Chapter 58: Fierce Battle in the Gobi Desert

Seeing his officers stopping him, Zhao Haier's eyes were red and he shouted loudly: "We have no time to hesitate! They died for the holy war! They will ascend to heaven after death! If that's the case, what else can hesitate?!" After such a sophistry, Zhao Haier ordered again: "Charge! Cavalry charge!!!"

A total of five hundred Gulam cavalry separated the crowd under Zhaohaier's order and reorganized the team, fighting fiercely towards the front with a not-too-neat cone formation. No, it was better to say it was a one-sided slaughter. Norman assault infantry wearing heavy armor, these burly men holding giant axes were slaughtering the Islamic Jihad Army crazy and cruelly. Baidu searches to search "《" quickly enter this site. They waved their long-handed battle axes, cutting these thin and panicked soldiers in half - either beheaded, cut half, or cut into human sticks. The wailing sounds of the incomplete soldiers lying on the ground made the Arabs in the front even more frightened. They had no courage to fight with them. They also hoped to escape such a hell on earth.

"I don't know what's going on..." Because I was blocked by the flames and sand dunes, I couldn't see clearly even if I had a telescope in my hand. I didn't know what was going on. Egil frowned and tried to order the increase of troops several times. In the end, he did not give an order.

"But at least the battlefield on both wings looks pretty good." So Egil comforted himself with such reasons - the Norman Hussars and Greek archers who had the advantage in numbers on both wings had already gained an absolute advantage. The Arabs on this side of the Norman Cavalry had been beaten to less than a thousand. The ground was covered with broken limbs and broken arms, incomplete dead bodies and half-dead, and still wailing people who were not sure whether they should be classified as living people or dead people. Shields split in half, scimitars full of gaps, broken spears and broken maces... and so on.

The Arab cavalry, which was only less than a thousand men, was now surrounded by the First Hussar Legion, four or five times the number of them. Because there was no unified command, it seemed extremely chaotic. Even the rushing left and right was unable to gather all the strength. Seeing that the archers fell down with a round of bows and arrows, there were not much time left to be wiped out.

On the other side, the Arab cavalry fighting against the Greek Hussars also went into a disadvantage. After observing that the Normans were about to settle the battle, Basil II felt that his face was a little uneasy. He desperately ordered his cavalry to launch a fierce attack. The Greek cavalry's hundreds of people and hundreds of people finally broke the Arab array into several gaps. Then a large number of Vadarita's archers raised their scimitars, protected their bodies with teardrop shields, and rushed into the gaps with desperate charges.

"Stop them! Hurry up!" A large number of Arabs roared and rushed towards the gap...

At the same time, on the front battlefield, the Guram cavalry quickly approached the forefront battlefield in the melee. The Arabs who were fleeing in all directions were howling in panic.

"Oh my God! Behind us are the pagan devils who can use magic, and now in front of us are cavalrymen of the same clan as us! What should we do?!" Some Arabs shouted so sadly, either being knocked away by the heavy cavalry of the Gulam who rushed over and then stepped into meat sauce. Or being caught by the Norman assault infantry swinged an axe and chopped off their heads.

Then came the battle between the Norman Assault Infantry and the Guram Heavy Cavalry - although the pig-like teammates lost a little impact, and they were not the most elite heavy cavalry. However, the performance of the Guram Heavy Cavalry is still remarkable - in the first round of confrontation, the Guram Heavy Cavalry's charge overturned the assault infantry of at least one hundred-man team. When the speed is not up to standard, it is difficult for them to pierce the heavy armor of the assault infantry with the spear in their hands - in fact, both sides are usually defeated in the confrontation between spear and armor.

When a fierce heavy cavalry of Guram activates a war horse and charges a Norman assault infantry with a spear, the Normans naturally will not sit and wait for death. The assault infantry holding a long-handled battle axe roars, just like all soldiers fighting against cavalry as infantry, with no fear on their faces - just as all infantry units are fighting against cavalry. The most important thing is mentality. The deterrence of cavalry is sometimes more important than the real power of cavalry. Many infantry fight against cavalry, and they obviously have something to do when fighting. But they collapse without fighting because of fear, which achieves the results of cavalry.

