"According to the theory, it is to be returned to His Majesty the Emperor, but Antioch has besieged the city for so long, I estimate that the city has run out of supplies, and the pilgrims have also consumed a lot of supplies and money, so it has to be a bit expedient." When the round of artillery was over, Gawain whispered to Bohemond and Baldwin as a creaking noose rattled.

It seemed that there was indeed a breakthrough in the matter, and Bohemond continued to carefully probe the tone, "How about we submit a document to the Emperor that we are willing to return the city of Antioch to Constantinople, but at the same time request that the pilgrims be leased for a period of three to five years, and that the food and money obtained be used to supply the pilgrims with arms and support for their journey to Jerusalem?" ”

"It doesn't matter if this kind of thing is signed, but the key is in what name, to Constantinople."

"I am willing to participate in the Privy Council of the Imperial Expedition, and then I may as well play it to His Majesty the Emperor in this name."

"Hulala", another burst of stone projectiles, stormy from the stone shooter instantly, smashed countless gravel in front of the dog's door, the siege team raised their shields one after another, flying stones smashed on it, making a hail sound.

Then continuing to be silent, Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, pressed his hand to the side of the wooden fence, frowned and looked at the dog gate that was being destroyed and collapsed, and when the soldiers below put the shield down again, they raised the sword in their hand, and let out a loud and loud sound of fighting, which resounded in the sky. "It's okay like this, everyone has equal interests, and it's good to have an explanation on the emperor's side." Gawain said it with some reluctance.

Then, Bohemond excitedly took Baldwin's hand, and then pressed it all together on the Grand Duke's shoulder, "Rest assured, I am not here to seize power when I join the Privy Council, and you and Tetisius will agree on major affairs." I am also a pilgrim for everything, everything for pilgrims, a pilgrim for everything. As long as we take the Holy City, we can return Antioch to the Emperor, and return the Holy City to the Holy See and all the pilgrims, we can be in the periphery of both cities. Build some fortresses and garrison two great cities. ”

"That's good" Gawain also held Bohemond with his backhand, his pale blue eyes staring at each other, and laughing.

Then, an earth-shattering loud bang set off a tumbling wave of dust and slammed into the fortification, and the hair of all three of them was turned over for it: the tower in front of the Antioch dog finally couldn't stand it. The besieging infantry retreated a few steps back, raised their shields again, bricks and wooden bars rolled around the ruins, and gradually the smoke and dust dispersed in front of everyone's eyes, and through the collapsed gaps, the rows of neighborhoods, houses, churches and temples in Antioch City revealed the tip of the iceberg. In this way, there is a greater temptation to people.

"Rush!" Seeing this, the first military servant to rush out with a pickaxe and a shovel rushed out. The men in front of them carried all kinds of planks against the stones thrown by the Turkic soldiers from the ruins at the top of the wall, and then built them on the stone piles, and the soldiers who followed them, shaking their swords and battle axes, stepping on the built planks as bridges, and swarming up to slash and slaughter—the resistance of the Turks was waning more and more. Because they had lost too much blood in the previous field sortie, and it was obvious that Yaggie. Siyan withdrew the stronger soldiers to the acropolis—some of the soldiers who had no armor but only robes were easily cut down. Or overturned, the pilgrim soldiers in their hats and helmets raised their maces and tomahawks and rained down on their bodies, wailing everywhere.

Then, the shouts and cheers grew louder and louder, and the number of siege soldiers crowded at the gap also swelled rapidly, and they stepped on the corpses of the heavy garrison soldiers, not accepting and unable to accept the surrender of any hostile soldiers, and rushed to the shadow of the gap in the wall, which was also the "watershed" between the city and the outside of the city, from which several decisive Turkic soldiers rushed out, wielding three-edged machetes in their hands, but one of the Norman foot knights at the front, Krotto, fiercely holding his sword, did not wait for the opponent's machete to cut down, Lisso reached out and stabbed the blade of his sword into the abdomen of the first one, and the machete fell, clutching his abdomen with a terrible wail, and then Croto shoved it away, slashing another pagan soldier over.

Gawain saw that the pagan soldier had not died on the spot, and was still holding the battle flag, leaning against the rammed earth fault of the city wall, stretching out his hand, not knowing whether he was demonstrating to Croto or begging for mercy, because the voices were noisy, and there were figures jumping everywhere in the black smoke, but Croto's answer was directly understood: he held the hilt of the sword with his backhand, knelt on the ground in one step, and plunged the sword into the chest of the standard-bearer, and then stirred it a few times, and the other party's blood overflowed his teeth, and he opened his mouth and screamed miserably, and lost his breath.

The rest of the Turkic soldiers were stabbed by the Italian veterans of the Red Hand Brigade who followed, or others, and many others broke through the walls and rushed in. Croto was very proud, and threw the captured battle flag into the crowd, and the green flag slid for a while, and was trampled under the feet of the soldiers who rushed in.

In a few moments, the banner of the cross was raised on the tower where Antioch had fallen.

In a few moments the latches of the gates were broken, the heavy gates of the dog gates were pushed open, the walls of the breaches were made wider by the servants with pickaxes and shovels, and the stones that had fallen were cleared and dragged away by the rope bags. Two minutes later, the palace district of Antioch fell, followed by the hippodrome, the market and the square, where the crescent moon was cut down and burned, and then the banner of Christ fluttered everywhere.

The lords of Bohemond, Raymond, Gawain, Hugh, Baldwin, and Stephen entered one after the other from the gates and gaps, until Gawain, who wore the red-hand feather ornament, crossed the fourth stone bridge over the city's river, which was already stained with fire and blood, and where corpses floated. When he led his guards into the mosque in front of the palace district, the corpses of the Crescents who had been slaughtered after the fall of the city had already covered the streets, but the burning and killing continued, and in front of a white mosque, Gawain rode and saw a Norman soldier swinging his sword and slashing the Crescent woman who was protecting the child on the steps until the mother and daughter were cut to pieces, several Calabrian soldiers were coming in and out, kicking the heads that were rolling around, and at the top of the tower there were people screaming or falling silently and falling to their deaths.

There was a cry, and from the third stone bridge there were a large number of unkempt, prisoner-like figures, crawling out of the storehouses, facing the butcher's knives of the Franks and Normans, and before they could explain anything, a number of them were slain, and the others knelt down, and raised the crude crosses made of various things around their necks, crying out and begging for help. (To be continued.) )