Zephilim Rom soldiers, carrying dogtooth banners, were advancing rapidly down the river, and their Bey lords, dressed in splendid robes, rode on tall horses, and held their whips to encourage the soldiers to "speed up their pace and enter the city of Tusot (the Turks and Saracens call Tarsus Tusot) to resist the incoming pagan dogs".

The cavalry in front soon saw that on the hills by the river, a line of lightly armed cavalry quickly appeared, and they were like their own people, carrying animal skin sacs with a large number of arrows, as well as pike darts and scimitars, all of which were the Cumans to whom Gawain belonged, and there were about a hundred horsemen, riding short and inferior war horses, many of whom were still filled with pack horses.

"There's an enemy coming!" The Roma cavalry, who was in front of them, galloped back to their own array, raising their hands and shouting.

"Don't panic, line up to shoot and refuse to fight, they are all rabble, it is estimated that they are stragglers hired by the enemy." Commander Nabey shouted.

However, Gawain's light cavalry advanced extremely quickly, like a moving rope, and soon approached the range of the Roma reinforcements, and the two armies began to disperse and engage in long-range bow and arrow battles.

In the midst of the flying arrows, the Roma soldiers heard an even louder drum beat—Gawain himself galloped with all the breezers in the second line, carrying Cantos or Norman mounted spears.

Seeing the enemy's galloping horses and towering spears, the Rohm's infantry had already begun to flee backwards - but Baldwin's more than 200 Frankish cavalry, divided into small groups, overlapped from the flanks and killed again, and the battle ended very cleanly - the Roma Bey, several Gazi warriors, were killed, and more than a dozen light horsemen fled. All the rest were annihilated.

"Tell me your command, and I can release you to Zephilim." After several of the captives were tied up in front of Gawain, General Stratigos interrogated them in Turkic.

"Light arrows." That's the final password.

"Thirty cavalry, one hundred and fifty infantry." In the field after the battle, Gawain and Baldwin were selecting soldiers. "All dressed in Turkic armor, raised their dogtooth banners, and marched at night to the twin towers of the Water Gate in Tarsus."

Muzafiadin knelt in front of his master, skillfully helping Gawain to put on the light scale armor of the Turks, then the lock ring on his shoulder, the armor glove, the scimitar, and finally the belt, "Master, this armor is a little too small. "Gawain himself felt very painfully strangled, and even shouted for the Turkic military servants to be looser." That's right, Muzafi Adin. Immediately attacked, you go to the front, raise your face, the enemy will not suspect you, and Baldwin and I will follow you. ”

As the vast city of Tarsus loomed into the spotlight of day, Gawain ordered Bramson to take command of the rest of the men. All hidden behind the hillside half a quarry, he rode his mare Sabina at the head of the queue. Baldwin, Oden, and Burke all wore helmets and hammers and crowded to the side, while Muzafiadin ran to the front with dogtooth flags, followed by 180 fake "Roma reinforcements" lined up in a double column, all "from Zefelim".

"Pilgrims, it's a pilgrim's camp!"

"Wrong. It was just a camp for Norman pilgrims. Gawain categorically "dispelled" the fears of several of the soldiers—on the high ground on the opposite bank of the Tarsus Watergate Tower, a contingent of pilgrims of several hundred men arrived below, presumably sent by Tanfred from the siege position there, and set up colorful tents on the shore below.

When this dress of Govin and Baldwin is a congregation. They rushed there, and overlooked, the pilgrims' camp was in disarray, and many people saw them, thinking that the Turks were coming, rushed to the tents to get their weapons, and ran to report that Tancred's was fleeing.

Baldwin, who was hiding behind his visor, raised his mace and laughed, "If you want to cheat the city army, just do it like a little!" ”

"All the army, destroy this pilgrim camp, and do not hesitate to be stupefied, as long as we can attack the land of Sangzi in the liberation of St. Paul, the Lord will forgive anyone!" Gawain was also unceremoniously, pulled out the sword that was surrounded by the faint blue fire, held it in front of his eyes, and gave a low order.

"On behalf of the Lord, I fully agree with His Excellency Gawain's statement and decision!" Auden also raised the Morning Star Hammer with the tribulus terrestris and howled.

"Whoa, whoa!" As General Stratigus pointed the blue sword at the target, the dogtooth banner flew down, and all the Cuman cavalry let out whistles and battle cries when rounding up their prey, and galloped down. The pilgrims who stood in front of them were pierced through the chests and heads by powerful arrows, many were planted in the grass, and many more were chased by the cavalry, constantly being cut down and beheaded, and some of them hid in tents and still did not escape. The infantry, who followed behind, forced the remnants of the Norman pilgrims to the edge of the Sidenus River, slashed and slaughtered, and in less than half an hour, the pilgrim camp was wiped out by the "enemy attack".

