"After capturing Nicaea, our Dalian team must leave immediately!" When Gawain returned to the camp, he quickly summoned all the generals and the officers of the Brotherhood and gave this order.

Of course, Gawain didn't say anything else, but said in a unified voice, "Because the mission given to us by His Majesty the Emperor in advance is to recover Paphragonia and reach Trabzon after the fall of Nicaea, without following others all the way." ”

He also deliberately said to Got Schalke behind him, "When you go out on the expedition, your armed regiment must also accompany the army, and prepare light luggage and weapons." ”

In the end, when everyone went to arrange the matter, Gawain saved a few backbones, and even Anna, who stayed in the scarlet tent, "This time the work is extremely confidential, and it is good to stay in the righteous brother of Chivit, otherwise don't send him any letters about today's issues, so as not to startle the snake." ”

"Your Excellency, can you elaborate?" Giovanni's words represent the voice of most people, who are temporarily confused.

"As soon as Ademar arrived, the situation for the whole pilgrim was even more complicated. This priesthood, in fact, is the overseer sent by His Majesty, and the Holy See's move is certainly understandable. But if I want to form a council of cardinals, I have to be involved......"

"That way, Gawain's military power will be weakened, won't it?" Anna asked, because she knew at once that Gawain would be entangled in the affairs of the church and the Mass of the faithful all day long when he put on his robe and become a cardinal, and he would have no time to care about the army, and that Bohemond or Raymond would take the opportunity to mix sand in the Dalian army.

"That's right, the main guarantor, but it may not only be weakened, but it will be merged and captured in serious cases! Because Bohemond will do this soon, but now it is still at the critical moment of attacking Nicaea, and he can't pull his hand. I'm just waiting for the right time. Gawain's words immediately made most of the people present understand that after all, the Normans will not let go of any opportunity to attack and destroy the Red Hand, cooperation is temporary, and confrontation is the norm.

At the same time, Gawain raised another danger. It came from Constantinople, "There is another reason for leaving immediately, and that is the movement of His Majesty the Emperor, and now as far as I know, that Raymond of Provence is even His Majesty's most personal agent, and he crossed the sea to be His Majesty's sword, and the internal strife after that is afraid to be white-hot, and immediately Godfrey and Baldwin are afraid that they will not be able to protect themselves." Let's not talk about it. After speaking, he set his eyes on Anna, "What's more, His Majesty the Emperor is in the capital, sitting on tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and his movements are not particularly clear...... But if he wants to come, he can come at any time. ”

"That's right, let's get out of here. Avoid infighting, let go and live - this is also the ancient Julius. Caesar went to Gaul. Thus the secret of success. Anna nodded and said, everyone else nodded along, there is nothing wrong with pilgrimage, but the recovery of the Holy City is the ultimate goal, and all the previous stage goals can be achieved.

Just as everyone was making up their minds, Gawain said something more. And people's brains were instantly twisted into a cable, "Let's go to Blasilon, go around it, and wait for the opportunity to unite with the pilgrims again......"

"Ugh." Even Anna couldn't keep up with the rhythm at this time, so she could only smile bitterly.

Of course she understood. The "go around" in Gao Wen's mouth is definitely pretending to be optimistic and open-minded.

Blasilon, next to Bithynia, a standard mountainous province, with a large army and many castles, and now there, the forces of the Greeks and Paulicians are intertwined, and the situation is extremely complicated, and the slightest carelessness will end in the death of the army, "Gawain, the real challenge is coming. "Anna is secretly cheering up the big brute and praying, but also for herself.

But before that, it is still necessary to take the city of Nicaea as soon as possible.

"Anna, I would like to see Agnes, now that the siege has been successful, and the courage of the defenders has been lost, it is almost time to make a passage in the wall, and now the Normans, the Franks, the Provence, and the Flanders do not want this, but none of them are particularly qualified craftsmen who can inherit the essence of Roman engineering technology, but we do." After the meeting, Gawain said to Anna alone.

"But Agnes told me earlier that she's the limit for helping you improve your vehicle's drawings." Anna was a little embarrassed.

"By the way, isn't Agnes supposed to be by your side?"

"After today's confinement ended, she asked the camp officer Wright for a tent and left the place."

"Oh...... In other words, you and Agnes disobeyed my prior warnings and secretly saw something. Isn't it? ”

"I was a little frightened, the war was indeed brutal and bloody." Anna replied.

So after Gawain left the tent and told Anna to rest earlier, "After I finish my business, stay outside, don't be afraid." Then he took a few warriors to Agnes' tent.

The gray-eyed girl was climbing up and down with her servants, busy packing her bags, and when Gawain suddenly broke in, she screamed in fright and kept back.

"What is this doing?" Gawain looked at the surrounding situation and asked coldly.

"I'm going back to Respos." Agnes was terrified when she said this, and she now saw Gawain as a hero, or a butcher, who had cut off four thousand heads of his enemies and thrown them all into the pagan walls with a catapult......

"No way, you have to be with Anna." Gawain approached with several samurai, as if giving a verdict, and Agnes' servants were so frightened that they all put down their work and stood obediently in the corner, not daring to move, they all heard about today's events, and did not want their heads to be thrown into the city of Nicaea with a "whoosh" of the stone thrower.

"But, ridiculous, I didn't join your brotherhood, and I didn't take an oath of jihad, and even if I did, I still have the right to be dismissed from returning home. I'm leaving, I'm leaving tomorrow......"

"First of all, I would like to thank you for sending me and Anna to Asia Minor by wheel; But now I have decided to hire you to make equipment for the Dalian team, and you enjoy special allowances and food for engineers. With that, Gawain jerked Agnes up by the hand and threatened, "I warned you a long time ago, this is not a leisurely wild trip, but you still rushed in to hunt Anna's beauty." Then I can tell you clearly, a smart person with engineering knowledge like you, if you join the Dalian team, it will be impossible for you to let you go beyond my Gao Wen's eyes. ”

Originally, Gawain was going to come and ask Agnes, but after learning from Anna that the gray-eyed girl was frightened by today's head-throwing incident, he decided to do the opposite, using the fear in her heart to achieve his goal. (To be continued.) )

PS: Fame is just a dream, only sincerity will never be sold.

Life but feel angry, who can comment on success or failure!

The song of resignation is chanted, and the song of generosity and sorrow is over today.

The sword on my waist is there, and the blood in the sea is surging!

Qingfeng four years, February twenty-six