Gillard bluntly fired up the gun:

"This beef jerky is quite delicious. Why are you wasting it? Just chew it for a while."

Rugero yelled in anger, "Did I say jerky? Did I say jerky? I mean leather, leather!"

Roger knocked on the table with a wine glass and rescued:

"Okay, we now understand how hard the leather is, can we continue talking?"

Rugero glanced at Roger with thanksgivingly, and said:

“In addition to leather, they also ate the cow that had just been peeled from the cow and added pepper, cumin and various seasonings.

"There are so many spices in the city, but eating spices alone won't fill your stomach."

After two sentences, Rugero returned to his original style.

He took off one of his shoes and held them flat and handed them to Xiao Bosimund's nose, he said:

"The civilians are even more miserable, and they are forced to swallow their leather shoes.

"It's not like my shoes. You sniff it. My shoes are made of good materials. They can't afford such good shoes."

Little Bosimund frowned and forced himself to resist.

Roger lowered his head and looked at his leather boots.

He thought, how subtle will this thing taste if it is cooked?

Rugero took the shoes back and put them on while standing. He jumped around with one foot while wearing them:

"And they are not the most miserable, because these people have at least leather shoes.

"More, poorer people, cook and soften them with big nettle or the roots of various plants that can be found, and fill their miserable belly.

“These things are not edible normally, so they get sick and people die every day.

"The famine was so severe that even Duke Goldfrey had to pay 15 silver marks for the meat of a very poor camel, and his housekeeper paid three silver marks for the sale for a female goat."

Roger lifted his eyes off his leather boots, and he thought that it seemed that any large army would encounter problems with supply.

No wonder in the battle in the East, once one side encounters a large number of soldiers, the other side will try their best to burn the other side’s food and grass.

But Xiao Boximond didn't believe it, he asked:

“Have you really reached such a difficult situation?

"Or what the people you tell you are just about some people."

Rugero put on the look of believing or not, but he explained:

"The situation is so embarrassing. In fact, as witnesses say, in the final battle between Christians and pagans, Christians were left with only 200 horses that could fight.

"And the numerous noble and noble knights, whose numbers are unknown, have been starved to death by horses or eaten by famine, have been placed in the ranks of infantry and have begun to learn to fight on foot.

“There are also some prominent people who have to ride mules, donkeys or worthless livestock instead of horses.

"Among these people, the extremely powerful and wealthy princes on their land, could only ride donkeys to join the war."

Rugero became inexplicably excited when he said this.

He took a broom from the corner and clamped it under his crotch, jumping around the hall.

He shouted, "I ride a donkey, I am a warrior riding a donkey!"

Gillard laughed, his mouth wide open so that he could see the piece of beef jerky in his mouth that could not be chewed no matter how hard it was.

The servants in the hall were also laughing.

Henk behind Roger laughed like a pump.

Bosimund looked at him in a daze. He seemed to have never expected that Antioch Regent Rugero would do such an inconsistent thing.

Roger, who was also hilarious, was paying attention to the servants' reactions while laughing.

From the unscrupulous laughter of his servants, he speculated that this was not the first time Rugero had made such an inconsistent move.

After making a fuss, Rugero sat back on his seat and said to Bosimmond, who was still surprised:

"Don't be surprised, it's all true, it's not surprising.

“These prominent people had already run out of funds long ago and even needed to beg for supplies.

"If a nobleman sells his weapons because he lacks money, he can only use Turkic weapons in the war, neither familiar nor coordinated.

"For example, the Earl Hartmann, on the land of Swabia, was a rich and extremely noble man, very powerful. According to witnesses, on the day of the last battle, he rode a donkey and fought with the Turkish shield and sword.

"He had exhausted all his materials, chain mail, helmet, and weapons, were sold, and he had started begging for a long time ago.

"And Henry of Esch, a noble knight, deserves the glory of the warrior, and is also to the point of embarrassment."

A diving tank appeared in Roger's mind, and he remembered that he had heard Renardi talk about Henry of Esch, a heavy-armed knight who could advance underwater over the flooding of his head.

