Eagle Byzantium

"Play the drum, Commander." When Mero was restless, a girl's voice came from behind. He turned around and saw a petite woman with a pair of bright brown eyes looking at him. Looking at himself, "Please forgive my arrogance, Commander, but in this situation, we must do our best to provide help to the pilgrim camp below, and that's all we can do."

At this time, all the soldiers in the queue couldn't help it anymore and turned to look at Anna. Although they knew that doing so was against the requirements of the Dalian regiment's military code, they were still extremely surprised that this girl actually wanted to interfere in the army. command! But what surprised them even more was that the marching commander, His Excellency Wessart Melo, raised his hands, "All troops, beat the drums, blow the horns and trumpets!"

The rumbling drums and the sharp and shrill trumpets soon sounded from the Excello High Trench. This was the only thing anyone could do. At this moment, Anna also understood that Gawain had not allowed her to leave the fortress and come to the front of the army. The reason: She saw densely packed corpses covered with floating soil in the ravine, hideous facial expressions, gray-colored skin, stumps and blood stains everywhere, and naked and twisted bodies.

Anna covered her mouth, her eyebrows were furrowed, and her shoulders were twitching uneasily. At this time, Agnes grabbed her from behind, dragged her back, and then lifted up the saffron pendant hanging around Anna's neck. , made her take two deep breaths, and Anna managed not to vomit, "Just give up, men are like that, they are despicable animals who only know how to kill each other."

"Why do you say that? If the Grand Duke finds out, he will punish you with the crime of disrupting the morale of the army. Men are not exactly what you said." Stavrajos next to him hurriedly came out to stop Agnes's nonsense.

"You have absolutely no say in what kind of animal a man is." Agnes said contemptuously.

"Hey, do you have the right to speak? You are still just a fledgling, right?" Of course Staurachos was not a good person. A combative light shone from the slits of his fleshy eyes and he raised his fingers. Fight back with courtly flourishes.

A sound of horses neighing suddenly came, and Gawain rode a black horse and carried a kite shield, galloping over in an instant. He came from the mountain path of Chiwet, and Agnes was so frightened that she retreated to the ruins of the fortress. Went over there. Muzafiad-Din and Staurachos immediately came forward and knelt down before the Grand Duke. Holding Sabina's bit, Gawain nodded to Anna, "I'm back." He propped up the saddle and got down, walking like the wind to the front of the ditch, without even having time to say a word to Anna. But Anna clearly saw that Gawain was tired. The originally light blue eyes were actually bloodshot.

There, more than a dozen drummers and trumpeters tried their best to spread their voices to the other side of the camp, hoping to suppress the Roma soldiers' shouts of death. There, Walter and other brave pilgrims were still fighting in the sea of ​​​​fire and He resisted desperately in the rain of arrows, "Mello did a good job. Ask someone to take over."

"Is this the only way?" Mello lowered his head.

"No, but after this night, we will launch a counterattack on time tomorrow morning!" After hearing the Grand Duke's words, all the soldiers of the Dalian Company. Including the brotherhood, they all sat down cross-legged and consciously rested and ate. Then Gawain held the hilt of the sword with his left hand and swung his right hand to the left side of the high ground. That was the position of the Armenians led by Paquead, "Breakthrough It's right there. Tomorrow, all the flags and cavalry's attack spearheads will be pointed here." Then Gawain moved and struck at Hajib's men directly below the high ground. "Defeat the Armenians, and then defeat this enemy. Then the entire army will join forces with Godfrey and Baldwin, defeat Suleilman, and capture Nicaea!"

Mero nodded and said that he and Birrell immediately organized all the soldiers and arranged the attack formation.

However, the marching director did not express his doubts: What on earth did the Archduke go to the Chiwete camp? He did not bring any reinforcements. Tomorrow, relying on these four hundred men alone, even if Godfrey and Baldwin were added to the Chiwete camp, Can the team coming from the side break through two formations in a row?

But an order is an order, and it must be carried out.

Gawain leaned against the wall, sat down slowly, rested his chin on his sword, and felt a little drowsy. Anna walked up to him, took the warm water handed over by the eunuch, and put it into his mouth. , "Thank you." Gawain remembered that Anna had previously been fiercely opposed to borrowing troops from the West Franks and the Normans to regain Asia Minor.

"I have seen that the hope of the Romans may be on your and my shoulders, and the true revival of the Roman Empire cannot be limited to a corner." The former arrogant imperial princess held a cup of water and said to Gawain .

"Please patron, look at the heroic appearance of my red-handed Dalian team fighting tomorrow." Gawain sipped his saliva and continued, then he lowered his head and snored slightly.

He was so tired.

The Roma's fierce siege lasted until night and finally broke through one corner of the camp. Except for Walter who retreated to another corner with some pilgrims to continue resisting, the rest of the people cried and abandoned the wooden fence and ran around in the wilderness. , some turned into The souls killed by sabers and bows were killed, and some were captured as slaves. However, this disintegration also led to the dispersion of the organization of the Roma army-everyone was busy chasing and killing the captives, so Giliki could only give an order. Until tomorrow morning, the final blow will be launched against the remaining pilgrims.

The entire wilderness in front of Gaogou was full of fires, and the horns and drums of the soldiers of the large company continued, shaking the starry sky, giving Walter and others their last hope.

At about an hour before dawn, a huge commotion broke out on the hill behind the Exerro ditch. The soldiers who were resting stood up with their weapons, and Gawain woke up, "Fortunately, we caught up. We can counterattack as much as we want!"

At this time, Anna, Agnes, and the officers and soldiers of the Dalian team saw that on the hill, many pilgrims from the Chivite camp pushed stones and raised hoes. The torches in their hands formed two long tracks, straight to the other side of the seashore.

Under the guidance and gentle encouragement of Grand Duke Gawain, they really spent half a day and half a night to open up a new and smooth road from Chivite to Exerro!

Behind the pilgrims, many fierce and violent war horses were led and shouted, running up the high slope, accompanied by the cheers of Birrel, Melo and the soldiers. Bramson on the tower also clenched his fists and cheered loudly.

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"Show them some color!" Anyway, Bramson was standing on the high tower, and his casual and excited shouting was not heard by Grand Duke Gawain.

Following the war horses were the soldiers of the two cavalry companies of the Great Company. They all rode on mules and donkeys provided by the pilgrims to save the physical strength of their war horses and went up along the newly opened road. On both sides were infantrymen carrying spears, swords and shields.

"Why don't the enemies on the high ditch blow trumpets and drums anymore?" In the tent below, Parkard walked out with a saber in annoyance. He was not used to the sudden silence. (To be continued ~^~)