Eagle Byzantium

Under the setting sun, throughout the outer city of Kayseri, there were many fire throwers using fire tubes to continuously spray dazzling fireworks, burning the mosque buildings in the city. Many believers who took refuge here were burned or killed. The steps and The foot of the worship tower was covered with corpses and traces of blood - originally Kayseri was , the main ethnic group is naturally the Romans, with about 12,000 people. After the Turks and Turkmen came, they killed less than 4,000 people. Now the "Nemesis" spreads her wings and returns - more than 3,000 people in the city Most of the Danishmend military immigrants and their families were killed, and their heads filled the streets.

An hour later, Branas also led the Guardian Brigade into the city. They accepted the remaining hundreds of captive boys and organized them into the logistics team to serve as the subordinates and servants of the Armenian soldiers. Forced conversion to Christianity.

In this way, only five days have passed since the first stone shell was fired from the Grand Plani Cannon and the outer city of Kayseri was captured. At the simple celebration that night, the chief patron warmly congratulated all the generals. The soldier claimed that this huge victory was decisive: "It is a complete replay of previous drills. We Attack east and west and forcefully cross the Harris River, then use the distance measurement of the watchtower and the long-range power of the Grand Plani Cannon to destroy the tower in front of the enemy. Then, with the courage of the Red Hand Army to attack the enemy, sophisticated equipment and incomparable fighting spirit, in just one day, The enemy's walls, walls and gates were destroyed - all due to your hard work."

The next day, Germaladin Bey came out of the inner city to surrender, hoping that Gawain could protect the lives of the remaining soldiers.

Gawain agreed and allowed Gemma Radin Bey and more than two hundred remaining soldiers to leave the castle.

At noon that day, the crescent flag on the Seljuk city wall was cut down and burned. Bey left sadly with the remaining defeated soldiers. Under the city wall, red-handed soldiers quickly took over the gates and towers. Then Gawain heard the news from the trumpet. Medals were awarded to soldiers who performed meritorious services.

At this time, the entire country of Tarsus has been relatively complete, divided into "Cavalry Medal of Bravery", "Infantry Discipline Medal", "Fire Thrower Medal", "Craftsman Servant Loyalty Medal", "Heroic Service Medal (Injured "Those who died in battle)" and other systems, and also has the unique "St. Paul Medal" (the front is engraved with the image of the Holy Apostle, and the reverse is the patron saint of Gawain. and Anna Caesar) are awarded to rare combat heroes. Each medal contains detailed grades and is used to replace the previous simple monetary or artifact rewards - of course, in the warehouses and temples in Kayseri City One-fourth of the income must be divided equally among all the soldiers and servants participating in the war. This is stipulated in the salary contract.

When Kayseri fell, General Qudb in Melitene, who had previously achieved a "huge victory" against Gawain's task force, had just led 2,000 infantrymen and had left the city less than fifty miles away. .

After receiving the unknown news from Kayseri from the fleeing herdsmen, General Kudb turned pale. He immediately ordered the entire army to camp down, and then summoned his staff and subordinates to discuss the matter. The result was that most of the people Agreed not to go to Kayseri, but to go back and stick to Melitene, waiting for news from the great emir before making a decision.

Almost at the same time, Merrick, who received the disastrous news on the Paphlagonia front, almost vomited blood, but he held it back in front of many generals, "This may be false news spread by Gawain. Come to disrupt the morale and pace of our army, now casually discuss the personnel in Kayseri and Nasa, kill them all regardless of who they are, continue to advance towards the mountains, occupy a favorable position, and prepare to defeat the troops coming from Sinop first. The main force of pilgrims.”

About two hundred miles away from Merrick's main force, Lord Raymond holding the Holy Spear also made good progress: without any effort, he captured the city of Castamonu, which was equivalent to an empty city!

This castle is where the Komnenos family arose.

The proud Raymond believed that his achievements had surpassed those of the entire empire and all the pilgrim lords, so he ordered the entire army to set up camp around the castle, deliberately boasting about himself, and wrote a handwritten letter of victory to Constantinople. In the letter, Raymond boasted that after a bloody battle, he "killed four thousand Turkic soldiers" and regained "the land of his ancestors" for the emperor.

Raymond settled down, waiting for the emperor's reward and answer, but Conrad and Guillaume were very anxious: there was a lack of fertile fields on all sides of Kastamonu, and they were all brown valleys and forests, making it difficult to To support the supply needs of nearly two hundred thousand people, this group of lawless pilgrims soon began to plunder. So the two of them found Raymond and urged him to move on as soon as possible, "We must seize the two fortresses of Karabi and Gangara so that we can have room for maneuver here."

But Raymond didn't bother to listen to them at all, "I, I am the Grand Earl of Laodicea. What I am obeying now is the emperor's order. The entire army should do so."

Guillaume, who was helpless, ran back to discuss with Count Oude of Naville and Count Alban of Bourges. "I heard that Chief Danishmond's army will arrive soon. It will be dangerous for us to run blindly into the mountains. I advise you." Raymond wanted to seize Karabi and Gangala, but he didn't want to waste time here, so we should leave. It would be a good idea to go south to Ankara, where it is said that there are a lot of wheat fields. for us to stand on.”

However, the two counts who had already accepted gifts and bribes from the emperor refused to do so. They used both soft and hard tactics to threaten the Duke of Aquitaine to stay, "maintaining the friendship with the emperor and Count Raymond, and preventing our expedition from being humiliated."

Guillaume, who was completely held hostage, lost control over his subordinates. He was under house arrest and could only stay with Raymond's camp.

However, the shrewd Marshal Conrad ignored this. He and Archbishop Biser of Milan, who was traveling with him, had already reached an agreement and resolutely refused to accept the emperor's gifts before crossing the sea. Without being constrained by the emperor, he now left Kastamonu with his own troops under the pretext of "going south to capture Fort Germanico (a castle in the south leading to Ankara, now Cankler in Turkey), opening the road to Ankara City, and supporting the new army of Prince John on the flank". He ignored Raymond who was cursing behind him and headed towards Fort Germanico, leaving the poor mountains and bad waters of Paphlagonia behind.

Now the focus of the war has returned to the Konya-Ankara line again.

Ibn Mamun gathered the remaining remnants of the Roma army who were still loyal to him and stayed in Konya.

The "Moria New Army" of Tititisius left Afyon, attacked cities and fortresses along the way, and approached Ankara.

Over there, Gawain, who had captured Kayseri, left two detachments of the Guardian Brigade, plus some members of the Brotherhood, and led the rest of the team back west to cross the Halys River again, and turned back to attack the city of Nassa. Within a few days, the "Diwangash" that Merrick had worked hard to build was completely destroyed by the Red Hand Brigade, the Guardian Brigade, the Anna Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Border Army. Jiribey attempted to break through the siege in the direction of the Great Emir, but was captured and executed by Jinat's Rangers. Most of the 6,000 Danishmond military immigrants were killed, and the rest were also captured as slaves.

A correct version can be found in the 16-9 book forum!

"Continue to attack Konya and Angras, and dig out Merrick's eyes." In the mighty team, Gawain said with a majestic and magnificent manner, holding up the horse-head scepter. (To be continued ~^~)