"Murderers, butchers, liars, vulgar, unliterate, seducers, gigantic monsters, blue-eyed monsters, brown bears, shameless boxers and scoundrels, demons with cursed swords, lustful Varyag barbarians, villains who abduct princesses, notorious money changers, beasts that bully beautiful and pure maidens, whining human heads like balls and stone bullets," Agnes scolded fluently as she began to cry.

"Don't cry!" Gawain was even more fierce. At this angry shout, Agnes immediately swallowed back the cry, and then continued to sobb and tremble, "Did you see the crucified Turkic in the middle of the camp?" Now vultures and crows are pecking at his rotting corpse, and soon he will turn into a pair of fleshy bones, so you have two choices now, one is to take his place, and the other is to follow the Dalian team, I believe you will choose the latter, Anna and I will take care of and protect you, and when you stabilize in the future, you might as well go fishing and hunt other things that enter your eyes, I won't hinder you, but I also inform you here in advance - don't be clever and make a move on Anna, otherwise"

"I'll tell Grana to love these female physicians, and cut off your most precious and cherished thing, oyster seeds." Gawain whispered this, frightening the chill under Agnes' skirt and her teeth fighting, although she came from a famous Prani family, she still understood what the crude slang term "oyster seed" meant.

Gawain then let go of her arms and said to the guards beside her, "Protect the Engineer's tent." And he departed.

At the same time, a battalion soldier pushed the writing table over. Motioned to Agnes to draw out a detailed drawing of the siege equipment after observing the city defenses.

Agnes sat down in fear. Immediately, she held up the special barrel for all kinds of traces, and then she looked up to see it. Gawain looked back at himself, and immediately dropped the pen tube on the paper roll, brushing and brushing, not even daring to breathe.

While Agnes was wasting sleep and food to make siege equipment for the Dalian army, the 100,000 pilgrims in the port of Civet had quickly modified hundreds of vehicles of all kinds, and gathered a large number of oxen, horses, mules, and donkeys, using hemp ropes and leather belts. The various light ships of the emperor and the pilgrims, moored in the harbor, were towed up by ropes, even dismantled, and then carried along the Norman-controlled gorge in the direction of the city of Nicaea.

Then, when they reached the Norman camp, they dragged the boats out of their vehicles and pushed them into the water. Then tie it with stakes and ropes.

"Hahaha, Tancred, look, now that the ships are in my hands, Gawain is not wrong. Nicaea's water gate will be sealed by us in no time. "Bohemond, standing on the high ground and looking at this spectacular sight, was full of ambition.

"Uncle. But there are no sailors in your army," Tankreid reminded.

Bohemond was dumbfounded, yes. There are no specialized sailors.

But he is not willing to give up yet," jokes. We Normans were a people who grew up on the decks of ships. ”

"But even the Calabrian soldiers did not want to work as sailors, and now we nobles think that we nobles have come out of the grape trellises of the estate. In addition, the soldiers above were all subordinates of Tetisius, and they were pro-Gawain. ”

Bohemond lost his temper at all, and he beckoned, and said in a boring manner, "Call Gawain's Dalian team to take over these ships, and he has a special company of sailors." ”

When dozens of Panphylian ships, lined up in two columns, beating drums, sailed from the west side of Lake Nicaea to the east side, it seemed that they were intended to be seen from the city. Many Roma soldiers arrived at the walls of Watergate, which were usually unguarded, and could not believe their eyes: how did the pilgrims bring these ships from the sea over there into the lake?

Several boats that came from the lake in a detour to deliver supplies to the city of Nicaea were intercepted by the ships, and the ships were scuttled in front of the water gate, and the captives were lined up on the deck of the emperor's warship, facing the city.

Among them, there were many local Greek shipowners or Armenian and Saracen merchants who were motivated by the desire for profit and helped the Sultan of Konya to deliver grain, "At the emperor's will, it is equivalent to the enemy's disposal, kill!" At the command of the commander of the sailors, the captives were all beheaded and hung from the masts of the ships.

The defenders of the city were in an uproar, and this heavy blow was not inferior to the "head projectile", which meant that the city of Nicaea was really cut off from the inside and outside!

When Ibn. When Maimon learned the news, although he was calm, he also understood that it was no longer possible to defend the city of Nicaea: no matter how bravely he resisted, that is, the difference between falling sooner or later, he had to prepare for a retreat.

Three days later, in the early morning, besieging the three sides of the wall, all the pilgrims' camps were once again in action, including Gawain's Red Hand Brigade and Tetisius's detachment, and a large number of equipment, battering rams, and ladders were once again pushed to the front of the position, eyeing the city of Nicaea.

"What's that, that's what!" The Roma soldiers on the tower of the new gate in the east of the city shouted in terror.

Because they saw: on the central earthen rampart of the Dalian camp, Gao Wen, standing under the cross and making the corpse, and the generals and officers, crossed their chests and looked at the siege equipment being formed below, and dozens of members of the company of craftsmen were busy working on it according to Agnes's drawings.

Far less tall than the previous Frankish "fox", this strange thing was a massive, flat, shell-like structure, with two rows of wheels that could be driven, hidden behind the guards, so that the siege personnel could avoid damage from enemy projectile weapons. On the side facing the wall, and on the other side, a number of sloping planks were wedged, and then connected by iron grates and chains, according to the instructions of Agnes, and on the sloping boards were tied numerous bundles of branches, most of which were picked in the spring season, and were not combustible, and could counteract the destruction of pike darts and stone throws, and were made with dense, irregular iron spikes and iron stakes to guard against the attacks of the enemy's stones or fire pots.

"Very good, Agnes, reward you with a hundred gold Byzantis." Gawain, who was on the side of the red umbrella, said to Agnes, who was sitting in a chair with a pale face—Anna put on a plain robe and disguised herself as Agnes's handmaiden, in order to hide her eyes.

Agnes didn't dare answer.

"What's the name of this siege machine?" Gawain then asked.

But Agnes still didn't dare answer.

Then the commander of the march in Asia said to himself, "This instrument is large and low, and it is mighty, and it can propel forward, and it has a bumpy appearance, and it hides a mechanism inside—" and then Gawain said as if he had a sudden realization, "Then it will be called a 'toad'!" ”

"Clam, clam, toad" thought of the crystallization of his own wisdom, in exchange for such a name, Agnes was angry, but did not dare to say a word about this aesthetic concept. (To be continued.) )