Eagle Byzantium

Tancred held the military flag in his hand and had just rushed out of the defensive rock a quarter of a mile away. On the other side, his mercenary general Osdu also brought 600 Armenian, Turkic, and Greek mercenaries. Flying the military flag, they followed the wall built from the top of the mountain and headed towards the Holy Spring Stone Castle surrounded by fire and smoke for reinforcements.

As a result, I saw an avalanche of broken soldiers and civilians running down from the mountain tops. They were everywhere shouting, "All the stone fortresses and walls have been taken away by the heathen." "Where is my father!" Hercules was anxious. The ground shouted, but the black smoke that hit his face was still black smoke, and Parkade disappeared, his life and death unknown.

Soon, the ferocious figures of the Turks flashed on the ridgeline, and arrows whizzed down one after another from the thick smoke, flying down accurately and sharply. People around Esdu kept screaming and covering their throats. His forehead fell into the grass. This sudden The Jue mercenary gritted his teeth, pulled out his bow and fired back, shooting down several enemies who suddenly descended in front of him. However, the soldiers of Yaji Xiyang who occupied the advantageous position became more and more courageous as they fought, and immediately defeated Esdu and He Lacules' troops were firmly suppressed and nailed to the foot of the mountain.

Amidst the shouts of killing, Patriarch John Oakshilt looked at the scene of the pilgrims being defeated everywhere. Annoyance and disappointment kept flooding into his heart, and he banged his head against the wall of the tower behind him violently and rhythmically. The ground hit. But above his head, a third flag soon fluttered - behind the flying flag horns, Achish stood proudly at the highest bell of the tower. Behind him, all the temples in the city of Antioch, The bells of both the Orthodox and Catholic churches rang, and the high-pitched chanting of the believers in the mosque soared into the sky, carrying the anger and wisdom of Achish. This was also the time when Sansadonias and the dead men of the Crescent Cult came together. The signal flag of Qi Assault.

"My son, open the city gate and attack as much as you want, and burn the enemy's defenses to the ground!"

In the thunderous roar. Behind the stretching city wall at the northwest end of Antioch, the two huge city gates of the Dog Gate and the St. Paul's Gate were the core, including the small gates and secret doors on the sides. They all burst open almost at the same time. The one who rushed to the front was wrapped in fish scales. Blade armor, a heavily armored Turkic warrior holding a patterned shield. They were close together, their armors rubbing against each other, and they boldly poured out from each city gate, calmly and quickly approaching the besieging pilgrims' defense at the Porta St. Paul. Behind this group of elite and courageous warriors were arsonists wearing asbestos jackets and holding fire cans. There are also Futoua guild warriors wrapped in white turbans and carrying bows and swords.

The tongues of flames burning from all over were howling, reflecting a venomous snake-like light behind this group of heavily armored warriors, making their figures particularly frightening.

The same scene also appeared in Admar and Baldwin's camp at Dog Gate. At this moment, the priest was furious, "Hugh Capet kept calling reports before. He said that large-scale enemies were approaching his position in the south of the city. They are all cowardly and false, and they just confuse our own people!" But this brave monk did not panic, and he withstood the arrows that the Turks shot into the camp. Looking at the servants and priests crawling all over the ground looking for hidden slaves, they beat the ground angrily with their canes, "Baldwin called Adana, and the two Robert and Stephen at the gate over there, and Orontes behind him. Gawain on the other side of the river has concentrated his troops to reinforce this front - this is the target of the pagan enemies, and the rest of the area is just their blind tactics - damn, what is Tancred doing in the defense? Why not fight the enemy back?"

Although Ademar doesn't understand battle formations. But the judgment of the situation is still accurate and clear.

But there’s nothing “Gaulboulean” about it: Achish’s big black flag. Less than half an hour after floating on the tower, the pilgrim defense in front of St. Paul's Gate had completely collapsed. Tancred took it upon himself to abandon the place with his elite cavalry and headed towards the river mouth fortress to rescue his uncle. The fate of Pan was decided. There were almost no strong soldiers to guard it. The Turks swarmed in, setting fire to and killing everywhere.

Ostus and Heracles's special forces, not to mention reinforcements for the Holy Fountain Castle above, could not even protect themselves now. They and all the defeated troops fled towards the confluence of the Orontes and Falfa rivers. , countless people were frightened by the terrorist attacks by Turkic soldiers. They panicked and threw themselves into the waves of the river. They were quickly swept away and their traces and lives disappeared forever.

Some other people ran towards the "Gawain's Bridge" and the Dog Gate camp, but they were also attacked by arrows and knives from the Turks protruding from the Dog Gate area, and their mutilated corpses were immediately piled under the city wall.

Soon, the camp where the priests were stationed was also in danger.

At this time, the two Banda detachments of the Guardian Brigade, which were mobilized in an emergency, stood at the other end of the bridge holding flags. The red bird's feathers on Gawain's helmet were fluttering, and they drove their horses in front of their queue like a whirlwind. , "It will be difficult if the defense over there falls completely. Branas, take these two detachments, first I rushed to guard the bridgehead over there; I and I took all the cavalry companies to the iron bridge over there to support Orson and Bohemond; Giovanni had already begun to organize all the infantry of the Red Hand Brigade to go out. Battalion formation - Mero and Prince Sven stayed at the camp, taking the remaining manpower as a mobile reserve. "

Following the command, Branas took the lead, pointing to the bridge that stretched straight to the other side of the river. The sound of the marching flute sounded, and the Bandar Infantry Detachment of the two Guardian Brigade, with the Germans carrying two-handed swords as the vanguard, marched in dense footsteps. Under the bridge they stepped on, many people cried for help and floated and sank in the Farfa River... Many people were washed onto the protective wooden fence dozens of feet away from the left and right of the bridge. Some sank directly to the bottom, and some luckily grabbed the crossbeam of the wooden fence and were still struggling.

Tancred, who led 300 cavalrymen and turned his head without looking back, met Bohemond who ran out of the ambush and siege of Adsonius... and the new Bohemond. His uncle carried a kite shield on his back, which was full of Turkish arrows, like cow hair.

"Brad died in the battle." Bohemond was sad to see his nephew coming to help him.

"Where are your people?" Tancred asked loudly.

Bohemond was ashamed, "Either dead, half-dead, hiding or still resisting."

"But you are still alive, but this kind of survival will not help the dead or alive Christians at all - then in front of everyone, your uncle and the honor of the Duke of Apulia will decay and die."

After hearing this, Bohemond's face turned pale and he was ashamed, but he rekindled his fighting spirit, "The coffin can decay, the crown can fall to the ground, but the reputation of the Apulian warriors will never fade." After saying this, he reorganized his scattered clothes and armor, turned his body, took over the lance again, and stood shoulder to shoulder with his nephew, "Let's turn around and attack first to rescue Raymond and Orson." (To be continued ~^~)