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Raymond hurried to hold the galloping horse, but it was too late: the horse stumbled, and the new Earl of Laudisia, by great inertia, threw himself out of the saddle, and rolled twice between the horse's hooves and the deer's feet before he fell to the ground, covered in blood, and his helmet and holy spear fell to the side.

At the same time, many arrows swept over the "lucky" Earl with a sneering and stealthy sound.

Vallo, who rushed ahead, unconsciously blocked seven arrows for Raymond, the sharp arrow cluster pierced the lock ring of his armor, piercing his skin and flesh, Vallo's mount was shot at the same time, he fell off his horse, seven wounds gurgled and bleeding, Valo gritted his teeth and roared, kicked his feet in pain, he touched the wound with leather riding gloves, all blood, and soon Valor realized that the arrow was smeared with poison, he began to breathe, his whole body was paralyzed, and his face was constantly twitching, "That's it, that's it, Killed the venerable Hugh. These were the last words that the Counsellor General of the French Palace shouted to all those around him with all his might, and he fell to the ground with his eyes wide open—he did not die in the First Crusade, but inexplicably in the Second Crusade, and, like Hugh, did not die at the hands of the enemy.

"Captain of the Guard, they are our defeated soldiers." At this moment, the soldier with a bow on the rock, with a face full of awakening from a dream, shouted to Mikhail, who was panting.

"Keep shooting!" Mikhail's hair was scattered, his eyes were cracking, and he continued to chop his hands, apparently losing his mind and composure, for he saw that the Grand Count, who had been rescued by a deer, was already struggling to get up on the ground, surrounded by several corpses of men and horses who had been killed by arrows, several Provençals were surrounding him holding shields, and the Tekopo cavalry in the ranks were shouting in Greek, "Don't shoot again, we are the ranks of the Empire".

"Go on, ......" Before the chief of the guard could finish the order, he suddenly fell on the rock, his hands and feet twitched wildly, and his mouth foamed, and he had a seizure, and immediately a soldier who knew about it hurriedly came over, waved the flag in his place, and then held him back and rescued him......

In the end, although Raymond was not shot, he was also wounded, and he refused to continue on to Castamonu, because he also became suspicious of the emperor, but fled with his soldiers and horses in the direction of Sinop, while the Earl of Alban and Count Miles also mixed with the defeated army and ran out one after another.

As for the 170,000 pilgrims who remained in the camp, the old man was driven by the Turks into several valleys, where he was shot with arrows, burned with fire, and slashed with knives, and slaughtered them all; The delicate and beautiful noblewomen were immediately tortured and killed in various cruel ways by the rebels who took turns to *** resist, and the obedients, after being humiliated and raped, were led by the Danishmund's cavalry in ropes and shackles, and were escorted to distant Amasya, Sivas, and even further Armenia and Great Khorasan, where they would be greeted by the fate of being slaves and finally disappearing namelessly.

Half a month after this tragic defeat, several monks of the local Orthodox Church came to observe the place, and they recorded: the entire Gangara castle was covered in corpses and pools of blood, there were mutilated and miserable bodies of believers everywhere, pyramid-like female heads were piled up on several hillsides, they were all killed by the Turks**, vultures and crows pecked at their beautiful faces and skin, and the gray-black rotting flesh exposed the bones of Sensen, it is said that 60,000 people were killed, and the rest were all taken captive and sold into slavery, All the money, silk, and goods were robbed by Merrick's men.

An unprecedentedly large contingent, with countless ordinary and pious men and women, dissipated miserably among the barren deserts of Paphragonia, like a bloody nightmare.

Who is to blame?

Raymond's command error?

Guillaume's escape?

Mikhail's death is not saved?

Emperor Alexios' suspicion estrangement?

The appearance of Gawain, Conrad, Tetisius and other commanders?

Everyone is to blame, but everyone shirks the blame after the war.

Gawain, who received the letter, was now camped with two brigades in the area between Ankara and the Harris River, and his explanation for the city of Rome and Constantinople was simple: "Since the siege of Kayseri, more than 10,000 of our army have been fighting, marching, and moving for two weeks in a row, and the food and straw carried by the baggage convoy have been exhausted, so they have to camp here until the city fortress station of Milio Sephalong is transferred to the grain before it can continue. And because Konya and Anglas were both entrenched by enemies, the grain had to be diverted from Antiochus the Younger, to Caron, and then to Nazar, and the journey was long and arduous. So there is really nothing that can be done about the war that happened in Gangara. ”

Tetisius also sent a document to the capital, "Our army has arrived in front of the city of Anglas, carry out an encirclement operation, cut down trees and erect fortifications, and do not retreat suddenly, otherwise we will be pursued by the enemy and there will be a danger of annihilation." ”

As for Brenus, he did not even explain it, because he and his wife had always stayed in the city of Philadofiam to transfer supplies, and how the fighting on the front line was "untouchable".

Just as the parties continued to prevaricate, the Grand Emir of Merrick, who carried Gangara's great victory over the aftermath, swept through most of Paphragonia: Mikhail, who had recovered from epilepsy, could only defend Kastamonu - so Merrick happily divided his army, and led by General Barras to the north, without difficulty, captured the castle of Pverar at the mouth of the Harris River (now Bavla, Turkey). arrows and scimitars slay any scattered survivors of the pilgrims, who are said to have more than a thousand heads of Frankish nobles or soldiers hanging from their saddles; The other way, led by Merrick himself, bypassed Castamonu and drove straight to Germanico in the south.

The city's Generalissimo Conrad, the Archbishop of Milan, and Guillaume, Duke of Aquitaine, who had escaped from the previous battle, abandoned the castle without any resistance and ran further south in the direction of the Sakarya River, trampling on each other and killing countless German pilgrims and soldiers along the way.

Raymond, on the other hand, fled into Sinop, on the northern headlands, and was so frightened that he was ready to jump on the deck of the Hot Duck's ship and continue his westward flight.

The terrible news even reached the area of Afyon and Philadofiam, and the local Roman people were terrified and uneasy.

In the palace in the city, the purple-clothed princess Dedo finds her "lovely little husband" Brenus with a solemn and serious face, and tells him about his plan:

"Now the only new forces that can fight on the entire battlefield are Gawain, Theodoro and Tetisius, and the last one refuses to be wooed by us, so we have to reach a cooperation agreement with the first two as soon as possible." (To be continued.) )