Eagle Byzantium

"May my child Zanji avenge me and realize the greatness of his father's fight for the scriptures." The bearded Attaberg quickly closed his eyes and said these words.

Over there, Diogenes jumped off the rock, kicked out all the torches, gestured to Gawain, and shouted, "Leave him alone, go!"

So Gawain looked at the lucky guy, Attaberg, who was still shrugging his shoulders and breathing hard. Then he picked up two weapons, turned his back, and helped Eckerson to lift up the injured knee. The Varangian warrior, under the cover of another warrior and the only two remaining military servants, and the capture officer quickly moved towards the depths of the dense forest on the ridge - in this dark forest, only the experienced scouts Diognis can accurately help them go to the canyon.

Everyone was panting and running. Even if their feet were tired, they did not dare to relax at all, because the shouts and contact bugles of Roma soldiers continued to sound from behind, and from time to time, one or two random shots flew past them. Liu Ya, the whole scene is still very tense.

"Sabina!" Gawain looked up and saw that in the shadow of the trees and the light, his beloved horse was shaking its beautiful mane and calling to him intimately. This horse was extremely docile and not messy at all. Escape, but wait for the master's arrival here.

Then everyone walked out of the woods one after another, and the dazzling sunlight suddenly shone on their faces, and then the deafening shouts of killing filled their ears!

Throughout the narrow canyon, more than 6,000 soldiers commanded by Isaac, plus nearly 3,000 craftsmen, technicians and sailors, formed a crowded queue and desperately moved forward along the mountain pass. Gawain and Diognis looked at the pass they had planned to survey, and saw that the eagle flag of Sultan Rohm was already flying above, and the other side was occupied by the treacherous Turkic army.

On the foothills and mountain backs on both sides of the canyon, red dog-tooth flags were waved everywhere. Countless Roma soldiers stood scattered behind trees and rocks, pouring bows, arrows and throwing stones at the bottom of the canyon.

This was a well-planned and perfectly organized ambush!

"Your Excellency Sebastocrat, follow my cavalry and stop flying Constantine's royal flag." There were already three followers around Titicius, who were shot by arrows and fell off their horses one after another. He also changed his mount. Because he was shot to death before, the noseless general kept reminding him of the same thing behind him. The embarrassed Isaac Komnenos, followed by the unmoving bird sitting in a carriage, was still encouraging the servants and soldiers around him, "There is nothing to panic about," he said, leaning against the wall of the camp. It's very safe to walk through Muzha. General Tatisius has sent his elite troops to seize the pass."

In fact, the chief steward of the royal wardrobe was talking nonsense. Nearly half of the 700 mercenary cavalry under Titicius were injured, and most of the horses were shot to death and wounded. They could only dismount and break out on foot. .

Fortunately, George Paralogus's subordinates were all battle-hardened veterans, so they withstood the rain of arrows and still gritted their teeth and continued to move forward.

"Listen little bird, I would rather take my broken body to spend the rest of my life in a monastery in the empire than be abandoned by you and fall into the hands of the Konya pagans." At this time, the dark carriage full of arrows in the back Among them, the executioner George, covered with a blanket, said these words to the eunuch.

"I promise you." Birdie Nick Demea promised.

Originally, the great eunuch and Titicius, including Farov, did not agree with rashly abandoning the camp and marching on this damn canyon. Because after the long, serpentine-shaped camp was completed and the detachment was allowed to occupy the pass, leaving guards on both sides and the palace troops behind, the nearly 10,000 men, horses and baggage could successfully leave Nicaea and go to Nicomi. Dia was at ease. But Isaac acted arbitrarily, and when the "troublemaker", the barbarian Gawain, who didn't know the heights of the sky, was taken away to serve as a scout, the emperor's younger brother couldn't wait to hastily issue the order to march. It happened that Giliki and Kabei Amiya's coalition forces made a fool of themselves.

Isaac Komnenos's mentality in doing this was to leave Asia Minor as soon as possible, eliminate all the factors causing chaos in this army, and then control it. This is what his brother tried his best to explain before leaving - but at this moment Isaac I didn't expect that it would completely mess things up.

"Damn it, the Sultan of Konya is destined to be punished by the gods." Diognis said angrily.

Over there, Gawain quickly walked to the east side of the cliff at the edge of the canyon, where he saw that the Roma troops at other ambush points had already arrived. Under the flying arrows, Farov holding the red hand flag high was standing. Department, and the commander himself held up purple More than a thousand people in the first section of the white-striped banner are miserably moving along the narrow valley bottom, forming a defensive line horizontally to resist the fierce attack of a large number of Turks and Tevlis warriors pouring in from the Nicaea wall. They and the main force are The distance is growing.

There was a loud noise, and Gawain continued to see that the Turks dragged the burning fireballs and firewood, rolled and threw them down the hillsides and cliffs, and soon cut off the main force of Isaac and the rear troops. connect.

Gawain didn't have time to think, he turned over and mounted Sabina. Erikson put the weapon on top, Gawain began to adjust the shoulder straps and belts, and then Sabina's horse's hooves came to the edge of the cliff with falling gravel. ——The mare began to twist her neck backwards. It was obvious that she did not want to go down in such a dangerous situation for herself and her master.

"You are crazy, Gawain!" Diogenes, the captor, stepped forward, grabbed Sabina's bit, and pulled her back hard.

"There is no time. I must return to my post."

"Going down now is to die. We should go west and follow the team of Lord Sebastocrat." Diogenes shouted.

"I will not continue to follow this bastard and coward to fight. If you want to go, that is your judgment, not mine. Go to your emperor, go to your Sebastocrat. I promised all the soldiers before that I would only temporarily hand over the camp to Francesco for supervision. I also promised the Red Hand Guards and Farof that I would not let everyone die in this hellhole. Now is the time for Gawain to fulfill his promise and duty!" After saying that, Gawain took off the red cloak and the rosary wrapped around the phosphorus sword, and threw them into the hands of the guard. "I will entrust these things to you. You can return the cloak to Eudoxia. Nicetas; you can keep the rosary first and give it to the hermit Peter when you have the opportunity. That's it."

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"I won't keep these relics for you. This is simply asking too much!" The guard held these things and protested angrily.

However, in the blink of an eye, Gawain hugged Sabina's neck, "Baby, follow me, help me, we won't lose." Then Sabina shook her head, screamed, and jumped down from the cliff with Gawain.

"Gawain!" Diogenes stretched out his hand, but only touched a strand of hair on Sabina's tail, and the rosary banged between his fingers...