Chapter 0677. Come one step too late
The sudden roar was like a divine sound descending from the sky, rolling and echoing on the dry river valley, and the rebel leader Baium, who had just been still a sperm worm, suddenly froze there, and then lacked confidence, and raised his head in shock and fear and shouted at the top of the valley seven or eight meters high: "Who is pretending to be a ghost, get out of here for Uncle Ben!"
Such a strange scene, what the other party said was also Tang language, and hope was burning in his heart, Li Que also drew his sword and raised his head to look left and right. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]
"This official is the one who wants your life!"
The person who wants your life~ The echo echoed in the river valley, making Baium even more afraid, just after scolding the immortal sky, such a strange thing happened, trying to strengthen his courage, Baium pretended to be calm and shouted: "Grandpa can defect to His Majesty the Byzantine Emperor, grandpa is not afraid. Phew."
Without waiting for the end of the sentence, a meteor shining with cold light was suddenly reflected in Baium's eyes, and the next second, with a crisp click, a long arrow pierced Baium's thick neck, the arrow was so powerful that the feather arrow was almost a meter long and went straight into the arrow cluster before stopping, and the rich blood plasma flowed down the arrow shaft, and the mouth was spitting blood.
"Kill !!"
"Kill~~"
"Kill~"
It was too sudden, and just as the more than 100 horsemen who had gathered around the rebels raised their heads in fear, countless armor appeared at both ends of the valley wall, and countless bows and crossbows were racked.
For a while, there was only the sound of the bowstring brushing and the sound of arrows in Li Que's eyes and ears, and the rain of arrows lasted for a long time to rest, and within a circle of five or six meters beside Li Que and Anna, there was an extra grassland composed of arrows.
Blood flowed all over the ground, pierced by the rain of arrows really became a string of sugar gourds, one by one the rebel cavalry did not know that they had been hit by hundreds of arrows, the men and horses had already died but they couldn't even fall to the ground, and the dozen or so rebels who were lucky enough to survive were also extremely weak at this time, and they didn't dare to ride on the horses at all, and they jumped off the horse one by one and knelt on the ground, and their heads were afraid to lift.
Even if Li Que, who has been in battle for a long time, saw this scene, he also felt a hot flashes behind him, if there were more than a dozen crossbowmen at hand, she and Anna's lives would be reimbursed, and they didn't dare to delay any longer, Li Que hurriedly raised his head and shouted: "Which general is above, Li Que, the last general of the forbidden army of the Min Wangfu, and Her Majesty Anna, the Byzantine Empress Anna, are here, please do not release arrows!"
"Your Majesty! Captain! β
At this time, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded again in front of the river valley, and after turning the corner, Ashina Falcon, the centurion of the thousand armies who had just gone to explore the way, galloped back with his troops in surprise
20,000 cavalry rumbling on the dry land of Palestine, the dust in the sky was trampled and raised high, looking from a distance, it looked like a huge earth dragon was constantly opening its teeth and dancing its claws, Li Que and Anna's luck was very good, just hit the Wang Fangyi who led the army to conquer, and Yao Geluo generously set up the Guanning Iron Cavalry Army.
The scout spotted Anna galloping in his direction with a cavalry army, so he set up an ambush at the mouth of the river in advance, but he didn't expect to bump into this scene.
The bodies of Baium and other pro-army traitors who had been fragmented were directly thrown on the side of the road like garbage, and the long torture whip wheel crackled, and the more than 400 Turkic pro-army who had committed hesitation at the critical moment just now stripped off their armor and weapons, and their trembling heads knelt on the ground, and they were whipped and rolled on the ground by the executing Tang army.
"Your family is not in Constantinople at all, they have already been transferred to Fujian, because of your disloyalty, you yourself have been expelled, and your family members have also lost their good life and been punished as official slaves! Now,! β
The cold voice fell straight to the ice slag, and the centurion Ashina Falcon coldly announced the fate of these people. Listening to these steppe soldiers, they wept bitterly one by one, their hands beat the ground and their flesh and blood were blurred, and they were expelled, destined to wander alone like lonely ghosts for the rest of their lives, and there was no possibility of getting ahead.
But this is already counted as merciful, hands tied together, the rebel centurion Bahel and a dozen or so rebels who finally survived, and the rebels who joined later kowtowed like garlic, snot and tears begged: "The little one is just confused for a while, please spare the captain!" Even if it's a good one for us! β
"You still ask the Immortal Heaven if you can forgive your souls!" Spat disdainfully, Ashina Falcon turned on his horse, and led the remaining Turkic pro-army with lingering palpitations to follow the rolling Guanning Iron Cavalry to gallop up again, and the rope dragging behind the horse was suddenly tightened, and before Bahr and the others begged for mercy again, the horse that had been galloping quickly ran up.
After running a few steps, the rebel Turkic soldiers had already fallen to the ground, the potholes were uneven, and the extremely fast friction of the earth immediately became the harshest torture instrument, the cloth clothes were quickly worn away, a large piece of flesh and blood was bitten down by the thirsty earth, and the rest of the rebel Turkic pro-army who were shocked by the seeping screams were even more desperate.
"Hurry up, my lord, my legion won't last long!" Weak and galloping with the jolting of the horses, Anna's forehead was covered with sweat, but she still gritted her teeth and urged the Overseer's wings.
