Chapter 24: Raising the Flag
There was no doubt that this gentleman was Sigmar, who was the forerunner of the mounted cavalry, a wandering knight who now served the Seleucian army for money and glory. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Under the bright sun, Sigma, who is usually unruly and gambling, but when he arrives on the battlefield, he can carry the heavy and stuffy armor, holding the battle flag in one hand and the mace in the other, and stepping on the rickety trench bridge plank. Sanzabal's instructions reduced the horse's armor and the skirt armor and shin armor on the cavalry, making it much easier to run, otherwise Sigma's charge would probably cause the horse's hooves to sink into the plank and fall into the trench by himself.
"It's beautiful!" Although the hordes of Gemagith soldiers were dissatisfied with the arrogant rush of Sigma and the other mounted cavalry in front of them, they could not help but applaud when they saw the majestic appearance of their own men and horses equipped with cavalry assault, and their fighting spirit and sense of security also reached their peak, and they each prepared bows and swords, just waiting for the orders of their respective flag officers to sound.
"Brother, let's rush up too." At this time, another young horseman, Nexus. Dukas, looking at Sigma's figure galloping to the city to defend the rock, also shouted to his brother beside him, and Gaia did not hesitate, immediately pulled the bridle, held the axe for fighting in his right hand, and Nexus, who was holding a round shield and a fighting spear, shouted "Long live the purple princess, long live the Virgin, hallelujah!" The horses disrupted the ranks of the rest of the mounted cavalry and infantry, and likewise crossed the shaking bridge, and rushed to the bottom of the city.
At this moment, Gawain under the Great Plani Cannon stood in front of the guards and the two heraldic officers, furious, and pointed at the two Dukas brothers who charged without authorization, causing the follow-up infantry team to fluctuate and hesitate, "I think, the Callegos family is really going to be cut off under Alalmanburg!" When he had finished speaking, Wright nervously pinched the corners of his coat, thinking about how to prevaricate the matter (for he was a human elf and knew that this group of lawless mounted cavalry was the people of Her Royal Highness the Princess), while the heraldic officer Anderodat recorded with a blank face, and the little sunfish had a high-hanging indifferent expression.
On the position, Walter saw the two Dukass brothers rushing out, shouted a few times in dissatisfaction and concern, and reluctantly drove his horse to follow, which caused a great chain effect: almost all the mounted cavalry, from all parts of the bridge, launched a charge in advance, and the neighing of men and horses swept towards the fortress like a storm.
On the outer ramparts of the eastern gate of the fortress, in the tents and earthen ramparts that had been destroyed by the Great Plani Cannon, several brave Callogos privates suddenly burst out, and they were furious at the tragic death of Severn, and they roared and leaped out, trying to resist the monstrous Sigma who rushed at the front.
Sigmar's contemptuous laughter was almost all transmitted through the visor, and he saw two guards emerge from the ruins of the wall at the side, one of them advanced with a shiny battle axe in his hand, and the other stood on top of the earthen wall, full of bowstrings for covering the killing—in the whirlwind dust stirred up by the horses' hooves, Sigma threw the mace in his hand horizontally, smashing the enemy soldiers on the wall with bows and faces, and then bowed his waist slightly and rushed forward with his horse a few steps, but the axe man did not have time to throw the battle axe in his hand, It was savagely rammed by the armored war horse, rolled to the ground, and then the internal organs were trampled everywhere.
At this time, behind the ruins of the other side of the defense, he suddenly killed a defender who had been lurking for a long time, he held his spear, put on the cloak used to cover his body, and stabbed directly at Sigma, Sigma also clenched the spear with the battle banner at the same time, and stabbed it - the spearman of the defender was stabbed in the abdomen, and with the inertial force of Sigma's warhorse, he flew upside down to the low wall, blood splattered and exploded, and rolled to the ground to die, and the spear on which he stabbed Sigma horse armor was completely inferior "from Alarmán", The shaft of the spear was hastily made of thistle wood, and the tip of the spear and its sleeve were also sharpened very small because of the haste and ease of carrying, and such a spear was pierced on the sturdy piercing armor, and suddenly bent and burst, and exploded in front of Sigma's eyes The "flying flowers" of sawdust did not cause any damage to the cavalry on horseback at all.
In other words, in a matter of seconds, Sigma, the mounted cavalry who rushed to the front, slaughtered three defender infantry who had been ambushed behind the defense in advance, without suffering the slightest damage herself. This is also the meaning of his role as the "leader of the formation", the small battle of death under the city, in front of the soldiers of both sides of the enemy and us, clearly shows the difference in equipment and combat skills between the Seleucian side and the Callegos side, which is also vividly and shockingly told all the soldiers who are still defending the city: despair, under the crushing of the ironclad cavalry, unless surrender.
Three hundred of Anna's "killing toys", each of them often has to be rationed to five slaves, and they also have a considerable weight of fine human horse armor, to feed this small cavalry group, it will cost almost 1,500 or even 2,000 infantry, and their performance at this moment really shows the value for money.
More of Callegos' private soldiers surrounded him, and Sigma held his horses firm, his body full of hedgehogs full of arrows that shot into the armor, and the spear of the battle banner in his hand stabbed left and right, and he did not fall behind at all. Then the two Ducasse brothers suddenly arrived, one wielding a tomahawk and slashing, the other holding a short spear and stabbing at the ground, defeating all the defenders in front of the bar.
The morale of Alalmanburg collapsed in such an instant: when one of the defenders lost his fighting spirit, abandoned his post, and cried and climbed up the rubble and masonry that had been bombarded by the Great Plani cannon, many soldiers and citizens of the city reached out to meet him, despite the danger. So Sigma planted the banner on the ground, then put his hands on the saddle, walked his left foot around the front, jumped to the ground, drew the banner again, and chased after the guard, and then shouted, and the guard was full of chestnuts, like a rabbit being watched by a ferocious lion, and turned involuntarily to face Sigma, who stretched out his spear and plunged it into the throat and neck of the guard, and slew the other man like an animal to be slaughtered.
Then Sigmar held the blade of the spear, which was still dripping with blood, and slowly, slowly, stepped over the corpses and rubble of the guards, and pressed towards the city. I don't know who shouted, and all the soldiers and armed citizens at the head of the city collapsed, and they did not dare to raise their weapons in the face of the only armored cavalry Sigma, but scattered and fled along the battle path.
Soon, Sigma stood alone at the head of the city, blindfolded with heavy armor, and planted the flagpole beside him, and the portrait flag of St. Theodor soon fluttered above the great city of Alalman, and everyone in the four fields saw it, and the sound of killing shook the sky in an instant. (To be continued.) )