Chapter 51 The Holy Mission

Now I refer to the one who is with me as water and fire, Cao Cao is the fastest update＊＊Cao is anxious, I am lenient; Cao is violent, I am benevolent; Cao is treacherous, I am loyal. I always rebel with Cao...

Of course, Saladin, the King of Desert, had never seen such a classic line written by a certain Guanzhong. However, it did not prevent him from expressing similar feelings: "Egil Scadra Grimson. The Norman emperor is like an emperor. He is cruel, barbaric, crazy, vigorous ambition, and a talent that can bear all this. Compared with him, the man named Albert is simply a mess of mud."

Just like all the smarter and above-level rulers, this caliph is not stingy with praise for his enemies. This approach is much more clever than defaming the enemy - it is natural to defeat an idiot, and isn't it even more idiot than an idiot? If you have a smart opponent, it's completely different. Defeating it proves that your ability is even better than him, and being defeated by him is not too embarrassing...

Of course, you can do your best to flatter the enemy's abilities - just grasp a degree well, don't overdo it, and brag it as if you can never defeat it. But you must do your best to derogate the enemy's morality no matter what. Call it a demon, a pagan, a tyrant, and an incarnation of evil. Fortunately, this is not difficult. No matter how tolerant you look at it, you cannot associate Egil with the words "benevolence" and "beauty". So Saladin doesn't need to open his eyes to tell lies - although this is not difficult for the King of Desert.

"But the more brilliant he possesses, the more powerful he possesses, the more dangerous it is to the security of this world. For peace-loving people, the existence of such an emperor is a huge threat. I believe that killing him, to the greatest extent, should also be defeating him. This will be one of our greatest contributions to this world. It will never be less meaning than regaining the holy city of Jerusalem."

This is Saladin, who, after the elite raid troops he sent suffered heavy losses, and the two generals fled to death, spoke to the Arab nobles, chiefs, and Emir.

"Defeat this evil person, make the world safe, and let peace come back to the earth - this is our divine mission!!"

At the end, the King of Desert ended his speech with such a very touching and slogan-like speech. (, watch the latest update of this book) Eliminate these words that can be used as writing materials by future generations of poets, so that the idle young people can guide the ancient and modern speeches. After these completely indifferent words, Saladin's real intention is actually very simple: more materials, more food, more soldiers! This is the sacred mission I have given you!

In fact, aside from the political significance of the Battle of Sand Dunes in the suburbs of Tripoli, the military significance of this battle was actually not very great. Even before the war, Egil, the commander of the Crusader, did not expect that he would achieve a wonderful result in this battle and torture a real Arab hero to death.

Saladin's attacking troops had a total of 16,000 elite cavalry, and in addition, they were equipped with 20,000 peaks to transport supplies and high-quality camels to travel. The losses were only five thousand soldiers, and they added five or six days of meat and vegetables to the Crusaders - a total of 6,000 camels. The senior leaders of the coalition forces ate the hump for a period of time and vomited.

In addition, plus the insignificant part of the troops lost in the Battle of the Valley, as well as the troops lost in the battle of harassment and anti-harassment with the Normans. In fact, nearly 10,000 soldiers were still available for this group of Arab cavalry.

Therefore, this data shows that this battle was not a hearty battle that wiped out countless evil pagans as the Crusaders claimed. It was just an insignificant small-scale battle with five thousand people. If it were a single continental country, it was indeed a big number, but compared with the coalition forces with a total of 400,000 and the Arab army that was also extremely large, it was really no big deal. Later, the place called "tragic land", "cross cemetery" and "massacre ground", the full crosses were partly caused by the unscrupulous emperor to capture pagan Arabs from other places in order to show off his military power. Some were efforts made by the local government to stimulate the tourism industry...

