When the figure of the Anatolian light cavalry appeared in front of the position, the hearts of all the Montina soldiers who saw them tightened.

The prestige of the Ottoman light cavalry was far from the town, and what was even more terrifying was their skilful coordination with the infantry.

Many of the armies that fought against the Ottomans were most impressed not by the strength of their soldiers, but by the skillful use of various arms by the Ottoman generals and their near-perfect coordination.

Whenever the Anatolian light cavalry attacked the enemy's position, their light infantry would follow closely behind the cavalry, and when the cavalry broke through the enemy formation, the light infantry would rush into the gap torn by the cavalry in time to stabilize the situation, and then the Ottoman heavy infantry would swarm to extend the victory.

This tactic may not seem like a clever one, but because of the fierce impact of the Anatolian light cavalry, the Ottomans often only need to master the rhythm of the infantry and cavalry involved in battle, so that they can often quickly break through the enemy line and eat the enemy piece by piece.

The cavalry figures in front of them quickly approached, and the roar of horses' hooves trampling the ground struck everyone's hearts.

One after another, the messengers rang out, and the musketeers raised their weapons one after another.

All the musketeers were lined up in the first row as far as they could, and the dense guns, barely gapless, looked from the side like a dense branch sticking out of the forest.

The musketeers knew that with the speed of the Anatolian hussars, they would not be given a chance to fire a second shot.

The spearmen stared ahead with sweaty heads, each of them had enough space for one person to pass through, which was left for the musketeers to retreat, but then the originally tight phalanx became thin, and if they could not quickly form a dense formation against the enemy cavalry after the musketeers retreated, then what awaited them was the doom of being trampled by the Ottoman cavalry.

In the corners of the phalanx, firing squads of several heavy muskets awaited nervously, and these heavy musketeers would follow the phalanx to face the onslaught of the Ottoman cavalry, and their task would be to fight the enemy forces who tried to break through the phalanx in dense formation.

"Fire!"

A burst of almost indistinguishable orders rang out from all parts of the entire front, and with the order, a shocking gunshot broke out on the front of the Montina army in an instant!

The sudden sound of gunfire greeted them, which made the Ottoman cavalry who rushed to the front seem to be stunned in an instant, but before they could react, accompanied by the gunfire, even faster than the gun, there was a barrage with a sharp whistling.

Many of the cavalry at the front seemed to have crashed into the invisible wall, some were jerked off their horses, and some fell forward with the horses they had hit.

Bullets flew around the crowd, and sometimes they were bounced in other directions without piercing a person's armor, until they finally hit a man or a horse.

The Ottoman cavalry galloping in front of them slowed down because of the fierce blow, but the men behind did not stop, they quickly passed through the gap between their companions with a loud shout, and at the same time rushed forward desperately with the horses that had lost their masters.

The musketeers immediately after firing the first row of bullets retreated through the gap left by the spearmen, they were very fast, and all of them had their muskets in front of them, in order to reduce the possibility of their guns hooking into the way of people passing by.

The spearmen kept shouting, urging the musketeers.

The spearmen generally had some resentment with the richly dressed musketeers, who would only borrow firearms to shoot from a distance, hide in the phalanx for protection if the enemy approached, and then shoot coldly, especially when they were dealing with an enemy like the Ottoman cavalry, and the spearmen were even more unpleasant to the appearance of the musketeer's mother-in-law.

As the last of the musketeers turned into formation, the gaps left by the spearmen quickly closed behind him, and before Montina's army could fully assemble, the Ottoman light cavalry had already rushed to the front of the phalanx.

The sharp spear was aimed at the enemy who was close in front of him in an instant, and at the same time, a second command came from the phalanx named by Alexander: "Fire!" ”

There was a dull sound of gunfire, unlike the light muskets, which were like the nasal sound of a bison, a great muffled sound that seemed to come from the ground.

A black thing flew from the side towards the cavalry who rushed to the front, and in an instant the sound of tearing flesh and metal colliding with each other surrounded the soldiers.

The body of an Ottoman cavalryman could not stop rolling forward, he was thrown out by his warhorse, and when his rolling body finally stopped, there was no sound.

A spearman not far in front of him was stunned to see that the Ottoman's face was a black mess, and it was evident that he had been killed by the heavy musket's projectiles before he fell off his horse.

But the brief delay in the heavy muskets did not stop the Ottoman cavalry charge, and before the gunfire had completely died down, the cavalry that followed had already swooped down on the phalanx.

The terrifying sound of slashing and slashing flesh pierced the position, and the trenches and low walls on which Montina's army relied had to slow down the Ottoman cavalry at the moment when they finally rushed into the enemy line, while Montina's army, which was hiding behind the fortifications, rushed desperately in the slight pause of the Ottomans.

A bloody battle ensued before the fortifications, and the hastily erected gracold fences and half-man-deep trenches became the only recourse for the Montinas, and these seemingly insignificant obstacles became a formidable tool for the Ottomans to pose a great threat to them.