Rugero continued: "Duke Goldfrey pity them and split a portion of bread and a portion of meat and fish from his own funds, and gave Hartmann.

"Henry served as the Duke for many years, and was born and died, so Goldfrey appointed Henry as his partner at his dining table and gave him food.

"But later on, even Duke Goldfrey himself was poor.

"His own war horse starved to death. After all, it is very difficult to raise a war horse with a huge appetite when even people cannot eat.

"In the end, with the gift of the Count Raymond, the Duke got the horses he rode in that war, otherwise he would have to ride a donkey or fight on foot.

"And the richest prince, Robert of Flanders, was so poor that he often begged in the army. He also relied on begging to get the horses he rode on the day of the war."

Rugero drank the red grape "vinegar" in a sip, and he told Bosimmond:

“These are all famous figures, the top leaders of the Crusaders.

"As they are, you can imagine what kind of life those civilians live."

Bosimund turned his head and looked at Rinaldi, who nodded to confirm that what Rugero said was true.

Roger closed his eyes and thought, how should he solve the problem of being trapped in an isolated city and being trapped in the food and grass?

But he didn't think of anything except to give himself a headache.

He couldn't help asking, "Is that the end?"

Then he realized that he had asked a stupid thing, and now he was sitting in the main castle of Antioch.

But he couldn't figure out how the Eastern Expeditioners won.

If you keep trapped, you will die, and going out to fight has proven that you can't beat it.

He thought, was reinforcements coming?

Roger heard Rugero start the narrative again:

"Because of the burden of suffering every day, people's fear and despair for survival have increased sharply, and the idea of ​​running away has appeared in the hearts of many people.

“Some leaders of the army, such as the 'carpenter' William and Stephen, secretly dropped ropes from the defensive walls and left the trapped Christian brothers.

"At this time, the Eastern Roman Emperor had arrived in Phellomerim, and he, with his huge army and a large number of equipment, wanted to rescue the pilgrims.

"The emperor gathered about 400,000 Tecopo mercenaries who were good at bows and arrows, the Kumen, the Bulgarians and Greeks, as well as the Danes who were proficient in fighting tomahawks, and the exiled Gauls."

Roger was excited. He thought, indeed, there were reinforcements, 400,000, but many, and now he could fight the pagans to the death.

However, Rugero's subsequent narrative made Roger realize that the situation not only did not improve, but was worse than he thought.

"However, the aforementioned escaped nobles met the Eastern Roman emperor.

"The Emperor asked them about their comrades who believed in Christ, and asked about the health of Duke Goldfrey and Earl Raymond, and asked them if things were going well.

"And these escapees replied: 'It's very unsatisfactory and not safe.'

“They claim that no one will survive the sea of ​​pagans now.

"They advised the emperor to return, and not to make his army suffer in vain.

"Then the emperor was trembling and shocked, and he immediately ordered all the troops to return.

"He also set fire to destroy the Roma land that had been occupied by the pagans, and now with the power of the pilgrims, he destroyed the defenses of all cities."

Roger's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it.

He thought, the Eastern Roman emperor was too cowardly, and these escaped nobles were too crooked.

Now there are no reinforcements outside and no food or food inside. No matter how you look at it, it will be a dead end.

He thought, how did the Eastern Expeditioners win?

Roger looked around the hall of Antioch Castle where he was located, and he had an absurd idea. He thought, is it really God's will?

Rugero didn't care about the audience's reaction, he gushed:

"The shocking news that the Emperor of the Eastern Romans, and the dispersed, quickly crossed the walls of Antioch, causing great pain in the hearts of the pilgrims.

"Just when God's people were desperate, a priest from the land of Provence claimed that he had encountered the prominence and knew the whereabouts of the spear that had pierced the Lord Jesus' ribs.

"He will find the place where this holy spear will be found, informing Bishop Lepid Lord Admar and the Earl Raymond.

“He said that he saw the display of St. Andrew, and received the revelation of the Holy Spear, in the head of the apostle, in St. Peter’s Basilica.
To be continued...