PS: Happy New Year everyone, Sulla.

"Your Excellency Sebastocrat, with regard to the establishment of the Iron Gate, it is not inappropriate to build a military fort, appease the place, arrange scouts, and guard against the invasion of the enemy." Gao Wen on the tower talked eloquently.

Isaac was so angry that he bent his horsewhip fiercely, and was speechless to Gawain, so he fiercely sought out the bad luck of Staulachos next to him, "You ant, you maggot, how can the grain and silk of the Imperial Garden raise such waste as you." Now it's too late for you to repent, tell me, Stephen. What despicable criminal methods did Gawain use to bewitch you and endanger the Empire! ”

The imperial brother's holy power made the fat eunuch sift through chaff in fright, but Gawain remained silent, dragged Staulachos behind him, and reiterated in an indifferent tone, "Since there is no problem with the procedures of the fortification of the Iron Gate Fort, there is no need to bother Your Excellency the Imperial Brother to personally inspect it, and I also ask Sebastoclat to return to Sophia Fort, if Gawain decides to attack the Danube estuary, he will naturally send a herald to report to you." ”

"You rude, ambitious brute!" Isaac cried out angrily at the edge of the trench of the military fort, and then took out the horned bow from the saddle hanging, and drew the string with an arrow at Gawain on the tower.

Gawain sneered and took a half-step back—Giovanni of the Brotherhood stepped forward with a shield, and Isaac screamed in anger and squeaked his wrists. Then he deflected the cluster of arrows slightly, moving towards the face of the Stauracos. As a result, Cuman shooters appeared on the edge of the tower's fence. With the Benevento crossbowmen, Gawain was flanked by about twenty or thirty horned bows and crossbows, which were densely facing Isaac.

Seeing this, the guards around Isaac also took out their horned bows and pointed them at the tower.

And at this moment, on the empty grassland on both sides of them, two groups of cavalry suddenly appeared quickly, and they happened to be sandwiched in the middle, with felt hats and feathers on their heads. Armed with a horned bow and a spear, "Ask Sebastoprat to return it!" In case of accidental injury, it will be the biggest disaster for the Komnenos family, I believe that we will meet in the imperial capital in the near future, Your Majesty is thinking with you, that is, you are not willing to put me into the border, but it doesn't matter, I will definitely come in, the general trend is not limited to your will to shift. With this mocking tone. Gawain pointed his finger at Isaac contemptuously.

At this moment, the fat eunuchs all knelt down and begged Gawain to stop speaking to the members of the royal family in such an arrogant tone.

Helpless and resentful, Isaac could only slowly resuspend the horn bow. "Don't be delusional, it's going to be the most terrible autumn in the wilderness - all the Cumans, Pechenegs, Magyars, Tevris heretics, in this season. Their horses will be fed, and their bowstrings and scimitars will be hungry for human blood. All the nomadic warriors would gather in the city of the Cuman Khan, and then like a swarm of locusts swept in from the depths of the steppe. And here the estuary will be the most terrifying core of all storms, so feel the horror! Gawain, even if you survive the winter, the scene below will be even more miserable, the horses will have no fodder, the soldiers will have no food, all the river ports and harbors will freeze, and all the barbarian tribes around this military fort will be like wild beasts, their eyes will be red in the middle of winter because they can't find their prey, they will eat people, they will kill you all. Just bury yourself in this grass and serve as a floating ash fertilizer on the river beach. God and the barbarians, will clean you up for the Komnenos! With that, Isaac turned his horse's head, and with his still boundless hatred, he took his guards and cavalry, and quickly whipped away.

"Ridiculous Isaac, this winter I will spend the winter in the warm St. George's Strait, and come to your brother's capital, and let the Komnenos feel the fact that my claws and fangs are beyond your control." On the tower, Gao Wen, who was holding the fence, smiled secretly in his heart.

The vast wilderness of Wallabia, which seems to be at the very edge of world civilization, was synonymous with savages and wild beasts in ancient Greek times, and even the bravest adventurers and merchants were deterred by it, and the dark mist from the Black Sea of Yukchen wafted across the country, full of horrible bones of animals, and nomads from nomadic places rode horses, round after round, dressed in unknown clothes, wearing the skulls of cattle and sheep as hats, and robbing people everywhere for thousands of yearsor of their kind, when they multiply like beasts, and when they produce enough cubs, they will roar and gather together, and go south to the rich Macedonia and Thrace, burning, killing, and plundering, and doing everything, bringing trembling and terror to the whole continent.

