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So, my lord, Your Majesty must look into what we should do about
all this."
Tirant said:
"Tell me, knight, upon your honor, how many men were lost in
battle?"
The knight answered:
"Captain, it is known that of the men killed in battle, those who
were drowned and those taken prisoner, we've lost eleven thousand
seven hundred twenty-two men."
The emperor said:
"Captain, I beg you to do whatever has to be done, out of
reverence for God and love of me, so that you can leave in
fifteen or twenty days with all your men to help those miserable
people."
"Oh, Sire!" said Tirant. "How can Your Majesty say that we won't
have left in twenty days? In that time the enemy could attack
the city, and they are so powerful that they could invade it."
Tirant again asked the emissary how many men there might be in
the enemy's forces. The emissary answered:
"In faith, there are many Turks and they are very skillful in
warfare, and are cruel, ferocious men. In our opinion and
according to what some prisoners say, they number more than eight
hundred thousand.


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