However, to put it this way, in fact, after one of the two generals was cut into pieces by Egil and the other fled back to Jerusalem, there were nearly 10,000 elite cavalry, but no qualified commander could be found. They were dispersed before the battle of the dunes, adhering to guerrilla tactics, and dozens or hundreds of people hid on both sides of the road to Jerusalem. The final result of this dispersion was that the Crusaders leisurely mobilized superior forces and wiped them out effortlessly.

In such a battle, not only the Norman melee hussars and light archers performed well. The Cesian archers composed of grassland ethnic groups from Greece, as well as the new favorite of Basil's Great, the Vadatari army composed of the Huns and Mazar people, and the Hungarian rangers who stared at Vadatari archers and almost spit out a traitor, all of them performed well. Even the Slavic archers temporarily recruited under Egir, the Ross light cavalry in Eastern Europe, and the small number of archers provided by the Grand Principal of Moscow, all performed well.

Among these troops, Egil was the commander of the Vadatari archers in the Roman army, named Hungyati, from the Mazar people of Transylvania. The young general performed well in several encounters, and even defeated Arab cavalry twice as many as his troops in a skirmish.

In comparison, Western European countries are not good at it. France, Burgundy, several vassal states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Republic of Venice. These continental countries said sourly: Knights are men's romance. While they were envious and jealous of these light cavalry who could attack continuously, have speed and ranged attack power. And these elite light cavalry, especially the right equipment, may not have the Norman Hussars, whose combat power is inferior to ordinary feudal knights. They also made the traditional idea of ​​heavy cavalry supremacy that these continental countries adhered to.

"Maybe, we should obtain a light cavalry unit with not many numbers but relatively elite equipment and tactics similar to the Normans. Using such cavalry units as auxiliary forces will make our army much more beautiful."

So, when the senior aide of the Duke of Bavaria, Wallenstein, who is now unfamous, made a suggestion to his lord, Henry, the Duke who also noticed the benefits of the fast light cavalry, quickly nodded in agreement with his request.

Another who made a quick decision to develop the power of elite light cavalry was Brandenburg, which had a great tradition of heavy cavalry. The Black Dragon Knights, which was originally praised by Egil as "superior to the Iron Paladin and the Norman Knights", encountered their biggest enemy in the Holy Land - not the pagan Arabs - but the sun - because their coat was black.

As we all know, black absorbs heat and white dissipates heat. Although this principle cannot be understood by medieval people, it cannot prevent the Arabs from defining the main color of white clothes, nor can it prevent the Black Dragon Knights from complaining about the color of their tragic clothes. Because of problems such as tradition, tradition and tradition, Frederick, the Duke of Brandenburg, did not want to give up the black dress of this elite force. Of course, he also did not want to give up his glory at the same time - even if his army lost its combat power because of the discomfort.

By the way, the behavior of the hospital knights using black background and white crosses as their battle robes is simply extremely impressive. I personally think.

In this way, within a few days, the Crusaders defeated dozens of such troops, killed thousands of Arab soldiers who were captured and then killed. The front further advanced to Tripoli. The Earl of Tripoli, Raymond, who was frightened by Egil's crazy, bloody and merciless manner, made a quick decision and opened the city gate without resistance to welcome the crusaders into the city.

"If it were a little later, my head would be gone." When Egil saw Raymond wearing a white linen robe, kneeling in front of him like a sinner, he said indifferently - at this moment, the crusaders were less than a hundred kilometers away from Jerusalem. After that, a small outpost battle began - a group of Arabs who were camping here roared and scolded the vanguard's.

The Hu Hundreds launched an attack. The light infantry, wrapped in cloth, wore short-sleeved tops and plump pants, yelled wildly: "Allah!" while thinking about the Norman Hussars throwing javelins. Others raised their bows and crossbows in their hands. Although they were just a group of light infantry equipped with long-range projection weapons, they had the courage to take the initiative to attack a group of cavalry. This allowed the Normans, who were pioneer scouting, to reassess the courage of their enemies.

"They are either confused by such hot weather or are extremely brave." The centurion complained, and then he was right in the helmet that was being shot by a feather arrow, shouting: "Charge!"

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