At this time, Mikhail left only a few hundred cavalry to watch the Turkic army interspersed in, blocking the position between himself and Raymond, and then he did not hesitate to lead all the infantry, turned en masse, sandwiched the baggage convoy between the advance guard and the rearguard, and rolled in the direction of the city of Castamonu, and retreated together in the direction of the city of Castamonu, faster than the Duke of Guillaume who rushed there, and even the Duke of Guillaume and his knights were there to watch the backs and dust of the Roman auxiliary army that was wandering away, and was dumbfounded. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The sudden dispatch of cavalry by the enemy cut me off from the ranks of the Earl of Raymond, and I had warned the Earl not to venture deeper, but the Earl did not listen, and first ambushed at the Calabi Slope, and then the enemy cut off his left flank. When victory was out of the question, I chose to surrender Castamonu. "This is Mikhail after the war. Eustace's statement.

It is said that when this statement reached the emperor, who was marching to Adrianople, Alexios was furious, but he regretted it: while he was in control of the situation at the front, he was deceived by the false news from the front - when he was in Sinopburg, Harold divided his army to deal with General Theodoro, and adopted a deceptive strategy to the outside world, saying that he was still in command of the whole army, but in fact it was Mikhail, and this false news was inexplicably sent to the military privy site in Constantinople, Even the emperor was "hidden" from the past.

"If I had known this, I would have left Mikhail in Sinop!" But there is no regret medicine in this world, and the emperor himself has bitterness in his heart, he understands that this is the palace guard chief who is angrily taking revenge on Raymond, and he is also taking revenge on himself......

It was too late to say anything, and Guillaume, who turned back, saw a hellish scene: the five phalanxes of Raymond, who had been outflanked on the flanks, could have held out unwavering for so long, but now they quickly collapsed one after another in the midst of shouting and blood mist and dust.

The Duke of Aquitaine looked up to the sky and sighed, and did not forget to recite a verse of poetry, "I am like a boat tossed in a stormy sea,

I don't know how to hide my gloomy thoughts. Then he said to his followers, "It is impossible to withdraw Castabonu, which is the territory of the Greek emperor, and we do not know what kind of suspicion and reckoning we will suffer in the event of defeat - change the course, we will go first to the castle of Germanico, to meet Marshal Conrad, and then decide to advance or retreat - it is better to turn back and go south from Cilicia, Stephen. As the guarantor of a major hospital, Gawain will always help to take care of us! So the Duke of Aquitaine rode wildly along the narrow winding mountain roads and thorny woods, and headed for the castle of Germanico in trepidation.

At the same time, when the baggage team passed through the mountain road, Mikhail suddenly stopped his horse and said to his well-educated soldiers, "The military strategy of the previous emperor mentioned many times that the retreat would be pursued by the enemy cavalry at any time, so we must constantly change the advance guard and the rear guard, and alternate cover in order to leave safely." The five hundred cavalry I had arranged for me to arrive about the time imminently, and you and I lurked on both sides of this pass, using arrows, to cover their passage. Once an enemy comes after you, listen to my orders and fire a volley of arrows from a high position, and you will be able to make a meritorious achievement. ”

Without hesitation, the soldiers agreed, and then they scattered on both sides of the pass, each with a black cloak, and took out the pieces of the barrel, equipped them with sharp, quenched arrows, and crouched behind the bushes and rocks, their eyes fixed on the wilderness on that side.

On the bloody battlefield of the valley there, the pilgrim soldiers continued to crumble, flee, and be killed, and the cavalry of Danishmund outflanked them from all directions, slashing and slashing with their scimitars, and the dust stirred up by the horses' hooves made it impossible for the pilgrims to open their eyes, and the cowardly were slain in the backs, blood and corpses splattered all over the grass, and the brave held their positions until they were cut to pieces. Banner after banner was cut down or captured by the Turks, and while many of the Frankish soldiers showed amazing bravery and will to fight, standing to their last breath in the face of a formidable enemy, their array was out of control, so it was all in vain.

Raymond, who was armed with a holy spear, and with his own sword in his other hand, fought on horseback, but to no avail - soon, the emperor's 500 Tekopo cavalry also fled, and the terrified Raymond also abandoned his command post, and with the spear-wielding Vallo, he led the Provençal guards to the left flank in a bloody battle to break through desperately.

After most of the dead and wounded had fallen, Raymond finally broke out, and Vallo rushed in front of him, "Rush to Kastamonu." Damn, I feel more and more that the Greek emperor intended to kill us! If there is no doubt, the venerable Hue Ding was also killed by him. Vallo, galloping on horseback, roared, he always blamed himself deeply for Hugh's innocent and inexplicable tragic death, and participated in two crusades back and forth, the purpose of which was to dig out the truth about Hugh's death and find out the real murderer.

Raymond, who was lying in the saddle, looked embarrassed and said nothing, and looked back at the mountains of Gangara, where the screams of the pilgrims in the camp shook the earth and spread throughout the wilderness—more than 100,000 people, most of them old men, women, and children, who had not had time to escape, must have been slaughtered by the Danishmunds.

But so what? He had failed, and had no more troops to defend himself against the wolf-like infidels, and the young commander of the Greek Imperial Auxiliary Legion would surely come to him for reckoning when he returned—Raymond thought to himself.

After about an hour of running, the pass leading to Kastamonu appeared in front of them, and Valo shouted angrily and continued to move forward, followed by Raymond on horseback about ten feet behind.

Under the remnant sun on both sides, the forests and trees rapidly receded and disappeared on both sides, and unknown birds continued to rise in fright.

Mikhail's five hundred cavalry guards passed through here with flags a minute ago, and soon Mikhail saw the "enemy pursuers", the tip of the so-called "holy spear" was shining, and suddenly his heart swelled with vicious hatred, "Yudohya, no matter what, no matter what, even if it is death, I will avenge your humiliation here!" Let it be what the Eustace family is, for forty years ago we were little more than lowly hunter farmers in Paphlagonia. ”

Immediately after, the chief of the palace guard resolutely issued the banner of "shoot at the same time on both wings", and many of the cloaked soldiers suddenly stood up, and without asking any questions (even if some soldiers saw the scarlet-clad Tekopo cavalry beside Raymond, they did not have time to stop) and fired the arrows in their hands in batches.

In that freeze moment, Raymond first saw a flag flickering on the top of the hill, and then, when he sensed danger, two deer sprang out of the grassy mountain road and crossed sideways in front of his galloping horse's head. (To be continued.) )