Eagle Byzantium

General Wallace was a brave warrior and a reasonable gentleman. He believed that the previous great raid had failed, leaving the river and plain of Durazzo covered with blood. He had paid a precious and heavy price for the war of faith, so he should "stop here".

However, his opinion was not immediately recognized in the city: the Venetians had to get the approval of the Senate, the Sicilians were at a loss without the command of Count Duan, the Lombards had to wait for the order of the Duchess, and only the Hungarians did not have to worry about anything because they had surrendered to Emperor Gawain.

The New Roman Empire had a clear understanding of the current situation. Gawain had the full right to clean up the battlefield - all soldiers collected and counted 6,000 enemy bodies, of which about 1,000 fell on the front battlefield under the Imperial Camp Hill and the Guard Brigade Platform, and the remaining 5,000 fell on the steep banks and sandbanks of the Ishmi River, the victims of the great rout and being chased.

The most magnificent were the 500 Norman knights and the even more impressive Sicilian Brown Army soldiers. They almost fought to the last breath. Even if they leaned against the bank of the Ishmi River, they fought to the death.

It can be said that half of the elite of the Kingdom of Sicily withered in the dark sand and wilderness of Durazzo.

About 2,500 Hungarians also bowed in front of the emperor's camp and held a surrender ceremony. The male and female emperors under the flags and icons jointly issued an edict:

"You are all the royal guards of King Coroman. I will not control your stay or leave in order to respect the friendship with King Coroman. But if you are willing to serve my empire, you can settle the holy land on both sides of the Sava River and the Mosia region."

As a result, there were nearly 700 Hungarian minor nobles. Most of them disliked the meager fiefs in their own country. Some wanted to serve the prosperous queen city like Constantinople, and some had no inheritance rights at home and wanted to come here to make a living.

In fact, Gawain not only recruited this group of people, but also the Slavic tribes in Epirus, Serbia, Peloponnese, Thessalonica and other places that were loyal to Gawain. While their autonomy was guaranteed, young and handsome people were also selected and sent to military academies, law schools and rhetoric schools for further study, learning Greek, mathematics, astronomy, physics and other knowledge, and accepting "Romanization". Then the emperor promised that in three to five years, they would be sent to the northern Bulgaria and Serbia, granted holy benefices, and serve as the local military, religious and political backbones.

In general, Gawain and Anna wanted to "change places and clean up the land". The Slavic tribes in the south went to the north, and those in the north moved to the south or Asia Minor. At the same time, Gawain planned to migrate 4,000 Armenians and station them in the Mesembria region to strengthen defense.

In addition to this, Gawain approved a large amount of treasury funds to establish Greek schools in newly conquered Slavic cities such as Ohrid, Skopje, Larissa, and Trvono to wash away the semi-independent "Slavic culture".

"Schools, churches, and books in these places are no longer allowed to use Slavic, but the noblest and clearest Greek." When Gawain issued this golden edict, he also found it funny. The language he was familiar with originally did not have Greek at all, but he did not expect that he would now use swords and fire to promote Greek throughout the world.

In these few months, the three newly trained brigades, including the Paulician legion brought by Artami, cooperated and began to sweep across the north of Bulgaria. In the end, the left wing successfully captured Nicopolis, and the right wing captured Silistra, and finally pacified the entire Mosia area, and officially expanded the territory to the south bank of the Danube.

At this time, Gawain once again issued an ultimatum to Durazzo, demanding that the entire city surrender unconditionally, or that all the soldiers in the city retreat by boat, "It is best not to wait until my siege cannon gives you the final argument."

At the same time as the emperor's ultimatum was delivered, the envoys of the Roman Church came to Bari, claiming that they wanted to explore the reunification of Rome, Tuscany and Bari, and the church would be unified again.

This was equivalent to the beginning of Rome's surrender. After fierce arguments, their cardinals reached the following negotiation conditions:

After the horrific results of this holy war, the Church had realized that it was impossible to defeat the rising Stephen Gawain and Anna Gawain in a short period of time, so the Church was willing to withdraw the holy war against Gawain and recognize the religious legal status of the Reformation Society, which could be under any church designated by the emperor in Constantinople.

But the corresponding Church also had conditions, that is, the church in Bari returned to the jurisdiction of the Church, and Anselm could no longer retain the identity of the Holy See of the Pope - the three parties held a meeting to confirm the new pope.

But, but, the crux of the problem is this.

That is, Master Anselm is so comfortable and happy in the newly built "Palace of the Pope" in Bari. For him, "If I can't be the master of Castel Sant'Angelo and the Lateran Palace, why should I go back? I can still enjoy the supreme power in the rich and great city of Bari."

So Anselm's conditions were unacceptable to Rome; and Anselm didn't like the benefits of Rome. In the end, the negotiations ended unpleasantly, and Gawain couldn't reach an agreement with Rome.

Just as Rome was preparing to let the envoys cross the sea by ship and come directly to Durazzo to negotiate with Gawain, the emperor had already lost his patience to resolve the dispute peacefully.

The city of Durazzo has lost its river and bridge barriers, and a brigade of General Bramson has also arrived. Five brigades have blocked all its external roads, and the southern fortress of St. Michael's Monastery in the north After the success, Basileus and Basilisa moved their camp here and personally requested that two siege cannons be placed on the south base.

These two siege cannons were deeply loved by Basilisa. They exerted great power in the siege of Prusa City and were also a symbol of the power of Gawain's empire. As a result, Basilisa Anna requested that the two cannons be used in the siege of the city. Both the door and the rear door were engraved with words begging for blessing, and they were also named, one was called "Lion" and the other was called "Bear".

On April 11th, amidst the sound of trumpets, all the elite cavalrymen of the empire were well-armored and mounted on their horses. They lined up on both sides of the road. They drew out their swords and sabers and raised them in front of their eyes. Amidst the cheers Teams of oxen pulled the dismantled barrels of siege cannons , went to the south fort, and then the Serbian prisoner-of-war coolies, who were bare-backed and barefoot, tied up the gun barrel with ropes, and shouted rhythmically and shockingly along the slope of the fort, tying it up piece by piece. It was towed up and assembled by the soldiers of the artillery regiment on it.

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"Lion" is exclusively in charge of Nexus Sansaval;

"Bear" was specifically responsible for Stalianus.

The duty of the two young officers was to shoot the huge artillery shells skillfully, accurately and safely to destroy the city defense north of Durazzo.