Seeing that his own officers spoke to stop him, Zhao Haier's eyes were scarlet, and he roared loudly: "We have no time to hesitate! They died for the Holy War! They will ascend to heaven after death! In this case, what else can be hesitated?!" After such sophistry, Zhao Haier ordered again: "Charge! Cavalry charge !!"

A total of 500 Ghulam cavalry, under the orders of Chaohair, split up the crowd, regrouped, and fought in a not-so-neat cone-and-arrow formation towards the front line - nay, more one-sided slaughter - the heavily armoured Norman assault infantry, these big men armed with great axes, were madly and brutally slaughtering the Islamic Jihad. Wielding long-handled battle axes, they cut the thinly armoured, panicked soldiers in half - beheaded, or cut in half, or cut into sticks. The wails of the mutilated soldiers lying on the ground terrified the Arabs at the front even more. There is no courage to fight with it. I also hope to escape such a hell on earth.

"I don't know what's going on...... because the fire and sand dunes block the view. So at this moment, even if you have a telescope in your hand, you can't see it clearly. I don't know what the hell is going on. Egil frowned, and several times tried to order more troops. In the end, no orders were given.

"Still, at least the battlefields on both flanks look pretty good. Egir comforted himself with the reason that the Norman hussars and Greek archers, who were numerically superior on both flanks, had for a moment gained absolute superiority. The Arabs on this side of the Norman cavalry had already been beaten to less than a thousand. The floor was covered with mutilated limbs, mutilated corpses, and half-dead and wailing people who didn't know whether to sort into the living or the dead. Shields split in half, chipped scimitars, broken spears, and crumbled maces...... And so on and so forth.

The Arab cavalry, which numbered less than a thousand men, was now surrounded by the First Hussar Legion, which outnumbered them four or five times as many as them. Because there is no unified command, it appears extremely chaotic. Rushing left and killing right were not successful because they could not gather all their strength. Seeing that the archers went down with a round of bows and arrows, a batch fell. There isn't much time left before being wiped out.

And on the other side. The Arab cavalry, which had fought against the Greek hussars, was also at a complete disadvantage - after observing that on the other hand, the Normans were about to finish the battle, Basil II felt a little embarrassed. He desperately ordered his cavalry to launch a fierce attack. The desperate charge of several centurians of the Greek cavalry finally tore a few gaps in the Arab array. Immediately afterwards, a large number of Vadarithai archers raised their scimitars, shielded their bodies with teardrop-shaped shields, and rushed into the gaps with their lives.

"Stop them!!!!" roared the large number of Arabs as they rushed towards the breach......

At the same time, on the frontal battlefield, the Ghulam cavalry quickly approached the front battlefield in the melee. The Arabs who had fled in all directions howled in panic.

"Oh my God! behind us are the infidel devils who can use magic, and now there are cavalrymen of our own race in front of us! what shall we do?!" cried out some of the Arabs mournfully. Or be knocked away by the rushing Ghulam heavy cavalry, and then trampled into meat sauce. Or the Norman assault infantry, who caught up, rounded his axe and cut off his head.

Then came the battle between the Norman assault infantry and the Ghulam heavy cavalry, though they lost a bit of their impact because of their pig-like teammates. And it's not the most elite kind of heavy cavalry in itself. However, the performance of the Ghulam heavy cavalry was still remarkable, and in the course of the first round of engagement, the charge of the Ghulam heavy cavalry overwhelmed at least one centurion of assault infantry. Even with their spears, it was difficult for them to pierce the heavy armor of the assault infantry with their spears - in fact, in a spear-armor confrontation was usually a lose-lose situation for both sides

When a menacing Ghulam heavy cavalry drove his horses and spear-armed at a Norman assault infantry, the Normans would not sit idly by. The assault infantry, armed with a tomahawk, roared like all warriors fighting cavalry as infantry, with no fear on their countenances - just as all infantry units do against cavalry. The most important thing is mentality. The deterrent power of cavalry is sometimes more important than the true power of cavalry. There are quite a few infantry who have something to do against the cavalry. But because of fear, he did not fight and collapsed, which made the cavalry successful. ...,

However. At this moment, it was the most elite Norman assault infantry engaged with the Ghulam cavalry - warriors who had undergone the most rigorous training, had experienced endless warfare, and whose will was stronger than steel, could not be intimidated by a single cavalry charge. When one of the Ghulam cavalrymen thought of charging at him, the assault infantry did not retreat, but advanced, raising their tomahawks in their hands, one step, two steps—and then the moment they made contact with the cavalry, they swung their tomahawks fiercely! The infantryman's armor was dented and deformed by the huge impact force, and his ribs were shattered a lot, and he flew several meters away at once. If you spit blood in your mouth, you won't be able to live.

