The Bayou Fortress, located four romans northwest of Antioch, is at the confluence of the Orontes and Falfa rivers, which in turn cut the city into two parts: the small triangular western city, and the large eastern city. Today's West City, due to the shrinkage of the city, has empty walls and towers around it, but the inside is a barren jungle land, there are no buildings and chambers of commerce, and from the west of the city to the prosperous East City built on the mountain, it must pass through the bridge, because there is a surging river in between.

And Yaggie. Xiyang's powerful armed forces are stationed in the eastern city, especially on the edge of the eastern city and between the lofty mountains, there is a particularly strong city wall, called "Silepilus" around the core of the acropolis fortress, the altitude is as high as 300 meters, and this place is also the fortress guarded by Yaji himself, and the four huge towers around the acropolis were handed over to his four most personal emirs.

Now, these four emirs, with 10,000 horsemen, are guarding the fortress of the estuary, far away from the camp of the pilgrims. If you want to get close to Antioch and carry out the siege plan, you will have to seize this estuary.

Because of this estuary, which controls the only large stone bridge over the Orontes River, it is for this reason that the bayou fortress is not built in a rectangular shape like the plains, but two towering towers sandwiched between the bridgeheads, and its multi-storey buildings can be densely packed with archers and ballistas, each with a hundred elite Turkic soldiers, most of whom are garrisoned by Ghazi with noble titles.

On the plains of the passage in front of the bridge, Adesonius, the head of the four emirs, personally led two thousand spearmen of Saracen origin, all of whom were members of the Futudian guild in the city. He was very wealthy and fanatical, and wore fine and light armor. Armed with a sharp spear.

Then, in the Aoontes flank position. On the opposite side of the fortress is the "Rose Ridge" hill, one of the four emirs, Kupa Suiksin, led 3,000 lightly armed soldiers and 400 cavalry to wait here.

On the other side of the bridge, Rosellon and Kazknuz supervised the rest of the infantry, as well as a 700-meter elite assault formation, ready to be ready to respond.

The pilgrims after completing the fanatical oath and mass. All the lords jointly elected the honorable Hugh as the commander-in-chief of the front. Then Hugh sat down in front of a huge plate brought by the servants, as was the case with the hunting rites of the Frankish nobles, with sharp knives in hand, and in it was a whole piece of venison covered with blood.

"Lord Raymond, and the Grand Duke of the Gawain Empire, lead their respective foot cavalry to capture Rose Ridge." With that, Hugh cut off the flesh at the antlers. Delivered to the hands of the two.

"Bohemond, Tancred, Robert. Curtis, Robert the second of Flanders, Lord Stephen of Blois. Concentrate all your main forces and attack the main forces of the heretics at the bridgehead from the front. After arranging, Hugh cut off the deer's front legs. It was divided into the hands of the lords.

"Lord Ardmar, Lord Baldwin, organize the manpower. Serve as the second front, and be responsible for supporting the rotation battle at any time. "Hugh will be the hind legs of the deer. Ceded to two.

"Finally, I myself have taken the army directly under the royal family to roam around the northern part of Orontes, ready to reinforce all sides—Lord Godfrey, who is in Cilicia, has also sent a messenger to invite His Majesty's governor, Tetisius, to come to our aid."

After that, the soldiers followed the arrangement of the noble Hugh, stood under the banner like clouds, wore chain mail, held weapons, and began the preparations before the battle. In the midst of the smoke and dust, Gawain, with a red feather ornament on his head, rode Quicksilver, surrounded by a detachment of huge infantry spears, and then he saw Tancred standing at the head of the formation, organizing the Norman and Armenian cavalry to launch a surprise attack at the coming moment.

At the same time, he saw Gawain, the father and son of Parker and Brad behind Tancred, all of whom were angry and drew their swords and hugged them, but Ostu was standing far away, and he keenly felt that the tall general who was sitting on a silver horse in front of him was not an easy warrior.

And the generals and guards next to Gawain, such as Diem, Muzafiadin and Bramson, also armed with bows and crossbows, or with long swords, came over relatively closely.

"Merlot, Billel, the Red Hand Brigade is handed over to you, and the formation is at the right and left of Lord Ademar, and as soon as the first formation of Bohemond is defeated, he will use the infantry spears to relay the defeat of the enemy who is in the way." Gawain pulled out his horse's head scepter and deployed very seriously, "The rest of the Jinat cavalry, along with the cavalry company directly under me, will follow me to fight Rose Ridge. ”

The Normans and Armenians immediately shouted in anger, but Tancred calmed down, "It's better to go to the Grand Duke, we have no reason to compete with him here." ”

"Mature, boy." Gawain tugged at the reins.

"Sooner or later, you and your Seleucian city will be wiped out, and it will be you Gawain who will be alone in the future, don't think that you will have nothing to fear if you mix with the group of people in Lower Lorraine." Tancred replied, then stepped on his horse and buckled his visor.

"Long live Saint-Gilles!" This slogan, which Raymond usually likes to shout and encourage before the breakout, is very skillful, and with this shout, countless elite Provençal soldiers, holding shields and spears, roared into a line against the hills of Rose Ridge, and attacked continuously—this group of Raymond soldiers, many of whom were veterans of the previous fierce battles against the pagans in the Spanish mountains, and their fighting style had not changed even here: they liked to wrap their armor in Saracen-style patterned cloaks, Many of them also used the same sharp scimitars and daggers as the pagans, and held small round shields, braving arrows like locusts, walking on the rugged mountain roads in twos and threes, and rushing upward.

Raymond also drove his mount and bravely swung his sword and slashed on the front line, while Gawain was immediately behind the battle flag, observing the entire formation: the front line was commanded by the Genat nobleman Monomachus and the two Callegos brothers (the youngest two), and its front-line army was also dominated by Genat soldiers, all deployed on both sides, constantly shooting arrows upwards to cover Raymond's decisive charge.

Kupasuiksin, on the Rose Ridge, changed the combat style of the previous Turkic soldiers, he used shovels to dig the mountain roads at both ends of the position, cut down trees and block, and arranged archers to shoot arrows cross-legged behind him, on the flat gentle slope of the front, ordered the main force to rush forward, all holding shields folded, kneeling or standing, and the elite cavalry behind dismounted, acting as a second-line support, the formation was strict, quite a bit of the legacy of the Roman Imperial army.

"This group of Crescent Cultists is also very quick to learn warfare, and it is no longer a light horse surfing war." Gawain gripped the scepter, thoughtful. (To be continued.) )