Eagle Byzantium

But my best ally, Lord Bohemond of Antioch, kept writing to me suggesting that now that he had captured Homs, it was time to go north and join me in conquering Marash. As we all know, you are just a bunch of renegade scum. Now that Melitene is in my hands, once I go south, there will be no survivors of you. "Gawain said threateningly, stroking his beard.

"Our country is willing to surrender to you." The envoy continued without any bottom line.

"But don't you want to worship the brother and sister Toros and Lolita, and revive the Kingdom of Armenia?" Gawain mocked.

"These brothers and sisters are in Fanka City. They are completely in the palm of your hand, the great patron. Who could be so unimaginable that they would find a non-existent flag to confuse people's hearts?" The envoy dismissed them completely.

"Okay, I accept your declaration of surrender for the time being. We will not fight each other during this year. But I also have two conditions to discuss with you. One is to release Bill Leoni, the Holy See's financial agent. It can be yours; secondly, I am about to arrange a marriage, and I hope that all of you will respect and be loyal to me."

"Please express the latter, Your Highness the Patron."

"I plan to marry my adopted daughter Alemannia to the young prince of Ruben, Toros. I will support Armenia's restoration plan thereafter."

"With all due respect, your adopted daughter seems a bit..." The envoy knew that Gawain's move was to completely control the future of the Kingdom of Armenia in his own hands, so he used Alemannia's origin to Prevaricate, "How about your real daughter Helena..."

Gawain's beard curled up slightly, and he quickly concealed his palace. His light blue eyes slid slightly, "You feel embarrassed, and I feel embarrassed too, because Helena has promised to the uncle Abner. The heir, Gervi, is also my godson. Well, when my second daughter is born, I will marry her to Toros."

"In that case, Toros will definitely be the object of allegiance to all of us Ani people." The envoy said with a smile.

After they walked out of the hall, they whispered as they left, "We have to be patient for the time being. When the right opportunity comes, we will truly drive away all foreign enemies and revive our ancient country without resorting to anyone. As for what Taurus is?" , go to hell."

In the hall, the confidential officer asked Gawain curiously, "Do you really need Toros?"

As a result, the chief patron burst into laughter, "Firaktos, I'm just letting the wind out now to show that I am a generous person who is willing to support Armenia's restoration. This will be more conducive to our invitation to buy this piece of plateau." As for Toros, I will give it away in two years. Several beautiful Adige women came over and stayed with him every night, so that within three years he would have trouble getting out of bed. But Lolita is something I want to pay attention to. I really want to marry her to me in the future. His son Coleadeos, after all, the age difference between the two is not much..."

To put it bluntly, once Gawain's plan is realized, Armenia will also achieve a "reproductive revolution" and be completely tied to the wooden stake in his yard.

Sure enough, not long after, rumors spread that Gawain was "very concerned about the demands of the Armenians" and spread on the plateau. Then the patron continued to promote several Armenian nobles to take charge of the frontier area. As a result, many Armenians around Melitene volunteered to join the border army like rain.

In the end, Gawain even found an upper-class Armenian nobleman named Manville, let him be the herdsman officer of the Melitene Frontier Fortress, and instructed the Orson family to marry him - Orson Hertomis gave his The niece, the daughter of her brother Hallam, married Manville's son, and then Orson was designated as "Ame". "Ancient Nian", and then, for some unknown reason, he became the general of Melitene (Oson always said that he was a standard Roman before, so this flag was clear) - Gawain also promised Lamp Ren Castle still belonged to the Orson family, and Kreusberg, the important place in the east of Melitene, was given to his brother-in-law Haarlem.

"The Armenian Dynasty has always been a solid barrier and the most loyal ally of the Roman Empire. It was a powerful existence with 50,000 civilian troops. However, due to the empire's wrong policies a hundred years ago, this man-made city wall sadly collapsed , and then there were huge invasions and migrations of Turks The tide. In the past, if most of the grassland barbarians wanted to enter the territory of the empire, there were only two roads, one was the Steki Road (Southern Russian Grassland), and the other was the Derbent Iron Gate Pass (today's west coast of the Caspian Sea). (fortress port)), but because these two lines are too deep, the worst case scenario is The offensive and defensive stalemate allowed the empire to survive for hundreds of years. However, since the Armenian barrier was lost, all barbarians from the Persian plateau can easily invade the hinterland of Anatolia and tear into the internal organs of the empire. The lessons are still vivid. , and then I will do my best to review the situation against Armenia The policy of the kingdom will restore the original situation, and Armenia will continue to be prosperous and powerful, and continue to be friends who share the same destiny for the Roman Empire and an unbreakable alliance. "In the palace of Melitene, Gawain sat in front of many surrendered Armenian nobles. , talking sincerely about the gains and losses of the previous generation.

But the subtext is very arrogant. Gawain has obviously regarded himself as the spokesperson of the "Roman Empire". My national policy is the policy of the future empire, and it has reached the point of not concealing it.

After the meeting ended, an army-building plan to "quickly form forty border centurions, including ten cavalry centuries" in the Melitene area was also written down on the "Seleucia Paper" by confidential officials and distributed In the hands of new converts and Armenian nobles, this is of course the request of the great patron. After all, the "unbreakable alliance" needs to pay a price. Money, weapons and personnel do not fall from the sky, nor do they appear from the ground. Come.

In late spring, when Gedier inspected 10,000 laborers (mostly armed groups of Crescent Cultists) who began to dig a canal connecting Comaches and Sanus in the northeast corner of Melitene, it was also Cabe Amiya and the 20,000 Pauls When the disciples arrived in great numbers at the "Land of the Homeland" - the Hekou Military Station, a large amount of supplies were also transported in place. After resting for half a month in Melitene, Gawain's army could start to attack the Sivas Plateau again after being replenished. A huge offensive.

When the Golden-Hand Archon carefully tied up his hair and happily walked into the palace hall, he found that Gawain was thundering and furious, "Raymond of Laodicea actually dared to send his wild knights to plunder Iconi." Our farms and population in Um West?”

"They are said to be the knights of the Grand Earl of Laodicea, but in fact they are all the defeated Kallegos soldiers that Raymond took in (more than 800 Kallegos family private soldiers who were previously released by Gawain at Alamein Castle), forming a A group of wild bandits, calling themselves the 'Kalegos Party', have been constantly breaking into our border areas and plundering people and livestock." Confidential officer Firaktos handed over the list, "There have been heavy losses there recently." (Unfinished.) To be continued~^~)