After hearing this, about twenty or so "Captains of Fifty" from the original Diognis team and a dozen or so Plonian knights who surrendered together looked at each other: The captor is secretly burying a stake, taking advantage of Gawain's trust in him, placing him and the old department (that is, us) in Anglasburg, and then taking advantage of this moment to turn back and sacrifice the castle to return to the Imperial Army?

Everyone looked at the guard who was standing by the emperor's statue solemnly, silent and embarrassed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Loyalty is a morality that everyone usually talks about, but after the disaster of the Battle of Manzikert, almost all the military nobles in Asia Minor retreated to Thrace, Macedonia and other places, and there has always been a bit of a dilemma of more monks and less porridge. Now that Gawain has recovered nearly half of the Anatolian Plateau, everyone has surrendered, and the land of the Holy Warriors is also secured, and there is no need to distract himself from managing the fields and supervising taxes like the original Pronian overseer, as long as the reward will increase after meritorious service, which is good.

So is the guard in front of him selfish? Because his wife stays in the imperial capital, will he be threatened by the new emperor?

While everyone was speculating, Diognis repeated the original speech, and no one took the initiative to stand up and surrender. After all, if you surrender now, what is the difference between joining the Theban Order before the Battle of Chaerone?

At last Theognes glanced at the crowd, walked slowly to the wall, picked up the turban and wrapped it around his forehead, then hung the saber, and then picked up the amulet given to him by his wife Gu Siyun on the long table in the perforated sunlight, tied it to the armor on his chest, wrapped the old cloak, pinched the iron flail, and walked out of the hall step by step, through the volley of stone bridges, to the pheasant moat.

Below, around the Sakarya River, thousands of the Emperor's military horses were arranged, the Black Madonna battle flag, the crimson purple royal flag, and the new army flag with a white cross on a blue background fluttered in the face, and the crumbling of the soldiers' demonstrations shook the earth, and as soon as Theognes leaned on the battlement, he saw the honor guards of Tetisius, Mikhail, and Theodoro under him.

The three generals, seeing the towering rocks and walls, and the Theognes and Mikhail standing behind them, with whom he knew best, rode forward a few steps and raised their hands.

As a result, before he could say anything, Theognes above raised his flail and shouted to all the besieging troops under the city in the wind on the plateau, "I and all the soldiers in the city, pointing to the icon of the emperor in front of me, swear that this is our destiny in Anglasburg, and we will never surrender!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Mikhail immediately froze.

Not only that, but all the fifty captains and the Plonian knights who were standing beside Diognes were also amazed, but the silence was only instantaneous, and then everyone raised their fists and shouted in unison.

Everyone felt that this plateau, where countless heroes and heroic deeds had been born, was about to give birth to a new great force, which would mix the bravery of the Seljuk Turks, the prosperity of Romania, the vitality of the Varyag and the elegance of Greece to create a new world, a new pattern of sea and land!

"Stubborn!" The old general under the banner of the Black Lady next to him waved his hand angrily, and then under the stone thrower beside him, the rows of soldiers and artillery players standing in front of him shouted and ripped off the slings, pulled their swing arms and turned up, countless slings rolled in the air, and flew towards Anglasburg like a torrential rain......

Then the battle of the defense of Anglasburg broke out, which guarded the main trade route of Iconium and the confluence of the Harris and Sakarya rivers, where Diognis, who refused to surrender, and his 1,300 officers and men, who even shouted, "That Norman woman is but the spoils of my plunder, and the emperor's execution will not affect me for half of it."

The Emperor's 30,000 men and horses took turns to storm Anglasburg, smashing them with stone shooters, building siege towers, constructing blockade trenches, and so on, but the captor and his castle were still nailed in the distance like a nail.

In the cities of Caesarea and Iconium, the magistrate of Giovanni, who was in charge of all the counties, also began to send all the civilian troops and hired the Oghuz to attack the supply lines of the emperor's side, in order to delay the capture of the officials.

As for the powerful reinforcements, there is really no way to count on them now - all the elites that Gawain can use are concentrated in Marash.

When the news reached Castamonu City, John was also a little puzzled and angry, "What the hell is going on?" Who gave Theognes the impression that I was going to blackmail his wife, I just admired his military prowess and wanted him to come and pay allegiance. Damn, I don't know how long the Arni people can hold out on to Marash Fort over there, so the order goes, no matter what, we must do our best to capture Anglasburg as soon as possible! ”

At this moment, the news of the battle situation of all parties also reached the hands of Gao Wen, who personally supervised the battle on the battlefield of Marash,

"Anglasburg is under siege day and night by tens of thousands of the Emperor's soldiers."

"Bohemond, Baldwin and Tanfred, and Ridwan met many times in the Tartus area, and each won and lost. Now that Tanreid's army was overwhelmed, he had begun to retreat in the direction of the city of Antioch. ”

"The Seljuk Sultan of Isfahan Palace was assassinated by the faction of the High Mountain Old Man Hassan, and he has died of his wounds, and Jihad, which was originally organized by the Eastern Turks, has died halfway through."

What made Gawain feel most urgent was this military situation, "Apsomatus of the island of Cyprus took the opportunity to counterattack, his army recaptured Paphos, and crossed the mountains and began to march towards the city of Kyrenia, where there was only a detachment of the Guardian Brigade, and now there is no definite evidence of whether the Egyptian side is behind the scenes to reinforce him." ”

Finally, there is a letter from the court of Tarsus, written by Anna herself, "My dear husband, I heard that your army is like a ribbon in the night, tightly binding the golden apple of Marash, I hope it will be the next shining pearl in my crown, for this I praise you, and I can't help but admire your majesty in the court, especially with Sebastian......." frightened Gawain hurriedly jumped over, Because he knew that Anna tended to put the key words of her heart at the end of the letter.

Sure enough, the last sentence was, "Actually, I have come to ask for help, and Hetomia begs me to give the honor of storming Marashburg to Dorus, who has always been loyal and brave to us. Lambert, while this may embarrass some of the regular brigade soldiers, don't keep it quiet and keep it a little secret between us - after all, now that Count Merlot has an arm injury, and Branas is newly married, the best person is Doruth. ”

"Except for the first two, you really don't put the rest of the people in your eyes." Gawain shook his head helplessly and shrugged his shoulders, and then he looked down at the peak.

The deployment for an all-out assault on Marash was almost in place, just waiting for his order.