Eagle Byzantium

After visiting his children, Gawain, who arrived at the city of Iconium, announced that the three-winged brigade and cavalry artillery team gathered around the city would brave the wind and snow and go north along the great trade road to Angrasburg. .

The soldiers who had just finished the Battle of Prusa stepped on the snow-covered ground and began to advance towards their destination. They regretted that they had not been able to capture the bandit chief Tatisius alive before, and expressed their determination to capture Amasya and In the two cities of Trabzon, "cut off the head of the traitor Theodorus."

In the city of Amasya, the old general Theodoro sat with his silver hair mixed with a lot of white hair. In front of him was a letter sent by Gawain. When he unfolded it, it was written by Gawain himself. The challenge letter, the other party not only wants to get back the lion crown on the head of Theodoro Gabuas, but also the entire Amasya, Chardia and Trabzon, because "the sun that is complete again is no longer It needs the stars to share its brilliance.”

At this time, Theodoro was trembling a little. He turned his eyes and looked at the golden and mighty lion crown placed further in front of the table. Unexpectedly, at the critical moment of the Battle of Philomelon, I was successfully instigated by Gawain and betrayed the former emperor. However, in the end, the biggest beneficiary of swallowing up half of the empire was Gawain, a Varyag barbarian with a hateful face and the smell of copper. ! Although he had acquired Chardia and half of Paphlagonia, his overall strength was reduced to less than one-third of that of Tarsus.

Now Gawain has brought three of the most elite brigades to the northern front, and then joined them with the two brigades previously stationed here. This strength alone surpasses all his own military strength.

What's more, Gawain also has powerful artillery and cavalry, which serve as force multipliers.

"But I promised my wife Marianne. Since the men of Gabuas have sworn an oath, they must fight to the end..." Theodoro pinched his brows with slightly trembling fingers, and then he sighed, Looking at the Black Madonna battle flag and the red holy armor hanging in his tent, he was entranced. After a while, he summoned the confidential officer and ordered: "I, the directly affiliated Trabzon Tuma Division and two peasant and cavalry regiments will defend the city of Amasya to contain Gawain. In addition, I am preparing to attack the enemy on the other side of the Harris River." Build a new castle to prevent Gawain from going from Gangala to Pravel from the other side of the river, and directly attack through the New Caesarea Gate and enter my base of Trabizon. In addition, request reinforcements from David... ..."

While the old general was painstakingly managing the defense of Amasya, Gawain suddenly took the tripartite brigade and headed eastward, once again handing over the defense of Angrasburg to Diognis. Now he is completely at ease, and will not be restrained by any party at all. Instead, under the border people and civilian army system, he can have a powerful field mobile force, enough to attack cities and seize territory.

Gawain's real target was the Treboas River that stretched between Erezburg and the surrounding mountains. When his brigade arrived there, they immediately began to build barriers around the valley. Next, Gawain issued multiple orders to the lands of Marash, Samosata, Sassoon and Armida: the great Earl Mero, Dorus Lambert, Walter, and a group of people who had recovered from their injuries. The surrendered Armenian noble officers immediately mobilized the civilians and border residents in these areas and blocked all the mountainous areas from Erez to Erzurum.

In the end, even the small Kurdish country Haddadi responded to the call of "alliance leader" Gawain and mobilized 3,000 cavalry to block the way out east of Erzurum, namely the Tortomi Fort at the key pass.

In this way, the originally majestic Great Emir Merik of Danishmund, together with the Sagittus tribe, was sealed in the tallest mountainous area in eastern Anatolia.

Even though Merik is a hero who has always armed himself with the spirit of Turkic Ghazi, the nomads also need to eat, and their livestock need grassland to survive.

This year's snowstorm was even heavier than last year's.

Previously, like a crazy fighting beast, Merrick led his men to join forces with Sartuk Ali, the emir of Sagittus, and constantly attacked and fought - fighting against Gawain's border residents stationed in Sebastian City. He fought against the Armenian armies such as Heracles and Gabriel who had pledged their allegiance to Gawain, and also fought against Theodorus and David of Chardia in the north, and against the Hasidic kingdom in the east.

Merrick's bow strings were broken countless times, because he also understood that if he could not break through this winter, Gawain would not give him a third winter.

It is a pity that Merrick's men suffered too much and lost too much blood after the previous desperate battles with Gawain, so they struggled for a full year, and the brave and capable Emir of Danishmund was not able to defeat him. Out of the deep mountains...

Now that the blizzard is coming, it is particularly cruel and cold in the valley. The Danishmend's livestock have lost their source of forage and died in large numbers. Most of the dome tents have been completely crushed, and the tribesmen are dying one after another.

Helpless, Merrick asked for help from the Kiratpasha Kingdom that occupied Lake Van, hoping that the other party would accommodate them to spend the winter around the largest freshwater lake on the plateau. In return, the proud Merik was willing to serve as a mercenary to help Pasha Zagriddin Ibrahim and other warlords fight for control of the Isfahan palace.

Zagridin also readily agreed, but Heracles led the Yevanduni Brigade and occupied the Elnut Castle on the main road, cutting off the connection between Kirat Pasha and Merik, and continued to Fight off Merrick's breakthrough attack.

Merick and the remaining thousands of tribesmen in the snow have become ghost-like existences - now, Gawain's three brigades are approaching again.

In desperation, Merick and Sartuk decided to go east to Fort Toltommi for a final fight of life and death.

"We must not be like a frozen animal, letting Gawain look at the corpse and laugh at it."

But the 3,000 Hashidi soldiers stationed in Fort Toltommi actually have a full 800 long muskets, of which 300 were previously supported by Gawain, and 500 were quickly copied in the forging workshop in Ani City. In addition, Toltommi is a mountain fort designed by Armenian engineers. The walls and towers spiral up along the mountainside. After breaking through the lower level, you have to continue climbing the cliff to attack the middle level, and then there is a large stone fortress with independent guards on the top level.

Danishmond and Sagitus Turks were constantly shot by rows of muskets under the city walls, and the corpses of men and horses filled the snowy field soaked with blood.

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A few days after the siege, a bigger snowstorm came, and the besiegers, who were short of food and clothing and had no medicine at all, died like flies in winter.

In the end, Merik personally took up his sword to attack the city, but his horse was shot dead and his abdomen was hit by a musket. The great emir could not bear the pain and despair of the wound infection and ulceration. "The Messenger of Allah once said that those who kill themselves with iron will have their abdomens pierced with iron repeatedly in the hellfire; and those who kill themselves with poisoned wine will drink poisoned wine all day long in the hellfire - I am a ghazi, and the former way of death and depravity is more suitable for me."