Eagle Byzantium

On the three volumes of the edict, Anna's fingerprints happened to be pressed on several words, some horizontally, some diagonally, and the letters covered by the ink together can be connected into a complete sentence, a complete meaning, a crazy gamble and determination.

"Sarabria."

"Before Christmas."

"I don't want this marriage."

In the copy left to her father, Anna also left a code in this pattern, and she also hoped that her father could understand and see,

"May your children be like stars, with the gates of the enemy."

"But I'm sorry, my daughter is gone."

No one knows how Anna spent those lonely nights in the lonely room in pain and hesitation. She sent out this information, but she couldn't be sure whether Gawain could receive it. That day Gawain came to visit his father, accepted his official canonization, and promised to marry Dido. She almost collapsed at the time, and then Gawain said to her, "You must believe me in the future", which rekindled her fighting spirit.

Suddenly, Anna shook her body a few times on the aqueduct, and then she grabbed the edge tightly. In front of her, there was a descending section, sandwiched between the valleys. Behind her, Anna heard Mikhail's intermittent shouts, "No time to hesitate!" Anna thought so, and then lay on the freezing snow, following the trough, firmly stabilizing her body to prevent herself from falling out, and then she slid down!

In the past, this aqueduct was also the "secret passage" for the capture of Constantinople: during the Heraclius Dynasty, Justinian II, with the resentment of being expelled from the capital and losing the throne, crawled back to the capital from here and successfully counterattacked. Today, it has become Anna's escape route. This frail bride like a fawn. At this moment, she was like a cannonball (if people in this era can still understand this analogy), sliding down a trough that was more than a hundred feet long with flying ice chips. When she stood up again, her entire back was soaked, and her beautiful dress was torn in several holes. But the princess did not dare to delay for a moment. She climbed up the ladder and climbed to the high tower of the reservoir on the raised hill, where the sun was still shining. She stood up and saw the deserted wilderness of Sarabria below. The sparkling and winding river was rushing through the snow and pouring into the Golden Horn Bay. On the south side was the rocky Lecce River Valley, surrounded by thick and majestic walls, connected to the main river in the city, and then there were dense black forests in the east and west.

"Your Highness!" Anna turned back in fear: the figures of Mikhail and the other two guards. They were already in her sight, shouting and crawling. In one minute, at most one minute. They would come here and pull me back. The dark and lonely monastery was waiting for me, and I was afraid that I would spend the next fifty years of my life there.

The spire of the monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary flickered with a holy and sacred light. The aqueduct was coiled on top like a python, and below was the entire Brahena Palace. Anna looked down at it all. She thought of three years ago, when she was there. Because of playfulness, she encountered the scene of the barbarian for the first time - the flying sunshine and floating seeds, the blue-eyed guy, lifted me up high, and looked at me in surprise, just like a kitten who jumped on a branch but couldn't get down.

"Should I regret meeting you or not?"

Anna turned around and looked down. This tower was built along the river and the mountains. There were siphon pipes and water trucks below, but if Anna slid down from here again, she would definitely rush into the surging river and drown.

Next to it was a steep snow-covered hillside, leading directly to the land below. It was Anna's only remaining escape route, but it was full of danger. Anna, who had memorized the entire imperial capital plan in her memory beforehand, faced the biting wind, closed her eyes, clenched her fists, and shouted "Holy Mother!" again.

"Princess!" Mikhail stretched out his hand. He could hardly believe how he could explain to His Majesty. "Quick, quick, hurry over."

At this moment, more and more people were pouring in front of the Holy Apostles Church. People took off their hats and talked to each other, waiting for Princess Anna and Brenus to complete the ceremony, walk onto the terrace, and express their heartfelt blessings to the newlyweds. But the truth was that Brenus continued to sit in the sedan chair that had stopped, wondering, waiting anxiously. Taitisius accompanied him on one side. He remembered what the guard said to him before entering the city gate, and he had a subtle guess in his heart, but he did not express it. Instead, he closed his eyes with a complicated mentality and ignored it.

All the warriors stood on the steps in silence.

In the palace, the emperor staggered, "Now, I will chase Gawain. Even if Anna escapes from Sarabria, my cavalry will chase them back. I will castrate Gawain and lock him in a dungeon like a beast, letting him taste the darkness forever!"

Sabina's horse hooves stirred up the white snow, carrying her master like black lightning, passing through the forests and the ruins of the buildings. Gawain certainly understood Anna's decision, but because they were monitored by the eunuchs that day, neither of them could speak clearly, but Gawain could definitely see from her eyes that he wanted to take a crazy gamble. This was his wish now.

