On the other side of the river, the garrison of the Red Hand Brigade was obviously aware of this small cavalry team, and the battle flag was raised, the trumpet sounded, and the attached cavalry hundred-man team began to assemble in front of the antler wooden fence, to come and intercept it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

So under the gates, the reinforcements from Afyon raised their hands again and shouted, and the leading officer, riding on horseback, with an iron helmet in the shape of a semicircular bowl on his head, and his chin covered by a chain mail girdle, begged to be put in his team as soon as possible at the gate.

"Give me your name!" On the gatetower, Diognis was surrounded by the archers waiting to lead the strings, and asked below.

"I'm a Plonian knight of the Panphelian Military District, my name is Bleptus!" The lead officer shouted as best he could.

Then the entire city of Anglasburg fell silent, and the guard looked at the attached cavalry of the Red Hand Brigade that was rolling over there, and then at the reinforcements that were anxiously waiting to enter, and finally at a slightly embarrassed Roman knight beside him, "Your Excellency Bleptus, what do you think of the one below called Bleptus?" ”

Jinbreptus could only shrug his shoulders and then slashed his hand, "They are the enemy forces who deceived us and tried to sneak into the city!" The shouts immediately resounded through the gatetower, and the guards shouted and rained down arrows and stones, and when he was in a false Breptoston, he was draped and his ribs swished, and he was hit by more than a dozen long arrows, and from a distance it looked like a bird full of feathers was flying, but fortunately the other horses were dressed in Pronian armor, and were not seriously injured, and put their irises behind their backs to cover them, and fled wildly, but the dozen or so lightly armed cavalry beside him were not so lucky—half of them were shot by the arrows on the gate tower. The rest were dismounted by the soldiers who had been ambushed by Theognes near the city gate with hooks and lassoes.

During the interrogation, the captured Gawain soldiers confessed that they were all cavalrymen of the Guardian Brigade, pretending to be reinforcements to deceive the city gates.

"Well, Andronicus. Branas's brigade must have been ambushed not far from the city......" the guard thought to himself.

Before Theognes could consider the interrogation, the next day on the hills northeast of the city, another group of cavalrymen with the banner of the Blois iris came in the foot, their armor shining brightly, and a large cloud of dust was raised, and they rushed to the north wall of the fort of Anglas, and the old man in the lead lifted his visor, revealing a majestic and resolute countenance, and called out to the guards in simple Greek, "I, Count of Blois and Germanico, and Stephen, the emperor's vassal, let me in, and I have received your letter." ”

Indeed, Diognis had sent a letter to Count Stephen asking for help, and now Stephen had indeed come with fifty knights.

On the other side of the river, the siege camp of the Red Hand Brigade was obviously aware of this small cavalry team again, the banner of battle was raised again, the trumpet sounded again, and the attached cavalry hundred-man team began to assemble in front of the antler wooden fence, and was about to come to intercept and kill again.

The guard stepped on the buttress with his leggings on the battlement, and looked at Count Stephen, who was leading the horse below, with a skeptical look on his face.

All kinds of thoughts surged in his heart: Count Stephen was a Latin alien after all, although he had been canonized by His Majesty, he had also been friends with Gawain before, and now he came so straightforwardly with the knights, it was really abnormal, could it be that he had been secretly rebelled by Levin and came to deceive him.

If, due to the negligence of a momentary cronies, he loses the Anglasburg entrusted to him by His Majesty, then he will be the greatest sinner of the Empire.

At this time, Count Stephen under the north wall tightened the reins, and his mood was extremely anxious and irritable, and he looked at the guard at the head of the city and roared, "Quick, what's wrong? Let us in! ”

"Your Excellency, what about the lancers that Prince John once gave you?"

"Stay in Germanico."

"Along the way, you haven't been intercepted by the high-tech tourism group?"

"No, quick! Is your mind rigid? The Count of Blois looked back at the enemy cavalry that was coming at him, and urged impatiently, while the horses of the knights beside him also shook their heads and neighed, holding their shields, swords, and maces, and playing in circles crampedly.

Diognis hesitated, turned and waved his hand at the group of soldiers by the gatehouse, and with a creak and shouts, the soldiers pulled the door of the north wall with all their might, and began to slowly fall down the moat.

Suddenly, Diognis saw that in the valley northwest of the castle, many flashes of weapons were lit up, and the golden mandarin banner was erected, and it was Branas and his cavalry that had rushed from the ambush to this place.

"There is fraud, take back the city gates!" The captor hurriedly shouted again, changing the original order.

Under the north wall, a swaggering Stephen and his knights pointed at the pheasant moat and cursed like a tidal wave.

"After the war began, all who approached Anglasburg were to be treated as enemies, unless they saw His Majesty's banner." With this order, the guards on the north wall stepped forward one by one, drew their bows and shot arrows below.

Stephen ran back with his knights in embarrassment, but within two guli of run, he was cut off by six hundred cavalry from Gawain's two brigades. In the dust, the cavalry attached to the sky, armed with pikes and single-edged sabers, turned their horses' hooves around the great circle like a hurricane, and out of the shouts of the nomads, surrounded Stephen's master and slave in the core, and from time to time there were firecrackers to shoot intimidatingly......

At the end of the hill, Stephen sat down with all the knights and sergeants wrapped in cloaks and dejected, and they all surrendered in despair, and the cavalry attached to the brigade formed a hollow circle to put Stephen under his watch.

Soon after, Temark General Branas arrived on horseback, dismounted and came forward to salute Count Stephen, and then handed over two letters.

The Count unfolded it, and one letter was written jointly by his wife, Adella, and the local bishop of Blois; The other letter was written jointly by Godfrey, the consul of Jerusalem, and Gawain, the patron of the Great Lord.

The former was full of voice, and Adele asked her husband, "Do you still want to go back to your hometown?" How can you commit yourself to the treacherous and fickle kingdom of Greece, and if you are obsessed with it, I will ask the Bishop of Blois to dismiss you, and to take up the banner of your family and go to Jerusalem. ”

In the latter, both Godfrey and Gawain promised, "If you give up the castle, Jerusalem will give you a glorious fief and title." ”

"I see, I am willing to sacrifice Germanico ......," finally the Count made the final decision bitterly, "but I want to see your great patron and get his own promise." In addition to my brother-in-law Robert. Curtis, at Fort Peveral, and I hope you can keep him safe. ”

At this time, Branass held the gold-hilted sword that represented the status of the general, "Of course, this is true, but the great guarantor is on his way, and my brigade will rush to Germanico to take over first...... In case the Emperor and Theodoro learn of the news, to the detriment of you and Your Excellency Robert......" (. )