At this time, in front of the Watergate Tower in Tarsus, the defenders saw this scene and jumped and cheered, "Our reinforcements have arrived!" ”

In the siege camp in front of the city gate, Tanfred was shocked, and he listened to the report of the survivors from the water gate, "Is there really a large force of enemy reinforcements?" But didn't the city send envoys yesterday to bend their knees and sue for peace! ”

The Norman general quickly rode his horse and contacted Pakade to the tower of the city wall, where several Turkic nobles smirked at Tancred and cursed.

"Surrender as soon as possible, or we will slaughter you all after we break the city." Pakad shouted in fluent Turkic dialect.

"Haha, look at the array of our troops rushing to the aid of the Water Gate! You should have understood long ago that it would be you who surrendered, or else you would have been in complete destruction. The Turkic nobles on the tower replied arrogantly.

Tanfred was furious, and shouted to all the warriors to mount, raise their spears and swords, and "gallop to the water gate northwest of Tarsus, and follow me to crush the enemy reinforcements, and show their heads to this group of stubborn people!" ”

At this time, the Turks of Tarsus City have stretched out the hidden mechanism bridge between the water gates with coiled cables to the river surface, docking with the half of the bridge originally erected on the opposite bank, forming a smooth bridge, this is the engineering wisdom of the Crescent Sect - Muzafiadin nodded to Gawain who was riding on the horse, and then walked in the front with the dogtooth flag, constantly shouting in Turkic language, "Hurry up and let us in, before the enemy arrives from the position over there, our number is not large." ”

The twin towers, made of wood and brackets, were built on floating ships, sandwiched between the bridges that entered the city, on which Roma soldiers were constantly holding bows and arrows, facing Gawain and others as they walked to the bridge.

"Steady, steady Mu Zafei Adin, don't have a panicked expression on your face." Gawain led Sabina and followed the Turkic servants with all the others, and as he crossed the bridge across the river, he could clearly feel Muzafiadin al-Din's heavy breathing, and looked up at the wooden battlements of the tall twin towers in the darkness of the night, with torches raised and shining brightly, all Roma archers on standby, "Where did it come from!" One of them, Ghazi, asked in a loud voice, leaning on the battlement.

"Zefelim City." Muzafi Adin stopped, waving his flag.

"Who's this Bey Lord behind you?" Nagazzi asked again.

"Lord Shed Hillron!" Muzafiadin said, pointing to Gawain, who was clad in Turkic scale armor and wearing a white feathered peaked helmet.

Nagazi continued to ask for the password, and when he was correct, he opened the gates.

At this moment, on the other side of the river, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and it was Tancred holding the St. George battle flag and running with dozens of heavily armored Norman cavalry!

"Hurry up, or the bridge will be taken by the enemy, and they will follow here and capture the Watergate Tower." Muzafi Adin continued to make a quick request.

"Report the order."

"Light Arrow!"

Finally, Nagazi waved his hand, and a group of Roma soldiers pulled the iron latch behind the water gate, and pushed the two city gates open with a bang, and Gawain and Baldwin and others, together with the 180 soldiers behind them, clenched the long-handled battle axes in their hands, and quickly came towards the water gate that had been opened.

Suddenly, a young Armenian noble warrior in armor appeared on the battlements, and he pointed to Gawain, who was running below, and shouted, "He is not Shed Hillren at all, I have seen this Bey, his beard and eyes are all black!" ”

"What? Shoot arrows, move back to the iron latch, it's the enemy, it's the enemy who is coming! Nagazi jumped up and waved his arms again.

"Whoosh." On the twin towers, arrows intertwined and fell, and the surprise attackers shouted, raised all kinds of shields, and quickly rushed to the water gate.

"They are enemies, close the door, close the door!" In front of the city gates, all the Roma soldiers re-roped and prepared to withdraw it to the gate, while several soldiers on the other side had already raised their iron latches and were ready to move them over and let them go.

Jumping off his horse, holding a battle axe and wearing scale armor, Gao Wen quickly erupted, roared and crossed the lightly armed Muzafi Adin, and rushed directly through the crack in the rumbling gate, and then the axe flashed, and the Turkic Iqta nobleman among them still maintained the movement of waving his hand, the helmet was torn apart, and the head was slashed in, "Ah! Gawain shouted, hooking the blade of his axe to the back of the man's neck and shoulders, and dragging it backwards as if it were flying, and the mutilated body was dragged straight into the air, and was caught between the cracks in the door.

There was a loud "boom", and the falling iron latch happened to hit the corpse that was hooked into the crack of the door, and the organs splashed on Gao Wen's face behind him, he only felt that his nostrils were filled with a fishy smell, and the wooden handle of the tomahawk in his hand was so shocked that he could almost not hold it.

"Master!"

"Gawain!"

Muzafiadin and Baldwin, as well as the rest of the warriors, pounced on them, using crowbars and various weapons in their hands, roaring angrily, priing up the iron latches that had been held by the corpses without closing, and then everyone behind them used their hands and feet to open half of the city gate again.

"For São Paulo!" With this shout, everyone raised all their weapons and rushed into the water gate. (To be continued.) )