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Chapter 57 Heaven, Hell

At that time, the Norman engineers were not sad or happy, and still loaded ammunition for scorpion crossbows, bed crossbows and crossbows at a faster and amazing speed according to the Norman Sergeant Reform Regulations. Baidu searched to search "《" to quickly enter the standard crossbows common to scorpion crossbows and crossbows. The difference between the two is that the scorpion crossbows has higher ballistics and ejections, while the crossbows are flat fire. In addition, the crossbows with wider ammunition can also be replaced with the Heavenly Fireworks Cup as ammunition. Compared with the previous two, the ammunition of the crossbows is more special. The crossbows used are crescent-shock-type, with a larger killing area.

In addition to these three types of crossbows, the counterweight trench basket is filled with iron cannons and heavenly flames. The smaller and lighter torsion catapult cantilevers are filled with fist-sized stones.

When these mechanical weapons filled with dangerous goods were placed and set the target, the engineers let go violently - put the counterweight down, cut off the rope, or pull the trigger - then, the large number of crossbow guns, heavenly flames and iron cannons poured on the heads of these unlucky ghosts. In an instant, the hot, burning tincture oil; the deadly and sharp crossbow guns; the iron filings and debris scattered after the iron cannon detonated; the large number of stones seemed to rain, allowing the Islamists to taste what the power of technology is. What is the primary productivity...

In a sea of ​​fire, the enemy either pierced his body by a crossbow, or his head was smashed by stones and bleeding, or he was hit by iron filings like a hornet's nest, or he was cut off half of his head or an arm by sharp iron pieces on the edge, and then died of excessive blood loss.

However, all this suffering is not as good as the pain brought by the heavenly flame oil. People who are soaked by the tincture oil, or are stained with tincture oil during the run and escape will experience the feeling of being burned in despair - that is unbearable for anyone, and can make people crazy, die and even suffer from pain and death - the heavenly flame oil burns wildly, even ignites stones and even steel weapons. The soldiers stained with tincture oil slaps their bodies crazily. However, to no avail - the tincture oil is still burning wildly, igniting their clothes, skin, and even their bone marrow and soul. The greatest sorrow of that kind of suffering is that they cannot die for a while - some people are also suffering to death.

After this, the tincture oil will further burn the internal organs, the lungs will gradually dry up, and it will feel difficult to breathe, and the limbs will gradually shrink and have no ability to move, and fall down. At this moment, the tincture oil has already destroyed the whole face, and the blood will boil, sublimating into a red mist. The entire eyeballs exposed because the eyelids are burned clean and look extremely ferocious...

In the end, these soldiers will be burned into a piece of charcoal. All the moisture in the whole body will be dried, and nothing will be left except carbon... Speaking of which, humans are ultimately carbohydrates...

The Arab jihad army was in chaos throughout the Gobi Desert. The soldiers suffered heavy losses. Zhao Haier took the lead and retreated to the second line with a small number of soldiers. At the same time, he issued an order: "The light cavalry on both wings will be dispatched! Destroy all the weapons of the pagan devils!"

With Zhao Haier's order, the light Arab cavalry, nomadic cavalry, camel cavalry and archers on both wings of the Jihad Army rushed out. With the traditional scattered formation of the light cavalry, they quickly maneuvered at the engineering soldiers at the forefront of the Norman army!

"The Hussars are dispatched - and let the Greeks charge too." On the other hand, on the tower where he was working yesterday, Egil ordered coldly under a huge parasol, beating a fan desperately.

After such an order, the right wing of the Norman Empire's main formation was close to the vast desert. The Hussars of the two legions launched a counter-charge against the pagan cavalry in a unit of a hundred men. On the left wing, they would reach the Mediterranean Sea within a few steps, without much strategic buffering. Seeing the fierce red flag waving on the tower in the center of the army, the right wing of the coalition forces, the Emperor Basil snorted lightly. He thought to himself: "It is simply outrageous to ask me to cooperate with this kid's battle."

Although that's what it said, Basil is not the kind of person who will delay his work due to personal emotions. After receiving the signal, he immediately gave an order: "Charge!" With the charge of the emperor and the imperial guards directly under the emperor, the Vadarita Archers and Seljuk Archers also launched charges one after another - but the speed was still a little slower than the Normans. After all, they did not have a voice command system as convenient as a horn.

