Eagle Byzantium
Chapter 39 Danger
It turns out that this Leo Defuglievich claimed that he was the son of the former emperor Romanus. His father was purged by political enemies after the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Manzikert, and died in exile after suffering cruel corporal punishment. Romanus' son Leo was also executed.
However, although the official believed that Leo had been executed, the empire's various enemies did not think so. Soon, various "sons of Romanus" emerged, with all kinds of skin colors and languages - even Cabeamia supported a shepherd to impersonate, and this Leo Defuglievich suddenly appeared in the Kherson region (southern Crimea) six years ago, and was recruited as a son-in-law by Monomakh. Initially, Alexios ordered Theodore, who governed Kherson, to put this guy who pretended to be the son of the former emperor in prison - but soon, Leo escaped from prison, claiming to be the son of Emperor Romanus, and used force to demand the throne of Constantinople, gathering a large number of Pechenegs who coveted the wealth of Constantinople, and with the secret support of the Russian princes and the defection of the Bulgarian Paulicians, they attacked Constantinople in an overwhelming manner.
Facing a powerful enemy, Alexios used his power to win over the Cumans (also known as the Cumans mentioned above, Cumans is the Saracen name, the Celestial Empire called it Cumans, the Byzantines called it Komarov, and the Russians called it Polovtsy, yes, it was so chaotic) to cut off the retreat of Leo and the Pechenegs, and then the emperor resolutely attacked and fought a huge battle with the invading enemy in the Rila Mountains. That battle was Alexios' most brilliant achievement in his life. At that time, Gawain was fighting in Italy, and Anna sneaked into the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom to observe how to use horses to predict the fortune of war.
Leo Defuglievich was captured after the war, and the emperor blinded him and exiled him to an island in the Aegean Sea. Two years later, he was secretly executed.
But hatred was born from this: the emperor was very dissatisfied with Kievan Rus, who had instigated support for Leo, and was also suspicious of Theodore - intelligence showed that it was this ambitious old general who deliberately released Leo from prison. In the eyes of the emperor, Trabzon, Kiev and Georgia were almost an "axis of evil", and their harm to the empire was comparable to that of Gawain.
Therefore, the emperor was always friendly to the Cumans, because this ethnic group had been fighting wars with the Kingdom of Rus. Among them, the Khan of the Cumans, Itlali, was treacherously assassinated by the Rus, and was a weight for Alexius to defeat the enemy.
The emperor is now adopting this strategy - win over Boniac, the most powerful leader of the Cumans, and let him attack Kiev and Kherson fiercely, "then I will naturally make Theodore too busy to deal with it."
When the emperor's secret envoy Qinguan crossed the strait by boat and headed for the other side of the black sea, Gawain hurriedly arrived at Castabala City, where Baldwin and his wife were waiting there nervously and anxiously. When Gawain just dismounted and entered the hall, he told him a shocking news:
"Bohemond suffered a disastrous defeat in front of Marash Castle. Bohemond, Richard, Reinold and other military leaders were all captured, his army disintegrated and collapsed, and half of the nearly 500 knights in Apulia died in battle, and the other half were also prisoners with Bohemond."
"What!" Even Gawain was shocked. He was just about to come here to reinforce, who would have thought that Bohemond would be defeated so quickly - to what extent was he reckless and reckless?
"Did Ridwan of Aleppo turn against us?" This was the second answer Gawain was eager to get.
Baldwin nodded, indicating that what Gawain said was true.
After Bohemond assembled in Samosata, he began to move towards Marash along the valley at the end of the Euphrates River. Although he did not follow Gawain's advice, he still listened to Gregor - let the Gimages Brigade cross to the left bank of the river to guard against Tubercena and Lavodela.
Sure enough, according to the battlefield preset by Hercules, that is, on the plain southeast of Marash, Bohemond stationed his army here. The Armenian army lined up to fight, but was defeated many times by Bohemond's clever use of infantry. Then Reinold strongly suggested that the Duke of Antioch move the camp to a gentle hilly area on the west side: that would allow the Norman knights to overlook and control the entire battlefield.
But Bohemond was so reckless. He thought, "If I follow Reinold's plan, it will delay the siege of Marash Castle. It is better to set up camp on the flat ground."
Then, the main force of the entire Armenian army retreated back to the fortress. The triumphant Bohemond set up camp on the flat ground with abundant water and grass, began to prepare equipment, set up five cannons (monkey version of stone-firing) to throw stone bombs, and asked Aleppo General Mabolo to set up camp behind to ensure the food supply.
On the night of the second day, in front of the camp set up by the Gimges Brigade, the patrol soldiers captured several spies who were heading towards Aleppo. After being tortured, one of them confessed that they were Mabolo's subordinates and were about to contact Ridwan to discuss sending troops to cut off Bohemond's retreat.
Gregor, who did not dare to neglect it, immediately took the attached cavalry and rushed to the city of Marash, ready to report the matter to Bohemond. That night, Mabolo led all the men to make trouble, burning baggage everywhere, and fought fiercely with Gregor's cavalry in the valley. Gregor's troops were insufficient, so he hurriedly retreated to the camp, and the next morning the Norman camp was in chaos - Bohemond mounted his horse to maintain order himself, and at this moment, his enemy, the great emir of Danishmond, Merick, led 4,000 cavalry, and suddenly appeared on the flank of the mountain.
It turned out that Merrick also accepted the invitation of the Armenians and understood the necessity of uniting against the enemy. After repelling Theodorou's attack, he gathered all the elites at hand and followed the direction of Lake Van, galloping south day and night, rushing to the Come on this battlefield.
In Marashburg, Parkad and Hercules also took the opportunity to stand out with a thousand selected dead soldiers. The arrows fired by Armenians, Turks and Kurds in various valleys made the whole place dense. The sky darkened, and Bohemond's servant armies on the left and right flanks, who had underestimated the enemy, were defeated and fled.
At the same time, Fela and Saliki, with the rest of the army, also appeared around the camp of the Gemakis brigade, and fierce fighting was going on everywhere. Gregor used one detachment to hold on to the camp, and two detachments set up ambushes on both sides of the base gate. They defeated the invading tribes of Fela and Saliki successively. The two fought to escape back to La Vodra, and then Gregor led the remaining two detachments to rush northward to rescue Bohemond from the dilemma.
After all, Bohemond cannot be finished at this time. Once he is finished, the middle of the Holy Alliance will be cut off, and the fate of several new countries will be depressed! (To be continued ~^~)
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