The northern warrior's body was covered with dust, layers of frost and snow dotted on his shoulders that had not yet melted, and when he took off his plush animal skin coat that was wrapped on the outside, this majestic man showed a strong chest.

"Your Majesty, I'm here after your summons!"

Edmund had no expression on his resolute face, got down on one knee and saluted.

"Your Majesty, the situation in Anatolia is very strange now, and the Turks in the east seem to be a little restless!"

Edmund then said something that made Alexios' heart tighten.

"What do you mean?"

The Emperor had no longer paid attention to the rude actions of his generals, but he had never cared about these subtleties, and what he was desperate to know now was what Edmund called the movements of the Turks.

"After August of this year, a large number of Turkic nomads began to assemble in the royal capital of Arslan, and by September it had reached about 60,000 people, and now the only thing that cannot be determined is the target of the Turkic attack!"

Edmund's words made the emperor frown, and now he regretted sending Licinius to the West, the competent spy leader was not there, and Licinius's intelligence officers did not notice the movements of the Turks at all.

Or maybe it's the fact that he didn't take it seriously, which led to Alexios' passivity now, and he now has an urge to smash everything.

"You know what? I have an appointment to meet Archduke Ruben of Armenia here! Now you're telling me the Turks are coming! ”

Alexios' tone was displeased, he was in a terrible mood right now, and the enemies watching around the empire really didn't stop at all.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry! But now the safest thing to do is for you to leave here immediately, as if the Turks attack us, it will be difficult for the First Legion to defend the entire Anatolian defense zone! ”

Edmund's head bowed deeply, he had a lot of responsibility for the current situation, but he really didn't know that the emperor was coming.

Alexios made a surprise visit to Bursa and decided to meet with Grand Duke Ruben of Cilician Armenia here.

This caught Edmund off guard, and it can be said that the secrecy measures were quite good, but it also caused the garrisons on the front line to be unprepared.

Alexios remembered his decision and couldn't help but regret it.

During the reign of his grandfather, Emperor John, he waged a war against the Duchy of Armenia, in which members of the Armenian royal family, including the then Grand Duke Leon, were captured and killed.

And they all died in the current imperial capital of Constantinople, which is why the emperor did not meet with the Grand Duke of Armenia in the imperial capital.

After all, this time the empire intends to play the emotional card and re-establish contact with the Armenian royal family in order to jointly fight against the Turks, and the emperor's promise to Armenia is to help them restore their homeland in the Caucasus and a crown.

However, this Turkic movement gave Alexios a very bad premonition, and if there was any country near the Sultanate of Rûm that was weaker to attack, the Eastern Roman Empire was now in first place.

After calculating the gains and losses of friend and foe, Alexios spoke slowly.

"It is impossible for me to give up my intention to meet with the Grand Duke of Armenia in Bursa, and this is also an opportunity for us, an opportunity to prove our strength in front of our future allies."

Edmund looked at the Emperor in shock, Emperor Alexios was planning to start a war with the Turks in Anatolia?

"I need to issue a few orders, you let your clerk in!"

Edmund's First Regiment recruited a number of reading and writing clerks, who usually wrote such documents for Edmund and conveyed the orders of the First Legion, and First Clerk Baker walked in.

"I said you remember, immediately engrave it, I want these military orders to be sent to all places quickly by sea!"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Baker nodded hurriedly.

"First, immediately send a military order to Constantinople, ordering the hussars repaired in the camp of the imperial capital Vondus to complete their training, and that the whole army must arrive in the port of Bursa by the evening of the next day in naval warships.

Second, he conveyed an order to the commander of the Second Legion in the Black Sea, Khayyam, to immediately join the headquarters of the corps after receiving the slave soldiers donated by the Cumans.

He is free to land on any part of the northern coast of Anatolia of his choice, but I want to see his army appear in Konya!

The third was sent to the current governor of Thessaloniki, Betak, to rush to Constantinople immediately upon receiving an order, and the logistics of the imperial army depended on him.

Fourth, sent to the Admiral of the Navy, Duilius, I asked him to personally lead the fleet to meet the Archduke Ruben at sea, and it was necessary to ensure that the Grand Duke arrived safely in Bursa.

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After issuing eight military orders in a row, Alexios was also deeply tired, and the clerk had already flown out to convey the order, while Alexios was contemplating with his back to his seat.

Alexios's history is not good, and the history of the Roman Empire is also heard a lot in the time of Caesar, and countries like the Byzantine Komnenos, although they claim to be empires, really don't know much.

And the heroic bloodline of the Seljuk family, who created a great empire, is also unknown in history, and he knows even more about it, if it were the Ottoman Turkish Empire, he would know a little.

Not to mention the fact that the Seljuk family was a weak branch in Asia Minor, and all he knew about the Sultanate of Rûm now came from the information transmitted by the Sword of Damocles.

Thankfully, however, the Sultanate of Rûm was only a branch of the Seljuks, and the maximum number of troops it could mobilize was 100,000.

If it is the Seljuk Dynasty, even if the Basil Emperor is resurrected, Belisarius will be helpless in the face of hundreds of thousands of Turkic armies!

"Edmund, send your heralds and tell the Turkmen chiefs near Bursa to think about the majesty of the Empire, and if they decide to throw themselves into Arslan, beware of the Empire's future revenge!

Rome has revenge! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, if those small tribes take advantage of the fire to rob, my big axe doesn't mind staining the blood of some barbarians!"

Seeing Edmund's pretended anger, Alexios was a little amused, this big brute also likes to call others brute.

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In the Anatolian palace of Konya, Sultan Arslan is holding a banquet.

The meeting was attended by Ghazi, a subordinate of the Sultanate, as well as some of the heads and elders of small tribes affiliated with the Sultanate.

The court was more casual and did not have too many constraints, the beautiful maids carried the roasted whole sheep up, and the fierce warriors sat cross-legged on the ground and chewed excitedly.

The commander of the Guards, Skamped, walked in.

"Sultan, the new arrivals of the Greeks!"

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