Eagle Byzantium

Then the garrison officer staggered because of the strong stab, waiting for the moment when he adjusted his body on the parapet, "Take my life-saving caltrop hammer!" Dim shouted in pain in his heart, and then put his other arm, which was only covered with chain mail, into his pocket from behind, pulled out the wooden handle of the caltrop hammer, and the iron chain shook, and then swung it into a strong wind, hitting the garrison officer in the face, and the opponent's eyes, nose, mouth and teeth were all sunken, and blood spurted out everywhere, and then he fell backwards from the parapet.

Dim Goliath took the opportunity to jump up and jumped in on the dead body of the garrison officer. At this time, the surrounding garrison soldiers discovered that the caltrop hammer in the hand of the giant monster in iron armor was specially made: a wooden handle, three chains tied with three morning star caltrops, and then danced like a whirlwind, like a nine-headed snake, hitting the surrounding crying and screaming, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. The defenders of the east wall, who had lost their garrison officer, could no longer muster the courage to resist this monster and fled in all directions. All the Gimages soldiers at the east gate cheered, occupied most of the wall, jumped down the steps, and began to swing axes to chop the bolts behind.

When Birrel, panting, led the militia troops to climb the hillside - the east gate of the town had been destroyed, the north end of the wall was also occupied by Gregor's troops, and the west gate began to burn, which meant that Giovanni's flanking rangers had also succeeded.

In less than an hour and a minute, the town of Alaman Castle was declared to have fallen. Many soldiers who were usually well-fed by the Calegos family were mostly killed in the street fighting, and the remaining few fell from the cliffs at the south end and died.

On the corner tower of the big city, the remaining two Calegos brothers, across the wall and cliff, looked at the small city that was overwhelmed and crushed by Gawain's brigade with sorrow and pain. Its defense was declared a disastrous defeat in such a short time, which was simply despairing. Among them, Ace saw with his own eyes that Gawain's soldiers stood at the highest point of the small city, holding the eye-catching silver spike battle flag, cheering selflessly. The two soldiers who jumped off the cliff in the south of the city did not die, but dragged their broken legs out of the pile of corpses, crawled along the wall, and tried to come to the big city. As a result, after a whistle, a team of light cavalry deployed by Gawain in the wilderness passed through the gap in the wall in a show of force, tied the two cavalry with ropes, and then rode in the opposite direction to drag them away...

"Father's judgment on Gawain's main attack direction was not wrong." Then, in the central tower, the two carefully reported the situation to Nika sitting in the corner.

"It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. Now that the town has fallen in such a short time, we, Calegos, have no chance of recovery..." Nika sighed and reiterated his previous point of view, a point of view full of despair.

"We will hold on to the big town, and the emperor's reinforcements will soon arrive at the swamp west of the city..." Ace Calegos could never figure out why his father valued the town so much.

But before Nika could speak, the movement outside told the two brothers all the answers.

The town is located on the ridge on the entire north side of the Alaman Castle. After Gawain captured it, he sent Giovanni with a detachment of soldiers to the deep mountain stream in front of the town. This is the upper reaches of the Alaman River, with surging water, and a bifurcated double gate is set here: when it is normal, open the gate at the back and close the gate at the front, so that the river flows along the river and flows into the fields and ditches under the mountain; and when it is flooded, open and close the gate in reverse, so that all the river water will flow into the large swamp west of the city.

There is no doubt that Gawain's army adopted the latter operation...

A huge roar sounded, and the people on the top of the city of Alaman Castle saw that the river water rushing down from the mountain stream filled up the great swamp and soon submerged the passage between the city and the west. In a short time, only a narrow and towering land bridge between the ocean and the swamp was left.

At this moment, the 300 leading imperial mercenary cavalrymen who came day and night, led by Leo and Tiga Calegos, sweated like rain and braved the scorching heat. They rushed to the huge swamp that was full of water. "Damn it, bastard!" Leo cursed. He saw that on the other side of the swamp, the residents and soldiers on the top of his father's castle were crying loudly, waving various flags, and shouting for help to him, "There is still a land bridge left, rush over!" Over there, Tiga Calegos did not hesitate at all.

But Gawain raised the battle flag on the small town, and the Red Hand Cavalry, who were ready to go, suddenly overwhelmed the city and gathered two companies to sweep the area between the city and the wall. Then many soldiers and servants of the militia followed them, and on one side they surrounded the city, and on the other side they set up many crossbows and porcupines facing the narrow land bridge in the swamp. Then Birrel and Wright mobilized four teams of elite soldiers, two teams with spears and two teams with bows, and rushed to the rescue, blocking the area between the land bridge and the city gate, blocking the reinforcement route of the Tiga Calegos cavalry, and the two sides fought to the death along the narrow passage. Amid the deafening cries of killing, Seven Calegos personally led a team of city soldiers and charged out of the west gate in an attempt to provide support. The four teams of militia soldiers immediately turned into two teams and fought on two fronts. Then the Red Hand Cavalry, in squadrons, took turns to flank Seven, braving the flying stones and arrows from the top of the city.

After a while, Seven was defeated and retreated back to the city because of his small number of soldiers. Not long after, Tiga could only swallow his anger and turned back to the land on the other side of the swamp. On the way back, Birell ordered the crossbow machine to fire fiercely. The huge and powerful arrows swept across the entire land bridge embankment. The cavalrymen around Tiga were shot and fell into the water one by one, and suffered heavy casualties. After retreating, they found that Tiga had brought 80 cavalrymen, but only less than 50 returned...

Gawain selected 500 soldiers from each team and gave them to Dim. Goliath to lead them to defend the small town on the hillside and block any access of the emperor's army and horses; 700 Jinat soldiers, handed over To Monomachus, stationed in the mountains on the edge of the town to provide support; and then handed over 2,000 militiamen to Birrel, with the help of crossbow machines, half of them completely blocked the dead bridge and swamp area to the west, and the other half blocked the two gates of the big city; Gregor led two detachments of the Gimages Brigade to block the northeast gate of the big city; Wright led another two detachments to block the east gate of the big city; he took the remaining three detachments of infantry and all cavalry, together with the craftsmen, and set up a camp and command post only 600 feet away from the big city to support the three sides, and prepared to erect the "Big Plane Cannon" again to bombard the fortifications of the big city.

At night, inside the scarlet tent, Gawain raised the wine cup filled with milk and toasted Cabeamia, especially the proud little sunfish, "You see, as long as we take the town by force, everything will be activated - not only can we use it to block the emperor's special forces, but we can also flood the swamp and completely besiege Fort Alaman, cutting off the emperor's aid to the city. In short, with more than 7,000 soldiers and horses, I can fight against tens of thousands of emperors. Not only can I capture the key city fortresses and kill the confidants who interfere with the unification of Seleucia, but I can also demand more rights and interests from the emperor in future negotiations." (To be continued ~^~)