The shout of the Grand Duke of Barry's Governor suddenly rang out violently, "Crossbowman, shoot quickly!" With these words, the more than 100 Benevento crossbowmen who had gathered suddenly pierced their own array, raised the crossbow machines that had already been reloaded, and coaxed at the foot of the Borage Mountain, and were attracted by the brocade brotherhood that appeared on the side of the cliff, and the Za'tar army, who had re-switched the point of the spear, shot a wave of crossbow arrows.

Flying out of the ballista chute, black "swarms" of death, with a sound, poured from the top of Borage Mountain like boiling water into the Za'tar army, and many of them lost their lives in an instant, clutching their chests or necks and falling weakly.

Then the thunder and lightning rolled, and the "New Baptized Cavalry Company", originally arranged on the anticline behind the mountain, with a total of 500 cavalry, and more than 200 Lombard cavalrymen holding Cantos riding spears, roared across the ridgeline from the passage where the two Italian veteran companies were separated, and rushed down: Muzafiadin adin took the flag and rushed to the front, followed closely by three hundred Cuman cavalry with scimitars and pikes. And Gawain himself pulled out the riding spear stuck in the ground, and rushed down with this unstoppable torrent.

Gawain's spear point, on the back of Sabina, who was running rapidly, with his own breathing and rhythm, with a kind of instinctive Norman knight gene, slightly adjusted in a blink of an eye, and stabbed the forehead of a Za'tar military judge wearing a white cloak in front of him, the opponent's helmet exploded, fell off his horse and died, and then Gawain staggered with him, and the Lombard cavalry that burst up one by one behind him, and smashed the follow-up formation of Zataslav's enemies into pieces.

Then the Cuman cavalry cut off from both flanks, and then Bramson led the Italian veterans and the Brotherhood to charge down the hillside as well. Finally, the crossbowmen and servants also raised their weapons and joined the general attack.

The morale of the Za'tar army, which had previously failed four times, was already exhausted. Then it was attacked by Gawain's decisive reserves, and soon the earliest rout at the front. Then the deep queue behind also turned their heads and left their posts, and the scene under the mossy mountain was full of floods and countercurrents, and the spears and axes and swords of the cavalry company rotated with the horse's hooves at high speed, and then smashed on the heads of the Slavic deserters, and people kept falling in the dust, **, tell for mercy.

"Where did the enemy get so many cavalry, they were all hidden on the back side of the mountain in advance. I know! Burning's voice changed in a fit of rage, and he stood up in the saddle, while Radomir, who was beside him, begged His Highness to remain calm, "It is not yet time to sum up the battle, Your Highness! ”

The 200 Za'tar royal guards who remained on the edge of the Fu hurriedly contracted their formation, guarded this commanding height, and guarded His Royal Highness Berding impermeably from the streets of Borage Mountain. The "Fury" company of Greek soldiers also took the opportunity to take the initiative to kill from the fortifications, and along the streets, joined the battle sequence of the brother company. The Greeks, Lucanians, and Lombards swung their swords and slashed, many with tired hands shaking, but they did not hear the beat of the drums. They won't stop.

On the left flank, the company of the Grand Duke's dead men was also under the command of Giovanni. Forming a spear formation rushed down, and three hundred Za'a royal guards rushed in. They looked at each other, looked at the ruins around them, and heard the sound of their master's horn in Gaofu behind, so they could only turn around collectively and gallop in the direction where their master was.

"Bring me my bow and arrows!" Berdeen under the banner shouted to get the archery from the guards, then drew his bow and shot an arrow at Gawain, who was showing off his martial might at the bottom of the mountain, and Gawain dodged his horse, and then the Grand Duke waved his halberd and cut off the head of the warrior of the Prince's Guard, and then pointed to Berdin on the high fu and shouted, "One is the shame of His Majesty in the Battle of Durazo in the past, and the other is to open the way for the pilgrim procession, Zatar rats, hand over 20,000 silver coins to atone for your sins!" ”

"Babbling brute." Burdin gritted his teeth, put on an arrow again, and drew the bowstring, and the princely guards at the foot of the hill also took out their hunting bows and shot at Gawain, and Sabina quickly carried the Grand Duke and retreated like a whirlwind, leaving only the frightened Berdin, still trembling and fetching the arrow, but was stopped by the vizier Radomir - the enemy company had begun to gather the attack sequence to the beat of the drums, and now the corpses of Za'tar were densely covered with the meadows of the valley between the opposite hill and the valley between this side.

However, Berdeen did not completely fail, and Gawain was unable to continue to pursue the victory, and at dusk the two sides retreated to their original positions, and Berdin's face was like being struck hard by the tentacles of the big squid, and he was disgraced: first, in the letter intelligence war, he was tricked by Gawain, which led to the uncertainty of the five elements in his heart; Then they were crushed by the opponent's strong cavalry. "All the soldiers returned to their ranks, and held our ridges and slopes, the archers pointed outward, and the enemy attacked, and they were shot regardless of the foot." Burding was furious and gave the order.

In this battle, the vanguard of the Red Hand Company killed hundreds of enemies and captured fifty horses of the Pechenegs, with brilliant results.

