Eagle Byzantium

Zephyrim's soldiers, holding the dog-tooth flag, were advancing rapidly along the river. Their Bey lord was wearing gorgeous robes, riding on a tall horse, holding a riding whip, constantly encouraging the soldiers to "speed up the pace, Enter the city of Tusot (Tartsus is called Tusot by the Turks and Saracens) and resist the oncoming pagan dogs.”

The cavalry in front soon saw that a line of light cavalry appeared quickly on the hills beside the river. Like their own nation, they carried animal skin bags with a large number of arrows on their backs, and also There were spears and scimitars. These were all the Cumans to whom Gawain belonged. There were about a hundred riders, riding short and inferior war horses. Many of them used pack horses to make up the number.

"There is an enemy attack!" The Roma cavalry in front, who acted as eyes, quickly rushed back to their own formation, raised their hands and shouted.

"Don't panic, line up the shooting and resisting groups. They are all a ragtag group of people. They are probably stragglers hired by the enemy." Commander Nabey shouted.

However, Gawain's light cavalry advanced extremely quickly, like a moving rope, and soon approached the shooting range of Rohm's reinforcements. The two armies then began to disperse and engage in long-range bow and arrow battles.

Among the flying arrows, the Roman soldiers heard louder drum beats - Gawain himself came galloping with all the second-line assault cavalry, holding Contus or Norman-style spears.

Seeing the enemy's galloping horses and towering spears, Röhm's infantry had already begun to flee back - but the more than 200 Frank cavalry led by Baldwin divided into small groups and overlapping from the flanks to attack again. The battle ended very neatly - the Roma Bey and several Ghazi warriors were killed, more than a dozen light cavalry escaped, and the rest were all annihilated.

"Say your password. I can release you to Zephyrim." After several prisoners were tied down in front of Gawain, General Stratigos interrogated them in Turkic language.

"Light Arrow." That was the final command.

"Thirty cavalry and one hundred and fifty infantry." After the battle, Gawain and Baldwin were briefly selecting soldiers. "They all put on Turkic armor and raised the dog-tooth flag. They marched towards Tar in the night. Seuss’s Watergate Twin Towers.”

Muzafi'adin knelt in front of his master and skillfully helped Gawain put on the Turks' light scale armor, then the chains on his shoulders, the armor gloves, the scimitar, and finally the belt, "Master "This armor is a bit too small." Gawain himself felt very painful from being strangled. He repeatedly asked the Turkic servants to tighten their belts more loosely, "By the way, Muzafi Adin. In the immediate attack, you walk at the front and raise your face, so the enemy will not doubt you. Baldwin and I will follow you." behind."

At dusk that day. The huge city of Tarsus loomed in front of him, and Gawain ordered Bramson to lead the rest of the tribe, all hiding behind the hillside half a mile away. He rode the mare Sabina at the front of the queue. Baldwin, Oden, and Burke were all wearing helmets and holding maces, and Muzaffy-Addin was holding a dog-tooth flag and ran to the front on horseback, followed by the 180 soldiers who lined up in double columns. The ten fake "Roma reinforcements" were all "from Zephyrim."

“Pilgrims, it’s a pilgrim’s camp!”

"No, it's just a camp of Norman pilgrims." Gawain categorically "dispelled" the worries of several soldiers - on the high ground on the other side of the river where they stood at the water gate tower of Tarsus. A team of hundreds of pilgrims arrived temporarily below, probably sent by Tancred from the siege position over there, on the shore below. Colorful tents were set up.

Gawain and Baldwin's tribe, dressed in this way, rushed there quickly. From the overlook, the pilgrim camp was in chaos. Many people saw them and thought it was a Turkic attack. They rushed to the tent to get weapons and reported that Tancred was running away.

Baldwin, who was hidden behind his visor, raised his hammer and laughed loudly, "Since you want to deceive the city army, you might as well do it more realistically!"

"All the troops, destroy this pilgrim camp. Don't hesitate. As long as we can attack and recover the birthplace of St. Paul, the Lord will forgive anyone!" Gawain was also unceremonious and pulled out the winding weapon. The blue and slightly flaming sword was raised in front of his eyes, and he ordered in a low voice.

"On behalf of the Lord, I fully recognize His Excellency Gawain's statement and decision!" Oden also raised the Morning Star Hammer with thistles and howled.

"Oh oh oh!" As General Stratigos pointed the blue sword light at the target, the dog tooth flag flew down, and all the Cuman cavalry sent out whistles and war cries when rounding up prey. , the horse galloped down. The chests and heads of the pilgrims who stood in front of them were pierced by powerful arrows. Many of them fell on the grass. More people were chased by the cavalry in the wild. They were constantly chopped down and turned over. Some of them hid. Even after entering the tent, he still couldn't escape. The infantry who followed behind forced the remaining Norman pilgrims to the edge of the Sidnus River and massacred them. In less than half an hour, the pilgrim camp was wiped out under the "enemy attack".

At this time, in front of the Water Gate Tower in Tarsus City, the defenders saw this scene and jumped and cheered, "Our reinforcements have arrived!"

