Ademar was overjoyed by these news, and he hastened to ask the heralds to go to the port of Saint-Simeon and urge the transport of grain to the city, for most of the Turks' roads had been blocked, and the rest had been blocked by the pilgrims' posts.

Although the unity of the pilgrims and the change of tactics came a little too slowly, it still paid off. Xiyang stood on the acropolis in a rage, looking at the stone fort that suddenly rose on the opposite peak, like a thorn in his eye, and his son Sansadonias was also panting and standing in front of his father in embarrassment, "In the battle of the stone fort, my standard-bearer Doyakum is missing. ”

At this moment, the block under the Acropolis suddenly erupted into a commotion, which frightened Yaji and hurriedly dodged behind the slave soldiers, quite embarrassed.

Not long after, several slave soldiers stepped up the steps and pointed to the fireworks lit under the pheasant moats, "In some warehouses, the imprisoned Christians heard the battle in the stone fort outside the city, and thought that the Christians had come in and rioted. We've surrounded them all and killed them. ”

"Kill all those who imprison the adjacent warehouses and towers!" Yaggie coldly waved the order, then shook his long beard angrily, and said to his son, "To be clear, what happened to your standard-bearer?" Killed in battle, or captured, didn't you take a closer look at the whereabouts of the standard-bearer when you rode your horse and fled? ”

Sansadonias was ashamed, "He must have fallen from his horse by the altar of the Holy Spring."

"His family is guarding an important tower on the other side of the dog gate." Aggie turned away, looked at the endless valley, and raised her eyelids. A second cold order was given to the slave soldiers and the judge beside him, "It doesn't matter if my son's standard-bearer surrenders to the enemy or not. Or take all his family out of the tower and take them to the old palace in the south of the city. Then Aggie gestured. Executed. ”

After all, his son Sansadonias is a young man who has not been deeply involved in the world, and when he heard his father's cruel treatment of his own standard-bearer family, he couldn't help but shudder, but he was helpless.

On the other side, another Armenian mercenary who had befriended Doyakum, who had been guarding the fort with a spear, was called Prajit, who felt sick and unhappy when he heard it, but because of the situation, he pretended not to hear it at all. He crossed his helmet and slowly walked to the other side of the battlement, carrying his spear.

It didn't take long for dozens of bloody heads hung from the tower above the dog gate, with ropes and wires worn over the ears, including the family of the captured standard-bearer Doyakum, as well as the murdered rioting Christians.

Almost at the same time, the grief-stricken Doyakum was still wrapped in a blood-stained cloak and armor. After learning the news of his family's misfortune, he was baptized by a priest from Bohemond by the bubbling spring of the stone fort on the top of the mountain, and recited the famous words of John the Baptist in Greek aloud. "Christ is the truth, Christ is the truth."

Bohemond held his sword and stood on the side of the gravel hill beside him. Looking at Doyakum, his face was full of love. "From then on you have been converted to a child of Christ, and you have been in a relationship with the pagans of Antioch. I want you to be as loyal to me as the Turkic servant of Gawain's side, and I will give you a new name, Bohemond, the same name as me - this time you will be called 'New Bohemond' or 'Doyakum. Bohemond'. ”

"Yes, I will do my best to drive you, to be the vanguard of any battle, and my heart will be to Ajgi except for the Lord. The enmity of Xiyang's father and son. Doyakum prostrated himself and swore before Lord Bohemond's toe spurs.

After that, the pilgrims became more and more courageous, and the three gates were blocked and sealed under the city walls, and the walls of the stone fort on the ridge were gradually improved, and Bohemond personally sent the banner officer of the Holy Banner Company, Brad, and 500 elite Norman foot cavalry to garrison it, and repelled the attacks of the city again and again, and the corpses of the Turks increased more and more on the valley road, attracting many vultures to circle.

Yaji. Siyan looked at the stone fort and felt it was a thorn in his throat, and he began to roar in agitation, and dragged Patriarch Antioch out of his prison and hung it on the high walls of the Acropolis, where he was exposed to the public during the day, and then taken back at night, like drying clothes—and at the same time, he gathered the four emirs and his son Sansadonias, and his tone was nervous and heavy, "The enemy's stone fort is too close from here, and you should find a way to take it." ”

Then, Yaggie screamed, "Take it!" ”

But whether it was the four emirs or their own sons, they were all silent: the newly built stone fort of the pilgrims had indeed captured the seemingly cold but actually fragile psychology of the lord of Antioch. Born a slave of the Seljuk court, Siyan climbed to the throne of the monarch in the treacherous power struggle, although he stepped on countless bones to climb to the throne of the monarch - he always felt that the spirits and resentments of the Orthodox Christians who had been executed in the warehouse for riots were still haunted, and that their souls and resentments would spread through the air to the ears and hearts of all the imprisoned Orthodox Christians, who would unite at any time to open the gates to the enemy and put themselves to death.

"Otherwise, kill all the Orthodox people in custody, including their Archpatriarch of Antioch." Yaji. Xiyang's face was weak and irritable pale, brown age spots protruded, and his hands kept pulling the white beard that dragged to his abdomen, walking back and forth.

"Please don't do this, father, or even if Antioch is kept, our rule will collapse." Sansadonias said sincerely.

"I fear all the more that my city will fall before Kobha's army comes, because it is full of petty thugs who prey on my life and head. You are still young, and you do not understand the dangers of the world. Yaggie pointed to his head and stood in front of the large crystal mirror, his breathing shriveled and his face and chin as if he were caressing a priceless gem.

"We can bypass the stone fortress, go out through the iron gate in the east of the city, gather men and horses to cooperate with the garrison of the city wall, and raid the enemy's camp in the south, so that we may be able to break the enemy's blockade and gain the initiative." Finally, the chief of the four emirs, General Adesonius, was a little unconfident in proposing this plan, "and in this way, it is also possible to obtain the assistance of Ridwan by the way." ”

Ridwan. Ibn . Tutosh, one of the younger brothers of Malikshah Khan, son-in-law of Yaji, ruler of Aleppo; In addition, Adesonius's plan, the spearhead of the attack, was directed at the "noble Hugh".

"Yes, agree to such a plan!" Yaji. Without thinking, Siyan approved.

Then he went to the Acropolis, and through the battlements, he saw the Patriarch of Antioch, John Anderson, hanging on the stone wall below. Okhilt, who heard a noise in the sky, looked up at him with his dirty beard upside down, and then with a trembling sound of chains, he hung his feet down in despair, his clothes were tattered and exposed, and he was clinging to the cold masonry, and looked at the dense neighborhood houses under the Acropolis, and said nothing (to be continued. )