Eagle Byzantium

As Gawain walked up to the northwest tower, he saw craftsmen and gunners from Venice shouting commands, taking out projectiles from wicker baskets, and then ejecting them. The bloody corpses of several military servants were lying on the city wall. On the stairs and stairs, Norman stones flew in from time to time, causing jets of powder to fly on the city walls.

Gawain, who was holding on to the battlements, gazed at the groups of Calabrian soldiers below, holding a shield in one hand and dragging a huge siege tower with a rope in the other, shouting and rushing towards them quickly.

Behind the siege team, there were fully armed Norman knights riding horses to advance the battle. It was obvious that Bohemond encouraged a large group of pilgrims to serve as cannon fodder, attracting the main force of the defenders of Bari City, and here he subordinated We have found real elites and are ready to break the city.

"Aim at the bases of the three siege towers and shoot!" Gawain said to the two Venetian stone-shooting machines on the platform of his own tower. "The shooting range cannot be stretched." In the end, he got such an answer. The craftsman They were in a hurry and at a loss. They could only watch the Norman siege team getting closer and closer.

"Put on me a double layer of armor." Gawain called, and then a warrior stepped forward and put a layer of chainmail armor on the holy armor to prevent arrows. This made Gawain look like a king standing on the top of the city. Like an iron tower, red hand feathers flutter in the wind.

This made Tancred, who was supervising the battle command under the city, see it, and his flaxen beard trembled with excitement, "Let me climb the siege tower. I want to meet the warriors from Hell. Who is he?" Which monster's son comes from the depths of the North Sea?" Then, Tancred jumped off his horse, pushed aside the queue, and walked under the siege tower. There was a double-decker ladder up there. Tancred He walked up and stood at the highest point of the siege tower. Arrows kept flying and pierced the front guard board. Fragmented sunlight shone on him along the gaps. He was surrounded by Calabrian soldiers holding one-handed axes and swords. No one expected that the coach would Both of them stood together, nervously looking at the shields that were constantly being pierced with arrow clusters, and listening to the rumbling sounds of pulleys and rollers below.

A Varangian warrior beside Gawain. He has already jumped onto the city battlement. He is also on the right side of Gawain, also wearing double armor and holding a spear in both hands. "Come on, Norman dogs. Don't say that you come from the same strait as our ancestors." Tall The siege tower approached the battlements, and then narrowly The long guardrail suddenly fell down and was buckled on the battlement. The Calabrian soldiers howled and flew along the guardboard bridge and rushed over from the siege tower. The Varangian warriors He roared angrily and thrust out the twelve Roman feet long spear in his hand. Immediately, the bodies of three or four Calabrian soldiers were pierced, their bodies were twisted together, and they were "stuffed" upside down back into the siege tower. Tancred grabbed the back of the soldier who was still wailing at the end. live. Pushing it aside, he then pulled out the sword in his hand and threw it out like a fly, hitting the Varangian warrior in the face. He fell on his back next to Gawain. Then Tancred jumped onto the guard bridge, He pulled out the other long sword he was wearing. Walking towards the crenellations at the top of the city.

Then, melee broke out in all directions of this section of the city wall, and the Varangian warriors let out Viking-style war cries. Wield the battle ax and giant sword to kill.

Gawain also wore extremely heavy armor and had a shield and a halberd. He stepped firmly onto the crenellation, and happened to face Tancred on the guard bridge at a height of dozens of Roman feet.

"Your red hand-shaped feathers, I will never forget them in my life. Even the most hated devils in hell will not have their names that make people tremble and sick as you do, Stephen Gawain Lu. Ser!" Tancred raised the sword in his hand angrily.

"Who are you and why do you know my name? But it's no wonder. Now all Italians are afraid of my name after dark." However, because Gawain's eyes and mouth were covered under the helmet and visor, so The words he uttered, through the helmet, were like "buzzing buzzing" sounds, as if they were mocking.

This made Tancred even more angry. He jumped forward and slashed at Gawain's shield. Then Gawain stretched out his halberd. Tancred roared, held the hilt of the sword, and cut off the shield horizontally. Gawain's shield head, with a halberd blade attached - the handle of the halberd in Gawain's hand also flew out, "It turned out to be this young man, Kadmea's. I didn't expect that his sword Is the technique so powerful?" The thought lasted only half a second. Gawain suddenly lowered his feet, and the bridge guard suddenly made a bursting sound. Tancred swung left and right twice, trying to protect his center of gravity and the sword in his hand. In an instant, Gawain was already holding a heavy shield to protect his body, and stepped over with his waist, "Squeeze you out!"

Gawain's shield was shaking violently. Tancred's sword was like the wind, and he had slashed at it several times. Another sword scratched Gawain's shoulder, but under the protection of double armor, it was only sliced. It was just a few broken lock rings, and soon Tancred was on the guard bridge, forced to retreat step by step by Gawain.

"The tower in the north has been attacked by a large group of enemies. It will fall if we don't get reinforcements, and the Grand Duke is also there to stop the resistance." At this time, on the other side of the city wall where a fierce battle was going on, several soldiers held back the bows that were being drawn. Diogenes, the archer, shouted, and the officer immediately hung the bow and arrow on the crenel and raised the iron flail, "I'm going!"

But after the officer ran down the city, he looked back and saw that there were almost no soldiers following him - everyone was fighting at the city, and there were no idlers or reserve troops left.

Diognis was the only one running down the street. In the harbor over there, even Venetian sailors stepped off the deck, armed with various weapons, and came towards the land wall for reinforcements.

Entering the entrance of St. Nicholas Cathedral, the monks who were rescuing the wounded stood up one after another. Among them, Idorus, who was sitting on the couch and directing all this, asked the guard, "Have the enemy entered the city?" ?”

"Not yet, but the situation is very dangerous now. I don't have any extra soldiers. Grand Duke, no, Gawain, the commander of the Aconis of the Dalian Company, is fighting with the Norman bandits in the northwest tower. I want to go to reinforce him." Ognis was both excited and helpless.

The monks, nuns, and pilgrims gathered around one after another. Idorus lowered his white-haired head, then raised his head and said to everyone, "Bohemond, the prince of Apulia, said that when his army enters the city, there will be no Spare no one, even animals, cats and dogs.”

At this moment, Andodat took the lead and put down the blood-stained cloth, "Just leave this place to the women. We have to do something that men should do."

Then Andodat found an axe, and the rest of the Greek monks and pilgrims from all over also gritted their teeth and found various simple weapons, and gathered around the guard, "Go, protect this city, It is also a necessary duty of a monk." Idorus sat on the couch and said to everyone, "If the gangsters attack here, I will also stand up to defend this church." (To be continued~^~)