The crimson figure loomed again, it was the musketeers who were rapidly turning direction in the spear phalanx, they were crowded in the gap of the spearmen, some crouched, some raised their muskets high from the spears, they were looking for an opportunity to aim at the enemies who kept rushing towards them, when they saw the figure of the Ottomans, they immediately did not hesitate to shoot, as for whether they were shot or not, they did not care.

"The terrible thing about the Ottoman cavalry is that they can quickly create opportunities for the infantry to open gaps, so if you can, you must disrupt the steps of the Ottoman cavalry attack at the beginning."

This was an order given by Alexander to all the officers the day before, although he guessed that the Ottomans were likely to attack from the two ends of the entire front, but just in case he still gave a common order to all the officers, that is, once the main direction of the Ottoman attack was determined, then all the troops of the entire front should not hesitate to assemble in the direction of the enemy's attack!

This was obviously a very risky move, and upon hearing this order, Alexander clearly saw the hesitation of the Genoese officers and the hesitation of the Pisaans.

"Don't try to break out of our positions, that's what the Ottomans want us to do," Alexander explained to his officers, "they want to drive us out of our positions, and then keep attacking on our way until we are completely destroyed, which is called destroying the enemy in motion, so the only thing we can do now is hold our positions." ”

When he said this to the officers, Alexander could feel a pessimism brewing among them, but the Balkans, who had just suffered heavy casualties, still maintained a rather rare enthusiasm, which made even Alexander feel a little strange about their inexplicable will to fight.

As the battle continued, the pressure on the two ends of the battle line was so strong from the beginning that even at the moment of the first onslaught of the Ottoman cavalry, Alexander began to doubt whether the Agri phalanx could withstand the enemy's attack.

Throwing his best troops into the key areas that would determine the battle, Alexander meditated on the essence of the future French god of war on the direction of the campaign, and although he knew that he was obviously incomparable to the famous general who swept across Europe, it was not difficult to judge the intentions of the Ottomans at such a time.

So what next, shouldn't we thoroughly implement another famous quote of the god of war?

Alexander hesitated.

Xi Sugu looked at the Anatolian light cavalry who kept retreating in front of him, and then quickly turned to the Anatolian light cavalry who continued to attack the enemy's position, and his heavy eyebrows furrowed slightly.

The power of cavalry lies in the impact, impacting the enemy's formation, impacting the enemy's position, and pinning down and attacking the enemy's cavalry.

Cavalry that loses speed and mobility will obviously be much less powerful, and if something happens, perhaps a cavalry charge will not be more effective than their own casualties.

The defenses of the Montina army were surprisingly difficult to deal with, from long-range muskets to close-range spear phalanxes, and Sisugu felt as if Montina's army existed to restrain his Anatolian cavalry.

Although he knew that this idea was a bit absurd, so far the hussars had not opened up the situation as smoothly as he had envisioned.

It was obviously not cost-effective to let the cavalry and the enemy fall into a stalemate, Xi Sugu pondered for a moment and decided not to delay any longer.

He whispered orders to the heralds beside him, and Xi Sugu shook his head slightly as he saw a group of armored cavalry passing in front of him like a rolling torrent.

He didn't expect the enemy on the other side to be so difficult to deal with, which reminded him of the Mamluks he had encountered in Egypt before.

Sissou had accompanied a Grand Vizier on an expedition to Egypt, and although his later experience was not pleasant, at least the Sultan's army had a brilliant record on that expedition.

It's just that the European army in front of him reminds him of those Mamluks, and he remembers that his general as the Grand Vizier had to send heavy cavalry that the Ottomans rarely used in order to deal with those Mamluk cavalry.

The Ottoman light cavalry was world-famous, but that didn't mean they didn't have heavy cavalry.

On the other hand, the Ottoman Empire, although not as extreme as the French cavalry, completely wrapped themselves and their horses into a moving iron can, the Ottoman heavy cavalry was also fully armoured.

What's more, these heavy cavalrymen, who received their own lands from the Sultan or the Doge, also had a status similar to that of the Western Knights.

Now Xi Sugu is sending these heavy cavalry.

The smoke and dust in the sky were accompanied by the heavy sound of horses' hooves, and before they appeared, a terrifying momentum enveloped the battlefield.

The Montina soldiers suddenly noticed that the Anatolian light cavalry in front of them was rapidly moving to the flanks, which made the heavy musketeers on the flanks of the phalanx nervous, they did not know if the enemy was preparing to attack them, and just as the heavy musketeers began to slowly retreat towards the rear of the phalanx, they heard the rumbling sound of the ground shaking.

"Stop!"

A musketeer shouted to his companion, a musketeer who had fought in battles on the outskirts of Rome remembered what this familiar sound was coming from, but before he could warn the others, a black figure had swooped down on Montina's position like a sea of smoke and dust.

"Heavy cavalry, heavy cavalry!"

The first to see shouted desperately, but their voices were drowned out by the roar of the enemy's hooves on the opposite side, and then more and more heavy cavalry appeared in front of Montina's army, and then in the midst of frantic shouts and terrible ramming, the Ottoman heavy cavalry had already rushed into the front of Montina's position.

