Chapter 108 Return (Please give me a monthly ticket for the second update)

In September, Syria, the last batch of the Crusaders began to return. At the same time, the new Roman Babylonian Governor Etius cursed and fought hard while fighting the death of the Roman legion and the Mongolian cavalry. The two sides fought bloody battles, but no one could do anything to each other for a while. So, Buhua, who was so timid, changed his tactics and used plunder and harassment tactics to attack Etius. The Babylonian region was once again in trouble. The barbaric and cruel Mongols were hard to separate from the Crusaders in terms of ruthlessness. The destructive power was even greater. The entire Babylonian region was once again shrouded in a bloody storm.

This time, this kind of thing cannot be said to have nothing to do with Egil. In fact, this incident attracted Egil's high attention - Mongolian raids broke into Syria more than once, massacred, set fire, and put them on Jingguan. Egil was so angry that he cursed the "bastard". But he didn't think that he was not very little when he did this...

Therefore, in order to prevent the Mongol cavalry from continuing to invade the west, it is also to suppress and deter the Arabs in Syria, a powerful, numerous army and a solid line of defense. It is very necessary.

This time, Egil made up his mind and gave up nearly 100,000 points. At the same time, he recruited Christians from the locals in Syria and converted to Christianity. There were also some straitors, mercenaries and crusaders who did not retreat. They were organized into an army.

This army can be said to be the most powerful of all the garrison legions. The number is more than 20,000. Moreover, the newcomers are equipped with a lot of equipment - Egil left some heavy artillery that is difficult to transport to them.

The backbone of the army is a guard knight of a hundred men. He exchanged points for points. A total of 10,000 points were spent. His combat effectiveness was excellent. The remaining points were exchanged by Egil for three Norman heavy infantry of a thousand men, one Norman square infantry of a thousand men (new spearmen, equipped with three quarter plate armor, super long spear and long halberd mixed with no shield). As well as a long bowman of a thousand men, three hundred men's emperor's wrath elite crossbow soldiers (equipped with Egil's wrath crossbow, half-body plate armor, round shield, and scimitar.)

This is the regular army of this garrison army - a standard garrison army of 5,500 people is much stronger than the average. Although it is not equipped with Hussars, it has added phalanx infantry, longbowmen and the Emperor's Wrath elite crossbowmen. Egil believes that to enhance the defense of the array, a solid phalanx composed of super spear formations, longbowmen and crossbowmen will also have the power to fight when facing the Mongolian cavalry head-on.

Of course, this does not mean that Egil gave up the light cavalry. In fact, after hearing that the Mongols' elite light cavalry also had the power to fight in front of the Hussars he had worked hard to form, Egil became more concerned about this force. It is inevitable to form a powerful light cavalry unit in this garrison army. And Egil actually did the same.

The locals and local Syrian residents who are good at riding and shooting were recruited by Egil. Egil hopes that these outstanding and brave people can be trained into qualified soldiers in a short period of time. Even if they are not as good as professional Hussars, they can at least fight with the Mongols.

In view of the advantages of Mongols' riding and shooting and the advantages of Mongols' mobility, these short-term training quasi-hussars, or secondary Hussars, also strengthened preparations in this regard.

A total of 5,000 native Syrian Arabs, soldiers who converted to Christianity, were individually planned as a Hussar Legion, which was called the Fourth Hussar Legion in the military sequence of the Norman Empire.

These hussars are different in equipment and tactics from ordinary melee hussars and light archers. They uniformly wear light blue cloaks of the Norman Empire to cover the scorching sun in the Arab region. The cloaks are equipped with flexible, which can block the flowing arrows to a certain extent, and can easily pull out the arrows. The entire legion is equipped with short composite bows, two pots of feather arrows, scimitars and round cavalry shields, and rides No. 3 Norman war horses.

Egil was convinced that although this group of troops was not as good as the Norman Hussars in close combat and in a dignified and large-scale battle, they were definitely worth looking forward to the performance of these cavalry in the desert of the Near East.

And those mercenaries, Christian Crusaders who did not leave for various reasons, and other countries' crusaders. Egil organized them into the third legion. The army had the largest number of troops, with 8,000 people. At the same time, there were more than 300 heavy cavalry and nearly 500 light cavalry. However, this was a complete cannon fodder unit. It was unorganized and undisciplined. Egil did not re-engineer them, making them look more interested in thinking that.

