Eagle Byzantium

This news made Adhmar excited. He quickly asked the messenger to go to the port of Saint Simon and urge the transportation of food and fodder here, because most of the roads for the Turks to attack had been blocked, and the rest were blocked by the pilgrims' sentries.

Although the unity of the pilgrims and the change of tactics came too slowly, they still achieved miraculous results. Yagi. Siyan stood on the Acropolis in a rage, looking at the stone fortress that suddenly rose on the opposite mountain, like a thorn in his eyes. His son Sansadonis was also panting and stood in front of his father in embarrassment. "In the battle of the stone fortress, my standard bearer Doyakum disappeared."

At this moment, a quarrel suddenly broke out in the streets under the Acropolis, and Yagi was so scared that he hurriedly hid behind the slave soldiers, looking quite embarrassed.

Not long after, several slave soldiers came up the steps and pointed at the fireworks burning under the battlements. "The Christians imprisoned in a warehouse heard the fighting in the stone fort outside the city and thought that Christians had broken in, so they rioted. We have surrounded them and killed them all."

"Kill all the prisoners in the adjacent warehouses and towers!" Yaji waved his hand coldly to give this order, then shook his long beard angrily and said to his son, "Explain clearly, what happened to your standard bearer? Was he killed in battle or captured? Did you not know when you were escaping on horseback? Did you take a closer look at the whereabouts of the standard-bearer? "

Sansadonis was full of shame, "He should have fallen off his horse near the altar of the holy spring..."

"His family is guarding an important tower over the dog gate." Yagi turned around and looked at the endless valley, then raised his eyelids and issued a second cold order to the slave soldiers and attendant judges around him, "No matter whether my son's standard-bearer will surrender to the enemy, take all his family out of the tower and send them to the old palace in the south of the city." Then Yagi made a gesture. "Execute them."

After all, the son Sansadonis was a young man who had not experienced much of the world. Hearing his father's cruel treatment of his standard-bearer's family, he shuddered all over, but he could do nothing.

And another Armenian mercenary who was friendly with Doyakum and was guarding the battlements with a spear, named Pragit, heard the ears and felt sick and unhappy all over. But due to the situation, he pretended not to hear anything at all, tilted his helmet, and slowly walked to the other side of the battlement with his spear.

Not long after, dozens of bloody heads were hung on the tower on the dog gate. Ropes and wires were pierced through the ears. Some of them were from the family of the captured standard-bearer Doyakum, and some were from the rioting Christians who were killed.

Almost at the same time, the grief-stricken Doyakum, still wrapped in a blood-stained cloak and armor, learned the unfortunate news of his family. He was baptized by Bohemond's military priests and recited the famous words of John the Baptist in Greek, "Christ is the truth, Christ is the truth."

And Bohemond held the sword. Standing on the gravel hillside next to him, looking at Doyakum, his face full of loving expression, "From now on, you will convert to Christianity, and you will have an irreconcilable relationship with the pagans in Antioch. I hope you can be loyal to me like the Turkish soldier beside Gawain, and I will give you a new name. It will be called Bohemond, the same name as me - this time you will be called 'New Bohemond' or 'Doyakum Bohemond'." "Yes, I will do my best to drive you. I am willing to be the vanguard of any battle. In my heart, in addition to supporting the Lord, I also hate Agi Siyan and his son." Doyakum touched his chest and bowed, and vowed in front of the toe spurs of Lord Bohemond. After that, the pilgrims fought more and more bravely. The same method was used under the city wall to block and seal three city gates. The wall of the stone fort on the ridge was gradually improved. Bohemond personally sent the flag officer of the Holy Banner Company, Brad, and 500 elite Norman infantry and cavalry to garrison there, repelling the attacks of the city again and again. The bodies of the Turks on the valley road became more and more, attracting many vultures to circle.

Yagi. Siyan looked at the stone fort and felt like a thorn in his throat. He began to roar anxiously, and dragged the Patriarch Antioch out of prison and hung him on the high wall of the Acropolis. He was exposed to the sun during the day and taken back at night, just like hanging clothes. At the same time, he gathered the four emirs and his son Sansadonias, and said nervously and heavily, "The enemy's stone fort is too close to here. You should find a way to take it down."

Then, Yagi screamed, "Take it down!"

But whether it was the four emirs or his own son, they were silent: The stone fortress newly built by the pilgrims really caught the seemingly cold but actually fragile mentality of the Lord of Antioch. Yagi Siyan was born as a slave in the Seljuk royal court. In the turbulent power struggle, although he climbed to the throne by stepping on countless bones, he developed an extremely suspicious mentality. He always felt that the Orthodox Christians who were executed for rioting in the warehouse were still lingering. Their souls and resentment would spread with the air and reach the ears and hearts of all the imprisoned Orthodox Christians. This group of people would unite at any time, open the city gates to the enemy, and put themselves to death. "Or else, kill all the detained Orthodox Christians, including their Patriarch of Antioch." Yagi Siyan's face was pale with weakness and irritability, and brown age spots were protruding. His hands kept pulling the white beard that dragged to his abdomen, and he walked back and forth.

"Please don't be like this, father, otherwise even if the city of Antioch is saved, our rule will collapse." Sansadounias sincerely advised.

"I'm even more worried that before Kobuha's army comes, my city will fall, because there are scoundrels everywhere in the city who are coveting my life and head. You are still young, and you don't understand the dangers of the world." Yaji. Pointing to his head, he stood in front of a large mirror inlaid with crystal stones, breathing erratically, touching his face and chin, as if stroking a priceless gem, and chattering.

"We can bypass the stone fortress, go out through the iron gate in the east of the city, gather people and horses to cooperate with the guards on the city wall, and raid the enemy's southern camp. This may break the enemy's blockade and gain active power." Finally, the fourth emir The chief general, General Adsonius, proposed this plan without any confidence, "And in this way, we can also get help from Ridwan."

Ridwan ibn Tutusi, one of the younger brothers of Malik Shah Khan, the son-in-law of Yaqi, and the ruler of Aleppo; in addition, Adsonius' plan and the spearhead of the attack were aimed at "Honorable Hugh" came.

"Yes, I agree to this plan!" Yaji Xiyang approved without hesitation.

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Then he walked to the Acropolis, and through the crenellations, he saw the Patriarch of Antioch, John Oakshilt, hanging on the stone wall below. Hearing the noise in the sky, the other party turned upside down and raised his face covered with dirt and beard. , looked at him blankly, and then there was a sound of shaking chains, and he dropped his feet slumped, with his exposed back in tattered clothes, pressed against the cold bricks, looking at the densely packed neighborhood houses under the Acropolis, without saying a word... ....(not yet To be continued ~^~)