Eagle Byzantium

Soon the two local kings gave Ural a reassurance: Your Excellency will lead all the Samil cavalry to attack first, aiming to occupy the dividing stream, and we will each send 500 light infantry to support you on the left and right to prevent the enemy from cutting off your retreat.

During your first attack, all the sixteen war elephants brought by the Sind soldiers will be ready to serve as your successors, "As long as we occupy the dividing stream and force the enemy back outside our front line, they will definitely be defeated in this desert!"

Only after saying this did Ural agree to end the meal, and then asked all the tribesmen to mount their horses, "Believers, tribesmen, mount your loyal mares, rush to the stream six thousand feet in front of you, and defeat any enemy who dares to compete with the Samil tribe for terrain before the horses' hooves." After that, Ural personally mounted his horse and drew his saber. "In all the bloody and heroic battles on this vast land, the Samila cavalry has never lost a warhorse or a shield."

"May Allah bless us to kill all the Roman dogs on the opposite side!" Under the battle flags full of scriptures, the men and horses were noisy and surging. The warriors of the Samila family carried round copper-patterned shields, huge bow bags and quivers, and tightly grasped the battle axes or long swords in their hands. One after another, they jumped on the horseback and rushed to the direction of the big stream.

At this moment, although the wind from the Surman Mountains completely dispelled the original humid air of this land, the Marka Ferry was still very dry and desolate. The two sides of the gurgling stream were all black or blue-gray gravel. The steam from the sun passed by like a stream and disappeared in an instant.

The first to fight the Samilai cavalry were the two squadrons of the Oghuz Cavalry Regiment led by Gawain. The cavalry of both sides formed a wall-shaped formation, cursing non-stop, and stepped into the stream, slashing each other with swords and shooting arrows in the splashing water. A quarter of an hour later, the cavalry of the Oghuz Cavalry Regiment was defeated.

"Charge, charge, Allah is great, show the style of the Arabian warriors of the past!" Ural said hoarsely, holding up a shining sword, and constantly drove the tribesmen around to charge.

Then, about one and a half stadia across the stream, three squadrons of Komaloy Cavalry Archers came to fight with them. After several rounds of fierce fighting, the other side left more than a dozen corpses of people and horses behind.

At this time, the Samila tribe, who were going smoothly, had completely crossed the boundary stream. Then Ural looked around: the stream meandered here, and on the left side of their side was a rugged rocky land, and the stream cut through the cliffs between the rocks, while in the center and on the right side leading to the Sindh River, there was a vast wilderness. There were not even a few trees in this damn place.

So Ural could easily see the posture of the Roman army coming. In the center of their position was a dense phalanx of spearmen, nearly 10,000 people crowded in a section of about 5,000 feet long, forming a rectangle that was moving slowly forward. The right wing was a cavalry team extending into a diagonal line, and the left wing close to the river seemed to be their lightly armed skirmishers and shooters, also arranged in a double horizontal line, stepping deep and shallow on the soft land on the river bank.

This group of Roman troops, about a li away from him (a Roman li is equal to 1.45 kilometers today), seemed to be rushing here anxiously.

They certainly knew the importance of fighting for this stream.

"Unfortunately, the enemy's right wing is full of cavalry. When they arrived here, they found that the battle line they occupied was full of undulating rocks; and the battle line of the Roman dog's left wing skirmishers was too far away from the center, beyond the focus of the battle, and with the stream blocking it, it was difficult to pose a threat to our army." Ural, who was well versed in battle formations, quickly saw the opponent's weaknesses. It seemed that although the opponent's surprise attack had achieved its goal to a certain extent, it still had little chance of winning in this battle. "The Roman dog's emperor did not care about the terrain at all, or ignored the scouts' intelligence because he was rushing to the battlefield. This battle only added to the joke."

The war elephants roared, and Ural turned around to look - the two princely kings of Sindh had also prepared the main force of the brigade - sixteen war elephants were separated on the battle line, and between every two elephants was an infantry phalanx. From a distance, the soldiers looked like walls, and the war elephants were tall towers connecting the walls, overwhelming and coming one after another.

Rana and Malwa were sitting in the center, cross-legged on the elephant sedan that looked like a small tower. They were dark-skinned, strong, and fierce-looking. Their turbans were inlaid with red gems that symbolized their kingly status. Their armor and belts were all golden. They held spiked scepters in their hands, which were also the tools they used to drive the elephants they sat on. There was a sharpshooter beside them, who was responsible for firing deadly poison arrows on the elephant sedan, and another was a firebomb thrower who threw "Indian fire" (similar to a saltpeter spear).

Under the elephants were all Sindhi native soldiers, most of whom held sharp bamboo spears, with armor plates hanging on their chests to block arrows, and walked barefoot. Behind them were archers, who carried large leather shields made of buffalo skin and single bows on their backs. When fighting, they stuck the bows into the ground and pulled the strings to shoot. "No one in the world can withstand the big arrows of Sindhi archers!" Behind them were Sindhi chariots. That's right, these were definitely not Gao Wenfang's camp chariots, but the kind of chariots that rushed and attacked in ancient times.

And behind them were the servants and slaves of the native king: priests, astrologers, divine oil applicators, spice cooks, flag bearers, baggage tent bearers, and people leading parrots and hunting dogs of various colors. They followed the front line noisily like a black ocean.

When the elephants stepped into the river, creating whirlpools, the local king in the elephant sedan saw that the Romans were still coming here, and he laughed. It seemed that fate was still on their side. "They are like a group of poor people who can't make it to the party." Rana joked.

Soon, all the war elephants and infantry lines of the Sindh side successfully crossed the river. All the soldiers stood with their backs to the water and formed three wings on the left, right and center. The servants and followers stayed on the other side of the river to wait for orders.

The Roman vanguard also officially advanced to the open ground three stadia away. Their right-wing cavalry arrived at the scattered rocky hills one after another, and found that they could not advance at all. They could only rein in their horses and circle in place, which caused the Samilians and Sind people to laugh loudly - "Stupid Roman dogs."

Now Gawain also divided the entire army into three wings: left, middle and right: the spearmen of the Red Hand Brigade and the Guard Brigade were in the middle, the two brigade shooting troops and the hired Oghuz volunteer archers were on the left wing, and almost all the cavalry were concentrated on the right wing, and the artillery attached to the brigade, plus the task force of the artillery regiment, together concentrated a total of twelve wheeled perfume bottle cannons, which were also being assembled.

The Romans seemed very passive: the right-wing cavalry was blocked by the terrain and it was difficult to outflanking, and the skirmishers on the left wing had too many wandering battle lines.

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"The enemy is in a mess, Gundam attack!" The two local kings on the elephant sedan waved their scepters, making wolf-like sounds, and the servants around them struck the gong loudly!