"Password!" The Armenian officer who took the lead raised his iron spear and shouted.

"I have come on the orders of the Sultan to relay the latest change of the password for the immediate general assault on the enemy camp in Axero and the Meadows." The warrior couldn't see his face clearly, only his pale blue eyes peeking out, and he spoke in Turkic fluently.

"What, where's the herald? At previous meetings, the Sultan did not say anything at all about changing the password before the general offensive. Pak Ade, who was dressed in armor and sat under the banner with his saber in hand, was furious, and then he heard a sudden shout of slaughter from the other side of the wooden fence - the tall masked warrior suddenly drew his scimitar and slashed down the officers who were stationed there.

"It's the enemy's spies, Axero Fortress down!" Shouts rang out, and the Armenians didn't expect this person to be so bold and come directly on horseback with a red flag, could it be that he wanted to assassinate Lord Pakad?

Gawain raised the red banner upside down and stabbed the spearhead of the flag into the chest of an Armenian soldier, Sabina ran and rolled out with the man, and then the enemy rushed in all directions, Gawain swung his scimitar in his left hand and the sword of phosphorus fire in his right hand, swinging and slashing, blocking the spear tips that pierced everywhere. Then Sabina let out a long howl, and ran dozens of feet with her master, as if in a no-man's land, the men and horses jumped high, and climbed over the wooden fence and ditch facing the direction of Civet, "Shoot the arrows!" Pakade's bald head was bruised, his beard trembled, and a column of lightly armed Armenian archers immediately shot at Gawain's back.

Gao Wen, who has the genes of a Turkic slave soldier, smells the sound of arrows breaking through the air behind him. Then he stepped on the stirrups and pulled the reins. Rolled over and hid in the side of Sabina's saddle - arrows whizzed over his head. Sabina spun left and right, taking a curved "S" course, throwing the enemy's arrows behind her, and dusting away towards the canyon and the seashore.

"Bastard!" Pak Ard's neck twitched, and he scraped the tip of his blade against his bald head back and forth, and roared, "From now on, any herald who comes over, no matter what they are dressed into. Shoot me with a bow and arrow! ”

"Sabina, quicken your pace, and bring out the spirit you had in Sarabria." After galloping for about half an hour, Gawain could feel that the lovely mare's hooves were softening, and between the fluttering manes, his whole body was sweating, and soon turned into frost in the cold, so he gently put his hands around her neck and kept pleading. "Dear second mistress, dear second mistress, work harder"

Finally, the high hills on either side of the camp of Chivet. Appearing in front of Gawain's double face, there are also pilgrims running around and screaming, like a group of refugees who don't know where to go. "I am the Grand Duke of Armenia of the Roman Empire, and I am the Holy See Priest. Now take over the control of everyone here, and forbid anyone to leave the camp! Gawain lifted the reins again. The horses crossed the rudimentary wooden fence at the edge of the camp and ran into the crowd of wolves, shouting.

But no one paid attention to him, and Gawain saw that on the high slope, Androdat and Dorus were still trying in vain to persuade and block, but to no avail, so they drove directly to the seashore, and the first to come closer from the other side of the strait was a column of "Slavic ships" with red flags, because the ships were small and very agile, so they rushed in front of the rest of the big ships, and Andreev stood in the bow. Yergo, along with the rest of the sailors, raised their hands and cheered when they saw the figure of the Great Duke on the shore.

Countless pilgrims, especially the monks and the rich, struggled into the icy waters, screaming like wild beasts, demanding that the ships take them back to the strait at once.

Then Andreev, who was at a loss for what to do, saw Gawain, who was in the middle of the crowd and immediately held his sword, suddenly and silently raised his sword, moved it to the overwhelming column of pilgrims, and then slashed down - this was an order for them to attack, and there was absolutely no doubt about it. "Let these people come over, don't say that the whole fleet can't complete the transportation task, I'm afraid it will capsize in the robbery." Andreev instantly understood what the Grand Duke meant, so he, dressed in sailor's iron nail armor, immediately turned around, "Everyone, raise your bows and crossbows and shoot at those who rush over and try to hijack the military ships!" ”

The order of the Grand Duke and the helmsman, once given, could not be questioned or refuted, so the soldiers of the sailors' company on the Slavic ship got up one after another, raised their crossbows and bows and arrows, and "fired" With Andreev's order, rows of arrows and feathers came out of the ships, and the people in the sea with their luggage and backpacks were easily locked onto and aimed, and the arrows of the same believers mercilessly shot into their bodies and foreheads, rolling, and many of them with expressions of disbelief, and before they had time to wail, they fell into the water, The corpse and miscellaneous things instantly floated, mixed with the corpse that had drowned a few days ago because it was too late to escape, and the blood quickly spread in the sea.

"Whoever comes close, shoot and kill." The second row of arrows, with such shouts, cut down a large number of people again, and it was only then that the pilgrims who were crowded on the seashore reacted, shouting and turning and running towards the high ground away from the sea.

