Eagle Byzantium

"The Grand Duke..." The extremely nervous little Sunfish held the corner of Gawain's robe for the first time and asked the question with fear, guilt and uneasiness as he looked at the desperate fight scene on the curtain wall.

But Gawain didn't reply even a word. Agnes raised her eyes and looked at him, feeling that his beard had pierced his skin and grown thickly in this brief moment, and the corners of his mouth were twitching. , his eyes wanted to spit out fire, "Retreat, continue to retreat, Goliath, Bramson, you two idiots, and Giovanni, why are you hesitating? You are all stupid! I hope I I can whip you with a riding crop in front of you in the Fei tent."

Then, Gawain suddenly clenched his fists and shouted, "What do you want with that flag? Take it down quickly!" Agnes also held her hair and screamed, kneeling down with tears in her eyes.

"Seize the enemy's flag!" At this moment, under the curtain wall, the brave defenders once again used long crowbars and fire pots to destroy the last ladder reserved by the Red Hand Brigade, and Nika used the last reserve team to rush forward. The more than twenty Germans who stepped into the battle path of the city wall were brave enough to die, and all of them died bravely. They were like dense bushes. Like this, all the corpses were standing, holding various weapons, surrounding Dim. The armor and body were covered with arrows shot by the enemy. Countless wounds were still bleeding. In the billowing black smoke, Dim still stood, holding the big flag in his hand, "Come towards me." He was still shouting for the following warriors to rush in.

But no one answered him - the Red Hand Brigade below the city had retreated. Burnt ladders lay scattered in various directions, mixed with corpses, lying in the muddy swamp and on the slope under the curtain wall.

Under the dazzling sunshine, dozens of defenders held axes and spears, stepped on the dead bodies on the battlefield, and rushed toward Diem and his flag with shouts. Without any hesitation, Dim turned his head, pulled the battle flag, and jumped off the city wall - in an instant, the defenders pulled off the gold spikes and tassels on the flag, as well as the smaller half of the flag.

Bramson was picked up, but his arm was injured again. Dim fell into the bushes under the city. The defenders behind the curtain wall lined up and drew their bows. Then the two of them lowered their heads and took a look, then dropped the iron hook, preparing to hook up Dim's body and the battle flag. .

Several stone bullets flew towards me and hit the curtain wall. There was a trembling sound, and behind the erected wooden rafts, the craftsmen saw that their siege soldiers had retreated. They stubbornly and calmly controlled the stone ejector and trebuchet again, and launched an intensive attack on the curtain wall. The figures of the defenders were behind them. The crenel shook twice and then disappeared. "What are you afraid of? Hook up the giant's corpse and the flag and hang it on the wall for public display. Gawain's morale will collapse. Whoever can hook up will be rewarded with three hundred gold coins!" Nika was furious after learning about this situation. Furious, he issued a death order.

Under the supervision of the blind veteran, the defenders once again plucked up the courage to throw the iron hook despite the constant incoming stone bullets. Reaching towards where Dim was in the bushes. After a while, Dim's bloody body was caught by the hook on the armor's belt and iron ring. Then the four iron hooks exerted force at the same time and stretched straight. The defenders used all their strength to press Dim against the city wall, and slowly pulled him four or five feet away from the ground.

When Goliath's body appeared in the sight of the craftsmen and soldiers, all siege equipment stopped shooting, and the scene fell silent. Many soldiers knelt down, crying and grieving for the giant. Some people prayed silently, and Ah Gwens couldn't help but burst into tears. Gawain half-knelt down and patted her shoulder. Then he looked at Goliath who was still being pulled up on the curtain wall. His throat was brimming and he didn't know what to say.

"Hiss, hiss", the defenders holding the iron hook rope suddenly heard this sound. Then they looked down and were surprised to see that the rope's threads were exploding rapidly in circles, followed by a dull sound. There was a snap and it was broken - half of Dim's heavy body suddenly tilted down, and then another rope snapped. There was an exclamation in the city and below - in this exclamation In the sound, Dim fell with a crash, sloping along the soil where the base of the city wall was, and Gululu rolled down again, dust flying, and then there was silence, whether it was the defenders at the top of the city who were stunned at the broken rope, or the red hands below the city. The soldiers of the brigade pursed their lips, and then the voices of Giovanni and Muzafiadin burst out, "Raise your shields and take back Goliath's body!"

"Oh!" When many soldiers wearing chainmail began to leap into the swamp again, preparing to snatch the bodies and battle flags under the cover of wooden rafters. They were shocked again:

Dim's body moved, his arms moved, and then he supported the ground, and then slowly raised half of his body. Then under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes, he actually stood up, grunted twice, and limped. Turning around, he ran into the bushes, picked up the broken flag, wrapped it around his body, and then started running again, throwing it into the siege equipment field.

Then he ran to Military Judge Giovanni with blood on his head and face, and the first thing he said was, "I'm hungry."

The defenders on the city wall raised their bows and arrows and watched helplessly as Dim ran back. None of the arrows were fired. Only after a huge cheer erupted in the equipment yard of the Red Hand Brigade did two arrows appear. The arrow didn't hold back, and with a feeble sound, it fell diagonally onto the wooden pillars of the siege, then bent and rolled down.

"Although the corpse was hooked, and then the corpse revived, the giant ran away?" Nika wanted to say, he couldn't believe his eyes, but he swallowed the words back, then the old man lowered his head and beard, sighed, "Now we can only hold on and count on Prince John's reinforcements."

After nightfall, in Gawain's scarf, Dim Goliath sat cross-legged on the empty carpet in front of Gawain's chair. Agnes and Muzafiadin, who turned from worry to joy, were serving each other's favorite food to him. Miraculously, although Dim was covered in blood, they were all scratches. He didn't have any fractures when the city fell, but he was just a little unconscious.

"Ah, sausages!" Muzafiadin screamed in horror, and then hurriedly threw a bowl of food into Agnes's hands, and then she handed it to the giant.

The officers around him burst into laughter, but then Gawain's expression became serious, "We have definitely lost this siege battle."

Mello, Giovanni, and others, including Agnes, all fell silent.

"Next, perhaps Prince John of Pamphylia will bring troops to reinforce Fort Alaman. If the other side succeeds, the plan of a quick attack will fail. When midwinter comes, if I can't get away to reinforce Antioch, then perhaps the pilgrims will fail on both fronts at the same time, and the biggest beneficiary will probably be the emperor of Constantinople." Gawain was worried, and then he cleared his throat, "Everyone, the situation is far from as optimistic as you think. The most critical and challenging moment has just arrived." (To be continued ~^~)