"There are too many opponents than us. And we are very vigilant. The elite pagan cavalry are in a team of one hundred men, patrolling back and forth around their main forces. They are also very vigilant when camping at night. Many traps are often arranged around the opponent's camp, and a large number of sentries. We attacked twice with no exception of losing hundreds of brothers."

This is the troops of Baibls, and their evaluation of Egil's army: "The other party is a very cautious and experienced general. It is simply a fool to defeat him by defeating the German emperor."

"But... since the ambush, the attack method cannot work. So what if you adopt a harassment tactic?" Zhao Haier said this, as if asking his partner and competitor, and also as if talking to himself.

"Or, we should concentrate the army like this last time and fight with them again? If we can win, the safety of the Holy Land will be solved. We will also become the great heroes who protect the Holy Land!" Baibls said with a little excited.

"It's impossible to win, don't forget that we only have more than 15,000 soldiers. The other party is more than twenty times ours." Zhao Haier shook his head and said, "It is the mission of Master Saladin to completely defeat the pagans. We just need to complete our own mission."

"Well..." Although he was a little unwilling to accept it, Baibls finally nodded, as if he had agreed to his partner's proposal.

——After the great success of the battle with Albert, he annihilated tens of thousands of enemy troops, captured 20,000 prisoners, killed an emperor on the other side, and suffered minimal losses. Less than a thousand people. After creating such achievements, these two generals have become household names in the entire Islamic world. Some people have even begun to compare these two generals with Saladin. Although there will be no problem in a short period of time, such a hero as Saladin is not the kind of jealous person who is jealous of the virtuous and capable. What's more, the Crusader army is approaching at this moment, and it is the time to use people...

But what about the future? If the Crusaders were so powerful that they could blow the lights and remove waxes in the entire Fatima Dynasty, then everything would be casual. It doesn't matter - but. What if they defeated the Crusaders? Will Saladin still remember this matter after defeating the Crusaders, and therefore hate them and find an opportunity to kill them? The rabbits died and the dogs cooked, and the birds were all kept in their bows. Their skills were so high that they shocked the Lord...

Zhao Haier, who was more cautious, thought about a lot of things. In the end, he decided: "Just do your part well." "Leave the greatest achievements to the lord." In this way, you can protect yourself.

On the other hand, although Baibls did not have the political wisdom of Zhao Haier, he could at least know that he had only seven or eight thousand people, and he was only fifty times his army. Since Zhao Haier was unwilling to cooperate, he had to adopt guerrilla tactics.

In the following period, the coalition was subjected to continuous, almost endless harassment from the two generals. These Arabs usually waited in the desert areas where the coalition had to pass, or were ambushed in water sources and oasis with small groups. They launched attacks and ambushing the Crusaders. These people were not in a fight. They usually shot two or three arrows and then immediately turned around and fled. The Crusaders were inexplicably not sure what to do.

Of course, if these people attacked the Norman team, it would be different - as the most professional unit among the Crusaders, the Norman soldiers still maintained a high morale and a sharp reaction in such a desertified and unbearable hot environment. The anti-raid, surprise attack and ambush training they did on weekdays came in handy.

When the Mamluk, wearing heavy scale armor and armored armor, or the Gulam heavy cavalry roared, the Norman heavy infantry will immediately arrange into dense arrays and prepare flying axes at the same time. The heavy crossbowmen and longbowmen behind them will also quickly turn the strings and aim. As soon as the opponent's cavalry approaches, a full-dimensional three-dimensional flying prop will be served, flying axes, bows, arrows, crossbows and arrows will be used together to cut the opponent's cavalry into a hedgehog shape.

If the opponent is attacking, there is no need to be afraid. Heavy infantry are still arranged in dense arrays - this time, they do not use flying axes, but raise a kite-shaped shield to form a shield wall. The long-range projection troops behind form dense barrage, aim and concentrate firepower to attack the opponent's archers. At the same time, the cavalry unit composed of heavy knights and light hussars attacks quickly, drives away the enemy, and contacts with the light cavalry units on the periphery and patrolling with the outside, and defeats the opponent with the inside and outside.

