Patricia Taylor
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With the max of his might, Mauro swung the war hammer hard and slashed it on to the Ottoman rider's back head just as their mounts crossed each other. Although Mauro's mount did not give him any time to check on his strike due to his poor riding skills, he can still be sure that the hammer strike just now did its trick. Indeed, his assumption is right, the war hammer, despite being small, still sent a shock wave through Emir Bey's metal helmet, leaving a huge dent on the iron surface. Emir Bey is not as…-
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"When he had shot his bolt and had smitten one in the throng, then would that man fall where he was and give up his life..." - Homer, The Iliad The Ottoman soldier who passed his commander the bow a while ago gaped in awe as he listens to the bellows coming right beside him. He had never knew that the rival his commander is aiming at is the Basileus of the Rumelians, and furthermore he remembers that there are clear instructions from the higher ups that they should never take any form of action against…
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"Basileus! My emperor! Your majesty! Are you going to abandon us like this under the hooves of the infidels?!" Pushed by the thirst for survival and the hope for the same kind of miracle in tales to happen again, some scattered shouts from the Romans themselves can be heard as they desperately try to fend off the incoming attacks by the Ottoman cavalries, totally unknowing that the first man who started all of these up is one of their enemies. Emir Bey slowly decelerated his horse under the protection of…
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The Ottomans decided that now is the time for the decisive moment, a final charge that would send the Rumelians scrambling for their lives, like how an egg jumps on the frying pan when over fried. The man, who looks like the leader with that fancy cloak behind him, charged head on wearing armour towards a weakened area on the line of Roman defence. Normally speaking a cavalry, no matter heavily armoured or not, would not want to challenge a man holding spears or pikes head on like this especially when he…
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Honestly speaking, it is already hard for a squadron consisting of hundreds of people to move forward as one is already a job hard enough for most people even if they are well trained. It would be even harder for some one to command a few hundred terrified soldiers with more than half being recruits to go backwards with out turning their heads engaging the enemies in front. One can try to walk back wards with his eyes covered and see how hard it is. In a regimental like this any one who makes a few wrong…
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"Onward! My sons! We cannot afford to crumble over here! If we fail! We shall lose every thing we have gained on the path to here!" The emperor shouted out at his soldiers with his emerald engraved sword, waving it in the air and holding the front line side by side with his men. His horse has already be slain by an arrow in to its neck during that down pour of arrows a few minutes ago. But Constantine is not frightened by this at all, he has seen even bigger projectiles coming at him before for multiple…
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The start of year 1460 is pretty remarkable and historical for the Romans in Thrace, who has already found themselves in a totally unpleasant way of life as they have entered a situation they have expected but did not expect it to happen that fast. The troops under the command of Constantine and Mauro have come in to an attack by their long waited foes whom they missed for almost the past month finding and searching, and apparently they did not come in the gesture of an old friend, they came with fangs,…
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"Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend." - Arabic Proverbs The Ottoman forces have waited for almost one whole day for their preys, laying here before the sun rises. They have been strictly disciplined and ordered to not make a screech or tiniest movement when the enemies emerge to avoiding spoiling their cover. Hamza Pasha knows that this is tough for his men, and is already expecting the numbers of people getting frozen to death or incapable of further combat to be huge, but still he…
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The Roman army started marching again in a long snake formation, with Mauro's infantries acting as flank guards and quick support. Constantine have gave a thought about his military thinking for the last few days, accusing himself within his mind that his decisions have been way too cautious causing a whole lot of conflicts with his commanders and wastage of time that could have been preserved. Thus he ordered the troops today to take advantage of this poor visibility of the mist and march off as fast as…
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"Uusi lumi on vanhan lumen surma." "New snow if the death to old snow." - Finnish Proverbs The scouts trudged difficultly in the snow, although the snow is only around two centimeters thick it still created a hell lot of problems for these scouts. First it made the lands slippery making it almost impossible to continue the journey riding on their horses in the fear of the hooves. And the snow covered the narrow dirt road in to a long strip of moist swamps, trapping any one's feet sinking inside. All of…
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