Eagle Byzantium

Now Alexios had surrounded Miliocephalon's camp from three directions: west, north and south. In other words, the emperor's original wings have been successfully extended and expanded, holding Yingying in his arms, and the next step is to "strangle" him alive!

The emperor at this moment happened to be standing on the hillside to the north of the camp. He had just successfully defeated the other camp here and killed more than 300 Seleucid civilians. Now his flag was flying beside him, thousands of An elite soldier was deployed behind the emperor's horse. As long as Alexios waved his finger: there was only a valley sandwiched between two mountains between them and the camping camp on the opposite side of Seleucia, and another road was abandoned by the enemy. The blockade defense wall was of no use at all.

The delighted generals and guards all surrounded the emperor. After several days of fighting, they formed a consensus on the enemy's strength, which was that they were "vulnerable".

"Your Majesty, please draw out another thousand elite soldiers from the Imperial Mo Officer's camp, preferably with His Majesty's Inner Palace Guards, to launch a decisive attack on the enemy camp in the mountains opposite. Maybe with just one attack, the enemy army will be completely defeated. Break." This was their unanimous advice.

The emperor also agreed, but he quickly looked at the remains of civilian soldiers who were thrown into the ditch. They were wearing simple leather armor and the weapons around them were not very sophisticated. Thinking back to the interrogation of the prisoners, Alexios It was decided, "According to your suggestions Deploying troops, this valley will be the main direction of attack in the future no matter what. Because the enemy has deployed powerful defensive fire-shooting equipment on the west side, I decided to attack the enemy's poor sub-city in one go before it was completed. Get it."

Just as the guard who was delivering the order was about to turn his horse and leave, the emperor stopped him and added, "Is there any news from the Xhosa front?"

After receiving a negative answer, the emperor frowned and added an additional order, "Now that Konya's siege position is backed by mine, and the roads are the same as each other's horns, ask Harold to lead four thousand elite men southward. Join me, because what we are facing now is not Gao Wen’s powerful main force at all.”

At noon, the emperor's army and horses formed a dense offensive formation. Emperor Alexius personally stationed his horse at the far right of the front line. Behind him were various imperial flags flying. The emperor's eyes looked at the gray mountains and fields, and The wall of the sub-city that the enemy is desperately building has been roughly completed. Many people are busy working on it like ants. The basic outline is complete, with only towers, gates, fences, etc. left. The construction of the auxiliary facilities has not started - Cabeamiya and Birel divided all the soldiers into two groups, 170% of them were deployed on the hillside on the north side of the city to resist Alexios; 23% of them were deployed. The formation is on the south side, guarding Yagfi Yu's team in the direction of Minfu Xiaozhai; only a small number of personnel are left to stick to the mountain rock front in the west. If the war goes unfavorably, the troops on both sides can retreat to the city walls and continue to defend.

"The sudden fire tube, the Khitan fire, can help us burn out the enemy's offensive." Standing on the top of the half-finished city, Kabeamiya kept using this artifact to cheer herself up. Beside her, someone was indeed setting up a copper Some carefully piled up the fire poles wrapped in thick paper, while others carried Khitan snow barrels and climbed up the stairs or wooden ladders to deliver them.

If the female consul really knew the power of this kind of accidentally detonated Cathay Snow, she would definitely have trembling calves standing there - but fortunately, Gedier and Leotius were very conscientious and they stood there At the top of the city, strict regulations reminded all soldiers of the civilian army to be cautious when handling and using this kind of Khitan snow.

Over there, the trumpet of the emperor's team sounded loudly, "Quick victory!" The emperor issued an order, which represented the signal for a general attack--hearing this sound, Cabeamiya put her hand on the battlement, biting Her teeth were white and her braids were dangling on her shoulders, "Gawain, Gawain, you won't help me abandon it, will you? In my heart, you are truly like a border warrior. Brave and righteous man, the Holy Sister is praying for your rescue in her heart." But before the female consul could finish praying, on the hillside over there, countless elite soldiers and generals of the empire, on foot and on horseback, let out a thunderous roar. With the cry of "Long Live the Emperor", this group of people quickly crossed the valley, destroyed the wooden fence, filled up the trench, and began to attack up the gentle slope on the north side of the camp.

Spearmen, archers, riders, shield bearers, guardsmen, various flags, the faces of soldiers from various ethnic groups, and the excellent weapons they could boast about, advanced layer by layer, and soon arrived. Zicheng.

"Bastards, hold on to your positions!" The civilian soldiers arrayed in the north of the city were so frightened by the momentum of the emperor's army's general attack that they collapsed. They covered their helmets and threw down their bows, arrows and spears. Ignoring the scolding of the commander Birel, they Some of them began to flee towards the Little Antioch Fort, which was the only one in the east that was not blocked, while the rest scrambled towards the city. The commander-in-chief, who was wearing armor and holding a command flag, finally saw everyone running away, so he had no choice but to stay behind and flee into the city.

After all, they are just a civilian army, and they still lack the experience and courage to fight. When the wind is favorable, they can do a few waves, but when they encounter such bloody moments of fighting will and fighting skills, they become weak.

"Close the city gate!" Gedier stood at the top of the city, waving and shouting.

"Where did the city gate come from?" the female consul covered her face and groaned in pain and disappointment - the entire city only had the gap used as a city gate, which was temporarily blocked with wooden fences and bricks. Just now The soldiers of the civilian army jumped over here to escape into the city. After they fled in, they finally remembered, turned around and put up the fallen dog-legged wood, and blocked the "city gate" in accordance with the requirements of the chief engineer.

As a result, just as the dog-foot stick was erected, the roar of "Long live the emperor" came over there - the ones charging in the front were the emperor's hundreds of Varangian guards. They were brute force, shouting loudly, wearing fine heavy armor, wrapped in animal skin leggings, holding dense long axes and long spears, and rushing fiercely at the weak "city gate".

After they chopped down this piece of wooden fence, the whole inner city, including all the Seleucid soldiers inside, would be massacred and drowned in the sea of ​​blood.

Now in the entire inner city, Cabeamia turned her head and looked down, and there were panicked heads everywhere, one thousand people, one thousand five hundred people? They were all crowded together, and the noise was so loud that she could hardly hear anything. There were militia soldiers wearing leather armor, pushing baskets towards the wooden fence of the "city gate" under the waving and shouting of officers and Birrel, and there were believers in black robes distributing weapons everywhere. It seemed that they were going to fight to the death. But Leotius held the red flag and stood outside the barracks where the Khitan snow barrels were stored. He blew the whistle desperately, and together with his men, he was determined not to let the messy crowd get close to there.

Cabeamia looked outside the city again, and there were also waves of soldiers. There were heads holding weapons and shaking iron helmets everywhere. The fierce shouts and the neighing of horses made her feel dizzy and almost fell off the city wall... Between the two surging crowds, there was only a long wall where she stood. (To be continued ~^~)