Eagle Byzantium

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"Your Excellency Sebastocrat, regarding the establishment of the Iron Gate Castle, I made a thoughtful move after fully considering the enemy's situation and fully consulting with the eunuch Stavlachos. This is The northern Wallachian barbarians and heretical believers must cross the river to invade the empire, so there is nothing wrong with building a military fort here, appeasing the place, and placing scouts to prevent enemy invasion." Gawain on the tower talked eloquently.

These words made Isaac go crazy. He bent his riding whip fiercely and was speechless to Gawain. He then scolded Staurachos next to him, "You ant, you maggot, you are the one in the imperial garden." How could grain and silk breed such a waste like you? It’s too late for you to repent, tell me quickly what despicable criminal methods Stephen Gawain used to confuse and kidnap you and endanger this empire!”

The emperor's younger brother's holy power made the fat eunuch so frightened that he was covered with chaff, but Gawain remained calm, dragged Staurachos behind him, and reiterated in an indifferent tone, "Since I have the procedure for fortifying Iron Gate Castle, No responsibility If you have any questions, please don’t bother Your Majesty the Emperor to inspect it personally. Please also ask Sebastocrat to return to Fort Sophia. If Gawain is determined to attack the Danube estuary area, he will naturally send a herald to report it to you. "

"You ungrateful and ambitious barbarian!" Isaac yelled angrily at the trench of the military castle. Then he took out his horn bow from the saddle suspension, pointed it at Gawain on the tower, and drew an arrow. string.

Gawain sneered and took half a step back - Giovanni from the brotherhood beside him stepped forward with a shield. Isaac screamed angrily and squeezed his wrist until it squeaked. Then he deflected the arrow cluster slightly and moved towards As a result, Cuman shooters appeared on the side of the tower's defense fence. Along with Benevento's crossbowmen, there were about twenty or thirty horned bows and powerful crossbows on both sides of Gawain, densely facing Isaac.

When the guards around Isaac saw this, they also took out their horned bows and pointed them at the tower.

At this moment, on the open grassland on both sides of them, two groups of cavalry suddenly appeared quickly. He happened to sandwich them in the middle, with a felt hat and feathers on his head, carrying a horned bow and a spear, "It's better to ask Sebastian Krat to go back! If there is any accidental injury, it will be the biggest disaster for the Komnenos family." Disaster, I believe we will meet in the imperial capital soon. Your Majesty and you are deliberately unwilling to put me into the border, but it doesn't matter, I will definitely come in, and the situation cannot be changed by your will." With this mocking tone, Gawain said contemptuously. He pointed his finger at Isaac.

At this time, all the fat eunuchs knelt down. Begging Gawain not to speak to members of the royal family in such an arrogant tone again.

The helpless and angry Isaac could only slowly hang up the horn bow again, "Don't have such wishful thinking, it will soon be the most terrifying autumn in this wilderness - all the Cumans, Pechenegs, The Magyars and the heretics of Tefris feast their horses in this season. , their bowstrings and scimitars will be eager to drink human blood, and all the nomadic warriors will gather in King Tingya City of Kuman Khan, and then like a swarm of locusts swept from the depths of the grassland, and the mouth of the river here will be all The most terrifying core of the storm, feel this terror! Even you. It's winter, but the scene below will be even more miserable. The horses have no fodder, the soldiers have no food, and all the river ports and seaports will freeze. All the barbarian tribes around this military fortress will also be like wild beasts in the middle of winter. If they can't find prey and their eyes are red, they will eat it. I will kill you all and just bury you in this grassy field and serve as floating ash fertilizer on the river beach. God and the barbarians will take care of you for the Komneno family!" After that, Isaac turned around! Ma Tou, with the still boundless hatred, took his own cavalry guards and quickly left with his whip.

"Ridiculous Isaac, during this winter, I will spend the winter in the warm St. George Strait, and come to your brother's capital to let the Komnenos family feel the fact that my claws and fangs are beyond your power. It can be stopped." On the tower, Gawain was holding on to the guardrail, smiling to himself.

The boundless Wallabian wilderness seems to be at the very edge of world civilization. In ancient Greek times, this place was synonymous with wilderness and wild beasts. Even the bravest adventurers and businessmen were interested in it. It's daunting here. The dark mist from the Black Sea in Ukesing spreads all over the country. There are horrible skeletons of animals everywhere, and nomads who come from nowhere. Riding horses, for thousands of years, round after round, dressed in unknown costumes, wearing the skulls of cattle and sheep as hats, robbing and killing people who passed by, or the same kind, as they multiplied and multiplied like beasts. , when enough babies are laid, they will roar and gather together, go south to the rich Macedonia and Thrace, burn, kill and loot, doing everything, bringing trembling and terror to the entire European continent.

