Chapter 15: Unstoppable

Gawain quickly raised the horse's head scepter and slashed it down without hesitation.

The infantry of the entire Red Hand Brigade was silent for a while, and then the trumpets of the cavalry suddenly sounded, and four squadrons of two hundred and eighty cavalrymen hurriedly raised their bows and arrows, raised their shining sabers and swords, and rushed up the hill with a roar.

Then in the infantry array of the Red Hand Brigade, the flutes sounded one after another, and the soldiers strode forward and began to raise their spears again, and Dim gritted his teeth and persevered, holding a huge battle flag, one left and one right with the Ichthyosaurus flag held by Giovanni, each walking at the front of the line, guiding the infantry attack.

Seeing that the whole Red Hand Brigade was rushing towards the hill, and Bohemond and Tetisius also moved on both flanks, and in an instant the whole area on the west side of the hill was filled with the sound of human feet and horses' hooves trampling on the ground, and apart from these sounds, there was no noise, and it was so neat and powerful that it was terrifying. When the one hundred and twenty slaves sent by Adesonius had just crossed the ridgeline, their vision was also wide, but it was soon filled with a denser scene: below the mountain, a large number of pilgrims and Romanian cavalry were roaring to re-attack, and behind their line were the enemy like a sea of sand and dust, and the spears moving as swiftly as the forest walls, "The enemy has launched a general attack!" One of the slaves turned and waved his arm in the direction of the banner of the Emir of Adesonius on the other side of the hill, giving such a signal.

But then, more than a dozen arrows came from below, piercing and tearing through his upper body, and he kept his posture down slightly. He tumbled off his horse. Then rows of red-handed cavalry and Plonian cavalry leaped forward, along with a hundred and twenty Turkic slaves who were just about to get away in a hurry. The scuffle was torn together, and the dogfights and screams rose into the sky like a whirlwind.

Within seconds. Adesonius, who commanded the banner, knew that his advance party would not be able to resist, but before he could signal the retreat, more than half of the Turkic slaves on the hill were killed and wounded, and the rest of the tides fled along the original route towards their own array, with a loud cry, Adesonius angrily bent his horsewhip, feeling shameless. The morale of the whole team has also been greatly affected, and it is no longer possible to come and go and send small teams to fight for the hill, "Allah bless the sword of the creed, our horses will now gain more energy than Ramadan, and all of them will charge against the infidels!" Chop off their heads! ”

"Allah is great! Mohammed! With this command of Adesonius, all the Crescent soldiers of the array rushed towards the hill like a tidal wave that burst the embankment. The archers in the array behind them threw arrows that could obscure the entire sky. Raindrops fell on the hill that had just been occupied by the cavalry.

Gawain, who was in command and was protected by the heavily armoured and axe-wielding Saxon and Varyag guards, saw a tragic scene on the top of the hill, many horses that had lost their masters. There they were scurrying around, and the bodies of the cavalrymen who had been wounded or killed by arrows fell in the grass. With a groan, the rest of the cavalry dismounted. Using mounted spears, irises, and cavalry axes, they formed a formation of infantry - lightly armed crescent soldiers. Climbing up the hill like ants, the Red Hand Cavalry and the Plonian Cavalry began to cover their bodies and necks and those of their comrades with their shields, and waved their swords and battle axes with their other hands, constantly cutting down the oncoming Turks, but the crescent soldiers who approached in a frenzy grew in number, and after they were violently pierced by the tips of their blades and spears, they vomited blood and grabbed their weapons with both hands, and threw themselves forward, sacrificing their lives to block the attacks of the cavalry, and the rest of the followers jumped up on the bodies of those in front of them, and took the opportunity to swing their swords and slash.

The wounded were constantly dragged out by the servants behind, and the cavalry line, after all, was outnumbered, and was soon overstretched by the fierce attacks of the outnumbered men of the Adesonius. "Rush forward, rush forward, die for Allah, and the gates of Paradise are opened!" In the dense formation of the valley behind, many imams were shouting, the drums shook the sky, and beside them, a group of Crescent Cultists who had forgotten their lives and deaths quickly filled the attack line, and there was a great momentum to completely crush the Red Hand Brigade.

The whole hill became a dam under which two raging tides collided with each other, shattering blood and human life, and the armies of Gawain and Tetisius shouted "Allah" and "Allah" and "Prophets" for the armies of Adsonius. The drums rang out rapidly, and the large spears of the infantry of the Gao Cultural Brigade leveled the rows and crossed the loose retreating cavalry line, shouting and reaching the Crescent Cult brigade that was following the influx.

"Ann!" Before the slogan could be uttered, one by one, the Crescentists were pierced and stabbed down by the rapid stabbing spears of the great infantry, their bodies destroyed, and the armor of their protection shattered: the "tide" of the Red Hand Brigade had the upper hand, their infantry spears fierce and unstoppable, and soon the Crescentists threw down their tired corpses and collapsed and rushed down the hill.

"Don't stand back, shoot arrows, shoot arrows!" Adesonius ordered his archers from the Kurdish and Syrian deserts (using small recurve bows capable of rapid fire) to point their halberds at the rapidly surging Redhand Brigade, and then behind the valley woods, many Turkic light horsemen with bows and arrows on their backs continued to march out, ready to wait for the Redhand Brigade to rush down the hill and into the plain, and then lay a deadly siege and blow to them.

On the other side, the attack of the Normans and Tetisius armies on both flanks was also resisted by the men and horses of Adesonius, with bows and spears, in the rugged terrain.

At this time, the core of the two armies had entered a critical period of wrestling, and Adezonius ordered that camels laden with gongs, drums and banners, and his own slave guards, be moved forward a distance of about four hundred feet.

At the same time, Gawain also led the guards, put on the hill full of corpses, and occupied a position overlooking the battlefield. Soon, both Theognes and Tetisius also came to gather, "Gawain, order to restrain the troops, and not to break through any further into the plain area below, for the enemy will come and besiege them with their backhands with their fast horses and sharp arrows!" ”

"Can't stop, pierce all the way." Gawain was unimpressed by Tetisius's cautious proposals, a general who came up completely and fought with momentum and intuition.

Gawain did what he said - the spears of the four Banda infantry detachments were in front, and all the halberders, sword and shield men followed, and they rushed down the hill uncontrollably, and with the terrible sound of drums, flutes, and trumpets, the Crescentists and Turks retreated step by step, and then counterattacked step by step, but they were still unable to solve this overwhelming spear forest charge, and those who turned to the sides were slashed by the covering halberders and swordsmen, so that in front of the infantry spears, the corpses were not counted, and they were unstoppable. (To be continued.) )