Walking up to the northwestern tower, Gawain saw that the craftsmen and gunners from Venice were constantly shouting orders, taking out the projectiles from the wicker baskets, and then ejecting them continuously, the corpses of several military servants were blurred across the city and the stairway, and from time to time the Norman stones also whistled and flew in, smashing puffs of powder on the city walls.

Gao Wen, who was holding the city wall, stared at the group of Calabrian soldiers below, holding a shield in one hand and dragging a huge siege tower with a rope in the other, shouting and quickly killing this side.

Behind the siege party were heavily armed Norman knights on horseback - it was clear that Bohemond had instigated a large crowd of pilgrims to serve as cannon fodder, attracting the main force of the defenders of Bari, and here the real elite were ready to break the city.

"Aim at the pedestals of those three siege towers and shoot!" Gawain said to the two Venetian catapults on the platform of his tower, "The shooting boundary can't be pulled. As a result, the craftsmen were so overwhelmed that they could only watch as the Norman siege team drew nearer.

"Put a double armor on me." Gawain shouted, and then a samurai stepped forward and hung a layer of chain mail to prevent arrows on top of the holy armor, which made Gawain like an iron tower standing at the head of the city, with red feathers fluttering in the wind.

This made Tancred, who was in command of the battle under the city, see it, and his flaxen beard trembled with excitement, "Let me climb the siege tower, I want to meet the warrior from the hell, who is the son of a demon beast from the depths of the North Sea?" Then Tanfred jumped off his horse and pushed out of the queue. Walked under the siege tower, where there was a double ladder going up. Tancred walked up and stood at the top of the siege tower. Arrows kept flying and piercing into the guards in front of him, and bits and pieces of sunlight shone down on him through the cracks, surrounded by Calabrian soldiers with one-handed axes and swords, and no one expected the commander to stand with him, all nervously watching the guards that kept piercing through the arrows, listening to the rumbling of pulls and rollers below.

A Varangian warrior next to Gawain had jumped onto the wall, to the right of Gawain. Also in double armor, with long riding spears in both hands, "Come, Norman dogs, don't say that you are from the same strait as our ancestors. "The tall siege towers approached the battlements, and then the narrow guards fell down and snapped to the battlements, and the Calabrian soldiers howled and flew along the bridges. Rushing from the siege tower, the Navarangian warrior roared and stabbed out the twelve-roman-long spear in his hand, and in an instant the bodies of three or four Calabrian soldiers were pierced and knotted together. Backwards "stuffed" back into the siege tower, Tanfred grabbed the back of the soldier who was still wailing at the back and pushed it aside. Then he drew his sword and threw it in a flying manner. Straight in the face of the Navarangian warrior, he fell on his back next to Gawain. Tankred then jumped onto the bridge, drew the other sword he was wearing, and walked towards the battlement.

Then, melee ensued in all directions along the wall, with Varangian warriors unleashing Viking-like war cries and slashing their tomahawk swords.

Gawain, also dressed in extremely heavy armor, with a shield and a halberd, stepped steadily on the battlement, just in time to face the tank red, at a height of tens of Roman feet, on the guarded bridge.

"I will never forget your red hand-shaped feathers, even the most abominable of the devils in Hellfire, whose names will not be as disgusting as yours, Stephen. Gawain. Lusail! Tancred angrily raised his sword in the air.

"Who are you and why do you know my name? But it's no wonder that all Italians are now afraid of my name after dark. However, because Gawain's eyes and mouth were hidden under the helmet and visor, the words he uttered, through the helmet, were similar to "buzzing", as if mocking.

This made Tankred even more angry, he jumped forward and slashed on Gawain's shield, and then Gawain stretched out the halberd, Tankrider roared, held the hilt of the sword, and cut off Gawain's shield horizontally, with the halberd blade - the halberd handle in Gawain's hand also flew out, "It turned out to be this young man, Kadmia's, I didn't expect his swordsmanship to be so fierce?" The thought was only half a second, Gawain sinked his feet suddenly, and the guard bridge suddenly made a cracking sound, and Tank Red swung from side to side twice, trying to protect his center of gravity and the sword in his hand, but in an instant, Gawain was already holding a heavy shield, protecting his body, and stepped over with his waist, "Squeeze you down!" ”

Gawain's shield was shaking violently, and Tank Red's sword was like the wind, and it had been slashed several times on it, and there was a sword that scraped Gawain's shoulder, but under the double armor guard, it was only a few lock rings that were broken, and soon Tank Red was on the guard bridge, and was forced to retreat step by step by Gawain.

"The northern tower is attacked by a large number of enemies, and if there are no reinforcements, it will fall, and the Grand Duke is also there to stop the defense." At this moment, on the other side of the city wall, where there was a fierce battle, several soldiers grabbed Diognes, who was drawing their bows and arrows, and shouted, and the guard immediately hung the bow and arrows on the battlement, and raised the iron flail, "I'll go!" ”

But when the catcher ran down the city, he looked back and saw that almost no soldiers were following him—all of them were fighting at the head of the city, and there were no idlers or reserves left.

Diognis was the only one who was running down the streets, and in the harbor on that side, even the Venetian sailors had stepped off the deck, armed with all kinds of weapons, and were coming towards the land wall on this side.

Entering the entrance of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, the monks who were rescuing the wounded stood up one after another, and Idorus, who was sitting on a couch directing all this, asked the captor, "Is the enemy entering the city?" ”

"Not yet, but now the situation is dangerous, I don't have extra soldiers, Grand Duke, no, Gawain, the commander of the Aconis of the Dalian Brigade, is in the northwest tower, and is fighting with the Norman bandits, I want to go for reinforcements." Diognis was both excited and helpless.

The monks, nuns, and pilgrims gathered together, and Idorus, with his white-haired head hanging down, raised his head and said to the people, "Bohemond, the prince of Apulia, has said that when his army enters the city, he will not spare a single person, not even cattle, cats and dogs. ”

At this moment, Androdart took the lead in putting down the blood-stained strip of cloth, "Just leave it to the woman here, we have to do what a man should do." ”

Then Andodat found an axe, and the rest of the Greek monks and pilgrims from all over the country gritted their teeth, found all kinds of simple weapons, and gathered around the captor, "Go, it is also the duty of the monks to protect the city." Idorus sat down on the couch and said to everyone, "If the bandits get here, I'll defend this church too." (To be continued......)