The army is a violent machine that performs migrations very efficiently, but Gawain, who is riding on a horse and looking at the smoke rising from the valley on all sides, is not satisfied enough, he believes that after the country is perfected in the future, it is still very necessary to establish a new violent armed organization between the brotherhood and the army, yes, that is, capable police, spies and secret agents, which can not only improve the existing internal and external intelligence agencies, but also ensure the security of the entire country. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But that is also after the hurdle in front of him, Gawain hung his head thoughtfully, "In more than two months, Anna and I will have to 'fulfill the oath' and hand over Seleucia and Cecilicia to the emperor, the current time is ......" Thinking about it, Gawain suddenly laughed, pulled the bridle, and exhaled a long breath, "That is the time to completely turn his face with the emperor, it is indeed not much, I must ensure that there are two main brigades in my hands at any time to deal with my cheap father-in-law." In this way, there is no need to be afraid, so the law and order battle must indeed be accelerated. Then, with the sharp thorn at the end of his scepter, he pointed to the valley ahead, and instructed the two heraldic officers, Androdat and Wright, to "increase the investment of forces, and send the Armenian logistic troops in shifts to clear them." ”

"Is it safe to do this?" Wright had questions.

"As long as there are benefits of support, there is nothing to worry about." The sharp thorns of Gawain's scepter, shimmering in the cold sunlight.

Then, the Armenian "logistics team" did indeed enter the mountainous area, and their performance was indeed as Gawain expected: they did a more decisive and ruthless job than the Red Hand Brigade and the Gimagis Brigade in terms of seizing the property of Armenian residents and taking out the scattered rebels.

Fifteen days later, more than 30,000 Armenian inhabitants obeyed the migration under the bloody terror, and the dock forts and villages where they had lived for generations were occupied and burned. Although Gawain was hard-hearted, he later developed compassion and issued a series of orders not to abuse and execute civilians who did not resist.

Even so, more than 5,000 people were killed in the campaign, some of them were executed as spies and traitors, and some were killed to protect their homes. As for the more than 10,000 residents who were left behind on the list, they will face even more hardship in the years to come:

The heraldic officer of the "Seleucian Caesar" (the Armenian name for Gawain) and the brotherhood wrote down all the names and family information on the special plant fiber paper, and then bound them into a book, spread out so that they could go around the entire Ark Mountain several times, and then their women and children were brought back to the city of Vanka to "work", in fact, it was supervision - women entered various workshops to get their hands on, and the children were sent to the school to receive a damn book education (Armenians don't like to go to school), In fact, all of them were hostages, and every three or five hundred men were organized into "armed regiments" and entrenched in designated towns, thirty in all, and then they were ordered to undergo "brigade training": digging trenches with various tools, sharpening timber and erecting wooden fences, drawing up their own lists of guard posts, piling up lookouts with bricks and earth for the guards, and learning to ride horses to patrol the field, and lighting beacons, using slings, bows and arrows, etc.

And the cavalry of the tyrant of Seleucia, Caesar Caesar, about every three hundred, were scattered among several key forts east of the city of Vanka, and if there was any disturbance, they would come like lightning day and night, "There is no chance or room for resistance!" ”

Seeing that it was the middle of February, the harsh winter in the mountains had not yet passed, and the food reserves in the villages of the forward armed regiment were just enough to eat, so the people would plant some food around to relieve the famine - and soon, General Saliki, who came from the mountains of Maras, with about 800 cavalrymen, with spears and bows and arrows on his back, came to a "village of armed regiments" called Salek, who had been sent to the battlefield on the east side for a while because of Bohemound's siege of Samosata, Now that Bohemond had succeeded in repelling the reinforcements of the "Greater Armenian Empire", besieging Samosata like an iron bucket, and waiting for the arrival of Merrick's main force to start a decisive battle - so Saliki moved to the battlefield on the western side, wanting to go to Gawain to repeat his old tricks, take advantage of the autumn breeze, and even open up the situation.

But a month later, Saliki was surprised to find that when their cavalry arrived at Salek, they had been prepared to receive a warm welcome from the local population, were offered food, cheese, and even women, and found a guide to attack and destroy Gawain's occupation in depth. But the reality before me was that the villages along the road around Salek had been reduced to ruins, and they were all high earth walls, densely planted with spikes and dog's foot wood, surrounded by moats below, and all roads on three sides had been dug up, except for the road on the back, which was still clear, but Saliki could not go there at all.

So the frightened and angry Saliki divided the cavalry into front and rear companies, and the front team reached the corner of the village with its flag, and Saliki waved his hand at it and shouted, "It's us, fellow, come out quickly and help us repair the road, give us some food and water, and we can make that little boy Gawain sleep." ”

The whole village was silent for a while, and suddenly from the lookouts in the corners on both sides, fierce arrows and stones were fired, and Saliki's helmet was immediately hit by a small stone pill, which shook him so much that he almost fell off his horse, and the mounts of the rest of the cavalry erupted in a frightened neigh, and they all fell backwards. Then, everywhere there was a shrill sound of trumpets and drums, and on the walls and hedges of the village, there flashed a large number of people, armed with spears, shouting "Get out somewhere else, get out somewhere else", and then the bronze bell on the tower of the village was also rung, and again and again, and soon resounded throughout the surrounding valley, to alarm the other armed regiments, and the nearby Gawain cavalry.

Saliki was furious, "Breaking through this village that doesn't know what to do, killing everyone, and the guy who is willing to be Gawain's lackey has no reason to survive anymore." Then Marash's cavalry shouted, some in a roundabout way, some on a frontal assault. The cries and roars of the village shook the earth: the desperate armed regiments, with all the weapons they could use, stones, spears, and pikes, rained down and slammed down, and Saliki's cavalry killed and wounded many people in the climb.

Soon, Saliki heard the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves: six or seven hundred red hand cavalry in the two surrounding fortresses, after hearing the alarm bell, rushed to the wind, and they advanced like the wind along the only passage in Salek, and when the red hand cavalry arrived, cheers broke out in the village of Salek, the gate was opened, and the red hand cavalry entered directly into it. "Withdraw, withdraw!" Seeing this, Saliki hurriedly crouched in the saddle and led the cavalry in a scattered rout in the direction of Marash. (To be continued.) )