Eagle Byzantium

Budakis secretly hated the arrogance revealed in the words of the Governor of Mosul, but he urgently needed this Seljuk prince who was the leader of the banner and gathered all parties to rescue his father's city, so he sighed and narrated to the arrogant Governor Prince on the throne with great sorrow:

"Surelman originally owned the ancient Greek Kingdom called Roma, and his capital Nicaea was the most glorious city in the region. But the opponents he encountered were not the weak army of the Greek emperor, nor the group of civilian pilgrims who did not even have uniforms and weapons. They were composed of several new and powerful nations, one called the Franks, one called the Normans, and another was a team born out of the old army of the Greek Kingdom. They not only captured Nicaea and destroyed Surelman's kingdom, but also pursued all the way. Crescents, until Antioch. Please think carefully, Your Excellency the Governor, and all the Sultans and princes, that is, the powerful army of Christians has arrived in our country. If it is not stopped, they will treat you in the future as they did to Suleiman and my father. "After saying this, Budakis, together with his entourage and other envoys, took off his turban and hat at the bottom of the steps. According to the traditional Turkic customs, he tore his beard with his nails and pulled out his hair with his hands (of course, Budakis has not grown a beard yet), and then blew it away in front of Kobha, howling and crying. Seeing this, Kobha was a little embarrassed. He knocked on the armrest of the seat with his hands full of gorgeous rings, indicating that everyone had understood this performance and there was no need to continue. "My dear Budakis, you have stated what you have suffered. . I also promise here that anyone who dares to make you uneasy will never survive in my presence - tell me, what are these three teams like, and how embarrassed are our believers? "

"Their names have been reported in detail in my previous letter to you. Compared with the Greek emperor and the civilian pilgrims, they are the ones who truly possess strength, tactics, and talents, and are extremely difficult to deal with. Bohemond, the most honorable prince of the Normans, his subordinates are a group of people who are proficient in war horses. Only a small group of warriors can launch a fierce attack on us without fear of death, trampling all our infantry and archers; Godfrey, his name is the same as his brother Baldwin, and he is widely known to us after the battle of Nicaea, and made our soldiers tremble with fear. Their warriors are very good whether they are on horseback. Stephen Gawain Russell, he and his team are the most eccentric. It is said that he was just a jailer under the Greek emperor a few years ago, but now his influence is widespread in Seleucia and Cilicia. The legion he leads has both the ferocity of the Franks and the obedience of the Greeks, and seems to have skillfully combined the most masculine and the most feminine things. He has infantrymen holding extremely long and huge spears, craftsmen who can dig city walls and make various tools, and fierce and elite cavalry who run endlessly. They all follow his flag and fight in an orderly manner. He is the leader who destroyed Sulerman's castle and army, and may also be the most terrifying enemy of our prophet's believers in the future. So be alert, my Lord Governor, the scriptures say, 'It is better to live alone than to be near evil people', and once my father's city is lost, then all kinds of beasts, scorpions and pythons will come along the desert and valleys to pose a great threat to you! "

With these words, Budakis not only lowered his posture, but also deliberately boasted that Gawain and others were very powerful to stimulate Kobha's vanity and self-confidence. Sure enough, the Prince of Mosul stood up from his seat and clapped his hands, "My army has been assembled, and it is time to announce my power to my allies and the whole world. All the fortune tellers, astrologers, and magicians gathered in front of my seat and told me what the result of this expedition will be? "

Several guys in different costumes but all in strange shapes crawled over Budakis' feet and held a large hourglass in front of the Prince of Mosul. "Your Excellency, we have traveled all over the palace and the city during this period of time to predict your war luck. Now God's will tells us that as long as each of your subjects throws a grain of sand into the hourglass, your invincibility will last for a moment. Now all the sand of your subjects is gathered in this clepsydra. When you go to war, you only need to carry it. If the sand in it does not leak out at the time of the confrontation, you will be invincible. "

"Very good, so much sand can extend me for a moment, and my victory will be forever! "Cobuha laughed arrogantly, and then he said to Budakis at the bottom of the stairs, "I also have three warriors. Amasa has the fastest, most accurate and most ruthless arrows in the world. Whoever his arrows point at will die; Kalagdi always brings a hundred horses with him when he attacks, and he can jump from one horse to another. The enemy has no way of knowing his whereabouts and will inevitably fall into chaos; Boesas is the most noble warrior in Khorasan. As long as the soldiers see his face, they will feel at ease and give their lives for Allah. Although it has delayed some time now, my friend Budakis, as long as we have three warriors and 70,000 troops, the heads of the three enemies you mentioned will be hung on the city wall of Antioch soon."

Three days later, in front of the huge river in front of the gate of Mosul, a huge and powerful team with countless flags was lined up in a formation that could not be seen from the beginning to the end. From the place where the onlookers could see to the invisible end of the sky, there were countless cavalry, camels, archers, and spearmen. In the middle of the team, sheep, goats, mules and donkeys were screaming and shaking vehicles were running around. The carriages were filled with not food and grain, but surprisingly ropes and shackles for tying slaves.

"These are all prepared for the captives of this prince. I will bring countless pagan men and women in three months, and then exile them to the wild land further east of Mosul, so that they can be my slaves and serve the Crescent Moon believers in farming." Kobuha said so arrogantly.

This extremely powerful team soon arrived at the border of Mosul, a castle called "Sucha". The local patrol cavalry saw the mighty army coming from the sky and the ground, and was frightened to death. They rushed to the city of Edessa and told the city's governor Barak, a Greek tyrant, about the attack of the Kobha army.

In the courtyard of the gorgeous governor's mansion, Barak was smiling and watching the servants in front of him folding a tent inlaid with gems and gold and silver threads and putting it in a suitcase, which was to be hung on a camel and sent to his "master" Tancred de Tver in Antioch as a witness to the strong relationship between the two. (To be continued ~^~)