This man's name is John. The old man of Oakhill is the dignified Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch!

But what's the use of talking about such an identity now? Yaji. Xiyang, a slave-born fellow, can imprison and torture him.

Because there were many Greek, Armenian, and Syrian Orthodox Christians in Antioch, Aggie was very uncomfortable with their inclination after the siege, so he took Patriarch John into prison and hung him up and beat him as a weight to coerce and coerce the Orthodox Christians in the city.

But even so, Yaji was not reassured, so he shackled all the women, children, and elderly people of tens of thousands of Orthodox families and imprisoned them in the Acropolis fortress adjacent to the mountain range, as hostages to drive the group to help defend them.

"That is not good, Christ told us to love our people, Your Excellency the Lord." Patriarch John was so angry that his two bloody, dirty feet dangled in front of Aggie's eyes.

"I don't believe in your creed, this world is too bad, there are enemies everywhere, and the sword in their hands is bright, but I really can't love it." Yaji. Siyan sarcastically replied, "Watch him closely, don't let him escape, if any Christian believers in the city dare to commit adultery with foreign enemies, execute all the hostages in the acropolis." ”

Right here in Yaji. At the same time that Siyan said this, everything that broke out in Atta City confirmed his view that although cruel, he was far-sighted.

Gawain was studying a very "serious" topic with Kabeamiya in the tent (really), and then he heard the shouts from inside Atta, and all the generals and guards poured out of the tent and saw it, like a raging ocean breaking through the levee. In the castle they had besieged for several times, towers were burned everywhere. The remnants and heads of the Turkic soldiers who were originally defending here. And the green and black tooth flags were constantly thrown down, "Gawain, look, it's the sign of the cross." Kabeamiya pointed to the corner tower in front of her and reminded.

"It's supposed that the believers in the city are rioting! Called Bramson, with Italian veterans carrying shields, erecting ladders. Gawain waved his horse's head scepter and made an instant decision.

The other pilgrim camps also reacted very quickly, and countless soldiers clamored for it. Carrying the ladder and began to climb towards the towers and pheasants that had lost their defensive function, and soon the back of the gate trembled, and there was a loud cracking sound, that the Orthodox Christians of the city had killed the defenders, rushed to their side, cut the latch of the gate with their axes, and fell off the drawbridge, and then the knights and soldiers of the pilgrims shouted and rushed into it with their swords in hand - hundreds of Turkic soldiers were all captured.

The Orthodox Christians in the city came out in a mighty way. Flutes and drums were beating, and the pilgrims were warmly welcomed to "liberate" their cities, and many complained of the atrocities committed by the Turkic defenders against their homeland and their wives and daughters.

But the Frankish knights. Apparently uninterested in what had happened to the group, they instead called for the chaplain and viciously pulled the captives off the city with ropes one by one. Kicked them into the icy Orontes River and forced them to be baptized.

In the icy waters. Everywhere there were Turkic soldiers, wailing and begging. Some men cried and climbed ashore and refused to accept pagan baptism, but were soon stabbed back with spears by the Franks, and the flames at the head of the city were still burning, and Gawain and Cabeamia watched in silence: Muzafiadin beside him, also knelt on the ground in pain, but at the same time felt lucky—when his master caught him, he did not force him to convert, but continued to give him the power of the creed.

On the flat boundary of the river valley opposite Atta City, Yaji. The four emirs under Siyan, commanding tens of thousands of horsemen, lit torches, and burned the evening twilight clouds, approaching the castle like clouds. Then they were amazed to see that the castle had fallen, and the banner of the pilgrim's cross was fluttering on the top of the city, so Rosselon, who was most cautious, sent the herald cavalry, "The city of Atta has fallen, and we withdraw to the fortress of the estuary." ”

On the opposite side, all of Baldwin and Gawain's cavalry circled the back of the castle in several lines, also holding torches, and waiting like stars, so that the other three emirs, after watching this formation, also agreed with Rosselon.

In the tent, Gawain sat on a high chair, Cabeamia and Merlot, and the two Praetorian warriors Muzafiadin and Diem, Goliath stood on the left and right, and then a strong man with black curly hair walked in.

"You organized the previous riot in Atta City?" Gawain had the feeling of knowingly asking, but he still had to ask, because it would add a sense of glory to the other party.

"Yes, Your Highness the Grand Duke, my name is Gregor, I was originally a servant of a monk of the Antioch Orthodox Church, who rebelled against the Seljuks in the mountains ten years ago, but then I was betrayed, my comrades and teammates died, and I was sold as a slave to survive, I used to work in the stables of a Turkic Gazi in the city of Atta, and now I killed him, for my faith, and then I encouraged everyone to do it, and took the tower and the gates!" Sure enough, the Gregor was very indignant and proud to hold the scimitar, which he had taken from the dead Ghazi as a trophy.

"Who betrayed you?"

Gregor looked at him with resentment and hatred, "It's Ruben and his son in Vanka, I went to him with the Orthodox Volunteers and the peasants who were fighting against the Seljuk taxes, and how much I had endured through the mountains and valleys of Amonos, hoping that he would lead everyone in Cilicia to launch a counterattack against Antiochus. ”

"But he only gave you a rope?"

"Yes, he tied us up with ropes and gave them to Aji secretly. Siyan came to show favor to the fellow, he was afraid that the Seljuks were terribly afraid, and the Turks buried everyone else alive on the way. "Now that we have surrendered the city of Atta, we know that the barbarian pilgrims from Gaul, allied with Ruben, cannot tolerate us anywhere. ”

Hearing this, Gawain looked incredulous, so Kabeamia leaned over and explained in his ear.

It turned out that people like Gregor, called "Syrian Greeks", were originally subjects of the Eastern Roman Empire, but when Syria fell into the hands of the Crescentists, a considerable part of the inhabitants went to Anatolia to take refuge and emigrate, and they also formed the backbone of the later imperial counteroffensive, such as the engineer from Syria who invented Greek fire.

Now that the stars have changed, it is embarrassing to remain in Syria: the empire is cramped in a corner of Constantinople, Anatolia is full of Seljuk Turks and Armenians, and a large number of pilgrims are Western barbarians: in short, no one wants to see them. Aggie hangs Patriarch Antioch up and beats him at will, which is typical. (To be continued.) )