the enemy is helpless against us. ”

At this time, a prince's personal retinue expressed a different opinion, "The strongest troops of the Normans are their knights, and if we withdraw the cavalry and turn around, it will not only discourage the army, but also expose our people and baggage to the terrible charge of the Normans, and the losses will be great." Now it is better to let Saliki's cavalry rush to the city of Ravodra and hold the direction of the Norman advance, and then His Royal Highness the prince will calmly retreat with the infantry battalion and meet General Mamykonyan. ”

"But what about Tubesena already taken by the enemy, and what about Laverdra?" While Reuben was hesitating, a third letter from the castle arrived, also in ciphertext, which said, "A large number of Normans have come to attack our castle, but they have been repulsed by our valiant defenders, and now the enemy is surrounding and setting up equipment, please send reinforcements as soon as possible, Your Highness the Prince!" ”

In an instant, Ruben sent a document to General Saliki's camp in front of him, and sent 2,000 lightly armed civilians to help, and gave a death order to "hold on to Laverdra and hold off the Normans to the death."

Ruben then ordered all the soldiers in the camp to pack up their bags, escort them and prepare to turn, but the camp was suddenly full of people, and all the cattle and all the goods of the nobles and the soldiers of the civil army wanted to take away them, and at once the tail was so great and chaotic that the road to Castabala was jammed with livestock, wagons, and messy servants, and the shouting and whipping were incessant—and it was not until evening that the camp was converted into a marching procession. As a result, before the difficult march of three gulli, even more terrifying news came: ahead, in the wilderness between our army and the city of Kastabara, a large number of cavalry also with red hands appeared!

Ruben was about to vomit blood, "Send all the riders in the camp to scout carefully, maybe it's Mamikonian's team, you don't want to see the wind or rain, if anything goes wrong, you will all be responsible." ”

The results of the reconnaissance became clear after half an hour: there was nothing wrong with the previous report, and the formation was in the wilderness ahead, and it was none other than the Seleucian cavalry under the command of Gawain himself, who blocked the retreat of the whole army.

Gawain's cavalry was 2,500 men, including 1,200 red-handed cavalry, about 1,000 Genat cavalry from Polybi, Orson, and Monomachus, and 200 lightly armed cavalry reinforced by Baldwin. Because of the previous purchase of a large number of Turkic horses in the territory of Giliki, most of the Gawain cavalry achieved two horses per person, one manned, one armoured, weapons, forked wood, the banner was agitated in the wind, and the men and horses galloped like lightning, causing the entire Armenian villages and towns on the east bank of the Sanus River to be shocked and frightened, and the people fled like a tide, "Do not attack and seize any enemy strongholds along the way, and do not fall in love with all resistance in the face of all resistance, all of them go around, and we have only one goal, that is, to kill Reuben's hyena!" On Quicksilver's back, Gawain's white eye-catching cloak was like a flying flag, and he stretched out his arms and forward, constantly shouting this sentence to all the cavalry, and as a result, the entire cavalry galloped more than fifty guli in one day and night, and rushed to five guli in front of Ruben's camp before stopping.

"Stand-up wood." Then Gawain ordered that he should take up the formation of the slow hill where the wilderness was traversed, and that the forks carried by the second horses should be lined up in front of the formation, and then all men dismounted, and put on their armor: the Genat cavalry was in the center, the company of St. Cyril and the company of the New Baptized were divided into the left and right flanks, and the two hundred cavalry, supported by Baldwin, circled and galloped around the wilderness, stirring up a huge flying dust, and bewildering the enemy.

Then all the cavalry in the front line spread their bowstrings, and before them, the sun was rising, and the large camp of Armenians was rushing in like a tidal wave......

Then this was the scene: Ruben selected the elite from the camp, and also lined up on the left, center and right wings, and attacked fiercely. The Jinat cavalry in the center of Gawain's formation, all dismounted and stood in formation, arrows rained down, and with the blocking of the row of forked woods, they repelled and blocked the assault of the Armenian central army over and over again, and then the two red hand cavalry companies took turns to use war horses, outflanking the left and right with spears, crushing and ravaging the infantry of the Armenian People's Army.

"Call Saliki's cavalry!" Reuben, who was overseering the battle, lost his composure and shouted hysterically. (To be continued.) )