Eagle Byzantium

Gurkha soldiers are the strongest military force that Israel relies on. When his ancestor Mahmud was on an expedition to Tianzhu, he encountered a terrifying onslaught from such soldiers on the opposite side - 30,000 Gurkha soldiers wielding sharp scimitars. Breaking into the Crescent Cultists' front, it is said that five thousand Crescent Cultists had their limbs and heads chopped off within three moments, almost causing Mahmoud's entire front to collapse. Later, in order to show respect for the Gurkha soldiers, Ghazni also began to recruit them into his army to serve as the front line of infantry attacks or dogfights, and also used their bloodthirsty fury to psychologically frighten the enemy.

However, Sertiz persuaded the Khan: "Although the number of our troops on this line is not superior to Gawain, it is enough to cross the river and launch an attack. Only in this way can we achieve maximum cooperation with the Tubang army coming from the direction of Sind. My king, two lines. It is impossible for the men and horses to cooperate perfectly, but it will give the enemy opportunities to attack each other, so we have to attack and let Gawain focus on one thing and miss the other, so that both groups of men and horses can get a comprehensive attack. "

Israel hesitated for a while. He felt that what Sertiz said made sense, but this man was a perfectionist. He always wanted to be unrivaled after gathering the elites from Gurkha and Sindh. Instead of wasting time in forced crossings, trials and small-scale outpost battles, he defeated Gawain in one go.

So Israel boarded the war elephant's sedan chair the next day, and under the protection of a guard team composed of various ethnic groups such as Turks, Cathays, Persians, and Indians, he came to the bank of the Indus River and stared across the river. formation.

He noticed that from unknown time on the opposite side, a large group of cavalry had gathered, also galloping back and forth, shouting and cursing at his own camp across the river. All the opposing cavalry were wearing armor, shining golden in the sunlight of the clouds, and they were surrounded by The hill where the commander's tent is located is majestic. On that tent stands the gold-embroidered fish flag of Christ, fluttering in the wind and the thunderous sound of horse hooves.

The person standing under the banner was Wesat Mero. In fact, there were only more than two thousand Gur or Sistan cavalry beside him. Mero asked them to go back and forth around the hill, changing horses and galloping. One column first wore the Roman Empire. Style armor, one column wore Turkic-style shirts, and the two teams of men and horses switched back and forth, so it seemed that he controlled seven or eight thousand cavalry.

Israel was filled with doubts, so he used the sunlight to look farther away. He saw that behind the embankment of the river flowing through Hillstein City, under the arabic gum trees, there were many faint refractions of light and gray. Smoke and dust kept rising in the shadows. "There was an ambush, and the place was full of flashes of weapons. It is said that Gawain was very good at luring the enemy deep, and then launched a fierce counterattack."

In fact, behind the long river embankment, Melo arranged for three hundred-man teams from the Mosia Grand Brigade, and coerced the captured local people to tie up any reflective material on the long sticks and thick bamboo poles they collected. Objects - even kitchen knives - were stuck in the embankment, so that from a distance it looked as if there were many spearmen hiding behind them. Then this group of people cut down many branches, tied them behind the wheels of a two-wheeled cart, and drove them back and forth, raising clouds of dust.

While Yisrael was still confused, Gawain's main force had already arrived not far from the Malka ferry.

At dawn, Emperor Gawain had already ridden his horse and stood beside a hillock on the left flank of his own army. Agathios under his crotch was replaced because he was too tired, and replaced with a flowery yellow horse, standing side by side with him. It was General Branas and a group of bodyguard generals, All the soldiers lined up and rushed forward in columns on both sides of the hill. They looked like undulating waves in the hazy night. The tips of their spears shone like stars, and their helmets slowly showed arc-shaped to semi-circular lights in the morning light. , the low chirping of camels in Daxia can be heard from time to time.

"Keep moving, keep moving!" All the centurions and sergeants shouted loudly at the soldiers not to relax. The destination was a tributary of the Sind River, but the tributary that could be waded on foot was actually more like an overflowing stream. , which is the best battlefield to stop the enemies of Sindh.

Until now, the scout cavalry in the front had not reported any news from the Sindh side, which made the emperor a little nervous. The tassels hanging on his silver-gray armor were swaying in the wind, and the brown wrists wrapped under the ring-shaped armor tightened. Yellow reins and halter.

After half an hour like this, several scouts finally passed through the advancing array of soldiers like arrows and came to the foot of the hill where the emperor was standing. They shouted, "They have appeared!"

"Very good, what's the enemy's situation?" The emperor hurriedly lowered his body and faced the scout cavalry.

"There are many people, and they discovered our army's array in a hurry, so they are now rushing towards the stream."

Because the water of the Sindh River is turbid, it can only be used for farming but not for direct drinking. Therefore, once tens of thousands of people join forces to fight, this relatively clear river that divides the positions of the two armies is the common lifeline for both sides, and it is also the death line for an immediate fight to the death. .

The sudden appearance of Gawain's army at the Malka ferry surprised the two kings of Sindh. The ferry was now occupied by Gawain, all the ships were captured, and the local people were either expelled or captured - sitting cross-legged Rana, who was on the elephant sedan, and Marwa both saw at the same time that the wilderness in front of them was full of barefooted native people running around screaming, which meant that the enemy was imminent!

"The stream in front must be occupied to prevent the soldiers from dying of thirst in this wilderness." This was the consensus of the two earth kings.

But before the battle, they also found that there were no cavalry in their army. Both states were in the Sindh jungle area in the lower reaches of the Indus River. It was impossible to raise excellent war horses, so the army was mainly composed of spearmen, war elephants and archers. In order to maintain its military advantage over the whole of India, the Ghaznavid Khanate, which owned the northern horse pasture, would not easily sell war horses to them.

The cavalry force that finally rushed forward could only be entrusted to the chief of the Samila tribe and the governor of Tata, Ural.

At this time, 1,800 Samila warriors were finishing their morning prayers and then sitting on the ground to have breakfast. The dining mode of the Samila tribe was completely different from that of the Sindh region. They used large colored porcelain cups to hold drinks squeezed from pomegranates, and the blankets were covered with flatbreads, roasted lamb, dates and figs. They did not pursue the heavy taste of the Sindh people at all. The whole meal was quick and efficient.

Chief Ural had a snow-white turban on his head, and a carefully trimmed beard on his face. His cheeks were high, and ochre-red cinnabar was painted on the ends of his eyebrows and eyes, which made him look both majestic and alert. The chief sat in the middle of his tribe, wearing a tight golden Persian robe and a sharp long knife on his belt. He answered the envoy of the local king arrogantly, "Let us, the Samilai people, go first? In theory, there is nothing wrong. Anyway, the force of this war depends on the Samilai warriors, but what should we do if we are trapped in danger without backup?"