The lords who attended the dinner carried the old king Coroman up the stairs to the third-floor dormitory, where Coroman collapsed between the mats, his mouth and nose crooked, his eyes and fingers could not move flexibly at all, and his breath was hoarse, which made him even uglier than he was already ugly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

His son Istevane stood bewildered with a candlestick, and the servants were in a mess, and jars full of wine were spilled on the king's couch, and the crimson color instantly spread all around, like blood, and people felt desperate.

The room was full of manuscripts, except for the couch and the writing desk, all of which confirmed Coroman's nickname of "book lover", but the royal family and the Barrow who followed him were not in the least impressed by this elegant atmosphere, and they continued to surround the poor old king, waving their arms and shouting for the king to make a decision, and did not take Crown Prince Istovani seriously at all.

Eventually, with trembling hands, Coroman took the golden edict from the Scrivener Office on a roll of vellum paper (which they had learned from the Byzantine court) and had it read out by Istevani, the contents of which were clearly his contingency plan.

It represents the king's other attitude, that is, to cooperate with the Church to send troops to Serbia, and it is sad that Koroman's first thought before raising objections is to repent, because he has had enough of the archbishop's intimidation and threats.

However, Coroman kept his hand in the arm, and declared that the expeditionary force consisted of three parts, one under the command of his palace general counselor, Klembauder, one part of the cantonal army (most of the Hungarian cantons were controlled by Barrow) under the command of his brother Almosh, and the last part of the light cavalry recruited from among the Cumen and Sekei people under the command of the kingdom's "Giller" Gellert.

Therefore, in the edict, the king took the opportunity to order that all serfs, craftsmen, etc., should not escape in the name of participating in the holy war.

In this way, the Barrows finally had no more dissent and left one after another.

"I wish you to get well soon and continue to lead this kingdom, my brother." Almosh, who was the last to leave before the couch, raised his eyelids to look at Coroman, who was panting and silent on the couch, and then at Crown Prince Istevani, who was trembling, and smiled contemptuously and coldly, before walking towards the door of the dormitory.

Finally, there was the sound of the brass buckle shaking against the door......

Before the fence of the palace, Almosh stepped out and smiled at Gellert, the palace minister who was waiting there, "That stubborn Tonuzoba who doesn't know what to do has fled to his distant castle. ”

"Negotiate with the archbishop, no matter what the outcome of this expedition is, when you return, order this weak group of fathers and sons to abdicate and win over all the Barrows."

"Of course, my future majesty." Gellert, the palace minister, replied complimentally, "In the future, the glory of the royal family of the Arbad will be inherited and carried forward by you and your son Bella!" ”

Five days later, 12,000 Hungarian soldiers, marching from the palace under the banner, crossed the crossing of the Drava River, and marched toward the port of Zara, where a Venetian fleet was waiting for them.

Gallows were erected along the fields and along the road, and the corpses of serfs who had disobeyed orders were hung with the corpses of serfs who had tried to join the jihadist army to Serbia, and those who had taken the risk were hanged, and the clergy who had spoken so passionately scattered in a hurry, and no one fought for their right to live, and the rest of the serfs who had not been hanged were silenced and forced to return to their fields, crouched and huddled in huts made of reeds or tents made of animal skins, and continued to live under the pressure of the church and the lords.

Forty Venetian ships crossed the city of Zara, and in about a day they transported a large number of soldiers to Durazzo, in the middle of the Adriatic.

At this time, Durazzo had become a temporary barracks, the brown tents of the Sicilian pagan guards, the white scaffolds of the Tuscan people's army, the small domed tents of the Norman knights, and at this time the Hungarian nomadic tents were added. The Venetian merchants were everywhere, like a swarm of frogs jumping in a swamp, who took the opportunity to sell goods to the army that could not be sold because they had been cut off by Gawain, and forbade other city-state merchants to get involved in the trade.

The Roman inhabitants of the city hated these outsiders, so they did not dare to stay in the city, and all of them were stationed in the surrounding fields.

On the rolling seashore beach, the generals of the various commanders continued to quarrel over the date of the march to Ohrid and the question of who the Supreme Commander should be. Soon Almos joined in the controversy with great interest, arguing that Hungary had 12,000 men, Sicily 6,000, Tuscany and Venice 3,000 each, and that the most powerful man should be the commander-in-chief.

On Sofia's side, the rumbling of Lesvorno's artillery grew faster and more intense day by day.

Finally, when the supreme commander of the Crusade fell on the shoulders of Almosh, he ordered "to withdraw the camp in three days and march along the road to Ohrid", and then he unfolded the map and began to "divide the sphere of power of the Kingdom of Greece" with you, Sicily asked Epirus, Venice asked for Teshuram, and Hungary claimed power over Thessalonica and Macedonia (without any regard for governance).

Just as you were scribbling across the map with daggers in your dreams, at the Kastorian Pass, an elite force of the Golwen side was already walking like a crooked python on the gray-white rocks and cyan moss-covered path, heading between the two lakes where Ohrid City was located.

This team was personally commanded by General Branas, "Shah Nami, I want to be the conqueror of Savoyard and enjoy the triumphal ceremony, or do I have to gamble on this, anyway, the emperor has entrusted me with all three brigades, and I am free to act as I please." Branas, covered in a blanket, walked beside the queue, looking across at the rolling mountains and streams, and the faintly glittering lake, and then looked back at the tiny castel of Castoria, which was full of congested and jumbled huts, and on a plateau lake, there was nothing to be nostalgic about, and it was more motivating to capture Ohrid's court of the Great Earth King.

For this purpose he chose five detachments: three of the Guardian Brigade, one each of Nika and Opshkin, four hundred shooters, and a thousand precious cavalrymen, each with two horses, and three equally precious Persian perfume bottle wheeled cannons, ammunition and grain were tied to the mules and horses that accompanied the troops, and the small number of cannonballs was especially precious.

As for the Vardar Valley camp, he left it to General Likapanus to be under full control, and continued to confront the city of Prizren to paralyze Vladimir.

The stars flew, and in about a day this army marched for thirty ancient miles.

The next day, the outpost's cavalry suddenly appeared on the Avenue of Egnandia: while the patrol outside Ohrid was preparing to cook, a group of Vadarithai cavalry armed with horned bows suddenly rushed out of the woods, let out a beastly cry, beat the patrol to pieces, captured seven men with lassoes, and departed with lightning speed.