The Antioch court was in secret, surrounded by powerful enemies outside the kingdom. Saladin's vanguard troops finally decided to attack Antioch. They decided to destroy the last strongholds of the pagans in this sacred land and fulfill their promise to Allah. The army of the Sultan Kingdom shouted slogans of jihad, and raised scimitars almost covered the entire sky, and the flying crescent flags rushed to the border like a sea.

A desert eagle flapped its wings and flew over a castle. The guards below the castle were bored and holding on to their posts. Suddenly, they saw sand and dust rising not far from the castle. The years of experience made them realize that something unusual had happened. On the one hand, they reported to their superiors, and on the other hand, they continued to monitor the direction of the sand and dust.

"What happened?" A sergeant chief, wearing leather armor and a round-edged iron helmet, climbed to the observation deck and asked the soldiers.

"Look where." The soldiers pointed in the direction of the sand and dust. They were all looking there. A group of people riding camels to the castle, and they were running hurriedly, as if something terrible was chasing them behind them.

"It's the nomads nearby, why are they so panicked?" The soldier tiǎntiǎn's thirsty mouth and asked the sergeant in confusion.

"Something must have happened." The experienced sergeant chief knew that these nomads were very alert. If nothing happened that endangered their survival, they would not easily leave the oasis with abundant water.

"What should we do?"

"Wait a moment, I'll ask what happened. If there is any accident, close the city gate immediately." The chief sergeant pointed at his subordinates and said. The castle was not actually big. It was just to control the nearby military buildings of the water source. Therefore, there were no nobles stationed here, so the chief sergeant was almost the highest commander here.

"Be careful." The soldier said to his commander.

The sergeant commander rode his own horse and approached the nomadic tribe. Because they often moved in this area, both sides were very familiar with each other. The tribal leader wearing a headscarf and a desert robe talked with the sergeant for a moment and then left the sergeant commander, and took his people without looking back to move around the castle to a safer place. The sergeant commander hurriedly turned his horse's head back to the castle.

"What's going on? Is there a storm?" the soldiers asked. The storms in the desert were extremely terrible, and often made people wake up and buried in the sand. However, looking at the sergeant's grim expression, they seemed to realize that things were more urgent than the storm.

"It was a war. Saladin's army finally crossed the border. We should immediately light the beacon and inform the adults of Antioch Castle." The sergeant said to a soldier. Saladin's sword had been hanging high above the heads of these soldiers like a terrible sword. But he didn't expect that the day would come so quickly. The soldiers who suddenly heard the news were pale and frightened. Even these ordinary soldiers knew very well how the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which was much stronger than Antioch, perished in the hands of Saladin, and could the Antioch Kingdom without the Knights escape the fate of the destruction of this country?

The soldiers sounded the alarm bell of war and blew the horn of war. The Antioch militia and Sadrshi in the castle immediately picked up their weapons and put on their armor, and returned to their respective posts to prepare to face the coming enemies. A soldier held a torch and climbed toward the wooden ladder at a high place, where there was a beacon warning to the Antioch Castle.

"Hey, aren't you a groom? What are you doing here?" The soldier climbed up the beacon tower, but saw the newly recruited groom in the castle who took care of the horses not long ago. The wandering Kate, who looked very honest, had a fierce look at this time. A sharp dagger appeared in the groom's hand. Before the soldier could shout, he could still slash through the soldier's throat like lightning.

The soldier's eyes suddenly widened, the torch in his hand fell off, and his other hand covered his neck in vain, but blood was flowing uncontrollably. The groom grabbed the soldier's body effortlessly, moved him to the beacon tower, and then calmly destroyed the beacon tool.

The people in the fort did not know that they had no help from Antioch. When they had just climbed the city wall, the sound of horse hooves came from a distance, and a group of cavalry appeared from the yellow horizon, and these cavalry slowly came to the castle.

"Damn it, it's the Sultan Hasan Archers, God and Ehad Heavy Archers, they're really here." The sergeant's face became heavier and heavier. He saw that the hundred cavalry wandering around the castle were actually rare elite troops. You should know that except for the Sultan King's guard cavalry, which can be compared with the heavy cavalry units of the mainland knights, most of the nobles were archers. These despicable pagans never fought head-on. Instead, they used the desert war horses with full heat resistance under their crotch, and kept shooting the bow arrows at their opponents with the compound bows in their hands. The arrows were fast and accurate. The troops without knights could not resist. If the walking soldiers chased them out, the archers would turn around and leave immediately. They also had a unique skill that they could accurately turn around and shoot arrows while retreating, and the locust-like arrows killed the chasing opponents.

