king of ros

Although I was full of complaints about leading such an army of oil bottles in my heart, the work still had to be done after all.

First of all, he counted the supplies provided by the emperor. Vasilico is a veteran soldier who has fought in the empire for a long time. His love of books has allowed him to acquire a lot of knowledge from his ancestors, so he understands better than everyone. How dangerous.

After leaving the empire-occupied area, they walked on a sparsely populated land with harsh natural conditions, and this land ruled by mountains and hills can be said to be full of stages of ambushes. As far as the army is concerned, the danger in this naturally goes without saying.

There is also Konya, or Iconian in the Greek population. This city existed before the birth of the Holy Lord, and its city defense is also very strong and reliable. It will take a lot of time to besiege such a city .

But after taking here, the road to Syria is smooth, which is why the emperor let the crusaders agree to take this road, and Vasilko had to lament the shrewdness of the emperor, so easy to disperse Such a large army was formed to attack the dangerous and important city for the Eastern Empire.

But it is a pity that the emperor originally planned to go with the Crusaders, but the impatience of the Crusaders ruined all this. They were eager to embark on the road to the Holy Land, so there was no way, Alexios could only Send these men across the Channel and let Vasilico be their protector.

The road across the strait to the border of the empire is stable. These areas have been recovered by the empire for a while. Although robbers and horse bandits can be seen from time to time, it seems to them that such a huge army can only come honestly. Actually hid.

Along the way, they enjoyed a steady stream of material supplies from the empire, and it was easy to mobilize resources through densely populated areas, so they didn't do bad things like looting Greek villages before, and the relationship between the local residents and the Crusaders was still calm.

The lax discipline of the Crusaders is the biggest obstacle Vasilico has to overcome along the way. There are always disobedient guys doing their own thing, and people join and leave the team all the time.

The only good thing is that the two leaders of the Crusaders expressed their obedience to Vasilico's arrangement-but only if the Crusaders are on the path they want to take. What's the matter.

Gregory was responsible for managing discipline, and within a few days, the usually good-tempered son-in-law of Ross quickly became full of foul language.However, even though it was stumbling, the army was still advancing smoothly, and there were no large-scale non-combat attrition.

Along the way, Vasilko has seen countless traces of war, ruins that have been abandoned for an unknown period of time, unburied bones, and bandits everywhere. This land has been tortured constantly in the past period of time. It's hard to calm down now.

In the last town on the border of the empire, Vasilico stayed for half a month. What he did this month was not for anything else, but to save as much food, grass and water as possible. After entering the next road, It is difficult to get these things.

This naturally aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the Crusaders. They just wanted to rush to conquer the pagan city, and then embark on their pilgrimage. Silence those dissenting voices - this is the most useful of the many powers that Alexios gave Vasiliko.

Fortunately, the Crusaders were sensible. After Vasilico made his big move, they also cooperated to persuade other people to calm down and wait for a while. The monk Peter contributed a lot, and a potential threat This is resolved.

After Vasilko had accumulated what he thought was enough supplies, the army was able to move, and then they began a arduous journey.

After setting foot on this sparsely populated land, the Crusaders realized how right Vasilico was. The hot weather tested their physical strength all the time. There were basically no villages and rivers on the way, only very few Water sources are available, and these available water sources are often not enough to satisfy the entire army.

This road is still difficult to walk, there are rolling mountains and hills everywhere, and after turning over a hill, there is another hill, but the mentality of the whole army is the most tormented Vasiliko, he looks at everyone with suspicion and horror. A hill, anxiously waiting for the news from the Turkic scouts, for fear of encountering a surprise attack by the enemy.

Although the entire army looks miserable, if Vasilko hadn't prepared enough food and water in advance, the Crusaders would have been downsizing long ago, so their confidence in Vasilko has increased a lot.

It's just that in Vasilico's view, this is still far from enough. Many Crusade participants have no awareness of water conservation at all.

No matter how much he ordered and repeated, it was useless, they just poured the whole bag of water from the top of their heads casually, just to get a moment of coolness.

When camping, it is the peak of water waste. He once saw a Frenchman accidentally knocked down the whole bucket of water on the ground, and then the people around him just laughed at him, completely unaware of the lost water How precious.

However, Vasilico also knows where the root cause of all this is. It is difficult for people from areas with abundant water sources to have a sense of water conservation. Only when they experience the horror brought about by the lack of water, such as almost dying of thirst, etc. Yes, this problem can be solved.

His father referred to this situation as paying tuition fees, which Vasilko felt was very appropriate. Isn't this the so-called study fee.

Vasilko also came here in the same way back then, but he didn't pay a heavy price for it, and the tuition fee was not too much. After all, he led a well-disciplined army.

As for these crusaders... Vasilico has already set a standard in his heart for 5 to nearly [-] people. In his opinion, at least half of them must die.

After realizing that it was useless to say what he said, Vasilico directly restricted the Crusaders' water consumption. The Crusaders who suddenly lost their abundant water source naturally complained, and Vasilico's reputation in their mouths also became bad. They completely forgot how they praised Vasilico for saving resources before.

The top leaders of the Crusaders have no objection to this. Anyway, no matter how much water is restricted, it will not be able to limit them. It is a good thing to save resources, but they were unwilling to bear this infamy before. Now that Vasiliko has recited it, it is good for everyone It's all good too.

And Vasilko doesn't care about those curses at all. Compared with this, he cares more about where the Turkic army has gone. Now they are getting closer and closer to Konya, but there are not many conflicts with the Turkic people. only a small Turkic army.

Intuition told Vasiliko that the Turks must be preparing for something, and the Roma Sultan must be planning a surprise attack, but he just doesn't know when he will start the surprise attack.

The closer he got to Konya, the higher the vigilance of Vasilko, because the time for the Turkic army to launch a surprise attack was bound to get closer and closer. He kept doubling the number of guards and constantly strengthened his war preparations.

However, the lack of crusades became the biggest obstacle to his war preparations. The crusade he led was a civilian crusade. The civilians formed the absolute main body of this army. In fact, there were only about five thousand reliable combatants.

Civilian subjects mean that these people are loose and disregarding discipline. They are like a group of wild boars gathered together with their heads outward. Although they gather under threat, they are likely to disperse and flee immediately once they are attacked. .

Such laxity during the march was tolerable. After all, at that time these civilians could only follow behind the army, but now that it is wartime, it is unbearable. Most of the time, it is very difficult to get people in the last second. The place where you should be, then go to other things, and then come back to find that everyone is gone.

All this made Vasilico extremely tired, and the Crusaders became more and more annoyed by this guy who was in charge of things. Amidst such stumbling, the real attack came unexpectedly.

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