Eagle Byzantium

Merrick fled into the mountains of Kastamonu with several slave soldiers. After a few days, he entered Gangala in great panic. He lamented the destruction of his army: 4,500 people were killed, almost The same number of people were captured, and only a number of Sargitus cavalry broke away from the pursuit and escaped from the lower reaches of the river. They were also completely scattered and difficult to gather back.

Sadly, the Great Emir still doesn't know how the thunderfire that defeated him was shot out from the hands of Gawain's soldiers...

However, Gawain would not give him room to relax his thinking. After winning a great victory, he easily captured the Castle of Germanico and obtained the key to Paphlagonia (this fortress in ancient times was the capital of Paphlagonia), in addition the Guardian Brigade searched and captured the captured Grand Emir’s camp. There was a baggage worth of 50,000 Byzantine gold coins. In fact, most of this money was previously gifted by the emperor to the pilgrims, and was later captured by Merrick. Now it all belongs to Gawain. "All 30,000 gold coins were awarded to those who participated in the war." Soldiers, the remaining 20,000 were sent to West County and handed over to County Sheriff Wright for subsequent investment and development of iron mines.”

Then Gawain ordered to pick out the heads of 300 Danishmend Turk soldiers who died in the battle, choke them with Cyprus lime, and "send them to the city of Kastamonu, thereby asking for credit from His Majesty and inviting all kinds of people." Launch a counterattack against Danish Mond!"

When the heads were densely lined up on the felt and spread out on the grounds of Kastamonu Castle to be inspected by Mikhail, the chief of the palace guard, using this as a marking point, the soldiers and horses from all walks of life launched a furious wave. Counterattack:

Conrad and Guillaume were eager to wash away the shame and suspicion of their previous "escape", so they continued to advance towards Gangala. They first swept away the remaining enemies in southern Paphlagonia, and then fought with the Mi from Kastamonu. The Khail army joined forces and captured Gangala two weeks later - in fact there was no garrison there at all, and then captured the Karabi area, across the river from the city of Amasya;

After Raymond of Sinop regained his strength, he recruited a group of new troops with money sponsored by hot wax ducks and pizza caravans. He also defeated Puvelar Fort almost at the same time and besieged the northeastern corner of Amasya. Mersivan Fort;

Theodoro and Harold's teams have also arrived at the mountain pass in northern Amasya, began to build siege-style camps, and uprooted several outer Turkic strongholds.

The Grand Emir, who fled back to the palace of Amasya, was at a loss as he saw the enemies coming back from all directions. Half of the Beys and Ghazis he relied on had been killed in the previous defeat, and he really had no strength to break any enemy forces anymore. , even if it breaks, Gawain can shoot Thunder and fire armies will come one after another - the slightly desperate Great Emir is determined to give full play to the nomadic skills of the Turks, abandon the city and retreat in large strides, retreating to the Sivas Plateau, where he can still gain many benefits from Greater Armenia. Backup from the Turkic tribes.

On the last Wednesday of July, General Theodoro led four thousand Trebizond troops, holding high the Black Madonna battle flag, and entered Amasya in a mighty manner.

When the news reached the other side of the strait, Alexios shed tears and ordered a grand prayer ceremony to be held in the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, because the two castles of Castamonu and Amasya were of great significance to the emperor. particularly important meaning.

Needless to say, the former is the place where the Alexios family arose. It had been a shame for him to fall into the hands of the enemy for a long time, but now it is finally over;

As for Amasya, it was Alexios who took off. He was still a frontline commander of the empire at the time. When quelling the Lusail Rebellion, he used clever diplomacy to bribe Merrick's father to let him take over. Russell was tied up and handed over to himself, and the war was resolved without bloodshed (although Russell later rebelled).

So now that Amasya has been recovered, the emperor is in a good mood. Superstitious, he vaguely feels that it was there that he captured the greedy wolf of Lussel, and he will also be able to deal with Gawain who is very similar to Lussel in the future. Smooth sailing.

"It will all go smoothly." The emperor kept repeating this sentence silently.

But then, although Amasya was recovered, there were endless disputes: the emperor was very annoyed (at least pretending to be annoyed) about Raymond's previous command mistake, and he was very angry about the one-eyed Lord's behavior in Ganga. Gala was very dissatisfied with his performance and was prepared not to fulfill his previous promise of reward;

But Raymond didn't buy it at all. He presented a long and fierce report to the emperor. Not only did he say that "Gangala failed, the Duke of Aquitaine fled first, His Majesty's Tecopo cavalry took the lead, and His Majesty's captain of the bodyguard Miha Il refused to save him until he died," and threatened "Mihai I deliberately shot Vallott, the General Counselor of the Royal Palace of France, with an arrow. My servants have collected a lot of irrefutable evidence. I am afraid that it will be helpful to the previous case of Xio's tragic death. If Your Majesty is unwilling to accept the case, my servants will Send complaints and evidence to the Holy See”;

Theodoro also sent a document claiming credit, claiming that he was the greatest contributor to the recovery of the lost territory, and asked the emperor to give him a more distinguished official title and the power to be the governor of the Chardia region;

Conrad and Guillaume jointly cursed Raymond, arguing that their previous behavior was not an escape, but "an act of justice that resented the arbitrary actions of the Marquis of Provence", and described in detail how Raymond missed the opportunity to fight. How the adventure ruined the previous expedition;

At the same time, during the siege of Angras, a conflict broke out between Teticius and Breanus - Breanus began to reduce the food supply to the new army and withdrew all military servants and cavalry on the pretext of Teticius. Seuss "has never been under his control", while Taticius claimed that the other party's actions were "interfering with his siege plan and trying to annex the prince's team", and the two sides started a fierce lawsuit - which reached the imperial capital. , the great nobles and bureaucrats began to support Breanus , while the military aristocrats and new senators (mostly tax collectors, who invested heavily in the prince's real estate and enjoyed dividends) supported John. The conflict soon extended to the court, and Marlena naturally supported Shen. Love nourishes Her son-in-law, and Queen Irene loved her son-in-law even more (the mother-in-law became more and more happy as she looked at her son-in-law. Irene's biggest regret was that Gawain and Anna could not meet her, and the child in her eldest daughter's belly made her even more worried). The rift between parties deepens;

Mikhail's explanation document was also sent to the emperor's hands, "Even Mikhail has learned the cunning tricks of the Paphlagonia farmers. I should not have let him out in the first place!" "The emperor, who had not enjoyed the joy of victory for a few days, was soon turned into a pot of porridge again, and he was very angry.

Then the emperor could only summon the imperial ink officer, and urgently summoned Xiaoniao from the border area to discuss in detail how to arrange the noisy group of "meritorious men". Of course, what surprised the emperor the most was that after the victory, he remained entrenched Gawain who was immobile in Germanicus - it was okay that he was immobile, but now that he was immobile, the emperor's worries were even deeper. (To be continued ~^~)