"Hmph, I'm afraid of something. That is, it is not good for the soldiers who are worried about Christ, and the merchants who kill Christ. ”

"The merchants of the city brought by the consul of Pisa are only thirty people." Gawain put his hand down, stood on the edge of the scripture reading platform, and made a gesture of calculation, "Moniqueny's mercenaries, I have sent secret agents to detect in detail, about a hundred people, from various regions, and the rest are the local Saracens and Turks hired by him, all of them are rabble. When the time comes, we can use the sword of Christ's soldiers to kill the non-Christians in Pisa. At the same time, you can use the spear of non-Christians to kill the Christians inside. ”

This plan was really bold, but it was impeccable, Gawain then pressed his hand on the reading platform, full of righteous and awe-inspiring expressions, "You are all people who have signed an affidavit, and everyone understands this kind of thing, it is not that we are unrighteous, but that the Pisan people are too greedy, and if there is any mistake at that time, it will be the will of the Lord and punish them." His eyes then looked left and right, and when he saw that Raymond and Robert were still hesitant, he asked in a loud voice, "If the Pisan people hoard Juqi, they are ignoring the decision of the previous Council of Cardinals, and it is also a disservice to the cause of the believers." If the Holy See and His Excellency Ademar are powerless to punish it, and we, as sword-wielding classes, have dealt with it from generation to generation, is this not one of the feats that glorify our Lord? Moniqueni had dared to threaten me and His Excellency the Consul General that if we were strong, we would burn the grain, and that we would not have any mercy on behalf of the Lord, and that we would not forgive him and the city of Pisa! ”

"No, no forgiveness!" Raymond was also furious, slammed his fist on the reading platform, and said, "Help, help, I will do my best to negotiate with the Hot Duck people, you, you and the Venetians, negotiate." ”

"I'll work with Lord Raymond, and I'll have to give those mercenary Beelzebub a taste of fire." Godfrey agreed.

Seeing that everyone was in good spirits, Bohemond shook his fist in agreement, and laughed without hesitation, "Let's exchange gold and silver for food, and when the exchange is exhausted, I will see how the Monikini consul told his Moorish slaves to burn the gold and silver?" When the time comes, you don't need to throw a rat again! ”

After discussing these follow-up matters, everyone began to worry about the current situation of the war, after all, everything was premised on the defeat of Kobha's strong army.

"Build a city, hold it, and then cut off the enemy's food routes, and defeat it in one go." Gawain also spoke directly about his thoughts, and he gestured with his finger on the scripture reading platform, "Kobuha is trying to surround us and cut off the communication routes inside and outside us, but we don't have to sit in the empty city like that stupid Yaji. The battle line between Kobha and us is nothing more than three - the West Fort as one, which faces the main camp of the pilgrims during the siege, and the road that leads to the port of Saint-Simon; The Porta de St. Paul is the second to the Iron Bridge Fortress, where the waterway of the rivers Orontes and Falfa is guarded, and the old camp of I, Tetitisius, and the Lord of Apulia is on the other side; The Stone Fort of the Holy Spring, which had just been conquered, was the third, and it happened to be across the crumbling valley from the 'Iron Gate' that Kobuha had just occupied, and once the enemy broke through here, he could rush directly into the streets of the city with his bow and slaughter us. ”

Then Gawain put the three enamel jars, as he said the three "fulcrums", in front of the lords, "Therefore, the way to win is to renovate and strengthen the old camps among the three roads, so that they can be turned into fortresses and fulcrums to support our small army, and then make a large number of technical equipment to lay them out, so as to continuously repel the enemy's attacks and consume Kobuha's sharp energy." I need three respected commanders who will volunteer to sit at the three fulcrums to withstand the onslaught of the enemy. Let me start by saying that I sat in the old camp and planned the Iron Bridge Fortress. ”

"Then, then I, side by side with you, fight." Raymond volunteered.

Godfrey nodded, "I'm in West Castle." ”

"I and Tancred, sitting at Fort of the Holy Springs to the Acropolis, are doing our best to block the frontal onslaught of Kobha." Bohemond then said.

"Very well, Lord Robert, you and the hermit Peter, the priest of the priesthood of Upper Admar, the Earl of Adana Baldwin, as well as the royal brother Hugh and the other lords, are all gathered in the city, acting as a reserve for the support of all parties and the city walls." Gawain's eyes were fixed on Robert, and the other party also bowed his head resolutely, and then Gawain explained, "Because of the limited food, we can't have too many first-line teams in each fulcrum, with a limit of three thousand people, and three hundred war horses; All the other reservists were stationed in the city, equipped with a total of 500 horses, and after receiving a real emergency beacon alarm, they came to the rescue with full food and ammunition. ”

Godfrey calculated, "That's a total of 1,400 horses, which should be quite a bit more than that." ”

"That's right, my cavalry company now has no less than a thousand horses, and I don't plan to keep them privately, and everyone will raise funds to collect war horses from the inhabitants of Antioch City, even pack horses, as long as they can get the soldiers to the battlefield quickly. Thus we will have about fifteen hundred horses left, equipped with the horses I have previously mentioned, which are the possession of the most elite mobile army in which we have fought, and I will leave them to the command of the bravest and most daring men, whose duty is to strike constantly on all fronts, to raid and cut off the grain routes of the Turks. ”

When everyone heard this suggestion, they were all happy, yes:

We pilgrims need food, so do the soldiers of Kobuha, we will collapse after three days of hunger, and the Turks will do the same, and the towns around Antioch have been almost swept away by the previous fighting, and the people have fled either to Aleppo and Cilicia, or to the mountains. Therefore, Kobha's food had to be sent all the way from Mosul and across the Euphrates, and the consumption and pressure were also very great.

Gawain's plan, we see that it is feasible.

"Centralized use is not conducive to capturing fighters; Thus divided into three teams, commanded by Werner, Hartmann, and Burke, I do not boast of being a man, all three of whom were masters of commanding cavalry. Godfrey did not hesitate to recommend his team, but in fact, he was also thinking about Gawain in his heart - if he played a horse, Gawain would definitely have to make a big head, and if the Normans were used as horsemen, with the bad nature of this group of people, if they did not return it, Gawain's loss would be great.

When these strategies were agreed, Bohemond asked one last question, "An area like the West Fort was originally a deserted place, and there were stones and timber for the construction of the ramparts, but what about manpower?" ”

"Mobilize (wrap) (coerce) all the pilgrims, together with the surviving inhabitants of the city, to perform military and labor in the construction of the city. There is no honorarium, but without labor, there is no food rationing. Gawain did not hesitate to say the solution. (To be continued.) )