Eagle Byzantium
Chapter 50 Zhelan
In the Hadab Gate Tower, in front of the "Prophet's Window" where the Caliph originally accepted the audience of his subjects and believers, amidst the screams of the slaves and the chaotic shadow of the military boots, Avdel's face was pale and he covered his chest with blood constantly pouring out. On the wall beside the stairway, several Armenian soldiers surrounded him with cold and ruthless faces. One of them was holding a saber, the blade of which was stained with the blood of the Grand Vizier.
Before the incident, Ashot and other palace guard officers from various ethnic groups completed a series of conspiracies. He deceived everyone, "Afdel has hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of troops in the port of Ashkelon. This time he came to see the Caliph. He is trying to lure his cronies into the palace and lead other troops to replace you."
As a result, many of the caliph's sword-bearing attendants or guard captains were mostly foreigners or pagans from Ethiopia, Sudan, Maghreb or Syria, because the Fatimid regime was trying to suppress the Sunni orthodoxy that made up the majority of Egypt's population. The believers (it is Shia) especially like to introduce outsiders to serve and serve as officials - they soon colluded with Ashot and made a plan to assassinate the Grand Vizier.
"Teacher, teacher!" Caliph Musta Ali, who was at the scene, jumped off his chariot and ran down the steps above, crying.
Unexpectedly, really unexpectedly, he and the vizier had gathered at the Al-Azhar Grand Mosque to pray together with many imams and subjects. Because the Fatimid rulers were Shia believers, the Grand Mosque used to preach first. Shiite teachings, and then Sunni teachings: the caliph who finished the ceremony first came here in advance, while the Sunni Aifdel was one step behind and was suddenly assassinated at the entrance under the gate tower.
Who would have thought that we were only half an hour apart...
In front of the wall, the Grand Vizier, sitting cross-legged, panted, shook his beard and tried his best to hug the Caliph to his chest like his own child, and whispered to him, "Leave me alone, leave me alone... Don't look back, wipe away your tears, go to the window, and face all the subjects as if nothing has happened, so they won't dare to kill you in public... Live, and you must live without me! "
The Caliph raised his blue eyes, still wailing and unwilling to leave. Although he was twenty-three years old, in the lonely and magnificent palace, facing the coming and going of maids, eunuchs and forbidden troops, apart from his teacher, he had no other Don’t know how to trust others.
"Please come up to the window sill. The Vizier has received the punishment he deserves." Many armored Armenian and Turkic soldiers stood back in formation, bowed their heads and asked the Caliphate with the sound of armor plates swinging.
"You sinners and butchers!" Finally, Musta Ali turned around and complained loudly with tears in his eyes, "I curse you all to go to hell. You have brought this capital and this country to a state of eternal destruction. ”
"The national thief is Avdel." All the forbidden soldiers shouted in unison.
"Yes, I am a national thief, but..." Avdele whined, still pushing the Caliph with his hand, telling him to go to the window sill.
But the Caliph screamed, pulled out his diamond-encrusted sword, and slashed hard at the murderous custodians. When the blade broke, he panted and struck with his fists. Until the air suddenly became quiet, and a sword penetrated deeply into the Caliph's abdomen. His beautiful blue eyes were wide open, his eyelashes were trembling, and blood was gurgling from the corners of his mouth. He was trembling as he looked at the man in front of him with a somewhat frightened face. Take action to ban soldiers...
"Egypt, Cairo is over, the crow that laid the foundation flew away from my eyes!" Avdele hit the wall with the back of his head in pain.
About an hour later, the Caliph's five-year-old brother, wearing an emerald green silk robe and a turban, was so frightened that his back kept twitching - during the bloody killing just now, he was stuffed into the empty stove in the bathroom by the conservator eunuch Among them, he was found and pulled out by a group of forbidden soldiers. He was proclaimed the new title of "Longevity Man" and pulled to the window of Hadab Gate Tower, facing thousands of believers below who still didn't understand.
Just now at the entrance of the gate tower, the "long-lived man" saw the bloody corpses of his mentor vizier and his brother lying there.
Recalling that scene, the five-year-old Caliph was so scared that he wanted to cry.
But his shoulder was quickly pressed by a big hand. It was Ashot's hand, and his face hidden under the iron helmet was expressionless.
The news was later released in the Crow Palace, "It turned out that the Caliph died suddenly, and the Grand Vizier attempted to usurp the throne and was killed by the loyal Imperial Guards."
Ashot then dispatched a Berber cavalry team to the city of Alexandria, preparing to seduce the fleet commander Al Rumi. Rumi had a premonition that something was wrong in advance and hurriedly ordered the fleet to pull anchor and escape to the port of Ashkelon. .
Soon after, the whole of Egypt was plunged into a great melee, and the legions at the port of Ashkelon also fell apart: some of the ships and soldiers were led by the sons of Al Rumi and Aifdel and defected to the Kingdom of Jerusalem; others simply fled to Allah. Some of them went to become horse bandits in the Biya Desert, and some accepted the call of the new regime and continued to be stationed in Ashkelon to protect the east gate of the country. However, their strength was greatly reduced.
In the palace of Jerusalem, the high-spirited King Baldwin cordially received the old troops of Efedele who came to surrender, and immediately issued a denunciation to Cairo, saying that the imperial guards killed the Caliph and the Grand Vizier for no reason and would soon face my just punishment.
So while Baldwin continued to besiege the city of Acre with the help of the Red Duck and the Pisa fleet, he also asked the country, including Adana and other regions, to actively prepare for the future conquest of Egypt.
War broke out again in the entire Levant region, but the Seljuk countries stayed out of it. Mainly Gawain's side attacked Tripoli, and Baldwin's side attacked Acre. These two were basically competing with Fatima, while Bohemond surrounded them tightly. The city of Antioch was dominated by internal strife among the Normans.
However, in the court of Tarsus, Gawain, his wife and children rarely enjoyed a period of peace and freedom from conquests.
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In the forest garden in early autumn, the air was humid, and a string of neatly arranged branches and leaves hung on the flower wall. Gawain stood under the shadow of the tree, with the sleeping attendant and the drinking attendant accompanying him. He smiled and encouraged. Chaleadios and Christopher, "You must seize the opportunity immediately!"
The two children were wearing close-fitting hunting clothes, standing ten feet away from Gawain, lying behind a big stone in the forest garden. Among them, Christopher seemed a little scared, looking back at his father from time to time, hoping to learn something. Like strength.
A deer's cry sounded on the other side of the stone: it was a "Zhelan" stag bought from India. The deer's back was black, so it was also called "black deer" in India, but its belly was pure It is white, and the branches on the male deer's antlers are more numerous and larger than other species, making it very eye-catching.
Now there is a rope wrapped around this Zhelan's foot, and there is an iron ingot hanging at the end of the rope, which makes it unable to move freely and makes it cry out anxiously.
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