king of ros

The Norman Bohemond's method of winning the city was very simple, it can be said to be extremely simple, but on the other hand, this is also the reason why he touched the blind spot of thinking that no one thought of.

Everyone subconsciously thinks that the city is full of Muslims who are determined to resist to the end, and the fact is indeed similar to this. There are really many Muslims who are determined to resist to the end.

But there are wavers, and there are people who are not Muslims.

Bohemond has been trying to talk to the defenders on the city wall during the interwar period. At first he failed, but in the end he found a way and a channel.

He hooked up with an Armenian mercenary captain in the city. Although the defenders dispersed the Christians in the city before the arrival of the Crusaders, the Christian mercenaries who had been fighting with them for a long time were not dispersed and defended the city to the end. Everyone needs people, and in the case of sufficient food, it is natural that the more people there are, the better.

And these Christians have become the most unstable part of the defenders in the continuous battles. When the staunch Islamists are getting more and more desperate in the continuous battles, then the attitude of these people of the scriptures is naturally unspoken And metaphor.

The Armenians, who were increasingly pessimistic about the prospects of defense, decided to hand over their defensive towers after hooking up with Bohemond, so on a dark night, Bohemond brought his knights to Antioch under the city.

They carefully crossed a large pit called the Pit of Death by Christians. In order to fill this pit, the civilian crusaders under the control of the war monks suffered heavy casualties, and then the Condemned Army launched a desperate charge on the city wall and was repelled. up.

As the time came, a rope was lowered from the city.

Bohemond was the first to climb the rope, where he saw the Armenians cooperating with them, and then more and more Normans climbed the walls, and their actions made no small noise, and the armor of the knights All kinds of loud noises are constantly being made, but since this is the defense zone of Armenian mercenaries, no one cares.

After a certain number of his subordinates ascended the city, Bohemond led the Norman knights to kill towards the city gate. The Muslims there were completely caught off guard by the sudden attack, and many of them were wiped away in their sleep The neck was cut, and a few people who stood firm were also killed in a short battle.

Because Bohemond and others acted in a very orderly manner, they did not raise the city's alarm until the end of the battle. They were not discovered until Bohemond opened the city gate and waved a torch at the Crusader camp outside the city.

But at this time, it didn't matter anymore, because the Crusaders had already rushed into the city.

Due to the attack in the dark, most of the defenders were either annihilated or dispersed, and a small number of remaining troops fled from the city gate leading to the back mountain.

It can be said that the Crusaders took the city that had troubled them for nearly a year in a few hours, and what followed was the carnival of those who had fought hard.

In such an era, post-war looting and even massacre of cities is a very common thing, especially after a bitter battle, the soldiers after the bitter battle are full of resentment, many need to vent, this vent or through killing, Or through a woman's body, or through enough gold and silver to make everyone feel exaggerated.

And the Crusaders did not have enough camp prostitutes, nor did they have enough money, so the only choice was massacre-this is what the Crusaders wanted.

Antioch has become a city of hell, the streets are stained red with the blood of Islamists, death can be seen everywhere, and unstoppable atrocities are everywhere, men's heads are chopped off one by one, women's luck is better, if If they were not raped to death, they would be thrown into a prostitution camp, at least with a chance of survival.

After baptizing the city with blood and fire, Antioch became quieter than ever before, and the expelled Christians were able to return to their former homes. Seeing the corpses all over the ground, they were a little scared , but it is not unexpected, this is not a rare sight, and many people even clean up the corpses with the crusaders themselves.

And in the castle of Antioch, the Crusaders lords are celebrating this great victory, because it means that the door to the south has been completely opened to them, and as long as they work harder, they can go to the holy land of Jerusalem.

Everyone was very excited, and everyone was immersed in the wine called victory. After completely controlling the city, the crusaders organized a day and night of celebrations, and now is the time to feast.

But after the banquet, a piece of news hit everyone's faces, it was from Baldwin, Earl of Edessa.

Although he led his own army to resist, the enemy passed through the Edessa county. The army of the emir of Mosul Kerboga had arrived. He joined the army of the emir of Aleppo and the emir of Damascus. , the strength of his men reached 6, which is [-] soldiers.

Now there are only about 3 fighters in the Crusaders, and the other [-] are civilian merchants and monks. They have no combat effectiveness at all, and the enemy has [-].

Although the Crusaders had defeated the Islamic army many times, everyone still couldn't help trembling in the face of an Islamic army that was 2 more than themselves.

In the end, Bohemond stood up and encouraged everyone. We can even take down Antioch, so why should we be afraid of those Muslims? Isn’t it because there are so many people?But how many times have they won more with less?
Godfrey followed Bohemond to cheer up the morale of the crowd. The noble lord said that God is on our side and we will surely win.

This boosted everyone's morale, and everyone agreed, yes, they defeated the emir's army many times with less, so what should they be afraid of this time?Just face it bravely!
Vasilko felt something was wrong, while Volorida was excited by the speech. Vasilko finally chose to back down, so the Ross people also joined the ranks of attack.

In this way, the Crusaders made a plan to attack. Once the Islamic army arrived, they would go out of the city to defeat them.

Kerboga's army arrived very quickly, but when they came to Antioch, what they found was not the Christian defenders huddled inside the city, but an array outside the city, ready to fight with them. An army of Christians fighting.

This caught Kerboga by surprise. He didn't expect that the Crusaders would take the initiative to attack, but he didn't back down because of this. This would affect his prestige. Without prestige, how could he lead these emirs in the future?
So he ignored the challenge of the Crusaders when the army had just arrived and its foothold was unstable.

In this battle, the Russians were in charge of commanding all the infantry. In the Crusaders' battle sequence, those Crusader infantry were the biggest weakness, and the Rosses were famous for infantry combat, so the job of commanding the infantry was given to them.

The two princes of Rurik were very casual about this. Anyway, there were only a hundred or so cavalry among their 6000 people, so it didn't matter.

So during the battle, the two princes of Rurik and thousands of crusader knights rushed towards the Mu. S. Lin's battle line like mountains and seas. The raised dust almost covered the entire battlefield. The only thing that could be seen clearly was the Flags fluttering in the wind.

The Muslims were the most confident. They thought that the Crusaders would surely fall in front of their numbers, but the next development was completely beyond their expectations.

It was obviously the first time for the Emir's soldiers to face the knight's attack, and many of them started to run away at the first wave of the attack, and what made all the emirs angry was that those under their command who had experienced the attack of the Crusader knights Veterans actually run the fastest!
Bohemond's performance was the most prominent among the crusader lords. He skillfully divided the emir's army and then defeated them, which dazzled the two princes of Rurik. His father is probably at this level...maybe even lower than this.

The coalition forces of the Emirs collapsed, and they were defeated by the Crusader knights in this way. Their huge army collapsed and collapsed, just like the remaining snow in spring is evaporated in the face of the rising sun.

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