Soon, the "captain" attacked first: with a flick of its wings, it swooped down on the ferocious pit viper about a foot above the ground. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In an instant, the snake's head flicked back like the bolt reed of an arquebus, nullifying the "captain's" attack, and before Gawain and Muzafiadin could see it clearly, the snake bounced back the triangular head of venom and pecked at the captain's chest. The speed was so fast that the two of them could only see a faint velvety afterimage trail, and Muzafiadin could only let out a brief exclamation.

The eagle feathers flew, and the "captain" struggled to raise the big feather on his wings and quickly half-spin, only to barely dodge the snake's counterattack, and was almost bitten and killed, and then the eagle falcon soared upward, retracted its claws, and flashed the snake three or four consecutive attacks before it re-established itself seven or eight feet away from the scaly beast.

"Hohoo!" Seeing that the "captain" was at a disadvantage, Muzafiadin rode up on a horse with a long pole lasso to kill the snake. But Gawain stopped him—when the captain landed, his wings drooped and his back was turned away from the pit viper, and the triumphant pit viper swam swiftly to deliver a fatal blow to the loser.

With a whistling sound, the "captain" suddenly rose up, flew upside down and flew over the pit viper's head, and then pressed the snake with his two paws, and then pecked the snake several times with his sharp beak, and the snake died quickly without even struggling a few times.

It turned out that this flat-haired guy was pretending to fail, and now he was finally able to successfully kill the enemy with his backhand, and he is worthy of being the "captain" who is used to seeing stormy seas. While it trampled on the corpse of its foe, and looked at its master with brown eyes, its master, Gawain, fell into deep thought.

Several herald horsemen galloped from the trail that slowly meandered through the gorge, "Your Highness, the Lord Patron, this is a letter from Caesar of Smyrna. ”

"Hmm......" Gawain came back from a little confusion and pulled out the secret letter in the leather tube.

In it, Anna confessed her mistake first, and said that she had now made the building of the royal box directly the School of Law, and stopped the construction of the Colosseum, and sent all the craftsmen and craftsmen to the front line of the siege of Prussa, to help build the fortifications, roads, and to make the local Pronian landlords hand over the conscription of 6,000 men at the cost of reducing half of the taxes in the Lydian Frontier District.

"But I still can't go back to the city of Tarsus, even if the people there miss me, because husband, we haven't entered the white gate tower of Prussa!" Anna's words below suddenly made the cold sweat on Gao Wen's forehead, and he began to say to himself, "Anna is right, the goal of our expedition is to capture the city of Prussia, this is a complete plan!" Now that Bramson is still supporting on the northern front, there is no need to be afraid of Theodoro's invasion, and it is not so much that my withdrawal is more cautious than confused and timid......"

Then Anna continued to puff up, "My stupid brother has all the essence concentrated in the city of Prussa, as you said before, victory in Prussa is equivalent to victory on the entire Western Front, and it is also equivalent to opening the door to the imperial capital, so there must be no retreat. Anna then quoted from the Bible to tell Gawain what they would do if they captured the city of Prussa: "When your deliverer comes, all the nations should build roads, and set up banners, and meet them at the gates." ”

"Concentrate all your efforts on the capture of Prusa......" Gawain muttered this sentence repeatedly as he held Anna's letter.

Soon another herald arrived on horseback, from Aralmanburg, written by the mentor Magrundius, and the venerable elder began with a cheerful announcement of the birth of his grandson, the heir of the Pranivan clan, "the lovely, clever and strong Turianus", and then talked about how the child had inherited the excellent genes of the famous families of Antiochus and Respas, as if Gawain had given his own chromosomes (and there was nothing wrong with the facts).

After returning to the point, the Mentor also strongly advised Gawain not to give up the current situation: "Now Caesar has sent an army to accept and conquer the islands of the Holy Sea, and there are many good sailors living on them, as long as they provide them with pay and timber, they can build a large number of ships to help you in the future attack on the imperial capital; And the cannons and guns are being forged day and night in the workshops of Seleucia, Alarman, Sith and Tarsus, and if you don't go back, the progress will not be slowed down, and if you go back, the process will not be faster, so you should now stay in the siege of Prussa, wield your sword and hold it to the end, and witness its fall, to win your great victory, O true king! And once you get Prussa, how can cities like Nicaea, Abydos, and Nicomedia dare to put up the slightest resistance to you? You will have half of the entire Marimara Sea, and the hooves of the horses of the Kingdom of Tarsus will soon be loaded below the deck of the warship and set foot on the land of Gallipoli. Then, with a little arrangement, you can concentrate five or six main brigades and turn back and crush Theodoro and David without any worries - in the future you and Caesar will be given a brilliant crown and power over the land and sea in the cathedral of the imperial capital, and my little Turianus will be Prince of Respas, who will have the strong blood of your body (and then the old man will finally thank Gawain). ”

After reading the letter from his mentor, Gawain wondered if he had really made a mistake in his previous plan, and whether he should now follow the advice of Anna and Magrendius and take Prusa in one fell swoop?

Soon, a third group of herald cavalry arrived, and it turned out to be a letter from the captor Theognes, which was very brief:

"I must give priority to the white city of Prussa, and I must rush here to fight after I have recovered from my wounds, because I will personally shoot the traitor Tetisius who killed the king, and avenge Your Majesty! If I survive the war, I will follow you all the way to the city of Kutaisi, and let that King David serve you in women's clothes, pour wine and dance for you! ”

At this point, the captain rose and fell back onto Gawain's shoulders.

At the same time, a herald of cavalry arrived, "Your Highness, Caesar has left Smyrna, and is said to be going to the siege of Prussia to reward the soldiers and personally supervise the battle. ”

"Drink." Gawain waved the reins, took the neighing Sabina, and shouted to the Turkic servants, "Pass the order, all the sergeants will turn into guards - we will do as captains and fight back to the city of Prusa, and I will see the Marimara Sea before the Holy Driving Day (late September)!" ”