"What are you doing here? Is this your Byzantine etiquette?! "In the church, the Archbishop of Acre is on the front line, and there are only a few priests in charge, who can stop these wolf-like Gothic guards.

"We Byzantines are only courteous to friends, and to robbers and thieves, hmph—" The Byzantine commander, a grand duke, said coldly, hiding his anger. He waved his hand, and a group of Gothic guards searched the church carefully!

"Maybe there is a misunderstanding in this......" The Templar who mediated stepped forward to explain, but was watched by several Byzantine elite warriors, and his heart was cold, knowing that things were broken, and wisdom was like him, and he immediately understood that this was a plan by the wise man of the other party!

Since the other party has the ability to move all the treasures unknowingly in the well-defended Imperial Palace of Constantinople and the Basilica of Santa Sophia, he naturally has the ability to carry the treasures into the Cathedral of Acre! I can't figure out that there are stolen goods in the church over there in 'Haifa'! It's over, the reinforcements brought in have now become the wolf luring into the house, and the reinforcements have become the terminators of the crusaders!

It's useless to think about anything else now, hurry up and find a way to get out, otherwise I'm afraid my life will have to be confessed here!

In less than half a day, the Byzantines seized a batch of treasures in the Hagia Sophia in the underground vault of the Cathedral of Acre! Several treasure chests were carried into the halls of the Cathedral of Acre.

"This ...... What's going on? The priests asked in alarm.

"That's going to ask you!" The Byzantine archbishop replied in a deep voice, seeing that these familiar treasures of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople for thousands of years actually appeared in the Catholic church, he was already mad!

Under such physical evidence, any justification would pale in comparison, and the Templars remained silent, which could be regarded as acquiescence. It's just that he held a badge tightly in his hand, and his eyes were aimed at the door......

The elite Byzantine soldiers outside the gate of the Cathedral of Acre were waiting outside, when suddenly there was a loud bang inside the church door, and the entire gate, along with the latches and the stones on the walls, flew up and smashed into the crowd, causing some chaos. A few screaming people flew out of the door......

In the smoke screen, suddenly a strong horse rushed out of it, neighed on the steps of the cathedral, raised its front hooves, spread a pair of huge wings, and fanned a gust of wind, blowing the surrounding Byzantine soldiers to the ground! The flying horse, with its wings flapped and hind legs exerting force, leaped into the air with a heavily armed Templar, circled around the top of the cathedral, hissed and flew eastward!

The Byzantine soldiers hurriedly organized archers to shoot arrows in the sky, but in a hurry, the accuracy was a little worse, and only a few arrows were shot, and the flying horse quickly flew into the air, turning into a smaller and smaller black dot, and gradually disappeared from everyone's field of vision......

At this time, a group of embarrassed soldiers rushed out of the church door, surrounded by the Byzantine archbishop and the Byzantine archduke, rushed out, looked at the Pegasus knight who gradually disappeared in the sky, cursed a few words of hatred, and returned to the church to find the Catholic priests to vent their anger. Pity these innocent priests, chopped to pieces by angry Byzantine soldiers!

The Grand Commander-in-Chief stood on the steps of the cathedral with the head of a priest and roared: "Byzantine valiant soldiers! These vile Franks, like rats, have stolen our possessions to God and dishonored our king! It fooled our brave and upright Byzantine soldiers! Trample on our pride and glory! Can we let them go?! ”

"Kill these Catholics!" The soldiers were outraged!

"Can we let them go?!" The Grand Duke of Byzantium asked fiercely again.

"Kill all the scum of Christ!" The soldiers responded angrily again!

"Let's go! We will use the blood of these betrayers of the Orthodox to wash away the shame of the Byzantines! The commander roared and slammed the priest's head on a statue of an archangel at the door, and reddish-brown blood splattered on the angel's face, as if this white marble archangel shed two lines of blood and tears!

Slaughter the city! A terrible massacre! Anger is that the Byzantine soldiers slaughtered all living creatures and plundered everything they could! Set fire to everything they can't take away! In the chaos, Zhang Fan's team had already changed into the clothes of the Byzantine soldiers assassinated last night, broke through the encirclement, and headed towards Harding Point......

When the soldiers and commanders, carried away by their anger, came to their senses, and remembered that their most important enemies and treasures might be hidden, all at Cape Harding, they began to hastily assemble their troops and prepare to attack the mountains of Tiberias!

On the other side, the port city of Haifa also staged the same play, and when the troops on that side got the information that the crusaders might be hiding Byzantine treasures in this port city, they immediately went crazy! The enraged Commander broke into the church with his vicious soldiers, and in the underground vaults, they also found vast sums of wealth, though insignificant compared to what they had lost. But it's enough to drive these soldiers with a strong sense of honor crazy! And so the slaughter began! The massacre lasted a whole day, and the Byzantines, having slaughtered the inhabitants of Haifa and the Crusader garrison, gathered their army and rushed towards Jerusalem!

The Byzantine heavy cavalry was a regular form of rapid heavy assault force established hundreds of years ago! It is somewhat similar to the knightly system practiced by the three major knights, but it is more systematic. Because the knights of the three major knight orders have stronger martial arts and combat capabilities. And their servants are also excellent soldiers, so a knight is equivalent to a small army, and the combat ability is very strong!

The Byzantine heavy cavalry, on the other hand, is more synergistic, and their own martial arts may be relatively weak, and they pay more attention to group attack power! Their knights and horses were covered in armor. The horses were as if they were hanging from a large mat, and their armor hung down to the horse's calves. More heavily protected than Crusader Knights.

This also made the Byzantine cavalry have to hold long cavalry spears and rely on the impact of the cluster to be effective. Otherwise, under such strict protection, if you want to fight alone, I'm afraid it's really not very flexible. Therefore, individual combat is far inferior to that of Crusader knights.

The Crusader Knights, on the other hand, look a little more professional, with a moderate amount of heavy armor, which does not affect their solo combat, and the cluster charge is also very sharp! There is also a knightly system and a subordinate army, which can also make these brave soldiers have superb military quality and excellent ability to command small-scale troops to fight! In this way, whether a large corps cooperates in battle, or a small-scale conflict, or a small group of troops assault, these knights, as professional soldiers, can do it!

Therefore, these medieval Crusader knights had a very flexible way of fighting. Much more advanced than the Byzantine army. Especially in dealing with nomads from the East, as if Turkic troops, Arab cavalry units. Otherwise, it would not have appeared, and the Crusaders were able to come out of the heart of the Arabs, along the Mediterranean Sea, to occupy a small base that included the holy city of Jerusalem, and lasted for hundreds of years between the two great millstones of Egypt and Syria.

And the Byzantines, relying on the fortified city of Constantinople and the vast depths of Asia Minor, were still defeated by the Turks! Zuihou lost Asia Minor as a source of soldiers, and could only rely on the trenches and use their Greek fire to burn Islamic warships that were not good at naval warfare, and defend Constantinople.

But these advantages of the Crusader knights can only be manifested in a long war. In the current battle of large corps clusters, Byzantium's ancient, backward, and dull attack mode will still surprise the opponent!

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According to Apdu's report, the front line is already in full swing, and the battle is extremely fierce! The losses on both sides are very large! Saladin trapped the crusaders in the narrow area of Cape Hardin, but they were never able to stop the onslaught of the two knights, but the flexible encirclement of the Muslims also made it impossible for the Crusader knights to defeat each other in one fell swoop.