Eagle Flag of Epirus

"defense!"

The Greek archers were holding full bows and shooting towards the Latin cavalry, while the Greek infantry and cavalry nearby had obviously not reacted to it and had no intention of supporting them. This greatly inspired the Achaean knights, so the Latins They rushed forward boldly. For them, they only shot arrows continuously and slightly threatened the vanguard cavalry, but this could not resist the knights in heavy armor.

"charge!"

The Latin knight rushing to the enemy line with the momentum of thunder is now fearless. What Moria's little fox is just a bluff! As Viscount Senna thought to himself, he commanded his army towards the unconcealed battlefield of the Greek army.

I saw that the Roman army guarding the siege equipment took the lead in routing, and the archers who were covering from the side still tried to resist, but this was of no avail. The thin layer of refusal was like a thin woman's chest in front of the Latin cavalry. A layer of veil, allowing them to tear apart, rushing in, they can act recklessly.

This time there was no Greek fire, no muddy marsh, where they were at home, and Viscount Senna stared at his enemy like a handy prey. Under the joint charge of hundreds of heavy cavalry, as long as no one can stop the enemy who can easily defeat several times his own, the confident man sneered. In his opinion, it was in front of him to replicate the glory of the original Olive Grove battle.

The so-called Greeks are still as vulnerable as before, Viscount Senna thought.

But all of this is in the hands of Justinian, who is not far away. He has been waving the battle flag to signal that the front army is slowly retreating to create the illusion of defeat, and it is obvious that the Achaian army has taken the bait again. Compared to the more cunning Venetians, these Frankish knights had only the habit of going forward courageously, despite their courage, but in the eyes of Justinian, they were easier to deal with.

"Saleuus!" At Justinian's sign, the uniformed cavalry under Salleus was also ready for this expedition, but Neusky still didn't understand Justinian. Why is it so. First, the city of Argos was siege and not attacked, and then the cavalry was placed in the rear. It was too late to mobilize to prevent the Latin cavalry from tearing apart the front army. This is like deliberately putting one's own situation into a disadvantage. Justinian shouldn't have made such a mistake.

But at this moment, the original unstoppable heavy cavalry charge was suddenly interrupted, and the thunderous sound of horses hooves vibrated, bringing fear, but when the iron hoof stepped into the position in front of the Greek army, the knights Suddenly they discovered how soft the ground below was, and then the horses under their hips suddenly collapsed in the already hollow stratum in front of them.

This made the Achaia cavalry smashed into chaos in an instant. Although the knights of Western Europe did not have the habit of intensive charging, the front row of cavalry charged was interrupted, and the time caused the original cavalry wedge formation to be scattered. . And this immediately created an opportunity that Justinian had been waiting for for a long time.

All this is due to Justinian's engineers who dig tunnels in the rear, whether it is the reckless and violent continuous offensive of the trebuchets or the formations with obvious flaws, all to confuse the Latins in the city. Even the heavy cavalry was dismounted to block the sight of the Latins in the city, so as to avoid being detected in advance by the enemy, and it is obvious that Justinian’s layout not only deceived the Achaeans and even the Nieus on the side. Ji didn't expect this.

Nie Wusky, who saw this scene, reacted, "Is it originally expected that the Latins would take the initiative to attack?"

Justinian nodded and replied: “It’s just predicted this before. In order to ensure 100% success, I can’t explain why there are so many people in front of the battle.” It’s easy to defeat the Latin cavalry, but thoroughly. It's hard to say that it's eliminated. Therefore, Justinian must ensure that the plan is sound, so let the fewest people know as much as possible.

At this moment, when the Latin cavalry charge was disrupted, the roundabout heavy armored cavalry finally completed the preparations for the offensive.

At this time it was the turn of the Latins who had witnessed all this to panic, and saw Viscount Senna holding the long sword aloft, trying to get his subordinate cavalry to re-array.

"Don't move in the front line!" Senna shouted, but from behind him, flying arrows shot at this moment. For some reason, he discovered that a Turkic cavalry rushed out of the forest on the side of the city. Cut off their retreat.

It turns out that the enemy has already set an ambush! Senna, who was still full of confidence a while ago, finally panicked, and the Turkic words that came one after another made his heart restless.

At this moment ~www.ltnovel.com~ Beside Viscount Senna, who was already at a loss, Sir Baptiste shouted loudly:

"Master Senna, attacked earlier!"

His word suddenly awakened the panicked Senafanis. At this time, the Achaean knights were already surrounded. On the contrary, the front Greek army was composed of infantry and the weakest. Just break through them and wait for the support of the two wings of the infantry. Get out of the trap.

With decisive action, Senafanis immediately ordered the cavalry to line up, abandon the wounded before, and threw the equipment and even the armor he did not need into the ditch. Although this loss made the knights distressed, but now it has been It was a time when life was at stake. Fortunately, the Juma ditch dug temporarily by the Greeks was not too deep and was quickly filled.

Then the Latin cavalry regrouped again and rushed to the position of the Roman archers who had not completely evacuated. However, they were greeted by the twisting ballistas behind these archers. Only the ballista operator shouted, and In the next moment, the stone crossbows fired out, with great inertia, and directly shot into the cavalry queue that the Latins jumped into. It usually looks like normal, but the fist-sized stone bullets directly smashed the horse's head and human bones, and some The cavalry fell under the horse in a **** way and was killed on the spot.

This ancient projectile weapon used to be a weapon for the Roman Empire to conquer the Quartet, but gradually disappeared with the decline of Rome. Nowadays, a small amount of equipment is equipped in the empire. Its biggest advantage is its lethality and accuracy, which is no worse than that of a crossbow. It’s a pity that because its damage range is not large, compared with the catapult and the bed crossbow, it has gradually become tasteless, and this has gradually been forgotten. However, at this moment Justinian used just the right thing, especially at this time the Latin cavalry charge speed has been greatly reduced, in the blink of an eye the Achaean heavy cavalry who had no defense against the archers suffered heavy casualties.