Chapter 7: The Flame of the Little Sunfish

"Roundabout side-attack!" The furious Saiwen shouted to the standard-bearer beside him, meaning that he would take a part of the cavalry to the other side of the road and cooperate with him to annihilate the current group of foot people's army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"No, Your Excellency, the road over there has been cut off by them." The banner pointed in the direction he said, and sure enough, there were already more than a hundred Seleucian militias over there, relying on the canals and low walls of the village, waving two flags, one in front and one behind, forming a double battle line, responding to each other with bows and arrows and spears, covering most of the men and horses to attack Severn head-on.

Saiwen was still hesitating, the civilian soldiers in front of him were already approaching, and the archers in the front had already stood up and began to draw their bows, and his cavalry continued to use arrows to refute fire, "Bastard Gawain, have you trained this group of mud legs well?" Saiwen waved his sword and scolded, because he clearly felt that although this group of soldiers was called the "People's Army", they could maintain a formation in archery, and they were all under the command of flags and whistles when they were fired, and the discipline was quite good, and the characteristics of the infantry's cluster of arrows were concentrated and orderly.

At the same time, Severn saw that while his cavalry was busy firing back, there was another group of Seleucian civilians with long and short weapons, covering against the woods and shrubs on the left side of the road, pouting their buttocks, constantly shouting and beating drums, and pressing towards his formation, as if they hoped to take the opportunity to launch a short-distance white-knuckle battle to defeat his cavalry.

"There's no chance to take advantage, let's go back." Severn slapped his mount's buttocks with the blade of his sword, and seeing that the opponent's formation was rigorous, he took all the cavalry and quickly ran back to the wall of Alalmanburg, and then passed through it and entered the city to wait for his life.

The other two Callegos brothers, one from the tower overlooking the narrow seashore leading to the city of Atalia to the west, and the mountains stretching over the land, constantly complained, "Is it true that His Majesty the Emperor has neglected the existence of our castle and family because of the gains and losses of the city of Antioch?" Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet. The other, holding a halberd with a battle flag, walked up and down the long wall, urging the soldiers behind the pheasant to "prepare the bowstrings and fire arrows, bring up the stones, set up and maintain the ballistas, and wait for the orders of their respective standard-bearers." ”

In the twilight, the Seleucian militia slowly swept away the entire city of houses and villages, began to block all the passages to the east of Alalmanburg, and tied the Calegos tenant farmers who had been captured by the cry to the sky, tied them with ropes, and escorted them to the Seleucian city in strings: most of them had to work as coolies in the city's armory, leather workshops, and paper mills for free for three years, before they could become naturalized citizens, sign a contract with Gawain and Anna, or obtain land for farming, or become freelancers.

"Ahh About half an hour later, several groups of cavalrymen carrying the battle flag of red hands galloped down from various hills, and came to a distance of three hundred feet outside the city, and then raised their spears with square flags, and blew the trumpet. Bozia took a few steps out of the cavalry queue behind him, holding the negotiation paper on horseback, looking up at the defending soldiers who were shouting insults at the head of the tower, and then unfolded the paperwork in his hand and recited aloud, "My reason why Seleucia the Great attacked your castle."

"Liar, bastard!" All the private soldiers of the Callegos family were in a great rage, and they swung their slings, drew their bows and arrows, and shot them at Wright, preventing him from reading the text of the crusade. In a burst of laughter, Wright hurriedly threw down the scroll, put his shield behind him, and fled back to his camp with his tail between his tails.

The rest of the night was silent: Billel, the commander of the Seleucian people's army, entrenched himself on the hill that confronted the town, and the rest of the formations and camps stretched down in all directions like spiders' claws, occupying the ruins of many villages, and began to light torches in the middle of the night, as if to build ladders and equipment for the siege.

"Just waiting for them to attack the city tomorrow!" Looking at the torches in the opposing camp and the smoke and dust rising from the forging, and the boiling sound of sawing wood, smashing nails, and the sound of throwing ropes, in the shooting hole of the tower, Saiwen. Callegos wiped the sweat from his neck and said in a rough and bold voice, "How Gawain was defeated back then, now I call him even more defeated." ”

And in the tower at the heart of the city, Nika, who could not be seen with his eyes, still sat stiffly, tapping his fingers on the wooden handrail slowly, rhythmically, and without the slightest wave, and again, as if accurately calculating the passage of time.

By the time Nika had struck him twenty-one thousand times, the faint morning light had spread under his boots, and the dust engulfed in the night danced briskly, and then scurried in all directions with the earth-shattering cheers of the city.

For five gulli east of Alalmanburg, the army of Gimegis, with the banner of silver-spikes, led by seven hundred heavily armed Genat cavalry, came in a mighty way, covering all the valleys and fields, and they quickly spread their lines along the flanks of the hill that Billel had previously occupied, and then in the sun and the roar of the soldiers, Gawain on a black mare appeared, beside him a Turkic servant with a bow and arrow, and behind him was Dim with a hexagonal hammer. Goliath, flanked by a Paulician archon with glittering golden hands and also riding a mare, followed by a small sunfish riding a sturdy blue mule, and behind her the servants with bright red umbrellas.

"What do you think, Agnes, that are now cowering in the castle before you are your old enemies, the Callegos, who have severely defeated your wisdom and pride, and who will always stand on the seashore for a day, and the whole sea breeze that blows in Cilicia will mock the name of Prani? But I must remind you that it is Christ's practice to submit to the shame that the enemy has brought upon you; And destroying the enemy to wash away the shame was what the Romans did. Gawain pulled the reins and asked loudly to the little sunfish over there.

And over there, Cabeamia also leaned closer to Agnes, and then the thoughtful and delicate female archon smelled the faint fragrance on the other party's body, which was very familiar, but she turned her eyes and did not make any fuss, but she heard the little sunfish being imposing, her gray hair was blown up by the wind, fluttering in front of her forehead and ears, and her tone was full of courage and fierceness, "They also thought that this time the Seleucian army would continue to use the old stone thrower or stone crossbow unchanged, So a ridiculous sandwich wall was built to reinforce it. I will soon smash all these weak barriers and rain them down with stone bullets that represent the glory of the Romans' vengeance. Callegos, these miscellaneous people, eat my 'Big Plani Cannon'! (To be continued.) )