"Gawain's horse hooves, did they disappear here? No, they didn't disappear, but they are so messy that they are hard to distinguish." The officer who had been following him at the edge of the forest also jumped off his horse, crouched down, and distinguished them on the snow. Then he put Gusuyun and the mule behind him, climbed onto a horizontal rock, leaned the flail against it, and took out the bow and arrow - he saw a horse coming towards him, it was Gawain! And there was a little man with a cloak sitting in front of the saddle, could it be... Diogenes felt that his eyes were dark, and he was so sad and angry. His worries and warnings back then finally became a reality. Gawain really abducted the eldest princess and wanted to escape from St. Atkins Gate to the camp of the Red Hand Company, and then elope to Asia Minor?

"Even if it's the princess of the empire, it's not allowed. For the sake of the reputation of Rome and your Majesty, even if it's you!" Diogenes' eyes turned red. He put the arrow on the string, and then resentment and hatred filled his heart. Then he stood up and shot an arrow at the head of the galloping horse. As a result, the "little guy" was hit, and then the other party rolled down. Diogenes' tears also fell.

However, the man on the horse's back was now clearly seen. He was a white Turkic man, Gawain's military servant, whom Diogenes recognized. But it was too late for the officer to think clearly: Muzafiadin also took out his bow and arrow like lightning and shot an arrow. The officer jumped off the rock to avoid it. The arrow passed over his head and shot into the tree trunk next to Gusuyun and the mule, frightening the Norman woman. The snow on the tree was also shaken off, falling all over her head and neck. The mule, which instinctively sensed danger, also broke free from her reins and ran in the opposite direction.

Diogenes turned around and picked up the flail, ready to jump on his mount and fight with the other party. With a neigh, Muzafiadin directly lifted the reins and jumped over the rocks with the warhorse. The horse's hooves landed on the snow, and the Turkish army servant's scimitar also chopped down. Diogenes rolled on the ground, raised the flail, and blocked Muzafiadin's slash. Then he looked at his wife and the "little man" who had just fallen on the snow, but found that it was not a person at all, but just a shield wrapped on the face.

While he was distracted, Muzafiadin's second knife chopped down again, Diogenes blocked it, and then lifted the copper hammer at the bottom of the flail and smashed it on the horse's abdomen. The horse ran over with Muzafiadin in pain. "Where did your lewd master hide the princess!" Diogenes roared, threw out the lasso, and put it around the neck of the army servant from behind, pulling him down directly.

But the agile Muzafiadin spun in the air, and with the scimitar attached to his arm, he cut off Diogenes's lasso with a "gra" sound, and landed on the snow like a bird. The guard held up the flail and stretched it over to attack him. Muzafiadin first strangled the junction of the flail head and the pole with the scimitar, then rolled sideways on the snow, pulled out the dagger close to his body, rushed into Diogenes' arms and stabbed him repeatedly.

A correct version of the book in 16-9!

Diogenes retreated repeatedly, "Get out, Turkic dog, Gawain's dog!"

"The master's order is not to let you go." The military servant refused to give in.

The two fought back and forth on the snow. Gu Siyun gritted her teeth and wanted to come to help her husband. She pulled out an axe from Diogenes's horse bag, then let out a Norman roar, raised it, and rushed to the back of the Turkish military servant.

With a "bang", a pine tree that was originally pressed by snow burst open with white snow, and a knight who had been lying in ambush in advance rushed out from the branches. White light flickered, and with a crisp sound, Gu Siyun's axe was knocked away by his sword blade. "Gu Siyun!" The guard shouted worriedly, and then the stubborn Norman woman took a few steps back with her hands and feet in disarray. Although she had no weapons, she still shouted fiercely and continued to prepare to rush forward.

A loaded crossbow was held in the knight's hand, pointing straight at her. Gu Siyun instinctively stayed where she was, locked in place. She moved slightly, and the crossbow shook with her. "Don't move, lady. My crossbow only has one shot. You have no choice." Bramson, who was holding a sword, said coldly on his mount, and then he turned to the other side, "Captain, after all, we have fought side by side. Don't embarrass each other. Put down your weapon, I won't kill your wife. As for Princess Anna, she should have been taken away by His Excellency the Grand Duke. She is also very safe. His Excellency the Grand Duke will take good care of her and will not let the princess suffer any grievances." (To be continued ~^~)