Chapter 72: Breaking the Siege

"Company of the Baptized, Company of Saint-Cyril, all on board!" Gawain stretched out his arms flat, two trumpeters rode horses, and a rapid trumpet sounded as they ran back and forth from the horizontal line, and all the cavalry trotted out, according to the position of their respective standard-bearers, quickly gathered up and stood up, and lined up the two wings on the left and right, and the large horizontal line of the third line.

This is the way of arranging the formation that he learned in the past when fighting with the cavalry regiment of the Theodoromon Army in Paphragonia, and then after reading the classical drill method collected by Anna, after the two were combined, Gawain made the rules and improvements of the weapons and tactics of the two cavalry teams.

The new company of baptized people holding the Ichthyosaurus flag as a signal sign was facing the Isurian mountain bandit team that had felt the enemy coming behind and began to turn the tip of the spear, the entire cavalry company totaled 600 people, divided into eight "squadrons", each squadron had 70 cavalry, and finally 40 experienced cavalrymen were left to serve as the "flag guard", and the three lines were the "charging line", "assault line" and "reserve line", which followed the combat mode of the Byzantine classical cavalry, and was arranged as four squadrons of the "charging line" and two squadrons of the "assault line". The left and right sides are flush with the far side of the line, while the "reserve line" consists of two squadrons, together with the flag team, at the end flush with the center of the line.

The cavalry company, signaled by the battle flag of the portrait of St. Cyril, was arranged on the slope of the hill with a protruding diagonal line, facing the mountain bandits, also six hundred men, eight squadrons, but they abandoned the last reserve line, but advanced in three lines, and after reaching the battle line, and then changed to a two-line arrangement in the sound of the horn, in which the forty cavalry of the flag guard were in four rows, in the front. Eight squadrons in the rear, four on each line.

Eight squadrons of each cavalry company. The four squadrons of the "Honorary Cavalry" wore light leather armor, chain mail, and nose guards with colored horsehair. Charge with a Cantos or Norman spear; This was followed by three squadrons of the "General Cavalry", like the Byzantine Genat cavalry, equipped with arrows, recurve bows, and cavalry axes, sabers, and Turkic scimitars, which served as outposts and pursuits; Finally, there was a squadron of "heavy cavalry", the Stratiotai in the text, equipped with the finest and finest chain mail purchased from Italy, with strong shin armor protection on the legs instead of ordinary leggings, and shining heavy helmets and horse coats. Armed with heavy riding spears, also equipped with cutting-edge sleeves for good and protracted battles, and with axes, maces or Byzantine single-edged sabers hanging from their saddles, the Stratiotai's most striking sign was the white pheasant feathers on the top of their hats.

"The Seleucians are coming, give them something awesome." The arrogance of the Isuriya bandits was still very arrogant, and they turned their original rear team to spear wielding, forming a "sandwich array" that could fight the enemy on both sides. Nikitas himself held the sword in battle, and both of his cheeks were cut horizontally by the blades, once by a dying victim during a robbery, and once by an accomplice in alcoholism. It made his head look particularly vicious and ugly, and the dwarf creature was eager to jump on horseback and cheer up the bandits.

On the opposite side of the wilderness. The company of the new baptized was the first to trot, and the armor of the horses and warriors vibrate. There was a rhythmic thud, and an order was given. The honorary cavalry of the four teams on the first line first erected their spears one after another, and began to let the horses under their crotches let go of their speeds, all the horse's heads swinged and neighed, and the tips of the spears and the horses' hooves began to shake together, which brought great shock to the mountain bandits stationed in front of the array.

"It's the Red Hand Battle Flag! Gawain's Seleucian army. At this moment, Gilligi, who was commanding the battle on the other side, also saw the cavalry of the Red Hand Brigade sweeping all over the ground for the first time, and he pulled off the reins violently, and his heart shook violently: first, can we resist Gawain, after all, the shadow of the previous two defeats continues to hang over the Sultan's heart; Second, I had made an oath when Gawain released my wife, Shah Nami, that I would not be able to attack Gawain within the allotted time.

"Hajib, retreat. The enemy has cavalry to meet them! Finally, after Gillicki shouted this sentence, he asked the slave soldiers around him to shake the battle flag, and motioned to everyone to abandon the Danes who were still resisting the last of the siege and annihilate them, and retreat to Ferner Castle!

At the sound of the horn, the Roma soldiers, who were advancing and retreating in an extremely orderly manner, obeyed the order, and after leaving behind the archers behind the palace, they successively carried quivers and scimitars on their backs, and quickly drove towards the mountain road behind the dense reeds, leaving the battlefield. Sven, who was leaning against the stream and resisting, was surrounded by corpses and wounded, and the rest of his own soldiers, who were still holding shields, were also so scarred with shields and curly blades that he could not believe his eyes when he saw the Turks abandon the siege and withdraw.

The gilligi walked quickly, but the Isuriya bandits were miserable: the charging line of the company of the newly baptized, with a total of two hundred and eighty honored cavalrymen, leveled the galloping spears, and countless white reeds spun under the galloping iron hooves, and then followed the wind of the cavalry raid, "Hallelujah! The first few honorary cavalrymen, even with men and horses, were pierced by more than a dozen mountain bandits' spears, but the tips of their riding spears also pierced the bodies of several mountain bandits, and the result was that the mountain bandits who stood on the front line to block were all stabbed and killed in half a second, and the scattered reeds were all stained with blood and stinking.

After stabbing out and throwing all the cavalry spears in their hands, the honorary cavalry raised their irises and shields, and swirled off from both sides, and the cavalry on the rear front gathered and shot waves of arrows, washing and putting down the mountain bandits in the following depth, but this was not the end - from the side direction, the flag guard of the Saint-Cyril cavalry company, also rushed in, this group of soldiers were all in armor, surrounded by battle flags that fluttered up and down, sitting in the saddle, slightly on the left side, both hands stretched to the side, holding the most terrifying weapon: "Silly, big, black, coarse, Thorny" has both the five advantages - the long-handled tribulus hammer. Quickly approached, and before the exclamation began, the tribulus long-handled hammer began to swing up and down, carrying the horse to sprint, and slammed it against the dense part of the head.

"Woo!" With this rhythmic bloody wind rolled up, the heavenly spirit covers of the mountain bandits on the side, one after another, were lifted and exploded, and the fragments wrapped in helmets fluttered and splashed on the faces of the bandits behind, they covered their faces with their hands, lost their fighting spirit in horror, and the whole line collapsed, and the entire group of more than 1,000 Isuriya mountain bandits was "taken away" by a wave in a few minutes of cavalry assault, half of them were taken to hell, half of them were scattered, weapons were thrown everywhere, and they fled towards the reeds. The bandit chief Nikitas was the quickest to escape, covering his whole body with his cloak and revealing one eye, riding a swift Cappadocian horse, stepping down the stream to escape the pursuit, and then slyly abandoning his mount and running, disappearing among the reeds. (To be continued.) )