Eagle Byzantium

These two deer were obviously frightened by the fighting and lost their composure and ran out randomly.

Raymond hurriedly prepared to stop the galloping horse, but it was too late: the horse stumbled forward. Due to the huge inertia, the newly promoted Earl of Laodicea fell violently from the front of the saddle. He rolled twice between the tangle of horse hooves and deer feet. Guncai lay on the ground, his head covered in blood, and his helmet and holy spear fell aside.

At the same time, many arrows passed over the "lucky" great earl with a secret sound of chi chi chi.

Vallo, who rushed in front, unconsciously blocked seven arrows for Raymond. The sharp arrow clusters pierced the rings of his armor and pierced into his skin and flesh. Vallo's mount was shot to death at the same time. , he fell off the horse, and blood was pouring out from seven wounds. Vallo gritted his teeth and roared, kicking his feet in pain. He touched the wound with leather riding gloves, and it was all covered with blood, and Vallo soon realized This arrow With his head smeared with poison, he began to have difficulty breathing, his whole body was paralyzed, and his face kept twitching, "It was it, it was it, that killed the noble Hugh." This was the general counselor of the French Palace trying his best to attack all the people lying around. After shouting the last words, the man fell to the ground with his eyes wide open and died - he did not die in the first Eastern Expedition, but died inexplicably in the second one, and like Hugh, he did not die in the hands of the enemy.

"Captain of the guard, they are our defeated troops." At this moment, a soldier holding a bow and arrow on the rock shouted to the panting Mikhail with a face as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Keep shooting!" Mikhail's hair was disheveled and his eyes were about to burst. He continued to chop off his hands. He had obviously lost his mind and calmness, because he saw that the great count who had been saved by the deer was already struggling to crawl on the ground. He stood up, surrounded by the bodies of several men and horses who had been shot by arrows. Several Provençal people were surrounding him and holding up shields. The Tecopo cavalry in the other team was shouting in Greek, "Don't shoot by mistake again, we are an empire." team".

"Continue..." Before the captain of the guard could finish shouting the order, he suddenly fell on the rock, twitching his hands and feet randomly and foaming at the mouth. He had an epileptic seizure. Immediately, the soldiers who knew about it hurriedly He came over, waved the flag for him, then held him down and rescued him...

In the end, although Raymond was not shot, he was injured, and he refused to continue to Kastamonu because he also had doubts about the emperor. Instead, he took his troops and horses in the direction of Sinop. Escaped, and Count Alban and Count Miles also mixed in with the defeated troops and ran out one after another.

As for the 170,000 pilgrims who remained in the camp, the old men were driven into several valleys by the Turks, and they were shot with arrows, burned with fire, and chopped with knives. They were all slaughtered; the delicate and beautiful ladies were killed in turn. ***The resisters were immediately tortured and killed in various cruel ways. After suffering an embarrassing rape, the servant was led by Danishmend cavalry with ropes and shackles, and was escorted to distant Amasya, Sivas and even further to Armenia and the Great Khorasan region. What awaits them is the fate of serving as slaves and disappearing without a name.

Half a month after this tragic failure, several local Orthodox monks came here to observe. They recorded: The entire Gangala Castle was covered in corpses and pools of blood, with mutilated and miserable corpses of believers everywhere. , there are pyramid-like female heads piled on several hillsides. They are all The vultures and crows of those who were killed by the Turks pecked at their beautiful skin, and the gray-black rotting flesh exposed the dense bones. It is said that 60,000 people were killed, and the rest were all kidnapped and sold as The slaves, money, silk and goods all over the place were also robbed by Merrick's men.

An unprecedentedly large team, together with countless ordinary devout men and women, tragically disappeared into the wild desert of Paphlagonia, without a trace like a bloody nightmare.

Who should be responsible for this?

Raymond's command error?

Guillaume's sudden escape?

Mikhail's indifference?

The suspicion and estrangement of Emperor Alexios?

Gawain, Conrad, Tatisius and other commanders seem to be inseparable?

Everyone was to blame, but everyone shied away from responsibility after the war.

Gawain, who received the letter, was currently stationed with the army camps of two brigades in the area with rich water and grass between Ankara and the Harris River. His explanation of the city of Rome and Constantinople was simple: "Since the opening of the fortress After the siege of the city, more than 10,000 of our troops fought, marched, and moved for two consecutive weeks. The food and fodder carried by the baggage convoys were exhausted. , so we had to camp here and wait until the food was transferred to the military station in Miliocephalon before we could continue. Since Cornea and Anglas were both defended by enemies, the food had to be diverted to Antioch and Caron. The journey to Nazareth is long and winding, so there is really nothing we can do about the war in Gangala.”

Titicius also sent a document to the capital, "Our army has arrived in front of the city of Anglas and is encircling the city. We are cutting down trees and building strongholds. We must not retreat suddenly, otherwise we will be attacked by the enemy and risk the entire army being annihilated."

As for Brenus, he didn't even explain, because he and his wife had always stayed in the city of Philadophiam to transfer supplies, so the war on the front line "had nothing to do with me."

Just as all parties continued to argue and blame each other, the great emir of Merik, with the remaining power of the victory over Gangara, swept over half of Paphlagonia: Mikhail, who had recovered from the pain of epilepsy, could only hold on. It was just Castamonu - so Merrick divided his troops freely, and 5,000 men headed north, led by General Barras, and captured Puvera at the mouth of the Harris River without any difficulty. This group of light cavalry fought their way through Er Castle (now Bafra in Turkey), using fast horses, arrows and scimitars to kill any stragglers who survived the pilgrims. It is said that there were more than a dozen hanging from their saddles. Thousands of heads of Frankish nobles or soldiers; and the other road, led by Merrick himself, bypassed Castamonu and drove directly to Germanico in the south.

Conrad, the Grand Marshal of the Salian Palace in this city, Bisser, the Archbishop of Milan, and Guillaume, the Duke of Aquitaine who had escaped from the previous battlefield, were like frightened birds. They abandoned the castle without any resistance and headed further south. In the direction of the Sakarya River, countless German pilgrims and soldiers trampled to death along the way.

Raymond fled into Sinop on the northern cape, so scared that he couldn't leave the house and was ready to jump on the deck of Hot Duck's ship at any time and continue to escape westward.

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The terrible news even spread to Afyon and Philadephia, and the local Roman people were frightened three times a day and became uneasy.

In the palace in the city, Princess Dido in purple found her "cute little husband" Brenus with a solemn and solemn face, and told him her plan:

"Now the only fresh forces that can fight on the entire battlefield are Gawain, Theodorus and Titicius. If the last one refuses our invitation, then we must reach a cooperation agreement with the first two as soon as possible." (To be completed.) Continued~^~)