Chapter 22: Ma Zhu Arrow
After a few camels, a group of Kurdish darts and archers, through the "battlements" formed by the humps, saw the light artillery carts rolling in front of them, and they had been working as mercenaries on this plateau for a long time, and knew that this regulation was very similar to that of the Roma train: once the fire pots containing the fierce fire oil and asphalt were thrown here, more than 10,000 people in the camel city would suffer, and they would taste the extermination of Hell before Kafel. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"it!" So the leading Kurdish warrior bravely stepped on the soft back of the camel, drew the bowstring, and the archers around him also crowded around him, and injected arrows as well.
The pyropers behind the light artillery carts heard only a shrill whistling sound in the air—a swarm of arrows flew out of the camel city, their length longer than that of an ordinary horned bow, and it was very terrifying to look at.
"Bow down." The firethrowers also fell down one after another, and the sound of the leather wooden shields hanging from the crosses in front of the car was dense, as if countless birds were flying and pecking fiercely, and some of them lay on the ground but were still shot through the legs or feet by the arrows of the plunder, and one of them was unlucky, directly pierced through the thigh artery, and the blood flew everywhere on the light artillery cart, wailing and dying in a short time.
This is the same arrow as the previous part of the jihadist archers into the car base, three or four feet long, with a strong toughness called Bahrain bamboo, in fact, this bamboo is the introduction of Tianzhu hemp bamboo, especially suitable for shooting with a bow, the bamboo pole is strong and light, easy to lengthen, and flying to shoot up the lethality is huge.
Several light artillery wagons were immediately shot like porcupines and lay still, and the firethrowers behind were either killed or wounded or unable to move.
At this moment, Gawain and the generals who were supervising the battle in the rear saw that the morale of the jihadists in the camel city seemed to be fanatical again, and the imam lecturer named Qasim under the Hethep kept shouting and leading everyone to preach, and the raindrops of bamboo arrows and other arrows shot out from behind the lying camels with the sound of the salute, and the gunners set up the three motors, and from time to time they fired a few shots, and there was a violent sound to boost morale, in short, they resolutely did not let Gawain's firethrowers and artillery carriages approach.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy is protected by camels and kibosha's caravans, and our light artillery wagons are not easy to approach, although they have shields." Gawain's tone was asking about strategy.
Pointing to both sides of the huge "camel city," Leotius and Orson said, "On the left is the river, and on the right is a wind-blown chasm, and it is difficult for our cavalry and infantry to outflank it." ”
"There is an earthen embankment behind them, and the red hand cavalry is ordered to attack it, and if you capture that earthen embankment and condescend to it, you can threaten the back road of the camel city." Monomachus proposed.
But this time Gawain shook his head, "Continue to monitor this camel city with the barricades and border people's troops - I will take the grenadiers and artillery carriages and gallop to the camps of Merlot and Branas, first crush the enemy's rear army, and then turn back and eat the camel city completely." ”
"Yes, Your Highness!" Several generals stretched out their hands in obedience.
At the second hour of the morning, Gawain led the Oghuz Cavalry and the Pyrinomers, and it didn't take long for them to arrive at the camp of Branath, where the soldiers of the Guardian Brigade were confronting the Mujahideen army led by Harun across the river with a narrow but steep bank.
After seeing the jihadists on the opposite side erecting a fence on the riverbank, Gawain pointed to the circular forest below the river, "Using the tactics of the Turks killing civilian pilgrims, we burned the forest with light artillery wagons and scattered all the enemies inside, and then we occupied the other place and flanked and routed this army!" ”
Dozens of light artillery carts were pushed, approaching the circular forest, and then countless flames burst into the woods, and one by one the flames were ejected from the light artillery trucks, and in the crimson sea of fire roaring, many of the jihadists who had been hiding and clinging to it could not bear it and were driven out. Ten companies of miscellaneous, skirmishers, armed with 300 brigade-attached pyrophims, attacked in two directions against the flames, successfully crossed the river and swept the area around the forest, hunted down more than 300 mujahideen, and occupied the flank positions of the rear army.
A frightened Harlan hurriedly mobilized the strength of the entire team and launched several attacks on the stragglers of the Guardian Brigade in succession.
As a result, the skirmishers occupied a high slope on the edge of the Burning Forest, and the three hundred auxiliary pyrinos were divided into two flanks, and with a combination of firearms and arrows and sophisticated hand-to-hand tactics, they crushed Harun's offensive one after another.
As a result, the morale of the post-Mujahideen army was greatly demoralized and they were in an embarrassing situation, most of them were old and weak, and their combat effectiveness was already very poor. At this time, the rest of the spearmen of the Defender Brigade also forced their way from the front. Under the two attacks, Harun's rear army was crushed, and 15,000 mujahideen fled for their lives along the Sivas trade route. The cavalry of the brigade and the cavalry regiment of St. Cyril were in pursuit from the left and right flanks, and the cavalrymen, using swords and spears, rode horses to catch up with the frightened rabbit-like Mujahideen, assassinating one after another, and the corpses of the mujahideen were spread all the way to the last abandoned castle.
The whole brigade seized two hundred wagons, a thousand oxen, three hundred goats, and four hundred pack horses and mules, which were all over the wilderness, everywhere, and could be pulled away without much difficulty, and of course nearly five thousand captives, who were escorted to the river where the battle had just taken place, where they saw Gawain, wrapped in a black cloak and covered in armor, "and drew out the clergy, the mercenaries, and the religious judges, and beheaded them all." ”
The abandoned castle on the hill of Sivas was the last stronghold of the 70,000 pilgrims, and there were 4,000 women and children crouching in the middle, but now they were too late to run, for all the way down had been cut off by Gawain's cavalry, and soon the brigade and brigade infantry followed, in all directions.
An armored group of soldiers of the Guardian Brigade stepped on the mountain path below, holding banners and shouting, "It is better to come out and surrender and dig a channel in the Komahes River than to be burned to death." ”
"The time has come for Allah!" The remnants of the jihadist leaders who had fled back to the area, including Harun, raised their fists to lift the rocks from between the walls and threw them down the hillside, and the brigade soldiers were hit in their armor and retreated to the screams and cries of the women.
Then the women's voices became louder and more frightened, and they and the children saw that the group of murderous soldiers in the four corners had begun to raise all kinds of weapons, such as firearms, spears, sickles, swords, etc., and also raised the golden citrus banner to kill all the people in the abandoned fortress.
With a heavy firing of fire, the turbaned women in the ranks of the Mujahideen saw an older woman suddenly descend the hill: the two brigade firethrowers below were holding their handcuffs and smoke from their hands, and the arrows grazed the woman's side, piercing the corners of her robes and striking the wall behind her.
But soon, the two soldiers put away their handcuffs and beckoned to the woman who had run down, and she quickly ignored Harlan's scolding, carried her broken robes, and ran straight into the other party's array, begging them to let her live. (To be continued.) )