Chapter 1: Sub-City
Now Alexios had pinned down and besieged Miriosephalon's camp from the west, north, and south. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info that is to say, the emperor's original wings have been successfully extended and expanded, holding the camping in his arms, and the next thing is to "strangle" it alive!
At this moment, the emperor happened to be standing on the slope of the northern part of the camp, he had just broken through the other camp here very successfully, killing more than three hundred Seleucian people, and now his banner was fluttering beside him, thousands of elite soldiers were deployed behind the emperor's horse, as long as Alexios waved his finger: they and the camping on the opposite side of Seleucia, there was a valley between two mountains, and there was a blockade and defensive wall abandoned by the enemy, which was of no use at all.
The generals and guards surrounded the emperor, and after several days of fighting, they formed a consensus on the enemy's army, that is, "vulnerable".
"Please ask Your Majesty to draw another thousand elite soldiers from the barracks of the Imperial Ink Officer, preferably with His Majesty's Inner Palace Guards, to launch a decisive attack on the enemy camp in the opposite mountain, maybe in one moment, the enemy army will be completely defeated." This is their unanimous recommendation.
The emperor also agreed, but he quickly turned his eyes to the remains of the Nationalist soldiers who had been thrown into the trench, wearing simple leather armor and not very good weapons beside him, and then recalling the interrogation of the captives, Alexios decided, "According to your suggestion, the army will be transferred, this valley will be the main direction of attack in the future no matter what." Because the enemy had planted a powerful defensive fire on the western position, I decided to take down the poor sub-city of the enemy in front of me in one fell swoop before it was completed. ”
Just as the herald's guards were about to turn their horses and leave, the Emperor stopped him and added, "Is there any news on the Xhosa front?" ”
After receiving a negative answer, the emperor frowned, and then added an order, "Now that the siege position of Konya is close to mine, and the road is the same as each other's horns, tell Harold to take four thousand elite men south to join me, because now we are not facing Gawain's elite main force at all." ”
At noon, the emperor's army and horses lined up a dense offensive formation, Emperor Alexios personally stationed his horse on the far right of the front team, behind him fluttered all kinds of imperial flags, the emperor's eyes looked at the gray mountains, and the enemy was desperately building the sub-city, its walls have been roughly completed, many people are busy on it like ants, the basic outline is readily available, only the towers, gates, fences and other ancillary facilities have not been started - Cabeamia and Birrell, all the soldiers are divided into two groups, one of them seventy percent, Set up on the hillside on the north side of the sub-city to defend against Alexios; The second and third are arranged on the south side, guarding the team of Yagfei in the direction of Minfu Xiaozhai; Only a small number of men were left to stick to the mountain and rock front in the west, and in case the battle was unfavorable, the men and horses on both sides could retreat into the walls of the sub-city and continue to defend it.
"The fire pipe, the Khitan fire, can help us burn out the enemy's offensive." Standing at the head of the half-finished city, Kabeamiya continued to use this artifact to cheer herself up, beside her, there were indeed people erecting copper pipes, some carefully piling up thick paper wrapped in fire, and some people carrying Khitan snow barrels, along the pedal road or wooden ladder, crawling towards the top to deliver.
If the female consul really knew the power of this Khitan snow after it accidentally deflagrated, she would definitely have trembling legs and stomachs standing there—but fortunately, Gedier and Leotius were very conscientious, and they stood at the head of the city, and reminded all the soldiers of the People's Army to be very cautious about the handling and use of this Khitan snow.
Over there, the trumpets of the Emperor's ranks sounded loudly, "Fight quickly!" The Emperor gave the order, which was the signal of a general attack—Hearing this, Cabeamia pressed her hand on the battlements, gritting her white teeth, her hair dangling over her shoulders, "Gawain, Gawain, Gawain, you won't help me abandon you, will you?" In my heart, you are truly a brave and righteous man like a border warrior, and now the Holy Sister is praying in her heart for your rescue. But before the consul could finish praying, on the hillside, countless elite soldiers of the empire, mixed in foot and horse, uttered the earth-shattering cry of "Long live the emperor", and the group soon crossed the valley, destroyed the wooden fence, filled in the trench, and began to attack upward along the gentle slope on the north side of the camp.
Spearmen, archers, riders, shieldmen, Praetorian guards, all sorts of banners, all sorts of national soldiers, and the superior weapons they boasted of, advanced layer by layer, and soon reached the sub-city.
"Bastards, hold your places!" The soldiers of the Nationals in the northern part of the city, frightened by the momentum of the Emperor's general attack, covered their helmets, threw down their bows and spears, and despite the rebuke of the commander Biller, most of them began to flee in the direction of Fort Antioch, the only one not blocked, in the east, while the rest scrambled towards the city. And the commander was fully armored, holding the banner of the command, and in the end, when he saw everyone running, he could only flee into the city.
After all, it is only a civilian army, and it still lacks the experience and courage of the battle formation, and it is okay to fight a few waves when the wind is down, but when they encounter this bloody moment of fighting will and combat skills, they become weak.
"Close the gates!" Gedier stood at the head of the city, beckoning.
"Where did you get the gates?" The consul covered her face and groaned in pain and disappointment - the whole sub-city, there is only a gap used to make the city gate, temporarily blocked with wooden fences and masonry, just now the soldiers of the people's army jumped over here and fled to the city, after they fled in, they finally remembered, turned around and put up the fallen dog's foot wood, according to the request of the chief engineer, blocked this "city gate".
As soon as the dog's foot wood was erected, the roar of "Long live the Emperor" spread over there—at the forefront of the charge were the Emperor's hundreds of Varangian guards, who were brute force, making rough shouts, wearing fine heavy armor, wrapped in animal skin leggings, and carrying dense axes and halberds, and swooping down on the "city gates" that were evacuating weakly.
After they cut down the wooden fence, the entire sub-city, along with all the Seleucian soldiers in it, will be slaughtered and drowned in a sea of blood.
Now in the entire sub-city, Kabeamiya turned her head and looked down, and there were panicked heads everywhere, a thousand, fifteen hundred? They were all crowded together, and the voices were so noisy that she could barely hear anything, there were civilian soldiers in leather armor, who were waving and shouting to the officers and Birel, pushing baskets and stacks towards the wooden fence of the "city gate", and there were also black-robed believers distributing weapons everywhere, as if they were going to fight to the death. But Leotius, holding on to the red banner, stood outside the barracks where the Khitan snow barrels were stored, blowing the whistle desperately, and together with his men, he resolutely did not let the chaotic crowd get close there.
Kabeamiya looked out of the city, and there was also a wave of soldiers, and there were people with weapons and iron helmets everywhere below, and the fierce shouts of killing, and the neighing of horses, made her feel dizzy, and she almost fell from the city walls...... In the midst of the two turbulent crowds, there was only a long wall across the road where she stood. (To be continued.) )