Eagle Byzantium

The commander of the encirclement position on Hezhou is General Branas, a Temaci general under the Grand Duke. He is a confident general. The command post and flag are on the bank facing Hezhou. There are more than 300 soldiers. German soldiers holding long swords surrounded him. It is said that Branas absorbed the experience of the previous bloody battle at the Dog Gate in Antioch to form this "long sword reserve force".

"Your Excellency Patriarch, as you can see, we fought very smoothly. Now the boats of the Grand Duke and Count Adana have covered the entire river. Several breakout attacks in this castle have been broken by us. Previously, we used cavalry. On the north side, but was killed by Count Dodo and Count Burke Defeated, we used ships today, and you have seen the outcome. Now the Grand Duke and Reuben are camping, and there is a temporary truce for three days, but the fighting in Kastabala has not stopped. Today we set up a huge stone cannon. Come to besiege this fortress, the scene of the tower being destroyed just now, I think You must have witnessed it." Branas, wearing a beautiful cloak, waved his fist in front of Anselm who said nothing. In his eyes, executing such a massacre of Christian brothers seemed to be a perfectly normal order, and he was filled with heart. Rejoice in the great victory - at least the Patriarch is He thought so, but he didn't dare to say it out loud - because beside the camp, the remaining Armenian soldiers who had been captured after the ship was burned and capsized were being guarded and sitting by the fence, gathering like flies in winter. Many people suffered burns, and the screams shook the earth.

There was also a group of people who were tied and kneeling. The tall German soldiers under the brigade general shouted German to each other, and then cut off the terrifying long sword in their hands, and the bloody heads and The body kept falling to the ground, like slaughtering animals, challenging Anselm's fragile nerves.

"That's a spy in the city trying to swim to Reuben for camping. We'll execute him immediately if we catch him." Branas pointed confidently, answering the Patriarch's doubts.

So the Patriarch was unwilling to stay here. He asked Branas for a customs clearance, and the general arranged a boat for him. Then he took a detour to Gawain's camp: all the earth forts and wooden fences here, All around is exactly what Branas said, Prince Reuben said. In the camp, it was surrounded tightly. There were flying flags everywhere, marking the areas guarded by the generals or lords. The patrolling soldiers led the hounds with bells around their necks, and the ones on the high base were Carrying a quiver and walking around, the whole atmosphere was very scary.

In front of the high fortress, a series of shallow pits were dug. In each shallow pit, there were soldiers and military servants. They used tools to erect five wooden frames with axes side by side. Three layers of wooden boards were used to secure it, and then it began to move towards the five axes. Each of them tied a rope, set up a swinging wooden pole, and tied a leather bag and a scorpion-tail hook on the top. Under the supervision of whips and weapons, the captured Armenian people wearing coarse linen smocks were heading towards the shallows. Rounded stone bullets are carried in the pit...

Anselm looked at Ruben's camping site. It was hastily built in a low-lying land near the river. It was now gray and the wooden fence that was built was incomplete. There were also dead bodies of people and horses around it that had not been restrained in time, and it was full of people. The smell of sadness and despair. This made His Majesty the Patriarch's eyes wet. According to what Branas just said, "We have killed and captured nearly 4,000 Armenians before. Now Ruben and the other 6,000 people are all besieged by us in this building." At the camp, the Grand Duke gave them a chance to negotiate, and they will find out today. "

"You actually regard killing Christian brothers as a meritorious service!" Patriarch Anselm, with anger and a sense of justice from the bottom of his heart, got off the donkey and walked quickly to the scarlet tent where Gawain was. Then he raised his head When he saw several Armenian heads hanging on the flagpole in front of him, he suddenly became frightened again. He lowered his head and handed over Wenguan to Dim, the guard flag bearer in front of the door, and then slowly walked in.

In the scarlet tent, Gawain stood there, his tall body particularly conspicuous, and he was talking quickly in Greek with a monk dressed in the Apostolic Church. The monk lowered his head, making him appear even smaller, and his aura was completely suppressed by Gawain.

"His Royal Highness the Prince will hand over all the mines in Fanka City and send five thousand serfs to the Grand Duke to serve as mine diggers." This seemed to be what Gorpan proposed three days later after getting the prince's permission. new conditions.

Gawain sneered, "What I want to take away is Ruben's ability to use weapons and endanger us in the future. Instead of a few mines and pastures, why does your distinguished prince always get the wrong idea? This makes me very regretful."

"Then His Highness the Prince is also willing to compensate you with 70,000 gold coins, and promises not to engage in any behavior that is detrimental to your lordships after surrendering..."

"The current situation is that Ruben must die." Gawain interrupted the other party's speech unceremoniously, which made Anselm standing at the door tremble with fear, "No one thinks that he should continue to live. Even his former ally Lord Bohemond. So if His Royal Highness is willing, I can only guarantee that he will die in a dignified and honorable way, and there is no need to say anything else."

"You will be condemned for such evil deeds!" Gorpan also shouted angrily. He no longer had any illusions about continuing the negotiations - Gawain just used these three days to transport the goods from the territory. It's just a powerful stone-shooting cannon.

"In the future, what will be isolated on the stage will not be evil deeds, but the crazy behavior of clowns." Gawain chopped off the scepter in his hand, and several tall guards immediately walked in, pushed poor Anselm aside, and stepped forward to control Golpan who was resisting fiercely. He shouted miserably, "Let me go, let me go, I want to see the Patriarch."

"I detained you because I don't want you to die in that hopeless camp." Gawain then waved his hand, and the warriors dragged Golpan away. Then Gawain exhaled, took out the sundial, walked to the door of the tent and looked at it. After confirming the time, he Seeing Anselm hiding in the shadow corner, "Patriarch, what are you doing at the front line?"

"Damn Gawain, why did you steal my seal and write a false letter to Reuben? Why did you massacre so many brother believers here? Why did you take such a bad action without asking the Patriarch or the city of Rome?"

However, the above are all Anselm's psychological activities. In reality, he just rolled his eyes rapidly on the spot, shrugged his shoulders, and sweat kept dripping down his chin. Gawain squinted his eyes and looked down at him, then stopped asking anything and walked out arrogantly.

Brother Golpan, who was dragged along the ground by his hands, cried out, and then he heard the sound of thunder and lightning: the five catapults that Anselm had seen earlier, now, under the shouts of the soldiers and servants and the pulling of many ropes, the five swing arms were rapidly raised and swung down, and at the same time, five heavy stone balls broke free from the leather bags, and flew back and forth, crossing a distance of about 500 feet, and smashed freely into Reuben's camp... (To be continued ~^~)