Eagle Byzantium

Soon on the beach of the Bay of Issus, Bohemond, Richard, Reinold and a forty-year-old knight who were about forty years old, erected a circle of tents and stayed there - it is said that Bohemond Bohemond also found a pottery bowl, put it on his head, and then asked Richard to use scissors to cut off all the hair and beard that were exposed outside the pottery bowl. After that, Bohemond became a pottery bowl head, which was more beautiful than the pottery bowl. Andodat's mushroom head needs to be more regular.

Taking a haircut as an expression of determination, Bohemond, the "Taobou", pointed to the mighty bay and the rushing waves and swore, "How my father Guiscat struggled back then, I am the same today."

On the other side, in the city of Castabala, about a hundred miles away from the bay, Gawain heard that Bohemond was there. His subordinates asked if they wanted to see him. Gawain shook his head, "No need to meet, I'm not that person." A philistine who sells his favor for two hundred pounds of gold. Soon I will return to the Sebastian Plateau to inspect the defense system there. If the system is complete, then he will return to Tarsus with the Red Hand Brigade. I am afraid that in the coming year, a more serious situation will occur. Then Bohemond can do whatever he wants - Now send me fifty horses to his camp, plus thirty pounds of gold and grain supplies, and don’t say much else.”

At this time, news also came from the Levant: Godfrey successfully drove back Dukak Tutusi's 10,000 troops and helped the border troops in Jubail and Beirut to relieve their difficulties. Gawain also sent Godfrey offered 20,000 Byzantine gold coins as a reward, but Godfrey refused. There was only one sentence in his letter to Gawain:

"Standing on the plateau tenaciously and helping my brother Baldwin at the critical moment."

It is said that after his triumphal return to Jerusalem, Patriarch Sambel continued to make demands, and his appetite was so disgusting that he actually demanded that both Jerusalem and Jaffa be brought under the scepter of the Holy See (actually himself) and unified into one The independent "Jerusalem Diocese" claimed that it had to exercise the "King's Appointment Power", that is, it required Godfrey and Tancred to be anointed and consecrated by him in order to retain kingly power over Jerusalem and Antioch.

As soon as these words were spoken, Tancred hurried to the Holy City, accepted Sambel's anointing, and colluded with him, thus becoming the actual ruler of the Principality of Antioch. He occupied his uncle's palace and He brought in the Armenian woman Mesander, doted on her as her own queen, and promoted many Armenians, Turks and Persians in the country.

Subsequently, the quarrel between the army and the church became increasingly fierce in the Holy City, and they attacked and framed each other. Gerald, the deacon of the Holy Sepulchre Hospital, and Peter, the hermit, were caught in the middle. Their earnest persuasion was of no avail. Finally, Godfrey gave in and gave away a quarter of the people. The city of Jerusalem, as well as the taxes and tributes therein, were all handed over to the hands of the Catholic priests headed by Sam Bell, and the other party finally calmed down.

After the matter came to an end, Godfrey, who worked hard, conducted a complete survey of his villages and found that he could mobilize only 518 knights, including horse sergeants and infantrymen with retinues. Five thousand seven hundred men, and Ashil Killen, Asuf, Acre, Tyre, Sidon, Tripoli, Damascus and other powerful hostile fortress cities were all surrounding - Godfrey suddenly felt unable to bear it, and he, who was already very weak, fell completely ill. He lay on the couch, his breath dying.

Another month later, the equally frustrated hermit Peter mounted his donkey again. Wrapped in shabby robes and carrying a cross, he left Jerusalem, which once symbolized the glory of all the Eastern Expedition soldiers, and came to Jaffaden. He boarded the ship and sailed away. Behind him, the quarrel among the people in the Grand Mosque was still spreading endlessly.

"O Solomon's Temple, you have seen how your brothers fell apart and caused you to fall into destruction and collapse. Maybe in the near future, you will have to witness it again. Humans are the stupidest species that can never grow. , they will only waste their efforts and financial resources to build another ruin on top of the ruins.”

Coincidentally, when Peter landed at the port of Malruth, he met the Patriarch of Antioch, John Oakshilt, who had just been expelled by Tancred. "Now what is enshrined in Antioch is The Ani Church, the newly crowned Norman prince and his wife all wore Ani style clothes, and formed an Armenian guard. We Orthodox people were exiled and expelled. They said that I would come. Either he is helping Gawain or he is helping the Greek emperor. He cannot be trusted or condoned at all.”

Two days later, Anna warmly received the two of them in the palace of Tarsus, "Hermit, my brother and mentor, Gawain and I, where are you going?"

"After the success of the Holy War, we should be gradually forgotten. I want to return to my hometown of Amiens and retire to a monastery to retire."

"Go to the Mut Valley to revive the Arahant Monastery, and I will give you the land around it." Anna said generously, "Why travel thousands of miles to do the same thing?" Then the female Caesar asked the Patriarch of Antioch When the other party said that he wanted to return to the imperial capital, Anna said, "The St. Paul's Cathedral, which is about to be completed here, lacks a senior and virtuous elder like you to take on the responsibility of leading the Orthodox Christians on the entire plateau."

In this way, both of them were retained by Anna and settled down.

Peter got the Arahant Monastery at the northern end of the Mut Valley, where there was a hazel forest, vegetable gardens and wheat fields on the hills, interspersed with many beautiful flowers. The monastery was once stationed with three centuries of Seleucia militia, who transported bricks and stones to repair it, forming a small fortress overlooking the Taurus Mountains. Peter stayed here and began to isolate himself from the fanatical hard work in his original life and began to read religious manuscripts and classics quietly. The times are developing, but some people may suddenly sink forever under the long river...

But Gawain still has to float in the river. The whole kingdom is running frantically. For the upcoming larger and more terrible war, the recovery of Melitene and Sebastian is not the end, but just the beginning. The greater challenge comes from the West, from the hostile Constantinople. When Peter left Jerusalem, Gawain said goodbye to his wife and daughter and returned to the plateau as planned. In autumn, in the separated millet and wheat fields outside the city of Melitene, the noise and dust of the horse team were particularly eye-catching. When the border residents on the top of the city opened the reinforced city gate, the Grand Patron and a group of armored cavalry appeared on horseback in the welcoming crowd amid the shrill horns and barking dogs, and the horses' hooves kept hitting the paved road.

"What is the situation on the border?" Gawain walked to the palace in the city, followed by the generals of the brigade, led by Bramson and Walter Sansavall.

"Melitene and Marash are basically calm, but Sebastian has been fighting a border war with Merick. General Orson and Archon Goldhand are involved, and there are battles almost every day." Bramson replied. (~^~)