Chapter 60 Twelve Organ Cannons
Thanks to their predecessors, the experience learned in the battle between the Umayyadian and Rome. The regular army of the Fatima dynasty was superior to the soldiers of the continent for a long time. It was not until the Norman Empire emerged and led to the military reforms of the continental countries that this advantage gradually disappeared. However, despite this, the regular army soldiers of the Fatima dynasty, these main infantrymen wearing armor and holding spears, were still considered first-class army in the world today.
After a total of 1,500 such heavy-armed spearmen entered the battlefield, the Jihad Army was significantly strengthened. The remaining informal Jihad Army used these soldiers as backbone, and both attack and defense seemed flexible. Immediately afterwards, Zhao Haier ordered the stop of the very serious attack and protection shooting of his own people. This also made the situation more beneficial to the Jihad Army.
"Tsk, do armored spearmen? It seems to be above level." Seeing the opponent's army gradually recovering the previous disadvantage by relying on the array of armored shield spearmen, Egil snorted lightly and commented like this.
"Do you need support? In this case, you only need to invest two or three thousand-man infantry or assault infantry, or simply put a thousand-man Norman Knight to charge, and you will be able to defeat the enemy soon." Next to Egil, Alpha, the captain of the Death Knights who had long been eager to try, continued to suggest.
"No." However, Egil still shook his head and rejected his suggestion: "I have said a long time ago that those mobs will die, how many deaths will be. It has nothing to do with me."
"...But if this continues, our front will be destroyed." Alpha said immediately.
"That's no big deal." Egil then said in this way. It seemed that he was determined not to regard those Christian crusaders as his own.
And at this moment, Bamami's sweet voice sounded behind Egil: "The Lord——the subordinates rushed over with the musketeers, and there were also forty organ cannons with us."
So Egil turned around and saw Mamami holding a musket, and the musketeers standing behind her, a total of about 300 musketeers, and ten accordion cannons placed on the trolleys. Other musketeers and accordion cannons were deployed elsewhere.
"Very good, let's go and prepare." Egil said this, and saw Mamami wipe her sweat with the back of her hands, so he took out his handkerchief and threw it over: "Wipe the sweat with this one." After that, he turned around and continued to observe the battlefield.
"Then, that... lord... you don't have to do this..." Bamami felt a little shy and wanted to refuse, but saw that Egil's attention had been put on the battlefield again. So she nodded slightly blushed, "Oh", but instead of using the handkerchief to wipe her sweat, she folded it up and put it away. Then she continued to command the engineers and musketeers to stand at the front of the array.
At this moment, the Christian Crusaders' array had serious problems. Due to insufficient troops, the army could no longer form a line with sufficient width after a large number of casualties. The final result of the further contraction of the formation was that due to insufficient width of the line, it was attacked by the enemy in a semi-encircled manner. The attacks on both wings of the array further aggravated the casualties of the Christian Crusaders.
In this way, it was like the transition from three to four o'clock. During the period from four to five o'clock, the front changed again. However, unlike before, this time the Christian Crusaders retreated.
"Great! Our army has the upper hand!" As our army advances step by step, the entire dune is covered with corpses again - but this time it is the corpse of the Christian Crusader. A group of Arab officers beside Zhaohaier celebrated each other and cheered for victory.
However, in the face of this situation, Zhao Haier did not feel very happy. Because he knew that the other party now had much more trump cards in his hand. It was just that he didn't want to use it for some reason. Zhao Haier speculated that the other party probably did not want to be in such a war, because those informal troops consumed too much strength. [Provided by """] and his guess was mostly correct - however, if you feel happy for such reasons, it would be really
It's too bad. The other party may change his mind at any time and throw tens of thousands of elite troops into the battlefield. He ravaged his poor army like a tyrant, and then celebrated his victory. When he thought of this, Zhao Haier would not be happy no matter what. At this moment, the Arab general was just thinking about getting darker and then ending this battle that would never win with a decent attitude. At that time, he could return to Jerusalem with reputation.
However, things were not as simple as Zhao Haier imagined. After the frontal battlefield began to improve, the battlefields on both wings began to worsen again. The Norman Hussars on the left finally fought to annihilate most of the opponent's light cavalry. Only a small number of lucky people finally broke out and fled towards Jerusalem. It was estimated that the total number of these soldiers would not exceed 200.
