In front of the fence of the other camp, several confidential officers in the barracks were using a long roster to name names: With a response, the Crescentists, who had been hungry for two days and weakened, walked out one by one, their hands were led by ropes, and many of them were still questioning the guards of the soldiers, "We heard the horns of the camp and the footsteps of many soldiers, so how can the Grand Duke ensure our safety and let us go to his own camp?" ”

One of the flag officers looked at the group, "There is no need to hide it now, the Grand Duke's army is mainly attacking the pagan camp on the west side, so you will go to the east side, but you must also be careful not to be attacked by another group of pilgrims (referring to Raymond and Robert) at the Iron Bridge." ”

"Then let's go in the middle, okay?" A few older Crescentists, begging.

The flag officer agreed, and after carrying the 1,500 released men through the camp field ahead, he waved his arms twice at the high gate tower, and soon the gate was opened layer by layer.

Many of the Crescentists who walked through the past had their eyes twinkled, and although they were very hungry, they still remembered their Allah in their hearts, and they wanted to give all the praise to each other, ready to perform merit for him! Therefore, he snooped left and right, and wanted to grasp the secret of this city gate, and immediately reported it to the general in Mosul:

This gate actually has three layers of guarding.

The first layer of defense is an iron gate in the middle of the gate tower, which can be raised and lowered, and its front is a chest belt wall, the enemy cannot see the location of the iron gate outside, and it naturally blocks the path of the enemy's battering ram, and your own elite ambushes can also hide behind the iron gate and the chest belt wall;

The second layer of guards is the two stone gates hanging on the road of the city gate, as long as the guards of the gate tower above cut the rope with a sharp axe, the heavy stone gate will fall, smashing the attacker's people who are congested here into meat sauce;

On the last floor, there was a double door made of rough wood and iron hoops, the front of which was covered with fireproof leather, and there were many small holes cut out of the façade, so that even if the enemy attacked here, the soldiers who closed the door could stay behind it and kill the attackers with spears or crossbow arrows along the small holes.

The soldiers escorted on both sides of the escort kept shouting with axes, but many believers in the middle blocked their cunning eyes with their sleeves, and many of them had treacherous smiles on the corners of their mouths, "Allah has bestowed upon the believers the greatest wisdom, the wisdom of innocence, and the ridiculous Christians have only gained wisdom after tasting the fruit, and they are indeed foolish people." As soon as I arrived at the besieged camp of our city, I reported all the secrets inside and outside the camp. ”

When the last Crescent to be released stepped out of front of the chest strap wall, behind the ranks of soldiers who reprimanded them. Gao Wen, who was overlooking the city gate tower, turned his finger around the standard-bearer beside him, very decisively.

Then the standard-bearer turned to the barracks area on the left side of the camp and waved the flag a few times.

Soon in all the barracks, stoves, and tents, a few flag officers followed Gregor out with the flag, and then a large number of soldiers of the Gimagis brigade, exactly fifteen hundred, each in column, followed by their respective flag officers, quickly assembled and remained silent.

Even so, the vast majority of the soldiers did not know what kind of task they were going to perform, and their Temachi general Gregor gave a brief instruction: "On the orders of the Grand Duke, we are on the eastern flank of the battlefield to assist the main force in the attack." Everyone, trot forward. ”

The sound of the horn sounded, and all the soldiers of Gemagis, dressed in light armor and armed with light weapons, Saracen swords, Turkic scimitars, small shields, etc., first lined up in a long line, passed under the tower of the city gate, and then quickly divided into two groups, and came out around the chest strap wall, and then merged into one, and soon the front row of soldiers stood about twenty-five feet behind the Crescentists.

The panicked cultists, the ropes they had not untied and staggered, looked blankly and fearfully at the soldiers of Jimagis, and their blades, which were close at hand.

"Don't panic, you keep going." Gregor held the hilt of his sword, mounted on his horse, and said this to the bustling crowd of freed believers.

So the group of believers could only bite the bullet, stumbling and supporting each other, looking in the direction of the iconic towering wooden tower, where the central camp of Amasa and the several camps on the east side stretched behind it.

When he saw Gawain's 4,000 soldiers, lined up in formation, approaching the battalions on the west side of his side, he climbed to Amasa on a high place, and watched the dense and large-scale movement of the other side, "The enemy wants to take advantage of the fact that His Royal Highness's main force cannot join our army and launch an attack on us?" ”

As a result, as soon as Amasa's words fell, the flag officers and imams around him laughed, because in their eyes, even if it was a little weak to attack the enemy's camp on the opposite side, but now the enemy actually gave up his defense and came out to attack them with his backhand, which was simply a suicidal act.

"Probably there's no food, right? Hunger is the best way to get the beasts to take the initiative. A flag officer was dismissive.

Another imam laughed, "Maybe they think that hunger will sharpen their swords." ”

But Amasa did not take it too lightly, but was very excited: hunger had finally forced the enemy out of the strange stronghold, forced to turn on the defensive, and his chance of victory had come.

He carefully observed the line and direction of the four thousand soldiers commanded by Merlot, and it seemed that they were heading towards a few battalions on the west side, "Send fast horses to inform the battalions over there, and tell all the generals stationed there to remain calm, not to attack, to hold the wooden fence, the enemy does not carry any equipment, but a group of poor infantry, to sharpen their spirits, and then listen to my orders and turn to the counterattack." ”

"General, the enemy's cavalry." A general squinted his eyes and pointed to the "mobile reserve cavalry" of Antioch City, which was behind the opposite brigade of infantry, riding horses with flags and marching forward in a wide front line, this group of cavalry was covered with dust and banners, obviously not from a team, but the queue and equestrian skills were acceptable, they trotted slowly, about three or four hundred feet behind the side of the infantry queue in front, stopped, and began to turn into a state of silence.

"It is the enemy's reserves, ready to support their infantry and to hold off reinforcements from other battalions. Tell my cavalry to set up their formation, and wait for work in front of the door, and cover the battle on their horses," Amasa grunted, leaning on the edge of the wooden fence, and his eyes moved to that side, "What's the situation over there?" ”

But behold, in the sun in the wilderness on the east side, not far from the river Orontes, a multitude of men wrapped in turbans, covered with robes, and bound with ropes, were stepping on a great deal of dust, coming in the direction of their camp, without any flags, and without any weapons

"The Messenger in Antioch?" Amassa looked at it for a while, and suddenly remembered, "I used to say that the Grand Duke of the Greek Empire would release more people today, I thought that with the current situation, it was completely impossible, but I didn't expect it to be true." With all the bows in their hands ready to go, it looks like the enemy is going to drive the Creeds from the city and take our camp! (To be continued.) )