Eagle Byzantium

Just when the former Governor of Cyprus was sitting in agony with his head in his hands, his feet suddenly started to stir. The stone walls and floors around him seemed to have been violently moved in the waves. The sand fell in clusters, accompanied by a suffocating and deafening explosion sound, as if ten loaded carriage wheels were suddenly crushed outside.

"The western wall was blown down and a gap opened!" Soon the garrison soldiers outside the tower shouted sternly.

"What's going on..." Apsomates, whose hair was covered with dust, struggled to get up from where he fell and held on to the legs of the chair, feeling inexplicably horrified.

He remembered that the enemy commanders had concentrated all the big guns used to attack the city on the southern wall front.

The section where the west wall of the Nicosia Castle connects with the mountain peak. About 20 feet of the wall was cracked and collapsed. Fire and thick black smoke erupted. The surrounding guards were in chaos. The elite skirmishers of Gimakis shouted and rushed in fiercely.

It turned out that during these ten days or so, Tranzac's miner soldiers had used the collapsed siege tower as a cover to dig out a tunnel and cave chamber under it that led directly to the west wall. They used wooden frames to support it and pulled people inside. Many Khitan snow barrels were brought in and stacked up, and the outsides were covered with flax, sulfur, and felt. Then the miners drove several Cilicia long-haired pigs, poured light oil on them, and ignited them at the entrance. The fire pigs screamed in pain and screamed. The sound of fat-burning screams rushed through the tunnel and rushed into the cave.

Then all the soldiers and border residents outside the Western Wall saw that section of the city wall suddenly arching up, and then gorgeous fireworks splashed out from the cracked gaps. The power of the Khitan Snow explosion at this time was still incomparable to that in modern times. , so it looked like a big firework from the outside, but the burning inside was very violent, and the wooden frames fell one after another. As a result, the walls of the cave chamber lost their support section by section and collapsed.

The western wall of Nicosia fell quickly, and Andodat calmly coordinated the attacks from all sides. He used ladders and zip lines to carry the commandos over the trenches and climbed up the city walls or towers - the residents of the city and The Cretan mercenaries gave up resistance and surrendered.

Finally, a militia centurion from Tarsus invaded the main tower and captured Apsomatus, who was lying slumped against the wall. The governor did not run away or resist, and threw his sword on his boot. In front of him, he was held up by civilian soldiers, "I want to see your commander."

In the tent in front of the city gate, the mushroom-headed Andodat saw the captured Apsomatus and said to him, "You can go to the palace of Tarsus now to see His Majesty the Emperor. Kiss his boots or his left chest to express your complete surrender, and your majesty will forget about it and grant you a house and a salary."

"Can I kiss your boots before?" Apsomatus immediately bent his knees and fell at Andodat's feet, kissing him humbly regardless of the dirty dust. "I am willing to let all my belongings do it now. Submission, hand over the secret warehouse in the city All supplies and weapons - the great Emperor Gawain is eternal, as good as the sun and the moon, eternal, eternal! Queen Anna is always healthy and beautiful! - John, this bastard, will perish soon, he will perish soon. He saluted hoarsely.

The soldiers shackled Apsomates and escorted him to the Kyrenia harbor. At this moment, Gawain and Anna decided to forgive the old man who had danced on several eggs for half his life. Like Cuman Khan Yassen, the former Governor of Cyprus lived a generous life under house arrest in a monastery on a small island in the middle of the Black Lake of Servan in Greater Armenia. The small island had fertile orchards and fields that could make Apu Somats spent his life farming, reading, and meditating.

After completing his goal, Andodat reported victory to the city of Tarsus, and at the same time he sent a letter to the counties and the Army Academy, requesting more supplies for his own deployment: he wanted to supervise all the troops on the island, and before crossing the sea To lay siege to Tripoli.

Andodat had planned for this before. He asked the Atalia Naval Frontier District to build ten "Hushe ships" for him that could transport troops and war horses, and built them on the conquered Paphos on the island. and Salamis and other places, urging the locals to be hired to build a batch of "Jaeger" light long ships. Finally, he also asked the former pirate Wenmoha, who was named "Earl of the Fleet" by Gawain, to command a convoy fleet to prepare for the winter. Landing on the coast of Tripoli before arrival.

A list of these supplies was sent to the court of Tarsus.

At that time, the victorious Gawain and Anna were sitting side by side on seats in the courtyard, watching the younger generation of warriors such as Zanji and Masud demonstrate their archery skills, using light Turkic arrows.

Kaleadios, Helena, Xia, Christopher, Alemannia, etc., all aged between four and five or six years old, are also ranked second.

The older Zangi had more power and a longer range, while Masoud was noticeably more accurate.

Afterwards, Anna and many of her children cheered, and gave the two official statuses as "Golden Patriarchs of Ogus" and the corresponding fief documents, and encouraged them to serve the New Roman Empire more diligently when they became adults. Then Anna began to ask for an examination of the two's "seven arts."

It turns out that Zanji is obviously no match for Masud in this regard.

The little Sultan Prince of Roma, under the training of the imperial ink officer Hetomiya, is obviously more like a real "Roman". He wears Persian-style hunting clothes, but his ornaments are in the style of the Constantinople court. He does not wear a felt hat, but has short hair in the Roman style. He speaks fluent Greek and admires Plato, Aristotle and other sages from the bottom of his heart.

In the conversation with the court mistress Anna, Masood's beautiful black eyes occasionally looked sideways at Helena who was sitting in a seat wearing a purple robe. Her hair is like her father's, light brown, but her eyebrows are very similar to her mother's. She is an elegant and wise brown eye, flickering, without the problem of inattention of children of this age, and always listens carefully to the questions and answers between her mother and Masood.

And the younger Christopher fell asleep directly in his seat because of sleepiness.

Kaleadios was full of energy and was not satisfied with listening to these trivial and profound knowledge. He moved back and forth on his chair as if he was sitting on pins and needles. His eyes were fixed on the slingshot under the robe of the fat eunuch Staurachos next to him, because the "fat man with a white hat" (the eunuch's hat is white) promised him that he would give him the slingshot immediately and go to the forest to shoot birds.

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After the study of the seven arts was over, Zengi, carrying a bow and arrow feathers, walked out of the courtyard wall and met his father Hajib at the edge of the forest.

Hajib originally came to deliver a list for Cyprus, and deliberately brought his son with him to seek a superior and honorable military position for Zengi from the court.