After nightfall, at the northern pass of Dergganri, all the infantry of the Dalian army lined up, holding torches, muffled all voices, and quickly marched forward.

"Set up the sentry posts on both sides of the gorge - the company of craftsmen and the company of sailors, escort all the light baggage, in the second formation; Giovanni supervised the cavalry company, and at the third hour of the night, finally departed. At the high rock of the pass, Gawain looked at a long marching procession, and waved his hand quickly and nervously to order, "Speed up, Surelman won't be confused for too long." ”

Anna also carried her luggage and stood behind the big barbarian, "You told Muzafiadin to launch the head of the Sultan's wife as evidence, but Shahnami is obviously in the hands of the Normans, how did you get her hair?" ”

"I didn't use Shahna's hair, and as long as it was the same color, Gilligi would believe it." Gawain explained, with his back to her.

That's right, it's a good way to use the enemy's psychology to win.

At this moment, Agnes behind Anna suddenly sobbed in a low voice, and Anna turned around to ask why, but saw Agnes slowly lift the cloak that was originally covering her head - her forehead was obviously cut off by scissors, and then Anna understood where the hair sent out by Gawain came from

"It's too much." Anna comforted her female companion like this.

"What's more, I also said that my hair doesn't smell good, maybe not like the Sultan's wife, and I even smoked incense before sending it." Agnes felt that her pride had been trampled on, but she did not dare to cry out loud, so she could only hide her face and weep. Because she was afraid that Gawain would have her hair cut today, and if she was disobedient tomorrow. It would really be said that the Grana Lady Physician would cut off her "oyster seeds".

The next day, when the sun had just risen, the Sultan's reinforcements from Aleppo and Samosata arrived! There were nearly 10,000 people. Though weary and dusty, they rode tall and majestic Saracen horses, were well armed, and wore distinctive banners—some inspired by the Sultan, some loyal to the Sultan's family, and some warriors recruited by Giliki at great expense, each with superb fighting skills, and excellent scales, shields, and swords.

Now, it's Gilligi's turn. Arslan raised his eyebrows. But soon the scouts came to his tent, and said that the "red hand" had suddenly disappeared, leaving only a small number of light horsemen in array, and that if the Sultan did not hurry to check on them, he feared that the group of light horsemen would also be gone.

Unable to believe this message, Gilici hurried to the observation spot on the hillside, but the loyal and reliable scouts did not deceive him: on two wildernesses and meadows inside and outside Rome, the last group of light horsemen drove away and quickly turned to the northern pass. Quickly gone, there is the way to Bithynia and Brasilon! The Sultan wondered, and now he looked again at the forest of Dergari, and there was a faint red hand flag. "Is it to lure me into pursuit, to ambush me?"

"Hold your ground for now." As soon as the Sultan finished speaking, the scouts and slaves around him shouted again—from the other side of the Ores Gorge. A large group of men and horses came in a mighty way, and the battle flag of St. George was erected at the head. It was Tancred's men, "And so it was!" Lead me down the mountain. Then he attacked at the North Pass and routed our army across the plains? "The Sultan Dawu," our army did not move, waited until the enemy came to the bottom of the hillside, gathered all the elite cavalry, and marched in one drum. Now the Sultan has also become "barbaric", he originally fought with other Turkic princes and Greek emperors for a long time, and came into contact with a team with strict discipline and military law, but he was repeatedly defeated under the barbarian cavalry assault in the West, so this time he must also be brave, no matter what tactics, he can no longer be coaxed, and the cavalry is doing it alone.

On the other hand, in fact, the biggest puzzle is Tancrad, he and Sultan have the same problem, "Where did Gawain go?" ”

Then the light cavalry of Calabria came to him and told him that Gawain had not found it, but that there were countless Turkic soldiers and horses in front of him.

Looking at the left side of the canyon, which zigzags to the Dogganri Pass to the north, Tanfred thought to himself, could it be that Gawain ran away from this road? But the goal of his journey obviously does not correspond to the destination of the pilgrimage?

"Everyone, stand here for the time being, and wait for the arrival of the follow-up people."

But Bohemond, who followed him from outside the city, quickly replied, "The Sultan's wife and children were released by us, and they are still being treated favorably in the city of Nicaea, and even the emperor is willing to release her to Giliki. ”

At this moment, Godfrey and Baldwin, who were separated by the second formation of Jiuguli, also suddenly accelerated their march, and the entire army rolled along the Ores Gorge.

Tanfred, too, could only continue in the direction of Dolly Laim, until he came to the place where Gawain had set up his formation, where the wooden fence and the trenches of the concealed anti-cavalry had not yet been abandoned, and on the opposite hillside, under the harsh sun, the Roma banners were lined up, and countless vultures and birds were hovering overhead, ready to sweep the slaughterhouse that was about to come.

Tancred, under the banner of St. George, had a premonition of uneasiness in his heart, but he still ordered the army to be arranged behind the wooden fence, and then let a cavalryman who knew the language act as an envoy, and came to the Sultan's banner with a small flag, and shouted in Turkic voice, "Bohemond, Duke of Apulia." Morality. Tver, greetings to the Turkic prince Surelman of Roma, in the previous city of Nicaea, your lord's wife and children fell into my hands, but they were treated kindly, so this time I hope to negotiate peacefully, and now I have your wife's hair as evidence" As he spoke, the cavalryman lifted a bundle of Shahnamy's hair.

"Click!" Gilligi, under the banner of the eagle, broke the iron bundle of the horsewhip, "Bastard, treacherous Norman bandit, what kind of humiliation my wife has suffered, look at it, bunch after bunch, her hair should have been finished by this group of vulgar mongrels!" ”

At this moment, all the slaves shouted angrily and drew their scimitars from their sheaths.

Then the arrows fell from the sky, shooting the Norman cavalry who came to negotiate into a hedgehog, "All the athletes, rush down with my blade, kill all the men, and rob all the **** their women!" Enraged, Giliki took the lead, drew his sword and rushed forward, and then the slaves followed, and soon the dust of war raised by the horses' hooves on the entire hillside covered the sky, and countless Turkic cavalry thundered and shouted, galloping and pounced.

The leading Calabrian light array, scattered by the flying arrows, rushed backwards.

"Hold behind the wooden fence, wait for reinforcements, and beat the enemy back!" Tancred was also shocked by this torrent-like momentum, and began to fight as he spoke, and hurriedly ordered loudly. (To be continued.) )