However, this axe also cut off the neck of the war horse, and the blood of the war horse burst out because of the charge, and the arterial blood splashed all at once. There was a wail too. As soon as his front hooves went limp, he fell to his knees and threw the cavalry on horseback out. In this way, the Ghulam cavalry lost half his life, and lay on the ground and snorted, unable to get up no matter what. Immediately afterwards, he was rounded by several other Norman assault infantry, and the axes were rounded, and they were cut in pieces......

"Together, shoulder to shoulder, leaning together!"

Of course, such a heads-up melee injures 1,000 enemies and injures 800. It's really not a good idea. So a few centurions at the forefront shouted like this. while gathering the Norman soldiers around them. The soldiers had lost the organizational sequence at this moment. But the usual training is still somewhat useful. One by one, they leaned side by side, holding their battle axes tightly, forming a dense array to deal with the enemy's heavy cavalry.

In this way, when the scattered Ghulam heavy cavalry rushed over, it was as if they had crashed into a wall of steel—around each cavalry there were more than three long-handled battle axes. Chop the cavalry upward, chop the horse's leg downward, and chop the horse's neck in the middle. In an instant, a Ghulam cavalry can be dismembered.

"Second array, sortie...... Also, dispatch a thousand-strong team of hoplites!" "Seeing that at the front line, those well-equipped hoplites formed an array to resist the heavy cavalry, Zhao Haier knew that he would not be able to take this array. Immediately the order was given—and the second array, a total of fifteen thousand light infantry units with a disorganized appearance, led by fanatical mujahideen armed with axes and Arab spearmen armed with round shields and spears, pressed in a scattered formation toward the front line.

"Really, there are a lot of people. Seeing thousands of pagan light infantry rushing over, some of the Norman soldiers sighed with emotion.

"Ten for one!" said one after the war!" said someone laughing, and then it was like a torrent crashing into a boulder. Two absolutely unbalanced armies collided together!

At this moment, the fire began to gradually decrease. Egil then ordered the army to advance. The crusader rabble, numbering about six thousand men, served as the main force of the offensive. The Crusader soldiers, armed with rudimentary weapons, farming tools, or even wooden sticks, rushed towards the dune terrain in a haphazard manner. Behind them were the Norman infantry, a thousand men in all, who had been ordered by Egil to "act as a warlord if necessary". Behind the thousand-man team were the two thousand-man longbowmen led by the longbowman commander Robin Hood.

On the left flank, the Hussar Corps under the Norman Emperor had completed its combat mission, and at this moment, under the orders of Egil, stood outside the range of the enemy's bow and crossbow to re-array, but did not attack. Put pressure on Zhao Haier and the Jihadist Army from the side. This kind of behavior is somewhat useful. After discovering this, Zhao Haier hurriedly mobilized more than 3,000 spearmen in this direction. Form a dense array of spears to defend against opposing soldiers.

Thousands of cavalry were trapped, and the troops in the front line suffered heavy casualties during the previous bombardment, and at this moment tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to attack, and more than 3,000 soldiers guarded the flanks. As a result, Zhao Haier only had less than 10,000 available soldiers left, and he felt a little poor in donkey skills.

"Resist for a while, and then you can retreat. After all, the master ordered me to delay the other party's actions. It's not like I'm going to die. Zhao Haier sighed secretly in his heart. His face was still calm and steady, his voice was loud, and he continued to issue orders: "Send another thousand or so crossbowmen to guard the flanks." On the left flank, do not entangle with those Greek cavalry, go around and attack the opposing side's own formation. The second array will defeat those enemy Tomahawk infantry as quickly as possible and regain the sand dunes in front!"

With Zhaohaier's order, the soldiers of the Arab Jihadist Army fought hard. But it looks decent.

At this moment, the embers dissipated, and Egil finally saw the situation clearly. Seeing that a group of rabble of the enemy is at the mercy of the other party, it is quite orderly. I couldn't help but nodded: "It's a talent, it's a pity." ”

At this moment, the Crusader irregulars also rushed over, stabilizing the precarious front. At the same time, the longbowmen seized the dune terrain and condescendingly began to shoot. The Arab offensive was immediately stopped! )