"It's not just a stone shooter, it's an integrated way to defend against other siege techniques of the Turks." Gedtier stroked his somewhat loose and dry hair, and reported to the Grand Duke with great interest in the researcher's hoarse voice, "My field camp defense system can be summed up as the moat, the gate, and the wall, as well as the base. ”

He said several "sons and mothers" in one breath, which made Gawain interested, "What you said, can the construction be successful in the face of the situation of the Turkic army?" ”

Gedier looked very confident, and he first pulled out another drawing for Gawain to read, and then pointed to the vast and wide Orontes River beside the camp, and the Falfa River that surrounded the city of Antioch behind it, "It is a good place, with pastures by the river, timber woods from the Rose Ridge, and all kinds of equipment and materials from the city by bridges and water transport, and the sand and soil that are easy to build and form, mixed with masonry and asphalt, are enough to resist the attack of artillery." In addition, as long as the Grand Duke assigns the detachments of the brigade according to the layout of the barracks, the positions of the buildings, the tasks, and the supplies, and the soldiers work at the same time, while the laborers who are sent in are dealt with roughly, and the cavalry and half of the infantry are sent to guard and protect, we will soon be able to build a strong field fortification between the Orontes River and the Rose Ridge, and the Turks will suffer heavy losses no matter how many times they come. ”

Gawain immediately said that you have full authority to go and consult with the heraldic officer and the military judge on all the rules, and tell them to do it immediately according to your code plan!

"It seems that Bohemond has a ready-made fortress left by Agghi, which is much easier than us, let them provoke and attract the enemy's attack first, and buy us some time here."

At this time, on the high hill on which the Acropolis of Antioch stood, separated by a crisscrossing ravine, and a narrow and winding valley floor, the line of confrontation between the main armies of Bohemond, Tancred, and Kobha, the "Iron Gate" had fallen into the hands of the army of Mosul, and everyone was in high spirits, but soon the Normans erected the heads of Yaggie and Sansadonias with long poles on the "Eagle Fort" (the highest point of the Acropolis and the castle) of the "Kazknuz Tower" facing the enemy of the Acropolis.

The beard of Yaji's skull had not yet been cut off, and the flesh had begun to swell and rot, so it showed a terrifying swelling, and it appeared to be even larger, and from a distance it looked like a huge melon, and it would take four strong soldiers to lift it for the Turkic camp across the valley to see.

Budakis wept so much that he tore his hair again, and could not bear to see his father and brother so slaughtered, and hugged the thigh of the prince of Kobuha, and Kobuha was also furious, and kept saying to his subordinates, when we have conquered the city of Antioch, we will kill all the pilgrims in the city, not only people, but also horses, donkeys, sheep, dogs, and anyone who is alive, in order to comfort Aji's death.

But Bohemond under the long pole obviously had no intention of stopping, and he not only instructed the Turks in the camp who had converted to Christ to curse a lot of insults to the other side of the valley with insults to the other saints, prophets and scriptures, but also told the soldiers to put metal "dog's feet" at the bottom of the long pole with Yaji's head, so that it could be firmly inserted into the ground, and then put a horizontal runner and a short pole on the top of the long pole, so that the four dwarf clowns of the court stepped on the short pole, like stepping on the branches of a great tree, and climbed up and down, sometimes singing disgusting and vulgar songs. Sometimes he struck Yaggie and his eldest son's head with a stick, and sometimes even pulled the rope, causing Yaji's head and Sansadonias's head to spin along the wheel, "making a gesture of chasing and biting his son's head." ”

"I think it's the son biting his father!"

"It's hard to tell who's biting whom!"

"They must be fighting for mom's milk."

"We should tie a few pieces of donkey's tail to these two heads, so that we can distinguish clearly."

A few Calabrian soldiers below held their bellies and laughed.

Sure enough, at dusk, the Norman army found the tails of two donkeys, climbed the long pole, and tied them to two severed heads in front of tens of thousands of Turks on the opposite side, then lit a bonfire, and began to play the trick of "spinning and biting" again.

Budakis almost fainted, "Tomorrow onwards, along the perimeter of the Iron Gate Fortress, storm the unbelievers' defenses - avoid the Acropolis towers, seize the paths and gables, and the small fortresses, and then rush into the city, shoot and slaughter these bastards, and create as much panic as possible!" Kobha felt sorry for the young man's grief and gritted his teeth and issued the order to attack.

At the same time, on the section between the Tieqiao Estuary Fortress and the Rose Ridge, Gawain commanded 800 Red Hand cavalry, and Raymond personally led 300 knights or sergeants, waving beautiful battle flags, and arranged a majestic formation, facing nearly 10,000 Turkic troops in the direction of St. Simeon and Atta City.

Behind them, two thousand of Gawain's servants, four thousand servants, and the soldiers who were working with the overseers, were sweating and digging with shovels a long trench perpendicular to the Orontes River, leaving an earthwork about seven feet thick that had not been dug up, and a wooden fence was driven to cut it off, "stretching to the Rose Ridge, a distance of about 5,100 Anna feet (about 1.5 kilometers now), and if 6,000 men dug the trench at the same time, it would have been completed in about two and a half days." Gedier stood in front of them with his calculations in hand, and counted with precision that beside him there were six thousand laborers, and soldiers drawn from three brigades, who were rapidly building a wall of excavated earth mixed with stone bricks and rammed earth, "First build the mother walls, and make them smooth and low, so that the amount of earth at the bottom is increased, but because the height is only one-fifth the height of the standard castle wall—the amount of work is actually reduced, and it will take about two and a half days." Gedier muttered, countless.

"Two and a half days is too long, and we should use more leather whips, and send fast horses to Ademar and Robert, that they should assign seventy percent of the servants to us, for neither the west fort of Godfrey nor the acropolis of Bohemond need such a great work." Gao Wen, who was also an overseer on the side, looked straight at Sabina's buttocks, carrying his military servant Muzafiadin who was in charge of delivering the letter, to make her run as soon as possible.

Then, he looked at the figures shuttling in front of him, and they gradually blurred, and Gawain fell into the initial confusion, which was about Tetisius:

"Although I can understand that this guy with no nose was ordered by the emperor to passively avoid the war, why did he run away directly at such a critical moment? This really doesn't seem to be the style of Tetisius, even the emperor's order, in my understanding of Alexios, is really a bit incredible, what is the answer? (To be continued.) )