In front of a towering stone mausoleum of an ancient Scythian king, Cabeamiya rode her horse slowly past, surrounded by a group of loyal Paulist colleagues. Then she found a place sheltered from the wind and sand and dismounted. Romanus, who was resting and continuing to hold the lamb, also muttered the Cappadocia dialect. Beside her, "Stay away from me!" Cabeamiya unceremoniously slapped Romanus with the tip of the whip, and then the shepherd boy looked at the heretic saint with resentful eyes, and then scolded her. He moved a few steps, rested against another collapsed pillar base, and started playing with the lamb.

"How far is it from here to the court of the Great Khan of Kuman?" Kabeamiya took out a few sips of water from the water bag, then tidied her hair and asked a fellow believer who was familiar with the road conditions. The answer she got was: the court of the Great Khan was located at the southern end of a huge mountain range (the Carpathian Mountains), so he could go to the dense forest to escape the heat in the midsummer. It would take about three or four days to get there.

It took so long. Cabeamia lowered her head in frustration. She had been working for three or four years for the revival of the Republic of Tevris, and had spent countless efforts. But believers were believers, and it was very easy to incite them, but they could not defeat the emperor's army in a head-on battle. Even though they were often defeated by the Normans or the Turks, she, a woman, did not understand military affairs, and only had some clever strategies. Now she was defeated by Alexius again under the Philip Castle, and the people who had been put together were killed, wounded, surrendered, and fled. Fortunately, she and Romanus survived, and it was said that the Cuman Khan Yasen was very interested in her teachings, and of course he was more interested in looting and attacking the wealthy Roman Empire.

So Cabeamia did her duty, and she did not think of crossing the sea back to Sinop, but of going deep into the Khan's court, encouraging the tens of thousands of Cuman tribes to accept the Pauline scriptures, and then taking advantage of the autumn when the grass was lush and fertile, crossing the Danube and Morava rivers to launch a huge attack on the emperor. Moreover, the political situation around Constantinople was the most favorable, and it was a once-in-a-century opportunity. "You must seize the opportunity, Cabeamia, you are the descendant of the great golden-handed archon." The young girl clenched her fists and kept cheering herself up secretly.

The descendant of the saint is an extremely resounding name in the Republic, but for her, it is a heavy responsibility and burden that she is born with. As far as she can remember, Cabeamia always thought that she was just an ordinary believer and a farm girl. She liked to herd sheep in the mountains, collect flowers and fruits, catch fresh fish in the river, and even more liked the festivals and parties in the village, playing pranks with children of the same age, sitting on the green grass in the mountains, looking at the clouds between the peaks of Cappadocia, and imagining some ignorant thoughts. But after being crowned as a "holy descendant", she had to meet all kinds of enemies and friends, and constantly fight to the death. It was as if the concept of a strange country was forcibly formed in her mind, and then it was "you must fight for it", mixed with black iron-like substances, and poured into her delicate and beautiful body. She enjoyed some proud glory from the struggle with the Emperor of Constantinople, but more of it was frustration, and she would die many frustrations of her colleagues.

Not long ago, she witnessed with her own eyes the army of Emperor Alexius outside the Philipsburg, shooting a terrible rain of arrows like the coming of hell, tearing and washing the bodies of her colleagues. They cried and died in the wilderness in a miserable state, but she was powerless and could only run away. What is this, is it redemption?

"Who can I save? I am afraid I can't even save myself... But I will hold on anyway." Cabeamia gritted her white teeth and stood up. As a result, there was a commotion. Several colleagues and the Byzantine surrendered soldiers from the Philipsburg before, holding swords and shields, protected her in front of her.

A few arrows away from the mausoleum, a group of people appeared at some point: the leading man, wrapped in an animal skin cloak, with a nomadic pendant hanging on his ear, a scimitar, a flint and a quiver tied to his wide belt, two mustaches, and a face full of insidiousness and cunning, as if written on it. Behind him, there were many Wallachian bandits who seemed to be hired temporarily. Their equipment and clothes were varied. What was particularly eye-catching was the pace of their mounts, which was completely different from normal horses and looked particularly strange and terrifying. You couldn't tell what ethnic group these people were from. They all made a living in Wallachia with swords and arrows, and even killed their employers for money.

At this time, a trace of fear flashed across Cabeamia's face, and she stuck to the lonely stone pillar and held the handle of the short blade. Romanus had already crawled under the pile of rocks behind her and stuck out half of his head.

"Is it the Tevris?" The leader was very perceptive. He stopped his horse an arrow away and came to this conclusion after observing for a while.

Then, seeing that Kabeamiya and the others were still on guard, the man laughed and said, "I am the Duke of Belgrade of the Hungarian King, named Guz. Deljian. I recently lost my castle and territory, and I am going to surrender to the Cuman Khan."

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"Did the emperor of Constantinople defeat you?" Kabeamiya asked cautiously without leaving the stone pillar.

"No, it was a leader of the Eastern Expedition Army named Stephen Gawain." Guz said. (To be continued ~^~)