And in the Frankton, Count Emicius, Earl of Mainz, led many members of the infantry regiment to guard the passages and wooden fences, and quarreled for a moment with Bohemond and Burns, who demanded passage, "How dare you disobey the emperor's orders!" Bohemond was furious and carried out of Constantinople to oppress the people.

"If you don't see the emperor's banner, anyone may be impersonating the emperor's order, and we need time to wait and screen." Emicius is certainly not stupid.

After a long time of arguing and arguing, the trumpets suddenly sounded in the city of Nicaea—it was officially Ibn. It was time for Maimun to agree to retreat from the city.

Now the pilgrims had no room to continue the trouble, and even Bohemond hurriedly turned his horse back, for the Normans needed to be the first to enter through the main gate of Constantinetim.

About an hour later, the Emperor's camp also arrived at the city, "Invite all the lords of the pilgrimage, who are also my loyal servants, to come and see me." "That's what Alexios' first directive was.

Soon after the full occupation of the city, Bohemond, Raymond, Hugh, Godfrey, Ardmar, the two Robert and Stephen, and his own Tetisius and Branas, all galloped to the Emperor's camp, "All of you who have besieged the city have worked hard, and Your Majesty will soon have a large amount of grain and money to support you, and your merciful Majesty has also approved of the distribution of the spoils of war and the treatment of the Sultan's wife and children, and now I ask you to hand over the keys to the gates and towers, And exit the city at sunset and leave it to the emperor's military horses to take over. The present war was between the Roman Empire and the Sultan of Konya, a fact that I hope you will recognize again. "In place of the Emperor sitting behind the curtain, the Grand Wardrobe of the Imperial Wardrobe Nikdemia addressed the lords, representing the disposition of Komunen.

Godfrey sneered twice, and he roughly understood the last sentence. The implication is that the territory gained by the pilgrims and Suhrelman in a bloody battle belongs to the emperor; At the same time, if the emperor did not personally negotiate with Surelman, the pilgrims had no right to break the truce. This also means that the emperor is dissatisfied with the previous peace talks in Nicaea. It is believed that it is an act of trespass by pilgrims.

Hugh was also indignant, the pilgrims were bleeding and sweating in front, and the Greek emperor was using political maneuvers in the back to reap his benefits; But whoever makes most of the pilgrims shy, they must also rely on the emperor's supplies and support.

After a while, the Emperor specially asked Nikdemia to ask the people, "Gawain, why didn't you come to me?" ”

"Go to Dolilaem, take the lead, and continue to fight against the Sultan of Konya!" Godfrey and Tetitisius spoke in unison.

"That's it. The soldiers were swift, and I immediately took charge of Nicaea myself, and sent the Roman army to join you in destroying the Konyan thieves. The emperor also gave an order immediately.

Subsequently, Nicodemia issued a "marching sequence" in place of the emperor: the armies of Bohemond, Tancred, Robert of Normandy, and Blois Stephen marched along the right side of the Oles Gorge; The armies of Godfrey, Baldwin, Flanders Robert, Ardmar, and Raymond also marched on the right, following the Normans; Hugh, Tetisius, and Branas's armies were in the last formation. All armies carried horses, bows and arrows, and armor. The military servants and baggage battalions remained in Nicaea, under the supervision of the emperor himself. It is convenient to avoid being attacked by the Turks in the event of a battle.

"When you meet Gawain's vanguard, you must fight with it, unite sincerely, and not be arbitrary." In the end, the emperor also gave this special order.

But then, before he went out into battle, Bohemond received a letter from the emperor's secret envoy, and when he opened it. It was impressive, "Your purpose for the vanguard is here - once you meet with Gawain, kill him for talking, and then accept his large army, and those who dare to resist will be killed." I will be grateful. ”

Although the Duke of Apulia hated Gawain deeply, he also seemed to notice the strangeness, so he quietly agreed on the surface, sent away the secret envoy, and then collected the emperor's letters, and summoned Tancred, Brad, and Jeffrey to straighten out the army and horses, "The battle of Dolly Laim, we must take the lead!" ”

By this time, Gawain's army had reached the wide Ores Gorge, two Roman miles away, and confronted the Roma army that was already on the slopes and paths.

Gawain put the two cavalry companies at the forefront, because the front was full of endless wilderness, just right for the cavalry to charge and gallop, and Rom's lightly armed troops did not dare to come down and cause trouble; This was followed by rows of deep columns of infantry companies, which, in the event of a critical situation, would raise their spears and swords and sacrifice their lives to charge and break through; Finally, Gotschalk's armed regiment, along with the rest of the company and camp, lined up along a stream and meadow to provide support to the front.

With the Roma in front and her father in the back, Anna in the camp was a little frightened, it was really a crisis of "wolves in front and tigers in the back".

But just as Gawain expected, Gilligi on the hillside. Arslan saw the red-handed battle flags held high by the Gawain cavalry, waving majestically in the wind, and the humiliation and fear of the Battle of the Eastern Valley couldn't help but welled up in his heart, "Have reinforcements from Aleppo and Samosata arrived, and how far are they?" The Sultan asked these questions again and again, and then the slaves and Ataberg replied that all of them had come on a double journey, and that they would arrive about the next day.

The Sultan became even more restless, and he kept pacing back and forth on horseback, watching the formation of the Red Hand group on the other side of the valley, and then made a judgment, "Hold your troops and wait for reinforcements to arrive, and then fight this enemy." ”

From Gawain's cavalry array, a Turkic-looking man galloped out at this moment, stepped on short feet, got up halfway on the saddle, carried a bow and arrow, and in the shouts of the two armies, rushed like lightning to the front of the Roma army position standing on the hillside, ran left and right three times, blew three whistles, and then took out the seal from the leather cylinder on the saddle, tied it to the arrow, and shot it at the eagle banner where the Sultan was, and hit the wooden fence in front of him, and then turned his horse away.

The slave soldier took the paperwork, and Gilligi opened it, and almost fainted, it was a bundle of women's hair, and the color was eighty percent of the color of his beloved wife Shah Namei, and then the letter scroll read, "Your vizier sent the wife and children of His Excellency the Sultan out of the lake by boat, but they were intercepted by the contemptible people on the way, Nicaea has surrendered, your wife and children are temporarily well, and the 100,000 pilgrims and the Emperor of Constantinople are coming with the army, and the contemptible people are the vanguard, if you are persistent any longer, your Excellency will be exposed to the colosseum with the corpses of your wife and children, and think twice." ”

"Damn, what is the wife and children, do you really think you can coerce me? All Turkic warriors, sons and grandsons of Ashina, descendants of Jiaxia, wait until the army of Aleppo arrives, and then fight to the death with this group of pilgrims! The Sultan red-eyed, threw the letter under the horse's hooves, and shouted. (To be continued.) )