"Are you okay?" Vasily pulled out the ax from Romanus' body and walked up to ask.

"What do you think, half life!" Justinian said angrily. He was obviously seriously injured, but he still pretended to be relaxed, which made Vasily even more worried.

"I'm still late. I thought I was very careful, but I didn't expect that he would betray me." Vasily helped Justinian up with an apology and gave him a simple bandage. Looking at Roman

The man sighed after Nusi's corpse.

He never expected that his subordinate who had followed him for more than two years would betray him. He had obviously served in the army like himself, but he actually colluded with the Latins to kill his own compatriots.

"After the death of Emperor Manuel, the hearts of the people were scattered. It was this meaningless internal strife that ruined the country." Justinian said quietly, whether it was the Comnenos dynasty or the later Paleo.

The palace intrigues and civil wars of the Legian dynasty pushed the Roman Empire to the grave step by step. People like Romanus were by no means a minority. They drifted with the tide and forgot their former glory. With the destruction of the military district system, the country was rotten from the inside out.

Down to the core.

Historically, Nicaea recaptured Constantinople but never put the broken empire back together again, and Justinian was not willing to make that mistake again.

"Yes, if His Majesty Alexei hadn't been fighting with the same room, how could the Latins have taken advantage of it." Vasily couldn't help but nodded. Although he was a warrior, he also understood that what Justinian said made sense.

In the past few decades, more and more people have been disappointed with this country. In the eyes of the people, no one of the kings who changed their minds was a virtuous king who met their expectations. There was even a phenomenon of people of the empire defecting to the Turks.

"What's going on up there now?" Justinian saw that Vasily was not commanding the battle above and came down to check the situation. He estimated that he had temporarily repelled the Latin attack.

Vasily nodded, "We have defeated them temporarily, but if they use archers and fire attacks at all costs, we will definitely not be able to defend. It is estimated that there will be more and more enemies in the future. If not-" And when the man's eyes fell

The clay pot on the ground suddenly lit up and I couldn't help but asked excitedly: "Is this Greek fire?"

"Well, it's really lucky that the Latins here didn't notice it. We should be able to give them an unexpected surprise this time." Justinian showed a wicked smile on his lips. He had previously suffered from the Crusaders' siege of Constantinople during the battle.

The Latins were well prepared and did not suffer heavy losses due to Greek fire, but this time they never expected that the resistance army, which was weak in combat effectiveness, would use Greek fire to give the Latins some color.

"Sir, the Latins, the Latin knights are coming." At this time, a panicked soldier ran down to report the emergency military situation. There were resistance army spies in every block, and they found that the cavalry group was approaching here.

Is it finally here? Justinian and Vasily, who were shocked, knew that the critical moment had arrived. Their main purpose this time was to prevent this cavalry unit from entering the Thracian War, but both Vasily and Justinian knew it.

The resistance army, which mainly relies on infantry, cannot deal with the knights who are well-trained in weapons. Even if there is Greek fire, it will be difficult to resist the charge of the knights.

Fortunately, they were already prepared for this.

"Leave here first and bring the Greek fire." Justinian pressed the wound and frowned slightly. He was seriously injured by Romanus, but this war was far from over, and he would be indispensable in the future.

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"They are so stupid. Even if the armory is full of weapons, what's the use of handing it over to those rabble? Sir Gallias is simply making a fuss. We can destroy them." Riding on a horse, fully armed.

Bosmond said disdainfully, he directly refused Gallias's order to stand still and led the cavalry under his direct jurisdiction to the direction of the armory. At this time, the Latins in the Romanian court were busy in a panic, and most of them

The garrison troops were on guard against the riots of the poor in the shantytowns and were unable to respond.

After receiving the news, Gallias immediately asked Bosmond's troops to stand still.

However, Bosmond was confident because he had more than a hundred knights and more than 800 retinues under his command. Their powerful mobility was something that the chaotic militia could not handle.

But when the Latin cavalry army arrived at the armory, the Constantinople resistance militia had already disappeared, and the scattered garrison saw Bosmond leading his army and then he breathed a sigh of relief and moved closer.

come over.

"Where have those Greeks fled to, you useless trash?" Witnessing all this, Bosmond despised the combat effectiveness of Emperor Baldwin's army even more. In addition, there were almost a hundred people in the patrol and garrison. As a result, not only did Bosmond

The armory was captured and the enemy retreated intact.

"They are all heading towards Theodosius Square. There are about one or two hundred people and we really can't resist them." I saw these guards saying with lingering fear, obviously frightened, which made Bosmond even more disdainful.

After a quick glance, up until this point, this man still had not taken the Resistance Army seriously.

Following the direction pointed by the soldier, Bosmond nodded and smiled evilly, as if the Resistance Army was already within his grasp.

"Lord Pedrogo, you lead the light cavalry to intercept their retreat, and the rest of the people will follow me in pursuit." Being well-equipped and having an advantage in numbers, Bosmond was even more confident and bold, and he divided his troops into two groups and prepared to attack them.

The resistance forces were wiped out in one fell swoop.

However, Lord Pedrogo, who received the order, hesitated, "Isn't this a bit risky, Baron Bosmond? If there is an ambush..." They have not seen the appearance of the resistance army with their own eyes. Bosmond's

The order was indeed too much, and Pedrogo hoped that Bosmond would be more cautious.

However, Bosmond, who didn't take the Greeks seriously, couldn't listen at all, and shouted impatiently: "Pedrogo, a year ago, even the Greek guards were like chickens and dogs in front of us.

One blow, now they are just a group of stragglers. Why are you still hesitating? If you can't catch them when they escape into the shanty town, the people in the palace will laugh at them?" Bosmond, as the right-hand man of Marquis Boniface, is right.

Baldwin was very dissatisfied with currying favor with the Venetians and getting the crown, and the elimination of these resistance forces was a naked humiliation to him.

Without further ado, Bosmond, as the supreme commander, issued the order, and the other knights could not say anything more and followed him to carry out the order.

I saw the mighty cavalry passing through the neighborhoods of Constantinople to the Theodosius Square, preparing to outflank the fleeing resistance forces. The empty streets in the majestic city allowed the cavalry to pass unimpeded.

But watching the departing cavalry go away, the originally panicked garrison immediately stopped looking trembling. They took off their helmets, took off their armor and put on their original clothes. It turned out that these people

Turns out they are not Latins, but the Resistance Army pretending to be them.

"We finally deceived them. Now it's up to Master Vasily and his friends."

"I hope everything goes well." The resistance army was frightened for a while. The person who just appeared was the person who captured Constantinople a year ago.

"Master Vasily asked us to find a safe place to hide, so let's leave here and wait for news!"

The resistance forces who completed their mission looked at each other and nodded at their companions, then lifted up the stone slab and left the tunnel according to the original plan. In order to preserve the fire of the resistance force, Vasily did not decide to let everyone participate in the most dangerous action——

Ambush the Latin Knights.
Chapter completed!