Eagle Byzantium

Of course, when all the Turkic soldiers saw that the enemy was approaching their emir, they counterattacked and resisted even more frantically.

Their archers all gathered on the mountainside with their backs to hedgehogs, pulling their bows and shooting arrows with all their strength. Many of them were so tired that they abandoned their bows and quivers and fearlessly picked up axes or bent arrows. Knife, rush down and join in hand-to-hand combat. And the various rows and columns of the Red Hand Brigade were also close together, rubbing shoulders and heels, enduring the constant blows of arrow rain, enduring injuries, and pushing forward stoically.

"Allah bless us!" In order to boost morale, Adesonius raised the spear in his hand, but a sharp bolt of lightning almost burst into the air at the tip of his spear, and the murderous intent rushed into the entire battlefield. Layers of dark clouds mixed with the incoming thunder and lightning, blood and rain merged, and the air could no longer bear the weight of hundreds of millions of them, and they fell upside down and roared onto the battlefield.

The stunned Adesonius raised his head, the wind stopped, and the violent spring rain hit his face and beard hard. He couldn't help but murmur to himself, "It's over, Allah has abandoned its loyal servant... ....”

"Giovanni." At this time, the rain slapped on Gawain's armor. He held the reins and came to the military judge who was holding the fish-dragon flag behind.

The squire warrior from Italy turned his head, and the raindrops pressed his black curly hair to his forehead and temples, "What are your orders, Your Highness the Grand Duke?"

"Immediately Decius led the fourth and fifth detachments to finish, and Bohemond also made a breakthrough over there. In short, he harvested the enemy's horses and heads, exactly like the battle of Nicaea, and tried to leave no one alive. "

"Yes." The military judge replied simply. A dull rolling thunder came from the other side of the mountain, followed their line of sight, and went straight to the far side. Giovanni turned around and shouted in the noisy rain. After a few words, all the red-handed cavalry who were left behind all got on their horses, put their bows and arrows into their arrow baskets, took out their axes and sabers, and slowly walked down the hillside.

Dark clouds gathered and heavy rain fell. The mud and raindrops under the soldiers' feet continued to explode. The Turks' recurve bow strings were made of animal tendons. Therefore, both infantry and cavalry were injured by the heavy rain at this moment. Everything failed, and they could only use their spears and swords to fight hand-to-hand with the oncoming Red Hand Brigade. Even the brave Emir himself rode his horse with a spear, encouraging the slave soldiers to fight forward.

The physical strength of both the enemy and ourselves has been exhausted to the extreme. Many Turks have lost the strength to even ride their horses. They can only dismount and fight with the skirmishers of the brigade in the mud and water. Some of them were chopped to pieces by halberds. Some were given long swords stabbed into the chest, and some were pierced through the head by an iron awl, but they were still fighting frantically. For a time, the Red Hand Brigade also suffered heavy casualties from the front. The two sides were in the funnel-like bilateral valley confrontation zone, treading deeper and deeper. The rain is stuck in a stalemate.

However, Decius, the Dugelius commander, now with the fourth and fifth detachments, obeyed the order, strictly and fearfully executing it even though many of the men's feet were shaking and slipping in the muddy water. Following the instructions of the Grand Duke, they lined up end to end, carrying large infantry spears, flags, thorn spears, and two-handed swords and all kinds of weapons, forming a column like a giant centipede, running on their own, from the left side of the unknown hill. , until it reached the midfield position of the battlefield.

Many stunned Turkic soldiers just watched the column without paying attention, leaped past them, and ran a full distance of about 800 feet in one breath. Decius stopped, and everything that followed The soldier also stopped: opposite him, there were three or four Turkic skirmishers, resting in the long grass on the mountainside, holding their swords. The two sides were less than twenty feet apart, talking to each other. They looked at each other, but then Decius ignored them, but turned to his right, raised his halberd, and looked at the queue extending to the west. All the soldiers, one after another, also turned around, Soon, the detachment, which was arranged in three lines and totaled 1,400 people, changed from the original column to a horizontal line facing the enemy on the narrow passage, and all of them lowered their spears.

"Don't worry about the enemies on the sides and rear, our goal is right there!" Decius pointed to the front where the battle was most difficult and hottest, "Charge!"

"Charge, the glory of the Three Saints is with our battle flag." All the soldiers of the fourth and fifth detachments shouted at the top of their lungs and charged at the waist and ribs of Adesonius's men. .

After two points, Adsonius's central army, strangled by the forest of spears coming from two directions, completely collapsed. On the left and right, the Normans and Byzantine Roman Empire cavalry also launched a decisive assault: In the end, the Turks In the rain, they rushed towards the depths of the mountains, running one foot deep and one foot shallow. The cavalry of Gawain, Bohemond, and Tatisius chased all over the mountains and plains. The killings were accompanied by the blood-stained rain, sweeping through the surrounding areas. All for several miles.

The rain gradually became less and thinner, and the mountains in the distance once again appeared in outline and texture. The overlapping gray-white corpses on the battlefield were carried and lined up together, and ours was placed on the side of the passage, ready to follow They were taken away in a carriage, and the Crescent believers were thrown into the wilderness of the valley. The surrounding Norman and Christian believers were The soldiers of the Zhanting and Seleucia armies ignored the miserable and horrific situation of dead bodies everywhere. They held their spears and wore their cloaks, panting and watching the cavalry majestically throwing themselves into pursuit further away, but they could only sit there. In the mud, he dropped curled blades or broken weapons and slowly regained his strength.

Many members of the Gimages Brigade and their servants, carrying wicker baskets, walked into the bloody battlefield under the beautiful rainbow after the rain, began to collect the spoils, and cut off the heads of the enemy corpses and threw them into the baskets...

Originally, neither Gawain nor Bohemond knew what the place where they had just fought with Emir Adsonius was called. Later, according to several captured Syrian Greeks (who were liberated and joined the Gimages Brigade), the Saracens and Turks called this place "Gisel. A. Hadid". Regardless of the original meaning, it can be named "Blood Valley" from now on, and it deserves it:

In the battle of that day, 7,000 Crescent believers were slaughtered here, and Christians also lost thousands of lives. Most of the soldiers who participated in the battle were too tired to move, and many curled up in the puddles and fell asleep.

If we add the failure of the assault on St. Paul's Gate and Dog Gate, Yagi Siyan lost nearly 10,000 elite subordinates in just one day.

Moreover, Adsonius, the chief emir most trusted by the Lord of Antioch, was not able to escape. He was caught up by Tancred and beheaded. "This is finally revenge for Braide!" When Adsonius's head was placed in front of the Duke of Apulia, the red-bearded general finally let out a sigh of relief. (To be continued ~^~)