"Long live the Emperor!" A few days later, under the fluttering of the blue-edged and white-crossed battle flags, rows of lightly armed Byzantine spearmen, after the catapult smashed the outer wall of the fort on the hill of Ferner, quickly changed from a stationary dense array to an assault formation within the distance of the weapon projection, and launched a strong attack on the fort from several directions with a roar that shook the heavens and the earth. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Many of them formed a battle line outside the city, but they were soon shot down by a rain of arrows from the emperor's archers, and the remnants crawled around with a wail, trampled by groups of spearmen, and those who managed to climb under the wall were assassinated one by one by the Byzantine spearmen who arrived quickly before they could climb up, and then several ladders were erected on the walls on each side, and the emperor's spearmen had already covered their bodies with round shields, With a spear in one hand, he rushed up, "Give me a little morale, no one is allowed to back down, the Isurians will not submit to anyone!" "The bandit chief Nikitas himself carried a saber, a brightly colored diagonal shawl and a crimson belt, and strangled with the swarming emperor's soldiers, smoke and flames were lit everywhere, and the bandits with bows and arrows and slings on the walls were pierced through the abdomen by the spearmen who climbed up, and then fell down with a wail.

"A breach has appeared in the enemy's walls, and my Praetorian Guards have rushed forward!" The Emperor, who was supervising the battle at the foot of the hill due north, keenly saw that several of his soldiers had occupied a corner of the hill fort and were waving their flags at the army below, so he immediately made a decision, turned around and raised his arms to the trumpeters behind him, and then chopped down.

The commander of the Varangian Guard, Akonis, heard a column of trumpets blowing, and took the lead in raising his flaming cloak, drew his elaborate and terrifying sword, and shouted at the rows of guards behind him, "Father is calling us to crush these mountain bandits. Then the group of palace guards with all kinds of terrible red, flax, and yellow beards, in the firelight, pulled out their sharp long axes, which were originally inserted in the dirt under their feet, and then flattened their ends, and let out a pirate-like cry, "Long live the Emperor!" "Trekking the hill and launching a decisive assault on the northeast corner of the hillfort.

Seeing the Varangian guards rushing towards them, the remaining bandits on the wall could no longer bear it any longer, and jumped off the wall, running around like headless flies. Amid the sound of axes and shattering, a group of guards had already broken down a wooden fence: it was originally a stone wall, but it had been knocked down by the emperor's stone thrower, and the mountain bandits had temporarily filled it with wooden fences and baskets. Then the warriors who poured in raised large round shields or irises painted with various monster emblems, and folded them into a three-layer shield wall, and the mountain bandits who counterattacked under the leadership of Nikitas were fended off this impregnable shield wall, no matter how they wielded all kinds of long and short weapons, how they chiseled, pushed or slashed, and the faces of these vulgar and terrifying Praetorian Guard warriors were full of indifferent expressions, not only did not retreat, but also mixed with contemptuous laughter.

On both sides of the city wall, the emperor's spearmen continued to stab to death the scattered mountain bandits who were still resisting, and then the archers also climbed up, and the arrows fired from all sides were intertwined like the wind, shooting the mountain bandits in the city like rats in a bag, and their women and children also broke down and ran around, but the emperor's soldiers were not ready to let them go at all - they jumped down one after another, "Those who resist the emperor must die!" Many fierce women, unwilling to be humiliated, drew daggers by the cistern of the city, killed the children before killing themselves, and the overlapping corpses filled the entire great pool.

Nikitas also lost all the fighting spirit to resist, and he was surrounded by the emperor's Praetorian Guard, wielding axes and killing anyone. He staggered his body, which had been hit by several arrows, and turned into the grass-built palace in the mountain fort (the Sultan of Konya had given him some money before, so Nikitas forced the pilgrims to take captivity and build this ridiculous mountain bandits' den), and he saw his son, after his loyal soldiers had been shot and fell to the ground one by one, and was forced to jump into a dry well, and then several of the emperor's spearmen rushed over, raised their sharp spears in a circle, and scrambled to poke at the mouth of the dry well, and blood rushed out of the mouth, Nikitas felt his eyes stained with bright red, and he broke into the chaotic main hall, and saw several Danish pilgrims who had been captured earlier, who had been imprisoned as slaves in the back kitchen, and who were now slashing and killing Nikitas' relatives everywhere with broken chains and shackles, and bloody butcher knives or axes in their hands.

Nikitas saw his wife, and several young children, all cut to pieces, lying in a pool of blood, his wife was dead, her eyes seemed to be wide open to him, "You all run away, I stand in the way here, everyone who survives, don't forget to avenge Ferner!" Finally, when Nikitas rushed in and killed the fleeing pilgrims, he took his sword at the entrance to the Grass Palace and shouted at the surviving people.

At the first hour of the afternoon, Alexios, riding on a white steed, walked through the city gate into the city with a mountain of corpses amid the cheers of the soldiers, and at the entrance to the striking grass palace, the emperor pulled the bridle, and the bloody Nikitas was still in the way, and several archers and Varangian warriors stood at the foot of the steps, armed with axes and bows and arrows.

"Why didn't you kill him, were you preparing to sacrifice to me?" The emperor pointed at Nikitas with contempt and said to the generals beside him.

Yagfei nodded, and then raised a small flag at the guards warriors, and in the midst of the uproar, all the warriors raised their axes and swords, "Confess to the Holy Apostle Emperor!" Such a sound shook the roof tiles above.

"Phew!" Nikitas's shawl was wrapped in wounds, his belt had been cut off, his tunic was scattered, and he stared at the crowd covered in blood, and the emperor on his horse cursed. In an instant, seven battle axes and three long swords slashed at him from different parts, and the fragments of limbs and heads were scattered on the steps, "Disgusting building, throw all the corpses here and burn them." The Emperor waved his hand and commanded.

Then, all the imperial armies were divided into two barracks according to the plan under the ruined city of Ferna, and then the emperor cut off 500 heads of the mountain bandits, built them into a fortress, and wrote a handwritten letter to Giliqui, who had fled back to the city of Konya, "If you can give up all your territory, I will ensure that you retreat safely to the eastern plateau, where you can do whatever you want." It means to persuade to surrender.

But immediately, Gilligi called the emperor's envoy to bring back a reply, "I want to go to your imperial capital to shepherd sheep, and then pull sheep feces on the altar of your palace monastery." (To be continued.) )