Chapter 117: Northern Front Duel

As Gawain and Baldwin said before the war, when the Turks and Persians shot the first arrow at their former comrades, they would not be afraid to shoot the second or third, and even when Baldwin's order was issued, many Crescent archers in the back row also shouted the answer order in the barracks in unison, rushed through the ranks of the archers in the front row and the middle row, rushed to the head of the formation, and faced the Mosul soldiers who were running back, twisting three arrows in their hands, and constantly ****ing up.

At this time, the front part of the Turks, who rushed down from the hill, was a little unstoppable and completely collapsed: the wounded by the arrows were everywhere, and the people who ran backwards were swept over by the arrows fired by Baldwin's archers, and they were all shot in the back. After the rest of the men had fled for a while, they were reprimanded by the flag officers and organized a team to return to battle, only to be forced to be strangled together by Baldwin's first-line foot knights.

The knights and sergeants, after a short period of training in foot combat, wielded short spears, maces, and swords, were extremely ferocious: the sharp scimitars of the Turks were blocked by their shields, and then their weapons were swept indiscriminately, and the heads and fragments of lightly armed Turkic soldiers flew everywhere. In fact, the Earl of Burke was particularly outstanding, he directly used the iron rod with a clamping blade, holding the shield in one hand, the power was infinite, the two Turks swung their knives to cut, the shield in his left hand stretched out, resisted the steps of the Turks over there, and then raised the iron rod with the blade, and slammed another Turk three times in a row, the Turk blocked indiscriminately, and was seen by the Earl of Burke to see the flaw, and sent the sharp blade in front of the iron rod forward, piercing the opponent's chest. Then Burke turned around slightly, the cat bent his waist and thrust the shield, and the Turk on the left was knocked upside down with his weapons to the ground, Burke's eyes widened angrily, and he raised the iron rod and knocked it down, and the Turk's blade was broken into three pieces, and the door of his head was also hit into a big blood pit, and his legs were immediately stretched out and killed.

Soon, the four hundred Turkic veterans holding horses in the rear couldn't hold their positions, but they didn't expect that the other party's group of armored infantry could not be used to defend the battle line, and the charge was so unstoppable. Ignoring their companions, and much less their horses, they surged back towards the hill from which they had set out: there were two great banners of jihad, and if they were taken by the enemy at the beginning of the battle, they would have been thrown into the desert of Arabia!

So the horses of the Turks ran down the hill, and Baldwin's knights on foot were not polite, and many of them grabbed their horses and turned over and rode on, and then, together with Lord Baldwin, who had rushed forward, they struck at the speed of the hill.

"What's the situation, so quickly defeated?" In front of the battalion, Kobuha, who was in charge of the command of the whole army, looked at the people who had fled from the hills of the northern front, and it was really a little unclear whether they were a feint or a real defeat.

"Your Royal Highness, please let me be the general, and pounce on it with all your right wing horses to maintain the defense of that hill!" General Karagdi, who was beside Kobha, hurriedly pleaded.

Kobuha squinted his eyes, through the dense array in front of him, his left flank had already engaged the pilgrims in front of the St. Paul's Gate, and then he remembered the magical hourglass that could bless him with invincibility, and his heart was suddenly very excited, and even produced a very interesting judgment, which can be said to be an enhanced version of his previous deployment, "Let the enemy occupy that hill, and then after they rushed down, the right flank of our army retreated a little - and then the ambush of Boesas on the north side broke out, Carragedi, with all the cavalry on the right flank, will raid the flank of the enemy, and then the infantry on the right flank of our army will counterattack head-on, and the enemy's northern front will inevitably collapse - and then the victorious right flank of our army will turn around and sweep the enemy's ranks on the side of Paul's Gate the Sage, along the Orontes River, and win a complete victory. ”

The wise and wise decision of the prince of Mosul was soon transmitted to the hill opposite the iron bridge on the northern front, and the four hundred Turkic veterans who had just prepared to stand for reinforcements could not believe their ears, but at first glance, the prince's plan was still very ingenious, so they carried the two banners of scripture and abandoned their positions.

At this moment, the hot sun had begun to shine down, and Baldwin, who had climbed the hill, was sweating, looking at the mountains on the left, and then saw that under the mountains on the right, in front of St. Paul's Gate of Antioch, several large phalanxes of his own pilgrims, erecting battle flags like a forest, were fighting fiercely with the front of the Kobuha wing, and facing him directly: the other wing of Kobuha's soldiers and horses, thousands of them, lined up in an airtight formation, bounded by a crooked stream, was slowly retreating.

At this time, even the people around Baldwin could not believe such a sight, could it be that the prince of Mosul and his once-invincible army were about to retreat?

But the young Baldwin didn't care about this, he followed Gawain's advice beforehand, "Once you succeed, don't stop yourself." ”

So Count Adana ordered the whole army to continue the onslaught against the formation that seemed to be retreating in Kobuha!

However, when they rushed down the mountain with all their might, Baldwin suddenly heard the sound of killing in the valley on the left: in the direction of Daphne's jungle, the Mosul general Boesas with a thousand elite cavalry, the wind also killed from the ambush site, and a large number of infantry in front of Kobha, who were originally retreating, also suddenly reversed direction and rushed towards Baldwin.

The alert and shrewd Baldwin divided the few infantry into two lines and engaged the Turkic soldiers who pounced on them from different directions, when the sun rose higher and higher, and the hot light shone down the layers of rushing crowds, and everyone and the horses were sweating and miserable, but the frantic and life-threatening battle made the Christians and Crescentists forget everything, and the injuries and deaths of their companions made the witnesses angry and provoked even more murder.

"Quick, my standard-bearer, Ansey Gilbert! Riding my horse, I rushed to tell Gawain not to forget my brother's request, Baldwin was eager for his and Lord Raymond's rescue, and if I were annihilated and captured, the defeat of Kobha would be in vain! In the midst of the fierce battle, Baldwin, who had lost his helmet, covered in sweat and blood, shouted at the flag-bearer who galloped out.

But before the commander-in-chief of the Adanab could ride over the hill, his immediate presence was the brigade of the defenders of Branas, accompanied by two hundred cavalry and about three thousand infantry. Branas ordered the whole brigade to divide into two lines, one consisting of cavalry, to condescendingly charge the ambush of Boesas; One route consisted of infantry, descending the hill to join Baldwin's line. (To be continued.) )