Chapter Four; Welcome to Eastern Therace

The equestrian is on, villages are fought, bloods are shed, and Vikings are martyred and now the snow is alarming next to eastern therace where the only option is to scale the area before the calamity began, next to the calamity is a heavy armored guard of the city whom has no mercy on any creature crossing their walls. Upon all the arrangement king Sigurdsson de marsh made about his success in this journey it reaches a degree where many soldiers are falling some by enemies, some by the wild and some by the snow sink of the coastal area of the city of marmara; the Vikings were asleep resting near the snow of marmara and flota (weather analyst) ordered them to vacate the place because very soon it will start sinking and a lot of life will be lost and nephews of king Sigurdsson ,the warriors and commanders of the ride ordered the fast and quick vacation of the place, unfortunately before they could vacate the place it's already sinking and soldiers within the southern camp already sink to the ground seeking help, freezing, feeling the atrocities and the heart breaking feeling of losing their lives at this foreign place , with zero accomplishment of their mission, stocked between the feeling of death and the loss of breath resulted by the failure of their kidneys , watching their brother running to survive without helping them, it was indeed a terrible feeling and the survivors has to live with it. After the survivors vacate the commandants realized that they lost over six hundred soldiers before even reaching eastern turkey where they have to see the real pain from people of the Byzantines who fear no death or violence of any kind. After they camp somewhere outside the walls of marmara they received a letter sent by King Sigurdsson using the ancient tradition of Vikings using vultures saying '' It's of Maximum appreciation to my soldiers for sticking with the hunt that can change our future and make us the greatest sets of Vikings ever existed, I know by now we have lost many riders who are one of our patriots both Christians and pagans, I morn their death and respect shall be paid to their death and those with families shall see wealth in their homes and I am happy to announce to you that we shall meet in Africa ''

After the agony and sorrows they faced now they are happy because at least they received a good news from their king at breaking and depressed time, then they rejoice and perform traditional rites to their death soldiers. During the rites two the Byzantines soldiers doing night watch at the wall of marmara saw fire and followed the destination of the fire to see thousands of soldiers drunk and celebrating, brave and bold, willing to take life at every cost; before leaving the place he was caught and the Vikings decided to murder him thinking that he is the only one who saw them not knowing the other guard at watch, unfortunately flota know about night watches and their traditions , he checked the death byzantine and found two wooden bottles which was practiced by night watches for the other to be in custody of the bottles and the other in custody of the meal; He then decided to go to the wall alone and kill the other while he told their commandants to order the quench off the fire , positively as He predicted he reaches a mountain near the wall and was able to snipe the byzantine with his arrow and the assassination was successful. The next morning the soldiers on shift went to the wall to take their shift and found a death soldier and a missing other, before they could report the activity its already a trap established by the Vikings who already has the indulgence of being inside the walls since yesterday night and already occupy the village after the wall so no message will go outside or in, Vikings capture all the people in the village and took them as prisoners and sent a message to the king of eastern therace that the only thing they are willing to do is exchange prisoners for the passage ; before the king respond to their letter he sent a delegation to central therace for reinforcement and plan of creating a trap for the Vikings , after they pass eastern therace before reaching central part of therace the initial battle will take place at the point of no return and no hope of stepping an inch . But unfortunately on the other hand Vikings planned to divide their soldiers into two in case of any challenge with the thought that they have no idea the debt of the water they are entering. So the king of eastern therace sent a letter back saying '' if you promise not to hurt any of my people passage is granted '' they resent a letter to him saying '' we will match tomorrow by noon and we don't want any armed forces near us '' . The next day by noon the Vikings gathered at the threshold of the village town market and received a letter from king Sigurdsson saying '' I have heard about the inconvenience you faced but my order goes like this, as your commandants ordered, divide the soldiers into two as well as the prisoners for indeed it's a trap, they will try the put you in a position you have no option but to surrender your weapons but remember our course and what's this journey stands for, remember your feeble ones in Norway and your wives who are desperate of financial freedom, I want you to use smoke to signal the forces behind if any inconvenience occur and if the first party wasn't able to send a signal after two hours start killing every guard you come across and make sure you cut the kings head , my eyes will always be with you ''; the Vikings warriors starts to match to the agreed location for exchange and as king of eastern therace planned Vikings were attacked right after the exchange they were attacked in two ways, front and back in a very wet area , the fire that can lead to providing a signal to the other reinforcement behind could not start due to a severe rainfall and they are facing armored giant warriors . After a battle of over two hours with the Byzantines the rain stopped and signal was sent, the other set of Vikings behind started killing every armed person that came their way and matching forward with the prisoners. They reach inside the city's kingdom and took the kings wife and his daughter was captured hiding under the bed by their commandant and everybody within the palace was captured, they successfully cleared their way to the meeting point. Upon reaching they saw their soldiers in the middle of the enemy battling to their highest strength, after seeing their other party the strength multiplies and king of eastern therace realize that things fall apart, he is doomed and his plans fails , he is stocked between two strong forces, who will do everything to pass, the other party captured his wife and daughter , the other party stands in his way to run to the other central therace reinforcement, he knows today is the last, his soldiers started seeing fear in his eyes, rain from the sky and flood from beneath, hopeless, the only thing he can see is rapture but one unfortunate thing is that upon all that challenges he still fought until his head got separated from his body .

What going to happen now? Will the battle continue? How will the Vikings cross the central reinforcement?