In the siege camp in front of the city gate, Tancred was horrified. He listened to the reports of the escapees from the water gate, "Is it true that there are large reinforcements of enemies? But didn't the city send envoys yesterday to kneel down and sue for peace? !”

The Norman young general quickly rode on horseback, contacted Paquead, and came to the tower of the city wall, where several Turkic nobles pointed at Tancred proudly and cursed.

"Surrender as soon as possible, otherwise we will massacre you all after we break the city." Pak'ad shouted in fluent Turkic dialect.

"Haha, look at the array of our troops coming to the water gate for reinforcements! You should have understood a long time ago that you will be the one to surrender, otherwise, you will face complete destruction." The Turkic nobles on the tower replied arrogantly.

Tancred was furious and shouted to all the warriors to mount their horses, raise their spears and swords, and "gallop to the water gate in the northwest of Tarsus. Follow me to defeat the enemy's reinforcements and show their heads to this group of people." The obstinate man observes!”

At this time, the Turks in Tarsus City had stretched out the hidden mechanism bridge between the water gates to the river with a coiled rope, and connected it with the half of the bridge originally erected on the opposite bank, forming a smooth bridge. Tao, this is the engineering wisdom of the Crescent Sect. Hui - Muzafi'adin nodded to Gawain who was riding on the horse, then held the dog tooth flag and walked at the front, constantly shouting in Turkic dialect, "Hurry up and let us in before the enemy comes from that side." Before arriving at our position, our numbers were not very large.”

These twin towers were built with wood and brackets on ships floating underneath, sandwiching the bridge into the city. On top, there were constant Roma soldiers holding bows and arrows, facing the people who were walking on the bridge. Gawain et al.

"Steady, steady... Muzafi Adin, don't have a panicked expression on your face." Gawain led Sabina, and everyone else followed the Turkic servants and filed through the crossing. Crossing the bridge over the river, he could clearly feel Muzafi'adin's He was breathing heavily, and looked up - in the dim night, on the wooden battlements of the tall twin towers, torches were held together, the light was shining, they were all Roma archers on standby, "Where are they coming from!" One of them, Ghazi, asked loudly while holding on to the crenel.

"Zephrim City." Muzafi'adin stopped and raised his flag.

"Who is this Mr. Bey behind you?" Nagazi asked again.

"Master Shed Sirron!" Muzafi'adin said, pointing to Gawain who was wearing Turkic scale armor and a white feathered pointed helmet.

Nagazi continued to prepare to ask for the password, and then opened the city gate after it was correct.

At this moment, on the other side of the river, the sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder. It was Tancred holding the battle flag of St. George and running towards him with dozens of heavily armored Norman cavalry!

"Hurry up, otherwise the bridge will be taken away by the enemy, and they will follow here and capture the Watergate Tower." Muzafi'adin continued to plead quickly.

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"Give me the password."

"Light Arrow!"

Finally, Nagazi waved his hand, and a group of Roma soldiers pulled the iron bolt behind the water gate, and pushed open the city gates on both sides with a rumble. Gawain, Baldwin and others took out the 180 soldiers behind them. , clenched the long-handled battle ax in his hand, and quickly came towards the opened water gate.

Suddenly, a young Armenian noble warrior wearing armor appeared on the battlements. He pointed at Gawain who was running below and shouted, "He is not Shedshirron at all. I have seen this Bey, with his beard and eyes." All black!"

"What? Shoot the arrow and move the iron bar back. It's the enemy. The enemy is coming!" Nagachi jumped up in a hurry and waved his arms again.

"Swish, swish, swish." On the Twin Towers, arrows intertwined and fell, and the surprise attack army shouted, flipping up various shields, bending their waists to resist, and quickly swarmed towards Minato.

"They are enemies, close the door, close the door!" In front of the city gate, all the Roma soldiers pulled up the rope again and prepared to withdraw it and close it, but several soldiers over there had already raised the iron bolt with groans. Be prepared to move it over and put it down.

Jumping off his horse, Gawain, who was wearing scale armor and holding a battle ax, quickly exploded, roaring past the lightly-armed Muzaffy Adin, and rushed in directly through the gap of the rumblingly closed city gate, and then the ax flashed. , a Turkic Iqta noble among them still waved his hand. With a coordinated movement, the helmet was split open and the head was hacked in. "Ah!" Gawain shouted, hooking the ax blade on the back of the man's neck and shoulders, and dragging the man backwards like he was flying. The mutilated body was dragged into the air and was caught between the cracks in the door.

There was a loud "rumbling" sound, and the falling iron bolt happened to hit the body that was hooked in the crack of the door. The organs splashed all over Gawain's head and face behind him. He only felt a fishy smell filling his nostrils. The wooden handle of the tomahawk in his hand was so shaken that he could hardly hold it.

"Owner!"

"Gawain!"

Muzafi'adin, Baldwin, and the other warriors pounced on them one after another, using crowbars and various weapons in their hands. They roared angrily and struggled to pry up the iron bar that was cushioned by the corpse but not closed, and then all the others behind it. People used their hands and feet to reopen half of the city gate.

"For St. Paul!" With this cry, everyone raised all their weapons and rushed into the water gate. (To be continued ~^~)