In the half-day battle, a total of twenty-two camps on the arc-shaped fronts of the center, east, and west sides of Amasa, including the central camp that did nothing, were all broken by the frantic counterattack of the pilgrims, like a piece of broken sheepskin, ruthlessly torn by several pairs of iron pincers.

The defeated Turkic army poured into the city of Atta and even in the valley of the Syrian Gate, and pilgrims from all walks of life ransacked and burned their camps, "Don't burn food, don't burn food." "Branas, who was so hungry and tired that his face turned pale, jumped off his horse, pushed a cavalryman who had fought to the point of madness, and snatched the torch from his hand. This is a camp only half a mile from Atta City, and the cavalry of Branas has just captured it, and they actually found that there are many pack beasts and wagons parked in it, as well as a lot of food, which seems to have been prepared to be sent to the front camp.

When Branass stopped his madness, all his cavalry began to draw their swords and swords, slaughter the pack beasts abandoned by the Turks, and fill them with grain in wicker baskets - the Turkic soldiers, mostly from Mosul and Khorasan, where agriculture was very developed, so the soldiers became more accustomed to eating crops and began to fight with the military of an agricultural country.

Soon, Merlot came here with hundreds of infantry, and when he saw this, he shouted to all the servants behind him to stay, "Steam wheat cakes, cook horse meat and camel meat, fill the jug with water, and the rest of the armed men continue to advance towards the city of Ata." After saying that, he also jumped off his horse, and several soldiers cut off the freshly cooked pieces of horse leg meat with knives, and handed them into the hands of the camp manager, Merlot almost choked to death from eating, and tears flowed, and then quickly turned on the horse's back, and continued to direct the well-fed soldiers in pursuit.

As the smoke of the camp continued to rise, pilgrim soldiers from all directions "consciously" began to use it as a supply depot to the city of Atta, and when Govin arrived on horseback, he found that the road was full of infantry running on both sides, with cloth bags or baskets around their necks, containing a few pieces of half-cooked meat and a few hastily made wheat cakes, and while eating, they headed for the castle.

"Move my banner forward, I must take advantage of this momentum to capture Atta City."

Upon reaching the foot of Atta, Gawain saw a crowd of attackers and shouts of despair or madness everywhere under the clouds: the defenders were in the former, and the attackers were in the latter.

Then the Grand Duke saw that the castle guard tower was constantly whistling down with blue or orange flames, like a scene in a myth, and anyone who touched it on the edge of the moat was scorched and rolled to death, and no one else could extinguish the fire with their hands or water, "Anything like the spear of fire in Venice?" After pondering for a moment, Gawain shouted to Merlot to all the pilgrim processions who were pursuing the victory, "Do not blindly attack the city, and after feeding all the soldiers with the plundered food, set up camp facing the jungle of Daphne and the Orontes River, and separate the city of Atta from the camps of Kobha and Ridwan." Then, the northern, eastern, and southern sides of the city were enclosed, leaving only the road to the west leading to Port Saint-Simon. ”

At this moment, the whole city of Atta was boiling all around, bathed in the flames of war: several Syrian citadels, including Alexander the Younger, where the remaining troops of the Gimagiis brigade, plus the infantry left behind by the Count of Blois, rushed out and fought to uproot the Turkic camp there, killing and expelling many of them.

At the same time, when another general of Mosul, Boesas, with 5,000 men and horses, circled the jungle of Daphne, he found that the king of Aleppo, Kmidwan, and his more than 10,000 soldiers, had not experienced any battle at all, and had only seen the defeat of the Amassa tribe in front of them, so they had cleanly abandoned their camps and positions, and fled in the direction of the territory.

Boesas looked at the empty camp with shock and rage, and lamented the cowardice of the descendants of the Seljuk sultans.

On the other side of the jungle, blood-red flames filled the low sky

When the flag officer next to him asked General Boesas if he wanted to support the remnants of Atta and Amasa, the general rolled his eyes, "The soldiers are all afraid to cross the river, and we can only make a greater victory for the enemy." The whole army first occupied the camp left behind by the brave prince of Aleppo, and held on to it. ”

After nightfall, the Turkic soldiers of Atta, seeing that there was no hope for reinforcements, began to abandon the towers and walls, opened the gates of the city themselves, and fled frantically along the western road towards the port of St. Simeon.

But this road was deliberately left by Gawain, and on the side of the road, 500 cavalry of the Red Hand and Lower Lorraine were ambushed, and at this moment they swarmed up and wantonly slashed at the Turkic soldiers who only knew how to run, and more than 2,000 people who were originally nested in this city were all killed.

At dawn, Gawain and his guards, at the sound of a trumpet, stepped through the dilapidated and burning gates of Atta, and the bodies of the wounded and dead, and entered the city, where several spearheads and Bramson came to report that "in the granaries of Atta City, a reserve for 10,000 people for two days has been found. ”

Gawain's eyes were bloodshot with exhaustion, and when he heard the report, he said to Godfrey and Robert beside him, "Our attack is undoubtedly correct, and if the armies of Amassa and Kobuha had gathered together in two days to attack us, who had been utterly starved, we would have perished in Hell and death today. ”

"What to do with these rations?" Flanders Robert asked.

"Leave this place to me to supervise, Gawain, you and the Count will return to Antioch City together, and negotiate with the lords on these matters." This is Godfrey's proposal.

But in the firelight, the expression on Gawain's face was deaf, as if he didn't take Godfrey's thoughts in his eyes at all, and his tone was full of surprise, "We have achieved such a great victory, Godfrey, you still have to discuss with that group of people for the use of these food reserves?" ”

Godfrey froze, his ears were full of tongues of fire **** wood and ruins, and then Gawain stared at him, and said in an unquestionable tone, "Just ask someone to send a personal letter to Bohemond, our current situation is far from the moment when the dust has settled, the food reserves in Atta City, of course, are all given to our soldiers, and tell the people in Antioch City to find a way to hold on for a few more days, they have held out for so long, they don't care about two more days." Tomorrow we will ration the food to all the horses, and then divide our forces and take the port of Saint-Simon all the way, and advance all the way in the direction of the camps of Kobha and Ridwan. ”

"Make up your mind, Duke, I reckon Anna and Godhilde should also mobilize the Italian fleet that had fled to the Gulf of Issus and return to port!" Gawain then raised his voice a few degrees. (To be continued.) )