Eagle Byzantium

Beside Gawain and around St. John's Cathedral, there are terrifying cavalrymen covered in heavy armor, including Gaudi, Diognis, Mikhail and Efraimi. The four generals of Wusi all wore white cloaks on their golden and silver armors, and the scabbards of their swords were rubbed and tapped on their respective greaves.

Before going out to the army, Gawain reorganized the Forbidden Army system. The original Forbidden Army infantry team has always been maintained at the level of two detachments, about 300 people, all of which are heavy-armored halberdiers. Now Gawain has added "Phetias" "Detachment" and "Erickson's Detachment" expanded the number of troops to 600, and then The armored cavalry regiment was formally incorporated into the Forbidden Army system, and an additional 200 archers were selected from Ducasse's private soldiers, and 500 musketeers were selected from the shooting corps of each brigade to form a team. With a force of 1,300 men, including infantry, cavalry and archery, the "Grand Palace Imperial Army" - Gawain handed over the position of commander to Gaudi.

Mikhail's inner palace guard was also reorganized into a new imperial army of 1,500 people, but it could not be stationed in the city. Instead, it was stationed at the Emperor Vasily's Mausoleum and became the "imperial imperial army."

Finally, Gawain also planned to immediately recruit a cavalry team of 300 people from Anatolia, Greater Armenia, northern Thrace and Syria to form a "Forbidden Guard Cavalry" and station it in the Sarabria Forest. It was composed of people from Ogus, Ani, Comaroi, Pecheneg and Tecopo. The commander Gawain clearly requested that Diognis and Flaimius should be divided.

Diognis said that I still want to go back to Tbilisi.

Gawain said to him, "You will stay in the capital for three years. After three years, I will naturally let you go. Bellerophon's brigade will be handed over to your subordinates for training and management. "If you are needed for the palace's security in the future, if you protect it, Anna feels more at ease.”

These words gave the officer no room to refuse.

Facing the rising morning glow across Constantinople, churches everywhere rang mournful bells: the Orthodox priests inside saw the streets full of armored men coming from all directions and terrifying people. Soldiers, the rubble of the house trembles under the sound of their boots Shaking, he knew that Gawain, the "Emperor of the Varangian Barbarians", had no interest in negotiating and confronting them. He wanted to imitate Justinian six hundred years ago and directly kill the mob and cleanse the entire imperial capital. No, all the synagogues and monasteries throughout the empire.

Before today, Gawain had received a letter from John Oxhirt, Patriarch of Antioch in Tarsus. In the letter, although he expressed his dissatisfaction with the church in the capital, he still accused Gawain of using violence to suppress it. idea.

But Gawain didn't respond. He just said to Patriarch Gottschalk, "I will also entrust you with the affairs of the east synagogue soon."

At the second hour of the morning, the flags of the Red Hand Brigade were fluttering, and a dense and undulating formation was set up around the cloister-style "big cistern" connecting Metz Street and the Grand Racecourse. Rows of soldiers held various weapons. , with its back against the large reservoir and its head facing northwest, facing Lanus outside the racecourse. Palace - at the crossroads opposite Metz, connecting the Grand Palace, the Hippodrome and the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, the mob in the capital built a barricade like four arms. They erected panels with portraits of various holy apostles to serve as a shield against arrows. Arrows and stone-throwing shields, hoping to frighten all the Christian soldiers on the opposite side.

Commander Mero, who was wearing a white robe with gold trim, was riding on a black horse and stood in front of the escorting skirmishers, looking even more handsome and upright. He drew his sword and said to the many shouting and cursing mobs on the barricade, " The new Supreme Emperor is willing to forgive your crimes for the last time, immediately give up the palace and public places that have been defiled by your occupation, and swear allegiance to His Majesty Gawain."

"Go away, Varyag barbarians!" On the barrier built with vehicles, rocks and wooden fences, many Green Party and White Party mobs yelled at Melo's flag, and threw flying stones in their hands like raindrops. Many people behind were shouting proudly in support, and flags were flying in every corner of the Grand Palace and the Grand Racecourse.

Many stones hit the area more than ten feet in front of Mello and the war horse, and ricocheted into the air. Mello pulled his mount back continuously.

At the same time, at the Constantine Square, another Guardian Brigade also drove along the streets between the "Second Hill" and the "Third Hill" like a long queue to the Golden Horn Acropolis, also at "Botta" In front of the "Palace of Nias", they were blocked by a barricade built by thousands of armed diners from the Grand Almshouse. Branas rode up to them and issued an ultimatum to them, warning that if they refused to submit, the entire Sao Paulo Almshouse would be burned and razed. hospital. The same intensive stone-throwing, accompanied by the unyielding yells and curses of the diners, attacked General Branas...

"Citizens, retreat!" At the third quarter of the second hour in the morning, Burrill, the mayor of Constantinople and the Prime Minister of the Empire, also appeared in front of Lanus Palace. The old man shouted hoarsely and with sincere feelings. He shouted at the barricade, "Otherwise, everything from here to the Polo Grounds will be cleared. Citizens, please cherish the hard-won peace!" His Majesty the new emperor promises you that horse racing, bullfighting, polo and other entertainment will continue to be open in the future to protect your rights and interests. So you go home, hug your wives and children, and accept the relief food that is coming soon, otherwise there will be a little. Anyone with common sense can see that as long as His Majesty's cavalry continues to advance, can you still resist it? "

"Go to hell, you old traitor!"

"You should have a dog's tail tied to your head and go around the racecourse seven times!" The curses erupted from the barricade, drowning out Burrill's admonition.

The bugle sounded, and Melo and Burrill looked back at the same time.

It was Gawain who led the imperial guards here.

The first impatient words of the new emperor were, "Why don't you start suppressing the rebellion?"

Mello turned around in a hurry and issued a flag signal.

Facing the Lanus Palace, nine hundred Red Hand Brigade shooting soldiers, each thirty people in a small wing, entered the barricade in layers, their umbrella-shaped feathers were close together, carrying long muskets, changing formations skillfully until they formed a three-sided formation facing the enemy, and began to raise their muskets, silently aiming at the barricades in all directions, with the fuses screaming.

The mob was enraged, and they were on the barricades, shouting and waving their arms to make various provocative movements.

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"Varyag barbarian, you are not worthy of being the emperor of Rome, you are not a Roman at all!" Among the crowd on the barricade, a tall man pointed his thumb down and pointed at Gawain from a distance.

Under the flag, Gawain tightened his reins on his mount, letting Agrus neigh loudly and violently, raising his front hooves and pointing back at the other side, "Then I will conquer the land of Varangia and make it part of the empire. Shoot!"

Before Gawain finished speaking, clouds of gunpowder exploded: all the shooting troops fired the bullets from their long guns without hesitation, and amid the raindrops and the sudden sound of the wind, many icons and bodies of the mob on the barricades were shattered and torn apart, falling onto the street with screams.