Eagle Byzantium

But within five days, the city and port of Atalia succumbed - and the hopeless Asacidus received permission to forgive, boarded the ship and retreated to Rhodes.

Since then, all the regions of Afyon, Pisidia, Atalia, and Alanya, together with nearly 400,000 people, have been occupied by Gawain (under Dido’s previous plan, even if she and her husband made peace with Gawain, they would still It can have a population of nearly two million, but now was bitten off (one-fifth of its strength), and brought with it a large amount of resources-timber, rivers, pastures, cultivated land, marble and ordinary stone mines, etc., of course, the most important thing was to provide the production areas of saltpeter, Phrygia, There is a lot of guano in the Pisidia Mountains.

This is also the issue that Gawain is most concerned about. Due to Theodoro's rebellion and the emperor's original embargo, the trade volume of the Ikonium trade route has been greatly reduced, especially the large quantities of goods originally shipped from Apulia and Kievan Rus. High-quality saltpeter is almost out of stock. So he learned the hard way, and after almost wiping out half of the Khitan snow stock in the Battle of Philomelon, he sighed, "It's better to produce this stuff yourself." However, large quantities of saltpeter mines were too far away from Gawain in this era. There were mines in Egypt, but Gawain had not reached there yet; there were mines in India, but Gawain might never see them until his death; there were mines in Chile... ...Gawain said, Get out!

Therefore, Gao Wen formulated the "Three-year Khitan Salt and Soil Hoarding Plan" and handed it over to the Supervisory Agricultural Department and the Reform Society and Brotherhood Department for supervision: Gao Wen and Anna jointly issued a seal, granting them the "right to dig out soil", that is, throughout the country. Among the latrines and stables of Tarsus, in the corners of farmhouses and city houses, Even under the beds of residents' homes, special funds are regularly used to dig out, no, to collect "salt soil", and then seal it in a shallow pond in the workshop and pile it up into a mound shape, then pour it with urine and lime, and send people at regular intervals. Turn it over until a large amount of liquid continues to ooze out, and then slowly purify it into Khitan Snow.

At the same time, the areas in the Pisidia Mountains that had been "deeply contaminated" by guano were also imprisoned, and slave laborers and workshops were organized to scrape and collect them, and then made them in the same way.

Now in the city of Tarsus, people hired by the Brotherhood have written slogans everywhere, "Donate your urine for Caesar and the Patron", "Urine, the foundation of a strong country", "Please use urine Support three-year hoarding plan.”

Then Gawain walked into the city of Atalia with high spirits, and saw the bay with towering stone walls in the ancient times, as well as the famous Hadrian's Gate and various sculptures, and the white waterfall rushing into the long golden beach. That is, the rows of palm trees swaying in the south wind, I couldn't help but admire it greatly, "The scenery is no different from what I had at that time, except that there are no speedboats, bikinis and champagne parties on the beach... and there are honeycombs in the old town. Like slums."

Under the circular sentry tower of Hedria on the sunny bay, Gawain sat under the parasol, took off his armor, covered himself with silk robes, and said to the generals and staff of the brigade who had accompanied him on the expedition, "Good luck! The Magis Brigade is temporarily stationed in this seaport city, resting for three months, and repairing the fort along the narrow cliff road from the city to Laodicea to monitor Raymond's movements."

"Do we need to negotiate a peace with Raymond?" Gregor asked, holding his helmet.

Gawain objected, "I have made peace with my brother-in-law, and I will not go back to sign any agreement with Raymond. He is just a reckless man from Provence. Gregor, you and your group will eat here, right away." I will return to the city of Tarsus to hold a practice banquet for the students of St. Paul's College who are here. From now on, you will have the task of supervising their work. You have to supervise the following important things. "

Gregor, Parney, Stalianus and others from the brigade immediately stood upright with the scorching sun on their backs:

Do a good job in transforming the landowner knights of Plonia;

Divide the land of the stipendary farms and rural communes as soon as possible;

Prioritize the restoration of Attalia's shipyard manufacturing, and immediately plan to migrate 3,000 Maldites from Seleucia to serve as shipwrights and sailors;

There is no need to rush to mount the big ship. We should first make use of the rich local resources to build light speedboats for coastal operations and a small number of rollover warships. I will make the plans and then go back to discuss with Agnes as soon as possible;

Attalia was specifically restored as the "Kibiodonte Naval Fortress", which governed 50,000 people along the coast and was dedicated to shipbuilding and training. Andreev, the shipping director, was directly sent to take charge;

In addition, the "Pisidia Grand Frontier Area" was set up to take charge of the lands of Afyon and Pisidia, with Birel as the military leader, and the herdsman officer was temporarily absent - due to selection issues, Gawain seemed to be preparing to return to Tarsu A decision will be made after the city of Sicily. The Miliocephalon frontier area was abolished and placed together with Philomelon under Giovanni's Iconium. Under the jurisdiction of the county, all the 1,500 border troops in this frontier area were deployed to the frontline areas of Afyon and Filna. They were responsible for stabilizing the security and order of the good place. As for the Nikitas Party, they were specially awarded Filna. Na Castle, and allowed them to enjoy exclusive flag and internal personnel rights, and equal treatment with the border army;

In this way, together with the original "Milio Cephalon Border Army" and the Nikitas Party, it is planned to expand the border army of the "Pisidia Grand Frontier Area" to 4,000 people in one year. Once this plan is completed In the end, the headquarters of the Gemmagis Brigade may have to return to the Levant.

"One year later?" Upon hearing this, Gregor asked doubtfully.

Gawain nodded, "We won the decisive battle with the emperor, but we almost exhausted the domestic reserves and money. In the next year, we will concentrate on getting along peacefully with the surrounding forces. Digest the territory and build the army, so that when I send troops again, it will not be a three-wing brigade, but a five-wing brigade. Besides, there is also the border area of ​​Angras to deal with."

"That stubborn guard..." the generals around asked.

"Oh, I remember it." Gawain stroked his beard and remembered Diogenes, so he asked, "Is there any news about the mopping-up battle on the northern line?"

Everyone shook their heads, saying that we had walked all the way from Afyon to the south and didn't know the situation of the battle in Angrasburg.

The news of the battle was reported by Anna's messenger who came with the ship a few days later after Gawain, Maglundius and others boarded the ship bound for Seleucia. "After the emperor was defeated, the isolated and helpless Fort Angras was captured by our army, and the defenders surrendered to General Branus's sword with almost no resistance."

"Did Diogenes not run away?"

"No, he surrendered with his troops, saying that he would be responsible for the safety and survival of all soldiers."

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"Yes, this is very Diogenes. Is he willing to surrender?"

"No, he asked to commit suicide with the sword given to him by the emperor, but was rejected by General Branus because the doctrine did not allow it. Then he asked to let him go back, but was also rejected."

"Then?"

"When the dispute was going on, His Highness Caesar sent several female officials to the camp to invite General Branus to go back and get married, and locked General Diogenes in a prison car and took him back to Tarsus."