Hundreds of defenders of the fort and about 4,000 people hid in the moats, sheds, and corners of the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Even the sturdy tower in the center was constantly hit by the stone bullets of the Great Plani Cannon, and the dust was shaken down one after another, and a lot of it accumulated in front of Nika's seat, and the old general sat silently until now after the loss of the small town, and Severn and Ace anxiously came to him one after another to ask him for tactics, but Nika did not answer, just shook his head and sighed, saying that when the three of you rebelled in Sith City before, the fate of this castle and the family was already sealed, and now the emperor and the prince have delayed us, "It can only end here." ”

On the hill of the small town, the other two Callegos brothers, with 600 elite soldiers, abandoned their horses and bravely attacked along the rugged terrain on foot; And Monomarcus, who was of Gao Wenfang, also led 700 Sicilician Genat soldiers, relying on the resistance of the mountain, and inflicted a lot of casualties on the opponent with bows and arrows.

Because both sides were previously the great landowners of the neighboring Jinate army, but now they have gone completely to different camps, taking up arms and fighting together, so that while the arrows are flying in front of the battle, the shouts of both sides also shake the whole valley, and Leo and Tiga scold Monomachus as a traitor, and are willing to take refuge in a grass-headed king like Gawain as an eagle dog; Monomarcus, on the other hand, angrily denounced the Callegos family, betrayed the kingdom of General Ferraredos, and colluded with the Turks.

After fighting like this for almost a whole day, Tetisius could not bear it any longer, and personally brought a reserve of 2,000 men to reinforcements—and Monomachus abandoned his position, destroyed all the bridges over the mountain stream with his men, and retreated to the side of the small city on the opposite bank, and continued to defend it.

At dusk, Tetisius finally saw the Alalman River, which was rushing towards the swamp below the mountain, and the damaged sluice, "I paid a lot of money to recruit soldiers and craftsmen, and took a small boat to repair the sluice in front of me!" ”

Then, the soldiers, who had been tempted and encouraged, despite the fatigue of the previous battle, lined up in a long column from the mountain to the camp below, first dragged up a few small boats, and then carried bundles of earth, stones and firewood on their backs, filled the boats, and then pushed them into the deep mountain streams to fill the rivers, one after another, forming a temporary embankment, and the soldiers and craftsmen braved the splashing water and the danger of being washed down the cliffs, and then bravely swam in the water, dragging the iron gates that were destroyed and rushed between the rocks with ropes and hooks, and slowly exerted force. Trying to pull it back into place and stabilize it......

Just when Tetisius was trying his best in the mountain stream, with the setting sun on his back, Alexios and John's father and son personally led an army of 15,000 people, and lined up along the streets, among which the emperor's face was pale, and the prince's face was full of shame, "At your age, it is normal to fight without Gawain, but I didn't expect you to refuse even the advice of the generals and staff, it is not a gap in experience, but a gap in the level and concept of being a ruler!" The Emperor pulled his bridle and rebuked his son mercilessly, and then he paused, "You are in charge of the Panphilia Temachi Military Region, which is adjacent to Gawain and Gilligi, and it is difficult to defend the situation. ”

John's face twitched when his father said the latter words, and he knew that his father was now dissatisfied with his work in this vital military region.

But John didn't plead anything, just lowered his head and listened to his father's fate, "Although Brenus is a little dull, but fortunately, he is old and serious, and can fully listen to the guidance and deployment of the imperial capital, and I will immediately transfer him to your position, and you will go to the region of Moria to serve as the Grand Duke, reclaim the Thessaly Plain, and create a training fleet there, so that you will not have to deal with all kinds of treacherous and powerful enemies now." ”

So what the emperor means is that you can rest assured to accumulate civil affairs experience in the future, and it is not too late to wait until you are mature to come back to Anatolia, which is a dangerous poisonous dragon lair and crocodile pool.

"Father, do you mean that you are ready to give up Alalmanburg?" John lowered his head and did not have any rebuttal to Alexios' disposition.

Alexios was silent, and then he and the marching party saw the camp of Tetisius on the west side of the swamp, and the distant city of Alarman, which was struggling with fireworks, and so he and his son were silently stationed at the lookout, and the convoy of men and horses of the empire continued to advance from their side, and finally the emperor spoke, "Pay the price for your negligence and naivety, John, you see, what can be done now?" I can only do my best to save it, at least make an appearance, and show it to the people and nobles of Anatolia. ”

When the 15,000 Imperial troops had joined up with Tetisius's men and horses, they began to camp for several miles, and in the evening, the Emperor, who was firmly in the commander's tent, sat down on a chair covered with purple satin, and took the military report from Tetisius on the top of the mountain: After a day of fighting, our army had finally repaired the sluice gates on the mountain stream, and after closing, the Alalman River would no longer be flooded into the swamp.

"Well done Tetisius, so that as long as the Callegos family holds on a few more days, I can still be saved." The emperor regained a lot of confidence, "John, have the people been concentrated?" ”

"Yes Father, the first three thousand men have given them rations and clothing, ready to serve you."

"Pump, from us, drain and drain the water left in the swamp, divide all the soldiers into four divisions, and also take turns to assist the people in doing this!" The Emperor's gaze burned.

Alexios was a very shrewd army commander, and in the next three days, although he had previously verbally resigned himself to Alalmanburg, how could he swallow this breath in the face of Alexios, who had abducted his daughter and made Anna now his enemy, think of the enemy showing off his force on the other side of the swamp and slaughtering and plundering his people!?

Nearly 20,000 Imperial soldiers, except for the 800 men who had been left to guard the sluice gates that had just been repaired, were divided into four parts: some men, together with thousands of requisitioned men, stepped on many "Archimedes spiral water drawers" - this kind of draining and drawing water was carried out by people stepping on a turntable and driving screws, and often a straw hut was built on top of it to shelter the still terrible sun of late summer; However, because of the complexity of the manufacturing process, the number of this screw is still insufficient, so the Turkic slave Aksaipokaus offered another strategy: he originally migrated to Anatolia from the Oghuz tribe of the Persian plateau, and began to guide the whole army to build another simpler water-drawing device, that is, the so-called "tank wheel", also called "Persian wheel", people made a large wheel shape, put together the spokes, and then each shelf outside the double hub was tied to a jar or skin, which was led by pack horses to drain the water (the livestock used in the Persian region, often camels). (To be continued.) )