In the end, the plan of the female consul was approved, and Philus selected three hundred believers to storm the emperor's approaching forward camp, but was ambushed and scattered, leaving only half of them to run under the defensive wall with injuries to pick up their lives, and Philus almost died - at this time, the female consul who was so frightened that she was watching the battle on the camp, her face became pale, and she no longer dared to mention the matter of "going out of the camp for a decisive battle". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Is it really necessary to use the dangerous and terrifying Khitan fire? This kind of weapon, even Cabeamia herself did not want to use, because it was too terrifying, when she and Luchios discussed it again, the elder clearly suggested, "Adopt Gedier's idea, build a sub-city, hoard Khitan fire, and wait for help." ”

So Cabeamia obediently began to supervise the remaining people, and began to dig trenches around the camping in all directions, and then asked Gedier to build a walled "sub-city" on the central slope to strengthen the core defenses—at this time, there were less than 7,000 Seleucian peasants who had the courage to receive their salaries and insisted on guarding the pack horses and supplies in the camp.

The 300-strong Praetorian Guard, led by Dim and Muzafi Addin, "went upstream" in the surging ranks of fleeing people, and when they arrived at the camp, they brought great encouragement to the 4,000 people and heretics here.

"Where is the Khitan fire hoarding?" That's what Dim said when he saw the consul.

The consul pointed to the sub-city under construction, "The core and safest place in it is all there." ”

"Have you used it?" Dimu continued to make a loud urn, and after receiving a negative answer, he conveyed Gawain's meaning, "The great guarantor has asked me to oversee you, and you must use the Khitan fire in time after the enemy pounces on you." Now you have that Leotius teach me and Muzafi Adin's Praetorian detachment how to use ......"

Just as the Praetorian Guard detachment began to practice Khitan fire, in the early morning of the next day, Alexios suddenly personally imprisoned 3,000 elite soldiers and launched a fierce attack on the hill camp on the right side of the camp.

The Emperor had been planning for a long time, and had spent a day leading all his guards and staff officers to observe the geography and path of the camp of Milio Sephalombe, and then summoned six hundred of the most nimble and fierce Tekopo soldiers in the army, and three hundred Cretans and three hundred Bulgars, and asked each of them to have a strong recurve bow, which was made of fir or elm, made of horns, and all with flattened clusters of sharp iron arrows," told the quartermaster, White pigeon feathers or goose feathers are used for the arrow feathers, and if they are not in order, they are replaced by red-dyed reed feathers. The Emperor so commanded. Then he selected 1,800 capable spearmen and shieldmen from his army, and joined all the archers, "one shield to cover one archer, and all the spearmen crouched behind the array, waiting for orders to carry out a surprise attack." ”

That night, the Emperor himself waved his flag, divided the archers and shieldmen into three wings, and lurked under the three slopes of the camp of Milio Sepharonbe, evading the patrols of the camp, which were garrisoned by about five hundred garrisons, echoing the one hundred and fifty men behind the defensive wall, who dug double trenches around the fortified barracks, erected many crossbows, and lit illuminated bonfires, and looked up so that the field could be clearly seen a hundred feet away.

However, the emperor took advantage of this, and at dawn, a total of 1,200 elite archers on three sides approached the other camp at the same time to the sound of whistles and military trumpets, and suddenly shot a wave of arrows outside the limit of the firelight, accurately knocking down several civilian soldiers who were patrolling the night behind the wooden fence. The shouts exploded, and the entire battalion of civilian soldiers, including the defenders of the defensive wall beneath them, began to run.

The soldiers of the people's army behind the wooden fence initially heroically used the crossbow and the cedar bow in their hands to shoot at all sides, but the emperor's archers were hidden outside the firelight, that is, the state of "the enemy is dark and I am clear", resulting in little effect of the counterattack - the emperor's arrow team was not anxious, they stood together, calmly and cruelly hid in the dark, illuminated by the firelight, with arrows with white or red tail feathers, under the cover of the shield hand, shot the civilian troops behind the wooden fence one by one, and in the night sky and firelight, white or red tracks passed densely, Allowing the archers to constantly correct their shots makes the clusters of arrows they shoot more and more aggressive and deadly.

Several crossbows were on the side, and the civilian soldiers who controlled them were constantly killed and wounded, and the ones who took over were often killed by flying arrows through the throat or forehead before they could pull the big arrows. Soon the militia soldiers, who could not stand the rain of arrows, began to abandon the camp and run towards the defensive wall below the mountain.

In front of the main camp, there was also a sound of killing, Meles and Yagfi also selected several teams of elite soldiers and guard warriors, climbed the mountains and rocks everywhere, the front of the entire camp was on fire, and the female consul was shrouded in the horror of being destroyed by the emperor's army in the past, and ran around on horseback to "command", losing her composure, but Birell and Dim were calm - they realized that the direction of the enemy's main attack was the other camp on the right hill, so they organized a reserve and personally led the team to run there for reinforcements, "Your Excellency, Archon, You let your believers use Khitan fire, quick! Before leaving, Billel took the reins of the archon, stopped her rampage, and then rushed out of the camp with the men.

"Ah, why do I have to suffer this horror on the front line while serving Gawain on the same couch!" The female consul was very distressed in her heart, but she couldn't care about it so much, so she immediately organized a hundred believer soldiers who were skilled in using the Khitan fire in advance, "Walk in unison, go to the side of the mountain rock, and block the enemy with the Khitan fire." The consul waved her golden hand.

Leotius hung his whistle and waved the small flag in his hand at the three columns of believer soldiers, "Keep walking, keep walking, calm down, remember the rules used." And Muzafi Adin also carried a spear, and accompanied the female consul in the back, and took on the duty of pressing the formation.

The group of Christians, under the command of Leotius, walked straight forward for about seventy or eighty paces, and came to an open field in front of the rocks, where there were everywhere the figures of the enemy soldiers, all of whom had climbed up from under the cliffs, and were now wielding hooks, sickles, and axes, chopping through the barrier of dog's feet, and ready to rush into the camp and kill them as soon as they had succeeded.

The sound of "boom" felling, and the sight of friendly troops and civilians running around, made everyone extremely nervous, "Soldiers in the front, hold your Khitan fire pipe, rush forward." Leotius turned, chopped down the small flag in his hand, and a sharp whistle sounded, representing an unquestionable order to die.

"There are so many in a desperate situation!" The believer soldiers in the front line gritted their teeth and were ruthless, and one by one they picked up the wooden copper pipes about four feet and five inches long in their hands, the pipes were covered with several layers of Seleucian paper, and the mouth of the black hole was outside, and the companions next to them were holding jars in their hands, and then they were close together, step by step towards the fence of the dog's foot wood. (To be continued.) )