On the high ground in the middle of the two lakes, the ambush of Branas suddenly appeared, and four hundred soldiers of the Archery Corps lined up on the hill to take turns to intercept the reinforcements sent by Vladimir to Ohrid City, and the Serbian troops who were flanked were blocked in confusion on the road, and the light of their spears and swords was swallowed up by the acrid smoke from the hills, and the Zupan nobles who took the lead were all knocked off their horses, killed or wounded, and the cavalry scurried everywhere along the sides of the road, and the horses screamed fiercely. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On both sides of the hill, two detachments on one side and one on the other, all the elite spearmen of the Defender Brigade, protruding with their enormously long infantry spears, tore and struck the Serb infantry on the road section with great force, cutting them into several pieces like a thin fish on Lake Skadrä, and the rain of buckshot from the musketeers was like a condiment sprinkled on it, and within half an hour this reinforcement was crushed and reduced to a meal - only forty cavalrymen picked up their lives and fled back to Prizren in disarray.

Standing at the command post, Branas, racing against time, carried the mechanical clock with a plumb weight given by His Majesty Baselisa, accurately measured the time, and then "repeated the old trick", telling 200 soldiers to put on the captured Serbian soldiers' armor and horses, and rush towards the gate of Ohrid Castle.

Now that the city of Ohrid was shrouded in smoke from artillery fire, Giaquinta and a group of palace favorites rushed to ask only where the reinforcements from Durazo were and where the reinforcements from Prizren were. At this time, the disguised soldiers of Branas appeared under the north gate of the city in a line of horses, and the guide of the Betia tribe in the team communicated with the guards on the gate tower in a skillful native language, falsely claiming to be from the Grand Duke of Vladimir, and asked for the city gate to be opened.

The guards of the gate tower demanded verification, but on the hill behind the group of cavalry, many soldiers of the Guardian Brigade came "rushing and chasing" with spears, and Gia Quinta scolded the garrison officers for not knowing their status, and anxiously demanded that the reinforcements be brought in.

The helpless defenders opened the north gate.

As a result, the group of cavalry in front of the city gate drew their shiny single-edged sabers or cavalry axes.

"Guannei Gate, Guannei Gate......" Seeing that the situation was not right, the officer who opened the door turned his head and shouted, and the cavalry of Branas's Pegasus rushed in, and the axe blade arc flashed endlessly, and all the people were chopped down and trampled to the ground, and then 200 cavalry quickly rushed in and killed people at sight.

And the group of infantry of the Guardian Brigade who were "pursuing" also rushed in.

Soon, Ohrid, a fortified fortress adjacent to the lake and the capital of the original Bulgarian Empire, which was also the capital of the Great Earth King Berdin, fell under a surprise attack.

Gia Quinta escaped in disguise, but her boat ran into a headwind on Lake Ohrid after exiting the water, and was pushed to the shore by the tide in a half-dead state, where she was captured by Branas's men.

"I am the wife of the Great Earth King and the Bulgarian Tsar Bertin, and I need your officers and soldiers to ensure my dignity and safety." Wrapped in a blanket and shivering from the cold, Gia Quinta volunteered to identify herself before the soldiers screened her, and then raised her white wrist, which was wrapped with an expensive gold chain and a six-pointed star pendant.

The army then seized the inner and outer cities, which were separated by two walls, and all the barracks, stables, above-ground warehouses, and underground cellars, and they were amazed at how much grain, money, oil, and wine had been stored in the royal capital, which was now their spoils! As is customary, the soldiers plundered the portion of their baggage that had been stuffed into their possession, and then the rest was collected for the quartermaster of the brigade to be registered.

Branas then sent out a light cavalry scout, crossed Kastoria, and then went to the camp in the valley of the Vardar River to the south. The main detachments of the Nika Brigade, the Defender Brigade and the Epshkin Brigade left here rushed forward and attacked the Vladimir-defended Prizrenburg from the front.

Vladimir was also so angry that he collapsed: he sent a thousand reinforcements to save the "Norman glazed cabinet", but he was ambushed and routed, Ohrid was also lost, and now his position was threatened from both sides, and Dulazo's Crusade did not know what to do on the convenient Egnandia Boulevard? Is it a picnic?

Three days later, Vladimir's Prizren could not hold on, so he had to gather all his soldiers and retreat east to the relative safety of Fort Margolon.

Thus, as a result of the gambling surprise attack of Branas, he seized the entire southwestern part of Serbia, successfully connecting Ohrid, Prizren, Macedonian Pera, Kastoria and Thessaly, and cutting off the passage between Fort Sofia and Durazo!

The Durazzo Crusade, with more than 20,000 men empty, retreated to the seaside camp without doing anything after learning of the fall of Ohrid - the commander-in-chief, Almosh of Hungary, did not dare to talk about the "division of the cake" after the victory, and in fact they did not even complete a "march" (fifty cures) on the Egnandia Highway. And the originally unified kingdom of the Great Earth King Berding was instantly torn into several pieces that were not connected to each other.

Subsequently, Branas left part of his army to hold the rear road Ohrid, and let the two commanders, Arcro Borites and Licapanus, lead the rest of the main forces to besiege and contain Fort Margolon - the four thousand foot knights selected by his own command continued to drive forward along the road, aiming at Boyana and Fort Sophia.

And Blanas also carried the captive Giaquinta on his shoulders (this time Giaquinta did not have the good luck of Shahnamy, who called General Branasas was more interested in Persian beauties than the golden-haired Norman maidens), and the hundreds of court courtiers, slaves and handmaidens who were captured were all shackled and shackled, and they were all escorted on the road in the heat of the day.

At this time, Merlot's detachment also managed to get out of the complicated mountainous terrain and appeared in the wilderness south of Fort Bolyana, and it didn't take much effort to break through the ambush sent by the city, cut down more than 400 heads, and then besieged Fort Boyana.

The Serbian rebels also made a risky sortie, a group of brave Zupan, who had put together more than a thousand men and horses, and indeed attacked along the Stremon River, and even penetrated between Philippi and Amphipolis for a time, but this was destined to be a "straggler" operation - soon, the Macedonian overseer Biller with the newly created border militia regiment killed, and the enemy army broke up.

In the past four days, the two teams of Branas and Mellot have met victoriously under Fort Boyana.

Previously, the city of Skopje, the "inalienable territory of the Roman Empire", was also the center of the Vardar River, the birthplace of the Serbian region, the birthplace of Justinian the Great, and the "indivisible territory of the Roman Empire" in the center of the city, with the efforts of the inhabitants of Rome, the city surrendered, opening the gateway to Branas to continue eastward.