In front of a towering stone mound mausoleum of an ancient Scythian king, Kabeamiya rode slowly past a group of loyal Pauline co-workers, and then found a place to shelter from the wind and sand, dismounted and rested, and continued to hold the lamb in her arms, and muttered Cappadocia's vernacular, nestled beside her, "Stay away from me!" Cabeamia unceremoniously struck Romanus with the end of her whip, and then the shepherd boy looked at the heretical with resentful eyes, and moved a few steps to rest against the base of another fallen pillar, and played with the lamb.

"How far is it from the court of the Great Khan of the Cumans?" Kabeamiya took out the water bladder and drank a few sips, then straightened her hair, and asked the fellow believers who were familiar with the road, and the answer was that the court of the Great Khan was located at the southern end of the great mountain range (the Carpathian Mountains), so that he could go to the dense forest in the middle of summer, and it would be about three or four days' walk to reach it.

It will be so long, Kabeamia bowed her head in frustration, she has been running for three or four years for the revival of the Republic of Tevris, and has spent countless efforts, but believers are believers, and it is very easy to instigate, but they cannot defeat the emperor's military horses in a hard-to-hard battle, even if they are often defeated by the Normans or Turks, she is a woman who does not know military affairs, only has some clever and clever strategies, and now she is defeated by Alexios under Fort Philip, The patchwork of the people surrendered and fled, but fortunately she and Romanus survived, and it is said that the Cuman Khan Yasin was very interested in her teachings, and of course more interested in plundering and invading the wealthy Roman Empire.

Therefore, Kabeamiya did her duty, and the thought was not to cross the sea back to Sinop, but to go deep into the court of the Great Khan, to encourage the tribe of Cumans of tens of thousands, to accept the scriptures of the Paulicians, and then take advantage of the autumn grass to cross the Danube and Morava rivers to create a huge attack on the emperor, and now the political situation around Constantinople is the most favorable, a once-in-a-century - "You must seize the opportunity Kabeamia, you are a saint descendant of the great Golden Hand Archon." The young girl clenched her fists and secretly cheered herself up.

The Holy Descendant is a resounding name in the Republic, but for her, it is an innate heavy duty and burden. For as long as she can remember, Kabeamia has always thought that she was an ordinary believer, a peasant girl, who liked to herd sheep in the mountains, gather flowers and fruits, catch fresh fish in the rivers, and preferred the festivals in the villages, and the pranks with children of the same age, sitting on the grass all over the mountains, looking at the clouds among the Cappadocia groups, and thinking about some ignorant thoughts. But after being crowned "Holy Descendant", she had to meet all kinds of friends and foes, and constantly fought to the death, as if the concept of a strange country was forcibly formed in her mind, and then "you must fight for it", mixed with black and iron-like substance, poured into her delicate and beautiful body, she enjoyed some proud glory from the struggle against the Emperor of Constantinople, but more than that, it was a setback, and it would die many, many frustrations.

Not long ago, she witnessed the army of Emperor Alexios outside Fort Philip, shooting a terrible rain of arrows like Hell descending, tearing and washing the bodies of her co-workers, they wailed, and left the wasteland in a miserable state, but she could do nothing but flee, what is this, is it salvation?

"Who can I save, I'm afraid I can't even save myself, but I will persevere." Gritting her white teeth, Cabeamia stood up, and there was a commotion, and several co-workers and the Byzantine soldiers of Fort Philip were in front of her, armed with swords and shields.

Outside the mausoleum, I don't know when, a group of men appeared: men in the lead, wrapped in animal skins, with nomadic pendants on their ears, scimitars, fire sickles and quivers on their broad belts, two beards, and a sinister and cunning face, as if written on them. Behind him, there are a number of Wallachian horsemen who seem to be hired temporarily, with all kinds of equipment and clothes, especially the footsteps of their mounts, which are completely different from normal horses, and look particularly strange and terrifying, this group of people you can't tell what kind of race they are, all in Wallachia with swords and arrows to live, even for money to kill their employers.

At this moment, Kabeamia's face flashed with a hint of fear, and she pressed against the lonely stone pillar, and grasped the handle of the short blade, where Romanus had already crawled under the rubble behind her, poking out half of his head.

"Tefris?" The one who took the lead was very keen, and he stood at the foot of a stone's throw away, and after observing for a while, he came to this conclusion.

Then, seeing that Kabeamia and the others were still on guard, the man laughed, "The contemptible man was originally the Duke of Belgrade, the king of Hungary, whose name was Guz. Derjian, having recently lost his castle and possessions, is preparing to defect to the Great Khan of Cuman. ”

"Was it the Emperor of Constantinople who defeated you?" Kabeamiya did not leave the pillar, and inquired vigilantly.

"No, it's a man named Stephen. Gawain's leader of the Crusade. Guz said. (To be continued.) )