Alexios then turned his gaze to the place where the falcons were circling again: in front of and behind the barren embankment, Duke Godfrey's battle banner had quickly dropped the infantry array and was approaching, "Rush forward, my horses, my warriors!" The Duke raised the eagle's head scepter, and a dozen or so horsemen, braving the howling cold wind, took control of their bridles, and were anxious to show their prowess before their beloved duke, and rushed up the slope of the embankment.

On the embankment, and on the slope over there, the dense spear points protruded, hidden among the swaying grass and reeds, Yagfi. The 100 elite guards of the Inner Palace Shield to which Nestas belonged, the 200 spearmen and 200 Tekopo men who had been replenished by the Emperor, were laid out in a row, and sure enough, they were ambushed in advance behind this embankment, and they were very successfully concealed under the skillful command of Commander Aconis, and all the warriors' battle axes and heavy armor were tied with fake hay.

After the shadow of the horse's head jumped up, Yagfi took the lead in standing up, waved the long-handled axe in his hand, and took the lead in slashing on the cuirass of a baron of Lorraine, and the blood of the other party burst out like a spring in the scream, and the men and horses were one, and in the red light, they were cut into two pieces by the commander of the Varangian Guard, and then the spearmen shouted and got up, the grass flew, the spear tips were moving, and the Godfrey cavalry on the embankment were stabbed down and killed one after another, and the corpses of men and horses rolled down the embankment, and the screams were endless.

When the rest of the cavalry realized that they had been ambushed, they hurriedly pulled the reins and pulled the war horse back, preparing to escort him around His Excellency and protect him.

Yagfi let out a long battle cry: two hundred Tekopo mercenary archers climbed the causeway. Behind Godfrey's striking battle flag, the arrows rained down.

Meantime. The Varangian Guards, with their faces hideous and terrifying, also brandished battle axes and iron spears. Fought bravely from the embankment.

"Retreat, retreat!" Godfrey gritted his teeth and pulled his bridle, and many of his servants and servants were killed and wounded by arrows, and his standard-bearer was Thomas Thomas, a warrior knight from Lower Lorraine, who was also shot in the face by a long arrow from the embankment, and although he had a helmet to protect him, he still had half of his cheek ruined, and he fell down with blood and wounds. "Thomas!" Enraged, Godfrey jumped off his mount and picked up his favorite knight, "Call the infantry regiment to your aid!" Thomas gritted his teeth and shouted as he clasped his arm-worn hand around the duke's arm.

"Go to the rescue of the princess!" This call was uttered by Count Emicius, Count of Mainz, who was in charge of overseeing the infantry array, and he drew his sword, and the drummer beside him immediately beat the drums of war. All the soldiers of the infantry regiment, shouting, headed for the embankment - all of them were anxious, because the terrain was wet and soft. The Duke's cavalry was caught in the chaos of the battle and was in great danger.

"Get out? It's not that easy. Alexios, who was overseeing the battle on the corner tower, looked at him like lightning, and quickly swung his arms. Harold, the veteran over there, waved his battle flag again—the walls of St. Atkins, a raised and inconspicuous tower. The extremely concealed secret door was suddenly opened, and about four squadrons of Turkic cavalry (about 200 horsemen). Roaring out, he quickly struck through the gap between Godfrey's cavalry and infantry arrays.

At this time, Godfrey was completely isolated under the causeway, and at the same time, the hundreds of emperor's cavalry, who had pretended to be defeated, also shouted back again, and clashed with arrows at Godfrey's army, which was cut into two sections.

At this moment, Godfrey and his cross banner, and hundreds of cavalry, were pinned down in the low-lying area under the causeway, and arrows whistled from all directions, all of them accompanied the Duke in a circular battle formation, and fought hard with swords and shields, and blood was sprinkled all over the snow. "Capture Godfrey, take his banner, and we'll be completely victorious." After speaking, the Emperor drew another sword of Athos, "Harold, take all the follow-up soldiers and horses, press over and defeat the enemy!" ”

Following the emperor's order, Harold jumped down the ladder directly with the purple battle banner in his hand, and then many city gates in the center and side of the St. Atkins Gate were opened, and countless elite forbidden soldiers, spearmen, archers, and elite warriors of all nationalities under the command of the emperor all shouted, like black fireworks spit out from each head of the hydra, killing out, and the shouts shook in all directions, and the snow on the eaves of the entire capital tower and monastery was shaken by clusters.

While Godfrey was being fought, Baldwin's troops were also in bloody battle at St. Atkins Bridge, three centuries away.

Baldwin's army was the first to strike, and the Swabian infantry regiment he led was deliberately lightly armed in order to keep up with the knight's cavalry, and at the first hour of the second minute, Baldwin's cavalry came to the stone bridge.

At that time, the sky was slightly cool, thick fog and snow, and the surroundings were deadly silent, and only the extremely vague outline of the Jukuntina Palace could be seen opposite, with scattered buildings and barren land in between. Baldwin, with his chain-and-turban turban, watched the battlefield for a moment, then gave the order for the scouts to move forward, the whole army to march to drums, and cross the bridge.

"Then I informed the priest that Gawain's company would continue to enter and occupy the palace of Jukuntina, and the balance of victory would be tilted in our favor."

The horses neighed, and the first to pass was Baldwin's banner and cavalry teams, and the infantry troops were on standby on the west side of the bridge.

Soon the Franks heard ominous sounds: in the thick fog, at the meeting place of the natural river and the moat, there was the sound of drums and oars in front and behind, and soon the silhouette of the ship was revealed, which was the "Panphyria" light oars-galleys of the Byzantine Roman sailors, each carrying about seventy men, forty oarsmen, thirty combatants, sloops, with a single deck, raised sides, and defensive shields and wooden lintels.

The swift arrival of these Panphilian warships from all directions of the river shows that the emperor had worked hard to conceal them in advance—many of them had been mobilized in the fortresses on the other side of the strait, and then entered the city along the rivers in the city.

"Dodge!" Almost all of Baldwin's footmen on both sides of the bridge began to run with their heads bowed, and then countless powerful arrows came from the deck of the ships, from all directions, many of which were also tied to the arrows with burning saltpeter and other incendiary agents, and the "fire snakes" howled, with fireworks, flying and biting everywhere around the stone bridge, and the Swabian infantry regiment that stayed on the shore was caught off guard, and immediately with the flames, a large area was shot down, and there were people on the stone bridge who kept catching fire, tumbling and falling into the water.

"Madame!" Several knights, who had usually pledged their love to Godhild, folded their shields around the beautiful lady as she crossed the bridge.

"Leave me alone, go and tell my husband in front, don't make any patrols, burst through with his cavalry, and then let the infantry attack as well!" Goethechild, undaunted, took the reins by hand, urged everyone on horseback, braved the rain of rockets, and rushed towards the eastern end of the bridge. (To be continued.) )