Gawain's three groups of soldiers and horses, standing in a horizontal column separately, relying on the wasteland in front of Gaofu, this group of people are veterans of the Varangian Guard after all, and the banners, armor, shields, and weapons are all well-ordered.

As for Gawain himself, he put on the chain mail all over his body and stood at the head of the queue, while Erickson was still holding the flag, holding a shield and holding a new Byzantine weapon in his right hand - a "Macedonian halberd" 1.2 cubits (one cubit is about 44 to 55 centimeters) long, this halberd was decorated with tassels, which could be stabbed, chopped, hooked, blocked, and was the sharpest weapon in melee combat. Why did this halberd not become the standard equipment of the Byzantine army?

The wind swept the sand, wisps of sand, passing through the space where the two armies were quietly facing each other.

After a while, Gawain took out the sundial, looked at the sunlight a few times, calibrated the approximate time, and then he turned back to Francisco on the high mons and gestured, the other man nodded, and soon a Benevento archer set the arrow wrapped around linen on the fire, and then a meteor-like fire bolt streaked across the bright sky, and flew a long distance in full view of the two armies before falling into the canopy of the trees.

"God Odin blesses the eight-legged steed of Sleipnir on which he rides will lead us to victory, or to the Hall of the Immortal." After all the Varangian warriors had finished chanting these words, they added with great irony, "May the Lord's servant, St. Michael's Archangel, bless our swords and shields." Then he rose from the half-kneeling ground in turn, and in the direction pointed by Gawain's halberd, a full three hundred Turkic foot riders pressed the enemy without fear.

Soon, sure enough, the Turkic army began to meet the enemy, using the traditional Saracen style of warfare, with all the archers in the first line, the second line of cavalry with spears and javelins on their backs, and then the two wings of a rectangular army formation of various infantry. The advantage of this formation is that it has a lot of depth, which is especially conducive to rejecting the battle, and can launch a counterattack and outflank the enemy after the offensive forces are exhausted.

As a result, after finally arranging the formation, the black-clothed imam in the formation suddenly shouted, excitedly raised the scriptures in his hands, and was angry at the commander under the military flag.

The commander was also sweating profusely with anxiety, and from time to time he looked at the heavily armed enemy slowly approaching, with their shields, feathers, and dazzling weapons; From time to time, he took out the sundial in his arms, and cooed to the sun and the imam, "At first, the enemy is just a swarm of ants, and soon they will turn into small snakes, and when we don't pay attention, they will eventually become poisonous pythons with large mouths of blood, enough to devour anyone." ”

"But without the blessing of the scriptures, you can't even step on a swarm of ants." The imams accompanying the army are also very straightforward.

"Allah is greater!" With this slogan, all the cavalry could only turn off their horses, and together with the rest of the archers and infantry, lay down their weapons, and knelt down in the direction of worship, leaving only the soldiers in the first row, still there very anxious.

Yes, this is the time of their morning prayer.

Even in the face of the enemy, it can only be so.

Gawain grasped this point, "Let them taste the power of the blade!" Then he quickened his pace, and Erikson shouted and raised his banner, and soon rushed to the front of the Turks who were worshipping in the morning, and the rest of the warriors were also furious, and in an instant they caught up with Gawain's pace.

The Turkic archers at the front, before they could take the arrows from the quiver or pull the strings of the recurve bow, were cut off half of their heads by Gawain's halberd, and then Gawain pushed the iris shield and knocked over the next few halberds, and another halberd pierced the chest of one of them.

"Get on the horse!" Seeing that the archers at the front were crushed, the cavalry of the second line hurriedly stepped on horseback to the sound of drumming, but a group of Varangian warriors rushed to the ground like chopping melons and vegetables, and the one with an iron spear in his hand ran in the middle, and at once stabbed the famous cavalry under his horse. The rest of the cavalry hurried to throw their javelins, but they were all stopped by the shield-bearers who came from behind, and then two spearmen burst forward and stabbed the horses that frightened the Turks one after another.

With a "bang", a Turkic rider in the chaos drew a single-edged knife, and as a result, it slashed at the iron ring of the two-handed iron spear, which was full of sparks, but the iron spear did not move, and after a flick, the rider was immediately swept off the horse. Then the rest of the Varangian warriors who fought on foot with swords also broke into the cavalry line and went on a killing spree.

One group took the lead, and the other two attacked on the left and right, coercing each other like the ancient Piric war dance, mixed with the flying blood and heads of the enemy. The raiding force of more than 30 people actually broke through the two defense lines of the Turks, among which Erickson also shouted angrily, and rushed to the front of the Turkic commander "atabeg" (atabeg, the meaning of Taifu), threw the spear in his hand with the banner, the Atarberg hurriedly dodged, and then with the defeated cavalry, rushed and trampled the infantry phalanx behind.

The entire Turkic team of 300 people stopped because they were attacked in the morning worship and retreated a long way.

Enraged, Artalberg and the imam ordered all the remaining soldiers, after completing the second pilgrimage, to move forward again, forcing Gawain's Gaofu camp.

On Gawain's side, only two soldiers were killed, but everyone carried the stretcher, and the body was brought back, washed and placed in the mule cart.

"One more fight!" By the afternoon, when the Turks had regained their strength and had come back to fight again, Gawain had six groups of servants in the forefront, each armed with a weapon, followed by the Benevento crossbowmen, and three groups of Varangian warriors in the last reserve.

After two moments of "fierce fighting", the Turks found themselves horrified that they could not break through the army of servants in front of them, clad in armor and weapons that had captured them—even though they came from the villages under Byzantine Roman rule, and could not afford the expenses of accompanying the army, and could only act as the most unarmed servants, but as long as they were in dense formation, occupied the flat terrain, and learned to stack their weapons and shields, under the cover of the veterans and the crossbowmen, It can also make it difficult for the Turks to advance an inch.

At this time, the "Atarberg" who commanded the team recalled that the three hundred or so men he had recruited, except for the hundred or so people who were selected from various tribes and had some combat experience, most of the rest of the infantry were also temporarily "recruited" from the Greeks, Saracens and Armenians by various means, and went to the battlefield, and the fighting spirit of these people was limited to a small group of Byzantine armed forces composed of military servants in front of them, stabbing each other with non-lethal spears, killing an afternoon!