Eagle Byzantium

Then, Branas really led the entire Guardian Brigade, a total of more than 4,000 people, "supported" the newly surrendered Earl Stephen, bypassed Fort Anglas and quickly went north along the Harris River, while at the same time the meticulous Merlot The Great Earl also immediately took turns sending fast horses to convey orders to Iconium City to report the news, and skillfully commanded the Red Hand Brigade to continue the siege of Angras.

Diognis, who was still wondering and angry, vaguely felt that he had fallen into Gawain's plan again... This seemingly brave but actually treacherous "Eight-clawed Spider" was constantly fighting an intelligence war. And psychological warfare, he obviously specially studied the strategy to break the chain of fortresses that he set up to surround the emperor. .

"It turns out that Gawain didn't come to capture my fortress, but used Angras as his bait to stir up troubles and calmly use his skills to defeat the lords with different interests before the arrival of His Majesty's army! No, this It is impossible to count on His Majesty Breanus at this time. We must send a messenger as soon as possible to request His Majesty to march as soon as possible, otherwise the entire defense line will be in danger. "

However, Diognis continued to select elite teams to break out, but although he was popular among the public, his subordinates were far from the Red Hand Brigade's opponents in terms of combat effectiveness and sophisticated weapons, and they were even less numerous ( The entire frontier area under the jurisdiction of the Shouchuguan only maintained a strength of 1,500 soldiers of various colors), so he repeatedly returned in vain. With a sigh, he could only sit in the isolated city and resist with all his life.

Four days later, on the edge of a fertile field called Philomelon between the cities of Afyon and Iconium, Gawain's personal brigade, cavalry regiments and fire throwers, and Birel's Twelve hundred border troops from Miliocephalon were stationed here.

About twelve miles away from them, in several gardens adjacent to Lake Philomelon, are the continuous military camps of the imperial generals or counts of Brenus, Cosa, Simon and Raymond. Their total military strength is about There were 15,000 men, but they remained silent against Gawain's army of less than 10,000 men and did not dare to fight at all.

The two sides stood at each other for many days, and no one dared to work on the fertile plain farmland between the various military camps. They were all abandoned: the soldiers lined up densely packed wooden palisades, caltrops and forked spears along the camps, crisscrossing the canines. Small-scale guerrilla warfare and encounters occurred from time to time.

After receiving the news from the north, Gawain laughed loudly. He asked the 200 Praetorian Guards and all members of the Nikitas Party to follow him, "Leave this place to Giovanni and Gregor for supervision, and we will move towards Anglas." "Fort Advance - Yes, yes, just show my presence. As long as I and the red hand flag appear at the same time, there will always be an uneasy storm on this plateau."

When the flag car pulled by four oxen and thirty custodians rumbled away along the camp road, Generals Brenus and Raymond nervously led many Plonian knights and advanced to Heji. The Magis brigade camp was only an outpost two miles away. The sight in front of them was extremely wide. Brenus could easily see the tall man riding a silver horse and flying a crimson flag. Wen was waving to himself.

Breanus's cheeks were a little red: it would be his own shame to let the empire's old enemy come and go with such arrogance.

At this moment, before and after Raymond's horse, the leaders of the Kallegos party issued rude provocations, shouting and insulting each other at the Nikitas party beside Gawain in the distance.

"Like, how about, Penipasser... Peniba... forget, it's too, too hard to pronounce - I, I can command the knights of Toulouse, over there Woodland creek, give Gawain a hard, hard attack - Penipath... Uh, uh, you have to let your army, cooperate with me. "Raymond said. Teeth, pointing to the opposite formation to invite battle.

In the end, Brennus just looked at him, as if with dissatisfaction and contempt, then turned his horse's head and galloped down the hillside, saying, "Wars broke out in various castles in the north, and the intelligence was extremely confusing. Gawain used his troops flexibly." Treachery has completely tricked us, so we must wait until His Majesty’s army arrives before we can discuss the matter of marching to the decisive battle.”

So Gawain passed through the edge of the Philomelon Plain without any danger. After turning several hills, Dim Goliath, who was protecting the flag car, shouted, and Gawain covered the arbor with his hands: The one on the opposite side On the hillside, many cavalry suddenly appeared. There were crimson dog-tooth flags and white yak-tail flags, and the neighing of horses echoed throughout the valley, followed by the crackling of whip tips. They were running unhurriedly in the direction where they were, under the horses' hooves. The spring wild flowers are rising and scattered in the sunlight, which is very beautiful.

Muzafi'adin held the reins, rode Sabina and rushed in front of his master, shouting a few Turkic words to the group of cavalry.

Under the swaying white felt hat on the opposite side, responses in Turkic languages ​​also came and went.

Gawain put his left hand on his belt, raised his right hand high, and shouted in Turkic language, "Welcome, Chief Oghuz and Ghazis!"

"Is the god of war Shamkhshat (the Islamic god in the Turkic dictionary, whose status is approximately equal to that of St. George and St. Mikhail in Christianity. In paintings, he is also shown riding a horse and holding a sharp sword to kill a poisonous dragon). Name, we would like to be Akin's wings and sword." The group of cavalry raised their bows and arrows in unison on the galloping horses, shouting "Akin, Akin!" and soon joined Gawain's march.

It turned out that the strategy of the "Twenty-four Golden Families of Oghuz" previously designated by Gawain was officially effective: in addition to the Oghuz cavalry regiment in the regular army sequence, after learning that the war between the great patron and the Roman emperor had broken out, the tribes of the former Roman Sultanate in Iconium, Icon, Antiochus Minor, and the Ghazi, as well as many herdsmen who were good at riding, all spontaneously organized themselves, encouraged by the "distribution of spoils of war", and brought their own bows, horses and fodder, gathering nearly two thousand cavalry to serve as Gawain's irregular cavalry assistance.

The reasons are nothing more than three points:

First, Gawain guaranteed their bloodline and fiefdoms, and began to adopt a tolerant attitude towards their beliefs;

Second, the right to own one-third of the spoils of war was higher than that of the holy soldiers;

Third, the admiration for the great patron who had "akin warriors" was also one of the spirits of the Ghazi warriors.

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So the next day, Diogenes stood on the tower of Fort Angras, watching the "appearance of the Tarsus demon" with a complicated expression - Gawain shook the stirrup, clamped the horse's belly, slowly looked at him sideways, and passed by the river bend under the city wall. Around him were all "devil's little devils and minions", there were imperial guards with shiny armor holding halberds and battle axes, there were also Niketas party members wearing colorful cloaks tied diagonally, carrying strange sabers and holding barbed guns, and many Oghuz light cavalrymen with white felt hats and turbans, "Gawain, is he going to Puvelar? Is he going to cut off the entire passage between Trebizond and Paphlagonia? What exactly does he want to do, to fight a decisive battle with Theodore first, or to bypass here and block the emperor's route?" (To be continued ~^~)