Suddenly, the tight phalanx swung backwards like a piece of soft fat that had been struck, and the screams mingled with the breaking of weapons, the trampling of horses' hooves, and the faint sound of short gunfire, and the whole position was completely chaotic.

The heavy cavalry frantically rushed forward, slashing and slashing, the heavy swords in their hands that were much heavier than ordinary cavalry were raised vigorously and then swung down vigorously, after cutting the desperate enemy in front of them into two pieces, the huge hooves of the Arabian war horse immediately kicked out the mutilated enemy's body, and then the war horse neighed and continued to gallop forward under the urging of the master.

A burst of gunfire came, and the heavy cavalry immediately made a "bang bang" sound, and the sound of the projectile hitting the armor was terrifying, but this time there were not many people who were hit and fell off the horse, and the heavy and tight armor blocked most of the bullets, which made the heavy cavalry attack speed slow down suddenly, but it did not completely block the pace of their continued attack.

The saber was still raised, and the blood splattered from under the sword sprayed everywhere, and at the same time the light cavalry, which followed the heavy cavalry, was again engaged in battle, and they quickly broke through the deep ground of the Montina army position, although it was not large, but had appeared by the shaking of the shock.

"My lord, the Ottomans are breaking through our positions, they are breaking through in depth," an officer reported to Alexander anxiously, "that the central Agri phalanx is in danger of being surrounded by the enemy. ”

"Have all the Ottoman light cavalry been dispatched?" Alexander's face was slightly gloomy, and what he was really worried about at this time was whether the Ottomans had other plans, and at this time he needed to think about not whether he could force the Bucharest to send troops to support, but how to successfully retreat from the Ottoman encirclement.

But before that, he needed to know if the enemy had put all his forces into the battlefield.

Because it means that once an order is given, there is no room for change.

"I'm sorry, my lord, we don't know," replied the officer, not knowing whether he was nervous or sweaty from the heat, "and we saw several banners belonging to the Anatolian light cavalry, and the heavy cavalry they had kneaded into about hundreds, maybe more. ”

"Have you put in enough heavy cavalry?" Alexander stared at the center front, his expression didn't seem to change much, only he knew that his lips were already a little sore because his jaw was too tight.

What to do?

At this moment, Alexander repeatedly asked himself in his heart, if he gathered in the center, once the enemy still had enough troops, he could quickly close the circle, but if he did not concentrate his forces, he would be in danger of being completely divided.

After the battle begins, we will resolutely and resolutely carry out the established determination, and will not be easily shaken by various reasons.

Alexander silently recited this sentence in his heart, which didn't seem to be difficult to understand, but he couldn't help but admit that it was only then that he really understood how difficult it was to really do it.

"Order all the armies to assemble in the central phalanx, especially the left flank, and let them move closer to the depth of the positions along the banks of the Danube."

"My lord, then we may be surrounded by a whole army!" Someone reminded him uneasily, and the officers looked at Alexander with concern in their eyes, and they began to worry that Alexander was distracted by the harsh situation.

"Do as I command." Alexander sighed in his heart, he really regretted sending Gompati out, or even better off with Oflaiyi by his side.

The front of Montina's army began to move.

At first, Xi Sugu didn't notice this change, all his attention was focused on the central position, although he knew that even if the enemy in front of him finally miraculously escaped, it would not have any big impact on this expedition, but Xi Sugu did not want this to happen in his own hands.

So he was not much easier than his enemy at this time, so much so that when his men reported to him that the entire front of Montina's army was beginning to move closer to the central depths, Sisugu was a little distracted for a moment.

Then, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Finally moved." The beard on Xi Sugu's lips curled slightly, although he felt that the enemy on the other side was really difficult, but the battle was fought until now, and now it could finally develop according to his intentions, which made Xi Sugu feel a little tired.

Since the enemy would not leave their positions, they were forced to give up their flanks.

It was this opportunity that Xi Sugu had been waiting for, and he was waiting for the enemy's generals to finally have to gather their forces in the center.

"Tell our hussars that it's ready to strike."

Xi Sugu looked behind him, where there was a light cavalry that had never been involved in the battle, which he used as a last resort to encircle the enemy.

When the figure of the Ottoman light cavalry appeared at the far end of the right flank of Montina's army, Alexander heard a desperate cry from those around him.

At the same time, Busako also made a secret gesture to the hunters around him.

"Busaco," Alexander called out softly, and when he heard the absent-minded response of the captain of the guard, he shook his head helplessly and slightly, "I said it before, either you will win from here and die here, there is no third way." ”

Alexander said, looking up at the sky.

The sun hasn't risen overhead, and the day is still long.

"The Ottomans should have thrown all their strength into it," Alexander turned back and drew his sword and musket from the saddle of Pagassos, hanging them around his waist, and then he whispered "ready for battle." ”

After the battle begins, we will resolutely and resolutely carry out the established determination, and will not be easily shaken by various reasons.

Alexander said this in his mind, and then he nodded slightly to the herald beside him.

The horn sounded, and the huntsmen, who were already waiting in line behind the hills, began to enter the position.

Resolutely and resolutely carry out the established determination!

The Chasseurs, the last force of Montina's army, were fully engaged in battle at the midday hour.