Eagle Byzantium

At this time, on the high walls of the houses overlooking the streets and the terraces that looked like protruding eaves, many rioters wrapped pottery jars and glass bottles filled with kerosene with linen cloth, then lit them one by one, the flames whistled, and then swung their arms, and immediately dozens of such "Constantinople Pomegranate Wine" were thrown together, and in the midst of the shrill shouts of "Be careful", they hit the chariot that took the lead.

The flames spread along the armor of countless people with the sound of shattering. The worst was the chariot, which suddenly turned into a burning torch. Many soldiers and rioters wrestled with each other in flames until they could no longer move.

The faces of the soldiers of the brigade who had suddenly entered the arcade were illuminated by the red flames under their helmets. They were stunned and looked at the scene from the side. Then the remaining sympathy was annihilated like ashes. "Kill the rats hiding upstairs!"

"Drag the Fire Bear Cannon here!"

Half an hour later, the Fire Bear Cannon was full of murderous intent. On the trolley with four solid wooden wheels, it rumbled to the intersection of Metz Street. The burned chariot had been towed away, and the remaining three formed a temporary artillery fort, blocking the Fire Bear Cannon.

The muzzle of the Fire Bear Cannon did not need to be aimed at all, and it was directly aimed at the rioters' barricade only 120 feet away.

Behind this barricade, on one side was the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, and on the other side was the Grand Palace.

At this moment, the Red Hand Skirmishers had cleared the rioters hiding in the buildings on the street. They threw the severed heads under it and watched the gunners below operate the Fire Bear Cannon.

The cannon was fired, and the arcades on both sides of the entire Metz Street suddenly moved continuously. The scattered soldiers felt that the floor under their feet bounced a few times at that moment.

The loud noise was heard clearly even by St. John's Cathedral and the Blachna Palace.

Even in the farther Pantepopotus Savior Monastery, Alexios' mother, Daracena, who was sitting there quietly, felt that her chair was about to fall apart. Fragments of the mosaics on the wall kept falling off. She raised her head and clasped her hands sadly, "My son, the capital has been poisoned by barbarians..."

The cannon blasted out a hurricane, passing through the muzzle to the distance of 120 feet from the barricade, and then the center of the barricade was like a bright and blooming flower, and various fragments scattered.

A raging fire ignited at the huge gap in the blasted barricade. At this time, ominous and terrible sparks kept falling from the sky. The sky above the Grand Palace was full of red, and everything looked like a doomsday scene.

Seeing this, the mobs in the cathedral and the palace screamed and continued to retreat, like ants in a cave that was flooded and on fire, but where was the way back?

Soon after the flames died down, rows of warriors covered in black cloaks and silver-thread armor, fully armed with halberds, axes, sickles, slashing swords, and double-edged horse-slashing swords, stood there like an iron wall. The front row all covered themselves with bronze masks, exuding a cold and murderous aura. Several attendants and nobles wearing blue cloaks and medals drew their swords and chopped down, "Your Majesty's order, no mercy, kill all these thugs who trample on order and law!"

With a loud bang, the warriors rushed forward in unison. With their heavy armor, they knocked people down and killed everyone they met...

In the racecourse, three detachments of red-handed soldiers rushed in from the front gate, and one detachment of red-handed soldiers rushed in from the back gate. Thousands of rioters gathered here begged for mercy in vain, and were all slaughtered.

In the evening, two detachments of the Guardian Brigade made a detour to block the exit of the polo field, and more than 3,000 rioters who fled here could no longer escape.

The last 300 Royal Guards in armored cavalrymen who launched the attack lined up at the wooden fence on the west side of the flat polo field, and then one flag team followed another flag team in a chain, advancing and slashing like an iron plow, back and forth again and again, until all the rioters who had no decent weapons were killed and trampled under the iron hooves - many corpses were washed into the ocean outside the sea wall along the canal of the field, causing the tuna caught in the Bosphorus Strait that year to be very fat.

The other four detachments of the defenders also attacked the St. Paul's Great Almshouse, which was built by the Orthodox Church of Constantinople and was also their base, with thousands of disciples and diners inside. Therefore, at the beginning, Gawain's order was "eradicate them all."

What the Guard Brigade’s shooting corps could not forget the most was that when they attacked the “disabled relief center” inside the Great Relief House, a mysterious figure sitting in a simple wheelchair suddenly roared out from the archway of the room. He and the wheelchair almost became one, and he moved back and forth in front of the shooting corps like lightning, constantly throwing stones in his hands to express his grief and desperate resistance.

Several shooting corps’ helmets were knocked crooked, and some were injured.

Finally, the shooting corps fired a round, and the wheelchair soldier was immediately shot and fell sideways into the small reservoir in front of the door. He could never climb out and drowned heroically.

The Great Relief House was also destroyed and razed that night, and all 3,000 diners were killed.

The "war" of the next day was not over yet. Gawain ordered a search of all the churches and monasteries in the capital. It turned out that dozens or even hundreds of pounds of gold were hidden in each place, not to mention the gold plates and silver cups cast in them. This shows that even after the previous emperor Alexius established the "secular patron" system, the Orthodox Church still amassed and preserved shocking wealth. "No, this is only a small part of it. Most of it should have been transferred to the Holy Mountain by Mastas." Gawain still did not give up.

In addition, many first-hand precious documents and files were sent to St. John's Cathedral. Gawain specially set up a team to find the "crimes" of the Orthodox Church and even find "weapons" to deal with the Roman and Tuscan Churches in the future.

Next, Gawain immediately announced that the riot in the capital was instigated by the church behind the scenes.

Li Dusi, the liaison officer of the Holy Wisdom Cathedral, was arrested. He angrily demanded an open trial because the original court was controlled by the priests.

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Gawain also satisfied Li Dusi's wish. He asked "Holy See Chief Justice" Giovanni to be in charge of the trial. Twelve "circuit courts" and "local high courts" from Anatolia, Cilicia and Lydia formed an interrogation team and rushed to the scene. Three days later, Li Dusi was sentenced to all crimes without protesting. The keys of the Holy Wisdom Cathedral were forced to hand over, and the property of all church organizations in the capital was confiscated. He and all the leaders of the Orthodox Church in the capital were exiled.

It seemed that Constantinople had become a city without a church organization overnight. It was now ruled by the army and bureaucrats.

Gawain claimed that he would later summon all religious figures in the empire to Adrianople to hold a "National Believers' Conference" to discuss future religious policies.

Ten thousand craftsmen who had originally joined the army to fight were also gathered in the capital. They wanted to renovate the ruins of the Grand Palace and the Great Almshouse, and build a "Grand Palace City" and a new palace for all senior bureaucrats and generals to settle here.

In other words, Gawain and Anna gave up the palace the moment they became the new owners of the Brahena Palace.

They wanted to renew the palace and also the atmosphere.