"Transport all of these to the ship - if you cannot be transported, throw them into the sea!" Norman's queen ordered. Then she divided a small number of soldiers and moved boxes of gold, silver and diamond jewelry to the small boat for landing. She rowed towards her own warship.

At the same time, after the Crusaders ravaged the port for nearly three hours, in the city of Alexandria not far away, the garrison general of Alexandria slapped the table and shouted at the soldiers who came to report the message: "What did you say?! A group of pirates?! A group of pirates dared to come and rob our city?! Who gave them such courage?! Go out of the city, attack! Kill them all!!"

"Wait a minute, don't you think this situation is very suspicious? Although the other party kills, sets fires, and robs wealth, such behavior is no different from real pirates. However, in terms of combat effectiveness and organization, they are not like pirates. Instead, they are more like regular soldiers." An officer from a patrol unit who escaped from death said to the garrison general: "I think we should close the city gates now and talk about it after the situation becomes clear."

"You coward! What you mean is that we want us to abandon all the believers in the port area. Our brothers will be left alone. Let them be massacred by pagan pirates?!" Alexander's garrison general roared like this, completely ignoring the other party's kind reminder and dissuasion, and insisted on leading his own troops out of the city to attack. In fact, this is indeed a good idea - although the garrison troops scattered in the port were killed, there were still more than 1,500 defenders under pressure. With a total of 1,500 well-equipped and well-trained professional troops, the number of attacks was close, but the chaotic pirate troops was chaotic. Just think about it and you can know who won and who lost.

"Tsk, what the regular army is...at most it is Norman pirates who have been trained in a little military. The regular army of the pagans is now fighting the Caliph in Jerusalem. How could it run to Alexander thousands of miles away?" The garrison general thought so smartly. At the same time, he looked at the soldiers who were dressed in scales, pointed helmets, scimitars, spears and round shields, and arranged neatly. He felt proud. This was not too large. But he trained the very elite troops. He usually strictly supervised the training. The whip and candy were used in turn. At the same time, he also fought several battles with some surrounding thieves and bandits. A series of victories made the general feel that he was particularly powerful.

"So, these pirates are just another record on my credit book. It's no big deal." The general thought so, and then raised the scimitar in his hand: "Soldiers! In front of them are those pagan pirates who do evil! We rushed over, killed them, and avenged the dead brothers!"

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers beside him shouted loudly, and their morale was high.

Then, there were heavy casualties under a flying axe.

"It's just barely qualified. It's shameless." Opposite, with a round of flying axes - Norman and Celtic soldiers who had already ambushed the houses, corners, and alleys, rushed up and caught the small group of troops off guard. Artoria, who slowly walked into the battlefield with a scimitar, snorted and commented like this. Although he was not as good as Egil, he could probably guess what he was saying when he looked.

In this way, the garrison troops equipped with only light weapons such as spears and scimitars were broken up in the first round of attacks. Under the impact of Thunder Warriors and Norman Pirates, the chaos amplified again. The soldiers could hardly respond effectively. They suffered heavy damage. A large number of infantry were chopped to the ground. The morale, which was originally encouraged, suddenly fell to the bottom.

"Hurry! Back to back, form a circular array!" Seeing that his troops suffered a great loss, the garrison general shouted in anger. Many soldiers were shocked when they heard his orders, and began to retreat according to his orders, leaned together to raise shields, and formed a dense array to resist the opponent's assault.

However, such orders also became the cause of the general's death.

"Kill that guy!"

Seeing that the other party had said something, the slightly confused Arab soldiers regained their rationality. Artoria snorted and ordered.

So, a group of pirate crossbowmen who were arranged behind and stood on the roofs of the streets and Celtic archers accepted the order and pointed them at the garrison general and concentrated their firepower to shoot.

Immediately afterwards, amid the panicked shouts of "The General was killed!", the Arab soldiers collapsed and were covered by Celtic and Norman troops. Artoria did not forget to issue an order like this: "Slow down. Don't kill all the enemies so quickly. Let them attack the city gate!"

In this way, Norman and the Celtic coalition kept a certain distance slowly and followed the enemy. Until they arrived at the city of Alexandria, when the enemy defenders opened the city gate and let the defeated soldiers enter the city, they suddenly accelerated their speed again. They rushed over, swung their swords and battle axes and cut open a bloody road and seized the city gate!

"Okay, in this way, Alexander is the treasure of my palace!!" Artoria shouted. Corresponding to this was the joy, excitement of the army under her command, and the cry of the Arab soldiers and civilians. Unlike Joan of Arc, who was compassionate in nature, Artoria advocated violence and liked to kill. Although the army in her hands was not as much as Joan of Arc. However, the damage they were about to cause in Alexander was definitely greater than that in Damascus.

In the following period, as Apraksin said, Artoria expected, many of the Celtic troops crossing the sea and the Norman fleet survived. After experiencing the storm, they continued to advance towards Alexander. In this way, after half a month of rest and half a month of robbery, Artoria's army expanded again to 40,000 people - 20,000 of them, Celtic troops and Norman sailors. The other 20,000 were forced to conscript Alexander and the Arab residents near Alexander.

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Chapter completed!