A few days later, when Merrick's humiliating painting was delivered to Antioch, Bohemond the Redbeard was furious, and two letters were placed in front of his desk, one from his intelligence officer and the other from Gawain's own handwriting. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The previous letter said that the uprising of the "Great Armenian Empire" was instigated and supported by Gawain behind his back, which was of course a rumor deliberately released by Fer, and the city of Tubersena also sent a group of envoys to the city of Vanka, where Gawain was, saying that he was willing to pay tribute to him.

At that time, when Bohemond saw this information, he immediately had a feeling of being deceived and betrayed, he would not accept it, and immediately gathered more than 500 Norman knights, ready to swear to go on an expedition, from the Syrian Gate to the Felamis River, and fight with Gawain.

However, Gawain was very shrewd, he immediately knew that this was the other party's strategy to discord, and he also felt that the birth of the "Great Armenian Empire" was a serious incident against himself, so he directly cut off all the noses of the envoys from Tubersena, sent them back to show humiliation, and then wrote a letter by hand and sent it to Antioch. It said: I will never break the "covenant" with Bohemond, and this incident has nothing to do with the Seleucian side, the instigator behind this rebellious regime in Armenia should be the Emirate of Danishmond, and we are willing to go hand in hand with the Antioch side to deal with the common enemy, and we must not kill each other.

Along with the letter that followed, there was a box filled with the severed noses of the Armenian emissaries.

So Bohemond chose to believe Gawain, and after covering the bloody box, he also called out to the Persian painter of the city, "Draw a camel wrapped in a turban!" So the painter trembled and painted, but Bohemond was not at all satisfied, "How did you understand the spirit of your patron?" I'm going to paint this camel as a crescent-like **** maniac. ”

After a while, a revised miniature was presented to him, showing a camel wrapped in a turban, with gray eyes and a crimson tongue spitting at it, lifting the donkey's feet and lying on its belly doing "indescribable things" with the inscription "This is your portrait, and the beauty of your plateau, for Merrick, the unchivalrous chief of Danishmund." Bohemond was satisfied, and he ordered the painting to be sealed with a box full of noses, "to give a reward to the painter, a reward." Send the fastest steed to the chief. ”

Then Bohemond stood in the lobby of the palace and met urgently with Raymond, Robert, Baldwin, and Godfrey, and told them, "The donkey and the sheep demons, and the mongrel chief Merrick of the plateau, have colluded with the rebels in my ranks, rebelled in the north, and are at war with my army, and they have insulted the lord and all the lords, and now is the time for you to repay me." ”

The Godfrey brothers communicated privately, and in fact they had already received Gawain's letter, and they knew more clearly what was going on, and then they immediately said, "When the contemptible people attacked Azazadze, His Excellency the Duke of Apulia generously agreed to reinforcements, and now is the opportunity for us to repay the favor - I am willing to send my brother and my brother to send one hundred and fifty knights and a Swabian infantry regiment to Count Hartmann under your command." Then Godfrey added, which moved Bohemond even more, "If the war is difficult, we will do everything we can to continue to reinforce it." ”

Then Bohemond turned his gaze to Robert, who hesitated, and said that most of his knights and infantry wanted to go on an expedition to Jerusalem after the beginning of spring, and if you were to go as your private army to regain the mountains of the north, I fear that this group of men will mutiny.

"Holy City? How can we succeed if our route to conquer the Holy City is threatened by enemies everywhere in the future? Bohemond shook his arms and roared.

Count Robert, who was frightened by this, also agreed to send two hundred Flemish halbermen, and three hundred local light cavalry hired by him, to follow Bohemond into battle. As soon as Robert finished speaking, the Danish prince Sven in the corner next to him also took the initiative to stand up, "Although I only have five hundred armed men, and they are all infantry armed with axes, I am willing to personally lead them and follow the duke and the grand duke to fight." ”

The atmosphere in the whole meeting hall was warmed up, and Bohemond was greatly impressed, and then his gaze turned to the Marquis of Raymond, who remained silent, and looked away, "My dear Lord of Provence, in the kingdom of Antioch I have ceased a large fiefdom, and I have given you a considerable part of the shipping taxes. Now that we're allies fighting side by side against the enemy from the plateau behind us, we shouldn't be in conflict with your ideas, right? ”

At this time, the one-eyed marquis stepped on the floor, slowly walked to the center of the hall, and then openly faced the army commander-in-chief, "Yes, yes, conflict. ”

The crowd shouted in shock, and Bohemond was furious, but Raymond just said this, and then patted the confidential officer next to him on the shoulder: he knew that according to his stutter, it would be difficult to argue that Bohemond would win the sharp teeth, so he simply gave the idea to the confidential officer to act as his agent:

"We come from all over the place, and we were originally gathered for the sacred purpose of pilgrimage expeditions, and we should not have been a military organization before. Now there are careerists and conspirators who want to turn the whole procession of pilgrims, whether knights or knights, freemen, into a large barracks to be dictated by themselves. Therefore, the Marquis of Provence, at the invitation of the Emperor of Constantinople, with the blessings of the Holy Priesthood of Ademar, and the holy spear, began to march towards Latakia and Jubail, and opened the way to the Holy City for all. ”

The muscles at the corners of Bohemound's mouth twitched as he said this, but his glassy cold eyes rolled a few times, and then he generously stepped down and hugged Raymond, "Okay, that's fine." Somebody has to do this and that. Ladies and gentlemen, that's how we divide the work. ”

After the meeting was adjourned, Bohemond, who entered the palace dormitory, burst into a rage, "This hillbilly from Provence thinks he can dictate to others by forging the so-called holy gun. His actions today are very clear that he has been bribed by the Emperor of Greece to demolish me and Gawain's platform, and perhaps Raymond has hooked up with that group of traitors in an attempt to divide us, and then monopolize Tripoli, nay, even Jerusalem. After speaking, he pointed to all the entourage around him, "From now until after I leave the army, strengthen the monitoring of the Iron Bridge Fortress!" ”

At this moment, a timid clerk came out and reported to him in a low voice, "Your Highness, you may not know yet...... Yesterday, the new Patriarch of Suffobel had disembarked from Port Saint-Simon...... Then he walked into Lord Raymond's fortress and camp...... And not yours. ”

"So, both clergymen run to Raymond, what about my banner?" Bohemond had a twisted look of surprise on his face. (To be continued.) )