Then, the two of them were like normal brothers and sisters who had been reunited after a long absence: Estu rode a horse to find his sister, and Tang Wu, who had gone out to pick up, also happened to see his younger brother, and the two of them talked and laughed, and came neatly dressed to the Imalai tribe, which was a small tribe of about a hundred tents, and his brother-in-law Aku received his brother-in-law very warmly, and when he learned of his intention, he immediately said that he could mobilize twenty good archers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Thus overjoyed, he drunk his brother-in-law, and the next day he continued farther afield, in the nomadic territory of the Sagetus, to recruit the remainder of the men......

"We will act in the daytime, which will be more effective than at night, but it will also be more dangerous, which requires all the warriors to shoot in unison under the command of my bone whistle, otherwise it will be difficult to escape after failure, not to mention success." Ostu kept saying this to the fifty horsemen.

He knew that this was also a life-threatening adventure: even if the outskirts of Edessa City were to let them in unsuspectingly, it would be very difficult to surprise and shoot so many dignitaries, and if it weren't for the high price offered by Tancraed, if it weren't for the sake of Sister Tang Wu and his own future, he would never have taken on this terrible job.

"The Acropolis of Edessa was where Barak, Taprenz, and Cousins lived, and Fell was stationed outside the city with his guards. Our people have an inner response in the Acropolis, which is not as strong as Antioch, it is located on a small raised hill in the north of the city, and in the passage connected to the outer city, an inner wall has been built for patrolling, and it is no more than ten feet high, and there is a small brass bell for warning in the shed above, and there is no stone fort in the wall, just a few mansions connected to each other. When the time comes, my brother-in-law and I will take ten of the best archery skills on horseback, and the rest will walk on foot, carrying the Duke of April's papers, and pass directly through Fell's outer camp first, and then directly break the inner city wall with one blow, kill Barak and others first, and then light a beacon fire to join forces with the Apulian army to kill Fell. After cooperating with the arrows, Ostu pointed to the model of Edessa Castle, and repeatedly arranged it with everyone for a day, and after all of them were proficient, he and everyone got on their horses and headed towards Edessa.

"Tang Wu, you and my tribe have been walking forward for the past few days, waiting at the border of Edessa, and once I and Eth have succeeded, we will come back to pick you and the others up and go to the great citadel of Syria to live a good life, where it is said that everything can be bought in the bazaar." Aku said, throwing the belt of the saddle to the side of the mount and fastening it again, then straddled it and said goodbye to his elated wife.

A few days later, under the city of Edessa, Tanfred's herald came to the door, and Barak in the city looked for the Armenian nobles in horror to discuss, "Don't be afraid, the tens of thousands of troops in Kobha have besieged this place for a long time, haven't we all saved the danger?" Moreover, if necessary, Prince Reuben will be your strong supporter, and if the Normans come again to ask for money, you will reply that the coffers in the city are empty, and all of them will be sent out to reward those who have previously defended the city. Taprenz kept pumping Balak into the air.

But when Barak cheered up and received the herald, he learned that the Normans were not here to ask for tribute and money, "Lord Bohemond and the others have agreed to attack and seize several bridgeheads in Tripoli before officially marching into the Holy City, so you need to recruit more men in Marash and Armenia, and I hope that your Edessa City will be used as a transit point for the mercenaries of the Quartet Army, as long as you do a good job of supplying food and water." You are also to provide five hundred cavalry to fight and assemble outside the city, and at any moment Lord Tanrred will send someone to take them away. ”

Hearing this, Barak was relieved, such a military service apportionment, there were more than 100 cavalry on each person's turn, and the cost of sending out a year was only a thousand gold coins, he immediately and respectfully agreed to the request, and after sending the messenger of the order, Barak gathered the cavalry in the city and sent it to the camp of Fell, outside the city, to wait for the order.

Three or four days later, the city of Edessa was already busy: there were small groups of men and horses in all directions, all nationalities, holding military service orders or passes, carrying weapons, shouting that they were going to Antioch to participate in the battle on the orders of the Duke of Apulia, and Fell and his personal guards were busy and sweating, and they went from here to there to maintain order, ordering these people to be stationed outside the city gates.

In the billowing smoke and dust, ten cavalrymen claiming to be from the Imalai tribe, with a team of infantry carrying quivers and swords behind them, came to Fair's camp in a chaotic atmosphere, and the leader of the Eth took out the tokens and documents with great skill, and handed them to Fell immediately, "I am the general who was ordered to take away the five hundred cavalry of Edessa, and now let me into the city, and after the inspection is completed with the consul Barak, I will take all the cavalry in the camp and go to join the Duke of April." ”

"You're a Turk?" Fell inquired that he was a little surprised that the Normans had let the Turks command their troops.

"I am Osto, and no one here has not heard my name, including Your Excellency, and if you can afford to let me do anything to kill anyone, this is the privilege that Allah has given me." Ostu, on horseback, replied shamelessly.

Fell shrugged his shoulders in disdain, and then he examined all the paperwork and the letters that had been sent by Tanthrader, and when he had all the proofs, he didn't think too much about it, and went out of the camp, and waved at the tower of the city gate—and after a while, the drawbridge creaked down on the trench, and Ostu, with the reins, and with a party of fifty men, he first went to the gate and road, and said to his forty soldiers on foot in the presence of the halberd-wielding guards, "You will stay here and wait, and I will take the horsemen to the Acropolis and hand them in. All you need is Lord Barak to stamp it, and I'll take everything that needs to be taken. ”

Everything was so normal, the guards saluted him, and then put up the halberd in their hands, and Ostu, together with Aku, and the other nine horsemen, walked leisurely through the outer city wall, through the main stone street, slowly towards the inner city wall with low sheds, about three hundred feet apart, and the road was lined with workshops and houses, and a trading market full of livestock, and people carrying goods on their backs came and went, and it was very prosperous.

At this moment, several soldiers patrolling the city wall in the Acropolis, seeing Ostu who was driving directly to their side, walked up to the pheasant moat one after another, stretched out their hands, and told them to stop the horse's hooves, "We have come to ask for the seal of His Excellency the Archon Barak!" Ostur suddenly shouted, bowed down, pulled the reins, and the war horse under his crotch suddenly sped up and turned its hooves, rushing towards the city wall like lightning, and the pedestrians on both sides exclaimed in surprise and avoided one after another. (To be continued.) )