The warm wind of Asia Minor blows people's hearts with joy, but the murderous aura in the barracks has rushed into the sky, and soldiers from all regions have gathered together to wave their flags like a forest, and their spears are pointed straight at the sky, and they are as slow as a forest, and they are as immobile as mountains.

Andronika Komnenos stood on a high platform, in front of an endless array of troops, and it was not idle to fight for more than 10,000 soldiers. Andronica's ambition grew with the arrival of the army, and those who had not mastered it could not imagine the glory of receiving cheers among the hosts, the cornerstone of all power and wealth. With his sword in his hand, he glanced at the standing warriors and decided to show them his demeanor.

"Warriors of the Ronnie Empire, today I have received unfortunate news, our great Emperor Alexios has been seriously injured by the Assassins, and now countless careerists are on the move, I will lead you into Constantinople to sweep out those traitors, and any warrior who is willing to sacrifice his life for the country will be rewarded with a gold coin." Andronika said this, and with a wave of his hand, several attendants carried up five large boxes, and he stepped forward to open one, and the golden light shook the hearts of the soldiers in the audience.

The gold coin engraved with the cross and the emperor's head was held aloft by Andronica, and the goddess of victory on the back seemed to wave to him, and Andronika smiled as she looked at the cheering warriors in the audience......

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"So, my dear uncle, Lord Andronica, is already swearing in to march on Constantinople?" Alexios looked down at Licinius, who was kneeling on the ground, and pulled out a mysterious smile.

"Yes, Your Majesty, and Andronika also distributed a gold coin to each soldier participating in the battle on the spot at the oath meeting, and now the morale of the rebels is very high" The little eunuch consciously removed the honorifics of the governor, and directly characterized Andronica's army as a rebel, one of the most involved in this matter, he has deeply felt the emperor's malice towards these big nobles.

Licinius did not dare to look up at his master, he had been involved in this matter too deeply, and he was completely branded as an emperor, and there was no other way but to die for Alexios.

The Emperor's intentions were so deep that Isaac Angelos was allowed to lurk inside Constantinople and let them contact the nobles on both sides of the rat, but he sent the leaky Imperial Army to the outer checkpoint of Constantinople to guard the gates, and replaced the Varangian guards to take over the city defense, although he did not know how the Emperor persuaded Harald to side with him, but from the few times they met and got together, it was clear that the Varangian guards were already on the Emperor's side.

"What a miser, you must know that my father entered Constantinople in a coup d'état, and even each citizen distributed two gold coins, and Andronika was also poor!" Alexios did not hesitate to taunt, and just a day before Andronica took the oath, two important generals under his command, Phukas and Kimishis, had already received 10,000 gold coins from him, promised to pledge allegiance to the emperor, and even sent hostages.

Alexios waved his hand to rebuke the little eunuch, supported his cheek with his right hand, closed his eyes and sat alone in the military tent thinking, now there are thirty-six nobles who are in contact with Isaac, but it is not enough, he wants to clean up a group of generals in the western Balkans, if memory serves, before Andronika staged a coup d'état, his position under the ass was challenged seven times, and those people in the Western Military District are also very restless......

Alexios was silent for a moment, if the expansion of the scope during the Great Purge would inevitably cause the emptiness of the western defense, and the current governor of the Venetians, Dandro, was also an old fox, and when the time came, it would be too late to take advantage of the Great Purge in the west to launch a crusade and defeat Constantinople by the way......

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Unaware, Isaac Angelos continued to enter and exit the courts of the great nobles, but the response was mostly ambiguous, with verbal promises limited to not resisting Andronica's march into Constantinople if the emperor died.

When Isaac came out of another big nobleman's house with a black cloth on his head, he walked around a corner, he spat on the ground fiercely, and scolded viciously: "They are all fools, delusional to be the wall-riding faction and not help each other, or simply want to wait for the new emperor to take the throne to share their interests, and do not want to think that if they do not help each other, they will offend both sides, and those who want to sit back and enjoy their success are even more delusional, no wonder Manuel refused to reuse these people when he was alive." ”

But when I think about it, these people are very much in control of part of the strength of the Imperial Forest Army and the City Defense Army, and they either have marriage relations or subordinate relationships with the generals of various military districts in the west, and their connections and resources are all over the empire, and if they do not get their support, even if the army enters Constantinople, it will be difficult to rule, and it will be attacked by a group.

"Forget it, the next one to go to the Ducasse family, the emperor of their family must be obsessed with the throne after being defeated by the Komunens family, if you can win their support, at least this trip is not in vain." Isaac decided to try again, and the battle for the throne was urgent, and each fight for strength meant that the scales of victory tipped in their favor.

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In the dead of night, the Roman naval fleet was still brightly lit, and the commander of the navy, Duilius, looked at the man sitting on his throne in shock, and the rumor that the emperor, who had been badly wounded, was not only alive and well, but was also sitting in his camp giving orders.

At this time, the commander of the navy in a thin white shirt was in agony as if he had been bitten by a poisonous snake, and not long ago Andronika of Asia Minor sent him five thousand ducats, and the gold coins minted in Venice dazzled Duilius's eyes, and the news of the little emperor's injury spread, he felt that it was indeed time for him to take sides, but now he regretted it.

Duilius could no longer remember when he joined the army, but the oath of the Roman soldiers to defend his country was also forgotten by him, and now he was involved in the political maelstrom, can he survive the political maelstrom, and if the emperor wants to kill his family, will he still be able to save his family......

Alexios looked at the already crumbling naval commander, he didn't want to torture this old soldier anymore, after all, the other party was the only remaining naval veteran of the empire, and if he wanted to restore the hegemony of the Mediterranean in the future, he would have to rely on the navy's contribution, and killing him would only make the navy feel uneasy.