Eagle Byzantium

The confidential officer standing next to him said a few words to Gawain.

Now the camps of the pilgrim lords were mixed with spies sent by each lord. Everyone had to guard against the Turks, and of course, they had to guard against their companions. Gawain was no exception. According to the confidential officer, "This is a giant siege tower built by Swabian Count Hartmann and Emischu (both subordinates of Godfrey) at a great expense and recruited engineers. It was named "Fox". In addition, the Normans are said to have spent a lot of Byzantine gold coins, recruited several engineers, and improved their large crossbows and battering rams."

So Gawain told Agnes these words.

The girl looked at the target of the siege point over there: a curved wall with a huge and thick corner tower built inside. Then he said, "The target point is wrong, how can we expect to break into the city?"

"Are you talking about that uneven ground?"

"Yes, this disgusting siege tower called "Fox" is big and ugly. It takes hundreds of people to push it, and the tower is built so high. It seems that with the skills of these stupid men, it is difficult to make the supporting skeleton in a hurry. In addition, the ground under the city wall is very difficult to walk. The final result is a tragedy."

"Also, this corner of the city wall is very curved, and it is difficult for the attacking team to concentrate its forces to attack fiercely. Even if the city wall is broken, it is difficult to break in." Gawain added.

"Yeah, yeah." Agnes nodded in agreement, but then she felt something was wrong: Why was she being led by this hateful barbarian? So she stopped talking in anger, but Gawain was still talking to himself, "In your opinion, our siege team's top priority is to make what equipment?" Agnes didn't answer at all, and walked down the high fort with the red umbrella.

"Andeodate, we are also willing to send out dozens of Venetian-made nitre spears in stock. They will be used to destroy the Turkish fence."

Just as the confidential officer was about to go and make arrangements, a horn sounded, and Gawain laughed, "Andeodate, it seems that the most interesting drama of the Battle of Nicaea is now being staged." The confidential officer looked in the direction pointed by the General Manager of the Asiatic March, from the camp gate passage connected to the high rampart. The Norman cavalry with the black dragon and star-pointed holy flags, wearing fine chain mail and helmets, about a hundred people, with hundreds of followers, walked into Gawain's camp in a mighty manner, led by Tancred and Brad. The latter had a face full of flesh and a tangled beard. At first glance, he was a master who was good at galloping and colliding. If he removed his beard, he would be the top attacker in American football.

Tancred rode past with his head raised, looking at Gawain standing on the high rampart and looking down at him, with hatred in his eyes.

The officers and soldiers of the large company on duty and training in the camp also cast their eyes on the Holy Flag Company that came in. Many people had hatred and confusion in their eyes, and some secretly sighed at the divergence of fate and ideals. The two groups of people who were fighting for life and death under the city of Bari two years ago are now fighting together.

"Three days ago. The sentries around my camp captured four Konya spies; two days ago, it was nine; yesterday it was ten. Most of them walked out of the city of Nicaea, and three came from outside the city. This increasing number of people means that the enemy's reinforcements are close at hand." In the scarlet tent, Gawain, who immediately convened a military meeting after Tancred arrived, did this, and then his hand pointed to the sand table. "My subordinates have surveyed the terrain several times in a row. There are four valleys east of Nicaea, all of which are the routes for the Turks to advance. Because the valleys are not wide, it is difficult for the army to maneuver through one of them. Among them, the mountain valley northeast of the lake is the highest. It can overlook the entire lake and the city. If nothing unexpected happens, the enemy's commander, the Sultan of Konya, will stand there to command the battle."

"How did you determine that the Sultan of Konya was not in the city, but among the reinforcements outside the city?" Tancred questioned.

"I interrogated the spies and used all kinds of techniques. Now I have the information that the Sultan is not in the city, but his vizier and Atabeg are guarding the city. In addition, the Sultan's wife and children are all in the city."

"So the biggest key to the battle now is when the Sultan's reinforcements will attack once they arrive at the valley and mountains. And the location of our ambush, how to hide it so that it will not be detected by the enemy and counterattacked." Just after Gawain finished speaking, Taitius concluded.

"Don't worry about the latter, as for the former...it's up to Diogenes and Bramson. What we need now is to wait calmly." After saying that, Gawain raised his hands and stared at the terrain sand table in front of him. At this moment, Stavlachos quietly walked from behind and whispered in Gawain's ear, saying in a gloating tone, "Your Highness has succeeded. We have the handle on the engineer..."

In a secluded tent at the edge of the camp, Samuelfa had just pressed the gentle and submissive female doctor Granaai on the low table and leaned over impatiently. The stern and cold-looking camp officer Wright opened the curtain and then looked at the scene and shouted "Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah". Before Samuelfa was ready to leave in embarrassment, the female doctor screamed and hugged him, begging him to protect her well, because the military code of the Dalian team was very strict, even for women.

"I can only kill you to silence you!" The engineer was extremely anxious. He pulled out the dagger behind him and said to Wright, "Granai, Granai, my dear, stop screaming. You have to let me go." But Granai was like a snake, tightly wrapping around him.

Anna came in right after Wright, and then covered her eyes with both hands, leaving a gap, and secretly glanced at them, "How shameless, camp officer!"

"Yes, your highness, please turn around, don't pollute your eyes." Wright said respectfully, and then Anna turned around, and kept saying, "I originally came here to ask the doctor for some maintenance. My hands have been a little chapped recently, but I didn't expect..."

Then the camp officer and several soldiers who were also in charge of camp affairs raised the drawing board one by one, and painted, "Draw from all angles, leave the first-glance evidence, and then hand it over to the head of the clergy for judgment."

Soon, Granaai sat outside the tent in dishevel and cried, and Anna hugged her shoulders and kept comforting her.

Samuelfa lowered his head, his eyes terrified, and knelt on the ground with his back bent. Wright sat opposite him with his eyebrows slanted down, and placed several drawing boards on the low table. "Now the female doctor of the Dalian team said that she was waiting for the princess here as agreed, but who would have thought that you would come in and tear her clothes and try to rape her."

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"No, I didn't want to rape her." The engineer said with a sad face.

"If it wasn't Grana Ai, could it be Princess Anna that you wanted to rape? Hmm!" Wright's fist hit the table hard, and the utensils on it clattered. (To be continued ~^~)