Chapter 44: My Battlefield On

However, the burning of the fleet of the Kingdom of Aragon was not all Alexander's success in Aragon, and they fought with the local French on the narrow coastal plains of the Kingdom of Aragon.

Originally, I thought that if we fought against the French second-line troops with the elite of the empire, we would have good results even if we won, but the reality is that we not only defeated the second-line troops sent by the French to the Kingdom of Aragon, but also defeated and killed more than 10,000 French troops, more than 30,000 French troops were defeated, and the French army of the Kingdom of Aragon lost its combat effectiveness, and his own injuries were no more than 3,000 people.

If you kill a thousand enemies, you must lose three hundred, and such a casualty of less than a tenth of the casualties makes me look at Alexander with admiration, and I don't know how he did it. You must know that it was a coast, and the terrain was long and narrow, which was not enough for the troops to flank and surprise the French army to expand the results of the battle, so once the French army was in decline, they could easily stabilize their position and slowly retreat.

A few days later, the details came out, and Alexander had created such a result by imitating Nikephoros II's own tactics.

Alexander tried to secretly board the ship in front of the French army, but the French army discovered their move, at this time, part of the Imperial army had already boarded the ship, and the French army saw this situation, and immediately set out the whole army, trying to kill and wound a large number of Imperial troops who were still on the beachhead without caring for each other.

Alexander dispatched his troops to deal with the sudden attack of the French. A large number of Imperial legions casualties were inflicted in the early stages, but fortunately, Alexander ran with his flag and stabilized the army, allowing the troops at the front to buy extremely valuable time for the troops behind.

The French troops who rushed out in confusion were numerous. In addition, they are cavalry in front, if they are only fought by infantry, even if they can guarantee that they will not be overwhelmed by the two waves of cavalry and infantry. There will also be very heavy casualties. But Alexander set a trap for the French to drill, and the French cavalry was small in number, but the Imperial line infantry, which had lined up a tight defensive line, could not eat us for a while, and then the cannons strafed the first wave of French cavalry with shotguns.

Solved the cavalry is infantry, although in infantry confrontation. Due to the disadvantage of troops, the first-line Imperial Legion was at a disadvantage, but quickly. The situation on the battlefield was reversed just before the first line of Imperial legions was broken through, and the Imperial troops, already on the ships, left the coast, and under the circumstances of that time, no one could have imagined what would happen next. But after I heard the condition. I immediately thought of Nikephoros II's much-talked about tactic, cavalry assault at sea.

Throughout Nikephoros II's battles, he commanded relatively small armies, and his command style was even more different from that of the imperial generals of that era. While others were always hoping to defeat the Arabs in a general battle, and the Arabs would use their advantage to lure the enemy deeper and inflict heavy losses, Nikephoros II did so by inadvertently strangling the enemy step by step.

That is to say, the victory at Nikephoros was paved by numerous small battles, which caused the important bases and points of the Hamdan dynasty of the Arabs to be constantly lost, and then prepared for the general battle. And in this general battle, the Byzantine side will occupy the absolute initiative. It's like being a master at chess. In the case of not eating children and even giving up children, let their absolute superiority be invisibly constituted, and by the time the enemy wakes up and is forced to a dead end, it is too late.

The Cretan landing was the most obvious example, the Arab army on Crete believed that the key to stopping the Byzantine attack was that they had to be beachheaded, because once in formation, the Arab infantry would not be able to fight against the spear heavy infantry of the Byzantine army, so they took advantage of the Eastern Roman hoplites to disembark and could not line up to attack the Eastern Roman infantry, so in order to deal with the heavy infantry that was about to disembark from the ship, the Arabs put the light infantry archers in the first line.

As a result, Nikephorus II ordered the heavy cavalry to rush directly onto the beach from the ships with the help of passages and pedals, directly disrupting the enemy's position, and the infantry that landed slowly behind them rushed up to kill the Arabs in Crete, which could have caused the Byzantine army to land with the greatest casualties and few losses.

And this time, after a lapse of 800 years, Alexander, who paid tribute to his predecessor, first sent the cavalry to their transport ships under the noses of the French, and when the French army appeared, the infantry became a fortress against the French charging waves, and the cavalry returned to the weak flank of the French army through the sea, and the sea ship pedals were lowered when the transport ship docked again, and then a large number of cavalry came out like a tide, which played a decisive role in the whole battle.

Three battles, three big victories, and seeing Alexander do so well with my strategy, I couldn't hold back anymore in bed. However, even after recuperating for more than half a year, the sores on my body have improved a lot, and the wounds from bullets in my body are not healed all at once. So, no matter what, the court physician was not going to let me get out of bed.

After lying quietly for a few days, I had an uninvited guest in the courtyard of the palace.

Mature [female], young * wife, [human] wife. The first time I saw this woman, these words flashed through my mind. This woman, who looked older than Assasin, felt very strong, so strong that it was distracting.

The moment the visitor saw me, he narrowed her eyes with a slight movement.

I woke up immediately.

None of them.

Who is a strange woman who can wear double-headed eagle accessories in the palace and use double-headed eagles in their clothes?

There was no one else except that Elizabeth from Russia!

What did she come to do?

Is it just to visit me?

"Queen?"

"I've seen the Queen. Penavis rose from her seat and saluted.

Elizabeth nodded slightly to accept Pennivis's audience, and she looked at me with a slight smile, but no one who saw such a slim woman standing in front of her with an elegant demeanor would think of her as a slut riding a thousand people.

I looked at Elizabeth's entourage with a confused look, and then I saw Marcus and a few people who were still impressive.

One of them immediately came up and cleared my mind.

Caesar learned from the court physician that the prince's condition was under control, and asked the queen to come and see her. ”

"I've seen the Queen. ”

"Queen, as you can see, His Royal Highness the Prince is recuperating from his injuries and cannot get up to pay respects, I hope you will forgive me. The attendant's high-pitched voice reminded me of who this guy was, wasn't it the original court governor.

"It's okay, I'll still be in the palace for a long time anyway, won't I?"

Looking at this pretending to be graceful, I knew where my future battlefield was. (To be continued......)