Before Tancred could say anything, Raul turned his horse's head, buckled his helmet on his head, and pointed with his fingers, and then a dozen or so Norman knights also consciously turned to follow him, and lined up at the mountain pass leading to the next mountain pass in the wasteland, and raised their kis shields one by one.

Around the hillside behind, more and more Greek cavalry gathered, all of them were Tetisius's team, they were scattered, some stood on the wilderness opposite Raul, and some were galloping on the slopes on both sides, Tetisius under the military banner looked at the Norman knights behind this small team, laughed dryly, and then whipped the famous herald next to him with his horsewhip, "According to the normal procedure of martial artists, speak politely." ”

So the herald, holding a small flag in one hand, galloped half an arrow away from Raul, bowed and saluted, and uttered the simple Greek word, "Surrender." ”

"However, there are so many of you who have to surrender that we don't have the ropes to take the prisoners on." Raul replied, and the other ten Norman knights laughed.

The herald seemed to have foreseen this outcome, shook his head, and galloped back to Tetisius, "The Normans are unwilling to surrender. ”

Tetisius shrugged his shoulders and asked the military judge beside him, "Has the infantry followed?" When he had received an affirmative answer, he raised his knuckled whip and slashed it down, the sound echoing through the empty valley wasteland.

Boom, the Turkic cavalry, which was still scattered everywhere just now, suddenly gathered together like a rain cloud, and swished towards Raul's formation, whizzing and drawing their bows to shoot the first wave of arrows, but because of the lack of courage and distance, they all landed more than ten feet in front of the Norman knights, causing them to laugh.

Raul then divided the ten Norman knights into two teams, one after the other, fearlessly withstood the rain of arrows from the Turkic cavalry, slowly shielded each other, and retreated towards the mountain pass.

Arrows continued to shoot into Raul's shield, and some even hit his armor, but most of them had no strength, bent and fell in front of the locks, like the sound of a large number of lice burned by the light of fire.

"This group of Greek cavalry is helping us to kill insects!" Raul's joke emboldened everyone, and they cursed contemptuously to provoke Tetisius to come and fight imminently, but the Normans were not willing to pursue any enemy who came close to archery, because they knew that if they got rid of the order, they would be torn to pieces by the hyenas.

"Keep it that way." Tetisius gave the order, very calmly, "In addition, send Caesar's personal infantry to make a detour back to the mountain pass and block the retreat of this group of Norman bandits." After giving this order, Tyti Huston felt a sense of relief that he was at last free to use the army, and to pursue glory and victory with the necessary sacrifices, a feeling not felt in decades, like stealing a bag of gold coins from Caesar Macaulinus's house and squandering them in the royal capital market to buy his favorite goods.

Caesar's foot privates, carrying javelins, bows and arrows, and slings, clamoured, climbed the mountains and mountains, detoured from various paths to the high places of the pass, and kept shooting downward, but the Norman knights withstood all kinds of blows, and still retreated unrelentingly, and finally reached the mountain pass, Raul saw that his team carrying Tancred had gone away, so he whistled, and all the Norman knights turned around and rushed down in unison, and several of the private soldiers who rushed down could not stop them at all, and ran back to the rubble with rolling and crawling, Condescendingly, he continued to harass with light shooting gear, sending Raul away with a swaggering dust.

As a result, after half an hour of engagement, Tetisius had zero success, did not kill a single Norman knight of the palace, nor captured a single one, but only shot three or four of them. But the general was not in the slightest bit discouraged, he watched the setting sun, summoned several heralds, "Take this pass, and light many bonfires on the hills leading to the seashore, and on the high hills, tomorrow a small part of the men and horses will continue to pursue the Normans, and most of the cavalry will follow me and take the road to cut off Lepanto." ”

When Raul was unscathed, with a complete squad, and followed the main Norman army, everyone cheered proudly, they laughed at the timidity and inadequacy of the Greek cavalry, and then everyone chose to camp in the area with the barren mountains and the river down, and Tancred was very grateful to Raul, "I am really ashamed to be useless, but I am fortunate to have you to support the core of this team." ”

"It doesn't matter, the Turkic emir Zahas, who is entrenched at the southern tip of Moriah on the Cape of Sulfokat, has received a message from our spy that he is agitating his army and marching towards Corinth. Therefore, the army of the Greeks will not pursue us too far. Raul was relieved, "When Bohemond has captured Amalfi and your wounds have healed, we will march here again and throw the severed heads of Greek cowards from the Bay of Pereira over the Gulf of Corinthia!" ”

"And take all the silk workers captive and disgrace the Greek emperor of Constantinople." Tancred also regained his senses, and then he paused, "Raul, I have heard about your son's misfortune. ”

The white-bearded old knight sitting in front of the bed was also a little sad when he heard this topic, and he crossed his hands to protect his wrinkled face, "Otherwise, at my age, it would have been a dog who would have come to fight for me." ”

"Injuries from hunting?"

Raul nodded, "There was a lot of blood, and I couldn't get it back on the spot, and my stupid old lady also committed suicide when she heard this—she obviously has two sons and a daughter." ”

"Live Raul, this is the Lord's test for us, not only to witness the moment when I defeated the Greek hero, but to prepare to go to the Holy Sepulchre, I think that your thoughts may be redeemed and forgiven after pouring out to the Holy Son." Lying down Tancred, in turn, said with relief.

"Uh, yes. Another ten years, right? Raul said, swinging his hands down and shaking them twice on his knees.

At this time, in front of the temple of Corinth, Gawain was standing, and behind him were all military servants carrying fires, and Ingrid stood behind him, and looked down with great excitement on the side of the city wall below: thousands of strong men and military servants, barebacked, carrying planks, from the Gulf of Corinthia, to the Perera Sea Road, and then many women were barefoot, stepping on it, greased, and everywhere there were torches of light, and the bay was lined with the masts of ships, and among the surrounding farms, Farmer tenants belonging to the Mesadini family lined up to pull all sorts of horses, mules, and cattle toward the boardwalk.

"It's magnificent, Count Gawain." Ingrida couldn't help but sigh.