On the other side of the river, the remaining troops were all Turkic light infantry, and when Hugh discovered Asase and resolutely crossed the river to launch a surprise attack on their position, because the former commanders, Rosellon and Kazknuz, led all the cavalry to the bridgehead to reinforce the Futuis spear formation, all of them lacked sufficient fast horses and mobility to block Hugh's attack.

When the archers of the Turks, shouting and running to the bank of the river, more than a dozen knights from Paris had occupied a dry landing place, and the general counsel of the palace, Vallo, after seeing the banners and arrows of the Crescentists approaching them, resolutely raised his spear, urged the tired horses, and together with his companions, roared up the hillside, his arm was slashed, but the tip of his spear pierced several Turkic soldiers one after another, and the rest of the enemy panicked and scattered like ants.

When Hugh reached Hugh's breastplate, fluttering the shawl that marked the glory of Île-de-France, he reached the hill conquered by Vallo, and in front of him about a thousand Turks were fleeing in the direction of the city of Antioch, and had no courage to resist his sword.

Then, Hugh himself led three hundred cavalry to cut off the back road of the Orontes River Bridge, and the three emirs who were guarding the fortress at the mouth of the river also "made a quick decision": with all the cavalry, they once again followed the direction of the long bridge, and fled in the direction of Antioch before Hugh completely blocked the retreat. Merlot, who commanded the Red Hand Brigade, and Ser Gilbert, who commanded Baldwin's Sword and Shield Brigade, gave orders to blow the earth-shattering horn and plunged into selfless pursuit.

Two thousand Futuis spearmen, overtaken by the Italian veterans and Frankish swordsmen who arrived quickly, were jammed on the bridge. In the misery, they were cut down one after another, and nearly half of them were killed. Bones were piled up around the bridge.

Seeing that the fortress of the estuary was lost, another emir stationed on the Rose Ridge, Kupa Suiksin. As Gawain had expected, he did not dare to stand alone, and fled with all his cavalry—and then fled into the fortress along the dense forests and valleys of the western city (as the pilgrims called the outer fort of Antioch), and along one of the many stone bridges of Antioch. Raymond mustered up his morale and quickly pursued him, seizing most of the baggage equipment, and was at once complacent.

And then, Raymond, whose desire is difficult to fill. Of course, after making a secret agreement with Gawain in advance, he sent his henchman Pence, led three hundred elite infantry, and suddenly, half deceiving and half robbing, occupied the two towers of the estuary fortress side by side.

But this act did not yet cause a great uproar in the ranks of the pilgrims, and many thought that it was just an ordinary order taken by the priesthood of the priesthood, Admar, to be carried out by Raymond. It was imperative to continue the advance that now took place at the mouth of the Orontes River, known to the Turks as the "Iron Bridge". Having fallen into the hands of the army of pilgrims, the rest of the soldiers, noblewomen, monks, and civilians gathered around Ademar, who was equally excited, and began to raise their flags. Driven the cattle and marched towards the city of Antioch, four miles and miles away!

Yaggie in the towering Acropolis. Xiyang, after hearing that the iron bridge was lost. Orders were given to the slaves, and the Patriarch John was whipped even more ferociously. The other party was distracted and screamed.

Then he ordered. Each of the four emirs occupies an acropolis tower and defends himself. In addition, the cavalry was dismantled, and given to four men of five hundred cavalry each, and enough fast horses, that they should constantly maneuver and attack the pilgrims' camp by means of the stone bridges that stretched outward from the city. Xiyang, a hero, keenly saw the Achilles' heel of the pilgrim army:

That is the elite soldiers subordinate to the lord, which are actually limited; More than seventy percent of the ranks were untrained civilians of women and children, and after they surrounded the city walls in a chaotic manner, they would only give their elite assault horses their heads, and would also interfere with the regular army's operations;

The pilgrims come from different territories, their hearts are not aligned, and the walls of Antioch are extremely long, and it is difficult for them to support each other, so they will give us every opportunity to break through;

Autumn is coming soon, and winter is coming, and it will be difficult for the huge pilgrim contingent throughout Antioch and even Syria to obtain sufficient supplies, and it will inevitably collapse by the next year.

Yaji. The reason why Siyan adheres to such an idea is, of course, because he has the impregnable city of Antioch in his hands.

The city, compared to the Nicaea that the pilgrims had seen before, was even more than above: the walls were two romans long and one and a half romans wide, and both the flat neighborhoods densely populated with buildings and shops, and the valleys on which the acropolis stood, were under its protection, and there was not a single gap, and three hundred and sixty towers as many as the days of the year strengthened the walls, and in the city Agi and his sons gathered three years' worth of grain and took thousands of Orthodox hostages. Surrounded by the rivers Orontes and Falfa, the outer passage is made of sturdy low-arched stone bridges, the result of the engineering wisdom of ancient Rome, which could never be destroyed by human or instrumental means.

And up the hill to the east of the city, up to the ridgeline, countless small fortresses and rock guards are dotted around, linked by the gables, echoing each other, like the countless giants around Yaji who provided him with protection, "Even if the city and the city walls are lost, I can continue to defend it with the help of the valley." Therefore, Yaji is full of confidence, not without reason.

In fact, when the commoners and noblewomen of the pilgrims saw before them the epic city of Nineveh, the mouth of the blood lion, which had previously appeared only in the Bible and mythology, they were also dumbfounded—Aggie abandoned the western city on the other side of the Falfa River, the outer fortress, and concentrated his army to shrink and hold on to the city.

Civilians and servants from the pilgrim army swarmed into the outer fort, tearing down the bricks and stones of the walls to build blockade ramparts or sharpen the stone projectiles needed for trebuchets, and the dense woods of the outer fort were cut down for shipbuilding and various siege equipment, and the trumpets sounded loudly, and at the meeting of cardinals with the participation of Admar, Gawain, Hugh, Bohemond, etc., the deployment of the siege was made, and an "unprecedented era of siege" was coming.

In addition, Ardmar took out the letter at the meeting, and his face was solemn, as if he had addressed Gawain and Baldwin, "His Majesty the Emperor is about to send his servant, General Tetisius, with five thousand elite men, to reinforce us at a rapid pace—but at the cost of us surrendering Tarsus to him." ”

But then, to the surprise of the priesthood, both Gawain and Baldwin generously said, "If the exchange is so good, we can hand over the city to the Emperor in exchange for the support of General Tetisius." ”

Bohemond and the others were stunned by this reply, and Ademar nodded approvingly, and said that I could reply to Constantinople like this, and then he took out the letter, "Around the time of winter, forty thousand pilgrims from Denmark and Germany will go here with all their might via Asia Minor to join our pilgrimage expedition. The leaders were the Lord Sven of Denmark and the Lord Reinstein the Mad, Count of Wardsenia. (To be continued.) )