Bohemond hurriedly smiled, although he was eager to draw his sword and chop this serpentine merchant into pieces, "Now I have an extremely important military information to share with you, that is, Kobha's army is about to cross the Euphrates, so I hope that you will use small barges as soon as possible to transport the grain hoarded by the various city-states of Port Saint-Simon down the Orontes River to Antioch to concentrate the reserves, because Kobuha can raid you at any time, and then it will be really hopeless." ”

Hearing this, Moniqueny wrinkled his sparse and narrow red eyebrows, and spat out two red fuses like a poisonous snake, his amber eyes sparkled, and his slender legs under the wide cloak seemed to swing a little-even Bohemond saw the appearance of this merchant, and his back was cold, as if he was being stared at by a cobra in the desert, but the other party didn't seem to care about him, but quickly calculated something, and soon he laughed gloomily, revealing his white but irregular teeth, This made his countenance even more terrifying, "Very well, I will at once mobilize thirty barges and begin to carry the grain of the port of Saint-Simon down the river. ”

"Very well, by the way, inform the three city-states of Venice, Amalfi, and Relaya, and I will entrust Gawain and Raymond's cavalry to escort you—and besides, I have made Richard vacate several barns in the arena area we occupy, and you will have to stock up on food in another place." Then, hunched over, Bohemond slowly walked in front of Monikini, and gently pressed his hands on the other party's shoulders in a flattering manner, "When the time comes, once Kobha is besieged, just selling grain and selling it to the army will allow you to make a windfall, and all the money and assets of all the knights will be brought over, hahaha." ”

And Moniqueny still had a gloomy smile, his eyes looked slightly towards Bohemond's hand, and the new army chief laughed awkwardly, as if touching a burning flame, and withdrew his hand, and then Moniqueny gently raised his fingers and dusted the black shawl twice, "Then it's settled"

In the palace district at the other end of Antioch, in the streets and houses, basic business activities have begun to recover, the Saracens, the Syriac Greeks, and the barracks of the brigades have all carried out a simple barter mode in exchange for the supplies they need, and in the alley behind the lively bazaar, in a secluded garden, in the courtyard, Baldwin held the letter taken out of the box, and shook Gawain's shoulder with great joy, "Goethehild wrote that she was three months pregnant, God forbid, I hope it's a boy. ”

Gawain said half-sarcastically and half-congratulatorily, "Goethehild has just struggled out of the terrible whirlpool of illness, but I didn't expect you to let her go and impregnate her." ”

"You have to be considerate, how can a husband and wife sleep on the same couch and still keep each other from provoking each other for a long time? You know, I listened to your advice at the earliest, and there was a sword between me and Goethehilde on the couch to separate us. ”

Gawain crossed his waist, crooked his eyebrows and laughed, turning his back to the past, indicating that he did not want to listen to Baldwin talk about these secrets, but Baldwin laughed, ignoring himself at all, and patted his back enthusiastically, "As a result, the next day when I went to bed, Goldchild put the sword in its sheath, and I asked why, and she said that she was afraid that I would crawl to her side after nightfall and accidentally cut me, hahahaha!" And then she got pregnant. ”

"What a sharp sword." Gawain commented, and the two laughed and laughed, and Baldwin kept asking if he had impregnated Anna, to which Gawain replied that Anna thought it was a great sin against God because they had not yet been officially blessed to complete the wedding ceremony in the church.

"If you and Anna are daughters, then you will have to give Sicilicia as a dowry to my son; If you and Anna are sons, then the two states should be in an eternal alliance. ”

So Baldwin chattered, and the two of them soon made their way through the bricked and mosaic-brick path to another, more intimate courtyard with a carved verandah with a cistern, where an angry Raymond stood, out of keeping with the elegant and quiet atmosphere of the courtyard, and Godfrey and Flanders Robert sat on stone benches, and seemed to have been waiting for some time.

Raymond was apparently still complaining about why Gawain had elected Bohemond as the "Chief of the Army" at the previous meeting.

"That was the death of Adelbello and Beatrice, exploited by the Redbeard, who succeeded in undermining the prestige of the Prefect and the Council of Cardinals. And before he boasted about Haikou, saying that he would definitely seize the Acropolis of Yaji, but now that the internal and external military situation is in trouble, we do not need to fight for the length of the moment, but first save the whole pilgrimage cause. Gawain spread his hand and explained, and then he said to the worried Flanders Robert, "If I am not mistaken, the Count of Blois will soon run away towards Little - never to look back." ”

Robert's face was melancholy, but he was helpless, and only complained about why the Greek emperor did not keep his word at all, and why he was so timid.

"It's useless to complain, all we can do now is to be in harmony, and there's nothing wrong with Bohemond being the chief deacon, since he has the confidence to take the Acropolis, he must be well prepared, he is a shrewd man after all, and it is good for all of us. Now the front is deployed, and Godfrey and Baldwin and I serve as the outer line of the city wall to block Kobha's army; Bohemond, Robert, and Hugh served as the inner line of the city walls, concentrating on taking the acropolis; Lord Raymond's army was divided into two parts, one continued to hold the Stone Fort of the Holy Spring, cutting off the connection between the Acropolis and the reinforcements of Kobuha, and the other was holding the fortress at the mouth of the Iron Bridge River to prevent the enemy from invading the city gates by boat. Gawain crossed his waist and repeated Fang Cai's military disposition, "Bohemond also issued a notice, he has asked all the sailors in the harbor of St. Simon to mobilize a large number of barges, and replenish all the food there to the city, otherwise it will be a great difficulty to feed 150,000 people." After doing all this well, we can definitely persevere, and as long as we persevere, I think the emperor, Tetisius, Stephen, Robert. Curtis, they will still turn around with the team. ”

After listening to Gawain's encouragement, everyone cheered up and shook their fists at each other to show confidence, "Is this the fundamental reason why we are gathered here?" Then Baldwin shrugged his shoulders and smiled evilly.

Raymond also laughed, "When, of course, no, we are here, of course, we are here, of course, we are here, of course, after Antioch falls to the city, to seek, to seek our own best interests"

Later, the Marquis de Provence used a Spanish swear dialect in a particularly heavy tone to express that his ambitions for Bohemond could not be left unchecked. (To be continued.) )