Of course, although that is said, in fact, not many of the main forces suffered such harassment. Most of the small-scale Arab cavalry were discovered and defeated by the Norman Hussars before they broke into the main forces. In order to deal with the increasingly powerful heavy armored cavalry units of various enemies, Egil once again improved the equipment of the Hussars. Now, these powerful melee hussars are equipped with traditional sabers, and are also equipped with a small, four and a half kilograms, but absolutely deadly small armor-breaking hammers. One end is a pointed cone and the other end is a prismatic armor-breaking hammer. It has proven to be very useful in dozens of small-scale battles.

When the Hussars encountered the Arab cavalry with fragile armor, they would use sabers. When they encountered the Mamluk cavalry wearing heavy chain armor, heavy scale armor and armor, they would use these new armor-breaking hammers.

These armor-breaking hammers have been proven to be better than traditional maces and maces. They have stronger armor-breaking ability. When hitting the opponent, they can often break the opponent's hand bones or ribs, or the most unfortunate skull. When they fight with the opponent's scimitar, they will deform the opponent's knife or knock them away directly. Although they are at a disadvantage in weight, the attack speed is slower, but compared with its advantages, this small disadvantage is completely acceptable.

Because of the powerful organization, excellent tactics and scientific training, these melee Hussars, which have been improved again, have almost one to one when fighting against the Mamluk heavy cavalry. When fighting against the more disciplined Gulam cavalry, the battle loss ratio is maintained at around one to two. After seeing such numbers, Egil began to seriously think about whether the proportion of these elite light cavalry should be greater in the cavalry sequence, and even, in the future, should the more expensive and more cumbersome heavy cavalry be completely eliminated, and such light cavalry are fully popularized.

"But, at least not yet." Egil thought: "At least in this era, cavalry still has its own value. And with the continued upgrading of metallurgical technology, my empire and my craftsmen will be able to forge the excellent plate armor of the Renaissance era. By that time, the combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry will further increase... Well, perhaps before the muskets are greatly reformed, the heavy cavalry still has its own significance."

While Egil was getting a bargain and was thinking about the future development direction of the cavalry of the empire, Zhaohair and Baibls were frowning on the other side. In a desert, stars and burning fires echoed the stars in the sky. An Islamic cavalry unit with more than 5,000 men was camped here, and the soldiers were quietly roasting the fire, talking quietly, or sleeping. There was no longer the excitement of defeating Albert's army a few days ago.

In the five consecutive days of attacks, they lost nearly 1,200 cavalry, among which more than 100 precious Mamluks. Their enemies, the Frankish pagans, were far less than they expected - either five hundred, three hundred, or fewer - but definitely higher than those of them who had geographical advantages and had ambush and surprise attacks. More importantly, the other party did not seem to be affected by these surprise attacks and was still moving forward towards the holy land of Jerusalem.

"It seems that this time the opponent is much harder to deal with than the one named Albert." After a long silence, Zhao Haier said.

"Indeed - I heard that the other party's commander was another emperor of the Franks, a man from the Norman Empire, named Egil." Baibls said.

"Is that right..." Zhao Haier seemed not so interested in this message. After advancement, he asked Baiboers, and seemed to be talking to himself: "What should we do? Such an attack seems to have lost its effect. We have suffered more losses than the enemies we harassed. It's really unspeakable."

"What's wrong with you?! Do you want to give up?!" Baibls said with some dissatisfaction.

"What else can I do?! Is there any other way to continue to lose my troops and lose my morale in vain?! It's useless!" Zhao Haier was also a little excited and roared at Baibls in this way.

"Allah likes warriors and hates cowards - it's hard for people to imagine that kind of disgusting thing when you do this!" Baibls also shouted loudly - the roars of the two generals spread far in the night, making many soldiers hear it - the conflicts between the high-level generals inevitably affected the morale of the grassroots soldiers. It made the Islamic soldiers who were already depressed due to continuous failures even more frustrated... (To be continued.
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