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"Could it be that it was another saliva from Pope Peter?" Bohemond looked at everyone, then cut open the seal, and unfolded it, "Tanrred and Raul's partial division is almost completely wiped out!" ”

"Yes, Raul gave up his mount to your nephew before he died, but Tancred was also seriously wounded and could not recover for a long time." An earl named Haverley added that he and others had been informed of the battle at the front, "Your Excellency, it is said that the situation is miserable, half of them have lost their lives or been captured, and the lightly armed men of the servants have been destroyed. ”

"The looted goods are all gone," Bohemond was clearly more concerned about.

"And that's not all." Haverley pointed, meaning that the prince continued to look down.

"Shameless enemy, and also demanded ransom, and a knight actually opened the weight of one hundred and fifty Su silver coins. My father kidnapped nuns back then, and he was more generous and merciful than that. Bohemond uttered an angry voice, "Settle, settle, let me take a good look at the name of the devil and the dog, written in ink as dirty as his heart, Stephen. Gawain - seems to be somewhat familiar" Then the Duke of Apulia turned his back to everyone, and recalled in his heart the shame: that night, he was almost attacked and killed by a Varyag barbarian with an unsheathed sword; That night, he was captured by the Greek guards; That night, he was locked in the cabin with Peter, the stinking monk, and his little hands were not allowed to be free.

Now, Stephen. Gawain's signature was accompanied by the signatures of two generals, that is, Diognis and Tetisius. These three bastards had destroyed my men like this—the Duke who had been hurt for so many nights in the past was so angry that he could barely control himself.

However, a group of counts and barons continued to be unforgiving to him, demanding that he must pay a ransom for the twenty or so knights captured by Gawain, and Bohemond turned back and begged everyone, saying that now he would concentrate on taking Amalfi, and that no money would be a problem at that time.

"But the Greek enemy has set the ransom period at one month, and I am afraid that before the fall of this city, he will send the heads of twenty-five knights over, which will be too great a blow to morale and people's hearts, Your Excellency!" Hafley and the others were visibly annoyed and frustrated, "You have to know that many of the captured and dead were relatives, friends, and loyal subordinates of those present. ”

"The dead also need money?" Bohemond couldn't even close his mouth.

"Yes, if you want to redeem the corpses and bury them, it is fifty sus each, and for soldiers without rank in Calabria, it is five suos each."

Bohemond waved his hand, indicating that the latter did not need to be considered, and it didn't matter what that Gawain did with the body. Then he lowered his head, looked at the grass beneath the cliff that had been blown down by the wind, and finally made up his mind, and declared to the lords and knights, "I will raise this ransom from the Pisan people as soon as possible, and use my status as a prince as collateral to borrow money to ransom the captives." ”

At this time, in the city of Lepanto, Gawain was clapping his hands, and Muzafiadin and two military servants were holding a silver and violent stallion, circling around him, "Good fellow, look at his forehead, look at his mane and eyes, like a lion, sure enough, the Normans can breed excellent war horses." ”

This is one of the captures of Gawain's army after the defeat of Tankred, selected from the seventy trophies, is the Lombard war horse, which has just been saddled today, put on a halter, and put on a horseshoe nail, Gawain also named him "Quicksilver", and then claimed to be the owner of "Quicksilver". Sabina was next to her master with some grief at this time, constantly sniffing his armor, expressing her jealousy of Quicksilver, which provoked Gawain to constantly stroke her neck, "It's Quicksilver when you charge, and it's you on weekdays, my mistress." ”

Gawain gave some of the rest of the horses and the capture, including Ingrida's gifts, and some of them to the treasury, and when the servants of the battalion had left the cabin to distribute the money to the sailors handcuffed to the oars, the emperor came to Lepanto with the imperial seal.

At that time, Gawain was on the high platform, speaking to a crossbowman from Benevento, "Are you sure you shot the Norman commander named Raul in the previous battle?" ”

"Yes, although it was the Earl Commander who ultimately claimed his life, all three of my comrades can verify that the crossbow arrow shot into his abdomen was fired by me." The helmeted crossbowman half-knelt in front of Gawain and spoke, followed by his fellow veterans.

Gawain stood up and placed the bag containing fifty silver coins of Seriqua into his hand, followed by two wooden cylinders, one thick and one thin, tied to the other's shoulders, "This is a gift from the mistress of the Mesadini family of Corinth to a warrior like you, and the thick one contains six silks of silk, and you must know that the Roman emperor paid only three and four silk at most." The thin one, containing the finest linen ever produced in Greece, fits into a tube the size of a cane. In addition, I have promoted you to rank commander, and I have doubled your salary. After that, the soldiers treated the enemy, regardless of the other party's class, and after killing, they would be rewarded in this way. ”

Then, Gawain suddenly raised the sword of phosphorus fire with a dark blue edge, and frightened the soldiers back a few steps, "Ladies and gentlemen, whether you are a Tekopo soldier from the imperial capital, or a private slave of the Imperial Caesar, or the rest of the Georgian Warden, our target at this moment is Italy, which is a very rich place, countless harbors, baths, bazaars, women with black eyes and black hair, wheat, grapes, olives, marble, gold, silver, blue seas, beautiful lakes, and now it is torn apart, Tarnished and ravaged by heresies and infidels, and having just been appointed by His Majesty the Emperor as the new 'Governor of Bari', 'Grand Duke of Lucania and Calabria', and 'First Nobleman with the Sword', I will lead all of you to regain the Empire's territory there, and to plant His Majesty's purple banner all over the Apennines, and to embark on a glorious adventure of a lifetime—you have all seen this sword of mine, some say it is a magic sword, but on the contrary, this sword was when I was shackled hand and foot after I was captured by the pagan Turks in NicaeaSt. Michael (the equivalent of St. George in Western Europe) came to me, slashed the shackles with this sword, set me free, and asked me to go to the land of St. Nicholas to lead the way to the great revival of Christ. I have been inspired by God, because I have been given a divine weapon, and I have shown God's favor, and I will do God's will. This is St. Michael's dragon-slaying sword, and this is St. Nicholas's arrow of faith! ”

All the soldiers present were shocked, they thought that the sword was indeed a holy object, and then they were so demoralized that they knelt down at Gawain's feet, "May the godlike ones guide us on our way, and may our journey to Italy be blessed by all the gods and angels." ”