In the midst of the chaos and quarrel, the emperor tried to calm himself down, and this kind of battle was not something he had never seen before. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info after the defeat of Dulazo twenty years ago, Guiscart returned to Italy due to the rebellion of the Norman nobles in the base area, and his son was Bohemond who also besieged the city of Larissa, which was the hometown of the ancient hero Agthius, and also the treasury and armory of the imperial army.

The Emperor, who had regained his confidence, pointed to the sand table and said, "Send envoys to Venice, to the court of Sarian Caesar, and let them wait for the opportunity to cut off Bohemond's retreat, consume his supplies and food, and try to keep Bohemond trapped under the city of Thessaloniki." Then he pointed to Tetisius, "My general, my servant." Don't return your 6,000 new troops for the time being, I need your courage and skill, and the sincere cooperation of everyone. I had previously spied on Posta that a lot of the troops in Gawain's stronghold had been drained, including Gawain himself who had gone to Seleucia to put out the fire, and this fire was laid down by me - so we will not extend the barricade to cut the road to Ikonium, it will be too late. Instead, at the first hour of the afternoon of the next day, all the elite forces were concentrated in the base......" the emperor pointed his finger to a certain place in the sand table, "and violently attacking this part of Gawain's fortress was tantamount to gouging out his liver and eyes, and then I personally drove the army to press on it, completely destroying his fortress front, and then his camp, and all the work was done. ”

"Yes." Tetisius hesitated slightly, then bowed.

General Cezes seemed to say something, but he didn't say it, just silently thought in his heart, "The emperor has a twenty-year military career, and I can summarize a rule, that is, every time he takes the initiative to attack, he will fail, but he will always succeed in countermeasures...... Either way, may the Lord bless the future of the empire......"

And Raymond, who was standing there, was also very rare and silent, he had not said anything to the "three choices" before, and was full of only thinking "What is the matter with my Ladisia?" Gawain will come and fight me, and I will defend the strong and towering castle."

Only Brenus was very surprised, and objected to his father-in-law's instructions, calling it risky and unwise, "Your Majesty, how is the situation in our war in Seleucia?" ”

The emperor was stunned, "It should be smooth, even if Gawain returns to Seleucia, it will delay him for a long time." So I'm going to seize this moment to strike. ”

"But now there is no evidence that Gawain actually left the opposite barricade." Brenus said with some excitement as he spread his hands.

"The information that my scouts and Lord Raymond's Posta have received is clear - the number of enemies has decreased, and Gawain's banner, himself, and the Guards are no longer in the camp."

"Your Majesty, you should know that Gawain is a very dangerous and cunning enemy. What's more, if we give up cutting off the road between Iconium and the enemy's camp, Gawain's other brigade (the defenders) could use this road to rush in at any time and threaten us, and now this brigade has disappeared inexplicably, hasn't it? ”

"Then call Matthew's battalion to continue to monitor the flanks of the ramparts." The emperor's tone was also a little impatient, he knew that this son-in-law was weaker than himself, so he had always been a little cowardly and conservative, "Now I don't have time, I must show the spirit and decisiveness of the competition." Yes, yes, I should have taken control of the Iconium roads in my own hands. But I really don't have time, Gawain and I have already thrown the final dice, and now it's time to achieve Paxromana. ”

With that, the Emperor in the Imperial Tent lowered his head and was silent for a few seconds, then looked around and said the word "paxromana" again, a voice that was not loud but echoed throughout the place for a long time.

Most of the generals, including Tetisius, Raymond, and Kuman Khan Yasenne, were too poor to understand the meaning of the term in the mouth of the somewhat grieving emperor.

But Brenus knew that paxromana, or "peace of the Roman Empire," a "Roman peace" based on great armies, order, and rule, was called out to by the emperor in his heart, hoping that it would fly above his head with the wings of angels, crush all rebellions and foreign enemies, and reproduce the distant paxromana, which was golden, the gold of the sun, the gold of the palace, the gold of the sea, the gold of the coins, the gold of the wheat......

In a gloomy mood, Brenus paced out the imperial camp decorated with golden eagles and purple man, and he looked up at the sky above the battlefield, and the clouds were indeed dyed golden by the setting sun, but not pure, but also red, black, and gray.

Tetisius also stepped out, and the Third Honorable One of the Empire glanced at the noseless one, and walked towards his camp without saying anything. Tetisius took a few steps outside the imperial camp with his quiver and bow on his waist, and behind the entire barricade before his eyes, almost all the Imperial soldiers began to move, some were on the solid antler fence, some were testing their bows and arrows, some were praying, and all of them were preparing for the decisive battle of the coming day.

"The warriors glared at each other,

Fight for revenge. ”

After chanting these two lines in Turkic, the general of Oghuz descent slapped his trousers gently and rhythmically with the tip of his whip, and walked step by step towards his modest tent.

In the night, in the field by the ruins of the market town of Philo Mellon, several imperial herald cavalry were flashing suspicious and vigilant eyes, and the horses under their crotch spewed bursts of breath from their nostrils, stepping on the waist-deep spring grass, walking in the direction of General Matthew's camp. Along the way, the neighing of insects was removed, under the starry sky, the endless earth spread out with the field of vision, the nameless flowers dotted with the grass and fields were wrapped around the horse's hooves, exuding a strong fragrance, and the swirling stars and clouds flowed among the layers of distant mountains, and the leader also greedily inhaled two intoxicating air, the horse's hooves clicked, and he quickly continued to walk along a black torch-like cypress tree.

The screams of the night owls sounded, and the follow-up herald cavalry suddenly hid their faces in horror - on the forest cypress tree, several birds rose up with strange screams, one of them just fell, the black shadow was a human, holding a dagger, suddenly jumped down from the hidden canopy, and directly threw the leading herald cavalry down and fell off the horse, the two fought fiercely and briefly on the grass, and the cold light of the dagger drew a trajectory and pierced the cavalryman's neck.

The rest of the herald cavalry hurriedly turned around and prepared to escape, but one by one, the black shadows covered in camouflaged grass stood up from the field and lined up in a semicircle, the crossbows and arrows in their hands were rapidly noisy, and the emperor's herald cavalry trembled one by one, and then almost all of them hung down and slid off their horses...... (To be continued.) )