In fact, there is nothing to negotiate: the cornerstone of everything is Raymond's departure from the Levant, and he is now in a state of flux, and the fleet of the Rewax Ducks is heading for Jaffa, and will not return in a month or two; Gawain and Godfrey watched from the sidelines, and Patriarch Suffobel abandoned him; Bohemond's army forced him to the death, and if he continued to fight, he would either starve to death, or Raymond would launch a suicidal counterattack to meet the fall and die, or he would be forced to go to the bays of Acre and Tyre, where he would die at the hands of the infidels and suffer humiliation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A few Venetian ships were quietly moored on the shore of Jubail, and Raymond, Ademar, and the last four hundred remaining servants loyal to the Marquis of Provence, unkempt, with tattered boots, and carrying the holy spear, but with the purple ribbon that had been tied, walked down the seaside plateaus and fields, and went on deck, forced to "renounce forever all rights and interests in the Levant and Antioch", and sailed away from the shores of the Levant, and headed for the island of Cyprus, where the Grand Duke of Apsomatus was, Ships will be arranged to take Raymond to Atalia.

The departed Raymond was full of humiliation and hatred, in fact, because of the despicable attacks of Bohemond and Gawain behind his back, the army of the Crusade that he had painstakingly put together had disintegrated.

His ambitious conquest of Castile and Aragona from his youth was reduced to nothing on the shores and valleys of Tripoli, like a cloud in the sky and sea, completely dissipated as if it had never been, a blood-colored and fragile dream, he longed to conquer the pagans with the sword for wealth and glory, but his fellow clansmen were stabbed in the back and his spine broken.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid that even Toulouse, and Provence, can't go back." Raymond gritted his teeth and squeaked the holy spear in his hand, the tip of which pointed against the rolling waves.

Ardmar lay frail on the deck next to him, watching a few unknown bugs creep around the rotten wood as they carefully crept around the glue, "You can report this matter to the new Holy See and wait for a fair verdict." ”

"When we squeezed you out in the Chamber of Secrets, we never thought of the city of Rome." Raymond sneered, he had lost interest in the other party's suggestion, and said fiercely (because of the length of the paragraph, so the words of the one-eyed lord are summarized), "I am going to Constantinople to claim the territory and glory of His Majesty the Emperor Komnenos, and the second round of the crusade will begin soon, and as long as I keep these hundreds of loyal subordinate soldiers, carrying this holy spear that has no disadvantage, and give me two to three years, I will still earn back the glory and power of the former place on the Anatolian plateau - as long as I say to the emperor, is willing to deal with Gao Wen, and the emperor naturally does not allow it. ”

Ademar was stunned, and then he lowered his eyes, and the deck shook and bumped at the roar of the waves, and the poor little worms, still wrestling and shoving, as if they were fighting for their own territory, wrestling and rolling there.

"Sir, please keep up your efforts, I am going to stay for a while in a monastery in Atalya that is willing to take me in, and when the Holy City is restored, I will go to the Holy Sepulchre to fulfill my wish, and then return to my homeland." At this moment, the former priest's state of mind calmed down, and after he finished speaking, he covered his shabby robes, collapsed on the deck, looked at the constantly shaking sky, and never spoke again.

Raymond didn't bother to say anything to him, his ambition to try to review it was burning hotly, and there was no other thought in his head than revenge.

When the ships of the Marquis had been driven away, Bohemond and Gregor immediately took the fort of Argyll as the dividing line: Tartus and Latakia to the north were all under Bohemond's hands, and he also expelled all of Raymond's subordinates at the Iron Bridge Fortress on the Orontes, thus not only truly unifying Antioch, but also doubling his sphere of influence at once; And the chaotic pattern to the south, Bohemond also kept his promise and threw it to Gawain.

That is to say, from Tripoli to Tyre, along the Lebanese coast, this narrow strip of land, with its forts, its chaotic and intertwined distribution of power, all lay before the eyes of the six thousand soldiers of the brigades of Gregor and Gemaggis: the southernmost Tyre, Saracen and Turkic were stronger, all Crescentists, occupying a fortified island city (the ancient city of Tyre was built on an island on the sea), and the city of Acre, which had previously paid only a small tribute to the pilgrims who passed by, and had never been truly conquered; Beirut, Jubail and Tripoli are mixed places of Crescent and Orthodox Christians, most of the latter are of Syrian "Greek (Roman) origin" and have not really converted for hundreds of years, but during the previous Seljuk conquest, the murderous Turks forced a large number of the latter groups to convert to Crescentism, for which they killed a sea of blood, resulting in the extreme decline of Lebanon, which has always been rich; What's more, there are a large number of castle towns belonging to the heretical Maronites in the interior, and their power cannot be underestimated, and further afield in Damascus is another Seljuk sultan, Dukak. The territory of Tutushi is also eyeing this.

Gregor, Prajit, and Parni, however, did not panic as expected, for long before the operation, the chief patron Gawain had given very clear instructions to their brigades: "Do not covet the occupation of territory, do not rashly attack the city and plunder the land, we might as well set ourselves a small goal first—that is, to occupy a corner of the ground first, and then make peace with the Normans, Maronites and Venetians, and obtain the security of all parties on land and sea; Then, in the name of restoring Orthodoxy, with the spiritual support of the Patriarch of Antioch, and naturally like a fish in water, I will recruit 10,000 to 20,000 original Syrian Orthodox exiles (heretics are also acceptable) in your brigade, and hold on to the castle you have obtained, and it will be a success to cultivate and defend yourself, and I will then send a group of 150 students from the University of St. Paul's University around Christmas this year to supervise your territory, and in addition to the military administration will be jointly responsible for you and Praget, and after leaving the appropriate garrison, you will immediately sail to the port of Jaffa, Participate in the siege of the Holy City, the sooner the better. ”

Gregor, then, commanding the entire brigade and, having forced Raymond away, sent a letter to Antioch to congratulate Bohemond, and then retreated in an orderly manner to Jubail and Beirut, which were in the middle of the Lebanese coast, and occupied these two fortresses, which had been so thoroughly destroyed by Raymond's massacre and arson, and the Crescentists had been almost killed by the Marquis, and there was no difficulty in occupying them.

Instead of moving south to seize Sidon and Tyre or north to besiege Tripoli, the Gimaggiis brigade settled down quietly: Gregor in Beirut, Prajit and Parni in Jubail, and raised the spiritual banner of "defending the return to Orthodoxy", and within a week 7,000 Syrians came to their roots. (To be continued.) )