Eagle Byzantium

"If you go bankrupt, come to the palace to find me. I can help you pay off your debt once, no matter how much." The emperor's response aroused laughter.

Then Gawain rode on Agrus, wearing a purple cloak and ribbon, silver-gray armor, and wearing the phosphorescent sword neatly. He accompanied his slowly advancing army and rushed to the battlefield in the wild...

While advancing, the inner palace guards who were setting up short-barreled telescopes on another high ground stood there, waiting for the emperor to ride up and let him personally observe the enemy's lineup and configuration.

This is also what Gawain cares about most-the direct armed forces of the Great Gongping King finally came out to fight!

At the same time, all the officers and soldiers of the Song army in the fortress received the same message the night before: "Everyone is afraid of the heat, the new pavilion on the lake is good."

This is a secret code in the army, and the content is very simple to translate. "All the soldiers, except those guarding the forts and horse posts, go out of the camp, form a large formation, and defeat the enemy!"

The sound of the horn echoed in the forts of Mofu City like a raging whale wave. The army of the Song Dynasty, with the command as the unit, formed neat formations of horses, infantry, vehicles, artillery and other arms, and filed out in a row, instantly covering half of the field.

The first thing Gao Wen saw with his short-barreled telescope was a military general standing under a green umbrella, in a position to supervise the battle.

This gentleman was Tong Guan, the governor of the six armies, who was personally given the highest command power by the King of Da Gong. However, he had a slightly dark face, fluttering beard, a bronze glow on his neck, extremely ferocious and majestic eyebrows, a tiger-tail iron whip hanging on his belt, and wore black lacquer and gold-patterned Suanni armor. He rode a horse back and forth, holding a scepter in his hand and calmly commanding the formation.

Gao Wen squinted his eyes and continued to look far away. He saw that the three-concrete walls and the prismatic base of the Song army fort were all covered with leather and war tents to hide long-range weapons. The long line of infantry side signs and the row of knife barriers outside the fort also seemed to hide soldiers or weapons.

In the center of the western fort, a watchtower as high as a ship's mast was erected, with eight thick ropes fixed below. The flag on it had been lowered: it indicated that the enemy was approaching and our army needed to go to war.

Then he turned his eyes to the crane control army and the tiger wing left and right army of the direct line of the Great Gongping King who walked out of the clouds and dust - a total of 15,000 people in three armies.

As a result, Gao Wen saw 15,000 moving "armored men".

The Control Crane Army in the front center held blue flags, all wearing red lacquer rhinoceros leather armor, with leather hats decorated with colorful horsehair, and no leg armor. They were as fast as flying. The front rows carried long and short muskets on their shoulders, with countless copper lights flashing from the nose and muzzle. The back rows had a crossbow, a divine arm bow, and a enemy-killing bow in their hands. This army had a total of 4,000 people, and was a separate "Song Dynasty version of the shooting army";

The Tiger Wing Left and Right Army followed in the second line a little later, holding high the muskets painted with fierce The tiger armor flag, the pole head on the flag, i.e. the "Yao Bi", is made of pure silver. The soldiers under it are like a walking "iron city", almost all wearing Shunshuishan iron infantry armor, with a bowl-like helmet on the head, a long neck behind the neck, tiger-head-shaped shoulder pads on the left and right shoulders, a chain mail breastplate in front, and skirt leg armor and falcon tail armor under the belt. The tiger-wing infantry in the front are all holding phoenix-beak long-handled knives, axes, silver spears, and wolf-tooth caltrop long sticks. The ones in the back seem to be carrying fire guns and nail hammer cannons on their shoulders (the front end is a nine-hole continuous-fire gun head, and the back end is an iron handle).

Gao Wen couldn't help but take a breath.

He first looked away from the telescope for a while, then moved closer to it, and found that the enemy's left wing was a 5,000-man Jingxi Army holding black flags. They were a combination of infantry and cavalry, and also wore armor, but it was not as heavy as the left and right armies of the Tiger Wing. They moved more lightly and quickly, and their armor was shining. Their soldiers also mixed with a large number of musketeers and crossbowmen, and there were various cold weapons stationed in the battle. "Could this be the army reorganized by the Hengshan tribes that Ye Dechen mentioned?"

On the other hand, the right wing of the Song army was full of barbarian cavalry soldiers, lightly dressed in felt hats, carrying bows and arrows, lassoes, and short spears and darts, and they did not look scary.

"No wonder the barbarian tribes along the way and even people like Yelu Dashi were willing to serve him as the Great Duke went west? It turns out that he relied on these mere 20,000 to 30,000 direct armed forces." Gao Wen was shocked and said to himself.

The dark clouds gathered more and more, and the remaining sun fragments still shone with an ominous red light: the emperor left the telescope, but still stood on the high hill, watching his central front line move forward cautiously and strictly.

On the other side, the three armies of the central Song Dynasty were also making the same movements.

This wilderness can be said to be the "crossroads" mentioned in military books. Gawain could not cross the fortresses of Mofu City, and the Great Fair King could not penetrate the defense line of Gawain in Nishapur. The only way now was to have a decisive battle like a "beast fight" here!

At this time, Gawain heard the sound of cannons behind him.

Amidst a shout, a gunner wearing light leather armor and an iron helmet on the artillery position high above the camp, raised the ignition rod and fired a long heavy cannon - the cannon suddenly turned its wheels and moved backwards, flashing a flash of fire, emitting a cloud of white smoke, and fired a cannonball into the air with a hissing sound. A few seconds later, a cloud of dust was raised on the land between the two armies' opposing lines and quickly flew up with the cold wind.

Taking the signal one after another, the artillery in the camp began to fire one after another. The roar was endless, the smoke and dust were swirling, and smoking craters were made on the ground. Soon, a shell accurately hit the team. The march of the Emperor Song's crane-controlling army moved forward - Gawain and all the generals saw that several crane-controlling soldiers fell down a few feet away like pillars that had been blown away by a ball.

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"Very good." A palace guard rested his arm on the earthen basket and said with satisfaction.

As a result, before he finished speaking, a series of dull sounds "bang bang bang" came roaring from far and near - that is to say, they were shot from the fortress of the Emperor Song Dynasty, hitting Gawain's head and covering his face. Beside the earth mound where they were, two stone pellets shot up, causing water-like mud to splash everywhere. Several horses in the royal stables screamed and ran in all directions.

Gawain pushed away the guard who was covering him, and quickly put it back on the telescope. He clearly saw that there was indeed a curl of green smoke coming out of the wooden gates and war sheds of the fortress on the opposite side. He saw this scene again. It's familiar, but it's unique to forged artillery.

Yelu Dashi had no artillery, and Guo Yaoshi had no artillery (they had it later, but were captured. From this, Gawain concluded that the Imperial and Song Dynasty troops had artillery, but they had not yet made lightweight wheels, and they should be fired from the fort. ), it seems that all the artillery is concentrated in the hands of the direct troops of King Daheihe, but it can also be concluded that the number of artillery of King Daheihe is not very large.