Eagle Byzantium

In front of the Norman army, the first Calabrian light soldiers carrying bows and arrows, and the Sicilian Crescent Archers assisted by Roger came out, approaching the Byzantine army's defenses like a tide. , "The enemy has no counterattacking cavalry, so shoot with confidence!" This was what the Norman knights who were holding the line shouted.

A few arrows quickly left the bowstring, and a violent rain quickly set off. Many Greeks were caught off guard and were shot down behind the stone. Some people covered the wounds on their foreheads and necks and squatted down, and some He lowered his body and hid behind the wooden fence and fortifications. Afterwards, the Norman light soldiers in the front line, after shooting their bows and arrows, drew their swords and rushed over with shouts. At the front line of the fort, they were separated from the Greeks holding spears by walls, wooden fences, and trenches. Fighting together, Xu Many wounded and dead people filled up the ravine. More Norman infantry, under the cover of a small number of elite dismounted knights with shields and swords, climbed over the defenses and forced the Greek exiles' defense line to retreat. Some people had already begun to flee in all directions. .

On the hill, Tancred, who was watching the battle, had his eyes spitting out fire. Seeing that the enemy's first formation was disintegrating after the confrontation, he took the lance from the guard and pointed it at his uncle. Hemond shouted, "Between the rivers and swamps under the city of Bari, there is only one bridge that can maintain smooth traffic. Let me occupy it with the dragon flag, so that I can defeat the enemy Gawain!"

Bohemond, who was standing on the saddle, looked at his nephew, then looked at the purgatory-like battlefield coldly, and then waved his hand, "Tancred will lead a team to seize the bridge. Humphrey, you will lead a detachment. Go to the forest south of the city, seize the enemy's side door from the trail, climb up, and kill everyone!"

At the sound of the horn, the banners of the elite Norman knights on the hill began to fly and dance rapidly. Tancred, wearing a helmet and holding a lance, led the way, followed by dozens of knights like a strong wind. The Greek soldiers and Bari Legion skirmishers who stood in front of his horse were overwhelmed and fled. "That's the enemy's black dragon." Bohemond's team of Paladins has invested its elite troops to seize our bridge! "On top of the tower. Muzafi Adin, who was in charge of supervision, clicked on the signs according to the icon book he had instructed in advance, and then shouted loudly to the soldiers and monks behind him, and the alarm horn sounded suddenly.

At this time, the infantry of the two armies below the city were fighting each other with spears and swords. Tancred's knights crossed the defenses and trenches, holding the black dragon flag and being unstoppable. He took the lead with a spear and pierced two Greek nobles who came to stop him. Then several Greek nobles, either on horseback or on foot, with purple and blue flags, holding swords and axes, charged at the front row. He attacks. Tancred let out a wild cry of war, and with a sword first, he opened the belly of the charging Greek cavalry. The intestines and blood that flew out dyed all the white hair of the mount red. Then the Norman young general jumped off his horse, waved the long sword in his hand, and killed the other besieging Greek nobles. "Come on, cowards of Greece, look at the sword of a real warrior! Call your leader Gawain If you come out to die, only he can fight with me, why should the others move forward? "

Many Greek exiles were horrified. Especially behind the evil Tancred, dozens of tall knights were rushing towards them quickly. Some people fled along the bridge toward the city gate, and some jumped into the fast river and swam.

From the hills and hills outside the city. Soldiers hired by the Normans and reinforcements from Sicily poured out from everywhere like a frenzy, oppressing the garrison outside Bari. Francesco, who was holding the flag, gritted his teeth and insisted on commanding. The Tecopo people and Amalfi sailors also worked hard to shoot arrows to support them. The soldiers of the militia held spears and stayed at the corners of the city wall within their own cover. They formed a tenacious formation to fight against the enemies that kept coming, and beat them back. Round after round of fierce attacks.

"Plop!" Tancred raised the black dragon flag with his wrists stained with the enemy's blood, and planted it heavily on the bridge where corpses were scattered. Behind him, the Holy Knights holding long swords and hammers shouted. As long as they can cross and occupy the bridge, they can not only control the gate of Bari City, but also flank the Bari militia who are stubbornly resisting on that side, and achieve a complete victory.

In the positions behind the Normans, countless army servants and craftsmen were swinging axes and hammers with a deafening sound, making ladders, siege towers and other invasion tools, preparing to push them over to capture the towers of the city of Bari. and battlements.

In the sky of fireworks, Tancred saw at the other end of the bridge a warrior wrapped in a Saracen turban, wearing Byzantine armor, holding an iron flail, and carrying a kite shield on horseback, riding over quickly and followed him. Behind them were fifty heavily armored Italian soldiers, also wearing armor.

"Vicious dog of the Greek emperor, tell me your name, although I have already learned from the stench emanating from your body that you are the villain who killed my sister, the Greek warrior Diogenes!" Tancred De shouted with bloodshot eyes, raised his sword, and then howled with all his subordinates and swooped over the bridge.

"Today I will accept all the enemy's blades as the kisses of my beloved wife Gu Siyun!" Diognis also raised his flail, and fifty Italian veterans pushed forward, skillfully forming a shield wall to block the wall. On the bridge here, the two sides quickly collided with each other, the blades and spears intertwined, and people kept falling down or falling into the water.

In the forest south of the city, Titishius led 300 Cuman cavalrymen out of the side gate, preparing to go around the paths and valleys and attack the Normans who were attacking the city from the side. As a result, they happened to encounter a hundred Norman knights from Harfley. Arrows and swords crossed, and soon Titishius's troops were defeated. Some people were killed, and more cavalrymen went to the side gate of the city without looking back.

At this moment, on the battlement in the west of the city, tall red feathers appeared, and Gawain stood there, watching the Norman enemies shouting and rushing, and his own cavalry retreating.

"Open the city gate." Several cavalrymen who rushed to the city first shouted for help.

Gawain did not respond, but just said, "It is impossible to open the door, go and find a way to survive."

All the Cuman cavalry, including Taitius, could only curse secretly, but fortunately the Turks were agile and their war horses were small and fast - they actually ran along the forest and mountain trails, successfully avoiding the trampling and pursuit of the Normans, but Taitius could not gather and reorganize the team in a short time.

And Hufley, holding the crested ibis battle flag, skillfully gathered the knights behind him, and everyone maintained a tight battle formation and rushed towards the side door of Bari City, "Gawain, today I will definitely chop off your head with my own hands."

"Who are you?" This was Gawain's first sentence, and the second sentence was "Open the side door." (To be continued ~^~)