The soldiers of the fourth part gritted their teeth and took over the Constantine imperial banner, the bows and arrows in the hands of the Roma soldiers quickly shifted the target, and under the rain of arrows thrown from the mountains, the Italian veterans guarding the imperial banner were shot down one after another, but soon many people took over with shields and without regrets, they all followed the battlefield of the Long March in the stable for many years, and had already formed the basic instinct to obey the order. Komnenos was not familiar with them at all, but an order is an order.

About the second hour of the afternoon, the royal brother Isaac, the Venerable Sebastoprat, fought with him, and under the desperate battle of Tetisius, finally broke through the pass and ran out, and there was a flat terrain in front of him. Covered with a turban and a chainmail helmet, soaked in the blood of his comrades, Tetisius ordered all the Turkmen mercenaries to gather together the remnants of men and horses, and the final number was more than a hundred, with about forty horses.

"Send ten good horses to Lord Sebastoprat and the eunuch, and the rest will follow me on foot, and escort them to Nicomedia, where the despicable Sultan of Konya may pursue us at any moment." Tetisius said, pulling his helmet off, blood dripping down the chain.

Looking at the bloody canyon, and then looking at the river and the plain ahead, Isaac completely lost the momentum of the previous command, but lost his soul and suffered a great mental blow, wearing heavy armor, he never dared to take off his helmet, for fear that the attendants would see his appearance. At this time, Nikdemia, who had miraculously escaped with many young men, lifted the curtain of the carriage behind him—it was densely packed with arrows, and George lay in it, and the eunuch shook his head, "Take it to the city of Nicomidea and bury it, and now even the emperor's dungeon will be saved." ”

Then everyone hurriedly mounted their horses, and Tetisius, panting, holding his shield, followed the others on foot, and continued to flee like a lost dog.

In the canyon, in front of Constantine's imperial banner, the corpse has been built into a mountain of flesh and blood, and the arrow feathers on it are like the dense forest on the mountain, and the imperial flag has been shot out of a hundred thousand holes, and it is still floating in the black smoke - the elite soldiers of the six thousand stables, except for the thousand people who have been given to the queen of Gawain, I am afraid that not even a third of them have escaped.

"Great victory, esteemed vizier, standard victory." Several atabergs gathered around the top of the hill to command, and Maimon congratulated with great joy.

Maimon looked at the pass in the sunlight and nodded with satisfaction, "Take the Greeks' imperial flag and use it as a trophy." In addition, all soldiers were told not to rest. Then the vizier pointed to the other side of the gorge with his horsewhip, "Because the ranks of the Greeks are still fighting, we will destroy this enemy again and crush all resistance." ”

At this moment, Atarberg, who had escaped death by Gawain's sword during the previous skirmish in the woods, also rode his horse and approached in shock, and Maimon saw him, "Ahei. Suhor. Hajib (Turkic for White Eagle, who has served as a great attendant), I must thank you for the fact that sixteen units of the entire gorge were involved in the battle, and you were the only one who did not reach the ambush. ”

This obviously sarcastic remark embarrassed Hajib very much, his face was red and white, he was born from a humble background, he was originally a Turkic herdsman in the mountains of Armenia, and later became a slave of the Seljuk Sultan Malikshah, and Jiliki, who had previously served as a hostage in the Seljuk court. Arslan was a good friend and helped him escape from the Seljuks, so he was highly regarded by Gilikhi, but Hajib had no other talents, so in the eyes of the entire Sultanate of Rûm, he was still an incompetent man who came up by connections.

"Alright, go and command your army, go to this side of the canyon, and cooperate with the Sultan to destroy the remnants of the Greek army." Maimun disdainfully gave Hajib the task of saving face.

Then Hajib rode on his horse, followed by the regrouped horses of his army, in a double column, and moved in the opposite direction along the ridge, hoping to end the battle before dusk, so that they could eat as victors.

In the procession, three or four men wearing standard Turkic armor walked in the middle of the procession, one of them wearing a pointed iron helmet, covering his face with a cloth, but showing his red hair, and the standard Saracen-looking man in the back hurriedly stuffed the hair back in.

"Catcher, this" Before the red-haired man could utter a complete sentence, he was struck hard by Diognis, signaling that he could shut up with this Varyag mouth!

The officer on horseback came over and said a few words in Turkic to the queue, and Diognis raised his face and replied in Turkic, very fluently, he was a border guard after all, and he was more or less familiar with all languages.

So the officer, without suspicion, rode to the front of the queue to mobilize and maintain, and Theognes put away the rosary left by Gawain in a blanket and tied it, and kept cursing in his heart, "Gawain, you bastard, how many people have been trapped, so that we have to follow behind the army of the Sultan of Konya and clean up the mess for you!" ”

At this time, on the other side of the canyon, Gawain had already led his team, becoming more and more courageous, breaking through the two lines of defense of the Roma army and approaching the Gilligi under the Crimson Eagle.

Gilligi was about to sit still, after all, he only had three thousand men on hand, and the other two thousand were handed over to the vizier to set up an ambush in the canyon, although after receiving his arrows, many Turkic tribal warriors in the country came in groups on horseback to reinforce him, but according to Gawain's fierce strength in fighting to the death, and the blue fire demon sword in his hand that brought great fear to the soldiers, could he be defeated by the Greeks with absolute superiority?

Surrounded by soldiers running around indiscriminately, who didn't have the heart to stick to their posts and formations, the mood of the gilliki under his banner was like a canyon in front of him, and he fell to the bottom, "What about the neo-Manichaeans of Tefris!" The Vizier's men haven't come down yet! ”

"The gates of Nicaea have been opened!" Over there, Gawain held his sword high, and the soldiers next to him scrambled to hold the banner of the team for him, and the front and rear were full of crawling Turkic losers, the Byzantine army formed a group, stepping on the corpses, shields and flags of the enemy after the rout, they were only half a thousand miles away from the main gate of the city of Nicaea, and no enemy dared to stop them in front.

At this time, Hajib and the Turkic soldiers on the other ridge rushed down the valley with tooth banners, and caught the Red Hand detachment and did not keep up with Gawain, and the two sides were disjointed, dividing the positions of Farov and Gawain horizontally.

Then, Gawain handed the banner to Barromeo, "You rush into the city of Nicaea with your men, and I will go to pick up Farov." ”