On the right wing, Basil, who was red-eyed, also recovered at this moment. After seeing the Arabs' fragile flank defense, he further delegated his command to his adjutant, who was also the general of the Vadatari archer and Eastern European general Hungary Yanos, who was born in Transylvania. He led a soldier with a more than 1,000-man team and rushed towards the Arabs' flank.
Before, he only noticed the flanking protection of the Norman Hussars. After the Hussars defeated the Arab Light Cavalry and could invest more troops to attack their own flanks, Zhaohaier assigned about a thousand jihad troops to this side to prevent the opponent's assault. However, he did not expect that the Norman Hussars, who had plenty of extravagance, did not launch an attack in the end. On the contrary, the Greeks, who were still entangled with the Arab Light Cavalry, launched a charge against his flanks regardless of the consequences.
"It's really damn!" Zhao Haier cursed in anger. At the same time, he kept urging the only remaining part of his hand, a total of about four or five thousand, advancing towards the left wing, quickly forming an array. He used a dense array to fight the impact of the opponent's light infantry.
However, this is somewhat late... After all, most of the light infantrymen of the Jihad Army are illiterate who do not know a single word, and they cannot even distinguish left and right. Basically, except for "charging", other orders cannot be executed well. After Zhao Haier's order, these light infantry were in a mess, [provided by """], but they were messy, and few people could reach the designated position.
"The remaining heavy infantry. Come on." Zhao Haier felt powerless after giving this order. There were five armored spearmen in a total of five hundred-man teams. This was the last professional unit in his hand. If it was clean, there would be nothing... However, in this case, could he be allowed to hesitate?
"Now...it's going dark in about two hours. You have to move faster."
At the same time, looking at the sun gradually setting, Egil muttered to himself like this. Alpha beside him wanted to speak again, and as soon as his mouth opened, Egil reached out and stopped him.
"Wait a minute, my friend, give them another half hour." Egil said, pointing to the Christian crusaders.
Alpha suddenly realized that his emperor's personality was so bad that he was not waiting for the Christian Crusaders to win against the will of heaven or other opportunities. What he was waiting for the failure of these guys to lose their armor. Then the Norman army came to save the world. He poured cold water on the Muslim jihad troops who thought they were going to win.
At this moment, two Norman infantry 1,000 teams and one assault infantry 1,000 teams arrived at the dune position. At the same time, a total of four Royal Knights of a hundred teams were also on the flank of the position. More Norman soldiers could come to help at any time. The two Hussar legions on the left wing could also launch powerful charges at any time. [Provided by """] When Alpha noticed these, he realized that from beginning to end, Egil had everything on the battlefield. The so-called victory was already the treasure of the emperor.
However, this bad-minded emperor refused to take action. He was waiting, waiting for the blood of the Christian Crusaders who did not belong to his sequence. Waiting for the great Greek emperor to suppress all his troops for the so-called glory. Only then will the emperor take action when both sides - the enemy and his allies are exhausted, crush everything with thunder!
"It's so terrible from beginning to end... I'm worthy of being my lord." After thinking through these, Alpha was convinced. The viscount, who was born as a Death Knight, had a bad personality and was not inferior to the emperor. However, imagination and creativity were hard to match. Therefore, the worse things Egil did, the more Alpha admired and loyal to him.
However, this Death Knight Captain did guess most of the time. He also had a good grasp of the emperor's bad psychology. However, he still had a reason not to expect-
When the Christian Crusade finally collapsed as Egir wanted, and when the Islamic jihad soldiers shouted excitedly, and plucked up their courage to charge towards the Norman positions under the praises of the imams. The result was this...
Bamami, the upstart of the Norman military system, fell high with a command knife in his hand. At the same time, he said this: "Prepare - open fire! Immediately afterwards, with a pungent smoke, the ten twelve organ cannons and three hundred musketeers aimed at the densely packed pagans and launched a volley. In other parts of the position, the same gunshots came one after another. The first round of counterattack of the Norman Empire was launched by these musketeers! (To be continued.
Chapter completed!