In fact, even if Amasa wanted to wait for his lord's army, it would not be possible for the time being: Raymond, Marquis de Provence, led 3,000 of his subordinates to defend the iron bridge fortress at the mouth of the river, and divided the camp and army of Amasa, Ridvan and Kobha into three, like a nail, firmly in the middle of nearly 100,000 Turks.

Lord Raymond, who was not far from Gawain's camp, bravely rose to the sky, and after leaving behind the twin towers at the head of the bridge, he also mobilized soldiers and some laborers, and in addition to reinforcing the fortifications of the bridge, equipped with a large number of throwing fire canisters, and blocking the Turkic ships from going down the river, he also dug simple attack camps at the bridgeheads on both sides, and did not even equip the rammed earth gates - "I, we, as long as we attack, just, will do!" Raymond did what he said, and every day he would take turns with his soldiers, personally put on his armor and lead them to attack the Turkic camps, so that the enemies everywhere were terrified.

Yesterday, Flanders Robert, who had volunteered in the city, with eight hundred armored infantry and a hundred cavalry, marched from St. Paul's Gate to Raymond's position.

Exactly after that, the army of Kobuha and Budakis, with a total of 40,000 horses, swept from the mountains east of Antioch like a frenzy towards this place.

"What lord of Gaul is ahead?" Kobha asked, pointing to the towering Iron Bridge Twin Towers.

"His Royal Highness, the most fierce and warlike one-eyed lord in Southern Gaul, the fourth in Raymond." Budakis reminded.

"That twin towers, it must be very difficult for our army to bite down, right? But left unchecked, it threatens to attack our camps and transports, either from the mountains or from the water. The whole army was ordered, the archers lined up in front, the infantry in the center, the cavalry outflanked along the mountain road on both sides, and called Ridwan over there to assist from the north! The herald cavalry at Kobha's side, having received instructions, rushed over the rugged riverside and mountains toward Ridwan's camp.

In the long grass on the other side of the mountain, the crossbowmen of Provence who had been ambushed in advance stood up one after another, and the crossbow machine in their hands snapped their teeth, and among the flying grass and wild flowers, several unprepared herald cavalrymen suddenly turned on their backs, and the last surviving young soldier fell in front of the horse that was shot dead, and then he was captured by the sharp soldiers who rushed up to catch him, and his fists and clubs rained down on his head, and then dragged a long, long trail of blood on the grass, He dragged him to the hillside in front of Raymond's camp: he happened to meet the One-Eyed Lord who had come out with forty knights and one hundred and twenty mounted sergeants.

When everyone thought that the lord was going to interrogate him, Raymond directly drew his sword and cut off the neck of the dying herald, and the other party's head was bent and half hung on his shoulders, and his kneeling body staggered, and blood spurted like a fountain.

"Also, what else is being questioned, Kobuha, surely, surely it is near—call Robert, guard, guard the iron bridge!" With that, Raymond turned on his horse, kicked his mount with his spurs, and galloped towards the other side of the hill, while the rest of the knights and sergeants roared, and before the infantry out of the camp could set up their formation, they followed Lord Raymond's banner like a storm.

On the cliffs facing the mountains, flags fluttering in the wind, and the warriors, draped in their whole bodies, armed with spears and swords, and the scarf-clad lord gasped as he watched the army of infidels filling the mountains and valleys beneath him, and then let out a long howl - Raymond drew the sword he wore at his waist, turned his head to his small but high-spirited cavalry line, and shouted only one sentence, "Don't, don't coward, do it!" Then he galloped down the cliff with the sun in the rising sun, the hissing mount with his mane, and hundreds of comrades who lived and died together.

Several groups of Turkic archers who had been at the sentry point saw this formation, and they were frightened into twos and threes, and they shot a sparse group of arrows, and they ran towards their own large army.

"This vicious dog is Raymond the Fourth? Maybe he will become a problem and a nightmare for our army. At this moment, Kobha, who was commanding the formation on the hillside on the other side, looked at Lord Raymond, who was galloping and charging in front of the front team, and was shocked

After almost a day and a night's fierce fighting, Kobuha could not break through Raymond's defenses: the Lord of Provence also imitated the tactics he had learned earlier, and after the cavalry assault was successful, he quickly withdrew to the starting point, and the infantry occupied the vital hill leading to the iron bridge, dug up the passage for the enemy to attack, and constantly intercepted it with crossbow fire and light infantry, plus Lord Robert, from time to time with a small number of capable cavalry, attacked on the flank there, and the front of Kobuha's army was caught in the valley, which could not be used at all. And Ridwan over there, although Kobuha later urgently sent several groups of heralds, but the news was all lost in the sea, separated by a few mountains, and there was not even a reply, let alone a coordinated attack.

Kobuha, who was so angry that he could only set up a camp along the valley for the time being, preparing to adjust his deployment in the coming day, and then take Raymond's Iron Bridge Fortress and go to join Amasa in the direction of Atta City.

But he also didn't know that Amasa's tens of thousands of horsemen and a large number of siege equipment also launched a huge attack on Gawain's camp on this day.

Standing at the forefront of the formation was a stone-throwing machine carefully made by Persian craftsmen. When the officer gave this order, several craftsmen separated the two ends, put the large iron spikes through the grommets on both sides of the leather pocket at the end of the stone throwing rod, inserted them into the ground, and then smashed them with a sledgehammer, and then several tall and strong servants put the polished stone bullets in the air between the leather pockets.

"Pull, cast!" The officer raised his cutlass and turned his head to slash down.

At the end of the stone thrower, five people with a rope, a total of seven, wrapped around the pole of the stone thrower, "ahhhhhh Fly towards the top of the Orontes stronghold.

The guards behind the sub-wall and the dog's foot tree stood on tiptoe, and they could see many black dots, rolling rapidly in the air, and getting bigger and bigger, "Bow down! "With the orders of their flag officers, they crouched down one after another.

With a crisp sound, a stone bullet swept over the gate tower, smashed the upper end of a row of dog-foot logs, and with flying debris, it fell into the inner trench behind the gate tower, smashing up a column of water. (To be continued.) )