Then the sailors on board pulled out their hooks and pushed away the scattered corpses, and then Andreev and the armed men jumped off the deck, drew their swords and axes, and drove the people further inland with a fierce tread in the water.

Gawain rode up to him with an expressionless face, "Why are there no cavalry?" ”

"The vanguard ships were too small to transport horses. So I sent a company of Italian veterans first. ”

After speaking, Andreev, who was standing in the water, pointed to the entire fleet of ships that were pressed by the black pressure of the sea, "All the cavalry companies are there, and Godfrey and Baldwin are also behind. ”

"Good." Gawain turned and rode his black horse to the top of the slope, where the Brotherhood immediately gathered around him. Italian veterans and sailors, intimidated by the drawing of their swords, and pilgrims who gathered there like ducks and wept, all sat around with their heads in their hands, "I repeat, I am the Grand Duke of Armenia of the Roman Empire, the priesthood of the Holy See, and who doubts my standing!" ”

At this moment, a fat monk, with a little indignation, shouted that I was a XXXXX monk from Buniedi, as if to demand a clear explanation from Gawain, and walked out of the queue holding a rosary. Then Gawain waved his hand, and the two brothers immediately tied each other behind their backs, and then pressed their heads, and the fat monk howled like a pig and knelt on the ground, his face flushed, "Who doubts my standing!" Gawain roared, and the crowd fell silent, and then he looked at the fat monk coldly, and gave a ruling, "Cut off the index fingers of his left and right hands, and the fat man is not exactly a good man." ”

The monk's flowery screams spread throughout the camp and on the seashore, and all the pilgrims did not dare to silence them, and many climbed up to Gawain's horse's head, trembling.

"Now—take your tools, hoes, pestles, and machetes, and follow the first flagpole here, then the second, the third, and the fourth, until you reach the high ditch of Exero, and cut down the bushes and weeds, and raise the rocks, and ram the passages, and all the men contribute to the work, regardless of their status, and the women and children are in charge of cooking and drinking in the camp, and they themselves are self-managed, and if they are accused of sabotage or fleeing at will, the administrators are to be executed first, and the repeat offenders are to be executed in public!"

With a bang, all the pilgrims consciously parted: men, whether they were in the prime of life, gray-haired, or monk-squires, took up their tools, ran to the flag, and began to work silently in sweat and rain, planing and chopping, and carrying stones and earth for the weak; And the women and children scattered to the tents of the camp, set up the stoves, and began to pick up the firewood scattered on the ground, and the more than 20,000 people were so orderly that there was no noise.

The "Grand Duke" was next to Gawain's Anderodat, very ashamed, feeling that he had failed the Grand Duke's commission, and Dorus. Lambert had not yet recovered from this simple, brutal and resolute approach, and could only be stunned - this prefect of the priesthood and the faithful did not hesitate to order his soldiers to shoot the pilgrims to control the situation. He originally imagined that Gawain was a divine and tall figure, whose body and even character shone with noble brilliance, like St. George, but now it is obviously somewhat detached from reality.

Gawain turned around and looked at Androdart, then his tone softened a little, "Remember, this is also a type of negotiation. Today is going to be a long day, go and stick to your posts. ”

"If you want to atone for your sins, you can only rely on yourself." Throughout the camp in Chivet, the overseer of the Brotherhood shouted, and the pilgrims tirelessly busied, as the paved roads between the hills began to stretch rapidly. At this moment Gawain looked towards the sea, and the horses began to be pulled out of the "hushes" (a kind of boat that could carry horses) on the shore, and they were screaming and running everywhere, and the pilgrims carrying forage came consciously and bent down to feed the horses. Bozia walked around and commanded. Giovanni saw the priest standing on a high slope, wading from the sea to the land, and running up again, his forehead covered with beads of sweat, "It is difficult for the cavalry to follow this road and carry out a surprise attack. ”

Gawain shook his head that way, "So a new path was opened, and a new path was opened to assemble in Axero, and then launch an assault on the Romani Turks." ”

Giovanni was stunned, it seemed that he didn't know where "Axero" was, but now that the priesthood had decided, he ran down and began to run the affairs of the cavalry.

The red sun, from the top of Gao Wen's head and gaze, gradually spread over the high hill and spread out towards the ocean.

In the wilderness of the Nicaean Meadows, two slave soldiers fell on Gilikhi. Before Arslan, the sundial and hourglass in his hand had unmistakably pointed the moment to the second hour of the afternoon, and seeing that the bowstrings, scimitars, war horses and fire pot projectiles of thousands of military horses were completely ready, the "Lion Sword" held the horsewhip and suddenly spoke, standing under the tumbling crimson flag, facing the direction of the Sun Shadow, he drew the saber at his waist, and the friction between the blade and the sword box made a continuous sound, "The time has come, and Allah's will is coming." The whole army will attack and kill all the pagan dogs! (To be continued.) )