Chapter 48: Humiliation and Capture

In fact, Sebastoclat's swordsmanship and archery, trained since childhood, studied under a famous family, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is very exquisite, but because the wrist was just injured by a stone, coupled with the hero's shortness of breath, so it could not be used at all, a Greek soldier tentatively stabbed a spear at him, which was blocked by his backhand slash, and then the emperor's brother roared, jumped forward half a step, and slashed another Greek soldier who stepped forward.

Frightened, Wright took a few steps back, and the two servants bravely stepped forward and pulled back the wounded comrade who had fallen to the ground. At this time, about a dozen people surrounded Isaac, the emperor's helmet and war horse were lost, and his robes and armor were covered with blood, of course, it was not he who killed or injured the enemy, but his companions splashed up, standing in the sky flying among the poplar flowers, looking particularly tragic.

"Trap him with a spear." Wright shouted, and then the soldiers and servants four or five spear tips, lined up in a circle, surrounded the royal brother, Isaac was so cold by the cold light of the spear tips that he almost couldn't open his eyes, he could only swing his sword and cut back and forth in vain, but blocked one, and then another one stretched out, and slowly his energy and fighting spirit began to run out, and then Wright grinned, beckoned the military servants behind him to come up with a sling, "Keep smashing." ”

Then, the whistling stone throwing continued to smash on the royal brother's armor, Isaac could not fight, and he could not walk, so he could only pose in various postures in place to avoid the stones coming from all directions, but no matter how strong the swordsmanship was, he was also afraid of this way of swarming, first he was hit by a stone in the lower abdomen, so that the imperial brother squatted down in pain, and then he was hit in the shoulder again, and his body was tilted over, and finally the military servant directly did not throw the stone rope, and smashed it over with the unpolished stone. Right in Isaac's forehead, with Wright "Be careful. Don't really kill you", Isaac was dizzy. His eyes were black, blood continued to flow, and he scolded Gao Wen, a bastard brute, and slowly fell down.

Falling heavily on the mud, Isaac's eyes saw that the sky was getting gloomy and windy, and that there were screams of people everywhere, and then an unknown wrist reached out and ripped the hilt of his sword. Then two or three people pounced on him and took away the armor and ornaments, "Gold, silver!" Then the calfskin belt and boots from Nicomedia, which were also stripped off, and several sticks stretched out and rested under his body, "One, two, three." Rise! He was swept over, and his neck seemed to suffocate - and the cloak embroidered with silk and gold was pulled away.

The royal brother, who eventually became naked, could only look at the soil and grass roots as far as his eyes could see with grief and indignation. All his fate was in the hands of this lowly servant, and someone was kicking his wounds, mixed with the dirt of all places. The last shaggy old fellow pulled him back and looked at him like a dead dog. Then he suddenly grinned, baring his ugly buckteeth. Laughing, he raised an axe in his hand at some point, "Kill-die-you." ”

Beside him, Wright directed the others to throw the spoils of war to the mule cart, and then looked around, and when he saw his accomplices of the cavalry company approaching, he shouted and intimidated with his sword, meaning that it was ours and that no one else was allowed to interfere.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm the most glorious man of the Roman Empire, take me to your archduke." Isaac looked at the blade of the axe, arched his shoulders, and pleaded quickly with weakness and fear.

"Kill—die—you." As if he could not understand Greek, the old servant raised his axe and prepared to chop it, but was stopped by Wright, who heard this, "Don't be stupid, then leave him alive, maybe go and take this fellow to the Grand Duke, and we will get more rewards." ”

Several military servants lifted the emperor's younger brother who was left with only **, and threw it in the mule cart, tied it with ropes like a cattle, and then pushed the baggage cart and rumbled towards the pre-designated camping site.

On the banks of the Plivensus River, the 15,000 Byzantine soldiers who had been defending Fort Sophia, except for more than 1,000 cavalry, all surrendered, and were disarmed, and the arrogant Godfrey was unwilling to kill them, except to bury the corpses, so he followed Gawain's advice and sent them all towards Adrianople.

In this battle, the captured materials were extremely abundant, and a large number of supplies, coins and cloth were hoarded in the warehouses of the small city, and what made Gawain even more pleased was that the Greek engineer named Samuelfa fell into his camp and became his prisoner, not only to obtain the secret recipe of "Roman fire", but also to move this engineer to join his own side, to provide Byzantine Rome engineering and technical secrets - although the combat effectiveness of the army of this empire was uneven, many core technologies still had characteristics and advantages in the world at that time, fortifications, construction technology, etc.

"Here are the emperor's newly minted coins, Byzantit and Hesnell gold coins. Yes, the condition has reached seven-eighths of the previous Solide, and now His Majesty the Great Emperor has finally stabilized the value of the coin, and has made my seizure more abundant. "Stephen at the tent banquet. Gawain said sarcastically, looking at the pile of glittering coins in the box, and the rest of the Frankish pilgrim nobles and women laughed and raised their glasses to celebrate this great victory, so that the king of Greece could no longer underestimate us.

"But Agamemnon." Godfrey, leaning on the edge of the table, with a slightly drunken tone, also mocked Alexios. Komnenos.

At this moment, Baldwin's wife Godhild stepped forward and came to Gawain's face, the Grand Duke of Barry stood up solemnly and saluted, Goldchild also smiled and lifted his skirt to return the salute, and then stretched out his hand, Gawain took the other party's hand in a burst of laughter, "I hope that the king of Greece can learn the lessons of this defeat, and I also wish us to reach the court of Constantinople safely, and in the future, we can reach the Holy Sepulchre smoothly." Goethechild said, and then said, "The Grand Duke should know how to dance in Greece, and I wonder if he can teach me." ”

"Of course, noble and beautiful lady." Gao Wen readily agreed, and then all the men and women present at the meeting laughed and danced with each other.

Godfrey sat there, very smug, holding up his glass, sipping after sip.

Gawain's thoughtful and graceful dancing did not contradict his tall stature, and won the praise of many noblewomen, including Goethehilde, and many knights of the Franklands greatly admired the priesthood. It wasn't until the dance music was over that Gawain saw Giovanni and Wright standing at the door of the tent, and the latter had unusually bright eyes, looking at the red men and green women in the tent, quite envious.

"That person just said that he was the glory of the empire, but he didn't recognize his specific identity, I was afraid that he was a big noble." After saying goodbye, Gawain stood side by side with the two men outside the tent, listening to Wright's narration, and then Gawain held up a money bag, "Twenty gold Hysnell coins in it, you have done a great job Wright, you have good luck, and you have good eyesight, and from now on you are not only a camp officer, but you are also allowed to rejoin the Brotherhood of the Brocade, but you will have some self-control in the future - I will take a look at this matter, but don't make a noise about Godfrey and them for now." (To be continued.) )