His face was also very grim, and Wang Fangyi nodded solemnly: "This prime minister will do his best!"
The Min Yankuai battalion and the Byzantine army were about sixty miles apart, and the war horses arrived in half a day, the elite Guanning iron cavalry began to slow down, and a floating cloud-like cavalry suddenly set up outside the Byzantine camp, looking at the Byzantine military camp with black smoke billowing out, Wang Fangyi's eyebrows were raised even higher, and he took out a monocular from his pocket and raised it.
Anna also nervously stretched the telescope, but then exclaimed in horror: "No!!"
In the eye, the blood-dripping pale head hanging at the gate of the camp was not Berennis, who was still fighting bloodily just now, or which one?
Seeing the arrival of the Fujian army, the Byzantine army, which had experienced a civil strife, started again, holding a kite-shaped shield and holding a spear, a large number of Byzantine military district peasants and soldiers formed a neat military formation, pushing outward like a wall, following behind, tens of thousands of Bulgarian cavalry, and the Byzantine cavalry was pressing the formation with a stern face.
What especially made Anna's eyes shrink sharply was that dozens of golden eagle battle flags were held high, wearing heavy armor and holding a three-meter-long Rondolik heavy cavalry spear, and even the steel monster with the war horse covered in armor walked out of the back of the camp with heavy steps.
"Ironclad Paladin!"
The reason why the Eastern Roman Empire survived rather than collapse under the barbarian invasion frenzy of the Western Roman Empire was that it knew how to be flexible, and when the Roman infantry tactics were no longer invincible, the Roman rulers immediately abandoned them and replaced them with ironclad archers modeled after the Parthia and Sassanid empires of the East.
Relying on long-range melee combat to receive suitable ironclad paladers, the Eastern Roman Empire survived under the frenzy of the Huns, Goths, Franks and other barbarians, and it was once prosperous.
Although after 400 years of war with the Sassanid Empire, the weakened Byzantium could not afford to raise hundreds of thousands of ironclad holy cavalry, and Heraclius's military district system reduced this kind of ironclad cavalry on a large scale, but the empire still maintained a strength of 20,000 heavy cavalry, which was not used at the height of the war with the Arab Empire.
This army followed Emperor Constans to the West, and Constans had been killed in the palace by the coup soldiers, so the leader of this army was naturally the great enemy who made Anna gnash her teeth.
"Drive!" Suddenly, the horse moved forward, Anna ran straight forward regardless of the exhaustion of her body, and Li Que was so panicked that she hurried to catch up with her, but she heard Anna suddenly turn her head and yell: "Don't follow me!"
Li Que stopped in shock, and Yao Geluo on the side gave her a reassuring look, and immediately raised her bow. On the opposite side, seeing Anna riding out of the column alone, the ironclad holy cavalry rushing separately, also wearing the clothes of the purple-robed emperor, the tall and handsome young man also rode out of the array in high spirits, and the two horses converged in front of the formation.
"Why did you kill your father, why did you do this to me, aren't we a family!"
Constantine was still so handsome, but his smiling face was so disgusting to Anna that she yelled hysterically as soon as they met.
There were no outsiders here, and Constans didn't hide it, his smile became more and more sincere, as if he was joking with his sister when he was a child, and said: "Anna, you are also the one who staged a coup d'Γ©tat and was crowned as a co-emperor, how can you ask such a superficial question, for what?" For the right! β
"Are rights that important?" Furious, Anna shouted hysterically again, frowning, but Constans restrained his smile and asked, "You have also been in charge of the empire for a year, isn't the right important?"
"But I never thought of killing my father, killing you!" Tears overflowed uncontrollably, Anna cried like a little girl, but Constantine's sneers and ridicule came up, and he said with a sneer: "So you are weaker than me, you are not suitable to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the empire, only the strong are worthy of inheriting this great river and mountain."
It was as if she didn't know each other, and in an instant the tears dried up, and Anna looked at Constantine in a sneer, and only then did she shake her head sluggishly, turn her horse's head and run back towards the Min Yankuai array.
"You'll regret it!"
"I never do anything I regret!" Listening to the curse-like cold voice, Constans smiled again, but he raised his sleeve, and a sharp cold light leaked out of his sleeve, but before he could shoot it, a sharp arrow suddenly shot out of the Min Yankuai array, hitting him in the arm.
Under the pain, Constans turned around and ran back, and when he returned to the protection of the Byzantine army, Anna had already run back to the Min Yankuai array and did not know where to go, and finally changed his face, and the black-bellied king angrily waved the golden scepter and shouted: "Anna." Heraclius coup! Convicted of murdering the emperor, Ben Caesar Constantine was crowned Emperor Augustus in accordance with the sacred laws of the Roman Empire! β
"Obey Augustus' orders and crusade against the traitor Anna!"
Amid the roar of hiss, more than 100,000 Byzantine troops knocked on their weapons and shields and marched forward with a roar. Glancing at the strict formation on the opposite side, Sen Ran's foot rider, shook his head regretfully, Wang Fangyi turned his horse's head and walked towards the way he came.
"It's a pity!" He also shrugged his shoulders regretfully, Yao Geluo waved his bow violently, and he also turned around, and in an instant, the 20,000 Guanning iron horsemen turned their horses' heads neatly, and the smoke and dust trampled by tens of thousands of horses' hooves instantly obscured the sight of the Byzantine army