The Denja River runs north-south, originating in the Bulgarian mountains, and its origin is only sixty miles away from Sofia, which happens to form a standard "cross" with the other three rivers that Gawain said. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The small triangle of Adrianople, Vikronburg and Arcadio is located at the junction of this cross.

Therefore, once Gawain forced the Moses rebels out of the defensive circle of the imperial capital, he had to launch a large-scale counteroffensive.

During this period, Berdin, who had been "squatting" in Sophia, noticed that Merlot had been drained of two of the most elite brigades at Trajan's Gate in the front, and immediately launched a tentative attack on his troops.

But Gawain left Melo with a detachment of the artillery regiment (the artillery regiment now has three detachments, and Gawain is also preparing to form a subordinate field artillery brigade), coupled with the strong ramparts that Mellot ordered his soldiers to build in advance that blended with the mountains, castles, and plains, and the recklessness of the shooting army, Berdin was knocked out of a few teeth just by "probing" - the fierce attack of 15,000 Serbian soldiers lasted for three days without any progress, so Berdin gritted his teeth, He was to pull out the stockpile of stone cannons and gunpowder bought from the Ragusa Arsenal and prepare to push them over and shoot at Merlot's army, and send his brother Vladimir to lead the branch army in an attempt to flank Trajan's defense.

But they were defused by Melo one by one, "I have three brigades of soldiers, and the artillery directly under His Majesty the Emperor to help, how can I be broken through the camp by the same number of Serbian barbarians?" ”

When the rain of bullets and smoke from Trajan's Gate slowly dispersed, and the camp of the other side remained still, Berdin was a little anxious and frightened, he had already heard the news of the retreat of the Bulgarians in the Northern Thrace theater, and once Gawain pressed the main force to this side again, then he could resist Fort Sophia.

The local nobles under his command also have different opinions, in general, there are two ideas, one is to follow the wisdom of Shamuel (then the Bulgarian Tsar) in front of Trajan a hundred years ago, that is, to hold Sophia Fort, give Gawain a large number of casualties to the besieging army, and then carry out an outflanking counterattack, but the question is whether Gawain will come to attack Sophia Fort now? Instead of taking the tactics of flanking and outflanking, pincering themselves later in the raiders of Macedonia and Bulgaria? That would be tantamount to sitting and waiting for death; The second was to take the initiative, and since Trajan's gate could not be reached, the nobles thought of a route of attack, that is, to go south along the Strimont River to attack Gawain's military station in Philippi, and tear it off from the Branastian Front.

The Strymont and Vardar rivers, one flowing east of Thessaloniki and the other west of Thessaloniki, are also key rivers since ancient times, when the Persians invaded Greece, they used the Stremon River as a supply line, and it is said that Xerxes buried nine boys and nine virgins alive in order to appease the river gods.

Now that the River Stremont leads to the Gulf of Thrace, between Thessaloniki, Philippi, and Amphipolis (where the river flows into the sea), if the Serbian army were to strike at this weak point like a steel sword, Gawain would be in disarray—and this was the plan of surprise that some of the Zupans had proposed.

It was not impossible to say that this plan was not impossible, and while Berdeen was hesitating, the camp in Sophia ushered in great good news: the old Roger of Sicily had gone.

No, certainly not that the death of old Roger is good news.

The eldest son Simon succeeded to the throne of the old Roger, and the younger brother of the new king, Roger, used his means to cooperate closely with Matilda to incite the noble rebellion of the German Saxony territory, so Henry V could only return home with the army, so that the chess game of the whole Italy was alive again, and the Kingdom of Sicily immediately gathered an army and prepared to go north, to attack the city of Amalfi to Bari.

In addition, both Sicily and Hungary promised to send reinforcements of around 5,000 men each, and at the behest of the Pope of Tuscany, they would launch a new "holy crusade" against Gawain.

This time the holy war was no longer the conquest of the Egyptian Fatima, nor the Seljuk Turks, nor the caliphate in Baghdad, but the original "icon of holy warriors", Stephen, who was single-handedly erected by the Holy See. Gawain, now usurped the throne of the Greek emperor, occupied Asia Minor, and undermined the faith of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism everywhere, and Pope Eugene of Tuscany directly denounced him as "the satanic devil who has fallen into Hell under the temptation of heresy", "the enemy of God", "the evil beast of Babylon, the desolate antichrist", and "the terrible thoughts of Manichaeism and Muhammadism". Venice was also busy joining the warband, and under the instructions of Pierrot and Feleyer, Venice not only provided the Holy War with all the ships crossing the Adriatic Sea for free, but also offered to provide 3,000 elite mercenaries to participate in the war, among which Fellaiyah's two sons served as officers. And Matilda, the Duchess of Tuscany, also promised to send 2,000 Lombard elites to help.

The Holy See, on the other hand, was cautious in its criticism and concern about Gawain, but not as fiercely as Eugene.

In response to this, a young monk named Bernard (seventeen years old) from the Abbey of the Ménel Valley (the predecessor of the Cistercian in France) began to give a speech in which he violently attacked the inaction of the Holy See and firmly supported the idea of the Tuscan pope, and he lobbied the lords everywhere to call on everyone to "draw the two swords that Jesus gave to St. Peter" and to cut the antichrist Gawain into pieces, both mentally and physically, "if it is the devil, it should be sent into the fire".

"It's finally clearing." Berdin, who got such news, trembled with joy, and really felt ecstatic, the original Orthodox alliance between him and John has now evolved into a grand alliance of the entire Christian world, and the odds of winning against Gawain can't be greater!

Berding immediately agreed to the decision to "attack the Strymont River after the coming spring", and then waited for the Catholic brothers to make a move.

However, it was Kadam who made the first move.

Although he was defeated in the previous encounter, the main force of Kaddam, especially the cavalry, was still alive, and he took advantage of the opportunity of Gawain's main force to rest in Viklonburg, and let the infantry army and carts set up a camp in Verciginia, a key pass on the bank of the Dengjie River, which is also directly north of Adrianople, and plundered and collected a large amount of grain and hoarded here, and then once again commanded 10,000 light and heavy cavalry, and recruited thousands of local Roman residents to carry and manufacture equipment, and suddenly appeared in the northeast of Adrianople. A surprise attack has been launched on it!

To say that a Bolgar warrior like Kadam is upright, although Bertin did not give himself effective reinforcements in other stations, but he went around in a little circle, and then he came back, and he was caught off guard by Gawain.

The only people left behind in Adrianople were Billell and 2,000 militiamen from the New Frontier.