Chapter 36: The Third Gate
The camp of the Virginia was located on a terrace with the river Denje in the back, with the left and right sides of the hill protruding from the highlands like horns, and there were gates on each side, which were connected to the plains below by narrow passages. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In a moment, the Red Hand Brigade was on the left side of its base, and the Gimagis Brigade was on its right, both launching a rapid attack!
After all the soldiers had eaten the food they had brought with them, they lined up with flags and attacked according to their objectives.
Gawain, who commanded later, saw that at the left and right gates of the Vilciginia camp, the stragglers of the two brigades were densely packed like ants climbing up the steep slope, and the "self-shooters" and "Bagelel pedal stone throwers" in the camp were raining down the hillside, but the stragglers of the Red Hand and the Gimagis were worthy of being battle-hardened veterans, they deftly held their shields high, spread out the formation of the large evacuation, covered the entire hillside, dodged the enemy's arrows and rolling stones, swept up step by step, and all sections of the platform broke out into a desperate battle. The rest of the spearmen also abandoned their long weapons, and rushed forward with their swords in their arms, and the sound of battle stirred through the valley and the camp.
"The Praetorian Cavalry of Theognes and Evraimius, interspersed to the north of the camp, cut off the road between it and Vibo!"
As soon as the Emperor's order was given, his guards and cavalry formed a flying column, and the sound of horses' hooves roared through the terrace and the attacking formation.
At this time, the baggage convoy in the rear also arrived, and Gawain gave the order, "All the chariots are marched to the front of the enemy's camping platform, and they are connected with cooked cowhide buckles, and Atami and Nexus are behind them with all the Paul's musketeers, brigade marksmen, and light artillery, and they are not to act rashly without my orders." ”
After receiving the order, more than 100 baggage carts, pulled by mules and horses, rumbled in formation towards the wide front of the camp in Versiginia.
The front is straight, sandwiched between the "horns", and is all stuffed with high chariots of the Cuman or Alan-style type, and is a slope of more than 1,500 Anna feet wide and about 40 Anna feet high.
Gawain tightened his brows, always staring at this frontal observation, "Your Majesty, fireworks have risen from the northwest of the enemy's camp!" The attendant of the inner palace beside him pointed to the distance and shouted.
Gawain hurriedly looked away, he saw that fireworks were also rising from a certain tower in Versiginia, as if they were in harmony with the one in the northwest, "The enemy has returned from the outside of the rangers, Hajib, you take the Oghuz cavalry regiment and two regiments of the Red Hand cavalry, go to the other place to block the river crossing for me, and prevent the enemy's reinforcements from meeting with their camping strongholds!" ”
After receiving the order, Hajib and his son Zangi hurriedly raised the banner with the tail of their horses dragged in the wind, and led all the cavalry from the southern wilderness where they were camping, and sure enough, after two quarters, in the valley on the west bank of the Denja River, a large force of Mosian cavalry came out, they had just returned from collecting supplies from Tervono, and when they saw that their camping was attacked, they quickly returned to help, and at this moment they fought fiercely with the Oghuz cavalry regiment and the red hand cavalry when the river was shallow.
In the shallow water, the red hand cavalry held the flag, poked out the extremely long platoon of Cantos' spears, trotted forward in formation, like a "phalanx of spearmen" on horseback, their horsemanship was extremely high, no one fell off his horse while crossing the river, and no one accidentally injured his comrades while raising his spear, and the Oghuz cavalry regiment was in squadron units, accompanied by its rear and wings, and pulled its horned bow to suppress this Mosian cavalry.
The two sides came and went for a while, and they were reckless with each other.
Half an hour later, another group of Mosian cavalry from the direction of Zibo also returned, and began to clash with Gawain's garrison Praetorian cavalry in the camping northern plains.
Gawain's cavalry on both flanks was caught in a whirlpool of fierce fighting, and the Red Hand Brigade and the Gilmagis Brigade soldiers were also fighting for their lives against the Slavic infantry defending the chariot formation.
On the front line of the camp, all of Gawain's baggage wagons were rumbling forward, and once they were within 300 to 500 feet of that section of the slope, the blockade of Versigenia could be completed, and Gawain could order the assembly of fire cannons behind him, but a few volleys would be needed to blast out a large gap in the camping carts of Kaddam, and Kadam would be in a state of destruction before he could wait for the support of the cavalry from the periphery.
On one side was the Gawain convoy that came from the ground, and behind the cart on the other side, Kadam and three or four thousand Mosian cavalry who had stayed here before, all of them had their war horses, gathered together, and formed a dense horizontal formation, shoulder rubbing, banner against flag, all the eyes under the helmet, seeing Gawain's chariot getting closer and closer, and the temper of the mount under the crotch became more and more irritable.
The air is bloody and dry, and Kadam is now about to open the third "door", which is also his last killer weapon.
The first two gates are at the left and right "horns" of the camp, and the third gate is here, the ramp that allows the cavalry to gallop down like lightning, just pull away the cart in front of you!
The Gate of the Horns is used to defend by the chariot formation, and the "Gate" here is used to attack.
Now in Kaddam's eyes, Gawain's two most elite infantry brigades are entangled in the horns, and the most elite cavalry are all going to intercept the cavalry he has sent, and Gawain's front is nothing more than these moving vehicles and Gawain himself.
As long as he leads the 4,000 strongest cavalry from the third gate to attack from the center quickly, then he will be able to ignore any obstacles, break through the opponent's vehicle defense, and directly kill the tyrant Gawain, "The iron hoof and the sword will be indomitable, cut off the tyrant's head!" ”
With this shout, at the front of the Velsigenia camp, every other section a large cart changed from the original horizontal to vertical, and one by one "doors" were opened in the sky and under the clouds!
At each gate were countless cavalrymen in shining armor and horses roaring, their hooves slowly moving forward, and on the far right was General Kaddam, covered in bronze and silver armor, his beard curled in the cold winter wind, and in the wilderness under him—in the center was a double convoy of approaching enemies, and on the wings were enemy soldiers with their tube-fired firearms slightly bowed.
On the opposite side, in Gawain's eyes, in his convoy and carriage were nearly two thousand Pauline soldiers armed with iron forks, flails, spears, and bows and arrows, and on the command car with colored flags stood Nexus; On the left flank were also nearly 2,000 Paulicians, but all of them carried well-made long guns in their hands, and the commander-in-chief Atami personally rode his horse to supervise the formation; On the right flank were two brigades of about 1,600 men of the Shooting Corps.
And Gao Wen's side was 1,800 forbidden soldiers armed with long axes who had just been purged, "Forward, today I personally command you and others, I hope you will not live up to my intentions - when the order comes, you must definitely move forward and never flinch!" ”