Eagle Byzantium

"Father, what do you think about creating a new title for the Great Barbarian? The Fourth Glory of the Empire, so that he can do whatever he wants in Asia Minor, and can also restrain and monitor the other Frankish pilgrims. Gawain is absolutely loyal to his daughter, I I think you had misunderstood him before." After Anna comforted her mother softly, she stood up and returned to her usual charming and cute self, and made the weird elf request to Alexios.

After all, she is my daughter, she just doesn’t want me to do something drastic to her mother, Irene.

"It's easy. Now the right to confer titles and medals, and to appoint official positions is completely in the palm of my hand." The emperor who made this promise lowered his posture, supported his daughter, and said to Fu Fu. Eileen on the ground persuaded, "Irene, you and I are both parents, and we control this empire together. My sister is your brother's wife, and you are my wife. Does it matter whether the empire's surname is Comnenus or Ducasse? There is no need to be so extreme in everything. I will visit you often while you are recovering from illness. , I will continue to give birth to and raise better children with you, for the sake of both families and for the sake of this country.”

"Your so-called love for me is the punishment given to me by God and the devil..." The queen, with her hair disheveled and her crown rolling to the ground, sobbed in a low voice, answering helplessly and desperately.

At this time, a eunuch suddenly stood up and pointed to the sundial outside the palace tower, "Your Majesty, there seems to be something important coming from afar."

Looking at the red beacon rising from the sundial, Alexios Komnenos walked to the fence of the palace. After a while, he said, "Anna, this flame marks that Stephen Gawain has passed through the city of Sophia. We are approaching our imperial capital. Are we still unable to trap him? Isaac is really disappointing, but you don’t have to worry. I promised you that I would reconcile with this barbarian Gawain and I will do what I said. arrive."

Anna also looked over. The rolling fireworks illuminated the fire tunnel platform of Salabria, one after another. Not from Asia Minor, but from the West.

Outside Adrianople, the Turkic army servant Muzafi Adin led Gawain's war horse, shouted war songs, and headed east. Gawain, who was sitting astride the saddle, was wearing a helmet with red hand feathers. His eyes were squinting at the trembling Byzantine defenders on the city wall. He slowly passed by with the bridle behind him. Behind him were six thousand red hands. Dalian team soldiers.

Wesart Melo has already brought the rest of his troops to join them, as for the Iron Gate Fort. Gawain and Godfrey, in the name of generosity, were handed over to the Hungarian counselors.

At this time, Gawain and Godfrey's march was not only on land. And many pilgrims automatically became boatmen and oarsmen, reinforcing and heightening the boats coming from the Prevensus River, and pushing them into the Thracian River connected to it. Anbao passed by.

Andronicus Branas, who luckily escaped from Sophia, was also extremely uneasy and looked down at him. Thousands of pilgrims and horses passed by, "Your Excellency Sebastokrat was caught in the hands of the enemy and received a personal letter from him. Although I learned that your Excellency should be alive, but what is the specific situation? It is really worrying!" "

"It's the flag of Grand Duke Gawain!" At this moment, a few ragged pilgrims jumped out from the grass in the Thrace River bend, and then more and more, as if they were emerging from the ground. , and soon there were thousands of them, swarming towards the marching line of the Red Hand Company, all of them Gottschalk's subordinates.

However, countless cavalrymen emerged from the Dalian company, raising dust, carrying bows, arrows and spears, and making unique terrifying shouts, which scared the pilgrims and swarmed back. Then these cavalrymen kept changing. The formation was like a shepherd driving away his livestock. In just one minute, the civilian pilgrims who were about to get close to him were trapped in the open space by the river, preventing them from crossing over at will. The marching array of the Dalian Regiment.

Under the red hand cross sword flag, Gawain pointed to the crowd over there, "Tell them to line up behind the baggage team and the craftsman company, and then follow me. If conditions permit, some of the weak can take the boat." I walked along the current and set up camp on time at sunset. I also asked Gottschalk to come to my tent and report on what was going on in Constantinople."

In this way, the more than 30,000 pilgrims became more disciplined. They held their belongings and followed obediently between the Dalian team and Godfrey's army. At the specified time, they set up camp, chopped wood, made fires, and rested and ate.

"You mean, after my brother entered the imperial capital, he never came back? Also, there must have been internal strife and fighting in the Greek emperor's capital..." After nightfall, Gao Sitting in the tent Wen, after receiving the report from the fanatical monk Gottschalk, was almost certain that his Prediction, "The Normans are also heading towards the capital quickly. Since they haven't received Eudocia's letter yet, the result is almost certain - Queen Irene and the Imperial Caesar have been defeated miserably. Those two pigs are like swine Foolish Forcher and Reynold also crossed the sea with 70,000 pilgrims.”

After saying this, Gawain froze his imposing eyebrows, obviously thinking about something, and then analyzed to the secretary next to him, "Now, the situation we are facing is very complicated. Emperor Comnenos, Norman's Bohemond, and that Brenus may be both an enemy and a friend to us, and the Dalian team may be attacked by them at any time, and the 70,000 pilgrims who crossed the ocean may turn into ashes when facing the Sultan of Konya. Blood rust cannon fodder, this is bastard Alexios In addition, it is said that the French king's brother, the noble Hugh, and the armies of Robert and Raymond are also behind us. Will they accept Alexios's instigation and attack me from both sides? ...sworn brother Peter, There is also the safety of the queen and the eldest princess, which affects the overall situation, and I only have one powerful bargaining chip, Isaac Komneno." But then, Gawain touched his chin, "No, Ge. Frey and Baldwin are considered one."

Gawain's fingers pressed Andodat's record book, and the secretary suddenly became more focused. He understood that this was the Grand Duke's habit, which meant that important and key remarks and instructions were to be issued.

"The best strategy now is to resolutely contact Godfrey and Baldwin, stabilize Bohemond, fight Alexios to the end, not release Isaac for the time being, observe the subsequent situation, and then make a decision. The whole army, advance to In the wilderness of Sarabrea, we threatened to set up camp on the west wall of the Brachna Palace in Constantinople!”

The next day, Godfrey walked up the hillside next to the camp and looked in amazement at the large company of red hands in front of him, forming a resisting formation, beating thunderous drums and marching towards the capital of the Greek emperor. Pressing forward from the direction of the moat, "Your Excellency, the Duke, Bohemond of Normandy, has already led his army and set up camp near the Giucuntina Palace and the Tomb of St. Basil in the south of Constantinople."

"What is the situation now?" Godfrey was confused. (To be continued ~^~)