"This - this is like hell!" At this time, Luciver, who was beside Egil, finally recovered, and then couldn't help but sigh: "With such a terrifying army, it's not a dream to conquer the whole world, right?!"

At this moment, the Duke's highness looked at Egil more piously. He was just about to worship him.

"No, no, no, no, the Arabs in the howling. This may be a hot and crazy and painful hell for the pagans. But it is the opposite for us, the warriors who believe in Christ." Egil said to Lucivid with a smile, "This is heaven for us."

With Egil's assertion, the Norman Light Cavalry completed their tactical actions very well. They turned their horse heads, deflected within the range of the archers, and then ran in the east direction at the same time. At the same time, a large number of light archers and cavalrymen opened their bows and arrows, completing two rounds of volleys before contacting the enemy. Immediately afterwards, the Hussars still turned their horse heads south again in a unit of a hundred men, and replaced the cavalry that was in contact with the opponent with melee Hussars. In this way, the line of the two sides, which was almost the same width, became a longer semi-encirclement of the cavalry on the Norman Empire.

The battle situation that followed was as crushed as ever! Norman Hussars, as dense as iron walls, swung their scimitars frantically, as if they were cutting butter, cutting the pagan cavalry with two rounds of bows and arrows and heavy losses. A small number of camel cavalry mixed in caused some small chaos, and combined with a group of desperate Arab light cavalry, they defeated a few Hussars 100 teams. However, such a record is really insignificant compared to the absolute advantage of the Norman cavalry crushing style.

On the other hand, the offensive of Basil's side was also fierce. The archers used traditional classic tactics to draw out their swords to fight in the first round of bows and arrows. Whether it was the Vadatari Archers or the Seljuk Archers, they were not weaker than those of the Arabs. Although they were a little unfamiliar with desert combat, the more sophisticated equipment, as well as regular army-level organizations and arrays made them more advantageous than the Arabs.

"The right wing can hold on for the time being, but the left wing is a little dangerous... Do you want to use heavy cavalry... No, wait a little longer." At this moment, the fire has become much smaller. Under Egil's order, the number of heavenly flame oil tanks used by the engineering troops has been reduced to facilitate the next, frontal attack. This also facilitated Zhao Haier, the general, moved his position again, to a place with a higher terrain, so as to better observe the situation of the battlefield.

At this moment, Zhao Haier muttered like this as he saw the light cavalry on both sides of his wings being suppressed. However, his master Saladin was very stingy and only gave him a total of 2,000 armored spearmen and 500 Gulam heavy cavalry. Such a small number of poor elite troops. If these precious troops were put into battle on a whim, then he would be in tears until the real critical moment... Therefore, although the cavalry troops on the left were abused very badly by the Normans, Zhao Haier decided to continue to hold on after weighing the pros and cons.

But this guy is not going to launch a second round of attack, which does not mean that Egil's side will not. After the flames narrowed to an acceptable range, Egil immediately issued an order: "Special troops, launch an attack."

After Egil's order, a long horn sounded. A team of special assault infantry equipped with a thousand-man team, who had been impatient, immediately howled and launched an offensive to the dunes that were steaming with flames. In addition to the heavy-mounted composite armor or early plate armor, these people were wearing a special coat made of asbestos cloth. They wrapped them tightly from head to toe, and their hands holding long-handled battleaxes were also wearing gloves, allowing them to fight in the terrain of flames - this was one of Egil's secret weapons.

"Charge! Cut the pagans into pieces! Long live Egil Scadragrimson!!!" With such a roar, the asbestoss infantry charged in flames, and then rushed out of the flames, causing the pagan soldiers to panic.

"What's going on?! Why are these pagans not afraid of fire?!" Seeing such an "unscientific" thing happening. Most of the illiterate Arabs immediately attributed it to miracles - or magic. The morale dropped a lot in an instant. Then, watching the soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding long-handled battle axe laughing wildly, roaring, and waving the exaggerated battle axe in their hands to cut their comrades into two sections, the panic further evolved into fear. The Arabs twisted their faces in horror, and many people threw down their weapons and began to flee behind.

"...Damn it, heavy cavalry - charge!" Seeing these strange enemies almost collapsed, Zhao Haier made such an order immediately-

"But the general - the other party is mixed with our soldiers. Using heavy cavalry will hurt your own people!" Next to him, an Emir from the Mesopotamian Basin said...

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