The artist who plays and sings is still playing moving music in the main hall, and a beautiful dancing girl is smart, elegant, and elegant, like a flying sky holding a pipa, and it is as elegant as a light snowflake in the sky.

It's as elegant as a fairy who gives birth to a lotus step by step. She dances with her long eyebrows, wonderful eyes, fingers, waist; With the flowers in her bun, the pleated skirt around her waist; With her delicate dance steps, the ringing bells, the light clouds move slowly, and the whirlwind speeds, dancing out the joys and sorrows of the poem.

The nobles of the Sultanate of Rûm saw a prosperous scene rarely seen in the royal capital, and although the Sultan of Arslan saw the arrival of the commander of the guards, he did not interrupt the interest of his courtiers.

"Skamped lighter, see how happy they are!" Arslan looked at his general with a slight reproach.

"Sultan, the Greeks seem to have increased their troops!"

Skampade's face was as calm as water, and he had always had little interest in these things, and only his love of war could arouse his enthusiasm.

Hearing this, Arslan stopped dancing his hand to the beautiful music, his original cheerful expression disappeared, and he waved his raised hand back, and the hall suddenly fell silent, and the artists and dancers slowly fell out of the hall.

"Say, Scampade, let our warriors know what kind of enemy we are going to face!" Arslan said calmly.

"Sultan, our report is that a Roman fleet docked in Bursa seven days ago, an unknown number of Roman troops landed in Anatolia, and the eagle banner of the suspected Roman emperor was seen in Bursa!"

"Hahaha, that little boy of Alexios is going to demonstrate to me, is he going to fight me to the death in Anatolia!"

The Sultan of Arslan slammed his fist on the table, and the food and wine on it shook to the ground, and a little wine spilled into a golden wine glass.

"My warriors, sons and grandsons of the heroes of the Seljuks, have you all endured the provocations of the Greeks?" The Sultan's arrogant face was filled with a contemptuous smile.

"Destroy the Roman army!"

"Kill all the Greeks!"

"Snatch up their gold and women!"

The warriors below shouted loudly, and the atmosphere of the main hall had already been pushed to a climax, and the Sultan's words aroused the deepest wildness in everyone's hearts.

"Warriors, I promise you that we will attack the Greeks, and tomorrow we will march towards Bursa with our whole army.

From Konya to Bursa will be our pastures, whether it be Nicaea, Amasra or Shkodrari I allow you to plunder freely, and you will see everything taken until we are victorious! ”

"Whoa, aaaa

The halls were filled with revelry and shouting, and the Turkic warriors were eager to attack Bursa and seize the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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At this time, Bursa was also busy, there were not many pedestrians on the streets of the city, and the emperor's edict had already informed the whole city of the possibility of a large-scale invasion by the Turks.

And Alexios also sent soldiers to guide the citizens out of the city, and the harbor was crowded with people, and the ships of the navy did not stop going back and forth for a moment.

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"Have all the Navy's transports arrived?" Alexios asked, looking at Edmund.

"Fifty Pamphelons have arrived in Bursa, but there are so many citizens we need to send them off.

And your Majesty, you have given the order to the Roman citizens of the whole theater to retreat, and as soon as it spreads, fear will permeate Nicaea, Amasra, and Shkodr.

The people of these places are fleeing by boat towards the Greek regions, and the peasants scattered in the countryside are flocking to the cities, and the situation is chaotic and we need a lot of time. ”

Alexios raised his eyebrows, he could hear Edmund's intention to say this, and he blamed him for his kindness, but protecting the citizens of the empire from harm was the bottom line in his heart.

It's just that what he never expected was that it caused a certain amount of confusion, and the underestimation of people's hearts was his mistake, and now he is more eager for the demand for domestic affairs talents.

"Let's not talk about that, the task of evacuating the citizens is entrusted to your clerk, let's go and see how the war games are going!"

Alexios avoided the topic and led Edmund into a conference room.

The expansive conference room had been converted to accommodate no more than five hundred people, and now hundreds of Imperial officers were gathered to discuss, and a huge table was placed there.

After Alexios came to this world, in addition to forming the Sword of Damocles, he also used the power of the merchants of the Eastern Roman Empire to infiltrate the territory of the Turks, so he successfully drew the topographical sandtable of Anatolia.

What the Imperial officers see today is the result of the great sacrifices of the spies of the Empire over the past six months, which have compiled archived maps from the past and the current Sword of Damocles.

The mountains and rivers on the table are vivid, and the officers looked at this thing called the sand table with great interest, after the famous scientist Shen Kuo of the East successfully drew the sand table, the Eastern Empire followed suit, and also made a sand table of modern significance.

"I saw it, I saw it, the Turks are here!"

"This is Bursa!"

"Nicaea is here!"

"And Ulu Mountain!"

Alexios stood behind them, watching the officers touch their beloved toys like immature children, and they really loved such a sand table.

There were six blue wooden idols representing the Turks on the sand table, each representing an army of 10,000 men, and now the plain of Konya was surrounded by six blue puppets, which made the hearts of the Roman soldiers in the room heavy.

Looking back at the red puppets belonging to the Eastern Roman Empire, a large puppet represents the position of the First Legion standing in Bursa, but there are few other puppets in Anatolia.

Just in front of Ulu Mountain stood a small puppet representing the Thousand Troops, which was the Imperial Hussars.

When the hussars arrived, the emperor scattered the hussars of about 1,000 men in seven groups, leaving only a small squad by his side to protect himself.

Imperial Capital had a huge red puppet, and it was Khayyam's Second Army resting in Constantinople.

There was also a red puppet in the western part of Greece, which was Theodosius' Third Legion, which was stationed in the west after the restoration of the system, guarding against the Normans and Venetians.

The red puppets representing the Fourth Legion had been moved to Thrace near Constantinople, and even the newly formed Fourth Legion was drafted after the Emperor's order.

Now that the enemy and our troops are in full view, the Roman officers are gesturing with their fingers, and some are also discussing the direction of the next Turkic raid.