Eagle Flag of Epirus

"Go!"

"Long live Achaia!"

In the Latin mountain whistling tsunami, the knights led the heavy cavalry to charge the Qincha people. For these archers, the cavalry is a natural killer. The Achaean knights can’t wait to enjoy the thrill of rushing into the crowd. However, the Qincha people stand in place, seemingly afraid, but show no sign of rout. Similarly, they did not shoot with bows and arrows. This allows the knights who witnessed all this. We all find it very strange.

However, no one puts the speed of the buffer front because of this, because in their opinion, once the heavy cavalry initiates a charge, nothing can stop it.

But in the next second, everything changed upside down.

The fierce and brave heavy cavalry rushed to the position of the Qincha people within a hundred steps, but when the horse stepped into the muddy ground, the charge of the entire cavalry team was abruptly interrupted. Somehow the soil on the banks of the river was poured into the river as muddy as a swamp, and the horses carrying heavy cavalry stepped into it and couldn't move for a while. In an instant, most of the cavalry horses were plunged into the quagmire, and only then Giles and Charlie realized that this was a trap.

The Byzantines had dug the course of the Alfios River long before, turning the land in front of their positions into mud. This is a trap, a trap that Justinian had already prepared for the Latins.

But no one would have expected such a tactic, because it was not until 1310 a hundred years later, when the Principality of Athens and the Catalan mercenary regiment fought, did the Catalan mercenaries use this to defeat Athens in one fell swoop. The superior force of the Principality. At the beginning, the mercenary regiment seized 30 castles for the duke, but after the war ended, the duke did not fail to pay the agreed remuneration to the mercenary regiment and tried to drive them away. So the two sides met with the army of the Principality near the Sephisos River.

The Athenians have an absolute advantage in military strength. Their cavalry has about 6,000 men, including 700 Frankish knights, and the infantry is more than 20,000. The Catalan mercenary group was crushed, and the Turkic cavalry under its command was not trusted. Such a situation coincided with Justinian at this time. But despite such unfavorable conditions, the mercenary group cleverly dug the river channel and submerged the land in front of it into a piece of mud. The Duke of Athens believed too much in the fighting power of his Frankish reloaded knights and recklessly led them towards the mercenary group. As a result, they all fell into the mire. The Duke and most of the knights were killed. The remaining Duke’s troops were also dispersed and massacred by the Turks. The mercenary regiment occupied Athens.

The situation of the current Achaean knights is undoubtedly exactly the same as that of the Athenian army a hundred years later. Catalonia defeated the Athenian army as a classic of light infantry against heavy cavalry, as well-known as the battle of Alcuquin. Justinian had been preparing to replicate it from the beginning, and the terrain was very similar to the Sephisos River. The beach of the Alfios River is naturally the most suitable for a grand funeral for the knights of Achaia.

"Damn it, cunning Greek, this is an ambush, get out!"

"No, everyone dismounts and fights! Destroy these heretics."

The Achaean knights immediately realized that they had fallen into a trap, and the seemingly innocent group of inspectors were bait at all. However, as the elite of the elite, they did not panic, but immediately chose to dismount and fight. The knight is as good as a warrior even without a horse. The knights armed with cross swords, hooks, sickles and battle axes stepped on the mud and rushed to the Qincharen.

But on the other side, Qin Charen, who originally seemed panicked, also changed his face in an instant, like a ferocious wolf showing its fangs.

Holding an Eastern-style machete in hand, the Qincha and the Latin warriors met in short-term soldiers, and immediately started a death sword dance, circled around, killed each other, leaped back and forth, the blades flowed, shouting and cursing. The scimitars used by the nomads fought so fast that the heavily armored knights could not keep up. Standing in the mud, the more flexible Qinchaman without armor on his body obviously had the upper hand, and only one knight was seen in the footsteps. Unable to stand firm, his opponent immediately swung a knife to draw an arc, saw the blade cut into the gap in the armor of his waist, directly cut his abdomen, and the crushed intestines were directly torn out.

At this moment, the heavy cavalry of Achaia was as helpless as the French knights in the battle of Alcuquin a hundred years later when they faced the longbowmen and the Athenian knights who encountered Catalan mercenaries and the Iberian javelins.

The Latins caught in the quagmire became more and more exhausted as the battle continued, and their heavily armed armor had become a huge burden, but even then they did not give up hope, because they could escape the trap by defeating these inspectors.

Sure enough, the fierce Qincha people are at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and some can't support it, but even the tired Latin warriors have become more and more courageous. In the long run, it is only a matter of time before the Qincha people retreat.

"The Qincha barbarian can't stop it, kill!" Sir Giles who saw this roared, and once again took the lead and killed a Qincha fighter with a sword, which also inspired the morale of his soldiers. rush ahead.

But in the next second, the heavy two-handed battle axe smashed the skull of Sir Giles with a helmet and shattered everyone's last hope~www.readwn.com~ Hundreds of warriors armed with battle axes rushed forward to join. On the battlefield, the balance of war has been reversed once again.

And looking at the dazzling axe, the only remaining cavalry commander, Sir Charlie, yelled out: "Varangi, it's a Varangi!" Hearing his voice was full of fear, there was such a gaffe in him. Kind of the urge to run away. Because he remembered the scene of his siege of Constantinople, he saw the horror of the Varangian Guard at the moment he attacked the city wall, and he almost became the dead soul under the axe. He has not forgotten the fear.

But why is there a Varangian Guard here? They were eliminated after the siege of Constantinople.

This is Justinian’s last resort. Whether it’s the Battle of Alcuquin or the Battle of Sephisos, the final ending is either heavy infantry or Turkic cavalry. If you want to kill a heavily armed dismounted knight, you can’t do it with light infantry. , And Neusky has convened the Varangian Guards scattered overseas in the past few months is Justinian’s trump card. They wore light chain mail and helmets, armed with battle axes, and slammed into the battlefield of the Latins. They immediately waved a rain of blood, harvesting the lives of the Achaean knights like cutting melons and vegetables. At the same time, a raging fire ignited in the mud-a layer of black oil was floating in the river water poured into the mud, and that was the last gift Justinian prepared for them [Fire of Guardian]

"It's a Greek fire!" The Latin knight who had seen this thing in Constantinople shouted in horror, but was swallowed by flames before he could escape.

In a few moments, the outcome of the battle has already been decided——

Achaia's heavy cavalry forces are completely destroyed! Enter chapter review (0)?