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The situation was now in full swing, and even Flanders Robert could not control it: Gawain's generals only begged him to persuade Raymond to surrender, but they did not give the other side too much time to think about it, and the general attack and bloodbath of the Eagle Tower could start at any time. In particular, the Callegos Party stationed in it had long been included in the list of "bandit parties," and Gao Wenfang's army, especially the Nikitas Party, wanted to kill them as quickly as possible.

"Please think about it as soon as possible, Raymond! I don't want my fellow princes and dukes who held the flag together to fight each other to this point. Robert, who was standing beside the smoke of the cannon, waved his hand and shouted sincerely, and then begged the herald in the siege camp to report the situation to Gawain, the great protector of the city of Iconium, as soon as possible.

However, before the herald could leave the camp, it was withheld by the generals Gregor and Biller, "We do not want the exploit of the Eagle Tower of the Grand Count of Laudisia to be weakened into a negotiation to lay down arms and surrender." ”

Helplessly, Robert felt that Raymond was unlucky, and that the other party had become the most tempting prey in the eyes of Gawain, so the earl sighed, stood in front of the beautiful valley slopes, and looked at the lonely eagle tower in the remnant sun, which was destroyed by the dense fire of all kinds of firearms, and it was gilded with the color of flames, like a terrible furnace, "We, all of us, have come with the idea of atonement, but on the way we have borne greater and heavier sins because of our greed, Will they all die alone in a self-made furnace? ”

That night, Count Robert rode away from Ladisia.

After returning to Flanders, the Low Country in the north of Europe, he was soon caught up in the whirlpool of competition between the King of England and the King of France for this rich land...... The brave generals of a generation of Eastern Crusades finally ended in such a tragic way.

At the same time as Robert left, the Tranzac miners had already dug an underground tunnel more than 110 feet long into the foundation of the Eagle Tower, leading to the cellar of the Eagle Tower. Then the wheels of the torches shimmered: the cart containing dozens of Chilician pigs, which had grown up eating acorns from the woodland, had long flesh and hair, and were torn desperately in the cage, and looked particularly fierce.

At this time, the Crescentists among the miners were clamoring with dissatisfaction, "Immediately wrap them in hay, pour some light oil, and drive them into the pit and burn them!" The eagle tower will soon collapse in half. The leading officer ignored it, pointing to the entrance of the excavated pit and shouting orders.

But the change soon followed, and several of the soldiers who remained among them saw that there were guards in the cellar of the Eagle Tower, and they also lifted the floor and dug holes, but they did not seem to want to fight, and took the lead in shaking their torches a few times, and whispered that they were the defending officer who had abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and he was a Plonian knight in the region of Lusticia, and now he had mobilized seven of his companions, and swore allegiance to Caesarian. Ducasse's barracks, willing to besiege the army, infiltrated the tower, waiting for an opportunity to seize the gate and open it.

The gate of the Eagle Tower is built-in, with protruding gate towers on the left and right, and there is a curved "Z" shaped corridor between the front and the outer wall, and there is no shelter and protection, it is very difficult to directly attack, and even the Khitan Snow Dazhan blasting car is useless. Now the measures of the officer of the internal garrison seemed to be the best plan, and the news first reached the general Leotius, the "chief superintendent of the siege", who approved of it, and went to tell Decius and Gregor, and on the other hand called Arcro Borites and Bercus, "You will choose thirty border soldiers of Pisidia, and ten of Nikitas, and attack directly through the tunnel, and take the bottom floor and gate of the eagle tower with the inside and outside." I will organize the assault soldiers to enter from the gate and cooperate with you. ”

Without further ado, the two former Plonian knights who had been ordained chose a pit raider, and all the soldiers stood at the mouth of the swarthy pit with light leather or linen armor, raised their pine lights, put on their sharp swords, and looked at the snorting pigs in the cart next to them, and these lucky fellows were still gnawing everywhere, not knowing that they had escaped the death of the gods, and did not need to turn into scorched roast pigs.

At this moment, Raymond was gathering most of the officers for an emergency meeting on the top floor of the Tower.

The garrison officers were divided into three main groups: the "outsiders" who were the knights and sergeants of the South France brought by Raymond from Toulouse and Provence, the "natives" who were the Plonian squires and landowners of the original Laudisia, and finally the "mountain bandits", the core of which were Callegos and some Turkopos that Raymond had brought from the emperor's ranks.

The first two groups of people strongly advocated surrendering from the tower, "Gawain will not harm us, and will find a ship for us to return to the sea", "We have always obeyed the military service of the Earl, but now we cannot all be buried in the tower because of your own glory".

But the mountain bandit party is stubborn to the end, of course they know that Gawain will not forgive them at all, so they germinate the fierce idea of "everyone is buried together".

In the prayer room on the ground floor of the main tower, reliefs of the Crucifixion hang over the stone walls, and the various officers below them quarrel like the disciples at the Last Supper.

Raymond sat on the stone platform below with his sword, and he never gave the order to cut it, and his heart was also fighting fiercely, and it was fair that he wanted to submit, even if he ran back to Toulouse in disgrace, even if he lost half of his power before the expedition. But now most of the guards trapped in the tower are Callegos and Tekopo, and it is not known whether his surrender order will provoke a mutiny.

"I hope Robert can bring Gao Wenfang's relatively generous conditions tomorrow, so there is still negotiation." Raymond thought silently in his mind.

At this moment, dozens of murderous-looking Callegos bandits stepped forward with sharp axes and sabers, shouted and surrounded Raymond and Pence, shouting, "It's time to decide!" ”

Raymond was thoughtful, and he rose to his feet, holding the hilt of his sword, slamming the bottom of his scabbard on the floor, puffing out his beard and cheeks, and shouting loudly and intermittently, "Hold on, hold on, ...... to the end."

"Ahhh After hearing the words of the Grand Earl, all the Kallegos bandits raised their weapons and screamed, and then they all poured out as soon as they turned around.