However, at this moment, the most elite Norman assault infantry fighting the Gulam cavalry - these soldiers who have experienced the most rigorous training and endless wars, and whose will is harder than steel cannot be scared by a cavalry charge. When they were watching a Gulam cavalry thinking of charging, the assault infantry did not retreat but advanced, raised the battle axe in their hands, one step or two steps - and then they swung the battle axe fiercely at the moment of contact with the cavalry! Immediately afterwards, the infantry was depressed by the armor hit by the huge impact force, and the ribs were broken a lot, and they flew several meters away. They spit blood and looked like they couldn't survive.

However, the axe also cut off the neck of the war horse. The blood of the war horse, whose blood burst out due to the charge, suddenly splashed with blood. Lao Gao also whined, and his front hooves softened, and he knelt on the ground and threw the cavalry on the horse's back. The Gulam cavalry lost half his life, lay on the ground and hummed, and could not get up no matter what. Then the other Norman assault infantry rushed over swung the axe, and cut it into pieces...

"Go together! Side by side, lean together!"

Of course, such a one-on-one melee hurt the enemy by hurting 800. It was really not a good idea. So several centurions on the front line shouted like this while gathering the Norman soldiers around them together. The soldiers had lost the organizational sequence at this moment. However, their usual training was still useful. They leaned shoulder to shoulder, held the battle axe in their hands tightly, forming a dense array to deal with the enemy's heavy cavalry.

In this way, when the scattered Gulam heavy cavalry rushed over, it seemed to hit a steel wall - more than three long-handled battle axes appeared around each cavalry, and the cavalry was chopped up and down and the horse's legs were chopped down and the horse's neck was chopped down. In an instant, a Gulam cavalry could be dismembered.

"Second array, dispatch... and dispatch a heavy infantry team of thousands of people!" Seeing the front line, those extremely well-equipped heavy infantry formed an array to fight against the heavy cavalry, Zhao Haier knew that he could not take it down. He immediately ordered this - so, the second line, a total of 15,000 light infantry units, mainly with fanatical jihadists holding hand axes and Arab spearmen holding round shield spears, pressed towards the front line in a scattered formation.

"It's really, there are many people." Seeing thousands of pagan light infantry rushing over the sky, some of the Norman soldiers sighed for a moment.

"Ten people per person! After the war, everyone can be upgraded to one level!" After that, someone laughed and said, "Immediately, it was like a torrent hitting a stubborn stone. Two army with absolutely unbalanced numbers collided together!

At this moment, the fire began to gradually become smaller. Egil then ordered the army to advance. The crusaders with a total of about 6,000 men acted as the main force of the offensive. The crusad soldiers holding simple weapons, farm tools, and even wooden sticks rushed towards the dune terrain in a mess. Behind them were Norman infantry who received Egil's order "to act as a supervisor team if necessary", a total of one thousand-man team. Following the Thousand-man team were the two thousand-man teams led by the Longbow Commander Robin Hood.

On the left wing, the Hussar Legion directly under the Norman Emperor had completed the combat mission. At this moment, he stood outside the range of the enemy's crossbow under the order of Egil, but did not launch an attack. He put pressure on Zhaohaier and the Jihad Army from the side. Such behavior was somewhat useful. After Zhaohaier discovered this, he rushed to mobilize more than 3,000 spearmen in this direction. He formed a dense spear array to defend against the opponent's soldiers.

Thousands of cavalry were trapped. During the previous bombing, the front troops suffered heavy casualties. At this moment, tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to launch an attack, and more than 3,000 soldiers were guarding the flanks. In this way, Zhaohaier had only less than 10,000 available soldiers left, which felt like he was exhausted.

"If you resist for a while, you can retreat. After all, the master ordered me to delay the other party's actions. It's not to ask me to die." Zhao Haier sighed secretly in his heart. His face was still calm and stable, and his voice was loud. He kept issuing orders: "Send about a thousand crossbowmen to guard the flanks. Left wing, do not entangle with the Greek cavalry, go around and attack the opponent's own formation. The second formation defeats the enemy tomahawk infantry as soon as possible and seizes the sand dunes in front again!"

With Zhao Haier's orders, the Arab Jihad soldiers fought hard, but they looked decent.

At this moment, the fire dissipated, and Egil finally saw the situation ahead clearly. Seeing a group of mobs from the enemy being mercilessly arranged by the other party, he couldn't help but nodded: "It's a pity, it's a talent."

After a while, the informal Crusaders rushed over and stabilized the precarious front. At the same time, the longbowmen seized the terrain of the dunes and began to shoot from a high point. The Arabs' offensive was immediately blocked!

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