Eagle Byzantium

"Afdel promised to hand over the Holy Land to the pilgrims on the condition that they enter unarmed, but how is that possible? The actual situation is that Afdel has completely withdrawn the garrison troops from Jerusalem and retreated to the port of Ashkelon to defend it. From the sidelines, it is said that the Holy City is now defended voluntarily by some Turks and Saracens. After Na finished speaking in one breath, she took two sips of water and paused, "There is another noteworthy news that horrified me, that is, when Bohemond and Tancred just arrived at Argyll Castle—— Then, Bartholomew, who the Barbarian had said was the man who unearthed the Holy Spear in Antioch, was burned alive until he was seriously injured and died. "

This is the price of divine revelation. Of course, God will never take the blame himself, and the agent he chooses is naturally Bohemond.

The sinister and cruel Lord Antioch led his cavalry to catch up with the pilgrim group at Argyle Castle. At that time, Raymond and Godfrey had already bypassed Tripoli from the west of the mountain range (Lebanon Mountains). Godfrey The brothers besieged Manyara, and Raymond began to violently siege the city of Akka on the bay. However, the attack did not go smoothly and many brave Lord's warriors were lost, even though Lord Raymond held the holy spear. To no avail.

As a result, the civilian pilgrims in Argyll in the rear, who were always noisy, fanatical, impetuous and blind people, began to doubt the value and authenticity of the Holy Spear, and people started arguing. Bohemond took the opportunity to instigate the crowd, "As far as I know, no holy spear was excavated in the church in Antioch at that time. Both Gawain and Lord Godfrey can testify to this. But later , but it was miraculously dug out by Bartholomew and handed into the hands of Lord Raymond. It is really strange. "

The angry crowd conducted a "divine trial" on the blind Bartholomew: they forced him to hold up the holy spear with a purple ribbon and walk across the iron bars under the blazing fire. Bartholomew was burned to death. He looked like an adult, but still insisted on walking over, shouting hoarsely in the fire He said, "This is divine revelation, this is the holy spear that pierced the side of our Lord Jesus..." When the hermit Peter heard the news and rushed to save him, Bartholomew's respiratory organs and His legs were severely damaged, and he died miserably the next day, clutching the blade of the holy spear before he died.

Since then, a considerable number of pilgrims began not to believe in the Holy Spear, but some people, especially the Provence people, still believed it. They said that Bartholomew would be burned to death because he was angered by his obsession with the Holy Spear. Without the gods, this holy spear will still have magical effects during the critical battle.

Next, Raymond continued to seek death. When Robert of Flanders, Godfrey and Baldwin tightly besieged the city of Manyara, the Turks and Saracens in the city sent emissaries to secretly bypass the siege camp and go to Al Under the city of Ka, they asked Raymond to rescue their city. For this reason, Manyala was willing to be loyal to Raymond and donate a large sum of bribe money.

Greedy and excited, Raymond approached "Fisherman Henry", the commander-in-chief of the Hot Duck Fleet and a former pirate, to negotiate. The fisherman encouraged Raymond to agree to this generous condition, and then the two parties signed a secret agreement. The Red Duck Fleet will assist Raymond in fighting by sea. When Raymond gets any trophies, he must give one-third to the fisherman, and let Red Duck The Laya Chamber of Commerce enjoyed exclusive power in the captured city and squeezed out the Venetians. Soon, Raymond sent a team of scout cavalry to Manyara, deceiving other lords that Durak Tutusi suddenly led countless enemies from Damascus to rescue Akka, and he needed the strength of the believer brothers. support.

Without any hesitation, Godfrey led everyone to withdraw from the siege of Manyara and rushed to the city of Acre. But after waiting for several days, not even half a shadow of Dukak was seen. Many lords of West Francia and Flanders felt that they had been deceived by Raymond, and angrily went to confront Raymond. Raymond was originally A clumsy talker - Baldwin was able to trick him out of the dirty truth - he accepted a bribe from a heretic!

"As expected, the people of Provence are all good at deception!" Baldwin was so angry that he took the lead in breaking out of camp, abandoning all fighting near Tripoli, and marched directly towards the Holy City. Godfrey and most of the others followed, followed by Tancred's 6,000 troops from the Principality of Antioch. They ignored Raymond at all and also marched towards the Holy City - as for Bohemond, Secretly, he returned to the port of Latakia with dozens of his closest and bravest knights.

Only the embarrassed Raymond was left, and he began to hold up the holy spear with "greatly weakened faith", led four thousand Provence and Toulouse troops, left the city of Acre, and returned to besiege the stronger Tripoli: This is a A great and prosperous port city, Raymond had coveted its wealth and power for a long time, and would rather not go to Jerusalem for it. Fortunately, the local Maronites provided Raymond with 3,000 servant soldiers and corresponding food supplies. Raymond set up a camp on the hillside opposite Tripoli and named the place "Pilgrim". "Mountain", with the help of the Red Duck Fleet, began to besiege Tripoli conscientiously.

"Bohemond's emissary will arrive soon to deal with Raymond." After reading all the reports, Anna affirmed with a smile.

But when she turned around, the girl from the Orson family was not beside her. She was so immersed in the description and understanding of the situation that she did not notice Hetomia's departure! There was no one else in the study. It was quiet all around. The incense burner was still emitting a light and refreshing fragrance. The curtains on the window were constantly lifted by the wind. Anna saw that there seemed to be a figure hiding behind the curtain. She couldn't help but be afraid. "Who?" When she didn't get an answer, Anna, who was still wearing her hair, immediately turned around and took down a small sword from the wall. It was specially made for her by Gawain at the Arms Department. She held it with both hands, mustered up her courage, walked quickly to the side of the window sill, gritted her teeth and stabbed it in!

The figure turned quickly and came out from the side of the curtain. Anna screamed, and then her mouth was covered by two big hands, "Don't be afraid, I was hiding there just now, you were completely lost. I just arrived in Tarsus."

The scuffle and curse soon turned into laughter. Anna was pushed to a small chair by Gawain, and kept kissing the broad forehead of the kneeling barbarian, while Gawain touched her cute bulging belly, "Can you put on the dress? Can you wear the small crown of the seven ridges?"

The sword in Anna's hand fell to the ground. She was so surprised that she couldn't bear it. She kept saying, "I have prepared the dress, I have prepared the dress."

"Take our children and hold the wedding in the old St. Paul's Church in Tarsus-His Excellency John, the Patriarch of Antioch, has also arrived. He is the host and witness of our wedding." Gawain looked up and put Anna's little hand on his cheek. After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other and laughed for a long time, touching their foreheads together, enjoying this quiet happiness. (To be continued ~^~)