At this moment, the perceptive Anna opened her eyelashes and grabbed Gawain's wrist from the couch, "I won't stop you, but you must at least give your wife and your daughter a parting kiss." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Gawain kissed Anna's full forehead, followed by Helena's little hand poking out of her swaddling clothes, "I will do everything in my power on this expedition to conquer all the eastern territories, including Meritane, before winter this year." ”

"I'll take Helena with me." Anna's eyes were still lazy, and the silk nightgown was diagonally revealing the fragrant shoulders on one side.

Half a month later, the Red Hand Brigade, the Guardian Brigade, Gawain's cavalry regiment and the Grenadier Regiment, and 3,000 border people, a total of about 15,000 troops, gathered in front of Caesarea Castle (formerly Kayseri), and swore to march to the eastern plateau.

Most of the generals and Praetorian Guards were around him, and Gawain held out his hand to receive the cheers and salutes of the infantry, cavalry, and pyrinos who had assembled and marched to battle.

Several people who were hired to drive the carts in the Cappadocia Metropolitan Fortress sat on the pack horse carts, and while watching the grand scene of this magnificent mountain and river, they talked and commented on each other in the local language.

"It's a gold ring with a pure white ponytail on it."

One of the peasants pointed to the Oghuz cavalry regiment, which had first galloped past Gawain's eyes, all of them pure warriors of the former Romani kingdom, and now all of them were following Massoud to serve the kingdom of Tarsus, with Hajib at the head holding a horsetail banner symbolizing the power of the sultan, followed by his son Zangi, this group of cavalry, dressed in white tethered heads, felt hats, revealing crimson or black robes, lined with light armor, sitting on ornate saddles, stepping on carved stirrups in the shape of figures-of-eight, carrying a powerful horned bow on his back, and a curved and sharp saber hanging from his belt, The crotch was full of well-proportioned and fierce war horses called "Helan", shouting loudly for the Holy Alliance of the Great Patron and the Sultan, and swept by in a group like lightning. The Oghuz cavalry regiment was followed by four hundred-man cavalry detachments of frontier people, commanded by General Monomachus, dressed in various ancestral armors, carrying four throwable oak seedling javelins, with shields tied to their shoulders for shelter, and also carrying machetes that were either bent or straight, "St. Theodore, St. Nicholas, and the patron of the Lord are with you!" Chanting such slogans, they threw themselves into battle with the Oghuz cavalry regiment to take on the task of running and reconnoitring.

"That's a fast run, Persian horse." A farmer standing on the pry cart with his eyebrows on his hand sighed, "Hey, this team down there is a strange flag, the flag is two golden balls, dangling along the colors." ”

"It's like a **!" A farmer next to him agreed.

In fact, they were referring to the Defender Brigade of Branas, and Gawain did not let them stay in Vanka, but unified to the city of Caesarea to assemble, so as to ensure the concentration of reserve forces in the offensive. At the same time, during the previous recuperation period, the Defender Brigade had come together and re-equipped most of the infantry with infantry spears, as the iron mines in the Sith County had set up some iron-smelting furnaces, and the Taurus Mountains were rich in woods, and the process went smoothly - but Branas was troubled by the problem of the brigade's general flag.

Because according to the requirements of Gawain's new military system, in order to restore the old system, the brigade must have its own unique flag, the spear tip and shelf of the general flag are cross-shaped, wrapped in white or gray ferret fur, and the symbol of the brigade is gold; The infantry detachment is silver, with ten silver rings and a black ponytail, which is very eye-catching, indicating the integrity of the ten companies under its jurisdiction, the spearman company is a square flag, and the straggler company is a triangular fire tongue flag; The various sub-teams wore twin banners with brown fox tails tied to them.

So, before the expedition, Branas gathered all the counts and centurions, and the central issue of the meeting was "the flag of our brigade".

Because the Roman (Greek) officers of Italy and Anatolia occupied the main level of the generals, they admired Caesar more, and Caesar's favorite food was citrus, so the final flag symbol was "golden mandarin".

The golden citrus flag, mixed with gray mink fur, these farmers look from afar, isn't it a gold-plated "***......

"The Guardian Brigade has improved a lot lately, and is now able to work with the Pyrinometer team very well." At this moment Leotius said next to Gawain.

"Their ranks and infantry spears also give me a good feeling, worthy of the Branas training." Gawain was also satisfied, and at this moment all the Romans and Germans in the Guardian Brigade carried large spears made of eucalyptus trees, like a moving mountain forest, with the momentum of a roof, and in front of them were the Branass Death Guards in chain mail, who were either carrying halberds (a medium-length, multi-edged weapon that could be stabbed and slashed), or carrying long swords, or axe guns, with short, straight daggers at their waists, and fire sickles, medals, and other miscellaneous things on their chests.

And a man wearing an official's hat next to Gawain was full of consternation, he was an "envoy" sent by the old general Theodoro, Akari was discussing with Gawain about jointly sending troops to the plateau, and secretly came to test and reconnoitre, and the majestic and powerful army in front of him shocked him.

Gawain also intended to demonstrate to him, because after the three thousand dangling spears of the Guardian Brigade had passed, what was imprinted into the eyes of the envoys of Trabzon was another new mountain forest composed of three thousand spears - the real elite Red Hand Brigade, holding high the "Great Golden Hand" banner, hanging white mink fur dancing in the wind, the soldiers' outfits were not as fancy as the previous brigades, but the chilling murderous aura and clouds were rising in the ranks of weapons and queues, and their symbol was the Great Infantry Spear, The presence of this piercing weapon was much stronger than that of the Guardian Brigade, for the spears in the first three rows of the entire brigade were all painted vermilion, and from a distance they looked like a forest burning with red flames.

Behind the palace is the Red Hand Cavalry Regiment and the Mounted Cavalry Regiment, the Red Hand Cavalry are naturally surrounded by the "Little Golden Hand" flag, and the horizontal shelves are dragged like meteors, like the whiskers of a dragon, and there are strings of wind chimes, which can make a sharp roar in the gallop charge to shock the enemy; The heavily armored cavalrymen followed in small steps and in dense formations, still commanding with the Three Holy Battle Flags, but with an additional flag to indicate the battle—the gilded icon of Caesar of Tarsus.

As for the flamethrowers and baggage troops, Gawain, out of secrecy, had already made their way to the estuary station, and did not show them before the eyes of the envoy of Trabzon, because the infantry and cavalry were sufficient. Looking at the sweat pouring from the envoy's forehead, Gawain smiled sideways. (To be continued~^~)