"Do you want to retreat? After wasting so much thought, losing so many brothers, and so many ships, and not achieving the goal in the end, is it just that? I'm not reconciled! ”

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, the more crazy he became, and he began to attack Randy frantically, since he couldn't capture the emperor alive, then kill him, with this thought, Hyreddin became more and more hideous.

Over-the-Bridge ...... The sky has been white, the pirate attack has weakened little by little, many pirate leaders have seen the situation is not good, have led people to escape, and some pirate captains have taken this opportunity to take a group of people to go out independently, before dawn has already 1/4 of the Barbary pirates escaped, more than 1/4 of the Barbary pirates died in the sea, or were killed by the Norman navy.

The people who are still struggling on the battlefield today are basically the descendants of Hyreddin, or the pirate leaders who have a deep friendship with him, but these people will also begin to hesitate, pirates are not regular troops after all, pirates are fighting for money, not for honor, fame, loyalty, etc., when the initial enthusiasm has subsided, the pirates who are distressed by the loss have become hesitant, and the retreat of this part of the pirates is only a matter of time.

When the first rays of sunshine ushered in on the deck of the Royal Navy Victory, the ship that had been washed by blood several times and had formed a layer of viscous blood mold, the Crusader coalition had gradually stabilized the upper hand, and several elite professional soldiers covered in blood, under the leadership of a group of centurions, squeezed the remaining pirates in an orderly manner, drove them back to the sea, or crowded in the center of the ship and ate them away little by little, every time the pirates in an area were cleaned up, the soldiers would cheer with hoarse voices, After that, he rushed to another place where he was still fighting.

Most of the invading pirates at the bridge were killed, leaving only Hyreddin and his three best Barbary pirates alive, listening to the gradually lowering shouts of slaughter outside, and the cheers of the Franks, the prayers of their gods, and the growing despair!!

December 1, 1105 A.D.......

The French, German, Italian, and trio arrived in Cyprus one day before Randy, and watched the Normans build fortifications on the island, ports, docks, fortresses, settlements, and newly cultivated farmland, as well as vineyards and lemon groves, which the nobles from Western and Central Europe were amazed that in a short period of time, the Normans had reclaimed the island and built it into a very strong fortress.

On the island, they also saw troops from the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Eastern Roman Emperor Basil II.

As expected, the emperor was very cold to these potential enemies and traitors to the Roman Empire, the barbarian people, and although many people wanted to find an opportunity to talk to the emperor, Basil II always replied coldly:

"Let's wait until the Normans come!"

That means......

You people don't deserve to talk to me at all, I don't want to talk to you.

This made King Philip II of France and Holy Roman Emperor Albert very uncomfortable.

Although the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire attacked each other and were feuding, but today, when the Norman Empire continues to expand, become stronger, and become more and more threatening, these two former enemies still come together, form a fragile alliance, and agree on many things, as if this crusade, both sides have always believed that the Norman Empire cannot be allowed to be in the limelight, and Randy cannot be allowed to serve as the commander of this crusade, and all the glory and fame will be plundered, Otherwise, the power of the Norman Empire will become even stronger.

After a series of exchanges, King Philip II of France assured the Holy Roman Emperor Albert that he was willing to support Albert as commander-in-chief of the crusade, and in exchange Albert had to support him as deputy commander of the crusade, and at the same time be willing to take a biased attitude towards France on the border between France and Milan.

But after seeing this cold attitude Basil II, the king and emperor realized that things were not as simple as they imagined, although Basil II was not a Catholic, but this crusade, the Eastern Roman Emperor Basil II brought a total of 80,000 imperial professional soldiers who could fight well, such a huge force, almost occupying 1/3 to 1/4 of the combat power of this crusade, so whether they want to or not, they must admit that Basil II has enough say in this war.

Now this powerful quasi-ally has a cold attitude towards them, and seems to be particularly biased towards the Normans, is there already some secret agreement between them? Philip II and Albert became uneasy, especially on the second day of their arrival, after hearing about the arrival of the Norman Emperor and the Dukes and kings of Hungary, Burgundy, Hesse, Brandenburg, Bavaria, and other dukes and kings gathered around him, Albert was so angry that he was not even willing to go to the docks to pick them up, and finally Philip II pulled him over.

"Your Majesty Albert, can you influence the three Dukes of Hesse, Brandenburg, Bavaria, and the three Dukes who have come this time, and get them to support you as the commander of this coalition?" As the black dots in the sky widened, revealing a huge fleet, King Philip II of France said to his allies worriedly.

"Of course! I am the Holy Roman Emperor, and my words are a holy decree to the princes of the Empire. Although the words were quite domineering, Philip II could hear that Albert was not so confident in his heart, and most of the reason why he said this was due to his fragile self-esteem, and the other half also meant to cheer himself up.

Unlike his predecessor, the cunning and bloody Frederick, Albert had very little control over the various princes in the Holy Roman Empire, not only the Dukes of Hesse and the Dukes of Brandenburg in North Germany, but also the two Henries in the south who were not very interested in him, and Albert's recent energy was all focused on consolidating his control over the newly conquered Bohemian territories, and he was really powerless against the other princes of the empire.

"But we also have the support of Milan on our side, and in addition to the three kings of Spain, all of them wrote letters to support us, not to mention the Pope, but Venice's attitude is a little inappropriate, but it's nothing, it's just an insignificant small country, although so...... But for the Norman Empire, we can't press too hard, after all, we are now in the territory of the other side, and the other side has more troops than us, especially their naval power. ”

Philip II turned to Albert and said, "We also need some appeasement for the Norman Emperor, or we can give him the title of deputy commander-in-chief. ”

"Makes sense!"

