Soon, the Norman army and the Gimagius Brigade in front of Herod's tower also rushed to attack. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first to do so was Tancred, who was still drinking horses in front of St. Stephen's Monastery when two Turkic beys slipped out of the walls of Herod's tower and were brought to him, begging for mercy and willing to open the gates for the Norman generals so that he could be the first to take the temple.

"Blow the trumpet, charge!" Without hesitation, Tanfred made a promise to protect the lives of the two traitors, and asked them to lead the way: through the gates of Herod's Tower, there was the traditional "Upper City" of Jerusalem, through which he could pass diagonally and break through the old walls of the Holy City, and then capture the palace area of the Holy City, the so-called Temple Mount, from the flank and rear.

Six thousand Norman troops, driven forward by about three hundred knightly sergeants in full armor and followed by light horsemen and infantry of various tribes of servants, took the left half of Herod's tower in a whirlwind—and then four thousand (the rest remained in Beirut and Jubail) Jimegis, with their banners raised, took the other half of the wall.

Soon, the St. George and Silver Spike banners continued to advance along the fire-filled upper city, and Tancred continued to charge at the old walls of the holy city, but many Normans followed and "lost", because when they saw a beautiful house along the way, they went in with their swords, slashed the owner of the house who was hiding, killed the man, stabbed the woman, grabbed the feet of the weeping children and babies and tore them in half, or smashed them into meat sauce on the walls and door frames. Then the Normans stood in the middle of the courtyard with their bloody swords, and said to the trembling servants of the house, "Now you, along with the furniture, the grain, the wine, the silk clothes, and the coins of this house, belong to me, the new master." ”

On the other side of the Tower of David, the Franks were also chasing and killing any heretic with axes and spears, but in the end they were impatient to identify each other, and any stranger they saw, whether Saracens, Maronites, or any other race, were hacked to death in the streets and houses.

The corpses strewn the streets, and the inhabitants of the lower city on the side of the Tower of David were wiped out in a short time—the remnants, led by camels and donkeys, carrying wives and sons, cried and fled in the direction of the only area they could hope for: the Temple Mount.

Godfrey, Baldwin, Robert, and other lords, from the captured towers to the corpse-strewn streets, stood there, trembling in both directions, looking up at the towering towers, the walls, and the blue sky, and the smoke drifting by, and felt that the whole sky was spinning, and everywhere the shouts of the people echoed.

"Holy City, in our hands. We are the true sons of Jesus, and now we have finally freed this city from the hands of wicked bastards. Godfrey looked up to the sky and then fell into a demonic state, kneeling on the blood-stained ground, drawing crosses and praying to the sky.

The surrounding lords kept asking what to do.

But Godfrey didn't answer, so everyone asked Baldwin again.

"Come with me, and follow this street, and take the old wall and the temple over there." After a moment's thought, Baldwin immediately put on his chain-turban again, turned over and drew his sword from its sheath, and then countless Frankish soldiers shouted, waving weapons and banners, and followed Count Adana in a furious wave, also in the direction of the Temple Mount.

The Temple Mount, in fact, in the time of King Herod, was located in the middle of Jerusalem, with the New City to the north, the Upper and Lower Towns to the south, and the so-called Old Walls in between, and the Second Wall (Upper and Lower) and the Third Wall (New Town) to the south. Later, during the reign of the Roman Empire, knowing that during the reign of the Crescent conquest, the regulations of the city of Jerusalem changed greatly, and the upper and lower cities gradually shrank a lot, and gradually only the two core areas of Herod's Tower and David's Tower remained, while the new city expanded a lot to the west and northwest, so that the original spindle-shaped city gradually became the shape of bread - and the Temple Mount also changed from the original mid-waist position to the southeast location.

As for the temple itself, it was what pilgrims of this era called "Solomon's Temple" or "King's Palace", but it had nothing to do with Solomon at this time—Solomon's first temple, which contained the riches and treasures of the entire Jewish kingdom and was the holiest place for the priests, but it was later razed to the ground by the Neo-Babylonians; After the Zionist state, Herod restored the temple on the same site, commonly known as the Second Temple, but then a great war broke out between the Roman Empire and the Jewish rebels, resulting in the Second Temple being destroyed by the Roman general Vepasian (leaving only a few parapets, including the famous Wailing Wall), the Jewish kingdom fell again, the subjects were displaced from all over the world, and the conqueror Romans built a temple of Jupiter on it; After the conquest of the Crescent army, the famous "Dome of the Rock Mosque" and the Al-Aqsa Mosque were built on the Temple Mount.

Therefore, the Temple Mount is actually two mosques......

However, the golden top of the mosque still makes it the most eye-catching target.

Now Tancred is also advancing there, and Baldwin is the same, with two people, one left and one right.

Gregor, on the other hand, led his brigade of Gimeggis through the old gates and rushed to the city of David's Palace, where he did not go too far in slaughtering and looting, nor did he drive the Temple Mount with Tancred, but to the church of the Holy Sepulchre in the northwest corner of the city.

The Cathedral of the Holy Sepulchre, where the burial ground of Jesus was enshrined, was originally just an open space, and after the death of Jesus, a simple cemetery cave in the Jewish style was excavated here, with signs erected on it. Ironically, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, he built a temple dedicated to Venus, the god of beauty, on the tomb of Jesus, so that the god of beauty and Jesus were companions for a long time. By the time of Constantine the Great, Helena, who was also the craziest "archaeological queen" in ancient times, dug up the tomb and cross of Jesus, and then this cross was named the "True Cross", and then Helena built three interconnected synagogues on the tomb, the most famous of which is the circular "Resurrection Hall", in the central core under its dome, there is a "burial chamber", below which is the tomb of Jesus......

When Gregor marched forward in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with the Silver Spike, the entire square ahead was filled with begging city dwellers, crying and screaming.

An old man in a plain hat and a purse walked through the crowd to Gregor's horse and looked at him: "I am Gerald, the manager of the Hospital of the Holy Sepulchre, the servant of the Lord. General, I beg you to stop killing, regardless of the other side's faith. ”

When Gregor learned of his identity, he hurriedly dismounted, placing his sword in the palm of Gerald's hand, "I am the general of the Great Patron, please allow my brigade to protect the entire church and all those who have taken refuge. (To be continued.) )