The medieval city walls, or the walls of any era, had a big flaw, that is, the soldiers guarding behind the pheasant wall could use bows and arrows to shoot oncoming enemies, but due to the limited viewing angle, once the enemy rushed under the wall, these soldiers could no longer shoot at them - at this time, the besiegers would set up ladders under the wall to climb the edge, or use tools to break the wall and break through the city.

But Ibn . Maimun and Gigasadin had planned for this situation, and they had built a twenty-foot-long "fence" at thirty-five feet apart from the wall section of the Constantine Tim Gate. The so-called fence is a building connected with the pheasant moat, the war corridor and the war road, to put it bluntly, it is a wooden cloister protruding from the city wall - the Turks forced the citizens and the farmers to come around it, and now the pheasant moat is covered with dense brackets and beams, and then the cloister is built along these lines. Such a fence made it possible to observe the enemy's destruction of the foundations of the city walls and to attack areas behind the curtain wall that soldiers could not reach.

"Although this Robert is stupid, he is brave in battle, tell the Calabrians who will follow, prepare to support the attack!" Bohemond, who was watching the battle on the earthen ramparts, looked at the fierce battle of the city wall in front of him and said, at this time, the Norman stone shooters also began to smash the flying stones against the protruding fences of the Constantine Tim Gate, and for a time the smoke and dust were filled, but the cunning Roma, in advance behind the wooden planks outside the fence, erected a series of oblique supports, and also applied fireproof paint on the outside, and all the elite soldiers hid in it, allowing the stones to continue to whistle and fly, smashing and swaying, and holding the bows, arrows, slings and shields in their hands tightly. Stoic.

Soon, the ladder was just ready to be erected. Robert, who climbed the enemy's battlements, saw the fence to his left and right. The windows and firing ports were opened one after another, some on the side, some on the lower abdomen, and then the deadly flying stones and poisoned arrows were shot crosswise, and in an instant, the sergeants and standard-bearers around Robert covered the wounds of the arrows, and fell under the city wall on top of each other, and died miserably, dozens of people died in just a few seconds. Lives were taken.

Seeing this, Robert hurriedly put his shield behind his body, lowered his head, threw down his sword, and drove his horse towards his besieged position, the arrows constantly piercing the shield, sneering, mixed with Roma insults and ridicule. "Hurry up and rescue the lord!" The Normans, the Normans, including the Flanders, three tribes. and the reinforcements sent by Bohemond rushed towards Robert, who had fled in disarray.

The war chamber hidden in the two gate towers of Constantine Tim also lifted the shielded doors and curtains, and the fire tanker was rolled out in between. Deftly and ferociously, they smashed behind the siege formation, and the flames burst above the people's heads, and then fell again. Many of the besieging soldiers burst into the deep moat, screaming and screaming. Thick smoke with the smell of flesh billowed from the trenches, and stakes and thistles stuck in the bottom of the river. Flesh and blood. Robert's tail in Normandy was also burned, and he rushed into the camp with a flash of flames and without looking back, so that he could be regarded as picking up his life, and he was terrified.

"Retreat!" Bohemond then believed in the power of Nicaea's defenses, and shouted busily.

But just as Gawain had predicted: the Frankish knights were a group of undisciplined and reckless men—although at the main gate, Bohemond had ordered the withdrawal of his troops, but in the affected northern camp, many Franks ignored Godfrey and Baldwin's prior restraints, and rode or walked, and shouted as a tidal wave against the Hajib wall, which had more towers, more men, and more ballistas, "Death to the pagan dogs, unbelievers!" The sound rang out incessantly, and flying stones and arrows rained down from the sky, and the Franks who were besieging the city were splashed with flesh and blood, and corpses were piled up on both sides of the moat—in half an hour, five hundred people were killed, and many more were wounded, but the city of Nicaea remained unmoved, and did not do any damage.

"Your Excellency, a collective meeting of all the lords must be convened." Seeing this, Count Stephen of Blois came to Godfrey and demanded it.

Looking at the Romani Turks shouting and laughing at the head of the city, Godfrey nodded, "It will be held tonight, and I, Bohemond, and Gawain will not be the head of the meeting, and as for the general sent by the Greek emperor, you will preside over it." Duke Godfrey said this, of course, for his own reasons, and he no longer wanted this military meeting to be reduced to an arena of internal strife.

On the earthen rampage, Gawain walked down silently and quickly, and then Samuelfa and Agnes appeared in his tent, and the Grand Duke and Tetisius sat next to Anna on the left and right, to show that Anna was the real mistress.

"Today, the end of the reckless assault of the Normans and the Franks has been witnessed and heard by all. I expect that a letter will soon be sent inviting me and General Tetisius to go to the proceedings, and that the Archduke may face even greater reproach, for only our side has not moved in this attack, and has avoided the worthless sacrifice of the soldiers, but Bohemond and some of the lords may not think so. In addition, the subsequent attack on Nicaea City should be mainly turned into equipment and siege, and it is necessary to grasp the movement of Roma reinforcements. Samuelfa and Agnes are both men of great military engineering, so the Grand Duke wants Samuelfa to make improvised Roman firearms and equip them on my ships; Agnes, on the other hand, was able to create effective siege machines that could open gaps in the walls. ”

"Honorable Grand Duke, when I accepted the employment of His Majesty the Emperor, I signed a contract and an oath, so even if Her Royal Highness the beautiful and noble eldest princess is in front of me now, I can't disobey it, because I am a serious and faithful Orthodox Christian, so I can't bear it, I can't hand over the secret formula!" With tears in his eyes, Samuelfa fell down in front of Gawain and Anna, and Tetisius whispered to remind Gawain that what he said was true—if the Emperor knew that he had betrayed the recipe for the "Flame of Defense", he would be put to death even at the ends of the earth.

Gawain sighed, and Anna's eyes turned red, and said that the engineer doesn't have to be like this, please ask the Grand Duke to reward you with fifty Byzantian gold coins to prepare and build a temporary harbor on the shores of Lake Nicaea.

Over there, before Gawain could speak, "I refuse, unless Gawain you come and beg me." Agnes turned her head and said very resolutely.

"Another undisciplined mares." Gawain said hatefully in his heart, "That's it, I'll go to the military meeting first and see the situation." As he spoke, the herald delivered the letter, which Androdart opened and read, and presented it to Gawain, as he had estimated.

"You go to the big barbarian first, and I'll solve these two." It's hard to believe that it was Anna who whispered this to herself, with a sly smile. (To be continued.) )