Looking at the approaching fleet, which was so large that it was too large to be suffocating, Albert nodded, agreeing with Philip II, but when the fleet was getting closer and closer, and the battleships in the front row could already be seen, Albert gloated, after a night of fierce fighting last night, the Norman fleet looked a little embarrassed at the moment, the broken hull, the entire section of the mast, and the smoky charred black, made this fleet look like Hanako.

"Did they get caught in the storm? Or a pirate? Ha ha! God forbid, if that damn Norman bastard dies, it will be fine. ”

Albert thought like this, and his heart became more and more bright, the kings of other countries around him, as well as those Norman troops, and Marshal Carter of the Open Sea Fleet were also very uneasy, and they were talking about it one after another.

"Send a ship over and ask, what happened to your fleet?" Carter gave the order, and soon a small ship was heading for the Royal Fleet, and the Norman sailors climbed up the soft ladder down the ship's tower, asked for information, and jumped back.

By this time the fleet had sailed into the harbor, each finding a vacant place to anchor, and the soldiers, who looked a little tired, began to disembark.

After receiving the news, the Norman sailors returned to the port and reported to Carter: "Marshal, it was yesterday...... To be precise, the night before yesterday, the royal fleet was attacked by a large number of Barbary pirates, and a fierce naval battle broke out between the two sides, so it was made like this, but the king is fine, don't worry. ”

"That's good!"

Carter breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that nothing had happened to the Emperor, and then he proclaimed: "Our great Emperor, Your Majesty, has won a naval victory of unprecedented proportion, defeating tens of thousands of Barbary pirates, this is a great victory of Christians over the infidels, cheer for our victory, praise our Emperor, praise Jesus Christ.

Hearing the words of the admiral, the Norman soldiers who came to greet him began to cheer, and the Greek and Venetian soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire also echoed the occasion, and at this time the French and Germans were particularly isolated, Philip II also showed a hypocritical smile, and Albert was jealous and hateful, and whispered: "Who knows what happened, maybe it was made up by the Normans." ”

But the little caution of the Holy Roman Emperor was quickly shattered after Emperor Randy disembarked, and the huge hull of the Royal Navy Victory sailed into the harbor, and people looked at it and exclaimed, especially those Italians, who were sensitive to ships, and such a large warship also showed on the one hand that the Normans were strong at sea, and that during this time, there were more and more Normans in the Mediterranean, and it had reached a level that people had to look sideways.

When Randy ordered his knight of the guard to open the wooden box in his hand and show the people the skull, which still looked fresh, some of the nobles and soldiers from the Italian city-states shouted in surprise.

"It's Hayreddin! Barbary Pirate King Hayreddin! It's his head! ”

For these merchants who have been trading in the Mediterranean for many years, the concept of the Barbary Pirate King is more than the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, and even the greatest enemy of the pagans, and the significance of killing him is even more important to the Italians than the capture of the Holy Land.

"Damn it!" Hearing the cheers of the Italians, Albert felt particularly harsh, these cheers set him off like a clown and a fool, and the face of Philip II next to him was not very good-looking, the Norman Empire removed this figure as a great favor to the Italian city-states, in addition to further demonstrating its naval strength, which was extremely important for Milan and Venice, which were sea powers.

With a smile of hypocrisy to the extreme, Randy greeted and hugged these kings who had come to greet him, wishing him a long and healthy life, and wishing her an early birth to a precious son.

It's still very strange to say, there are really few sons in this vote, in case a terrorist drills into this crowd with a bomb, most of the European royal family will be wiped out, Randy is more deeply aware at this time that doing unethical things is not conducive to the heir, this kind of thing turned out to be true.

Those great, despicable, shameless and obscene kings in history, many of them have bad heirs, maybe they lack virtue and do too much, at this moment the kings of the European continent basically have made a lot of achievements in the original history, that is, the most powerful group of people who lack virtue, it is normal to not be able to give birth to sons, but Randy felt a sharp pain in his back halfway through speaking, and turned around to see Artoria looking at himself with a bright smile, the murderous aura was even more powerful than last night, and Randy suddenly woke up at this time, I also belong to the group that lacks morality.

Unable to take a break, after taking a quick shower to wash off the smell of blood and change into a set of clothes, Randy convened the Crusader Council as a landlord.

This crusade was as Randy had said, a holy war against evil, heretical, degenerate and corrupt, demonic pagans, all the nations of the continent, under the command of all the nations of Europe, with all the righteous and righteous in the world.

The countries, leaders and armies involved in this crusade were as follows:

Norman Randy von Hoffmann: 70,000 main Norman legions, 50,000 temporarily recruited Eastern European soldiers, a total of 120,000 troops.

The Holy Roman Emperor was directly under the Duchy of Austria and the King of Bohemia, Albert II: 30,000 German main troops, 15,000 knightly nobles armed and temporary conscripts.

Philip II of the Kingdom of France: 20,000 main French troops, 20,000 from Switzerland, Italy, mercenary legions.

Queen Artoria of the Kingdom of Britain: 30,000 Celtic professional legions.

Attila, Kingdom of Hungary: 5,000 Hungarian cavalry.

Vitterdandoro, Republic of Venice: 10,000 professional troops of Willis, 5,000 regiments of Italian mercenaries.

Henry III, Duchy of Milan and Duchy of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire: 10,000 German main troops.

Luciverd, Duke of Hesse of the Holy Roman Empire: 10,000 German main troops.

Frederick II, Duchy of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire: 10,000 German professional troops.

Henry VI, Duchy of Swabia of the Holy Roman Empire: 10,000 German professional troops.

In addition to those kings from Catholic countries, Basil II of the Eastern Roman Empire, from the Orthodox Church, with 80,000 Greek professional soldiers, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which also belonged to the Orthodox faith, provided 5,000 conscripts, led by Crown Prince Paul.