"Swoosh~~~." Hasan's archers circled around the castle, then suddenly drove forward and shot the bow and arrow into the castle.

"Be careful, be careful to avoid." The sergeant commander greeted his subordinates while hiding under the walls. These Hasan archers were the first-class cavalry among the Sultans. Hasan means landlords in Sultanian language, which means these people are gentry who were granted land by the Sultan, and the income from the land was used as an economic source for purchasing weapons and armor.

The Antioch militia, who was unable to avoid, shrouded his unprotected neck when he lowered his head, was shot by a tricky arrow. Seeing that the Antioch militia was helpless, the taste of death made the soldiers anxious.

"Where is our archer, why don't you fight back?" A Sadr Shi pushed his helmet up with a mace in his hand, and a young face was revealed.

"No, these cunning guys are testing our range." The sergeant looked carefully from the gap in the wall. He was experienced and quickly and accurately judged the enemy's intentions.

"So that's how it is." Sadrshi nodded in admiration. It seemed that he could become the commander of this castle, and the sergeant commander was indeed qualified.

After shooting for a while, they found that the people in the castle were not fooled. The Hassan archers had to turn their horses to return. The tentative attacks did not join the Ehad heavy cavalry from beginning to end. They seemed to be watching the performance to the audience, but the sergeant commander did not dare to be careless and kept sending people to monitor the movements of Ehad heavy cavalry. Not to mention anything else, looking at the heavy cavalry's heavy cavalry's heavy cavalry's body and the iron horse armor on the war horses were enough to prevent people from underestimating it.

"Oh~~~After the cries, with the shouts of the sea, the crescent moon flags like bo waves surrounded the small castle. The backbone of Saladin's vanguard troops and the infantry troops arrived, which meant that a large-scale battle was about to begin.

"God, give me strength." Looking at the army of four or five thousand people under the castle, the hundred soldiers in the castle were as beautiful as earth. While praying to God, they were complaining about the high-ranking adults in Antioch who did not send more soldiers.

"Why haven't the beacon fire been lit yet?" The chief sergeant looked at the large army outside the city. At this time, he suddenly realized that the beacon fire had not been lit. Something must have happened. He immediately brought a few reliable soldiers to the beacon fire tower, and saw that there was nothing but the corpses of the soldiers on the beacon fire tower.

"The beacon tower is completely useless." Looking at the destroyed beacon tower, the sergeant said in frustration. Without beacon, there would be no reinforcements, and the noble knights around him could not rescue him in time. Even when the enemy continued to attack, the people in the city would not be ready for battle.

"What happened?" From the beacon tower, the curious Sadrshi poked his head out of the soldiers and looked at the depressed look of the sergeant commanders.

"We can't contact the Antioch Castle. It's so bad. We are isolated." The sergeant chief said helplessly.

"Oh, what's going on?" Sadrshi asked after the army. When he learned that the beacon tower had been destroyed, he was not as depressed as the sergeant commanders.

"We are finished. Without Antioch's support, we will definitely die." Someone finally said despairing words.

"Is it enough to contact Antioch?" Sadrshi turned his head and thought for a while, then said to the sergeant commander.

"Oh? Do you have a way to contact Antioch?" asked the sergeant commander in disbelief.

"Yes, I have a trained bird I bought from a merchant. It often brings me love letters to a noble lady in the city of Antioch." Sadrshi said a little embarrassedly. He had one year of service to be awarded a knight. In Antioch, there was his beloved noble lady. Writing a letter was the greatest pleasure of serving in this boring castle.

"Great, tell the people in Antioch immediately what's going on here." The sergeant general grabbed his arm and shook the young man.

"Yes, yes, I know." Sadrshi tried hard to support his helmet that was about to be shaken down, and hurriedly agreed.

Soon a small yellow bird was released from the army by Sadrshi. An emergency note was stuffed into the iron ring on its feet. Looking at the yellow bird flying in the blue sky, the people in the castle put all their hopes on it.!
Chapter completed!