Soon after, seven Sava bandits, seven Pechenegs, and seven Rasnian soldiers, as wounded and captured, were brought before Gawain, who was taking off Sabina's gilded saddle and resting on it, "to execute all those who were wantonly attacking the pilgrims!" As he spoke, Giovanni clenched his spear and shouted.

Lambson over there demanded that Berdeen pay the ransom for the captured men.

Gawain shook his hand, "Bertin sees this group of people as the lowest dust, wiping off even the sticky boots, how can he pay a ransom like Bohemond did?" Then the Grand Duke coughed lightly and pressed the tip of Giovanni's angry spear down, "No need to kill it, Androdart!" ”

"It's still to come, it's not coming." The military servant Muzafiadin said with his head bowed.

The Grand Duke said that he was ashamed that I had forgotten, and then he called for an Amalfi bookkeeper who accompanied the army, for he could write Latin and Greek, "to draw up three letters, one to be sent to His Crown, which should be in West Francia at this moment; One was sent by clipper to the city of San Marco and given to the Consul Felleer for perusal; The last one was sent to His Majesty Komnenos. Justify the murderous procession of the Sava barbarians, who had not yet been instigated by the unbelieving barbarians of the Sava River, and because he had failed His Majesty the Roman Emperor fourteen years earlier and had instigated pirates to plunder the Venetian consignment of the Venetian trading fleet, he begged all sides to sweep away the city of Za'tar and clear the way for the rest of the pilgrims. ”

After speaking, Gawain got up from the saddle, and then he stood on the high post, looking at the remnant sun like blood, and the torches on the south road of Borage Mountain were loud, and the voice of the people was loud, "Very good, Weisat. Merlot, with his successor company and baggage, all succeeded. Gawain smiled with satisfaction, "Handcuff these captives, do no harm, and send them to Italy to serve as evidence of Za'tar's guilt." ”

In the city of Clermont in West Francia, the agitation of the Crusades had just been silent for a moment, when the air was re-stirred up by the furious voices of the people, knights and monks, and the sound shattered the bricks and tiles on the eaves, and everyone shouted the slogan "Go to the Holy Land, go to the Holy Land", and Pope Urban sat under the high throne, a little tired but contented, turning the ring, watching the countless spontaneous volunteer pilgrims below, dyeing crosses on their robes.

At his feet, the brother of the King of France, the Duke of Toulouse, the Duke of Normandy, all the most honorable men of West Francia, bowed their knees, kissed his toes, and shouted in unison, willing to smend their hearts and minds for the most glorious expedition that was to come.

In the harbor of Taranto, Bohemond standing on the deck, pointing to the thousands of pilgrims who were flocking to the seashore with their hands and crosses held high, hurriedly shouted to the lookout on the mast, "Quickly anchor, it's all a trick by Gawain the damned bastard, who has brought this group of people to our territory, and we can't take them on the road!" ”

Under the raised sails, the Norman soldiers filled the deck, some praying, some arranging their luggage and weapons, and Tancred sat silently on the side of the ship, his eyes wet with the splashing waves, and he looked in the direction of his uncle's destination, the city of Durazo, but as far as the eye could see, it was full of dark waves and gray sky, and nothing else could be seen.

Brenus, who was in the city of Durazo, stood by the window of the tower, looking at the Norman ships coming from the sea, holding the letters exchanged between His Majesty and the Holy See with a slight trembling hand in his hand, as well as the threatening ultimatum sent by Bohemond in advance, his voice was a little difficult, and he said to Tetisius and Theognes standing behind him, "Hey, if I get out of the way of the road to the interior of Durazo, allow Bohemond, the leader of the Normans. Morality. Tver led his 1,000 so-called knights and 5,000 infantry ashore, shouldn't it be considered to anger the palace? ”

Neither of them replied, and Diognis clenched his fists fiercely, as if a sharp blade was stirring in his heart, and felt a dull suffocation.

In front of the military gate of Constantinople, the moat leading to Sarabria, on which were divided by eight equally separated stone bridges, Alexios. The cavalry of the Komnenos were the first to come out, followed by Mikhail's Janissaries with archers, and the Tekopo mercenaries, the strong army was as armored as the stars in the night sky, and the banner was like the forest on the peak of Olympia, and the vanguard had reached Sarabria, and the emperor was in Yagfi. Under the escort of the Eustace Shield Guard, the arrow path from the Brachna Palace, this army of nearly 10,000 people, was about to rush to Adrianople. Under the tall military gate, among the long-handled battle axes, the emperor rode on a black horse in holy armor, a splendid cloak, and a huge golden scabbard hung from his belt, on which were two male and female sword handles, both of which could be pulled out of the sheath to fight, one called "Holy Sea" and the other called "Athos".

At the head of the city, Anna was waving her little hand at him, Alexios laughed, and the will in his heart became stronger, "All in all, everything is for his daughter and John, and everything is for the sake of Imperial Antai." Outside the military gate that had walked out of the walls of Theodosius, Alexios was still looking back and saying goodbye to his daughter.

Then, a herald cavalryman came from the opposite direction with a banner of fish and dragons, and after saluting on horseback, he handed the letter into the hands of the emperor. (To be continued.) )