Then, Branas really commanded the entire Guardian Brigade with a total of more than 4,000 people, "embraced" the newly surrendered Earl Stephen, bypassing Angrasburg and quickly heading north along the Harris River, while the fine Earl Merlot immediately took turns to send a fast horse to report to the city of Iconium, and skillfully commanded the Red Hand Brigade to continue the siege of Anglas. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Still in Nahan and angry Diognis, he faintly felt that he had once again fallen into Gawain's calculations, this seemingly brave but actually treacherous "eight-clawed spider", constantly fighting intelligence warfare and psychological warfare, he set up a chain-like fortress encirclement network for the emperor, apparently specializing in the study of the strategy to break it.

"It turns out that Gawain is not here to capture my fortress, but to use Anglas as his bait for the clouds, and calmly use his wrists to defeat the lords with different interests before the arrival of His Majesty's army! No, at this time, it is not possible to count on His Highness Brenus at all, and he must send a herald as soon as possible to ask His Majesty to march as soon as possible, otherwise the entire defense line will be in jeopardy. ”

However, Diognis continued to select elite teams to attack and break through in the future, but although he was well received, his subordinates were far from being the opponents of the Red Hand Brigade in terms of combat effectiveness and weapon elite, and in terms of numbers, they were even less than the entire border area under the jurisdiction of the commander, and only maintained the military strength of 1,500 soldiers of all colors.

Four days later, between the cities of Afyon and Iconium, on the fertile edge of the field called Ferromelon, the brigade of Gimageis, the cavalry regiment and the firethrowers under the command of Gawain himself, and the 1,200 frontier troops of Billel from Miliosepharon, encamped here.

About twelve giurgi to them, in the gardens adjacent to Lake Firomellon, were the barracks of the Imperial generals or counts of Brenus, Cosa, Simon, and Raymond, whose total strength was about fifteen thousand, but they were silent in the face of Gawain's army of less than 10,000 men, and did not dare to go to battle.

The two sides confronted each other for many days, and no one dared to work on the originally fertile plain farmland between the barracks, and all of them were abandoned: the soldiers lined up along the camp with dense wooden fences, thistles, and forked spears, and their teeth were intertwined, and small-scale guerrilla warfare and encounters took place from time to time.

Gawain laughed when he heard the news from the north, and he asked the two hundred Praetorian Guards and all the Nikitas to follow him, "This is under the supervision of Giovanni and Gregor, and we will march towards Anglasburg Yes, yes, just show my presence, as long as I and the Red Hand are present at the same time, there will always be a storm of uneasiness on this plateau." ”

When the flag cart drawn by four oxen and thirty forbidden soldiers rumbled along the camp road, the generals of Brenus and Raymond were a little nervous and led many Plonian knights to an outpost camp only two gulli from the camp of the Gemagis brigade.

Brenus's cheeks were a little red: it was a shame for him to let the Empire's old enemies come and go so swaggeringly, no matter what.

At this moment, before and after Raymond de Ma, the leaders of the Callegos party made a rude provocation, shouting and insulting each other at the Nikitas party beside Gawain in the distance.

"Like, how, Penipase Peniba forget it, too, too hard to pronounce me, I can command the knights of Toulouse, in, over there in the woodland stream, give, give Gawain ruthlessly, fiercely come and raid Penipasser uh, uh, you have to get your army, match, cooperate with me." Raymond bared his teeth and pointed to the opposite formation.

But Brenus only looked at him, and seemed to be disgruntled and contemptuous, so he turned his horse's head and galloped down the hill, leaving behind, "There are wars in all the castles of the north, and the information is extremely confusing. Gawain is flexible and treacherous with his soldiers, and he completely tricks us into the palm of his hand. Therefore, it is necessary to wait until His Majesty's army arrives before discussing the matter of marching into a decisive battle. ”

So Gawain crossed the edge of the Philo Mellon plain without any danger, and when he had turned several hills, Dimgoliath, who protected the flag cart, cried out, and Gawain covered the pergola with his hands: on the opposite hillside, suddenly there were many horsemen, and crimson dogtooth flags and white yak-tailed flags, and the neighing of horses echoed throughout the valley, and then the whips snapped, and they were rushing in their direction, and the spring wildflowers under the horses' hooves were raised and blown away in the sun, which was very beautiful.

Muzafiadin took the reins and rode Sabina in front of his master, shouting a few words of Turkic to the group of cavalrymen.

Under the white felt hat that shook opposite, the Turkic language that answered was also one after another.

Gawain crossed his left hand on his belt and raised his right hand high, and shouted in Turkic, "Welcome, Oghuz Chiefs and Ghazi! ”

"In the name of the Islamic god of heaven in the Turkic dictionary of the god of martial arts, Shamkh Saud, whose status is about the same as that of St. George and St. Mikhail in Christianity, and in the painting, it is also the image of riding a horse and holding a sword to kill a poisonous dragon, we would like to become the wings and sword of kin." The group of horsemen raised their bows and arrows in unison on the galloping horses, and shouted "! Soon joined Gawain's marching sequence.

It turned out that the strategy of the "Twenty-Four Golden Families of Oghuz" previously established by Gawain officially came into play: in addition to the Oghuz cavalry regiment in the regular army sequence, after learning of the outbreak of the war between the great patron and the Roman emperor, the tribes and gazis of the former Sultanate of Rum in Ikonium, Ikan, Fort Lesser Antioch and other places, as well as many herdsmen who were good at horsemanship, spontaneously organized themselves, and were encouraged by the "distribution of booty", and brought their own bows and arrows, horses and grain, and gathered nearly 2,000 cavalry. Served as Gawain's irregular cavalry help.

There are three reasons for this:

First, Gawain secured their lineage and estate, and began to adopt a tolerant attitude towards their faith

Second, one-third of the booty was in possession, which was higher than that of the holy soldiers

Third, the admiration for the great guarantor who has the "Kin Warrior" is also one of the spirits of the Gazi warriors.

So on the second day, Theognes stood in the tower of Anglasburg, looking at the "appearance of the demon of Tarsus" with a complicated expression, Gawain shook his stirrup, clamped the horse's belly, and slowly looked at himself with a sideways face, passing by the meandering river under the city wall, surrounded by "demonic imps and minions", there were forbidden soldiers with shiny armor and holding halberds and battle axes, there were also Nikitas with colorful cloaks and strange knives and barbs, and many Oghusmen with white felt hats and wrapped heads, "Gawain, are you going to Peveral?" Is this to cut off the passage between the whole of Trabzon and Paphragonia? What did he want to do, to fight Theodoro first, or to make a detour from here and block the path of His Majesty's advance? "To be continued.