Gawain couldn't cry or laugh, and Raymond was furious over there, he rushed to the mysterious soldier standing in the mud puddle holding a shovel just now, and slapped the other party, "What, nothing, then, what did you shout just now?" ”

The soldier covered his mouth, very aggrieved, "I called all the lords to come here just to tell you that there is nothing." ”

Hearing this, Bartholomew, who had always been excited and white-eyed, almost burst into tears, and he could not believe that St. Andrew, who had appeared four times in his dream, had come to amuse him, so he trembled and crawled to the edge of the pit, and kept clutching and touching, and begged the lord and the soldiers, "Dig a few feet down, maybe the holy spear is below."

But it was Raymond who answered him with a fierce kick, and the lord wanted to aim at Bartholomew's ass, but because the one-eyed was not focused, he kicked the back of the opponent's shoulder blade, and the poor blind man screamed, rolled sideways into the mud puddle, with the soldier's shouting and mockery, Bartholomew was about to say something, but his head was slammed into the dirty and smelly mud by the boots of the Marquis de Provence, "Although I am blind in one eye, I did not expect to be deceived by you, a clumsy liar who is blind in both eyes." You have brought me to shame Bartholomew, and now you should pay the price for your dereliction of duty and recklessness in my kitchen! With that, Raymond couldn't help but draw his sword and cut off the creature's head—it was as simple as trampling an ant or a toad to death for a noble lord.

Gawain and Godfrey stepped forward to stop the furious Raymond, warning him not to get into trouble for the sake of a moment of anger. Baldwin shrugged his shoulders and immediately said that the boring topic could be stopped.

"What a clumsy trick." Bohemond stood under the gable over there, with great contempt.

Tancred said, "They Provençals love to play this fool's opera and tricks the most, and they never get tired of it." ”

Then the Norman monarch yawned and said to everyone that it was time to agree on the proper things.

"I have long said that the regular and true holy spear is in the emperor's palace of Brachna." Gawain reiterated again, and then a group of soldiers punched and kicked each other, dragging the scarred and hopeless Bartholomew into the chamber of the ear room, and then under the huge beech tree, the sound of the waves stirred up by the wind in the canopy was even more inspiring, and in the face of Gawain's words, Bohemond replied so ambitiously, "There is no doubt that it is genuine in the Emperor's place, so it is good, lest some wild fellows always want to make a sensational big news, let the Brachna Palace keep the relics of Christ for me for the time being." ”

These words were obvious to the Emperor of Constantinople, and Raymond, who had the best friendship with Alexios, was furious and wanted to attack Bohemond.

But at this time, Gawain leaned against the trunk of the tree, and said very coldly, "Rest off, Lord of Provence, it is extremely unwise to stand up for two groups of people in this procession of pilgrims, one is a Pisa, and the other is a Comunen. ”

Tonight, because of the wind blowing from the Orontes River, the whole city is cool, and Raymond, whose forehead was still filled with flames just now, calmed down after hearing Gawain's words, and then Gawain held the somewhat rough bark with his hand and continued, "Now, it doesn't matter if there is that holy spear or not, right?" ”

This is true, just on the front around the city of Ata, the pilgrims have won a great victory, recovering the port and land in the north of the city, and tens of thousands of people in Kobuha are separated by a river, and now the morale of the pilgrims, to put it bluntly, having this so-called holy spear is of course the icing on the cake, but it has nothing to do with life and death if it cannot be dug up.

So when the lord agreed, Gawain proposed, "The key question now is that Dulac from the south. The odds of victory will be very good if the army of Tutush wants to prevent him from joining the battle circle, and then we will gather against Kobuha. ”

"Without any fighting, by diplomatic means, can Dulac be allowed to retreat?" Gawain said that Count Flanders Robert agreed, because the intelligence was clear (now the pilgrim lords were also shrewd and began to buy some Saracens into the interior of Kobha's army), and the king of Aleppo, Khandwan, had already broken away from the battle line and fled, and he had also sent a secret envoy to sign a non-aggression pact with Godfrey and Bohemond!

Now that Ridwan is a role model, it depends on whether Dukak learns or not.

"Before, Yaggie. Siyan occupies the city of Antioch and is opposed to Ridwan, colluding with Damascus and Mosul, so although Dukak and Ridwan are half-brothers, their relationship has never been very harmonious. If our envoy goes to Dukak's tent, he must be cautious and cautious in what he wants to say, and it will definitely be counterproductive to use Ridwan's actions to subdue him. Gawain pondered, and then he proposed a plan, "In Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt, the rulers are the Babylonian Fatimas (Shia), and they have always been incompatible with the Seljuks (Sunnis)"

These words instantly woke up the lords present, it is completely possible to win over the Fatimid Kingdom and contain Durak from behind.

But Robert also expressed concern, "The valley passage of Judah is still in the hands of the Turks, so it is doubtful whether the princes of Babylon can actually threaten Damascus." ”

Gawain laughed and continued to refine his plan that he had been planning for a long time, "Why threaten Damascus? After all, I know that there are a number of Amalfi merchants who own warehouses in Alexandria, and they are very well informed - that is, the king of Babylon, who is happy to join us in the fight against the Seljuks, and who has promised to send a powerful fleet to threaten Dulac at sea if we agree. ”

"At sea?"

"Yes, I would like to inform you here that the so-called 'maritime threat' that the king of Babylon told the Amalfi merchants was to send a fleet from Ashkelon through the vast Levantine Sea unhindered to capture the important seaport between Antioch and Tripoli, which was previously occupied by Emperor Komnenos!"

What the! In the hearts of all the lords, a huge sigh and surprise erupted: Gawain's plan was actually to collude with the Shia dynasty of Egypt to threaten the Turkic princes of Damascus to retreat by capturing the ports of the Byzantine Roman emperors.

It's not that we don't understand, it's that the relationships in this world are too complicated - Gawain's brain-burning and crazy strategy obviously exceeds the brain capacity of most lords, making them temporarily burned white and unable to react. (To be continued.) )