Chapter 474 Byzantine Heavy Cavalry

"What are you doing? Is this your Byzantine etiquette?!" In the church, Archbishop Akka is on the front line, and there are only a few chief priests, who can't stop these wolf-like Gothic guards.

"We byzantine are only polite to our friends and treat robbers and thieves, hum--" The Byzantine commander was a grand duke who forced his anger and said coldly. He waved his hand, and a group of Gothic guards searched carefully in the church!

"Maybe there is a misunderstanding..." The mediator, the Templar, came forward to explain, but was watched by several Byzantine elite warriors. His heart was cold and knew that things were broken. His wisdom was like him, and he immediately understood that this was the trap of the wise man of the other party!

Since the other party has the ability to move all the treasures in the well-defended Constantinople Palace and St. Sophia Cathedral, he naturally has the ability to carry the treasures into Aka Cathedral! There are also stolen goods in the church on the other side of Haifa! After that, the reinforcements attracted have now become the wolf into the house, and the reinforcement has become the terminator of the crusaders!

It's useless to think about anything else now. Hurry up and find a way to get out, otherwise I'm afraid your life will be explained here!

In less than half a day, the Byzantines seized a batch of treasures in Hagia Sophia in the underground secret room of Aka Cathedral! Several treasure chests were carried to the hall of Aka Cathedral.

"This...what's going on?" The priests asked in panic.

"I'm going to ask you!" The Byzantine archbishop replied in a low voice. He was furious when he saw these familiar treasures of the thousand-year-old Hagia Sophia in Constantinople appearing in the Catholic church!

Under such physical evidence, any defense is pale and powerless, and the Templar is silent, which is regarded as acquiescence. He just held a badge tightly in his hand and looked out of the door...

Byzantine elite soldiers outside the door of Aka Cathedral were waiting outside. Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the church door. The whole gate, together with the sluice and the stones on the wall, flew up and hit the crowd, causing some chaos. Then a few screaming people flew out of the door...

In the smoke screen, suddenly a strong horse rushed out of it, hissing on the steps of the cathedral, raised its front hoof, spread a pair of huge wings, stirred up a gust of wind, and blew the surrounding Byzantine soldiers upside down! Shenjun's Pegasus, with its wings vibrating and its hind legs, carrying a fully armed Templar, jumped into the air, circled around the top of the cathedral, and flew east with a long hisss!

The Byzantine soldiers quickly organized archers to shoot arrows in the sky, but in a hurry, the head was a little worse, and only a few arrows were shot. The Pegasus quickly flew high into a sky, turning into a smaller and smaller black dot, and gradually disappeared into everyone's vision...

At this time, a group of embarrassed soldiers rushed out of the church door, surrounded by Byzantine archbishops and Byzantine Grand Dukes, rushed out, looked at the Pegasus knights who gradually disappeared in the sky, cursed a few words with hatred, and returned to the church to find Catholic priests to vent their anger. Poor these innocent priests were cut into pieces by angry Byzantine soldiers!

The commander stood on the steps of the cathedral with the head of a priest and roared, "Buntine brave soldiers! These despicable Franks stole the property we gave to God like rats and humiliated our kings! It even fooled our heroic and upright Byzantine soldiers! Trample on our pride and glory! Can we let them go?!"

"Kill these Catholics!" The soldiers are furious!

"Can we let them go?" The Byzantine Grand Duke asked fiercely again.

"Kill all these scum of Christ!" The soldiers responded angrily again!

"Let's go! We will wash away the shame of the Byzantines with the blood of these traitors!" The commander roared and threw the priest's head fiercely on the statue of an archangel at the door. Red-brown blood splashed on the angel's face, as if the white marble archangel had shed two lines of blood and tears!

Slaughter the city! Tragic slaughter city! Anger is the Byzantine soldiers killing all living creatures and looting all the property that can be moved! Burn everything they can't take away! In the chaos, Zhang Fan's team had already changed into the costumes of the Byzantine soldiers assassinated last night, and went to Harding Point...

When these soldiers and commanders who were overwhelmed by anger came to their senses, they thought that the possible hiding places of their most important enemies and treasures were all in Hardin Point, so they began to gather their troops and prepare to attack the Pacific Mountains!

The port city of Haifa on the other side also staged the same play. When the troops over there got the information that the crusaders might have hidden Byzantine treasures in this port city, they immediately went crazy! The angry commander broke into the church with fierce soldiers. They also found a huge amount of wealth in the underground room, although these belongings were insignificant compared with what they had lost. But it's enough to drive these soldiers with a strong sense of honor crazy! So the slaughter began! The massacre lasted for a whole day. After the Byzantines slaughtered the residents of Haifa and the crusaders, they gathered their troops and rushed to Jerusalem!

Byzantine heavy cavalry is a regular fast and heavy attack force established hundreds of years ago! It is somewhat similar to the chivalry system implemented by the three major knights, but it should be more systematic. Because the knights of the three major knights have stronger martial arts and combat ability. And their followers are also excellent soldiers, so a knight is equivalent to a small-scale army with strong combat ability!

The Byzantine heavy cavalry is more coordinated, and their own martial arts may be relatively weak, and they pay more attention to group attack power! Their knights and horses were wrapped in armor. The horse seems to hang a big mat, and the armor hangs down to the calf of the horse. The protection is tighter than the Crusader knights.

This also allows the Byzantine cavalry to hold long riding guns and rely on the impact of the cluster to play a role. Otherwise, I'm afraid it's not very flexible to fight alone under such strict protection. Therefore, individual combat is far less than that of Crusader knights.

And the crusader knights look more professional, moderately heavy, which does not affect their solo combat, and the group charge is also very sharp! There is also a chivalry system and a subordinate army that can also make these soldiers fight bravely. At the same time, they have high military quality and have excellent ability to command small-scale troops to fight! In this way, whether the large corps cooperate in the battle, small-scale conflicts, or the assault of small groups of troops, these knights, as professional soldiers, can be competent!

Therefore, these medieval crusader knights have a very flexible way of fighting. It is much more advanced than the Byzantine army. Especially in dealing with nomadic people from the East, it seems to be Turkic troops and Arab cavalry forces. Otherwise, the crusader expedition can still occupy a narrow base including the holy city of Jerusalem in the hinterland of the Arabs along the Mediterranean Sea, and lasted for hundreds of years between the two great grinding discs of Egypt and Syria.

And the Byzantines relied on the strong city of Constantinople and the vast depth of Asia Minor, and were still beaten back by the Turks! Finally, after losing Asia, the source of troops, they could only rely on the strait to use their Greek fire to burn Islamic warships that were not good at naval warfare and guard Constantinople.

But these advantages of the Crusaders can only be reflected in long wars. In the current battle of the Grand Corps, the ancient backward and rigid attack mode of Byzantium will still surprise its opponents!

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According to Apdu's report, the front line has been in full swing, and the battle is extremely fierce! The losses of both sides are very great! Saladin trapped the crusaders in a narrow area of Cape Hardin, but there was no way to stop the impact of the two major knights, but the flexible siege of Muslims also made it impossible for the Crusaders to defeat each other in one fell swoop.