Thank you for the reward from the classmates who are "too lazy to be your uncle".

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In the Helispont Strait, the downstream to the Holy Sea is on the west coast, and the retrospective to the towering cities of Abydos and Gallipoli must go against the current. The remaining six ships of the pirates were furious, and every remaining Turkic soldier on top of them shouted and sharpened their swords and raised their flags, and the Saracens and Greek sailors below were ordered to paddle hard against the current, and they wanted to bypass Elainus, because Gawain had no useful fleet at his disposal, and went to the weakly defended interior to slaughter and plunder!

All of them dismounted their sails, sang terrible war songs, and leaned on the outskirts of Gallipoli, where the lookouts saw the herds, tents, and makeshift wooden fences of the plains, and were as excited as the green grass that had drifted from the land after months of sailing, and then the Turkic pirates rose to their feet, and they vowed to kill a thousand Greek pagan dogs for the death of the emir.

So this group of samurai, who had just gone to the sea, carried their swords one after another, stepped onto the beach, raised their flags, and pounced on the target.

It's like being in a no-man's land.

An arrow feather flew and struck the forehead of a pirate holding the flag, and the other man shook it twice, and then he fell to the ground with the flag, and the other pirates looked noisily in the direction where the arrow feathers were fired: a general covered in chain mail, who was putting another on his bow and arrow, and behind him were more than a hundred murderous cavalrymen with feathered ornaments on their heads, similar to them, scimitars, bows and arrows, and round shields, and then let out the same wolf-like howl, and ran towards them.

On the galloping horses, waves of arrows flew in, shooting the pirates in a wolf rush, and soon the drums sounded on all sides, and everywhere there were small groups of cavalry, stirring up dust, shooting deadly bows and arrows, and constantly attacking them mercilessly from all directions.

Some pirates were shot, some were captured, and some were trampled to death in the procession, and soon the pirates were completely afraid to take and plunder Gallipoli, and they abandoned their dignity as creed-warriors and rushed to the deck of the ship again.

"Sweep them all and kill them all!" Tetisius flew an arrow and shot the pirate who had fled with his back to him towards the sea, then raised his hand and ordered to the guards beside him, "All the cavalry, run until the horses are completely tired." ”

At dusk, even Altabasdos sent his army from the city, and the refugees and shepherds who had bravely armed themselves in the local area, divided into many small squads, and cooperated with the cavalry of Tetisius, and searched for the pirates who were hiding and fleeing all over the mountains and valleys, many of whom were in the grass and in the cattle pens, and were hunted out, and the rebels were killed on the spot, and the rest were bound with ropes and chains.

"All the Saracens and Greek sailors and oarsmen, abandon your ships and surrender, and your merciful Emperor may spare your lives, or else cut off your right hands, according to the orders of the Grand Duke of Altabasdos and Count Gawain, so that you will be neither rowing nor farming." On a high rock by the sea, several Byzantine soldiers held their horns and blew at the ships on the sea, and shook their torches and shouted the art of attacking the heart.

At first, the Turks were still shooting with bows and arrows on the deck, but soon there was an explosion in the cabin - many Saracens and Greeks, who had been lured or coerced by the temptation or coercion, began to turn the rudder and paddle towards the shore where Tetisius was stationed.

At this time, a small Byzantine fleet sailed from the fortress of Tsarsidon to help in the war, and it was also Caesar Myaulinus who used his personal connections to mediate, and his Excellency Caesar was always vigorous in matters relating to personal interests: six Piromont paddle light warships, plus two Amalfi ships that Franchisco had invited from Constantinople, waving flags, went down the current with great vigour.

Soon, the embarrassed and angry Turks could only rush down, and the sailors fought, and the whole sea became a mess: three ships docked and were captured by Tetisius, two were sunk by the combined Byzantine and Amalfi fleets in the melee, and one lost its direction in the turbulence, and the sailors on it threw themselves into the water and fled, and the Turks could not control it, and crashed into a reef island outside the port of Abydos, the hull of the ship disintegrated, and the floating corpses rushed into the sea, leaving dozens of lonely ghosts and ghosts, climbing onto the isolated island with no water and no vegetation, in the middle of the night, all of them were captured by the arriving Piromon paddle boats.

The next day, the triumphant Grand Duke Altabasdos wrote letters to His Majesty and Caesar each inviting merit, saying that under his leadership and with the cooperation of the army commanded by Count Gawain, "our ships and cavalry are simply invincible, the pirate stronghold is like a beehive under the flames, and the whirlwind brings the good news of the great victory of the Empire." A thousand pirates have been slain, and as many as five hundred have been captured, and at once the Lordship will bind them up and go to the palace of His Majesty the Emperor to offer the safety of the whole realm of the Holy Sea, just as it was before, and we have rescued nearly seven hundred Christians who have been taken captive, and the banner of Your Majesty and the Lord will fly proudly on this sea. ”

The letter was sealed and quickly delivered to the Brachner Palace, and when the Imperial Ink Officer read it out in front of the Emperor, Alexios did not have much joy on his face, "When did Altabasdos that silverfish do this?" When I hear this, I don't know whether to be happy or sad, Gawain. What will Lusail bring to my empire on the throne, it seems that there is an endless night ahead, only a few glimmers of stars, whether to guide me or mislead me" After speaking, Alexios stood up and stood behind the silk curtain, "It seems that I also need to pick myself up as soon as possible, organize my army, and go to Moria to fight Zahas entrenched there." ”

In the small dormitory, Anna also excitedly opened the letter, there was no Gawain's handwriting, "This big barbarian is illiterate at all", it was all narrated, "I understand that most of the merits at the Cape of Elainus should be attributed to Gawain's name, right?" Anna lay down on the table and wrote hard, but this time she learned to be obedient, and when she had finished writing what she thought in her heart, she secretly sealed the letter in lead and gave it to her cronies to keep it and send it out in secret.

"That's right." Suddenly, as if remembering something, Anna put up a bookcase as well, "This, you also give to Commander Count Gawain, I believe it will be of great benefit to him at the front." ”

While Anna's letter was still on the way, Gawain, who was standing on the edge of the cliffs of Elainus, observed that the soldiers and servants who had moved in the barracks were ready to march towards the Thessalonica region, where the pirates would no longer trouble him, and Zahaas in Moria (now the Peloponnese) would have at least one to two months to get the sad news, and he had to seize the opportunity.