In the river plain in front of the city of Meritane, he spread out three infantry detachments, and countless large infantry spears swayed brightly to stimulate the Danishmond infantry who came to resist the battle, especially the huge war spears in the front line, which were all vermilion paint, almost piercing the sky - in front of the unhurried company of spearmen, six hundred subordinate archers and pyrinomers were lined up in several horizontal formations, under the escort of the auxiliary cavalry, Fireworks and arrows were fired in volleys, and the Turkic archers, who had always prided themselves on their bow and arrow skills, were fired fiercely from a distance of only 150 feet, and the smoke obscured the sky and the sun, and the sound and flashes were scorching. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Merrick, who climbed the tower of Meritane, was stunned to watch the bloody and cruel duel field of three Guri outside - at this time, the other two Danishmond fortresses also sent troops, trying to attack the Red Hand Brigade from the valley on the north side, but Branas also sent two detachments of "surprise soldiers" to the valley, which is the magic of Gawain's "five", three detachments are entangled with the enemy head-on, and two detachments are responsible for outflanking and coercing.

So on the narrow mountain road at the northern foot of the river, the two "strange soldiers" of the enemy and us who were walking in opposite directions swarmed and fought to the death, like rats in a bag, and the centurions and sergeants of the Guardian Army kept chanting hymns to encourage the soldiers to attack in columns, while the Ghazi of Danishmond on the other side shouted their family names and jihad's hadith and attacked bravely, and the whole situation was attack against attack.

In this battlefield, the big spear was useless, and everyone drew their short arms and handed them over one after another. Gema Radin Bey, who had been released during the defense of Kayseri (Caesarea), led more than a dozen Iqtar knights in armor to gallop bravely in order to wash away the shame of defeat, but was deeply surrounded by the Red Hand Brigade Surprise Detachment, an oak seedling javelin thrown by a skirmisher stabbed Bey in the neck, and the flat tufted head was deeply wedged into the bones of his body, and half of Gemma Radin Bey's head was almost broken, but he continued to fight to the death with a mace - in the end, the other two brigade stragglers were armed with thorn guns, Circling to the side of his mount, one shot pierced Bey's helmet and another stabbed him in the cheek, killing Gemaladin from his horse and killing all the Iqtar knights beside him. At the northern foothills, Danishmund's troops, who had lost their commander, began to rout, and soon the Great Emir, who was watching from the tower, saw that the enemy had taken possession of the winding northern foothills, and had broken straight into the ramparts behind them, setting fire everywhere and savagely killing everyone in sight.

At this time, after the long-range shooting, a frontal clash broke out.

Of the three detachments of the Red Hand Brigade, after the attached long-range shooting team retreated, six skirmish companies ran ahead of the spearmen company and launched a fierce attack on the Danishmond archery team in front of them. At the moment of hand-to-hand combat, several Turkic archers who had been in ambush in advance suddenly rose up and shot a large cluster of armor-piercing arrows with swallowtails—the three centurions of the Red Hand Brigade were immediately pierced through their helmets or armor and fell to their deaths. But just when the Turks thought that they would be in disarray due to the loss of their commander, a senior Lombard sergeant named Colonna in the brigade insisted on the requirements of the code, hung his irises behind him, held the hilt of the Saracen broad-bladed machete with both hands, and rushed straight to the front of the Turks.

The defeated Danishmund's army, with its wings wide open, prepared to resist the frontal attack of the Red Hand Brigade, but was instantly pierced by the spears of the two columns on the left and right of Branas.

Branath then commanded his cavalry to attack, and the battlefield soon became one-sided. Merrick on the tower watched as the soldiers of Gawain's army ran fast, loosely formed in formation, and rushed in twos and threes with spears in their hands, chasing his soldiers in the wilderness, like driving cattle to hunt, and soon rushed to the rampart: a brave Danishmund drummer, on horseback, rushed out of the wall gate, and just as he was about to beat the drum to boost morale, the Gawain soldier who arrived by name fought hard and nailed his spear to the doorpost......

At dusk, the clouds of misery gathered over the riverplain, and the corpses of Danishmund's soldiers were densely covered with gray mist, and several burning walls were scattered in between, and the outer lines of Melitane, which had been painstakingly managed by Merrick, collapsed in one day, and Gawain's army beheaded more than 800 heads and captured 3,000 prisoners.

Returning to the palace, the dejected Merrick began to doubt faith and life, and he looked at the dome of the palace in a daze, and then said to the Beys who followed him in a hoarse voice, "Do you think Meritene can still hold on?" ”

Many of the generals, including Kudb, fell silent.

Mélitane, the north of the city is narrower, triangular in shape, because it happens to be located in the middle of the Komahes River, and then slowly follows to the south, the whole castle becomes square, there are several bridges across the moats in the east and west, and the area of the key equipment is the two corner towers in the north and one in the south of the west wall, which could have been called strong and difficult to attack, but the great emir thought that now all the outer walls were slaughtered, and if he had stubbornly defended the towers of the city wall, he would have become the target of Gawain's Great Prani cannon, and he would have stood there with great grievances. Being smashed into pieces by stone bullets, even if he was martyred, it would be too dishonorable.

"At the time of the rising moon tonight, the whole army broke through from the east of the city and marched towards Sivas." Merrick made the decision with difficulty, "Gawain has attacked here, and the supplies and straw that his soldiers carry with them should also be depleted, and we will not be able to launch a pursuit until the supplies in the rear, so we will seize this opportunity to flee to Sivas to join the brigade of the Jihadist Martyrs, and then save Sivas." ”

After nightfall, in the tent, Gawain stood with a silver horse-headed scepter, and four soldiers of the Night Patrol half-knelt in front of him, shouting and cheering outside, "Lord Patron, please do not close your eyes and rest for a moment, for the more exciting news has come that the enemy chief Merrick has been shattered by the heroic attack of our army during the day, and he took advantage of the bright moonlight to begin to ride his mare lifelessly, and flow across the moat, discarding the splendid earth around Meritane, and fleeing in the direction of the road of Sivas soaking wet!" Golvin's confidential officer, Firactos, raised his fist and cheered loudly.

"The infidels are like the deer and roe deer hunted, who have lost their land and their honour, and have been crushed by our sword." All the generals present were also very happy.

"Leaving all the infantry to besiege and take Meritane, I, Bramsson, Gaudty, and Walter personally led four cavalry regiments into pursuit—the enemy chieftain thought that my supplies were exhausted, but in fact we were replenished by the previous levy, and now we have five days' worth of rations, which are now mainly rationed to my cavalry and horses, so that they can chase down the fleeing heretics like the wind!" Gawain waved his scepter, pointed in the direction of the north, and commanded loudly. (To be continued.) )