Eagle Byzantium

In fact, during this period of time, the army of King Da Ping was not just talking, but built a terrifying "big fish scale fort group" around Mofu City.

Fortress is a military term used by the Emperor and Song Dynasty for "field camp", but it is different from Gawain's concept of "field camp" or "bastion": the Roman Empire's idea was to use a small number of garrison troops and firearms to guard the fort. The fort is to delay the enemy, prevent the enemy from cutting into the communication line, protect one's own communication line, and then use the surplus field mobile corps to capture the enemy and defeat him when the enemy lacks the ability to detour. The Huangsong Fort Group, as its name implies, is to build many forts that can reinforce each other, so as to achieve the military purpose of advancing, attacking, retreating, and defending, thereby controlling the entire theater. It is the base for the entire army to retreat and garrison, and it is also the bridgehead for the attack. It also has the following capabilities: It has the function of strategic suppression: overhaul these forts and strongholds in the key areas of the enemy's territory, fight, defend and cultivate them. It is to continuously consume and compress the movement space of the enemy's maneuvering power. Facing this kind of fortress group, the enemy has no more than two choices. One is to constantly disperse its own strength to deal with the insect swarms that are building more and deeper. The fortress finally ran out of power and surrendered; another option was to build a fortress to deal with it, but after a long time, how could it be the opponent of the thick-blooded Huang Song Dynasty? Sooner or later, the whole people will become soldiers, the economy will be in ruins, and the national treasury will be depleted, and they will have to give in.

This kind of "obscene trend in Huangsong Fort Village" is naturally a nightmare for small countries.

Although Gawain had assembled an army that was almost twice as large as his own, Tong Guan, who had been serving as a soldier for a long time and was experienced, believed that "Da Malu's fish scale forts could equal the fewer 50,000 people, and then Liu Xuanfu led Pingyuan" An army of 10,000 infantry and cavalry was sent back to recapture Amur; I supervised the formation for King Da Ping and personally led the four Ten thousand elites, including the Jingxi Army, the Controlling Crane Army, the Tiger Wing Left and Right Army and the Martial Cavalry Army, a total of forty commanding 20,000 directly subordinate elites, and 2,500 direct troops in front of the palace, in addition to 20,000 barbarian cavalry and The local soldiers can protect the rear flanks and compete with the Haixi Fulong barbarians."

Tong Guan was so confident. It turned out that the forts of Mofu City surrounded the city, extending for about seven or eight miles from east to west, north and south, and were divided into four major regions. Each region had 24 forts, protecting each other layer by layer. The forts were stationed by a command (300 to 500 cavalry or infantry), and rivers and floods were introduced into the forts. Large canals were dug around Mofu City, and water was diverted between the forts. The canal is divided like a chessboard of paddy fields. The main channel in the middle can only allow infantry to pass through. The enemy cavalry cannot pass through this terrain. In addition, where the southeast side is flooded by floods and swamps, there are seven water forts connected by a line. There are wooden fences, pits, and twelve small police boats patrolling day and night. Behind the water village is the grassland under the jurisdiction of the Muma Prison, which is guarded and guarded by 200 rural soldiers.

Gawain, who had moved his camp about five miles away from the front line of the forts, had naturally observed the "giant forts of the Imperial Song Dynasty" in person with the scouts. In the end, the Roman emperor, who felt troubled, could only sigh at the generals. Sentence, "Our army has excellent artillery We must seize the open space between the camps of both sides, build artillery forts to surround the enemy, and then the key to victory really depends on that young man, no, it is Cruz who is loyal to our Roman Empire. General Talos Guo's horizontal surprise attack."

"What if that man switches sides and goes to the King of Fairness camp again?" Several generals asked worriedly. For that man who was like crystal glass, people could see both his transparency and his indifference. No heart.

But the emperor remained silent, as if leaving everything to the God of fate.

"The current tactics can only be an upright confrontation, and gain control in the open area between the two camps - otherwise the time will be delayed for a long time, and Diognis's five thousand cavalry in Amur City will be attacked by Mov. With Bukhara under attack, the situation is very dangerous... I can lose a war, but I am not willing to lose Diognis."

However, it is not easy to gain control of the plains west of Mofu City?

The bright clouds in the north were spread flat, swept in by the sea breeze, and the sun's morning beads suddenly shrank and dissipated all the light. The iron-black lineup of soldiers could not reflect the light of armor and weapons between the sky and the earth, forming a formation on the ground. clouds of bronze and black iron , the footsteps shook the earth, they stepped out from their respective camps and gathered on both sides of the plain to complete the arrangement. The wasteland in the middle was pinched into a narrow white line (from the perspective of an eagle), and it looked like a waterless road. The river bed was silent, ready to be washed by fire and blood.

The lineup of Gawain's central army is very simple. There are five brigades in total, arranged in two 9,000-foot-long phalanx battle lines, with Red Hand, Gemmagis, and Guardians in front, while Philomelon, Ye Fandu Ni is at the back, and the emperor is in the middle. A total of 1,500 armored attached cavalry including the Imperial Palace Imperial Army, the Royal Tomb Imperial Army, and the Fifth Brigade Regiment, while the 4,500 shooting corps were deployed at the front with the advance team of the Artillery Regiment, forming three horizontal lines. fire propulsion line;

On the left is the Seljuk army of Isfahan, which is dominated by sturdy and light Turkic cavalry. There are 12,000 people in total. They are also divided into front and rear formations that support each other. The commander of the front formation is Tapo, the second uncle of the Sultan. .Muhammad, and the commander of the rear line was Kobha, the governor of Mosul. The person responsible for the fire line liaison between the right wing and the center was Zanji and thirty light cavalry;

On the right wing, there are the Serbian Grand Brigade, the Epirus Grand Brigade and the Paulician vassal army. The Paulician army has the best firearms, with a total of 2,000 long-gun troops lined up in the front, and the remaining 3,000 are archers and spearmen. The Epirus Grand Brigade is mainly infantry and is deployed in the rear, while the Serbian Grand Brigade has a 2,000-man cavalry team as the mobile force of this wing, and the emperor's guard Markianius is responsible for the liaison between this wing and the central army;

Finally, in front of the trench outside the camp, 11,000 border troops from the East are deployed, led by old Walter and young Dorus Lambert, with 400 light and heavy chariots and firearms of various types, piling up a temporary barrier, responsible for supporting the advance and retreat of the main brigade at any time.

Gawain's two heavy siege guns and four long heavy guns were deployed on the artificial high ground in the center of the camp. Before the battle, the emperor and all senior officers raised the gold-embroidered flags of the Virgin Mary, St. Dimitri, St. Michael, St. Barbara and many other holy icons in the fortress. Everyone half-knelt, looked up at the holy icons, sang the song "God bless Rome to be great again", and then received a simple breakfast from the self-reformed dervishes.

Emperor Gawain received a cup of cheese, a portion of Indian millet rice sprinkled with maltose, a few olives, and a portion of roasted venison. "Very delicious." The emperor ate it calmly and thanked the chef, gardener, and animal trainer who had been with him for many years one by one.

"After I retire, I am confident that I can open the best inn restaurant in Constantinople." The chef said to the emperor with a smile.