Eagle Byzantium

At this time, all the Sylvain slaves in the hall were shouting, waving their arms and running outside. Gawain's imperial guards, under the command of Muzaffy-ad-Din, had surrounded all the exits in front of the door, forming a double row formation, all holding shining halberds, and rushed in shouting, "Don't do it." Let everyone go!" Muzafi'adin shouted.

The halberd blade thrust into the thorn with a roar, and many of the envoys' slaves who were caught off guard were shot through the chest, and their bodies fell to the ground. The rest of the people and the boys and girls who were originally performing hurriedly held their heads and fell on the floor, not daring to do anything. take any action.

"Stop!" The chief guarantor inside stepped on the fallen assassin's head with his boot, and then pulled out the phosphorus fire sword with his hand. "Detain them and interrogate them in detail - there must be an assassin stronghold between Melite and the big city. Between Armenia.”

After saying this, Gawain turned around and squatted down to help the sleeping companion who was hit by the arrow. The Holy Sister also came close to him, "How do you feel, Wen Ruomingna?"

The sleeping attendant's face and lips were pale, her hair was disheveled, semi-coagulated black blood flowed from the wound on her right arm, and the meridians on her lower wrist also turned black. "Gawain, she was hit by a poisonous arrow," he said. , Kabeamiya tore off a piece of clothing and wrapped it around Wen Ruomingna's wrist, trying hard to prevent the poison from spreading to her body and heart, which would be completely hopeless.

"Your Highness the Patron, I have finally repaid you..." The sleeping officer's breath was very weak, and Gawain hurriedly asked her to stop talking, "But please heal me, even if my right wrist is amputated, I can also continue to serve you with my left wrist..."

Gawain hurriedly asked the Holy Sister and other female officials who knew medical skills to help Wen Ruomingna into the inner room for treatment. The most important thing now was to control her poisonous injuries. "In addition, we spend a lot of money to find Persian doctors or Saracen doctors across the region who know how to operate. If Wen Ruomingna really needs amputation, only they can do it. We must save this girl's life."

On the other hand, the officers of the Brotherhood and the post officers accompanied by the Tarsus Kingdom began to closely interrogate the envoys from the Sylvan Kingdom. "The focus is to find out which route and when these assassins were on their way." Sneaking in!" Gawain instructed, "Don't just focus on the distant mountain sect, but also dig out the suspicious accomplices entrenched in Greater Armenia!"

Once careful analysis and severe interrogation are carried out, the answer is not difficult to come out - it is impossible for the assassins of the Mountain Sect to travel so far alone from the Persian border to the city of Melitene. Just as Gawain predicted, they will definitely There is a secret stronghold in Greater Armenia used for infiltration and transit.

Finally, several adjutants in the envoy admitted that they were greedy for bribes and accepted a financial bribe from a Greek on the way. Then the Greek stuffed the three assassins into the envoy in the name of "procurement assistance" Come on, not even the unlucky envoy who was assassinated just now knew about it.

The lieutenants also confessed where the assassin had sneaked in.

The answer is: in the city of Diyarbakir.

It turned out that Ahmadi, the chief of the Shirvan Kingdom, sent an envoy from his capital, Taulis, to bypass Erzu, where Danishmund and Sagittus were at war with Zhengaowen. The mountainous region of Rum (Greater Armenia) Northern route), but came along the trade routes of the relatively peaceful Kiratpasha Kingdom and Artukki Emirate (the southern route of Greater Armenia, bordering the Mosul region), and the city of Diyarbakir It happens to be the location of the fortress, the capital of Artuki.

The truth seemed to be a little clearer. Then the furious Gawain summoned Gregor, Leotius, Parney, Branas and other middle and senior generals to the palace meeting hall to analyze the situation on the sand table and map table. Let’s start with the matter of entering the country of Greater Armenia.

After the Battle of Manchikert, the defeated Eastern Roman Empire sadly withdrew from Greater Armenia and Anatolia, and the Seljuq Turk chiefs and generals who followed established many small kingdoms and regimes here. Come down.

There are now five separate Turkic emirates in Greater Armenia. One is the remnant party of Danish Mondmerik. After the fall of Maras, its forces were defeated and withdrew from the surrounding area, retreating to the Erez Castle on the northern plateau (now Erzincan in eastern Turkey), so they could only It’s called “the defeated dog and the remnant party”;

The neighbor and ally of Merik the Corrupted Dog is the Sagittus Emirate located in the Erzurum Mountains. Its founder is Sartuk Ali, who was originally an officer in the Seljuk Empire;

The third one is the "Hadadi Kingdom" which occupies the cities of Ani and Duin, the northern hometown of Greater Armenia (only 35 kilometers away from the current Armenian capital Yerevan). It was originally a Kurdish country like Shirvan, and in The ancestors intermarried with the original Armenian royal family, but now it has become a vassal state within the Seljuk system, and its ruler is named Manushikhar Ibn Shawur;

The fourth is the Kirat Pasha Kingdom that occupies the elite homeland of southern Greater Armenia (Pasha means shah, meaning the king of Persia, which is also the later pasha in Turkic language, with the same status as the emir). It is entrenched in the rich mortal world. Around the lake, there are powerful fortresses such as Kirat, Manchikert and Van. The prince is Zagriddin Ibrahim;

There is also a small emirate, Artuki, sandwiched between Kirat Pasha and Melitene, to which Gawain belongs. It has three fortresses, namely Diyarbakir, Mardin and Dunayasr. The chief of this country is an unexpected person - he is actually Sokman Tutushi, the commander who previously guarded the holy city of Jerusalem. After the city fell, Sokman was pardoned and ran back to the Seljuk court. He was appointed by the Great Sultan to be the emir of this place.

"I will march to Diyarbakir, and there will definitely be more mountain sect scum entrenched there. Don't give me an excuse to declare war on Sokman. This time we will fight like lightning and capture this fortress directly. I want to succeed and destroy this small country of Altuki before winter, tie Sokman up with ropes and dog chains, and teach that old man Hassan in the mountains a lesson to see if I can dig out more truth and excuses. At the same time, publicize the powerful martial arts of our army, and with clever diplomatic skills, subdue and win over small Kurdish countries such as Sylvan and Hadadi, and expand and stabilize our eastern border. In addition, John and Theodoro have retreated, and our country's northern line has turned from danger to safety. Send a message to the Seleucia Hospital to give the best treatment to the garrison officer, and let the Red Hand Brigade quickly reinforce the eastern line along the military road of Caesarea!" Gawain waved the horse-head silver scepter on the basis of following the plan of his mentor Maglundius, and deployed a more detailed and feasible war plan before midwinter to the generals in front of him.

All the generals could not help but hold their breath nervously:

A correct version can be found in the book of 16-9-1 Forum!

In the three months between autumn and winter, if one wants to achieve such a goal, one must move between these five countries (there are also Shirvan, Georgia, the Kingdom of Georgia, Kobha in Mosul, etc., which are also peripheral forces that can exert influence on the war situation), which is really like walking on thin ice.