"He was a man of Gawain, with whom I had a frequent correspondence, and who, when he became king of Tarsus, was known for his justice, generosity, severity, and benevolence, and for his purity, and of strict faithfulness to his wife. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info now sees his military countenance as if he were witnessing his own majesty. And you, Gregor, as an Antiochian Orthodox Christian, are able to tolerate all those who beg for help here, without asking about their ethnicity and beliefs, which shows that you are a generous and upright general. Gerald held on to the hilt of his sword, moved and relieved.

Then he helped Gregor to his feet, and said to the dome and the cross of the church, which was full of the holy relics of Christ, and was surrounded by monasteries, congregations, and pavilions, and in which all sorts of Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Armenian Church were inhabited, and that the strife and estrangement had gone on for too long in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and that "I hope that the sword of Godfrey and Gawain will protect all the people here, so that everyone can freely and conveniently see the place of Jesus' ascension." ”

The Gimagis brigade, which did what it said, planted the silver tassel banner on the square in front of the church, and all the infantry, armed with round shields, spears, and bows and arrows, guarded the perimeter of the church, controlled several cisterns, and opened up an abandoned bell tower as the commander's quarters, and sent a team of mules and horses to bring food from the camp outside to feed the evacuees, which won the praise of Gerard, who immediately wrote a letter to the Holy See, in which he greatly praised the rigor and generosity of Tarsus's "Guardian Army," The divine splendor of the Lord and the angels shone upon their helmets, swords, and shields."

Under Gerald's chairmanship, the Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, and Crescent of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre each elected four representatives to distribute food, pacify the people who had taken refuge throughout the premises, and negotiate with the more people who had entered the city, begging them to lay down their butcher's knives and restore order and peace in the city.

But this was only a corner of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Baldwin's army near the old wall soon broke out into a fierce and short battle with an enemy army.

This enemy was all cavalry, and after the Franks captured the Tower of David, they galloped and happened to face to face with Baldwin, the opposing soldiers wore white entanglements, dark chain mail, mounted on Afrikan horses, wore gold and silver chews, and held the banner of gold palm leaves, "It is the pagans of Egypt, and sure enough, Everdel broke his oath and secretly sent troops to aid the Turks!" Baldwin was furious, and swung his sword and slew two Egyptian horsemen, and the rest of the cavalry, seeing that the Frankish infantry was approaching, and that the streets and houses were all around, turned and rode towards the Temple Mount.

Baldwin's troops, who had pursued him, began to set up ladders to attack the tower, but soon found that the goal was not simple, in addition to the 400 Egyptians who had fled in, there were 300 Turkic soldiers inside, and the supreme commander of the city, Sokhman, was also inside.

After the fall of the fortress, Sockman fled here under the protection of the guards, and the tower was located at the corner of the old wall, the wall of the Tower of David, and was made into a square inner arch along the high wall, so that the soldiers inside could fire arrows and stone pellets from four directions, and there was a water source in the patio, which was connected to the city's Lebanese Grove Cistern by an ingenious culvert from the ground.

So they attacked several times, but Baldwin and the others failed to take it down, but they captured a lot of discarded horses, saddles, and horses outside the tower.

Instead, Tanfred, led by two Turkic traitors, attacked the Temple Mount from the west!

It took little effort: two Turkic traitors persuaded the defenders of the Western Gate to surrender, and then Tancred's men got the key and twisted the bolts of the gate, pushed open the door with their weapons, and rushed in!

Then the horrific massacre unfolded, and Tancred was unable to restrain his subordinates and had no intention of restraining him, so he simply told his cronies to guard the entrances and exits of the Temple Mount, and not allow other pilgrims to enter. Then the mad Normans began to kill all the people who had taken refuge in the two mosques, and they beheaded wave after wave of people on the walls and steps, and finally the heads and bodies were piled up almost as high as the temple walls, and many adults were slaughtered in front of their children, who cried and cried in a nervous breakdown as they saw their parents and relatives brutally murdered, like rats doused with boiling water, but soon the blade of the sword stabbed at them.

The pillars, the inner chambers, the staircase, the atrium, the arches, were full of corpses, shocking corpses, and many Normans stood in front of the corpses and cut open the stomachs of the corpses with their swords in search of the gold and silver they had swallowed, which the Jews were said to have enjoyed.

For less than half of those who died here were Crescentists, and most were Jews, Greeks, or other ethnic groups.

At this time, Baldwin, who had abandoned the attack on the Sokman Tower, also led the crowd to rush to the Lebanese Timbers, which used to be King Solomon's arsenal for hoarding weapons, and in front of it was a huge and incomparable cistern, called the "King's Cistern": it was a deep-dug underground cistern, and it was also the source of water for the whole city: the roof was level with the ground, and many small holes were dug on it, and people could lead their cattle to the small holes to draw water with buckets, or they could walk down the long steps. Drink directly from the large underground cistern.

The city's inhabitants who had not been able to escape to the Temple Mount were driven here by the Franks, and the massacre unfolded here at the same time, with many residents drowning or falling from small holes into the cistern in a jam and panic, and many more being stabbed and slashed to death by the Frankish soldiers, falling on top of the huge roof of the King's Cistern.

In the otherwise clear sky, dark clouds gathered, and the knight Littlehold, who had been the first to climb the battlement, stood with a captured crescent flag, gazing at the horrific atrocities beyond, beyond, beyond—in Littlehold's eyes, the ant-like gray crowd, slain by swords and axes, and the red blood flew out, and then the blood quickly gathered into pools of blood, which in turn converged into rivers of blood, which wound around the Temple Mount, descending from the heights, like a giant cross.

The river of blood seeped down the steps, and then on the roof of the king's great cistern, it came down like a waterfall from all over the watershed, and then went up to all the dwellings, every ditch, and every square of the holy city.

It is no literary exaggeration that the whole of Jerusalem was really soaked in blood.

"May God have mercy on our sins today." Littlehold actually trembled and uttered such a statement. (To be continued.) )