The legion did not even have complete organization, unified dress, and unified equipment. The mercenaries either used two-handed swords or used super spears. They were not willing to obey the orders of professional officers. Instead, they were the leaders of their own small groups. They also used small mercenary groups to replace the regular army organization.

And those crusaders were slightly better. Of course, they were not much better. Their commanders were the noble knights, or some young noble children who wanted to make a name for themselves. There were also some ascetic monks who followed the orders of the priests of their priests. And in terms of equipment, they were not as good as those mercenaries.

——The vast majority of the rich Crusaders have left. These are the guys with short pockets. Therefore, their equipment is no different from when they came to the holy land. Farm tools, debris, wooden sticks... are messy, and there are many mixed in addition. In the capture of war, those scimitars and maces from the Arabs, as well as compound bows. Of course, these malnutritional guys rarely have such strong bows, and the accuracy of the head and firing speed are even more unsatisfactory.

Egil's purpose is very clear - this legion is cannon fodder, absolute cannon fodder. He usually treats the worst, and they are the first to die in battle.

In this way, a regular legion of more than 5,000 people, a quasi-hussar legion of about 5,000 people, and a cannon fodder legion of more than 8,000 people. In a very short time, before September was over, Egil pulled up nearly 20,000 garrison troops, which was very fast.

On the other hand, the Babylonian war also entered a new stage. The tactic of plundering everywhere worked. Atius, who was forced to let his territory continue to be ruined, finally plunged into the pocket formation of timid Bloom with his eyes. After a large-scale battle, the Roman legion suffered heavy losses, but Atius was still a famous general after all. Finally, he led the remaining soldiers to fight out a bloody path, and then fled in a panic and fled back to Baghdad, the capital of Babylon.

Afterwards, the Greek army could not defend the enemy. The timid army did not lose lightly. After thinking, the Mongolian general decided to temporarily stop advancing, plunder, rob, collect supplies and military rations nearby. The main force suddenly stood at the city of Baghdad, and looked like a long-term siege. At the same time, he sent messengers to report the victory to Genghis Khan, who was still in Central Asia, and was also asking for instructions on the next move.

The miserable Greeks began to strengthen the city defense under the command of Etius. The Greek army, which had lost too much baggage, had to start plundering the Arabs in the city for the sake of food. This made the Arabs who had just sent away a group of hungry crusades and were in tears.

Such an action caused an opposition between the Greek defenders and the indigenous people in the city. The Arabs, who were dissatisfied with the rule of aliens, were now at a riot at any time. In desperation, Etius had to continue to act against the enemy and suppress the Arabs even more cruelly, controlling, supervising, white terror, massacre, and forcing the people to help defend the city, etc.... Although such actions temporarily stabilized the situation in Baghdad, Etius completely lost the hearts of the people.

"How many disasters and so many difficulties..." Etius, who was originally ambitious and wanted to make some name in Babylon, no longer had this idea. The unfortunate Roman general now only wanted to return to his country safely and safely and return to Constantinople. Even if Basil II was furious, he would not care about demoting him to a commoner. However, this seemed quite difficult.

"Send a messenger - send someone to break through and ask for help from other Crusaders..."

It was not a solution to stay in the city of Ku, so although it was obvious that it was unreliable, Etius still sent a messenger and sent his confidants to break out and seek help from other Crusaders.

"At least they should understand the principle of losing their lips and cold teeth..." At this time, Etius had no choice but to think so optimistically.

However, he was doomed to be disappointed.

"Just say I'm not here-no, I'm leaving."

Looking at the Greek messenger who was crying and crying, Egil coldly ordered his guard knights - just kidding, this is not the time to compete for the might of the Mongols. He will pay his army for the Greeks?! Egil is not a fool. In his opinion, Etius and the only meaning of the Greek remnants now is to give himself enough time to arrange a solid line of defense that can block the Mongols.

In this way, the Greek army looked quite dangerous. When I thought that Basil could not lose the rice, but did not gain benefits in Babylon, but instead lost the unlucky appearance of tens of thousands of elite soldiers, Egil felt gloating...

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